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Comment Two deaths: Five cases confirmed: Six suspects
of the HK'S FIGHT AGAINST CHOLERA
day
CO-OPERATION NEEDED
¿JESTERDAY. we reported!
timt There were four cases of cholera in Die
une
KTC
more
Colony #yh there suspects. Two people have afrently died from the dincase.
Giant lines at POLICE NAB
inoculation
centres
JAZEE suspect. Hongkong continued her fight to suppress the outbreak of cholera today with mass inoculations, confiscation of dangerous fruit and foods and stringent health inspections of suspect areas.
Hongkong had had suffleient !.
warning that there
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trouble in the offing as re-
porta coming from Kwang- Lung and Macm (the inf the Portuguese culny were originally denied) seemed 1 indicate that the sit- tion-in-South China-might- be more serious,
authorities
The number of anti-cholera injections given at all
centres throughout the Colony rose to just under 100,000 yesterday.
Up to 2 pm today there have been altogether six suspected and five confirmed cases, since the -outbreakOf the latter-two-have died.
The Ave conilemel ense, in-, the
Queen's-road
It is unfortunate that the chile an active carrier of the oile this morning.
Peking
have dense who is not ill.
The former
FOOD AND
CUT-FRUIT HAWKERS
The Police are stopping op their campaign to com- bat the possible spread of cholera In the Colony.
bave Sixteen bawkers
arrested for schling food and fruit without a ilcence.
been
The 16 pleaded guilly before Mr K. A. 8. Phillipa At Central Court this morning.
The majority sold cut fruit such as watermelon and pineapples. They were - fined $30 each. Others were
fined $2 $30,
Apart from those charged with
cut fruit, welling
others WETE accused of selling shellfish. frozen confectionery East health
dav thung bing), Chinese Jelly (leung fun). Chinese herb (leung cha).
пога curd and cooked
awalling
At 11,30 am, about 3,000 peo- the Chatham-road | ph queued up outside
clinic has been Shaukiwan Kowloon opened as a quarantine centre their Injections.
and 12 case contacts have
not reen St to, aequaint, Hongkong and Macas with camp in the full facts.
Politics are one thing, but
11 already been admitted there for one investigation and observation.
dinense. particularly euch as cholera, is another.
IN
Eight other 'contact: Aze
Late work
The Shaukiwan clinic work- ed late last night-up to 11.30 pm. One nurse alone inoculated, about 600 people yesterday. Area officers of the Resettle- theruent Department publicised the fests on Bacteriological
Inoculations admitted gent need, for WOMAN 48-year-old Into hospital from the Yuen among the residents of various Lugares have shown negative resettlement areas. results.
tion.
A measure of co-operation shortly going into Chatham-road necessary in medical for investigation and observa- matters as otherwise there could ensily be an epidemic sprending throughout the entire areas
Into action
I
Many elvle organisations This means that the patient entered the war against choiera | wes not suffering from chulera by securing facilities for
The total of 100,000 trucule-culations.
curd.
tea
bean
bean
All cases were prosecuted by Inspector G. D. Carter.
Similarly the centre
Tak
inoculation
Alrpori
at Kal has been earmarked for air travellers only.
Residentving in the neigh- bourhood are requested to ut tend the inoculation centres in their own disiriety.
A report said that about 60,000
of In-callies
fresh-water fish arrived from China yesterdne. 2 The bulburities are keeping a on the shipment. Any fish suspected will be dumped in the sea.
FORTUNATELY the long-fus yesterday does not include There include many katton close watch
swung
authorities
carried out
have oculations into diction and private practitioners.
aut dithered about and it is gratifying to see that thei public have co-operated by needing the Director of Medien and Health Ser- vices
warning.
Dr Mackenzie has said "Do not be auxinus-but do be careful."
Weekend
During Saturday
by
weekend the afternoon and ast day Sunday, all Government general out-pallent clinics and maternal and child health centres will be open to give
Immunisation free
to the public. Inucutations can also be ob. That was before the local ained ni bil Government! enses had been confirmed evening clinics between 8 pm | so that it is now necessary and 11 pm every day, excluding to be more than careful Sunday, until further notice.
Thousands thronged to Every precaution should be
taken against spreading culation centres this
the disease and while there..
all
inorn-
*Th Plant quenes outside
Is no necessity for alarm Tsimshatsui insulation
business to take action as soon as possible.
usteeniions, private welfare elinies, banks and business Arma in the Colony,
Young people and those living on the waterfront congested given priority in arcas were Inoculations.
In the wake of private pur chuses of anti-cholera voceint, the prices on the local market have tripled-from $6 per 40 ce tu $15 yesterday.
Too
many
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The household disinfectant, potassium permanganate, reported to have run out of stack in Colony private din- pensaries.
In view of the overcrowding, centre the Fung House Port
Right: Some of the thou- sanda who waited their turn
Inoculation Jor
today. This is the queue at Wan- chai,
PAYROLL ROBBERY CHARGE AGAINST SARAH
Lendon, Aug. 17.
Six masked bandits escaped with £10,000 in wages early
CHURCHILL DROPPED
London, Aug. 17.
Churchill, daughter of Sir Winston, was dropped to- day in Bow Street Court.
