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MAN'S LXSBCT ENEMIES.” LECTURE BY FORMER MOH, OF
HONGKONG.
RELATION OF SCAVENGING AND
PLAGUE.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 9.8, 1992.
THE, HONGKONG VOLUNTEER
DEFENCE CORPS.
ANNUAL RIFLE MEETING, Under the auspices of the Hongkong Volunteer "Delence Corps the annual riffe commenced on Saturday -The strong sell of kerosene which resing was pervaded the Great Hall of Hongkong afternoon at Sponreutters and continued University, yesterday afternoon, suggesten Sunday, ed that precautions had heen taken to exclude any of Man's Insect Enemies" from Dr. Francis, Clark's lecture on that subject. It was just as well, for they might have heard things to pus them on their guarġ against extermination.
The principal event, the rifle champion ship was won by Corp. C. A. Grimes for. the third year in suerrision.
On Saturday next the open auchines gun competition takes pace. On Sunday the all-comers rifle competition is tử be hold.
THE BEAUMONT BANKRUPTCY...
MR. BEAUMONT GIVES EVIDENCE BUT THELLAGISTRATE STILI, DECIDES TO .COMMIT
Mr. E. A. Beaumont gave er dence,
PRESIDENT SUN GOES TO
SHIUKWAN.
TO DIRECT NORTHERN EXPEDI- TION.
The Canton Times reports:- President Sun Yat-sen left Canton for Shinkwan on the 8th. The Fresident was
Han-min,
accompanied by Mr. Bu yesterday, on the charge against him of leaving the Colony with intent to defeat General Hsu Sung-chi, General Ching. or delay bankruptcy proceedings, but chien, G firral Wang Tai-wai, Mr. Koa Staff and the Presidental Ying-fun Mr. P. Lials decided to commit next Criminal hm for trial at the
escorted by a battalion of the President's Seastons.
bly guards. At 6 am the Presidential Mr. C. A. S. Russ, for the defendant, party bearded the C.S. Kianghang for intimated that he had droiled to let his the Canton-Hankow Railway Station. Among those who were present at the rail- liont give evidence Dr. Francis Clark, whose serviers to
The results to date are as fullowa:-
Before Mr. Beaumont entered the witway station to bid President Sun fare- Hongkong in particular, and to preven
CORPS CHAMPIONSHIP-Curpl. Grinen, tive medičine in general, are well known, was in a familiar environment yester; Pie. Goodroan, 79; Gna. Railton, 77;-box, the Magistrato administered the well werd Governor Wu Ting-fang, Mr. Court, and other high officials, and men. day, lecturing to the accusers of the Sergt. Thornhill, 75: Livut. Smith, 13:sual enation that anything he said Lin Sun. President of the Senate, Mr. students who listened to him in the days Pie, Shaw, 72: Spr. Leonard, Go'; Len-might by used in evidence, against him! Hsu Chien, President of the Supreme In evidence, Mr. Beaumont said hebers of the Canton Women's War Relief when he was Dean of the Faculty of Corp!. Cullen, 56; Lre.-Corp), Dovey, 42: ungu his trial
14 COMPETIȚION.---(Open Medicine, and having as Chairman ate. Young, Al.
was the sole proprietor of the late Aro Society.
Prident Sun Yatisen has ordered gen MUSKETRY former student and, present. Professor of
Total Prictions, One of Beaumont it Co., established 1. the H.K.V.D.CO.
Within the next ten Pathology, Dr. C. Y. Wang. Governor of the Colony and Chancellor Railton, 37, Sergt. Thornhill, 36; Tea! January, 1919. Before that he had been ral mobilization of the Northern Expedi- ing three years with Mesars. Jardine days the different armies are ta procred of the University Sir i. E. Stubbs, Corp. Cullin, Pte. Godman, 55; Pte. about, thy teen years in the East, includ.onary Armies, K.C.M.G.). the Vis-Chancellor (Sir Young, X; Corp. Grioses, 51; Lee.-Corp Maison & Co, and fur or five years northward. President Sun Yat-sen left William Brunga, K.CM(1), __ Lady | Devey 51, Lárdi, South, 30; Spr, Leonard. Brunyate, and many tubers of the pro- | 40 fensorial staff were present.
