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LORRY DRIVER UNITED STATES AND NO MEASLES IN THE
FALLS ASLEEP?
ACCIDENT OUTSIDE KOW. LOON HOSPITAL.
SANITARY VEHICLE
WRECKED,
The sultry weather of yesterday morning had, it is alleged, an ill effect on the driver of Sanitary lorry No. 837, and it appears that
he drowsed off to sleep while pro- eveding along. Waterloo Road and collided with a motor "bus,
was
DEPORTEES.
NO RETURN ALLOWED."
LONG IMPRISONMENT, FOR INFRINGEMENTS,
The American Consulate-General has forwarded us the following sec- tion of a recent act of Congress, concerning the exclusion from the US. of aliens previously deported
It states:-
Aliens who have bean arrested and deported in pursuance of law are mandatorily excluded from ad- mission to the United States whe ther deportation took place before or after the enactment of the Act.
The grounds upon which the Alien was deported are immaterial. Alien temporary visitors who have overstayed their visits and have been ordered departed, for example, now are permanently barred from the United States.
COLONY.
STATEMENT BY HEALTH OFFICER.
| MINOR · FACTOR ÎN INFANT
MORTALITY PROBLEM..
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Information as the prevalence of easles in the Colony was sought. at the fortnightly meeting of the Sanitary Board yesterday and sup- plied by the Medical Officer of Health
Mr. Wong Kwong. Tin's questions
were:--
L-Will the Medical Officer of Health kindly inform the Board if any caso of measles has been re- ported? If so, in what locality; and what precautions have been taken to prevent ita, spreading?
-Doce ho consider that an epidemie of measles exists and that extra precautions be taken by parents and particularly in schools to prevent its infection!
a-Will the Medical Officer of
Health kindly advise what steps ought to be taken, should such epidemic arise
Dr. Fawcett's Reply..
The Medical Officer of Health, Dr. H. A. Fawcett replied: -L am informed of none this year and only one death indirectly due to this disease has been returned. But measles is not an officially notifiable disease. The death this year was a Japanese infant from, Praya East, No. 2 Health District, early this month.
It was when he was passing Kow. loon Hospital, at the junction of Argyle Street, that the off side front wheel ran into a pot-hole about 3 inches deep. A"China"" motar 'bus was approaching in the op- posite direction, and the impact deflected the lorry and it hit the of rear wheel of the bus. The drowsing driver had no control over his steering wheel, which wrenched from his hands For-
Any alien ordered deported tunately the bus had only two (whether before or after enactaient passengers aboard, but one of them, of the Act) who has left the United a woman, who was sitting apposite States shall be considered to have the second class entrance WAJ
been deported in pursuance of law thrown clear out of the bus and irrespective of the source from. sustained injuries to her head. She which the expenses of his transpor was taken to the Kowloon Hospital,tation were defrayed or of the place but her injuries are not considered to which be departed. This brings ecrious.
within the mandatorily excluded The place where the collision took class mentioned in paragraph one place is a wide and deserted road-Aliens who have been ordered de the last place where such a mishap perted and permitted to deport should occur, but the skid marks on voluntarily in lieu of deportation. the tar road suggest how completely
Persons excluded from admission the lorry was out of control.
at ports of entry and deported are The motor bus being the heavier excluded for one year from date of vehicle took the impact without any deportation, unles athe Secretary of serious damage but the rear frame Labour has consented to their re: work was ripped open. The Hall-applying for admission. ford lorry smashed her off front
Falony-Two Years the Penalty. The Medical Officer in the Educa- wheel and came to rest come few yards further on with her axle deep the United States of Aliens exclud-most likely to become aware of cases The entry or attempted entry to tion Department, who would be in the side of theroad.
in certain schools, has kindly given Sergeant Scrim, of the Trafheed under paragraph one after ex- Department, was quickly on the
piration of the 60 days after theme information on the subject, enactment of the Act is made a although there is no official connec scene and photographs of the colli felony punishable by imprisonment tion between the Departments. She for not more than two years or by states: "No cases" notified to me fine of not more than one thou- this year." "There is a report of sand dollars or by both fine and im- two cases," she adds, from the prisonment.
University quarters." No cases Hereafter illegal entry or entry were reported to her officially obtained by a wilfully false or mis-last year but she states that noti leading statement or the wilful beations from British schools only concealment of a material fact is are received. made a misdemeanour punishable by imprisonment for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by both fine and imprisonment.
Exclusion provisions of the Act are effective at once."
sion were taken.
TRAFFIC CASES.
LONG LIST OF OFFENDERS.
THE C.S.F. PROSECUTES.
There was a long list of motor summonses at the Central Magis tracy yesterday and Major C. Willson spent, most of the day hearing them.
