TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1926.
CHOLERA GERMS.
"CHAPEI "WATERWORKS TERRIBLE STATE. ..
DIRT & NEGLECT INDESCRIB-- ABLE: CREEK WATER GERMS.
Responsibility for Present
Epidlemle
THE CHINA MAIL.
CANTON'S WAR. "
TEST POINT.
CHANG KAI-SHEK REACH ES CHANGSHA.
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MONEY LOAN SOCIETIES PRACTICE.
ECHO OF 1914.
BRITISH CLAIM AGAINST
·AMERICA. "
P.L. JUNIOR PARTNER.
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WITH AMERICA, AS SENIOR PARTNER
SEVERAL MILLIONS INVOLVED.
NATIONAL EFFECT?
SUMMARY COURT CLAIM.
FOR 49 YEARS.
A test question as to whether a
Mexico City, Aug. 16,
New York, Aug. 10, Canton. August 16.
The Vera Cruz Terminal Com- trustee af a money-loan Association,
Major William H. Anderson, head The Nationalist Government of which faila is able for the full pany, which is British, is pre- of the Luzon Sugar Company and Canton yesterday received a tele- amount of subscription with in-paring to le claims against the other interests, gave the "United gram from the commander-in-forest or only for the actual amount American Government for several cress" a signed statement The article which follows should chief of the Nationalist Army, of money paid in latest point million dollars damages owing to publication throughout the country be read in conjunction with the re- General Chang Kai-shek, announc- to be decided before M, Woud in the American occupation of Vera advocating the "Morgenthas for port by Dr. C. Noel Davis, Con- ing his arrival at Changsha (in the Summary Court. missioner of Public Health, appen-Hunan province).
...Cruz in 1914.-Reuter.
A preliminary hearing was be- ing in the Shanghai Municipal| A decisive development in the fore Mr. Justice Wood this morn- Cazette. Is written with a full national situation may now being when an undrawn member knowledge of the Import of every expected. Canton Information the Association was represented in statement made therein enstradie Bureau, via Reuter.
tion is challenged and even would
be welcomed If it could be shown that there has been the slightest i
31. claim for 3280 by Mr. D. McCallum.
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MR. L. E. HAYNES.
ADMITS THAT HE WAS EXTRAVAGANT..
EXAMINATION CLOSED.
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mula" whereby the Philippines would become junior partner in the American commonwealth.
Ho believed that this relationship could be established for a dents length of time, purhaps 49.years, by means of an agreement modelled jalong the lines of an ordinary busi- ness contract executed for the mutual benefit of two parties.
"Mr. McCallum explained thei practice in such Association. When exaggeration, sys the "N-C, Datly has been ascertained. The blame a member came along and made a News,"
for the disgraceful state of affairs tender the tender being the Of very many of her possessiofcannot be laid to the account of any amount of interest he was prepared Shanghal has the best cause "to buone mim but rather to a variety of to pay to each undrawn member). prord. One such is the water sup-conditions, the whole being well re- If he made a tender of $1 it meant ply The Metropolitan Water presentative of the manner in which that he was prepared to pay Beard London) has come to be the Chinese, when left to them-terest to undrawn members. The of Mr. J. F. Haynes was conduct that the present economic aneer- regarded as something in the naselves, run any public undertaking undrawn member would contribute ture of pattern to the world, yet! if not incompetèncy, at least a lack $4 in the case of $5 shares and by Mr. G. W. King, 0.B.F.. aittainly in
encouragement of i
A drawn
for two years in succession Shang of thorough technical Knowledge, no retain an interest, hai's water has been of a higher pretence at discipline, of course member paid the full $5. standard than London's and waqueeze no
The point has also to be decidal can affert to laugh at the best that those who would do the right thing in the case in question as to whe America RN. show, dispite the fallowed, and "masked in general ther the alleged trustee was, in xistent miarements for that couns were the factors that temporarily fact, the founder of the Associ ay to discribute the very best ruined the Chapei waterworks and tion. His Honour adjourned the water, Yet just over Shanghafs brought a cholern epidemic case until Saturday for the produs berger, in Chapel the unfortunate which, has cost hundreds their lives tion of certain accor U books, residint have been paying for water and endangered thousands more,» and receiving what it is no el
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Originally the waterworks be-
two years ago they were taken over
much more than Tls, 1,000 a year!
PROMOTION.
COMMANDANT. OF 1/EAST SURREYS.