FOLTS
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well
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TILE COMPTITION-Inter Company).
2 Platoon-Corp. Grimes, Pte. No. Wood, Pir. Mrale, Por, Lowiek, Ptr. Sherion. 16 ales, 3 minutes.
M.Sergt. Dowbiggin, Iæe, Corp. Fiddes Wilson! Plz, Shaw, Pte. Wilkia son, Ptr. Young, 14 tiles, 3yminutes,
No. 9. Platoon.-Srgt, Thornhill, Lee- Corp. Lyon, Pie, Gow, Pt. Lapsley,
les, a minut Pto, Res.
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1A
th, Messrs. Sander, Weler & Ca This tim showed a profit of roughly 200,000, but only a suali proßt for 1915. Mr. Buss: What was done" with this, $200,000 7
The witness said it was left in the firm, and he only took expenses. In 1919 he went home on leave for the first time in aine years. Mr. Castro was left with his persoal power of attorney and power or attorney for the firm. At that time," said the defendant, "I had business cufaterions all over the world: I had a sound business in 1910."
Mr. Buss: What work did you do for the Hongkong Government 7-1 sold for The value of that cargo was $1,799,000 the Government, 10.000 short tons of rice. nett commission of
Engineers-Lent. Smith, Spr. Leonard, Spr. Sarby, Spr. Cornell, Corp. Richards 10. Viles, minutes
Scatush,Lieut. Hill. Pte. Swan, Pte.and 1 received a Young. Pre Stnyth, Pte. Goodman. $6,000,000
JAR COMPETITtox. For Teams of three.- (No. of jars bruken).
1.
Catton by special rain for Shiukwan to give personal direction in the Northern
The expeditionary forces: Expedition. are ordered to advance along northward three routes. General Li Lich chun, Chil of Presideat Sur's (inner! Staff, takes command of the central força; General Hau Sung-chi, Commander-in-Chief of the Seccod Canton Army, commands the right wing; and tieneral Wang Taiwai, Commander of the First Mixed Brigade of the Canton Army, commands the left wing.
FRIDAY'S GREAT OVATION FOR...
THE PRESIDENT.
After expressing the pleasure it gave him to be in the Colony again after seven absence, and noting the rapid advaten to the position of premier edu cativan institution in Ching the University in whose inception he had had some part, -(Applause) Dr. Clark an Rounced his intention of ploughing once again a small corner of the vast field of prevrative medicine" which had
On Friday last the first anniversary of President Sun Yat-sen's inauguration engaged so large & shure of bis thoughts
was celebrated in Canton with no less and energies for the past thirty years.
$44,001. The turnover for 1919 was about enthusiasts than last year. Throughout Remembering that his audience contained
the day different main thoronghfares of lay as wolf as medical students, the loetles, minutes.
The defendant also, said he had, in the city were thronged with people. The turer remarked that whilst the treatmen
Nez Platoon England; a wife and three children. decorations beth on land and river were of disease was a matter solely for physi.
B, No Platoon A 6; No. ander six years of age, all of whom were most beautiful. 1a spite of the rain, the lantern pession in the evening was participated in by wveral the
thausted per elans and surgeons, it was to everyone's
NEWS OF DISASTER.
sons among whom were many girls. interest to study the aditions that would latnon "A." 5; No. 9 Platoon Babsolutely dependent on him.
What was the first you enable them to lead a healthy life and M. 1, No. 1, 3; Engineers, 3; M. 1. No.
