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During the early days of his medical service in India' Dr. Ross became gradually convinced that the most profitable manner in which a man can occupy himself for others was to investigate the great A weak anticyclone is central to infectious diseases which destroy or the north-east of Japan with an maim so many millions of people. extension" south-westwards to the Eastern Sea. Pressure is relatively He expressly selected malaria a low from Indo-China across the a subject for study because it was Philippines to the Pacific with a not then well understood, though
king.
Local moderate, cloudy, occasional rain,
News and Views.
Sub. Lieut. J. G. P. Long has been appointed to H.M.S. Titania.
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Protection from Gas War
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The Wanchai '" Riot,”
Much prominencs appears to have Colonel G. C. E. Simpson, speak- been given by other contemporaries ing at a meeting of the St. John Ambulance Association and Brigade a small riot at the Prays at Liverpool, said that in the event East on Monday evening when re of another war, which it. was hoped. staurant premises belonging to the ports of the country would be would not certain their lifetime, Nagastki Joe were damaged during destroyed as first line trenches were a frame between American sailors destroyed." There will be no time and some Chinese. Such occur. then to train members in anti-gue We are therefore issuing rences are very common in seaporta instructions to them on the Decem and "copy
"of that nature is al-cary precautions to be taken to
of attacks from the air. We are hoping to get the necessary equip- ment and to organise details,”
Rickalas with Motors,
An American syndicate in Cairo plans to import from China
the streets 'of, tha.
great difficulty. Tower Mecca Pilgrims.
| depression remaining over 200g it caused an enormous amount of The Mayor of Greater Shanghai ways to be obtained without any protect the civil population in case
Forecast :-8.E. winds, sickness in almost all warm coun- has ordered the re-organization of tries. At that time it was generally the Shen Shen An Temple, in the believed that malarial fever was
City, because the monks there are produced by poisonous exhalationaid to be corrupt. from swamps and marshes, but young Rans doubted this bypothesis,
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The number of Indian Moslems who hit Meces every year for the Haj pilgrimage, and to win the | Night Editor (Wanchai Offico): Tel- and decided to follow up other ported in May 1989 for 'a period of great distinction of being a Haji, 5,000 rickshan of the latest design has fallen this year to 10,341, almost Egyptian city. Negotiations al half the number that paid a visit to ready are under way between the 31ecca last year. Soon after the American concern. and ricksha manufacturers. The prospective par- war the Haj pilgrimage became chasers are specifying that the rick- very popular, and over 100,000 In-shas must be equipped with meters. dina Moslems used to visit it every in order that the customary bone year, But the modernising influence of contention over the proper fare of Turkey has had its effect Moslem youth, and instead of visiting Macea they aro now visiting Turkey, Egypt, and other countries.
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America, and Maysay in England The young Army doctor in India "found it very difficult to get in- atruction, advice, or even books to
According to Harbin telegram sist him in his investigations to the Chinese press, a number of Practically nothing was known Chinese and Korean Communiats, about Indian mosquitoes, and he with the assistance of certain Rua was laughed at by his colleagues for sans and Japanese, have formed a his efforts secure information, Sino-Korean-Japanese Communist Ross kept closely in touch with Union in that city. MANSON in England, who wrote.re-
HONG KONG, MAY 13, 1999.
EYEBROWS v. HIGH-BROWS
At yesterday's meeting of the
The Vernacular.
may be obriated. Health authori ties of Cairo are said to favour the innovation on the grounds that it will eliminate many of the horse- drawn vehicles now on the thorough- fares of that city, and this con- tribute to the cleanliness of the streets. The promoters of the. scheme believe that those tourists who do not travel beyond the Near a ricksha ride, and will pay hand- somely for the pleasure. If the first. consignment of rickshas proves suc cessful, the syndicate will introduce. additional numbers into Cairo, and also into Alexandria. The level roads of Egypt are said to be admirably adapted to the use of the mau-power vehicle.
