THE "FEATHER'S" HOSPITAL WORK
TITLE
Crowley May Soon The Return Fight
(Spech) Air Mail Service)
"London, Dec. 12.
Nel Tarleton, following his Bri- tish feather-weight championship
· and Lonsdale Belt fight, with Dave" Crowley at Wembley. has been advised to retire from the ring.
Not that Tarleton is short of one
or two more years of first-class fighting. He is still mong the four or five feather-weights in the world.
But he is thirty years of age, has made a Lonsdale Belt his own pro- perty and has amassed enough money to ensure him comfort,
ON DISPLAY
Scepticism Of Some Of The Visitors
Changsha, Dec. 12 "Yale in China” has just fin ished two strenuous days, celebrat- ing its twentieth anniversary of the Medical School and the Nurses.
School.
The celebration was centred around these two phases; Arst, demonstrating what goes into the training of a modern doctor; «sec- ond, the lay education along ge eral lines of Public Health, but with special emphasis on the con- trol
of diphtheria, tuberculosis, maternal mortality, and, prompt treatment of fractures,
· not luxury, for the rest of his Bfe." The local board of trustees were
It has been Tarleton's idea for
enthusiastic about demonstrating some time to leave the boxing the Public Health work and edu- game, get married and settle downcating the people of this city. as a promoter or manager.
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He is still wavering between the two courses-to defend this cham plonship again, or to retire. The odds are that he will elect to de- fend his title.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1935.
MYSTERIES OF THE
CONGO
The Big Ape With The
"Red Hair"
(Special Air Mall Service)
London, Dec, 12,- but I was puzzled at the 'conduct of Commander Attilio Gatti tells of the pygmies who had all thrown some unknown... animals which he themselves face downward on the is convinced live in the Iturt For-ground. I had the sensation that est of the Belgian Congo... ·Com- the big body hidden from me by mander Gatti intends to explore the follage, for visibility in the the district again early in the New forest does not extend beyond five Year,
or ten yards, was moving away from me and upward, and I ran forward to try to get at least a glimpse of it.
What strange crestures' unknown and even unsuspected by human science,, the equatorial forest stili hides: it would be impossible to say. But I know that there are several; and I can easily foresee that the forest will reveal them slowly, one by one, with all the stinginess of a usurer.
The day before I entered the forest I went to see Mr. Abäll, Dis- trict Commissioner at Irumu. A young, very active and intelligent män, who has already spent twen- ty years in the Congo, he confirm- ed to me that that part of the for- est west of the road from Benf to Irumu into which we were going was "still for the greater part un-` known.
There was a total of over 30 ex- hibits of the Medical School and Nursing work, as well as showing the entire plant and hospital work. There were more than 10,000 visit- ors during the two days. Each department had been busy 'pre- paring its exhibits for some time The day before the celebrating opened, all classes stopped, Most of the five upper classes were 28- signed as demonstrators in the various rooms. The others, together with all the school technicians. acted, as guides. The campus vit roped off so as to facilitate hand-speak vaguely of extraordinarily thrilling- the crowds. The course lay
Crowley gave Tarleton one of the hardest fights of his career, and.it is on the cards that a return night, with the title де stake, will be staged at Liverpool Stadium in the New Year.
Despite the foggy conditions, a crowd approaching 10,000 made a success of Wembley's second pro- fessional tournament. The cham- plönship, without being a
ler," was always sufficiently in- teresting to hold everyone's in
terest.
Crowley, although believing that he won the fight, accepted the de- cision philosophically.
"Good luck to Tarleton," "he said "It was a nne fight, and 1 guess my turn will come "another time."
rom the main gate through the Medical building, then, to the An- atomy building, and from there to the nurses school, on through the hospital and finally to the out- patient department. The guess were ushered, through in groups of about twenty. It took three hours to cover the whole exhibit
There were 40 special demon- Crowley wants another matchstrations, Among the most inter- with the champion for a sidestaks, esting of these were the exhibits and adds "that he is prepared to showing present means of controll- meet any other feather-weight in ing diphtheria, especially prepared the country ta prove his claims....
for teaching middle school stud- ents. Another for mothers showed. on a set of twelve small tables the
ing its first twelve months of life food recommended for a baby dure
It also showed the process of pre-, Daring these local foods so they could be easily digested by the in-
TREATMENT OF DISEASED CATTLE
Canton, Dec. 29. With a view to the prevention of cattle plague, it is reported that Mr. Fung Yul, head of the Agri- cultural and Forestration Depart- ment, has decided to organize, a class of students for the study of cattle diseases and the
treat
ment.
