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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY JUNE 24, 1931.
ST. JOHN AMBULANCE BRIGADE.
CENTENARY. CELEBRATIONS OF REFORMATION OF
...NCIENT ORDER..
HON. MIR W. L. SHENTON REVIEWS" HISTORY AND WORK.
Today is the centenary of the reformation of the venerable Order of St. John, which is being celebrated throughout the British Empira,
In order to raise funds for the local branch of the St. John ? Ambulance Brigado, a flag day is being organised to-day, 'Below we give the text of an address by the Hou. Mr. W. E. L. Shen- ton, broadcast last night, in which be reviewed the history of the Order and the great services it is rendering in Hong Kong.
TO-DAY'S APPEAL FOR FUNDS.
·YAUMATI MURDER
TRIAL
DIFFERENT THEORIES ON CAUSE OF DEATH.
K. M. A.
CERAMIC & REFRACTORY PRODUCT
STRANGULATION OR
'CONCUSSION?
CLINKER PAVING,
BUILDING
I am not attacking your bond fidce, but I am criticising your methods of conducting the post inortem examination," said Mr. Jenkin in cross-examining the medical witness called by the Crown in the murder trial which opened nt the Criminal Sessions yesterday: before the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph' Kemp)..
Witness gave his opinion that Hon. Mr. Shenton said:-I have about 30,000 awards to candidates death was due to strangulation, but the pleasure of addressing you to who have maintained their ambul defending counsel auggested that night, in my capacity of a District anes efficiency Classes of instruc the man died of concussion from a Oficer of the Hong Kong Branch tion are also bold, under the aus-
head wound which Was not. of St. John Ambulance Brigade,pices of the Association, in connee thoroughly investigated, and he in connection with our Flag Day tion with the military and police commented on the absence of notes which takes place to-morrow (Wed-authoritics, the railway companies, on the post mortem findings. hesday), and has as its object the the mercantile marine, and the Accused is Wong Cheung, who is raising of further funds, for the fishing fleets. Divisions of the St. charged with the murder of Kau purchase of motor ambularice for John Ambulance Brigade, have Suk at Yaumati on April 1, this our local Brigade. We have chosen quickly followed the formation of year. He is defended by Mr. F. Wednesday, because it is the cen- Association classes, and the C. Jenkin, instructed by Mr, H. C. tenary of the reformation of this strength of the Brigade, in the Macnamara, of Messra, Deacons. venerable order.which is being cele British Empire is now nearly brated all over the British Empire 50,000,
Although most people are aware. of the great work which the Bt.
It can, therefore, be seen that
Jurors empanelled for the trial)| were Mesars, B, C., Field (foreman), C. J.J. Whitehead, A. M. Xavier, movement N. Wong, F. X. dos" Remedios, C.; Brigade are performing in tho is not an isolated society, existing de Vieira Ribeiro and Chan Ping relief of human suffering, very few people realise, that these organi- sations have thoir, origin in the Order of St. John--the most ancient Order of chivalry-which was in existence at the time of the Crusaders
Early in the eleventh century, a hospital existed in Jerusalem," to minister to the needs of the pilgrims, who came from all parts
for the purpose of teaching first i aid, but each member of the or- San. ganisation belongs to the noble
In opening the case for the Order,, stretching from the Middle Crown, Mr. Somerset Fitzroy in Ages to the present day, united in their determination to relieve the dicated the possibility of saffering of mankind.
charge being amended to 'one of manslaughter as the trial pru- gressed...
The Hong Kong and China Dis- trict Association, was formed some sixteen years ago by Mr. Edwin Ralphs, and its members and
of Europe to visit the Holy City.officers now number. 400. None of When in 1087, the Crusaders be the members receive salaries; all! sieged Jerusalem, the hospice was join the Brigade with the unselfish in charge of a body of men, call-aim of serving the public and their ing themselves "The Poor Brethren fellow-men. of the, Hospital of St. John," and these men devoted their lives to the relief of suffering, and the ad. ministration of hospitality to the pilgrims. It was around this hos pital, that the Order of St. John developed, and although in later years, the Knights became one of the greatest military organisations, they still maintained and develop. ed the humanitarian side of their work, as their name-Knight Hos pitaller denotes....