MENTION was made in this paper gularly, encouraging the young recently of an offer made to man to persevere with his re- Sanitary Board it was recommend- { country "green in Lancashire. To Eaat will appreciate the thrill of celebrated English comedian to marches. Malaria was then responed that the Board should press the give his services to 22 "talkie "sible fur. about one-third of the film producer in return for the cases admitted into hospitals in trißing sum of £175,000. The gen India, but though there were about tleman in question is the possessor a thousand British Government CALIFORNIAN ORANGES cf a pair of very expressive and doctors in the country, scarcely one had endeavoured to investigate" the cause of the disease.
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expansive eyebrows. He sings-or rather talks-songs so very skilfully
Bowlers, examining the green just to see how it was faring, fell to talking of the 1923 season. from the works" had visited
A party
the only South-countryman in the Government to erect, during 1930, party enme the greenkeeper with the
question
Han yo' woods enco" an up-to-date and efficient crema- An interpreter was success on torium, for diseased animals, at this occasion, but later on the ex- Kennedy Town, to replace the exist-planation tendered only intensified ing structure.
the obscurity. A player, coming up with the last wood, hoping to pick the jack out missed it by a hair- breadth."Aw but!" commented one of the works party. What does he meant whispered the was the reply. (For the benefit of ing and Distribution of News" at
An accident occurred near Ashley Road, Kowloon, yesterday morning when a Chinese painter who was engaged in putting up a sign-board, ing. He received serious injuries
to his back and was removed to Kowloon Hospital.
other Southrens perhaps it ought to be added that "welly" is the dialect version of "well-nigh.")
Geniality of British Pros)..
Addressing the members of the
written that the meaning of the pense of time and mdney-young fell from the first storey of a buti Southerner to another. Welly!" Delphian Coterie on "The Gather words can be frequently interpreted Ross solved the problem by estab. in more ways than one-and this is lishing the fact that malaria para- where the famous eyebrows come in. sites lived in the stomach tissues By clever manipulation of these of spotted-winged mosquitoes. The' whimsical features of a humorous extremely delicacy of these re face, the comedian in question dur searches may be imagined from the
a dinner beld recently at the Cap-
on Street Hotel, Lord Riddell said. that though news collection and dis- tribution might appear to be ex- The vernacular press reports that
tremely simple, actually it was the claims of the French Govern-
nothing of the kind. The organiza- ment against the owners of the Captain von Salzmann, the well-tion required was one of the largest. Japanese str. Tongshan Mara, known China correspondent, deli- and most complicated in the world.
Lecture on China.
ing the past forty years haa amused Tsct that the parasites are scarcely which collided with a French dea-vered a lecture on some aspects of Journalists were very proud of
if
as large in comparison with a mos-troyer near Tientsin recently, have quito as half a crown is in com- now been settled, the Japanese con parison with a hippopotamus ! pany undertaking to pay all
damages.
millions of people, and been very well paid for it. Now comes an offer from an American film pro
It was Sir PATRICK MANSON, the ducer of a substantial sum "father of tropical medicine," who the owner of these famous eyebrows first established the fact that insecta will consent to appear in a series transmit disease. It was his kind of "talking pictures." Mr. Rosery advice and encouragement that quite naturally is attracted by the helped the young Ross to discover idea, and when he has concluded ed through the salivary glands of how malaria infection was convey his present" tour in South Africa wertain mosquitoes. Yet few people proposes to go over to the United troubled to visit his laboratory in Calcutta-not even his own chief!- States and pick up a cheque which and the general reaction to his
discovery was
storm of abuse
A reward of $250 has now been offered for information leading to the arrest of J. A. M. de Sousa, who has been on the "wanted" list for some time. The man is alleged to have made a fraudulent altera employed as a clerk in the Hous tion in a postal document while Kong Post Office.
