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FLOOD HAVOC IN ENGLAND
Over 2,500 Persons Evacuate Homes.”
ARRANGEMENTS MADE FOR
ACCOMODATION
THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1932.
Correspondence.
KOWLOON'S RECLAMATIONS
[The Editor, "China Mail"] Sir, Those who listened in last evening and others who read their newspapers to-day must Remedial Measures for Kong's "Grand Old Man's" in- have been delighted with Hong
others..
the Future.
REPAYMENT OF WAR DEBTS
To Be Paid by Equal Annuities.
SUSPENDED UNTIL JUNE 30
Formal Agreement to Be Signed.
The
London, Yesterday.
Foreign Secretary, Sir
House
Simon, in the
He said that under President
teresting recital of the improve- ments in Hong Kong and at Kow- London, Yesterday, loon, the cumulative effect of The Health Minister, Sir Hilton which sums up the Colony's amaz- Young, stated in the House of ing growth and development Commons to-day that, owing to the during the past 44 years. floods at Bentley, Yorkshire, about It is true that the Hon Sir John
of Commons to-day confirm- 2,500 persons
are evacuating their Henry Pollock, K.C., in hit list ed
of the reclamations carried out! the announcement of the homes to-day.
impending signature of Many would have go to friends during the period under review, and adequate arangements had been contented himself with mention agreement with the United States amounts made for the accommodation of ing only "the most important for the repayment of
leuspended in respect of the British ones" during his time. Various lazd drainage authorities
Ever jealous of Kowloon's im War Debt to the United States. are considering remedial measures portance and the ever-increasing to prevent similar floods in
the part it has taken and will con- Hoover's proposal all inter-Govern- future. British Wireless Service.
tinue to take in the growth of mental payments in respect of re- war debts were the Colony, Sir Henry will prob-parations and ably pardon me if I suggest an suspended for the period of July 1 addition or two to his list of re- 1931 to June 30, 1932. clamation works.
It was agreed at the London Cón- loon side, far the most import. ference in August laat that the ant is the reclaiming from the amounts so suspended should be sea of Tsimshatsui Bay. This paid by means of 10 equal annuities reclamation gave the Colony the as from July 1 1933 with interest. immense area enabling the locat- Protocols were signed at the ing of the Railway Station at London Conference providing for Kowloon Point, the construction Payment on the above loans of of the imposing block of ware. amounts suspended in respect of houses known as Holt's Godowns, German reparation payments and Formerly Practised in and the palatial Peninsula Hotel war debts to this country.
leaving sufficient ground space
Suspended Amounts. for a new Post Office which, when
The United States Govern-
recently built, should add to the architec-ment
requested His
SIR RONALD ROSS
GRAVELY ILL
Man Who Discovered Cause of Malaria.
SPENT FORTUNE IN STUDY DISEASES
Hong Kong.
London, Yesterday.
Institute in London.-Reuter.
:
On the Kow-
Cause-
and
sent to the Am-
■
Victim of Shanghai
Bomb Outrage.
REMARKABLE FIGHT FOR LIFE
Body to Be Removed to Tokyo.
tural embellishments of Kow. Majesty's Government and other Sir Ronald Ross is seriously ill. loon's waterfront. It was due Governments concern to gign He has been taken to the Ross to the large vision and unbound agreements regarding the amoun
ed confidence in the future of the suspended in respect of their Practised in Colony, Colony that led my old and res-war debts to the United States Before that remarkable revelation. M.D., Consultant in Malaria to the Shewan, to make the first move had been
Colonel Sir Ronald Ross, K.C.B., pected friend, Mr. Robert Gordon Government,
instructions It was believed by experienced Ministry of Pensions, was the first that led to Tsimshatsui Bay being bassador to Washington to com- medical men that malaria was due scientist to discover that malaria put up to public auction for sale. plete and sign the agreement re-
was caused by the bite of the ano-; to the release of poisonous gases pheles mosquito. For many years back for a couple hundred feet,
The Yaumati reclamation set lating to the British War Debt.