Afr. Ru:
Le members of the Kuo Ming Tang Party were the first, to congratulate the Presi avoid the bidden dangers which dog, Sentrish #A, 9: Scottish "R,"
heard of a disaster to your business?-I our footsteps from the cradle to the
FRANCIS CUP (For team of thrie from received a cable in Paris from a dent on the day. Their leader attended gray
Dr. Clark invite attention to certain Nos. 2, 2.5 and 9 Platons, H.K.V.D.C.) Franeisen, dated 18th May, 1920, which the Presid it's office arly in the mora diseases of man, ominicaed to him. 1.-No. 5 Platoon (Lat. Hili, 33; Resideply regret to inform you ing to pay their tribute to President Sun. either directly or indinctly by some Corp. Young, 48, Pte. Swan, 37. Grand Hongkong position indicates disaster. At 12 o'clock President Sun, in his sim- member of the insect world. The first of total. 130.
-No Platoun-(Sergt. Thornhill, They were caught with 2, tous of rice p'e dress, and his staff took a motor car at $12 (gold) per hundred pounds to the Treasury Building, where he re- known in this Colony-buboni Pateral 31). Grand total, 158. the disuses was one unhappily too
55; Ple. Lapsley, 5; Les-Corp Lyun. Cuba which could not be sold even at 38ceived the co gratulations of Government Adrig you leave for officials and representatives of public 100 lbs. per
When received organization Seal hundreds which bad scourged mankind at
3.-No. 6 Platoon (Pte. Cuthill, 49:longkong, if any wm. for the past three thousand years-in
three or four of soldiers lined both sides of the maloo Dr. Clark indicated a reference to it in Pie. Goodman, 52: P. Smyth, 55). the cubled to
to the Treasury Building, and the Bible (I. Samuel, V.). It bad ac Grand total, 155
the biggest rice firms in San Francisco leading dratbs in India counted for 7,000,000
Work, and to discuss the possibility of amalgamation, potent as his car passed. At and the Pre "Pta Lowick, 41)
not successful because they behour as alone in the last 2 year Epidemics
were invariably pre total, 149.
were al suffering from the effects of the Chief Executive received the congratula this disease in cedeti by
officials. Then the Prosi high mortality from the same
of five). 1.No. 2.Platoon (Lutamp in the Cuban Market. cause among rata, marmot, and kindred
Witness immediately returned to London the other overnor Wu Ting-fang and sli small mammals Yersin was the first to
Hall, 60: Corp. Grimes, 68; Pt Meade, that the infection was nos directly
parade was participated in by 4 view to obtaining temporary financial parade of the citizens. prove communicated from the animal to the 56: Pte. Wood, 65: Pte. Lowicz, 63), and approached several firms there with dent and the officials reviewed the grand
Grad total, 31.
The first bama victim, but that there was un
Equal Scottish Platoon-(Corp. assistance; if he could have got £10,000.
the thought he could have pulled things more than four hundred organizations, intermediary, in this case, the rat-fea.
Young 68 Pte. Goodman, 72;
through. After cabling, to one or two divided into two divisions. Tb:
therefore, was to reduce problem.
Swan, 71: Pte. Smyth, co; Pe. Cuthill, thus friends in longkong for assist division started from the First Park, and the number of rat liens and the obvious way was
was to reluce the number of rats.
Equal Engineers-(Lieut. Smith, ance, he decided to go straight back to estimated that the number of participants Hongkong i San Francisco where he It was quite
means of poison easy, by
of whom werettives GG: Corp. Richards, 52; Sor. Leonard, found that his branch offico had been could not be less than fifty do Spr. Serby, 65: Spr. Cornell, 3-closed and that a lot of money had been from various organizations and labour and traps, to produce, a temporary redue tion in the rat population, but the enor
fost in speculation, undertaken against his unions. President and Mrs. Sun Yat-sen mous fertility of these animals was such Grand total, 317. that any reduction brought about by these means was abolished within a few prinths. Liv.-Corp. Fiddes Wilson, 70; Pie Wil- August 14th, 1990. The first thing he did erviewed the parade from the second floor was to see his bankers. They were the Dr. Sun and other good wishes were One pair of healthy young rats, given an kinoti, 50; Pt. Yeung, 82; Pir, Shaw,
of the Treasury Building
and President Sun ample food supply. would have 90065). Grand total, $10, decendants
twelve months
5.-Reserves. Liegt. Dowell, 33: Sgt. Hongkong and Shangha. Bank and the shouted by the paraders na they passed Thornhill, UB: Lee-Corpi. Lyon, 61; Pte. Netherlands Indies Commercial Bank. the Treasury Building, a (ixughter). Another peint had to be can
very sympathetic and said he would do Mr. Y. P. Esiah delivered the speech of te the President, on behalf aidered, that if, during and after a Lapsley, 70; Pie. Rres, 45). Grand total, Siz Newton Stubb (then Mr. Stabb) was stood up and waved his hat in response.