Driven Out By Saladin. In 1187, Saladin drove the Knights from Jerusalem, and after sojourning in Acre and. Cyprus, the Order of St. John became estab- lished in Rhodes. For over two hundred years, the Knights in their island fortress held their own, and
the
No Motive for the Crime. Mr. Fitzroy said that 'Kau Suk, the deceased, lived with friends at
an unnumbered house in Kowloon, The members' render assistance There was no suggestion of any when local fires, storms, and other trouble between the people in the disasters occur, in which medical services are required; they have house, an the Crown was not able also taken a very substantial part to bring forward and motive for in the Colons's vaccination cam- the crime. paign, and from the beginning of the year 1927 to the present time, have vaccinated no less than 500,000 members of the community. They attend race meetings, athletic sporta meetings, football meetings, bathing beaches, and processions for the purpose of rendering assist nnce in case of need,
Services to Hong Kong,
On the night in question every- one seemed to have gone to bed normally, but near dawn a cry of save life" was beard. A woman promptly climbed upon a chest of drawers and looked over a parti tion into the next cubicle. There she saw decensed struggling with
For several years, the Brigade 'prisoner's father while prisoner was entirely financed by Mr. Ho stood behind deceased, with his Kom Tong, but it has now grown
to such an extent that it has bearms round his waist. come too large a financial respon- She would say that" she saw by their stubborn defence, helped sibility for any one man to shoul prisoner put something over de to stem the tide, which threatened der. to overwhelm Europe. In 1480, the
.
During the course of the local ceased's head, at which she made Tarks determined to subjugate this Association's existence, it has been some remark. She was told to keep bulwark, but after a long and fierce the subject of favourable mention quiet, and the light was switched conflict, they were defeated by the on several, occasions, and in parti
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A little boy, who was sleeping in an upper cubicle, also looked over what was going on.
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On the assumption that the man died of strangulation, Mr. Jenkin
Knights. In 1522, however, the cular, in connection with assistance off. She went round to the back Knights were compelled to leave given at the Race Course calamity, where there was another woman, asked Dr. Uttley. whether he had Rhodes, after a siege lasting six and Gresson Street tragedy in and both saw deceased forced to the months, and after some years of 1918, the Po Hing Fong disaster in
examined the hyoid bone, the wandering, they settled in Malta, 1828, the recent Railway disaster floor,
larynx and the trachea. Witness Notwithstanding a fierce Turkish and Staunton Street fire, Attack on this island in 1585, the His Majesty the King has con-
admitted that he had examined. Knightą remained in Malta for ferred the honour of a Knight of
these, but he had made no written more than two hundred years. Dur Grace on no less than five of our
notes of his observations. ing this period they became a members and a number of other powerful naval force, their large distinctions, and marks of recog and saw
Mr. Jenkin: You still think that fleet being engaged in attacking the nition have from time to time been Something was put round deceased's the wound in the man's head had the pirates of the Mediterranean, given in appreciation of faithful neek and the medical evidence nothing to do with his death. although, during the whole of their and worthy work. existence, the knights gave special The Brigade has already loaned would be that death was due to That is my opinion. attention to the maintenance of a to the Government their moter am- strangulation.. The little boy In answer to other questions, large bospital in the convent of bulance, the gift of a Chinese would say he saw the two men put witness said that he had considered the Order. However prominent the lady, Miss Chun Chi Hing (now military duties of the Hospitallers deceased), it has n zecond almost the body into a sack, each take on might be, they never allowed the ready for the road and hopes to end, and walk out with it. They original duty of relieving laman provide a third for Kowloon, as returned in about a quarter of un suffering to lapas, nor the spirit of well as two or three additional hour. charity to be forgotten by them. light ambulances, for use in tho Towards the end of their stay in outlying districts of the New Ter Malta, the Knights of St. John ritories. aradually lost their influence in the Mediterranean, and they were dis- persed by Napoleon in 1788.
At about eight o'clock in the morning the body was found at the It is also the ambition of the back of a house in Austin Road, on Brigade to establish dressing sta tions, with qualified dressers, in a vacant plot of ground. the more thickly populated dis-] Tho.polico had been unable to find tricts.
