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Hong Kong, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 1930.
IS CHINA STAGNANT?
and the only way she can gain her place in the family of, nations is lo cast off her old customs, and accept the hand of friendship which every nation is so eager to proffer.
day.
News in Brief.
Owing to the indisposition of Mr. T. S. Whyto-Smith, Mr. R. E. Lindsell sat in the Kowloon Court this morning, and. Mr. H. R.. Butters danlt with all the
at the Central Magistracy.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1930.
MIMIC WAR.
ON HIGH MOUNTAIN REGIONS.
FRENCH MANOEUVRES.
near the
In
CAT TO KILL RATS!
SANITARY BOARD: GIVES SOUND ADVICE?
VIRUS OF LITTLE VALUE.
the
of the Sanitary Department been drawn to a recent announcement in the local Press to the effect that the Pasteur Institute in Paris has discovered a new virus known as 'bacillus typhimurium which, it is claimed, will effce- tively destroy rats but is inna- cupus to human beings, domestic animals. game or poultry?" A-"The Medical Officer of Health is
Parls, Sept. 4. The advice to increase the cat 1
The mimic war on the high moun population as a means to ex- The quarantine restrictions im-tain regions
Italian terminate rats, was given by the posed against arrivals from Cebu frontier under the direction of the Chairman of the Sanitary Board,
military governor of Lyons, General yesterday afternoon when on account of cholora have been re-
Serrigny, culminated to-day in a fortnightly meeting moved.
Was held. troop review at Modane which had This advice was given as a result. On account of the inclement been the centre of the manoeuvres, of the question asked by Mr. weather, the band concert arrang-the general scheme of which was a M. K. Lo. ed to take place on the Kowloon defensive against an attack coming Q-"Has the attention of the Hend Football Club grounds to-night from the Mont Cenis pass - and has been postponed to next Wednes. directed against Modane, which in the course of the sham war WAS reached by the blue invaders, who-i ever were later on driven back- the battle ending in a draw, commenting on the lessons to be. learned from these mancouvres, the military experts of the newspapers declare that the mountainous coun- try rendered the deployment of large force well-nigh impossible, that the African troops In general proved excellent and that the tanks failed to Will the Hond of the Sanitary come up to expectations.
Meanwhile the the vessel
still in full swing, Lorraine are their outstanding feature being the large scale employment of cavalry and other mobile forces because, as the press points out, the trench- warfare of the last war resulted in Q-"If the answer to the above ques a deplorable neglect of the art of
warfare. mobile Kuomin.
Case:
A Chinese named Tang Kun-ching (40), a passenger from Singapore on the as. 'Van Houtz, committed sulelde by hanging bimself In his cabin yesterday whilst
was at seg bound for Hong Kong. The body was brought to port and turned over to the Water Police.
Mr. Douglas James Robson, who was burnt to death in the King Edward Hotel fire on March 11, last year, left estate in Hong Kong amounting to $1,200, and net per- sonalty at Home to the value of £1,360, 5s. Od. Re-sealing of letters of administration have been granted to Mr. F. H. Fosse. assistant armament supply officer, who is attorney for the deceased's father.
world, so as now to be very far
Mias Esther, Pinto, who died at behind the general civilisation.
No. 163, Maida Vale, Middlesex, What causes her stagnation, on April 8, this year left local one may ask?, The answer is not estate valued at $11,200, while net far to seek. It is all due to her personalty amounts to £5,698 35. 1d. Re-sealing of letters of administra conservative "olo customs" and tion have been granted to Mr. this began from the early days G. G. N. Tinson, of Messrs. John when China took to shutting her son, Stokes and Master, who is attorney for testator's nephew. self behind her great walls. The Testator makes a number of family Great Wall of China, as is well quests and also directs that the known, was commenced about 270 sum of £20 shall be given to the B.C., and inside the interminable Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue
Bevis Marks, ranges of walls, every known-art. either in its embryo stages or otherwise, was known to the Chinese, and yet to-day China is; far behind nearly any other country.
The arts of navigation and architecture were known to the Chinese centuries ago, but instead of working for their development, they allowed everything to re- main in the rut. It is, therefore, very surprising to us to read the speech of Capt. Brandt at the opening of the South China Motor- Shipbuilding and Repairing Works
BAHA'I MOVEMENT.
LECTURE BY LADY JOURNALIST.
"A LIGHT BEARER,”
manoeuvres in
Такзосеал
RAIN EFFECTS.
MINOR LANDSLIDES IN COLONY.
