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THE CHINA - MAIL,-
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1959. !*
BRITISH ACCUSED OF GHASTLY CRUELTIES.
Bravery In The Face Of
THE
rather than speelße
At the same time, a proclama- tion was lesued to tho Chinese
Iles that were spread amongst the treatment
Beltish Hospitals.
the
B
Death
JOHN LUFF
THE decision of the Logislative Council, general
terms, and it did lile good, as pronounced by the Governor of Hongkong, Sir William Robinson, in Hongkong, warning them was that Taipingshan should be purified net giving credence to the by fire. Once this was made known, the them regarding
of their friends and relatives uproar was furious. It is easy to at least who were being treated in understand that the superstitious squatters About June 12, 1891, the in Taipingshan should regard foreign Glass Works Hospitat s Ken- sanitary procedure and Western medicine the Tung Wah committee be- policy. They could have evaded
GLIBC acriously overcrowded. with suspicion.
There were beds for 100 What is difficult to comprehend is that the patients; they had 200 patients proposal whereby, all sick per- emazed
And more coming in all the time, 50 Chinese intelligentsia should have taken a similar This condition WRS reratered more acfute in that the panic view.
nights of coolles from Hong kong, made it impossible 10 fast enough 10 build refuges Accommodate the piague- stricken patients.
It began when the policy of house-to-house visitation was ordered by the Hongkong Govern ment. The drastic nature of the plague called for Government to seck aid from the Military and Naval authorities.
mcn Regiment,
from
At
it:
the same
nedy Town under the control of
commerce,
The British
ít by acquiescing in a Chinese authorities were to IC- should be shipped to
celve such a re- Canton. This they refused to
which do. Tho poor creatures, to quest matter how vindictive, Govern- could only in ment accepted, they had fallen volve Canton in atck while under British further risk of administration.
without contagion,
counting the cost, Government accepted the policy of housing
bullding them,
temporary shelters for the segregation of the sick, and the molation of those under observallon.
To add to the embarrass- ment of the Hongkong All- thorities, several of the lending Chir se com- pradorep of Hongkong sup-
this ported strange request from The
Every available ductor from designs they had on the women the Forces was placed at the and children.
Throughout the latter half of-
But again this wholly charit- vindletive propaganda June, 1894, the main, the only of the plague ridden time survivo
to defeat Canton objcetive, was
the able undertaking was greeted victims, and 300 ollicers and broke
Under pressure -the Shropshire Thefamatory
libellous plague. Every other considera with suspicion. RTK
posted up in ilon,
habilitation, the directors of the Benevolent officers and placard; were ant men from the Royal Engineers Hongkčnu and later in Canton legislation, community interests 1 spital nt Centon, through the and Royal Arüllery were These posters attributed the of the British, was dropped, and agency of the Viceroy, request-
to tho nil
sick Chinese... in The Colony's which cour must hasily cruelties
resourses-ed that any detalled for duly
vista Endlich doctors, nerusing them nunciat and spiritual, were toagkong who might wish to prised houar-to-house
pregnant fomissed cutting Open for the unpleasant of
miserable go to Canton, or desire in the upon the tlon; an
of death, to have their with revoplig out squalier dwellings of Taiping case duty of cleaning
das vom and and
their sen! to
native they infectings the plague-infreted the eyes of Chinese children in ghan, and the unhappy plight of corpses
or to make medicine to cute its people.
villages, might té forwarded in hourei
the plague.
The Government of Hongkong specially prepared junks were called upon to finance this Canton,
The vita mle of there Imuser weer bitterly, resetated. by the Chinese, util strong representations were
the muthorities.
tatt
made to
This vile propagando rerched such proportions that Sir WII- m Ilobinson instituted 50 enquiry, but it was found to be without any foundation what- ever, and not one witness etme forward with a direct accusa-
tion. It was malelous #orsip
Little notice was taken, and whipped into vile propaganda.
complaints begin 10
つじ
Worded in more sulatur terms;
the women and children wer "frightened out of their wits
the daily visits
lay
Military and Police.
of
thre
No doubt they were, but in the interest of the squatters, they had to be continued.
The complaints took a new form that the visits of the foreimers were mere pretence unspeakable
to
cover
the
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Whatever your political views, you've got to admir that when it comes making fearless revelations of wide-open secrets, Lord Aulée is still way ahead
of the field,"
London Express Bersice.