Chins to a German audience at the their profession, and, like other Bangkok United Club recently. He people who hunted prey, extremely touched upon. China in her various pleased when they succeeded in aspects by secounting a trip he "bagging" a choice morsel, par- recently made through the country. ticularly if they "bagged" it ex- In the course of his journey elusively. In modern conditions, up the Yangtze to Chungking, the methods of communicating news. the steamer on which Captain were marvellous When the Peace yon Salzmann was travelling was Treaty was signed at Versailles he fred upon and afterwards taken by Lord Riddell); as the representa force and used as a military trans tive of the British Press, telephoned part. His trip also took him to the fact to a new agency in London. Yunnanfy, where the revolution has the moment the German delegata
should be sufficient to keep him in which suggested he had injured Shanghai Cotton Manufacturing van This is in the interior and when he started his agency at the
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wreaked havor. The place is desert-put his pen to the paper. "The even ed and is overrun with robbering papers in London thus had the bands, and there is no safety, and news on the streets within a few no food there. This is in direct minutes of the actual signing. opposition to Chengtu, to get to Lord Riddell compared this with which it is necessary to go by cara, the method employed by Reuter humanity instead of having con
is a region almost untouched by the end of the 18th century. There ferred & benent upon it. Readers
was then no electric telegraph, and outbursts of hostility and menda-
paratire safety. His triy wae filled cating his news by means of carrier- who wish to follow these amazing
wealthy and rich and dwell in com he conocived the idea of communi- city will find them in the volume
with interesting events; Among pigeons. Whereas the first requisite ander notice. Ross bravely carried
them Captain von Salzmada" vien- for news was truth, the second was on with his work in spite of all
tioned that he had visited one of the way in which it was presented. Mr. A. Menshuli, 2nd Officer of this, and proceeded with the next
the sacred mountains of China, that There were many different ways of phase-how to apply the new know the s.s. Suisang has reported to the
at Oni, on the Tibetian frontier.presenting the same fact. Those ledge of malaria for the saving of police the loss of articles from his
He also mentioned, in connection who performed the task of sifting human life and health. This stage cabin valued at 870. He states that
with the firing on his steamer, that the news had a very serious respon- i still being worked at all over his cabin was entered between 11:30
« British steamer, which followed sibility; a wrong interpretation the world, and requires much know. p.m. on the 12th instant and sam And now comes a tragic contrast. ledge, both general and local, of on the 13th and that a good wrist some time later, was escorted by the might be the cause of discord be- A public appeal is made in England malarial diseases. The whole kernel clock and some clothing were stolen.
mosquitoes and their habits, and watch, silver cigarette case, alarm gubat Tern and was not molested. tween one nation and another. The An American gun-boat, however, selection of what was reported and was fred on and replied to the fire. the importance given to the news. for contributions to a fund being of the Ross theory for the preven-
Captain von Salzmann knows the item did a great deal to create what tion of malaria is kill mosquitoes raised for the benefit of one who and destroy their breeding-places, his dead mother and assaulted his foreigners, and is extremely in journalists of the world as a whole"
Because he burnt the corpse of country probably better than most was called “'atmosphere.” The for the past forty years has been but it is heartbreaking to read bis father when the latter attempted to teresting on the question of the were not open to very much also serving his fellow men. Unlike account of the amazing difficulties prevent him from doing this, a future outlook of the country. He criticism in that respect. They experienced in getting this simple Chinese at Shanghai has been ar- is of opinion that the unsteady con- tried to give a true sccount of Mr. GEORGE ROBEY, however, this theory put into practice. An acrested by the Chinese authorities ditions will probably last for some
events as they saw them. So far a manie richer only in experience Colonial Office to see Mr. JOSEPH burnt the corpse in accordance with
count of iL deputation to after following his profession for CHAMBERLAIN is rare reading as is a superstitious belief that, by doing Learred Reporters.
the and is now awaiting trial. He ten years yet.