Each district is requested to select two students for training and after graduation, they will be sent bact to their respective districts for duty.
fant.
"The natives," he said, "do not want to go in there. Whether it is merely an excuse to avoid work I or a true fear, I don't know. They
terrifying animals; but they either do not want to or cannot give an accurate account of them."
Á Vivid Contrast. Travelling by moter from Lubero to Irumu, one receives the most contradictory impressions.
Look-
ing at those immense, spotless vill. ages surrounded by flourishing gardens, one thinks the population must have been established there for a long time, and must be al- ready in an advanced state of civilization. But if one stops and calls to the natives he meets pass- Ing along the road, he finds that in nearly every case they will take to their heels and dive into the
of fear and shyness vegetation, motivated by a mixture
Then I heard once more that strange sound, coming from above the green dome of interlaced bran- ches covering mè, and looking up I saw through an interstice in the leaves something black and immense passing over me.
I believe to-day, even at the risk of appearing ridiculous, that there exists a great ape, larger than the gorilla red of hair and differing from the gorilla in the fact that it walks always on its hind legs and stands erect like a man.
A White Man's Story In the Tchibindo Forest, near the Lake Kivu, the pygmies spoke of a being more of it in awe as
mán than gorilla, possessing phenomenal strength and intelli- gence. A white man who has lived there for many years, and whom I esteem very much," assured me that about twenty years ago. one of these monsters was killed by the poisonous arrows of some pygmies whom he had attacked. The ter-
·ritorial administrateur of that time himself saw it, but when be re turned to the spot a few hours later to take the skin, he found that it had been burned by a mis- sionary, who feared that might be considered proof of the Darwin theory, which was not in accord with his religious principles..
These stories may or may not be exact in every detall. When I first heard them I thought if they were. correct they must refer to an ap- normal individual. But one day the witch doctor, of the pygmies there in the Tchibindo Forest showed me in great secrecy a piece of skin. It was the same skin as the gorilla's, covered with the same long, coarse hair, but the colour of the hair was the vivid shade of red of a red-haired man. And al- though I made patient researches I was never able to find any other animal with a similar cost.
The road itself so well kept, gives to the dark forest which bor- ders it for the greater part the appearance of a luxuriant park. The conditions due to tuber. But it is enough to step two paces culosis were excellently covered from that road to find oneself from the demonstrations of the completely lost in another world bacilll, to the actual diseased or- without a trace of human passage; gans from the pathology depart- penetrated only by the openings ment, X-ray plctures of the chest left in the thickly woven under- showing many stages of pulmon-brush by elephants and "buffaloes
To try to discover this animal ary tuberculosis, proved one of the and cynocephalus and wild bags most popular sections.
and the others which live in the Types of The porters and the pygmies, at forest is not an easy task. But splints and plaster fixations for every qucation regarding the it is worth while to try. And this tuberculous bones were also shown strange animals they themselves is what I am proposing to do dur
had formerly described
with so
ing my new expedition, which will selves behind a complete and sud- much conviction, entrenched them- begin its work at the beginning of
the new year. den ignorance. And so, in the be-
that all those tales of weird and ginning, I came to the conclusion
False Teeth Swallowed
It has been proposed to
In the physiology display, the Com- mence with the Ko Yu. Ko Ming.
beating of a turtle's heart was the Hok Shan, Sun Hing. Tak Hing. main drawing card, as well as a Sze Wul, Kwong Ning. Sam Shui chance to watch capiliary circula- Fung Chuen, Hot Kui, Lo Ting tion under the microscope, but the
Pang Nam and Fok Fou" dis-opportunity to see and do artificial rightful animals were nothing but DUKE LAUNCHES
tricts."
It is reported that training will start, very soon.- Nam Wah Yat Po,'
SILK WEAVING FACTORY
Canton, Dec. 29, Shun Tak is considered to be "the chief districts of the province for the production of silk, and consequently, the Department of Reconstruction has thought it at to establish a silk weaving factory in this district
to
Accordingly Mr. Lu Sung Chan has been instructed to take charge of the matter, and it is expected have the factory bulit and ready for the manufacture of silk in January next year- Nan, Wah Tat Po
respiration proved even more in- teresting The exhibit from the Chemistry Department, aroused a great deal of attention. It demon. strated that human blood could be told from the blood of other animals.
The bacteriology class showed many kinds of germs, but be one with live typhoid bac:11. uus the drawing card. The fact that those little squirming things could “mur- der people," as the student de- monstrator kept insisting, gave an atmosphere of excitement around that table.
the creations of a childish im- agination.