8.25 INCHES MORE.
familiar with a virus similarly styled which has been found to be of little value particularly in the tropies. He is not aware of a new virus."
Department obtain a supply of this poison as soon as possible with the view of using the same locally and testing its efficacy?"
Ale regards Barium Carbonate, which is used at present, as the best and cheapest rat-killer. accordingly do not propose to make any change,
I
tion should be in the affirmative. will the Hand, of the Sanitary Department make a public an nouncement in due course as to the result of such test for the information of the general public?" A-Question 3 does not arise. But
I venture to take the opportunity of repeating with the full con- currence of the Medical Officer of Health the advice, of this. Board given in 1908 regarding the valu able qualities in this connection of the domestic cat. The
recent immunity from Plague tends ta increase the rat population. An equivalent increase in the cat population is therefore very de sirable,
BOY KILLED.
A few small landslides have oc- curred in the Colony as the result of the heavy rains during the past three days. The most serious fail of earth occurred near "Overbays", Here on the Repulse Bay Road. more than half the roadway is blocked but there is still enough space left for motor cars to get through at a cautious pace.
Landslides have also occurred INTERPRETER CENSURED BY near the bottom of Stubbs Rond and at the junction of Bowen Road. Both these falls are of a minor nature and do not affect traffic.
P.W.D. coolies are engaged in re- moving the obstruction, but judg- ing from the sodden state of the earth on the cuttings further falls will probably occur if the rain con-
tinues.
Reservoira Full.
The heavy rainfall during the past three days amounted to 8.40 inches at 9 o'clock last night This has caused all the reservoirs in the Colony, Including Tytam Tuk, to fill to overflowing, for the first time in several years.
Landslide At Shek-O.
JURY.
TO BE REPORTED.
Mr. R. E. Lindseli, sitting as Coroner at the Central Magistracy yesterday, concluded the inquest into the death of a seven-year-old Chin- ese boy who public vehicle at the Junction of was run over by a Pedder Street and Des Voeux Road on September 1. The jury return- Mis-
ed a verdict of "Death by adventure" without attaching blame to anyone. They added, a rider. censuring the Interpreter referred the bereaved parents.
Miss Martha L. Root, a New York lady journalist, gave an in-
At Tytam Tuk the water is al teresting lecture on the Baha' most 18 inches over the overflow, and extended their sympathy to Movement at the Hong Kong Uni- mark, and a large quantity of
water is flowing in a torrent down the parents were left in ignorance Owing to the miszaderstanding, versity last evening, under the aus- at To Kwa Wan two days ago Baha'i, in the Persian language,
to the sea. pices of the University Union,
when the boy was buried. Asked yesterday by the Coroner if they The China Mail learns that a wished to know where the grave urging "the brighter mass of the means "a light bearer." and Miss Is China a stagnant. nation? Chinese population still to stick Root said that the movement is the
Inspector Alexander was then told This is the question which every to their thousands of years old most remarkable religious and sc Road this morning, the fall effec-was, they replied in the affirmative. deep-thinking Westerner is daily customs, but to listen to some benray of which history to motor traffic, and several Shekhy Mr. Lindsell to render every
assistance in the matter. asking. The answer, and there Western ideas."...
The Coroner added:
"As re- can only be one answer, is that This is certainly not the right
gards the Interpreter he should be China is essentially the country advice to give to our Chinese
reported to the Inspector General of Police for not properly interpreting Instructions."
landslide occurred on the Shek-D
residents
record, It is a gramme which actually unites re- ligions; it offers, a most practical town.
After touching on the life history
plan to realise world peace.
of stagnation, notwithstanding friends. We should advise them of Baha'u'llah, the founder of the
the economie problem, Miss: Root idealt with the three Cardinal Prin-
ciples of the Movement...
were
unable to get to
17.32 Inches.
The rainfall for the 24 hours
Sept. 12
1.59*
14
0.36
33
15.