However, a deputation said
ROUND-UP
to represent the squatters BEER IN TINS
waited upon the interests Gavernier, requesting;——
ONE
dores Inryge
Canton,
compra- employed numbers
of clerics, and
of
requested
that when any thele em- ployees fell sick, they should be removed to Can- Lon
The conditions they attached to the granting of this request were: they
themselves would remain in 1A Hongkong spite
of the
general exodus: con-on the other hand,
NE of Scolland's oldest industries is in Jeopardy because the brewers are unable to obtain supplles of memel onk from L. That the house-to-house
cease Im-Russia for making barrels. This was mentioned during a visitallons should
ference in Edinburgh which discussed employment problems. The mediately;
2. the Chinese be per-question of the supply of memel oak was raised by Mr J. Macaulay, mitted. take away their sick of the National Union of Coopers, who said it was for this reason from the Hygeia in the harbour beer drinkers now had to take their beer out of tins. Young lads Town already in training in coopering wondered what future they had from Kennedy Tel
when they saw steel cusks being taken into breweries. DIVIDING LINE
Hospital.
to
10
Sir William Robinson minced no words. Ils answer was
If the people the effect that clected live under hig ad- ministration, then they had conform tu the methods of canitation of the Government he represented.
Upon witch, the intelligentsia retired in [ most chastened mood.
The posters in Canton had aj much more sinister effect. And! when it was learned that Tai- pingshan was to be destroyed by fire and rebuilt with regard
N extension is planned for the magic carpet" at the Royal Observatory: Greenwich--where courting couples like to be photographed holding hands on different sides of the world. The "enrpet" which joins East and West is a yard-wide block of white stone which stretches across the pathway outside the observatory and up the wall surrounding it. Down the centre of the stone is a thin brass strip which shows tourists the exact line of the Grees- wich Meridian. Now extensive repairs are being carried out at the observatory to turn it into an extension of the National Maritime Museum. Included in the work scheme is a proposal to extend the "carpet" across the courtyard of the Observatory, which is being repaved.
AID FOR "DRYING OUT"
"DRY
TRYING out" machines are often borrowed from the R.A.F. by fire brigades in districts which have suffered from floods. The machines-very quick in neilen-pump a stream of heated air
to proper sanitation, the in-through a fuselage or rooms and, are Blant versions of the dryers
rose
to used by ladies' hairdressers. A charge to cover "labour and fuel" is usually make except where the flooding is on a national scale. RAF. helicopter ambulance "mercy" fights are charged to the Ministry of Health when the patients are elvilion. The dropping of food and fodder to isolated areas in North Scolland is generally charged to the Scottish Home Department.
named Canion mob violence. They said that if any portion of Talpingshan Was attack burnt down, they would
Consulate British the Canton,
Protests
D
were
in
FISHCAKES BY AIR
AR
sent to the Viceroy at Canton. and he Issued
proclamation for-RIMSBY has been asked to supply fishcakes for Malta. bidding the posting of such order for 50 dozen et es to be sent by air without delay was When told of the cost this false and entirely libellous recently received from a Malta firm. placards in bis city. But he would involve the firm replied their stock had become exhausted The couched his proclamation In and they must have a further supply regardless of expense.
Grimsby supplier says, "The fishcakes, which normally sell in Britain for 6d. each retall, will cost the dealer in Malta 1o. Zu. each. I cannot explain why the cakes have suddenly become such a luxury in that country.""
Very Fine Воднась
"THE USELESS EYE"
Ro
DOUTINE examination of 10,000 patients under the National Health Service disclosed that 527 had one practically useless eye. Mr Robert Wellesley Cole, a Nottingham ophthalmic surgeon, Mr Cole says that the states in the "British Medien Journal."
In one per cent of all the condition is known as "lazy eye." patients examined one eye was "registably blind." and in another two per cent, the eye was quite useless. The patients were usually Ignorant of their disability, relying unconsciously on their good
eye.
Ever
The
should
1.
3.
EARLY VIEWS OF HONGKONG AND KOWLOON
Bamboo aqueduct
2. Harbour
Houses of boats, Bay of, Kowloon 4. Villago, Bay of Hongkong.
by Government was converted gaining of the confidence of the rats was made, or feas on rats into on Isolation hospital cap- Chinese who saw an increasing as potential carriers to
able of holding 140 patients. number of patients discharged disease,
was administered by a This
from the borbitala na cured.
their plea be refused, they would immediately leave the general, and the banks in parti- Colony, us placing business in cular, in a worse position than
Governor refused
the grant their request, and situation deteriorated rapidly, So trained were relations that the Governor, after consultation with the Executive Council, offered to compromise on the following conditions. A junk to Canton and to the take the sick Chinese might proceed Benevolent Hospital, рто- viding:--
(a) That the case of sickness had been reported to the police. (b) That the patient had passed through a local hospital.