Health today after holding up the night A drunk and disorderly charge against actress Sarah at this moment we urge the texiled from the neighbourhood Office Inoculation centre has staff at a reuth-west London public to make it their of St Andrew's Church along been set aside for inoculating electric power station.
out of travelling Nathan-rond up to n paint be- only those yond Hotel Miramar in Kan-Hongkong..
public berley-road this morning.
Instead, the
is re- "The conjestion is worse than quested to attend the new in- yesterday when we inoculuted eculation centre set up at the unused arm of the Star Ferry about 2,300," said an officer.
Approximately 1,200 people pier in Hongkong as from to- CLINICS were overcrowded lined up along the street outside i day.
Overcrowded
yesterday and undoubt-
edly the situation will be worse tuday. but three million of us will have to persevere in the queues DA i jub like this cannot he completed in a matter of hours.
The Medical and Health Ser- vices are doing their best and there is a long way to to before all can have their
* "jab."
More clinics are possibly out
of the question, but we
suggest that the Medical
The gang, using two vans, the followed a wages car into depot, which is run by the London Transport authorities.
China Mati Special.
McEwen flays the
Common
Market
Canberra, Aug. 17.
and Health Services have Mr J. McEwen, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade, to-
people to organine and
direct the queues.
"
Lessons
YESTERDAY, for example,
day assailed the European Common Market as a "threat to the right of other countries to live and grow in a pro- sperous froe world.”
"mast
Mr McEwen Hald Australia "is not going to be brushed off by the trade policles on the part McEwen said the problems of of the industraliaed countries Britain's entry into the Com-
the
Speaking in Parliament during 300 million people of Europe to there were at least 300n debate on Britain's request to keep out the rest of the trading people jammed onto the join the market, Mir
McEwen world. eighth floor of Fung Hause charged that the Common Mur- waiting for insculations. ket was "against the principles mon Market were not a matter which.cripple her markets for to be solved by the United such an important part of her One lift kept coming up with of the Atlantic charter" and re-
gonile Kingdom and Austrnila alone. exports and which strangle her more people and it was im- presented the
He appealed to the United development, and frustrate posible at one
stage for obstacle to International trad-
ing in work. History by creating Blates to take en interest in plans for her economic growth." anyone to get or out.
a towering toritt barrice around this situation.
UPI, There is always A first time for everything And thoro are always lessons to be drawn from them. The ex- perience gained in the first two days of dealing with thousanda should stand the
KENYA'S PRESS CHIEF TO STAND TRIAL
Nairobi, Aug. 17.
Authorities in good stand Mr Alastair Matheson, the Kenya Government's chief press officer, was today com- mitted for trial in the Supreme Court on six charges under the Official Secrets
and there are many more
days to follow.
the
Once again we Urge
publie to co-operate with Health The Medical and Services-they are working under abnormal prenaUTO and time may In the element against which they are fighting.
Act.
At the end of the preliminary
Inquiry, the Senior
Magistrate, Mr
Nesident Trevelyan,
rald he considered tizal
pix counts of noi inking After being formally charged, TORNALIC
care of govern- mt doctaments in puspension.
his
the evidence there were suffi- | Today's decision to commit for committal him for, trkal,came after a
rient grounds
on all six charges, Matheson
three-day oliminary hear-
Laces charges un
ing.
Matheson paid he would re- serve Jila defence.
The Magistrate then reduced Mailisoft', bond from £1,000 ortiered his to £100. iral pamport should remain sur- Tendered Neuler.
After seven arrests on he' sum: | Insp. Rckle said a doctor after charge in the past two, years, an examinateln recommended Miss Churchill agreed three
her return to the hospital, and woks ago lo take a cure.
Str Robert Magistrate told James Reekie Inspector
Blundell granted the Inspec- the court that she was out of the hospital last night on a tor's request to withdraw the
charge. AP. pass when she was arrested, i
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We're standing firm in Berlin,
says Sir Christopher
Berlin, Aug. 17.
Sir Christopher Steel, British Ambassador to West Germany, said today that "whatever happens in the East, in West Berlin we are standing firm."
I-
He told
conference a press that West: Berliners were
maining "extraordinarily calm" In the present difficult situation -and-added we in-the-West-must emphasise to show our solidarity with them."
Sir Christopher sald it was understandable that The West Berliners were biller "because they are very much in the front ilue."
SHIP SINKING
OFF MANILA
Manila, Aug. 18.
vesadi An Inter-laland
avhich earller today ran aground 125 mlies southwest of here, was reported in danger of sinking and Its passengers were abandoning the ship, A distress messogo received RCA Cum- from the ship by munications, sald at 7.11 am to- today: "Water getting inside hatch
number cre" of the whip.
It was possible that what hap- ¦ pened on Sunday was only a Brst move by the East "in a much wider sequence of events
The Ambassador Was gues tioned several times about the time It took for the West prepare its protest. He replied that Allled consultations always took some time to arrange.
Asked if the West would have done more than protest Sir Christopher Bald "we could have done a great deal more but it takes time to decide."
Sir Christopher said that in His talks with Air. Willy Brandt, West Berlin's Mayor, morning he had discussed the "generaj situation."-Reuter.
The message added the ship
"preparing to passengers on land.
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