6.92
16
1.20
5.25
Total
17.32
the fact that her present day sons to get away from these "olo cus-Baha'i Movement, and his Bonded at 10 am. to-day was 8.25 go about parading the streets in toms" which have done nothing Abdu'l Baba Abbas, who was inches. Oxford bags and double-breasted but to keep them in the rut. The ment for his work toward univer days is as follows:
knighted by the British Govern- "The rainfall for the last five coats,TM
ats, and her daughters, mas-Chinese, a people in many real peace and the new solution of querade as mannequins in flarespects so enigmatical and mys skirts with hair bobbed and terious, have for many thousands Marcel waved, and even go so far of years attained a degree of re- She said, that if Abdul Baha'l's ss to expose their bare legs. All finement, of which we have scarce ideal could be put info reality, this is certainly assimilating
ly a conception. This has so far there would be little need of armies Western ideas with a vengeance done them no good and they have tories in a world no trained: Abdu'l for fighting, of: prisons oz-reforma- There is another thing which only themselves to blame, because Baha saya, The universities and resent day China has taken they have purposely shut them, colleges of the world must hold from, its, but without rhyme or selves out from European civilisa-"First, whole-hearted service to
fast to three cardinal. principles. We refer to the haption.
reason.
the cause of education; the unfold-
extension of the boundaries of pure science, the elimination of the Does she causes of ignorance, and social
MARTIAL LAW.
GOVERNOR'S SCHEME TO "SUPPRESS GAMBLING. -
hazard manner in which high- But is Chiga justified in saying ing of the mysteries of nature, the falutin' ranks are accorded to the that Western influence is not ad
New Orleans, August, 15. numerous warlords. Marshalsi vantageous to her?
Governor, Huey P. Long of Generals, Commanders-in-Chief want to remain behind her great evils, a standard universal system Louisiana plans, it was learned to sent of instruction, and the diffusion of day, to place New Orleans under
:
Ten Years Ago.
(From the "Chind Mail" of September 17, 1920.]
To-day's dollar is ytd.
*
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Poor Hutchison would not have been pleased with the announcment of the Government's plans for a re- formatory. Ho was the prima mover in the matter, and it is ertain he would not have approved this outcome of our agitation. The announcement is made that they are constructing a reformatory, for children at Laichikok, near the all. Why bear a fall? Was that We cannot believe It necessary?
outrageous
not say what we think of this proposal; but the sophisticated reader who reme bera the jall-scandal will guess
position...
Ten Years. Hence
[From the "Chira Mal
and Admirals seem to spring unwalls? Judging from the prestho, lights of knowledge and reality: martial law to-night in an effort to Worse still, it is to be in charge of like the proverbial mushrooms day trend of events, she appar "Second, service to the cause of suppress gambling. The Governor's Tadian warders We simply must How and why these rank tre acently does not want to be shut out students, inspiring them with the order will include all suburbs. corded will for ever remain a uny longer, so why should we ad-subliment. Ideals of ethical refine. Excitement of all varieties has mystery to the outside world...
vise her to stick to her old cus culcating in their lives the beauty out his ficumberey. Recently he ment, teaching them altruism, in centred In Governor Long through More than that
ina has no toms? If China, really wants to of holiness and the excellencies of compelled banks in New Orleans to much that would be said In ́op. chieved, and when we say that be among the family of nations virtues, and animating them with call their municipal loans because she is a stagnant nation, we have she must lose her narrow-minded the excellencies and perfections of the city would not support him in a more than one hundred and oneness, her mad delusion that the Third, service to the oneness of States editorially termed the Gov
the religion of God,
A bond issue, and the New Orleans reasons for saying so. To any Western race is always working the world of humanity, to that ernor a "counterfeit Mussolint and student of Chinese history it will against her interest und Woltare, each student may consciously little chincapin-headed misfit." at once become obvious that hun he should take a lesson from mankind, irrespective of religion or Arnauld, de la Feriere, captain of the Santtury Inspectors have been:
realize that he is a brother to all When Commander: Lother von. dreds of inventions, made by Japan, who has made progress by race. The thoughts of universal German cruiser Ended, called an instructed to make house-to other people in later centuri leaps and bounds, since that far pence must be instilled in the Governor Long during the Mardi visits with gifts of cats with have been known to the Chinese distant date when Admiral Perry hearts of all scholars. The mothers Gras celebration this year, he was view to keaping down rata. iften for thousands of years, but landed on her soil hat one schools, the professors in the green silk pajamas, lounging robe The newly formed Tenants Pro-
in the homes, the teachers in the received by the Governor attired In SHIA KAM unfortunately at a certain point Oriental, country can achieve, and colleges, the presidents in the unt, and bedroom slipporal The compellon Association hiva new pró-
development their progress, has ather Oriental country can
„versities-mast, teach these ideal to mander was much insultede en urod list of landlords who de- the young from the cradle to theSuch a drastic step as the Impost cline to reduce their renta to a years of manhood.sabela
tion of martial law is expected to reasonable figure fixed by an In- Mina Root aalia, to-morrow for bring down a fresh political storm dependent "dagassar, appointed by
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