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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1930.
UNDER THE PUNKAH SHANGHAI GUNMEN. FIGHTING MALARIA
STILL MANY PROBLEMS TO
(Continued from Paje 1.).
My friend wiped away, a furtive tear, the while I expressed sym- pathy with him and his colleagues. Then he went on-Only the other day a man rang up and told me to buy Ropes. I did, and when I told him I had got the dashed things, he said he wanted Rauba! Now, I ask you, is that any sort of a life for anybody,"
Uncertainties.
AMAH SHOT DEAD.
What is believed to have been at
attempt at political assassination accurred in a busy part of the French Concession, Shanghai, last work.
Three armed men entered the house in an alleyway off Rue Lafayette, near Rue Tenant de la Tour, until recently occupied by Mr. Tiau Ming Ching, a prominent official of the Intelligence Depart
BE SETTLED.·
In the Chemistry Section of the British Association last month Dr.
A. Henry, director of the Wall. eau Chemical Research Labora torics, dealt with the action of cinchona alkaloids in malaria. had elapsed since cinchons, bark Although, he said, three conturion was introduced into European me. dicing for the treatment of malaria, and it was nearly a century since the last of the four alkaloids- quinine, quindine, cinchonine, and ciuchonidine-which formed the ac- Of course, les House Street is ment of a Government Ministry attive constituents of the bark was discovered, there were still numer. not the only place in town where Nanking, and after shooting dead ous problems to be sottied a con uncertainties are met with. There's an amah who tried to keep them Lection with the use of the bark Happy Valley, for example-I mean out, proceeded to search the house, and its constituents in malaria. the racecourse, of course, not the The present occupant of the house, Clinical Tests in Malarial Countries. couetery. You meet men who know a man named Zo Chiao-yun, was ical work in the disease had been Until recently chemotherappeuti- "for a certainty” what is going bed, but the intruders gave hisa hampered by the fact that the re- to win the Hamburg Stakes, but scant attention and intimated that lative values of drugs could only La investigated by extensivo cliui. de they back their fancy? Not they were looking for
or another per-alrials in malarial countries.. always. Why? Because of the son altogether. When they found Preliminary work supported the glorious uncertainty of the game that the man they wanted was not conclusions arrived at from clinical the ever-present possibility that prosent they dumped the body of trials that quinine and quinidine were more efficient than cinchonino, even the best of ponies may take the amah into a bin near the rear but the value of cinchonidine was it into his head to stop when half- entrance and decamped.
still uncertain. Of the derivatives way over the distance in order to
rf quinins tried, hydroquinine in the preliminary tests gave better' results than any other drug ex- amined.
sneeze.
Then there's cricket, with its glorious uncertainties, and golf, and -if it comes to that-there's potter !
이
The shooting attracted, a large crowd, but the police did not arrive un -the scope until after the mou had escaped
.Douled Admittance. According to an account of the
Dr. Henry spoke briefly of the drugs other than cinchona which in various parts of the overseas tropical possessions enjoyed local reputations as cures for malaria- for example, alstotria bárk in West Africa, the Far East, the Pacific akuamma throughout Africa, and Telands, and sub-tropical Australia,
greenheart hark in British Guiana, All these also contained alkaloids which had been tried in the course of this work, but the alstonia al kaloids alone had shown any ac-
Then there's the uncertainty at-occurrence given by a neighbour, says the N.C. Daily News, it api tached to journalistic work, Repears that the mon drove up to the porters go out to, a Legislativa house at 8.15 a., and after hani Council meeting with their pockets ed to see the "mater." The amah, mering on the front door demand
bulging with notebooks and an arm who was 30 years old and had only ful of sharply pointed pencila, ready recently arrived from Honan, deni. el them admittance on the ground to take down every word of a long that her master was asleep and so and interesting debate, and then could not receive visitors. and that nobody wants to say any shot the Amsh three times, one bul-had previously pointed out that Kicking the door open, the mentivity in bird malaria. Dr. Henry thing! Then there's the uncer.
let passing through her head. While effieldney or inefficiency in bird ma- tainty as to whether there is anyone of their number remained to laria was not a conclusivo evidence thing "Under the Punkah" to in guard the door, the others then of efficiency or inofficloney in hu- terest you this week-which there went upstairs, shouting out a name man malaria.. probably isn't-and there's even which was not readily distinguish the uncertainty as to whether there able Mr. Ze. Chiao Yun was drag will be anything next week, or the god from his bed and ordered to week after that or, indeed, any tell where the other occupants of CHURCH NOTICES. "Punkah at all t
the house wore, as "urgent busi. ress and to be dicussed. His pro tealations that he was the only per- It is a very curious fact that the son in the house and that he had words
glorious uncertainty, soirased it from Mr. Tinu Ming often applied to cricket, and fre- Ching only two weeks ago resulted quently to other sports and games, in a demand that he disclose. Mr. were originally applied to the law Tinu's present whereabouts. This, As every schoolboy knows (after of course ho was unable to do. Y doing as I have done, consulted a dictionary of quotations), the. Words occur in Love à la Mode," a play
Not Uricket.<
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Attackers Well-Informed.
A peculiar feature of the occur- written by Charles Macklin a couple renco was that the men seemed to of centuries ago. Here is the paste intimately acquainted with Mr. inge "The law is a sort of Tinu's habits. They said that they hocus pocus science, that amiles in know he always came to Shanghai yer face while it picks yer pocket, and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.” Most people who have had occasion to go to law' will accept dear old Mark's view as axionistic.