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A BREVET COLONEL
In His Britannic Majesty's
Supreme Court in Bankrupter) on August 4, the public examination
Vagabre,
Agrees With Thompson, He said that he was in complete. Thompson as reported in recent agreement with the views of Colonel messages from Manila, to the effect
the Philippines must tiny as Active Judge,
After cease before reasonable economie. series of nertinent nestions were development could take place. rul in the bankrupt Mr. King closariş the examination with a few wor
"As long as there is political of advice on the question of extra-Philippines" said Major Anderso
uncertainty and stagnation in the
in his statement. "there will be Admitting a total indebtedness commercial and Anancial stagna. of some $6.370 to various creditorsion. The present political uncer of which the largest item was tainty has produced a stalemate of $1.200 and the smallest $13, the all kinds of progress in the islands debtor said that We realised that
"Furthermore, the liberty of 1398 he was extravagant and if he had is rapidly becoming the opposite in In few ellers in his pocket he must the eyes of the Filipinos. In order i buy what he fancied, yet he would to reagh a satisfactory solution of | not have been in the position be the Philippine question there must was if he had been allowed to work be an assurance of permanency and without the worry of so many legal stability In order to induer the in- actions in the Court.
Only one creditor out of the eight islands.
vestment of American capita? in the present wished to ask any ques tions.
In the rt few
ageration to say has been nothing longed to the Government, but about Theter "than liquid filth," One who Bas been concerned during the past. few digs in a work that should by a private company, which also runs the electric light service. Park almost. on a par with a The electricity part of the under- battle against plague) remasked to North-6ton Daily News Sens
Laking pays, but the water service! berviewer nearing
does not, and people who have been thai
in China some years will not need Chapel waterworks she was met by!
to be tald how much interest Chin-|| a sal reminiscent exactly of w
In Favour of Autonomy. pizgvry-the Bausiuis grell of the show in anything that does not
"Whatever the agreement is, it decaying vegeable matter. Within ive them immediate profits. it is Bates. C.B., C.M.G., 2.5.0., East to 34,018" are in connection with mate realisation of wha: I deem the
Lt. Col. Francis S. Montagu- Mr. C. E. Shephard” elicited tha
information that debts amounting must include the promise of ulti-į were storage tanks, fler-beds and understood that the salary of one Surrey Regiment, commanding the Oriental Press which printed a legitimate aspirations of the native other places that should have been of the most senior employees is not the 1st Battalion, Hongkong, was monthly journal called the "Far inhabitants." cleaned every four days.
He is said to be a reasonably able July 1.
promoted brevet colonel from
Eastern Spectator." olistiotandy had not been tourħed, at
Had that paragraphs he reiterates bellef test - for a month and probable and conscientious man, bar if all
Tuper been a success the ereditors in Philippine independence and was a well those under him are paid at pro- the "China Express and Tele-nes declared,
Colonel Montagu-Bates, more. There
says would have shared in the profits gives reasons for believing that which I would have challenged you Portionate rates, the results may graph," began his service in For the moment Mr. Haynes would prosper under an autonomous American business in the islands. to hold your head for 30 seronds.be hagined. Small wonder that Lumsden's Corps, an irregular could not see how he would be able government.
Alarming Outbreak of Cholerny
alum scarcely recognisable as such The facts that led to the is has been ared and that chlorine ap during the South African War, only employment he had in view arrangement for the immediate corps, which came into existence to liquidate any of his debts as the "However," he continued. "any parently has been unknown in the and did splendid service, getting was an offer of $100 a month to solution of the problem must come covery of these conditions were almost as hanseating, and centre
his commission from trooper in contribute to a local baner which from the Filipino side. The situa round the cholera epidemic. of
An Unspeakable Intake.
1900. While with Lumsden's would start on August 13. which, much already has been writ- The waterworks have a piece of Corps and the East Surreys in now he was living with a friend ghaca. We must abandon the hope Just tion is now drifting rapidly toward Len. It first appeared in Shanghai Altering gear of British make and South Africa he did some hard he said. on June and though in any year the most up-to-date pattern, but, the riding and fighting and earned
of having what Americans under It is something, that cannot be re-bottom has rusted out of it through the Queen's Medal with garded lightly, this summer the neglect! Everywhere where filth clasps. epidemic assumed the most alarm-jeould accumulate was choked with ing proportions. Up to the end of it. Beggur huts were planted ever South African Constabulary.