everything in his power. Later he went congratulation te
More than
"one rat plague epidemic, one destroyed by 237.
through the books with Mr. Castro and of the labour unions.
lions" and "dragons" poison the survivors of the epidemic, one
found that he would require about 250,000 hundred
features was destroying rain that had acquired a
to tide over. He tried his friends in ried along by the paraders, were dartuin immunity to plug, and they
Malaria, next in Dr. Clark's Aurvez would be speedily replaced by young non- immuno rats; a consummation not..giently was kuow clinically, as far back as the Hongkong, with a view to reconstracting of the parade. The many flouts portray to be desired.
fifth century before Christ, when the the business, but was not successful, ing President Sun's great work in found.
NEW MINISTER OF INTERIOR. How
CL we hope to control the different varieties of the fever were though he considered the value of the ing the Republic were very attractive. rat popalation asked Dr. Clark, the described by itirpocrates, but it way net shodwill of the firm was very bigh. He
President-Sun has appointed Mr. Ha reducing to minianus their food until 1850 that Laveran discovered the stayed in Hongkong from August 24th
Ching to be Minister of Interior Affairs. enpply. average rat population specific parasite in the human blood, and to September 1st.
ordinary human ny
Community in 1694 that Mansch, working in this. that these parasites is estimated
Mr. Hsu Ching is a native of Shantang, equnt of the human population-thu were carried
The
man were
within
of
ious
BLARE SHIELD. Inter-Company, teams
46). Grand total, 317.
Ptc.
4-Moanted (Sergt. Dowbiggin, 60;
to be no less than the Colony, SUR to Ronald Ress
but
WA
SUCH A WAR AND SUCH A SLUMP.
Mr. Ross: What did you find the posi-
far bogland slow it is put roughly at followed an this idea and after threction in Hongkong.
years of close laboratory work he hit upo
the
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Defendant: They were practically in There was a trade the species cf mosquity which is the nctur! the same position that I was.
The Magistrate : Dr. Clark re carrier of the infection. counted the familiar measures against slump T the breeding of mosquitous and mention ed that the reason spraying large sheets of water with kerosene was effective was that the insect breathed through pores in the skin and wher these were choked it died at once. Sir-Ronald Row stated
tions
the second from the East Bund. It was thx!
Live
was the Commander-in-Chief of the Re volutionary Force in Shantung during the Revolution in 1911, and Minister of Interior Allairs of President Sun's Pro- visional Govermnext in Nanking.
THE DECISION.
Mr. Russ: Have you over known auch sheets a slump
Defendant: There has never been such
The Official Receiver (Mr. Orme) in- cross- Defendant went on to explain that, timated that he did" desire to
the examine in that Court. He thought the sted as he considered Shanghai was
a war.
that Hongkong was one of the places first money market in the Far East he Magistrate might feel that the defend- where the best work was being done i thought money might be easier there unt's explanation was one that should the prevention of malaria and the lecturer People there knew his business capabilities go to a jury to be decided, was sure this would encourage local folk and might help him. He had no ex-
to redouble their efforts against a dipectation, then, of bankruptcy proceed mitted that there is casu justly described as the most formidings; ho thought all his creditors were
ready to assist him. able enemy of man in all tropical coun
trics.
yellow-fever.
