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PICKETS AND TROOPS.
CONFLICTING INTERESTS
TAMSHUI
FIFTEEN" "PICKETS -KILLED.
EUGENE
FOR
CHEN HOPES CONFERENCE RESUMPTION.
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.)
Mr. Eugene Chen, the Kuomintang Minister of Foreign Affairs, in a recent
statement, expressed the hope for as
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18TH, 1926
SANITARY BOARD.
UNWHOLESOME FOOD TO BE
SEIZED.
TEACHING OF HYGIENE IN
"SCHOOLS.
THE WATER PROBLEM. THE CONNAUGHT ROAD
PUMPING RECOMMENCED.
NEARLY HALF NORMAL SUPPLY PROMISED
A' WARNING TO CONSUMERS,
MURDER.
OFFICE "BOY"
COMMITTED
FOR TRIAL.
PRISONER'S FEAR OF LEPROSY.
CHINESE DOCTOR ON "CRAWLING SENSATIONS."..
At a meeting of the Sanitary Board
The Public Works Department an- yesterday, it was resolved on the pro- position of Mr. N. L. Smith (the Presi-nounce that they have started the 'No, i
The office "boy" formerly in the em dent), seconded by Dr. S. W. Tso, that engine at the Pokfulam Road pumping Sanitary Inspectors J. Hughes sad E. M. station, and it is anticipated that hightly ploy of the Chinese Commercial Company, under a half of the normal supply of who has admitted that he killed a fellow
Ponsford should be authorised to enter
early resumption of the Canton-Hong, premises and seize unwholesome food in water can be given in the Peak and High employee during the night of June with.
kong conference for the settlement of the boycott
CURIOUS SITUATION,
accordance with a stipulation of the, Fublic Health and Buildings Ordinance.
In connection with a question asked at the last meeting of the Board, rela. tive to the teaching of hygiene in schools, Mr. A. E. Wood (the Director of Educa-
A curious situation has ariaca "at Tamshui. Reports from this place, by way of Sheklung on the Canton-Kowloon Railway state that on July 24th more tion) wrote as follows than 15 strike pickets there were killed
Hygiene is taught in Government -by local troops. Since the inauguration Anglo-Chinese Schools from Class a to of the boycott over a year ago; pickets Class, in the lower classes in British have been preventing inhabitants from Schools and again for bigger girls under departing_for_ Hongkong. On the other Domestic–Hygiene. hand the local troops have found it an exceedingly profitable business to provide protection for people wishing to cross to British territory, and it is said that the commander of the force has been able
Hygiene is taught in nearly all Vernacular Schools.
There is a Normal Class for teachers at the Technical Institute."
Those present at the meeting were Mr.
Level districts.
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It is proposed to give a two hours supply morning and evening, between the hours of 10 s.m. and 13 nocy and 6 p.m.
and 8 p..
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29th, was yesterday afternoon committed for trial at the next Criminal Sessions by major Willson
Et will be recalled, as reported in the Daily Press recently, that the prisoner If consumers will see that their supply made a statement to the police in which is cut down to slightly less than half the normal consumption, an equally distri he said that he murdered his fellow- búted supply will result. Should more employee because he believed the man than the average available quantity be had been the means of his contracting drawn, the hours of supply will be cur leprosy through introducing him to a tailed without notice and the higher bouses will suffer. It is recommended-woman. that baths should be cut down to the smallest dimensions and that lavatories should not be flushed with water from
the mains.
It is hoped to augment the supply of
to rely upon an income of several hun. L. Smith (the President), the Hon. water in about a month's" time.
dred dollars a day from the source. Naturally this conflict of interest has led to frequent disputes and on July 24th the dispute developed into a fight in which,
as stated, fifteen pickets lost their lives
NEWSPAPERS WANTED.
In order to bring pressure to bear on the Canton newspapers to resume publi- cation, the editors are now being des 'cribed as traitors and malicious persons. Without the newspapers it is found almost impossible to promote the salo of war bands and media are urgently required for the publication of military and official communiqués. At the mo- ment, however, the editors are standing fast and state that they will not resume until the Kuomintang order the work
on strike to return and forbid printers and paper sellers, from inter fering with editorial and business policy. The two Kuomintang organs-
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Mr. H. T. Creasy, D.P.W., Dr. W. V. M. Koch, Dr. A. G. 1. Severn (MO.H.), Dr. S. W. To, Dr. S. C. Ho, Mr. Wong Kwong fin, and Mr. R. A. D. Forrest
(Secretary).