He afterwards-served-with-the-the-matter. July 1,309 esses, many of which thicker and thickerin, the immediatë terminated fatally, had been noti-neighbourhood of the intake in the futant of the 1st Battalion, served
In the late War he was ad-! fed and hundreds more have oc. Soochow Creek and within a few on the staff, and commanded a curred since, despite every pre-yards of the Intake" there was a brigade in Salonika, his experi- 4 11 9 1 ร่ว Melona and flies alone fleet of boggur boats at practically ences extending over the fighting larly could account for such permanent anchorage. A start mortality, for there was nothing to was made with new works on an Greek Macedonia, Serbia, Euro- in France and Belgium, 1914-15, support a suggestion that "they other site, but there was the usual were more prevalent than in any procrastination and for all that ha pean Turkey, Islands of the other year.
happened the work might as well gean Sea, Egypt and Russia. Statistics once again proved their never have been aturted. The Worth, for when tables were drawn Shanghai Waterworks had
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wärke.
The examination was then closed stand as effective government' in foures the cfficial receiver thought that the Philippines" and must be cop- nothing further could be done intent to maintain a relationship be- "tween the United States and the Philippines which is mutually most beneficiai.
ATLANTIC CABLE.
"
2,500 LETTERS A MINUTE.
FINISHED THIS SUMMER.
This summer the work of Jay- up the facts stood. out that the supplying Chapel with 14 million the post of acting GO.C. on the 3,800 nautical miles long, will be of the local infantry relinquished ing the world's "fastest" cable, majority of the cases came from gallons per day, but more than four return here of Major-General carried out. The new line, which Chinese territory and 65 per cent. million gallons in addition had to
been
Only recently, the popular C.O.
the latter from Chapel, s come from the Chapel plant, so that Luard.
Was
NOTIFIABLE DISEASES.
will afford direct communica- tion between New York and Lon- don, and will be the twentieth Trans-Atlantic cable, will have a
"The United States needs rub- ber. coffee, silk, sugar and 2,000,000 tons annually of tropical näta and fruits." The Philippines, he said, was the logical source of supply. "United Press."
al
SALT GABELLE.
AN ASSOCIATE CHIEF INSPECTOR.
Peking, Aug. 16, speed of 2,500 letters per minute. COLONY'S HEALTH.
Mr. E. Hussey Freke, from the It will be eight times as fast as Haiho Conservancy, Tientsin, any cable now connecting these signed a contract on Sunday even- two points, and considerably ing as Associate Chief Inspector faster, says an American papers of the Salt Gabelle, and assumed than the copper strand connecting office on Monday morning.- New York with the Azores, which Reuter. at present possesses the distinc- tion of being the world's fastest cable.
RETURN.
A WEEK'S DETAILS.
Last week's return of notifiable
obviously in that area was to the well-nigh perfect water feurd the source of the trouble almost neutralised by the grossly The agents of cholera are no secret impure. and immediately Chapel's, water As stated, the Chapei authorities. supple came under auspicion. It because they simply could not helpi will be no news that for several it, nought foreign ald. What has years past Chapel's water supply since been done is too much of a has been notorious. People have technical nature thoroughly to be written in a serio-comic way to the understood by a layman, but in the Press, telling of fish coming space of a week the workmen have through, the water tape and the cut out what was too far gone to water being so thick that the bot- be immediately used, run new con- tom of a basin could not be keen. necting pipes here and there, pour disease to the Medical Officer of Like the New York-Azores bu, never was there any lasting ed in chlorine to an almost un Health again showed enteric fever leable, the new one will be sheeted improvement, although frequent heard-of extent, and given the (typhoid) predominating. Details
in a wrapping of permalloy. machinery and plant is much clean-follow-
This is a new metal, whose dis- Tap Water Full of Germs. ing as was possible. The police
Enteric fever: 5 fresh cases (3 covery was the result of the grow- With all this in mind, the S.M.C. also were called upon to do what from city 1 each from Kowloon and ing demand for speed in Trans- Public Health Department secured they could to shift as many as Shaukiwan), all Chinese (1 import Atlantic communication. samples of Chapel Water from the possible of the beggar huts and d). One ceath during the week. malloy is an alloy of iron and intake on Soochow Creek, the filter-bonts as far from "the intake an Diphtheria: 2 cases (1 from city, nickel.