Boclin' in the Moonlight.
from Nanking on Fridays and Saturday, and so must be avail able. They had obviously planned the attempt well in advance.
The police are now looking for the driver of a car that parked at the entrance to the alleyway dur ing the attempt. They believe that this was stolen and, will be found
or Settlement,
A new pastime has been inaugurabandoned in either the Coneession
ated in the Colony in the form of lawn bowls by moonlight or should it be by lamp-light? This innova. tion deserved very much wider pub licity than it received, and, frankly, I have been greatly disappointed with the newspaper reports of this remarkably interesting experiment. Lawnbowls critics, who seem to report everything that is done in the Colony in regard to their parti cular hobby, have also been strangely silent on the matter. This is the kind of report I expect ed to see in the Prom:
would welcome some form of exer- ise after & Bujnptuous meal, especially away from homo Ex periments might also be tried with same way. If our local Senators tennis, football, cricket, eto, in the could be induced to take an interest in the encouragement of night sports, these might become so popu- lar that the Government would con- sider the imposition of an amuse- ment-dax. on night sports, which would be bound to bring in a large arount to the Exchequer.
"Atreinendous sensation was canned at North Point by the an- nouncement that an experiment was to be tried to explore the possibilities of playing lawn-bowls An Old Grievance,
by the aid of moolight plus are, One of the constant complaints Inmps. The event attracted a voiesd hy visitors to this port je large number of spectators, who the absence of anywhere to go after were treated to n' thrilling and midnight but bad, Shanghailandera spectacular game equal in ston-who come down to see how we are dard to any provided in the getting on go to a dianer-dance and League or even in an Interport thoroughly enjoy themselves until, 11.45, they begin to notice
maton the whole, considering at about 11 do, turned t
everything very satisfactory re- 1.50 the room is in semi-darkness; sults were attained, and this rewat 11:55 there is a demi-semi-quaver form of after-dinner recreation is in the air, and at 11.50-well, if likely to be generally adopted in you are not on your way to the the Colony. The arrangement of elevator by that time, you are very the lights was such that all Ekely to get pushed out! shadows were completely élimin- inted, the jack being visiblo at all timer,, even when it was covered
"Where shell
we go now?'"
with one foot in the street and the
Wooden sphere. Afembers of plaintively unke the vexed visitor, by the Engineering Faculty, were in offer still on the step feeling thing attendance with long steel tapes this night is still young. The resi- to measure the woods. In rodent looks at the stranger reproach- of the ends the woods were all fully, as if to say: Don't you close on the jacks, necessitating.
expert use of callipers to know that all good little boys and determine distances. There
girls should be in bed by mid-
the
were
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL, Hoya Kona. OCTOBER 12, 1980, 17th Sunday after
Trinity: Holy Communion at 8 a.m.
Holy Communion (Peak Church) at
'B
3 am Parade
Eervice at 9.15 am. Children Borrice at 10 am. Mattias and Bermon at 11 am.
Preacher :--The Dean. Evensong at 6.00 p...
Preacher:-Eov. H. V. Koop. Scist Evening in Cathedral Hall after Evensong.
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FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST.
(Branch of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mätt, U.S.A.) MACDONNELL HOAD, BELOW Bows ROAD TRAY STATION, SUNDAY SERVICE, October 18, 1930, at
11.15.
Subject-Ann SN, DIBRASE, AND
DEATH REAL, 7 The Sunday School is held on Sunday Mornings at It'o'clock.
day vening Meeting t Tuesday and Friday, 10a.m. to 12 Noon; Heading Hoom at above address,opez:→→ Monday Thursday, 5.50 to 7 p.m.
The Pubis cordially invited to attend. the services and visit the Heading Room
UNION CHURCH. (KENNEDY BOLD). SUNDAY, October 19, 1930:-
Morning Worship at 12 8,m, Evening Worship st. 6 p.m.
Preacher-Rov. John Foster.
DIGESTIVE
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PAIN
QUICKLY RELIEVED
IGESTIVE » disorder is nearly
Dadways due to excess stomach acid which fermet food make an of gases form, and attacks the Unity of the stomach. To overcome the acidity and thus conquer indigestion there fr nothing so quick or so sure as “Bisurated": Magnesia. This not only, neutralisee the xcess acid and prevents ferments- a few dead heads on almost all night?" As a matter of fact, in to but also soothes and heals the inflamed stomach lining.. I therefore the greens. The organisers of Hong Kong there is nowhere to go
(--you want to get quick relief from but home after twelve, whereas this event are to be heartily con- think how nice it would be if one
momach painor svald digestive trouble gratulated (at some future dato),
yous abould take a little "Bisurated' and it is to be hoped that the could say to gut visitor from Shanggis after meals or when discom executive ofleers of clubs con at:-"What about a game at fort it felt. Because it provides the scientific way, of conquering stomach cerned with other forms of snart moonlight bowls" or "How about
troubles and makes indigestion impos- will experiment on similar lines a little tennis by flashlight !" or in order to make night life much cricket 1"
"Who says a five a-side spot of
sible by removing the cause, Bisurated* hrighter to the Colony than it sight may not be equal to the strain For those whore eye
Magnesia is used and recommended by doctors all over the world. is." Personally, I think that bowling at phosphorescent paste could be used, a Bali plontifully, plastered" with sight could be part, sucennet illy Land of form thead tiltry gay dati
rdulged in during the summer that the ghostly blue-green, glint of months. There must be many who the ball would show up clearly to
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