TAI O PIRACY RECALLED,
ALLEGED MISSING MAN CHARGED.
ECHO OF RECENT COURT CASE.
When medical evidence was given by Dr. Craig, the gaol medical officer, at a previous hearing, it showed that the prisoner showed no traces of having con- tracted this dread disease. It was fur- ther stated by Dr. Craig that the prisoner was not certifiably insane, although he appeared to be depressed, and very quiet
of speech
This is a perfectly straight-forward statement of the position and it behoves residents to follow the recommendations made for the benefit of all. It is hoped
"' CRAWLING SENSATIONS." that when water appears in the taps At yesterday's hearing, a Chinese doc- therefore, householders will resist the tor, named Cheung Wing Tai, was called. temptation to fill every bath in their He said he examined the prisoner in establishment. If they do this other June last year, when the man complain- people will suffer and the supply gener-ed of crawling sensations in his ally will be curtailed "There must be stomach, and in consequence of this no water hogging,"
prisoner thought he was auffering from leprosy.
SEIZURE, OF ARMS."
RESULT OF RAID AT YAUMATI,
Alleged to be the "wanted" man of a gang of four, who are stated to bave participated in the recent piracy of a junk of Tui O, a Chinese fisherman appeared before Mr. 1. E. Lindsell, at the Cen-LOADED PISTOLS AND REVOLVERS tral Magistracy yesterday, charged with. committing piracy.
On the application of Chief Detective
"FOUND.
An important seizure of arms was made at Yaumafi yesterday about noon, when,
Officers, seven, loaded pistols and five loaded revolvers were discovered.
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The doctor said be formed the opinion' that the prisoner was suffering from neurasthenia, and gave him a tonic of sodium bromide" and arsenic for his nerves, and, as
preventive against syphilis, gave him an injection of neo salvarsan. Otherwise the man had no organie trouble.
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Questioned by Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg istant Crown Solicitor, who conduct-
the Min Auo Jih Pao and the Kuo Min Inspector T. Murphy, the man was form during a raid, carried out by Revenueed the case for the prosecution) regard-
time for the police to carry out further ally remanded for one week, to allow
investigations. When he comes before the Court next week, a date for hearing will be asked for.
Sen Wen are still functioning but they are not doing the greatly increased busi. ness that might have been anticipated from the elimination of all other com- petition. Many newspaper readers have taken sides with the papers-which have Et will be recalled that recently three suspended publication and refuse to buy Chinese were committed for trial at the the only journals available because they Criminal Sessions, on a charge of being say they are tired of the usual bulletin concerned in the piracy of a fishing junk The Kuomintang are threaten near Lantau Island, in the vicinity of ing the confiscation of the properties of Tai O on May 20th. When the case was the newspapers unless they resume pub heard, evidence" was given that there was lication quickly.
stuff."
MILITARY EXPENSES. The military expenditure of the Kuo- mintang, according to the latest figures, is nearly $5,100,000 a month, and in order to force the people of the "con- quered territory" to foot some of the bills the Kuomintang Ministry of Finance-in Canton is printing $5,000,000 worth of war. notes for circulation in occupied districts. ·
The Kuomintang Army General Head quartera expects to have some 85,000,000 to -$6,000,000 in hand for the Northern Expedition to cover initial expenditure in the field. It is hoped to secure half of this sum from districts in Kangtung in the form of payment of taxeḥ a year ahead.
KUOMINTANG AND FOREIGNERS.
another man who had not been arrested. As stated, the man before the Court yesterday is alleged to be this wanted
man,
The man has been arrested as the result
It appears that a house in Tung On Street was entered by the officers, who arrested four men and one woman.
These, it is learned, are to be charged with possession of the "contraband, and
will, in due course, appear at the Row
Toon Magistracy.
الرحم
ing the prisoner's mentality, the doctor replied that prisoner did not appear to be quite normal. He seemed to be mentally depressed and spoke very low. At times he seemed to be wandering.
SUFFERING FROM DELUSION. Continuing his evidence, the doctor
said that following the treatment, the
prisoner came back and said he felt much better," but on March 10th he came and' told him (the doctor) that the "crawling
THE PRICE OF KNOWLEDGE sensations had returned and that he
"A WOMAN WITH "BARBAROUS INSTINCTS."