He added that this was a formal caused by the upturning of the he practised in Hong Kong in part- if not more, the police station on step necessary. In order to give local soil. So men continued to die in 'nership with the late Sir James Temple Street and the water effect to Fresident. Hoover's pro- It is a significant sign of the their hundreds, having as they be Cantlie, the founder of the Hong pumping station. The Hunghom posal and implied no decision on any times that the term "pioner". is lieved, no need of a mosquito net in which the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen the construction of Chatham Road, vice.
Kong School of Trophical Medicine, Bay reclamation permitted of question.—British Wireless Ser- scarcely ever heard now in British Colonies, unless it be in re- comfort of a bite, To-day, with
and fearing nothing but the dis- graduated.
named after a former Director of Sir Ronald entered the Indian Public Works, and the laying ference to the early settlers who our "Flit" and "Shelltox," our nets menced a special study of malaria, private enterprise at Laichikok
Medical Service in 1881 and com- down of the railroad. Socony JAPANESE GENERAL played a constructive part in the and quinine, we are comparatively In 1895 he undertook experimental added the extensive area of land
DIES development of the country. The immune from the malarial scourge, verification of the mosquito-theory for the oil, installation and con- Colonies as we see them to-day, and It is pathetic to think of the of malaria, and discovered the life tingent works. The Cheungsha- with their magnificent roads, sturdy numerous deaths the early pioneers parasites in mosquitoes in 1898.
history of malarial-bearing wan reclamation is still in pro- huildings and efficient public health suffered owing to the ignorance of
gress and another in contempla- organisations, are barely fifty years medical science.
Expedition to Africa.
tion at Taun Wan will build up The following year he was the old. Half a century ago the prin-
new township in the New leader of an expedition which found Territories in the cipal roads were but tracks impass-ried his life in his hands in
A man out East more or less car-malaria-bearing mosquitoes in Weat The Sham Tseng Bay reclama- near future. the Africa and laid down methods for tion on Castle Peak Road has able for modern motor traffic, the eighties. There was no wireless large-scale-malarial reduction. He made room for new industries in buildings were insanitary and pri-}
to wern mariners of approaching Service in 1899 and studied malaria
retired from the Indian Medical the New Territories. mitive, and the health ser-
typhoons, and no telephone to sum and tropical diseases in Hong Kong the following reclamations
On Hong Kong side there are vices were lacking in moat
of
Shanghai, Yesterday. of the amenities we demand to-day,
mon the fire brigade whenover fire and. Malaya.
much importance: (1)
After being so often reported broke One is apt to forget what those old houses of the Chinese
out in the wooden-built tant in Chief to the War Office and for recreation like polo, cricket, reviving, General Shirakawa died During the War he was Consul-way Bay affording much room dead by reliable sources and then pioneers did for the Colonies; that Parts of the Colony which now and Hospital for Tropical Diseases: Point for the erection of the making a most remarkable fight for quarter. later founded the Ross Institute football, tennis, etc.; (2) North this morning at six o'clock, after it was their money, their courage possess splendid motor roads were A few years ago a Fund was opeo A.P.C. large oil installation: and and their boundless energy which at that time practically inacces-hausted his entire fortune on be King's reclamation which
ed on his behalf, As he had ex-(3), further eastward the Sugar made it possible for the Govern-sible, including the site of the Ro-half of tropical disease investiga-mises to become an important ments of their day to lay the foun-pulse Bay Hotel, which was a spot tion, The Colonies contributed industrial district, dations of the splendid cities-formerly notorious for the visits very generous to this Fund. Sir
The outrage occurred at Hong- kow Perk, Shanghai, on April 28, Singapore and Hong Kong, to men- of tigers.
Bonald is 75.
Will Sir Henry please pardon during a military review held in me if I suggest the inclusion in honour of the Emperor's birthday. tion only two which the
young Indeed, the changes in that short EXPORT OF ARMS TO CHINA the Homuntin building scheme landed on the platform where the his very interesting review of A Korean hurled a bomb which colonist is apt to take too much for granted.
which owed its initiation to Mr. official party, including Mr. Shige (Continued from Page 1.). In listening to the broadcast In 1888, for example, the only im.