The Hon. Mr. T. H. King, act ing Captain Superintendent of Police, appeared to prosecute in s case in which a driver of a public car was charged with obstruction in Statue Square.
The defendant pleaded guilty, whereupon Mr. King informed the Bench that at about 2.20 p.m. On March 28, public ears parked in Chater Road extended half way across the road towards the Statue, so that care coming round the bend would have had difficulty in passing. The C.S.P. observed that the defendant's car was empty and he had to get a chauffeur to move The defendant's record showed be had been driving since 1026 and that he has had three convictions
it.
PROMISSORY NOTE FOR
$500.
A CURIOUSLY WORDED DOCUMENT..
DOUBLE FOR "DEFAULT.
Anglo-Chinese and the Vernacular schools give us no information and the entrants of the former are too old to be very susceptible. Unfortu nately very few Chinese children under it years of age are medically examined.
From the limited information available the answer to the first part of the question is the negative. As to the second part, this ques- tion does not arise and in any case is dwarfed by far more urgent and serious causes of child mortality. I do not anticipate an epidemic here.
In reply to the third question this four years ago with a penalty clause in detail and depends largely on A promissory note for $500 made is too wide a subject to lay down making the amount $1,000 with in- circumstances. Certain general prin- terest at the rate of two per cent. ciples apply. The chief of these, in per month in default of payment my opinion, is thorough. School Court before the Fairne Judge, (Mr. sickness, records of all school child- the Summary Medical Service, including complete was produced at Justice Wood) sesterday in a claim ren. Exclusion of, those who have by an Indian money lender. The not had the disease is then a simple A fine of $10 was imposed, the Hang, claimed 81,640 from Lau the closure of whole schools.
plaintiff, Indar Singh, of 10, Tai matter and is more effective than Magistrate adding that the matter Sing Cheung and Cheng Cheung,
since that date.
of the defendant's license would be of the Sun Garage, Caroline Hill Notification is a debatable subject
left in the hands of the C.S.P.
Mr. M. C. Chao was summoneroad. To bring the action within and was tried in England in 1915 for allowing an unlicensed driver the jurisdiction of the Court, the and repealed in 1919. Its dificul- to drive his car. In connection sum of $640 representing interest
with the same offence a Miss Lee was summoned for driving without a license. Mr. Chan pleaded guilty and, entered a similar ples for Misi Lee who was not in cour*
was waived.
Mr. J. M. Hall appeared for the second defendant, the summons on the other man not having been
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DEATH OF REV. H. H. CURTIS.
ties are considerable and its objects obtainable by better methods, such
A VETERAN MISSIONARY. as infant welfare schemes, with health visitors, co-operation of prac titioners and health propaganda. It comes with keen regret to any The mortality is highest in the first one who has lived within the re- In the course of his evidence the two years of life, it must be remem-gions of the Upper River to learn plaintiff said that the promissory bered, and the disease is highly in- of the death in Shanghai of the note was typed out by the first fectious before the rash appears Rev H H. Curtis of the China. defendant and he himself could not Preventive inoculation is, at pre- Inland Mission Station at Kiang- read it. After the note had been sent, of very limited application. signed by the two defendants ke handed over $500 and had since received $65 as interest from the
Fines of 85 each were imposed by His Worship.
A chauffeur who drove at thirty eight miles an hour between Hill Road and Eastern Street at night was fined 815 on pleading guilty. The Jockey Club Enclosure. The five summonses taken out for second defendant. Questioned re- parking outside the Members' en-garding the penalty of an addition closure of the Hong Kong Jockey al $500 in the event of non-pay.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Club, were also dealt with yester- ment, witness agreed that it was a A PROTEST FROM PUNJAB
day, Major Willson cautioning the driver of car. No. 41.
street.
condition under which the money was lent.
The defence was that the second defendant did not receive the
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'THE LOVELORN.""
SECRETS OF THE AGONY COLUMN.
A PLUMP HEROINE AT THE QUEEN'S.
[NY, OUR TILM CRITID.)