28 millions while the value of the human food consumed by these rodents is esti- mad in English money at about £1 per rat per annum, so that there are most cogent commercial reasons for preventing of rats to "food stored for human consumption.
"Godowns, stores and wharves can be rendered rát proof by the use of coferate and sheet iron, while dwellings can be so constructed as to afford no hiding places for them.
But rats feed, not only upon such food as human beings live upon, but also upon garbage and refuse; and it Essential that to such garbage he left accessible to them. In other words, the problem of the prevention of plague, re- molves itself into a question of efficient
Dr. Clark discussed scavenging, combined with the rat proof-
fortunately not known in this part of the dwellings, of stables and cow sheds and of all stores for food, but the greatest world; the diseases conveyed by the com All food refuse mon house fly, the hookworm disease and of these is scavenging. should be placed at once in covered metal discases conveyed by parasites. receptacles which should be emptied at investigations, into infantile paralysis frequent intervale, while the constant suggested that it was conveyed by ally cleansing of streets and back lanes, of known as Luella Caesar, and these in and of all open spaces contiguous vestigations were che more instance of of veterinary and dwellings should be the first care of the collaboration
medical workers. every householder.
In conclusion, Dr. Clark remarked that "Moreover, as the rat is by nature a night prowler, issuing from its nest after he did not suggest war should be waged dark to seck food for itself and its pry upon all insecta-there were not less than geny, it is doubly important that these 500,000 different species-but only upen open spaces should be clear of refuse by those known to convey disease or to sundown, and that no fresh refuse should destructive in other ways. Many insects he cast here during the hours of dark served a most useful purpose in the scheme A further necessary precaution of lile, for without their assistance there consists in the destruction of rats and would be no such thing, for instance, as Fat fieng on board ships calling at plague the cross fertilization of Bowers, and we infected porte, and the prevention of the should lack many of the most delicious "access of rats to ships from wharves and fruits.
At the conclusion of the lecture Pro rice versa, for it is by ships that the dis case is most frequently spread from oue fesser Wang expressed the thinks of the
(Continued at fool of next column.)
yards
to
country to another."
no case.
"
The Magistrate Mr. Russ has sub- Do you desire to address me on that?
Mr. Orme: I will, if your Worship consider that a possibility
said I should only The Magistrate: refuse to commit if the defendant's ex- planations were such that, having heard no jury could possibly convict. Mr. Russ: But if the defendant is not I nai not yet of that opinion. erosa examined, his evidence is challenged.
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The Magistrate: Mr. Orme has re served his right.
With regard to the $5,000 which it had been said the defendant drew from the Brm when it was in difficulties, defend aat put in his replies to the Official Eeceiver's questions, to show that the the Recent
proceds of four cheques to which refer. once had been made were not used by Defendant went on to explain that he him for private purposes. met with no better success in Shanghai in his search for financial aid, and he
Mr. Russ: It puts the defonce in a was obliged to obtain a position in order to support his wife and family. He never difficult position if the Crown say I am saw anything about his bankruptcy in not going to test this story," but simply the papers and when "later, he heard of sak you to commit. No jury would con it from friends coming from Hongkong viet on the facts: the creditors were he considered that Castro had power to friendly and the debtor was perfectly net for him and in his then circumstances blameless as to the losses. The debtor's. he could not face the expense of coming action, throughout, had been perfectly to Hongkong. He had no desire or in- fair and he had not gone, as he might tention to defeat proceedings. If he had, have dono, to a place where extradition he would not have gone to Shanghai, at lawa did not apply. all, but to Baigon, Manila or Japan. In Shanghai bo was always within the juria
be
audience to Dr. Clark and the assembly endorsed the expreacion by loud applause.
diccion of H.M. Couris.
(Continued at foot of next column.)
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The Magistrates Lam still of opinion the defendant): You stand committed that there is a case to go to a jury. (To for trial. Bail as before.
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