(e) That the patient express- ed a desire to proceed to Can-
ton.
the doctor con- (d) That cerned certified that the patient was al to be moved.
(e) That the junk was pro- perly provisioned, equipped; and that the patient could pro- ceed comfortably to Canton.
European medical and orderly stair.
While all were wondering what could have caused this cutbreak of plague, terrible some Japanese experts, arrived In Hongkong to diagnose the disease. They claimed to have discovered the bacillus of the discase and the local medical staff admitted their claim.
→
Gradually, the plague was brought under control, and with the fight of the squatters, and the emptying of the dwellings below Talpingshan, the moment had arrived to destroy the plague ridden area.
but
The threats were renowed, Government went its dejermined way,
The fester jug dirt and rat ridden colony was destroyed, never to rise again in such uncontrolled Equator.
no
During the epidemic, figures were published daily and during the last week of August, 1804, only four deaths occurred whily reventeen patients were charged from hospitals as cured,
St
came
of the
By 1003 was definitely established that Boos on' rais were the carriers of the pingue. On the face of 11, Hongkong out well. Government
cannot but admire diя- One
the of mob decision, in the face
stupid obstruc- violence, and
ontem from the so-called in- telligentsia who posted the town with their libellous placards, to proceed with the destruction of the vermin-ridden shanty town that was Taipingshan,
August 29, 1894, was the last day upon which figures were given. It was estimated Dhat from May D. 1804 to August 20 of the same year, 2,486 died from the plague, Covering almost the same period. medical authorities estimate that 100,000 people died in Canion from the same cause. Hanging Telegraph
September 13, 1894, and the carried this proud headline: "The Eng of the Plague."
the the
Without doubt, the planuo was conquered in Hongkong by willing strong leadership, und "Under that title la
co-operation, and no waruş can following statement:-"At express the courage of the men present time, It may be stated of the Shropshire regiment who without contradiction, we have had the unpleasant and dan- at last got to the end of the gerous task of assisting in the deadly plague that has ravished miserable business of searching the hidden or this Colony and the City at the houses for Canton for months past.
deserted sick, and discovering the dead that the ignorant had scereted away from the medical authorities,
It might be asked why the
As far as I know, no per- Hongkong Government should
The inflamed mobs of Canten
perpetuates extend itself to act in the In-
There are at
the moment, unent memorial now set out to fulfil their threats, terests of settlers who were
about a dozen
patients in the the memory of their gallant task for the benefit of such but the Viceroy of Canton pro- Implacably opposed to welfare, and the answer 1, misce to protect the British Kennedy Town plague depot, carried out
all convalescent the Colony in general, and the
poor Chinese squatters in par from the beginning the Govern Consulate, at the came time but they are
and will soon be discharged. warning he could give ment of itongkong followed a
"Already the quarantine re- ticular.
The name of Captain Vessey policy of upholding Chinese guarantee for foreigners who
strictions against vessels artly- tradition as far as was possible were outside the city. in
int:regis the
CC such Every day during June and ing from Canton and Hongkong who caught the dread. disease In most wille alding the plague victims was inscribed in the annals of Chinese who elected to move July of 1894, new cases of parts of the world."
plague Into the laland Colony.
were reported, but It might be as well to slate the Colony; but many private
the
numbers here that was this outbreak soldiers were during August,
to decline.
ot bogan
This was of bubonic pingue in Hongkong this vila disease. The questions
enquiries entirely due to the beure-lo- that led to wide research into
and reward, however, must be of the medical the cause of the diocase. heu o visita
You
in the left to the next article, and as authorities, the strlet imposition
previous article, we cf the regulations governing the despatch sent to the Marquess I said in canitary conditions of houses of Ripon, Secretary of State for move from high tragedy a new building, just completed and offices, and, at last, the the Colonies, that no mention of courage to aheer Larco..
On June 14 and 15, FOUR small junks moved off to Can- ton carrying plague patients, and thereby the congested con- dition of the Tung Wah Hospital was somewhat relieved, and it was closed down. In its stead,
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