Shanghal, Aug. 18. bed outflow and a tap on the main, could be managed, and arrange-1 from Kowloon), of which I was While engaged in the laying of which was caught in a typhoon, The U.S. gunboat "Ashville," and in every case Cholers Vibrics,ments are being made to establish British, the other Chinese-1 death. this cable the ship-in this case is safe and coming to Shanghai the specific causes of the dread a new intake on the Huangpu. So Cerebro-spinal fever: 1 Chinese the "Colonial-must proceed in fünder her own steam.-Reuter. disease, was found. It will be it may be that shortly the service case from city. sufficient to say of Chatera Vibrios will be made perfect in all depart Yesterday's return comprised other ships must keep out of her that it is a very delicate organism ments., but the question is-How 2 Chinenc cases of enteric fever and water must be very bad for it long will efficiency be maintained (1 from city, I from Aberdeen vfl
compinints were made.
to exist therein."
1 Chinese case of puerperal fever, from city.
ORIGINS OF THE WAR.
SAFE!
U.S.S. ASHVILLE GOING TO SHANGHAL.
Per-
as straight a line as possible, «and
way. A detour of a mile or more might result in the unnecessary laying of two or three miles of cable at a cost of more than one thousand dollars a mile.
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Shadows Before.
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE "MAIL"
August
Entertainments.,
when foreign aid is dispensed lage). There followed prompt and ener-with? getic representations to the Chap
Pipés Badly Fouled. authorities as a result of which the An expert engineer was asked if
When engaged in active duty latter, in the most expressive lan he could give an opinion generally
the "Colonial" will fly the cable guage of Flanders, "got the wind about the Chapel plant. He said
sign. This is an internationally and they made no that with modern methċids there up vertical"
recognised signal that the ship is bones about asking for foreign as was no water that could not be
engaged in cable laying, and must sistance.
The latter was readily made perfectly drinkable, and that,
Barlin, August 4-The following be given a wide berth by all other]
17-Queen's Theatre: kiven and though the men have as to the Chapel plant, really it was semi-official communique is issued craft regardless of their ordinary
"A Thief in Paradise." been at work less than a fortnight, quite as good aa, any water en-here-"The Paris Figaro' recent rights.
August 17-Star Theatre; "The and by no means have accomplish-gineer need have, if only it were ly published a statement to the
Bad Man." ed all that is necessary, for that treated property. Apart from the effect that shortly before the out
August 17-World Theatre: "would take a very long time, It is actual works, however, there is a break of war there, was a conversa
"Why Men Leave Home." satisfactory to learn that on Wed- further danger. Naturally with tion "between the King of Spain
Sports. nesday water was being drawn water of such an order flowing with the then Emperor William. Italish-Spanish treaty recently All Star Filipino Baseball team v.
Rome, August 11:- The
August 17-At. Happy Valley, from the Chapel plant, which through them, the mains must have from which King Alfonso took though not crystal clear, was pot- become foul. As yet there has not away the impression that Germany signed in Madrid is purely of S.S. Helena, 430 pital.
been time to examine them, but it had but one idea to declare war European and North African August 18All Star, Filipino scope and contains no references Baseball team v. All Hongkong, General Neglect. There is a comradeship amonger is a layer of filth; caked more or "Official German investigations to North or South America, at Happy Valley, 4.30 p.m. men in all professions-though it is less hard. It la possible to get this have shown heyond all dispute that according to assurances by a gov
Aug. 18-At Lammert Bros.' dieult to persuade oneself that the out; it is a long and tedious job, the last meeting between the two ernment spokesman to-day. He Shanghal and Chapel waterworks varying in difficulty according to monarche occurred in the winter of said: "Italy has no imperialistic tales Room, valuable household can be put in the aama group the amount of the deposit and how 1005 in Berlin, and that, while the intentions, in South America as furniture, etc., etc., 2.30 p.m.
Meeting. which holds them back from bolit hard it may be. It may even be Spanish Sovereign was in Germany there is room politically for every tling a fellow practitioner, but one necessary to relay the whole system. at a later date, he did not meet the one, including England, in the August 81-Annual meeting of can get information from a variety For the moment, however, with the ex-Emperor, so that the Figaro's Mediterranean, and economically the United Asbestos Oriental of sources and something of the type of water now running, there statement is devoid of all founda-for every one in South America, Agency, Ltd. in the flices condition of the Chapel waterworks is no danger.
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