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CHAN MING-SHU MAY GO TO NANKING
AVIATION CHIEF'S REPORT
Canton, Yesterday. According to well-informed circles, the Chairman, General Chan Ming-shu, will probably leave for Nanking when the Commander-in-Chief, General Chan Chai-tong, returns to Canton, but there is just the probability that he may leave before that. In any event, the data of his departure will be officially announc
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Weekly Memorial Service At the weekly memorial service held yesterday in honour of the late Kuo- mintang leader, General Cheung Wai- tsoung, Chief of Canton Aviation Bureau, was asked to make a report on SANITARY MATTERS his recent visit to Nanking.
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PEKING'S WORST FEARS DISPELLED
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Peking, Yesterday. Twenty-four hours of fine "All the Government departments in weather have dispelled the worst Nanking," said Generel Cheung, "have find fears of Peking although ffected many improvements, while the food water from the hills is still personnel is full of spirit; for instance, causing the Yungtingho to rise the military men are up at three and slightly. However, it is expected: begin to drill at four, while the civil to begin to subside very soon. by six." officials rise at five and are in office Mach water has entered the south-
At the fortnightly meeting of the Sanitary Board yesterday, a Com-
One thing which astonished Generaler part of Peking city where mittee was appointed to investig-Cheung (he confessed) was the ab- there are fortunately very few ate the smoke nuisance caused by sence of bodygaarde accompanying houses. foundries and smithies. The officials of high rank. Even the Pre- The area between the Temples Medical Officer of Health, the Hon.sident of the State Council, Marshal of Heaven and Agriculture is Mr. J. P. Braga, Mr. Wong Kwong-Chiang Kai-shek goes about in his car under deep water, but there are tin and Mr. T. N. Chau were ap.without armed guards standing on the no signs of it reaching the high- pointed to serve on the Committee.
footboards. In fact, the Government er levels of the city. Dealing with the maiter, Mr. N. issued orders prohibiting the nge wood Road two semi-detached 5 room-AUGUST 1929. both days incluL. Smith, Chairman, said that he boards of cais.
Washing the Haiho of bodyguards оп the running It is now learned that the Sha- ed houses with Tennis Court and sive.
proposed circulating certain papers Garage to each house... Reply Secré
ho burst its banks 15 miles north- "Medel Capital" to the members, in connection with tary PO. Box No. 22.
a resolution by the M. O. H. with note that Vanking has prohibited pros-iron railway bridge and stopping, General Cheong said he was glad to west of Peking, demolishing an the view of strengthening his handstitution and gambling and that every-traffic on the Peking-Wuaiyuan. when dealing with such cases. where there was evidence of the publie Railway. The surrounding coun taking keen interest in physical exer-try is under five feet of water.
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Lime Washing
The subject of departmenta) lime-washing was also discussed. The Chairman moved that the Board -the work of. líme- washing being again undertaken by the Department during the 1929-30 season, the charges to be $3.80 per Bloor in the case of tenement houses. Agreed.
Kowloon Tong Market Subject to the alterations sug- gested by the Hon. Mr. Braga, the plans for the Kowloon Tong Market were approved.
The Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga in seconding the motion said:-I have pleasure in doing so. I feel I must avail myself of this publicl meeting of the Board to record my appreciation of the reception accord- ed to my proposal two years ago to erect a public market for the rapid- ly growing district of Kowloon Tong.
At first the original design submitted by the Hon. Director of Public Works was for a very modest structure indeed which, it was estimated, would cost the small sum of $1.500. With that plan I was not satisfied, because I thought it could not possibly meet the require- ments of Kowloon Tong residents. Thanks to the Head of the Sanitary) Department, (Mr. W. J. Carrie), I was given an opportunity to discussi the amended plan for a structure of) a greatly improved design with a large number of stalls and better:
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Great damage has been done to
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The food water in all the rivers which empty at Tientsin is likely to benefit the Haiho. It is report ed that the tremendous flow is washing out the silt to the sea. It is possible that coasting steam- ers will
soon be able to reach Tientsin again.-Reuter.
MR. T. V. SOONG
REPORTED RESIGNATION AS MINISTER
FINANCE PORTFOLIO
Shanghai, Yesterday. The Ta Chung news agency's Nanking correspondent states that "official confirmation" of the re- cent persistent rumour of the re- signation of the Finance Minister, Mr. T. V. Soong, has caused a sensation in the capital. It is considered a heavy loss to the National Government at the pre sent juncture.--Reuter.
[Mr. Soong has many friends in Hong Kong From the Inception of the Nationalist Government in Canton -with intervalshe has been Finance Minister.]
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Humanitarians Offer Blood.