the newspapers of Great Britain. were concerned it would be very difficult to point to any having a nearly half th century. Hence the the story of an outburst of
tendency to stir up bad feeling be- Sir Henry Maddocks's complitween Britain and any other coun sanitary Bolshevism" when Boss appeal for a million shilling decided to go to Freetown, hire
ment to shorthand writers in the try. Geniality, was the most strik- Courts of Justice, to whose accuracying characteristic of the English, Ross, whose health has been and show the Governor of Sierra
leone how to reduce the number of May 11 were: Smail-pox, 8, with the administration of the law, waspapers. The British Press was a seriously impaired by his strenuous mosquitoes or perish in the at- deaths (all Chinese), Diphtheria, Los ons which the old-time report genial and a good-natured Press, research work in the tropics, and tempt! Sir RONALD Ross bas taken Eurasian and 9 Chinese, with 1ers were in the habit of receiving, one that abstained from violent
xme hard knocks himself in the death; Enteric Fever, 1 death;
It ie the there were, a few decades language. Newspapers, however, who has been obliged for some years course of his career, but he is well Cerebro-Spinal Fever, 1 death (Chi- in the seventeenth century when differed from any other commercial to draw on bis own capital for able to take his own part in con- mese... Two cases of death from official and recognised reporters enterprise. An apparently slight cause inconceivable troversy, giving just as good as he Influenza were also reported. Three were appoint-Collected and Re- error might family necessities." The appeal gets.
farther Chinese cases of small-pox Ported by That Learned Lawyer Sir misery. which is being made by Sir JAMES And now, after a lifetime devoted were reported yesterday, from Thomas Hetley, K., Appointed by BARR should not go unheeded here into the cause and cure of one of
to study, experiment, and research | Victoria,
the King and Judges for One of the Reporters of the Caw," ruos in Hong Kong, for Bir RONALD the most serious diseases afflicting The relief of the submarine depot from this, from the earliest times title-page of that time, but, apart Ross has given the best years of appealed to for a million shillings, Medway, as mother to the Fourth for their knowledge of common law humanity, the British nation is ship Titania by the new depot ship till 18 Bench and Bar depended his life to study of a subject which to that the man who has done so Flotilla in China, as soon as the cases on self-appointed reporters, is of very vital interest to residents declining days (Bir RONALD is 12) probably lead to the Titanis being ly denoted by their lively head notes mach for humanity may spend his latter ship is completed, will most whose informed style was suficient-
30, he would cure his son's illness
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of malaria. There was recently an appeal which should have, ned as a merchant ship on the Clyde Scotland; evidence of larceny in Hermes at Mire Bay on Monday
generous and world-wide response. in March, 1915, and published in London a little book it is shameful that the British Cox-mediately afterwards purchased by sion in Scotland; evidence of man 3. A. G. Wallace by drowning- England (Carlisle), or "Posses- reulted in the death of Aircrafts- which gives a summary of the emment itself has not seen to that the Admiralty, being commissioned larceng in England" (Gregory A Fairey airplane, piloted by Taluable work done by Sir RoSALD & man whose good work is known in the same November. Boss in his long researches in in every part of the Empire has malaria This work was started been fittingly rewarded by a grate-
Lewin Quotation from some of Lieut. J. E. Fenton, missed the these reporters was tabooed. Eldon lying deck in attempting to land, when he was a very young member ful nation-if, indeed, any sense of In the saloon of the 8.1. Lung did admit that Moseley's reports and the machine fell into the sea. of the Indian Medical. Service; it gratitude really exists. Men of the Shan on Monday afternoon the had considerable degree of The pilot and one other occupant, reached a triumphant climax in type of Sir RoxALD Ross do not oficers of the Hong Kong, Canton accuracy" but Mansfield forbade Aircraftsman F. T. Harding, Buc 1926 with the establishment in expect to amass fortunes when they and Macao Steamboat Co. presented all telerence to Barnardiatone, ceeded in scrambling out of the London of the Rous Institute and start work in a new field of scien- Mr. H. Smythe, Chief Engineer of hardly taking the sting out of the machine, and were rescued. The Hospital for Tropical Diseases the research. They are satisfied the .. Sui An, with a silver cigar interdict by adding, "It is maar- machine sank slmost immediately.
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ricant end, his manner of taking notes, that he so often stumbles on what is right?"; and when counsel asked Mr. Justice Maule how he got over surtain case in Espinasse that delightht judge said that be cared neither for Espinasse nor for any
other us
and an exhaustive search was made.
The latest report received" "way' that the body had not been found.
It is understood there is little hope of salving the machine owing to the depth of the water, nor is there much likelihood of the body being recovered.