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THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1929.
Fourteen cases of small.pox and one of enterio fever, all Chi- nese, were reported yesterday.
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ordered his Centurion to give the Teacher (reading). "And Nerd man twenty stripes."
Son of Police Sergeant. "Lumme, miss! That must have made him a Brigadier-General."
Mactavish entered a London
On being told the figure,
"Of course they are," replied
has witnessed the frantic scram- ble of half-drowned and half- demerited fellow-beings around, a raft in a swirling sea after & A Concert of French Modern organised by Mrs. disaster will appreciato this point. Music It does not follow, we hasten to at the Helena May on Thursday Hargreaves-Browne will be given say, that even
if the ill-fated January 24 at 5.30 p.m. Tables vessel had possessed sufficient for tea must be booked by Wed- lifeboats or sufficient rafts or nesday January 23. (Advt.). sufficient Kfebelts to provide for Mr. James McMillan, ship and every man, woman and child insurance broker, late of White-
London-bane,
Bromley, aboard, the casualties would have cote, been less. An analysis of the Kent, left estate in Hong Kong shop and asked the price of some valued at $2,300. He died on deer antlers suitable for a hat worst liner disasters of recent September 26, 1927,
Gross stand. times proves this contention. estate in Britain amounted to "They're awfu' dear!" said he
Re-sealing of probate The "Empress of Ireland" carried £6,795.
and codicil has been granted to 1,477 persons when she went the Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, the Cockney asalatant. "Do you down. There was lifeboat room the attorney of the widow. Mrs. think they're off a rabbit?" for 1,880. Yet sixty-eight per E. J. McMillan, the sole executrix. cent. of those on board were lost. Then, in the case of the "Lusitania," the capacity of the boats was far in excess of, the number of people on board, yet the loss of life reached sixty-one per cent. And in the "Vestris," another ship with ample lifeboat accommodation, over thirty per cent. of the people perished. The Chinese Y.M.C.A. held the
Jones: "Why is a general elec- Every disaster at sea, although annual meeting of its Board of tion like a mince pie?"
Directors in the. Board Room, 70,
Smith, after some hard think- different from any other in Bridges-street, on Tuesday night. Ing, said he would give it up. dozens, perhaps hundreds, of Mr. K. L. Chau, M.A., Wasfied with the majority of parties
Jones: "Because each is identi ways, leaves behind it, however, a
elected president. For Vice-Pre- realisation of the wisdom of the ed. Mr. K. H. Wu was mande Re- both."
aident, Mr. J. D. Bush was select- and one gets heartily fed-up with quotation given above preven cording Secretary and Mr. Wong tion is always better than cure..
Kwok-shuen elected Treasurer,
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CHINESE Y.M.C.A,
REPORT ON THE YEAR'S ACTIVITIES
HARD WORK AHEAD
and also those of the delinquent hopefulness throughout the meet- ing their own financial burdens There was a strong note of onea in connection with the costly ing.
The
Miss Vane: "I know he was talking to you about me.
Now, wasn't he?"
>
Miss Spite: "Well, yes.' Miss Vane: "I thought I heard him remark that I had a thick head of hair."
Miss Spite: "Partly correct. He didn't mention your hair, how-
ever."
Thompson had been presented with a box of cigars for a Christ- mas present, and, after trying to smoke a couple of them, he threw them away.
When the donor met him, he inquired: "Well, how did you like them?"
y replied Thompson; "in fact, "None to equal them," fervant- few could come near them!"