IN
Above, George Mcaher, the 14-year-old New York boy who lingers in a Staten Island hospital, a victim of "kals-azar," a rare Oriental disease, and for whom hundreds have offered their biced to save his life, Left, the boy's sister, Kathryn Mosher, holding the cat which was suspected by physicians of having given the fever to tha lad, but upon examination wes found guiltless of the charge. Right, the mourning father of Georges who visite the boy daily at the hospital,
INTERESTS NATION OF SCIENTISTS
The Director of Public Works': As showing how earnestly Nanking acquiesçenéo in my suggestion for; was striving to become the model capi- the keeping apart of the urinal tal of the country, no officials were
Nanking. Yesterday. from the market building proper allowed-less on duty or business--
The Foreign Office officially an- under a separate roof is another of to make week end visits to Shanghai. those improvements which have com-
The Chairman, General Chan Ming-nounces to-day that the Sino-Rus- mended themselves to those Kowloon shu mentioned that from a letter he sian conference at Menchuli has Tong residents with whom I had shok through General Cheung Wai-
had received from Marshal Chiang Kai- resulted in a deadlock
The Chinese are unable to ac- the benefit of discussing thefseung, it is gratifying to observe that cept the Russian demand for re- amended plan.
the Sino-Russian matter will not lead instatement of the Russian asso- To the Vice-President (the Hon. to an open rupture. The most import- ciste managers of the Chinese
Blood "bureaus" very often num- Mr. H. T. Creasy, C.B.E.) of this ant point in his opinion is the question Eastern Railway before the official
Der on their lists university stu Beard also Kowloon Tong residents of disbandment and the anification of
negotiations..
dents, athletes and manual work- are thankful for agreement in sug of the papers and the contents of Mar- the country. Judging from the reports
The Foreign Office has instruct- So-called bard-hearted New Yorkers who make extra money in this gestions I put forward On their
Some blood donors shal Chiang's letter, a successful solu-ed the Chinese Minister at Wash-era continued to vie with one unusual way. behalf and in compliance with their tion to the Sino-Russian disagreement ington (Dr. C. C. Wu) to notify another
donate blood to make a profession of it. Blood is wishes. From a sum of $1,500 the can be anticipated.
to the signatory Powers of the save the life of George Mosher, paid for at the rate of $50 a pint, estimate for the more pretentious Army "Ratio" in Words Kellogg Pact the details of what fourteen-year-old boy dying of a but in the case of George Mother building to conform with the Concerning the Disbandment Con-has happened--Reuter.
rare disease known as kala-azar. amenities of the Kowloon Tong ference at Nanking General Chan
Two hundred and forty-five peo- Garden City has grown to $10,000. Ming-shu said that the Central Govern.
ple besieged the hospital when a I hope with the adoption of the ment is determined to carry out its
eall for blood donors was sent out.)
A Briton, Frederick George. Lee, motion, proposed by the President, policy in that direction. This decision
The is manifest in the reply which Marshal
number has been increasing has given his blood 24 times to save by all members of this Board, Chiang Kai-shek made to Wu Ya-hai
steadily when deaf, blind, crippled, a life. Thomas Kane, 43 years authority will be obtained forthwith (who said, that the military warlords
and people from all walks of life old, claims to hold the blood dona- from His Excellency the Governor are greedy to get positions and money;
offered to give their blood free. The tion, record, having submitted to 77 to incur this comparatively small but the Revolutionary Artay is differ Suprise and Sunset in Hong youth is reported to be slightly bet transfusions, averaging 58 quarts of expenditure of $10,000 to provide ent-its aim is for the glory of the Kong for August (Standard time of ter, but surgeons hold out very lit- the Kowloon Tong Estate with a country and the solidity of the Party), the 120th Meridian, East of Green-tle hope for him. market that has been felt now for some time as an urgent necessity.
Railway Truck on Fire
STANDARD TIME.
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to
Only male applicants are accepted Sunrise. Sunset. for the blood transfusions, which
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because the
Is disease known in that country. azar is termed "a deadly vampire black fever" which devours the red corpuscles:
The lad required
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it is being given free because his family are too poor to pay for the necessary transfusions.
blood.
these significant words:
"To possess numerous soldiers
The Melbourne timber mills re- cently reopened. There were large numbers of union pickets at each. mill, but they did not interfere
2 disgrace; to load soldiers (for ulterior motives) shame; to have August no soldiers a glory; and to have few soldiers-an- honour."
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to the water-tower where the tap was opened, and the fire was extinguished. But it was found that 3,000 poultry and the cattle har perished. owners of the livestock are now con templating a charge against the Rail-
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If, like Private Smith, you are troubled with liver torpidity, feel lazy, inefficient, constipated, head-
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