F. P. de V. Soares, and the Kow- mitsu, Japanese Minister to Chida, speech which the Hon. Sir Henry portant district in the British sec- Mr. McGovern's question as to housing facilities in the subur standing during the march past of Mr. D. J. Colville, replying to which has added to the Colony's Uyeda and General Shirakawa were loon Tong Garden City Scheme Mr. Murai, Consul-General, General Pollock delivered on "the air" on tion of Kowloon, as distinct from whether the Government would ban area about 800 houses with the troops. Mr. Mural and Mr. Tuesday evening, one was made to the Chinese section, was Youmati, consider stopping the export of prettily laid-out lawns and gar-Shigemitsu were gravely injured realise the difficulties and the ob- and the census of 1891 shows that these munitions, said that un dens that are such a delight to and later died, whilst Mr. Murai stacles which Englishmen had to the population of British Kowloon would not be effective-Reuter.
ilateral action by this country the residents. face half a century ago. As Sir
and General · Shirakawa - received I recognise the limitations as serious. external injuries. was then just under 20,000 persons.
A Plumber MP. Henry himself says, few of the of late, and especially during the
to time when speaking into the Mr. John McGovern has been microphone. comforts of modern civilization past ten years, the increase of Division of Glasgow since 1980. Henry Pollock will oblige his actions were instituted during Labour Member for the Shettleston occasion will be found when, Sir In Original Jurisdiction 336
Perhaps another were to be procured in Hong Kong buildings and of the population on He is Chairman of the Parkhead friends and other adr ring real-the year 1981 as against 286 in when he first arrived in the Colony.
the Kowloon
woon Peninsula, right
right up Branch of the Independent Labour dents of Hong Kong with a long-1930, 121 were disposed of during The Peak tram had not commenced to the foothills has been astonish-Party and Vice-Chairman of the er narrative the progress the the year and 35 were settled or its convenient journey, and the
ing; with the result that the popula 1925 he lived in Australia. He landed here on April 2, 1888.
Glasgow ILP Federation. Until Colony has made since he first withdrawn before the trial ae trip uphill had to be made in sedan tion of the whole Fenlusala, doubl-is a plumber by trade. chairs, an expensive and arduous ed between the years 1921 and 1981. Mr. David, John Colville, BL.A., is
in 1030, says the report of the form of travel. There were no In the latter year the population Unionist Member, for North Mid
Registrar of the Supreme Court electric tramways, no golf links for of the Peninsula, was 285,000 per-lothian and was formerly Major PS-There is a slight error fald on the table, at to-day's for the year 1981, which is to be in the Scottish Rifles. He la Vice in the initials of the donor of meeting of the Legislative Coun- the tired taipan to blow away the sons. Seng de President of the Association of the free use of the Peak Hospi cobwebs, upon, no telephones for No. doubt the young man of to- British Chambers of Commerce. tal, Was hot Mr. J. En Josopli the convenience of brokers, no elec- day will live to see similar radical goal bayone
the public benefactor? Mr. J.ZE: tric light or fans, (other than the changes in the Colony, since it is News in Brief.oseph is an elder brother of Mr. which form a useful addendum
[
old-fashioned, creaky punkah) and
space of time have been remark- able, in every field of development.
no motor vehicles. It was a elty Afty years will bring remarkable of hard work and few ammamenta
elopments in
and those who retired in those days less tele
generally had earned their leisurs
many times over,
One of the most impor
life.
The body is being shipped to
pro-
| Tokyo on board a Japanese cruiser.
-Reuter.
Yours, etc.,
AJP BRACIA
against 180 and 63 respectively.
ally certain that the next
ayan 2 drept Felix A. Joseph ns" in glong
manding (Major-General L W in England.
H. E. the General Oficer Com Kong while the former is on leave must apologise to Mr J, E.
by remarks
fre-
'Bandilands, CB, XCMG, D&O.)
will lay the foundation stone of the Girl Guide#!/Hendų árs at 5.30
SIR HENRY'S REPLY
Joseph, the Peak Hospital benefac {tor, for having: inadvertent
Foseph, described him as Mr. R. M and should be winch abl Editors wo
the
In the
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