MISS CAPELL THANKED.
LETTER FROM LORD KNUTSFORD,
Miss Violet Capell has just re- ceived the following letter from the London Hospital acknowledging the cheque she sent after her last dancing display:-
London Hospital,
Whitechapel, J., May 11, 1931.
Dear Miss Capell, the question of death by concussion Thanks ton times ton
for the from the head wound, but he had welcome taken no notes. Witness could not You have been a wonderfully good tenner" that you 'send.
attribute death from this case befriend to this great place, and quite. cause there was no fracture of the apart from what it means. to "The skull. Witness also could imagine a man dying, suddenly of
not London" I am sorry that it sug- gesta pinched times for yourself. Still that only makes it all the akinder of you to have sent me any-"
concussion.
Mr. Jenkin: Could not
Early in the nineteenth century, the English branch of the order |(which came into existence in 1130,
The Brigade niso hopes, in the prisoner's father but prisoner, con debilitated man die suddenly from thing, but had been dormant since the not distant future, to be able to tinued his ordinary course of life Reformation), was revived, and in provide, an adequate headquarters, until arrested," 1888, the status of the Order was suitable to the needs and require- confirmed by Queen Victoria, who ments of the Association. granted a now Charter, which to Hitherto the general publie has day controls the work of the Englent but little inancial assistance, and its the responsibility and burden hay ments, and any and departing rested upon, the, shoulders of ***Such is the great background of the Brigade Vice Patrons, the history, from which the St. John Finance Committee and their Ambulance Association and St. friends. John Ambulance · Brigade have evolved, and never surely had a good cause such inspiring memories to draw upon.
blow on the head as in the case
To my thanks to yourself please of strangulation ?-Yen
add a word to all those dolightful Giving the "post mortem findings," Would not the state of the heart small people (and large people) who Dr. Kenneth Uttley said that the in the case of concussion and helped at the display. I remember deceased had a wound on the bead syncope be the same as in the case a delightful photograph you sent about one inch long, which, he con-of death by strangulation that is me once of the performers. sidered might have been caused by to say gorged with blood-It taighit
Brigade's Great Work.
A glance, at the ambulance work of the Order to-day might servo a
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a fall Thera was 'a bandı mark round the neck, which could have To-day's, Appeal.
been caused by: a length of electric To-morrow (Wednesday) we are holding a Flag Day for the express wire. Witness was of the opinion purpose of raising farther funds for that the cause of death was stran these very laudable objects, and I
gulation. sincerely hope that the whole Colony will rally to this call and give generously, according to their
bo.
Deceased An Oğlum Adáleit, What other reasons can you give that he did not die of the head wound-It was too insignificant à
Doctor's Methods Criticised,
cut
Let us both spend the next twelve-month in hoping most fer- vently for better times. Yours very truly,
KNUTSFORD,
Witness explained that be also considered the 'question of dentb
censed 's stomach and one of his,
I put it to you that he could have from opium polecning.. but he did useful purpose in this brief survey means in support of this great In the course of cross-amina- died of concussion from just such not attach much importance to this of the history of the Order of Bt, humanitarian CANBU
Oh My Junkin said that he was a wound as you found would they the contents of the dom John Classes of instruction, are Our true acquisitions lie only bob attacking Dr. Uttley's bone depend on the period of Ume: daath thumbs were sent to the Government now held by the Association in all in our charities. We gain only as parts of the British Empire, in we give. There is no beggar sonides, but he had to criticise the would take place in about ten hours. Analyst and his certificate confirm
What reason can you give for od witness's opinion that the men cluding such places as Bermude, destitute, ne he who can afford niethods of conducting the partying that he did not die from the was an opfum addiet, stre Fiji Talands, Hong Kong, and nothing, to his neighbour
mortem examination and the ab-head wound The nature of theThe case adjourned, until this'. British Guiana. Over 30,000 certi-"An effort made for the happi-
morning, "when the cross-examinas ficates are issued annually to neae of others lifts us above our sonce of notes, which was probably wound in the neck.
(Continued at foot of next column.). tion will remmed. successful candidates in addition to selves."
due to pressure of work."