Some time back, cross-examin- treasurer's reporting a well-known doctor, a certain
The annual report was read by Mr. Y. H. Tsao, the General A Good Example
Secretary. It is just two years since the directors called him A
very good example to back to Hong Kong on the com- China paying up pleasantly what pletion of his studies in America she owes to the League of and England to assume this office, Nations is afforded by the action In this time the Association has of the Peruvian Government who built up its membership to 2,400, the vessel conformed with the have just remitted the very hand has paid off a considerable portion above and other axioms governing some sum of £16,000 as their con- of a debt incurred in the "lean any real effort to prevent disastribution for 1928 and as "arrears years" of the Colony, and has from 1920." The reference to begun the erection of the Kowloon
Mrs. Green: "I never walk ter at sea. No harm will be done, arrears" somewhat mars the Branch, long looked forward to. under a ladder... I think it's most however, by touching lightly glory of the action, but neverthe- In his report, Mr. Tsao gave
unlucky." for these and other Mrs. Morgreen: "Well! I call Overland Chin Mail. upon them here. That the ship less it now places Peru in quite a credit
different category. Evidently achievements to his colleagues, that silly. I just place the tips was a good one is presumed; she she was, like China and a few especially to Ko Sik-wai and Taui of the little fingers together, bend was one of the newest of the other States who are members of Mo-fat, business secretary, and to the other three into the palm, Company's fleet, and her construc- the League, somewhat remiss in the directors and the members cross the thumbs and Say
financial her tion credentials
obligations at who have worked heartily to magnum bonum' and walk right were beyond Geneva and, in consequence, was make the organisation of ever in- under any ladder. If you do that question. That the captain was probably looked at somewhat creasing service to the young stand silly superstitions myself."
you're perfectly safe. I cannot good may be presumed, judging askance by those who were bear-manhood of Hong Kong. from his length of service and the part he played in the piracy which occurred recently aboard work of the League. We know of showed total receipts of the "Hsinwah," whether, hay no reason why Peru should have $78,156.07 for the year. This in-doctor ought to be able to give an famous counsel declared that a fallen into arrear, and perhaps cludes a payment of $10,400 on opinion of disease without making ing regard to the location of the there is no excuse for her. But indebtedness. The programme of vessel and the condition of the there is quite a reasonable excuse service is growing larger and
mistakes. weather, he should have been for China, whose arrears, if we more varied. below and a Chinese officer of re-heavy as were those of Peru. John Ambulance has done an ex- mistake not, are at least quite as The Y.M.C.A. unit of the St. puted little experience on the However, now that Peru has ceptional year's work, bridge when the ship struck, is shown the way, China having 28,000 vaccinations and lectures another question; and it brings us got over her years of internecine on health in many places in the to the third consideration cd under a National Government, it Both the day school and the even
warfare and being fairly settled city and the New Territories. Hong Kong, Thursday, Jan. 17, 1929. venced by Sir Alan, that there is to be hoped that she will do ing school reported successful | should be available every possible her utmost to remove the stigma years. Each has its distinctive
means for avoiding disaster.
clinging to her name as a heavy service to Hong Kong. The debtor to the League. Like students of the Colony have The first thing that strikes one Peru, she is now in a post- found much for them in the athle. continually reprimanding her ser The mistress of the house was The tragedy attending the in, this regard is the fact that the tion to pay up pleasantly. tic programme of the Y.M.C.A. vant girl for her laziness. This The dormitory has proved a place seemed to have no effect; in fact, loss of the ss. "Hsinwah" is too "Hsinwah" did not carry wire-
for sanitary residence, for good things got worse. The girl was fresh in the mind of every-one less, But, as it happened, radio
Lord Dawson of Penn, the companionship and for service to always found in some remote part for any attempt to be made, at would have availed the vessel King's physician, speaking at the the public in co-operation with of the house immersed in some reviewing the affair from its little. It is obvious that the Institute of Public Health, said: other residents.
love story. Her mistress had, in- "I view with some apprehension at Waglan. was many angles. Sufficient is known, light-keeper
The President, while express- deed, just run her to earth in the and is admitted on all sides, aware of the ship's danger as the study of disease by the ing pleasure at these gains, attic, where she found her sur
public.
If the layman called attention to the hard work rounded by a litter of paper- however, to permit a few out- soon
officer-on-seeks the symptoms of disease still before the organisation. The covered novelettes. standing facts receiving the light watch,
accordingly at too much he is prone to get a dis- Kowloon Branch must be complet- torted view, and a fear of the ed and a useful programme organ- of critical publicity. The first once signalled to Hong Kong disease, which is very much ised for it. The remaining debt fact and the most deplorable fact Harbour.
cir-worse... 'Cancer Weeks' and such of nearly. $5,000 must be cleared proceedings are the cause of up. The membership must be en-
believe that lectures on disease more, to the community.
larged and made to mean even much more harm than good. should be very few and far between." "Daily News" (Lon- don).