PLUCKING A LIVE BIRD,
of investigations carried out by the police subsequent to the receipt of a report
A pigeon," which was still alive, but in the case of the other three men, stated from a small boy, who, in giving evidence with all the feathers of its tail missing, was produced as ·EO exhibit at the
that his whole-family-were-wiped-out-by Central Magistracy yesterday, whên a pirates, and that he escaped the same fate Chinese was charged with cruelty to the- by jumping overboard and swimming in a
bird. choppy sea for four hours before be reached an island.
ار میوه
COMING EAST.
PASSENGERS BOOKED FOR
HONGKONG.
ON P. &.0. STEAMERS,
Among the passengers booked on various P. ¿0. steamers for Hongkong are the following :-
At a recent meeting of the Kuomintang it was decided that foreigners applying for membership of the Party should have their applications passed by the Central, Executive Committee. Some Russians and a few Germana, Americans and Canadians have, it is understood, be-
Lieut. TW. Graham R.N., Lieut come regular members of the Kuomin-R. C. D. Grimes, R.N., Commander A. tang.
Poland, D.S.O., R.N., Lieut. F. "A, Pigon, R.N., and Lieut. J. H. Topp, R.N.
الالا
On the as. Kalyan, which left London on July 1st.
The woman had been caught by an Indian constable in the act of plucking the feathers.
Pleading guilty, she said that, she was a newcomer to the Colony and was there. fore not conversant with its customs.
In imposing a fine of $50 with the alternative of four weeks' hard labour, the Magistrate (Major C. Willson) said that common-sense should bare guided her.
OPIUM FIND.
CONCEALED ON DUTCH VESSEL.
DRUG NOT CLAIMED..
thought he had leprosy. Witness ex- amined the man, "with the same result as before. He discovered no trace of lep- rosy and gave him another injection.
In reply to a question, the doctor saíd he believed the man was suffering under the delusion that he had contracted leprosy.
"A CHINESE BELIEF,
In answer to Mr. Hazlerigg, the doctor Baid there was a belief among the Chi- nese that leprosy was accompanied by "erawling sensations." There sensations had never been described in Western books on medicine as being symptoms of leprosy. He himself did not believe they' were symptom of leprosy, but such sensa tions wore symptoms of neurasthenia of other nerve troubles. At the time he examined the prisoner he thought he was somewhat insane, but formed the opinion he was suffering from general depression.
Mr. Hazlerigg: People do get insane in Hongkong without suffering from leprosy don't they?
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The Doctor: Tex.". His Worship: "Do you want me to put that down?.
Mr. Hazlerigg It might be put down on record for all time
HUNAN, General Tang Seng Chi, whose men
On the application of Sergeant Carson, Chief Détective Inspector T. Murphy now control the greater part of Hunan London on July, 16th-
On the s.8. Malwa, which sailed from at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, described the visit, of the police to the including Changsha, the capital, has in-
Mr. and Mrs C H. Douglas, Mrs. A. Mr. J. H. B. Nihill made an order for the scene of the crime in the B.A.T. Build- formed 'Canton that he expects soon to Mackenzie, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. O'Cal confiscation of 340 taels of prepared opium ing. He related how the body of the organise in the Province as administra-laghan, Miss M. A. F. Roxburgh, Miss which were discovered unclaimed by the murdered man was found, in a shockingly tion. similar to that of the Kuomintang. S., F. Sutton, and Mrs. H. L. White.engineers on board the s. Tisardea on mutilated condition, beneath a quilt in a On the as. Kashgar, which will leave July 23rd, whilst the steamer was at sea. back cubicle, and said that there was London on July 20th-
P. A. Yapp
THE KUOMINOHUN,
General Feng Yu Hsiang of the. Kuo minchun Army-the Christian General who is now in the North-West territory near Peking has wired to Canton that he is dispatching a personal delegate to the Southern Capital to discuss matters of mutual interest.
Mr. J. L. Christie, and Mr. and Mrs.
On the 8. Khyber, which saile from London on August 28th-
In applying for the conñacation order, blood everywhere. The whole place re- Sergeant Carson" stated that the opium sembled a shambles, and it was evident was contained in 340 tins nad valued at that a terrible struggle had taken place. $4,080. It was handed to him by the At the conclusion of the hearing, bis chief officer. It was discovered by the Worship committed the case, as stated, Mrs. F. and Miss E. DL Burchall, engineers, in the upper cross bunkers, to the Criminal Bessions Mr. E. S. Forster, Mr. K. F. Jeffreys, Mr. A. B. Murch, and the Rev. Frank before the ship's arrival in port on Mon- Short and Mrs. Short. '
day,
Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy, who appeared for the prisoner, reserved the defença.
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