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Then, gradually, my opinion be- gan to change, Some small fact recalling to my mind other facts previously observed, some signific- ant gestures noticed on the part of a native, some remark I over- heard, led me to believe that the stories I had heard, fantastic in' appearance, were in all probability but
exaggerated, accounts" or animals actually existing. Slowly but steadily the diffidence of the natives melted. After a few months of common life in the forest, they began to trust me, and to show and explain to me things which, otherwise, I would never have been able to observe or to understand..
The morning the exhibit began, a man came into the hospital in a critical condition. He had awal- lowed a denture holding two false teeth, which had lodged in his
A "Grotesque" Account" upper esophagus, preventing · SVA)-
Take the "ndeg, for instance, lowing and embarrassing breath This word means amply "bird," in ing. He had already been in thi
This word me partonlar name that cóndition for two days, when he the natives give to this bird I have arrived. Dr. Lois Greene, the car,
not been able to learn. They arm nose, and throat specialist, was that it is taller than a man, pos- able to get them out in spite of
sessed of great strength--covered the swollen condition which had with hair, instead of feathers, and already occurred. The teeth, the has a head similar to a monkey's Canton, Dec. 28, instruments used and the man's This description may sound grotes Since the Department of Recon-
history was written up on a bisque, and perhaps it is in part. struction decided
establish
chart. The fact that this man was sugar refineries, two sites have still in the hospital, was check- been selected for the proposeded by a few who doubted the au refineries, one at Sun Cho in Punthenticity of the report.
SUGAR REFINING
to
Yu District, and the other at Bhi-
Так.
. Owing to the unforseen circum-
stances, the Sun Cho refinery has
not been able to start refining
Pertinent Question
sugar on the 10th instant, when-clared the middle-aged lady, "that "I can truthfully say this, de-
my husband is the only man in the world who has ever kissed
the opening ceremony was attend- ed by the representatives of the Department of Reconstruction.
It is reported that this refinery
is capable of turning out 150 tons of sugar per day-- Nám Wah Xat Po,
"Indeed," remarked the modern misa, "but please tell me--are you boasting or complaining?”
H
LINER BY RADIO
An Act Of Magic"
(Special Air Mall Service)
London, Dec, 12.). The new 24,000 tons Orient liner Orion, built by Vickers Armstrong Ltd., was launched at Barrow-in- Furness, Lancashire by the Duke of Gloucester, who pressed switch" f⠀⠀ Brisbanė, Australia 12,000 miles away.
2.
Wireless carried the Duke's voice across the world, and the ceremony was broadcast back to Austrália
The Duke descrioed it as "an act of magic."
Anderson, chairman of
also
the Orient Company, who spoke from Australia, said that the ship had cost £1,000,000 and had given employment to at least 5,000 men for one year in several depressed British industries.
How It Was Done
One day, however, I heard a After the launchlag Sir Herbert heavy that it startled me. The Vickers Armstrong, speaking from beating of wings so foud and so Lawrence, chairman of Messrs. pygmies said in an off-hand way the shipyard, informed the puke that it was only a bird, but I notic by wireless that the Orton had ed that each of them raised his taken the water, and thanked him right arm in the air and snapped for his message of God-speed. his fingers, as they do to exorcise The actual launch was perform the great forest storms, the evil spirit of the lightning ined by means of a "tone' of constant frequencies. The tone
At last, one moming as I was passed through special-apparatus, walking through the forest the which diferentiated between the sound of leaves pushed aside by apoken word and the launching, some heavy body brought me to signal By a system
L
of relays
a stop, my rifle, at my shoulder, än machinery was operated which okwapi, or a buffalo, I thought, released the ship from the allpa.
SANITARY BOARD
Orders Of The Day
The following is the agenda for the next meeting of the Sanitary Board to be held on Thursday, January 3, at 415 pm-
1—Application for anesting house licence at No. 7, Heung Hing Lane, ground floor, 2-Application for an eating house licence at No. 45. Wal Ching Street, ground floor.. 3-Application for an eating house. licence at No. 31. Holly- Wood Road
floor ground
eating
right portion), 4—Application for
+1
house licence at No. 1290," Ice House Street.
5-Application for the registra
tion of No. 38, King Kwong Street, ground floor," as a dairy,
6 Correspondence relative to-i
the dairy licence at the un- nambered house at Kowloon Gap Road, on "Lot No. 1481, B.D. 1.
7-Regular Routine Returns.
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