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MR. W. J. L. FORD
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CEMETERY
"They make fewer mistakes than lawyers," responded the doctor shortly.
"Perhaps so," replied the law- ver, "but doctors' mistakes are buried six feet underground; lawyers are not."
"No," replied the doctor, "they are sometimes hung as many feet above it!"
"Now, look here, Jane,” said the mistress. "If I catch you reading this stuff again, you'll go
the idea!””
"But," said the girl. "It's doctor's orders!"
"How can you say that?"
"Ridiculous!" sniffed the lady.
"Why," was the reply. "He said I ought to live chiefly on 'serials!"
is the huge loss of life that has cumstance of a ship foundering resulted from the sinking of the in sight of a wireless-equipped vessel, and this will raise once lighthouse is one of a kind that more the problem of safeguarding may not occur again for a very life at sea. In this connection long time, and is not to be taken we are forcibly reminded as pointing to the presumption as happens every time disaster that wireless is not esential. It is overtakes a passenger ship essential for it diminishes the
The conversation in the wait ing-room of the railway station of the dicta of Sir Alan G. Ander-dangers of the sea for all classes
had turned to the subject of gales, Hon, one of Britain's most expert of ships. Britain realised that
and, as usual, the tall fellow with enced shipowners. "Prevention," when it was put upon the Statute
the sallow features guessed" he said, "is better than cure. Book that every British ship of
that the others had never experi- enced a gale worth talking about. This has to be impressed always 1,600 gross tons or more, and
The funeral took place at the · "Belleve me," he said between on legislators in this and every every steamer taking more than
Protestant Cemetery, Happy chews, "way out in Pennsyltucky, country. They seek a panacea for | 12 passengers, is compelled to Three robbers, armed with re- Valley, yesterday evening, of Mr. I've seen telegraph poles bonding curing disaster, and forget that if carry wireless apparatus and volvers and a knife, succeeded in Walter J. L. Ford, chief inter- before the wind until their tops there is a disaster the panacea trained operators. But these re raiding a house at No. 2, KI Lun-preter to Messrs. Wilkinson and almost touched the ground! Yaas, falls and lives are lost; the only gulations, although they apply to yesterday evening. After gag from heart failure occurred at his But they didn't.
lane, second floor, West Point, Grist, solicitors, whose death believe meint Presently way to save life at sen is to avoid all foreign ships visiting ports inging and intimidating the in-house, No. 18 Granville avenue, quiet locking man broke the un- disaster. The first thing is to the United Kingdom, do not apply mates, the desperadoes went off Kowloon, on Monday night, comfortable silence. have good ships, good captains, to foreign ships coming in to with money and jewellery valued The service at the graveside"I remember a gale in the
et 8742. and every possible means at their Hong Kong. They should,, disposal for avoiding disaster." course, and no doubt will apply in These remarks, to the ears of our shell-backs of the China Coast The cond thing that strikes may sound trite enough; but that one in connection with does not detract from their value abil
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"Good ships, good captains, and every possible means at their disposal for avoid. ter! How did the s.8.
At in with these
was taken by the Rev. A. D.North of England," he said Stewart, of St. Paul's College, in thoughtfully, "when I was doing fra. 0. A. Smith and Miss the presence of a large gathering some work on the roof of a rather AM. Smith, wife and daughter of family mourners and personal tall building in the town of of the manager of Whiteaway friends of the deceased Wigan. The gale was so strong Laidlaw, Ltd., arrived in the 3 The chief mourners were the that the building, with yours truly Colony to-day by the ... deceased's Bou, Mr. George Ford, clinging to it, bent before it like "Mishima Maru" from Australia, and brother, Mr Edward Ford, a piece of cane. With amazing whilst the pall-bearers were suddenness, the gale ceased, the reception to celebrate Mr Messrs. D. S. Green, S. E. Green, tall building straightened itself P. Braga's appointment to the A. Zimmern, G. A. V Hall W. with a jerk, and I was shot away
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