"The Lovelorn" which is to be
has been well esteemed "and liked seen to-day at the Queen's w by many. No one arrived at the written for the screen by Beatrice
Outpost
"for instance, on ship
or shore, without receiving a little Fairfax who conducts an "Advice note of welcome (as well as re to the Lovelorn" column in an minder" in the shape of a wee Mr. Horace Lo represented the
pocket Testament) from Mr. and American paper. drivers of cars No. 067 and 898
HONG KONG MIS. Curtis, in their out-of-the-way Perhaps that is enough. If you
station. both of which were summoned for money, and he did not sign the TO THE EDITOR OF THE
have ever had a glace at similar parking in Kam Yu Street, near note as principal but as a witness
Self-Denying Couple.
columne you will tow that most the Ko Shing Theatre. Mr. Lo at the request of his master (the
And while people in remote of the letters--at all events those SIE,--Allow me to bring it to places might well feel touched at which appear in print are from azked for an adjournment which first defendant) who "was now in was granted, Mr. Lo claimed that Kwong Chow Wan. The defendant your attention that, in connection the gesture, it is possible that they foolish little school girls who have Kam Yu Street was a private could not read: English and was with the article regarding the sale were also at first a little fearful not been suficiently smacked by
therefore not aware of the terms of Punjab Building. It is mentioned of some intrusion into the jealously their mothers. Before Mr. EW. Hamilton, the of the note. It was submitted that in the last paragraph that the guarded captaincy of their own
Miss Fairfax's mail bag seems to driver of car No. 907 was fined $15 the defendant was only a fitter and black is inhabited mainly by souls. for failing to produce his license not a partner in the garage.
members of the Indian and Filipino This feeling changed, however, contain similar effusions, and from when naked to by police officer.
communities." This is incorrect, as upon mentioning the matter to an them she has picked the letters of Asked by his Lordship as to the there are many Portuguese and older inhabitant; they could not one Anne Hastings" as the basis AND
The evidence showed that when an effect of the note, Mr. Hall con- Chinese families resident there, and fail to be struck by the latter's for her screen story, Anne" who Indian... constable ordered the tended that the note was void in WORKMANSHIP chauffeur to move on, after it had that two sums were mentioned. He the Filipinos and Indians do not frank admiration, and before long is played by Sally O'Neil, is
stopped outside the Queen's had no authorities to support his outnumber such to the extent of felt instead something suspiciously plump little working girl with a Theatre, the latter backed into the submission, but based it on the being considered main inhabitants like a lump in the throat as the beart of gold and a naughty but street between the Theatre and words promissory nate"
of the Punjab Building.
tale was told of this veteran couple, much more attractive younger sister
"Georgie" (Molly O'Day). China Building. As no parking His Lordship held that the docu Of course, this in itself is a very devoting self and substance to the
And in worried because Georgie, was allowed there, the constablement was valid for $500. Plaintiff trivial matter but it would be well native community about them, yet asked to see the chauffeur's license, had sumitted the receipt of Bes. for the public, the writer believes at times making the long journey, an indiscriminate picker-up of men, but the latter refused to produce Jadgment would therefore be given does not know how far a little munities miles away,
to have right impressions, as one on foot, to see the foreign com is blind to the attractions of "Bill" in his favour for 8435, and in view detail like this may go in the Eventually a European constable of the fact that he had to wait already distorted and snobbish which one saw Mr. Curtis (at this Bilt for herself, we gather, and for And on the brief occasions on a rather flashy young man played by Larry Kent. She would like arrived on the scene and it took four years for the money, leave to minds of the genteel classes" one time Mrs. Curtis was not well hin more than five minutes to get issue immediate execution would be runs across continually in the enough to make the journey) there get him. The story wends on its a short time it looks as if she will the chauffeur to produce ..his
granted.
Coura of human events of our was something so strikingly fine not very interesting way and shews license. A further charge of
worthy Peninsula It would in all and outstanding about his person us finally the two sisters starting obstruction in Queen's Road, was withdrawn.
a shop window and did damage to probability give some the idea that ality as well as the broad gesture, fresh love affairs with earnest the extent of 860. He had also the Punfab Building, in its present that one, too, could not fail to ad-
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13 Counts Against & Uhiness Driver failed to pay fines on four former dilapidated state, is only fit for mire and respect this man who young men, Bill having decided to
summonses and a warrant had been issued for his arrest some time ago. A fine of $50 or four weeks in default, was imposed on the sum
There were no less than thirteen
members of the Indian and Filipino while fashioning his own life to counts, against a Chinese who was
communities, whereas the place we auch special pattern, yet seemingly summoned yesterday for driving
live in can hardly be considered an found no great gulf fixed between ar No. 434 without a license. It
index to our character or family himself and the people of the world was explained that the defendant mons brought yesterday, and fines prestige, 28. poverty knows no about him, as drave without permission, parked of 828 or four weeks' imprisonment | chuiceYours faithfully, t Many will regret his passing and in Wing Lok Street, crashed into were inflicted on the four former
A READER. much sympathy will be felt with (Continued at foot of next column.) ▼ summonses.
Mrs. Curtla..
Kowloor, April 18.
marry a woman with money." There have been a lot of better films than "The Lovelorn," but the glimpses of Beatrice, Fairfax's office may be of interest to anyone who relies on advice from a similar agony column in conducting their affairs, of the beart...