BAZAAR TO AID GOOD CAUSE
Facts About The Children's Hospital
And Clinic
The Children's Hospital and
Clinic and Orphanage of the Sisters of the Precious Blood Convent, at Shamshuipo, Kowloon, will be hold- ing its annual bazaar under the patronage of the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga on the September 7 at 3 pm. in the Convent building..
THE MORALS OF WAR
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, Aug. 10,
The cynic who remarked that we team by experience that we lear nothing by experience is obviously | no friend of Mr. J. F. Price, who, in a pleasantly witty letter on another page to-day, sees Mussolini's Abys- sinian adventure teaching the world great things. Mr. Price
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1935.
H.K. VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.
(Orders By Li-Col, H, B. L. DOW- biggin, O.KE. Commandant, Hong Kong V.D.C.) GENERAL
His Excellency the Officer Ad- ministering the Government has been pleased to appoint Captain Thomas Addis Martin, B.K.V.D. Corps to be one of his Aides-de- Camp, vice Second Lieutenant G. C. Moutre, H.K.V.D.C., with effect from August 16, 1935
፡፡
Headquarters Offices HeadquartereOnces will be closed on Monday, September 1935 (Bank Holiday).
PARADE
Corps 1st Battery TRAINING SEASON Starts at Belcher's Fort Thursday, September 17, 1835 at
thinks that we are living in a "springme" of the mind; certain great political truths, he says, are becoming no longer so dark or dif- Acult as they ono were. Thát a Same as previous years, bazaar swarming increase of population souvenir tickets have been issued. can be a cause of war and be curb- It is hoped that they will meet with led in war was known lang before a ready response from the gener- CAIS BEI Missolini and those ous public as this function is a who think with him have made very deserving cause. Donations the logical cleft painfully clear. A P ΟΙ ccntributions of products or nation encourages a high birth- articles for sale at the bazaar will rate; It offers big bounties for be gratefully received through the large familities; it then proposes Hon. Secretary of the Committee to seize the territory of its neigh- Mr. Chan Wal Chuen care of the bour on the plea that it needs room Hotel Cecil, Ltd...
for the "expansion" which it has Itself deliberatey arranged. That such reasoning should end in war
The Hospital, though a small es- tablishment occupying a section cf
the Convent building. is getting well-known and helpful to the
poor. It is reported that there were many an occasion when the cots were full to mit
is certainly quite natural and pro- per. And war Itself, under the in
ernational anarchy, "is the only possible safety-valve for too much and too widespread "expansion,"
-AS A SAMPLE
Mr. Price fancies that as a gam-
It owes its existence largely to the Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children for supplies ple of Government action to re- of medicine and milk food. The
duce excessive population the last Society's valuable' contributions of thes: supplies for the last three
War was only "sighting shot," years have amounted to about $4-"more definite in alm, with "fxed, and that the next may have to be 500. excluding the services of a nurse. It also depends upon the valuable services of the doctors who are regularly supporting the Hospital,
on
MEDICAL REPORT The following 1s a report medical work at the Hospital.made by Dr. H. D. Matthews:-
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numbers of survivors to be "attain ed" This sounds like a macrabre "Modest Proposal" for suggestion in the van of Swift's breeding Irish children for meat-production But is it not merely a logical co- rollary of present politicians' po- licles? What other end to com petitive breeding under the polictes of national hegemony is possible except war-And, if so, should not such war be put a far as possible on a nicely calculated scientific basis? There is, of course, the al- ternative suggestion that the na- ton might give up at the same time competive breeding and their dreams of an impossible hegemony and allocate population, like other raw material, in the joint interest But even Mr. Price's op- timism cannot contemplate a gen-
For the period from 1st July 1934, to 30th June 1935, the medical work carried on at the Convent of the Chinese Bisters of the Precious Blood, at Shamsulpo, Kowloon with the help of the Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children, has been continued in much the same way as in previous years. Its value and the need for it have been shown by the steady increase in the number of patients attending. This has been very gratifying, but of late it has been rather ambar-eral acceptance rassing owing to the great increase of altendances. Where in the old days we thought fifty or sixty a big number, we are now quite used to having over a hundred. This num- ber is too large to avow of proper attention being given to every one, especially on the wet days, of which we have had so many this summer, when owing to lack of shelter outside they all have to be crowded into the room where pa- tients are examined..
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* STAFF
During the ear y part of the year under review Dr. T.. Z. Bau took the clinic and say the in-patients two mornings afweek, while the writer took one morning. In Janu- ary Dr. D. Hope Gill came to our
help and since then each of us has been responsible for one morn- ing a week, Dr. Y. Y. Tang has
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BATTERY MEETING Will be held after the parade at Belcher's Fort on September 12,
1935.
— „BATTERY DINNER, Will be held at Volunteer Head- Suarters on Friday, September 20. 1935. The special sub-committee
NEW PATHS FOR
FLIGHT
Exploration Problem
The other day an aeroplane, them is a serious drain on the bullt for the exploration or the engine. Again, the wings and con- upper air crashed in France and trol surfaces which are most em- its pilot was killed. Others will clent at low levels are not suitable carry on his work: few now doubt in the stratosphere, nor does an that the upper air will one day be airscrew which is set for sing come a medium for long-distance comparatively near the ground transport, though the perfecting of give much "bite" in the upper air. the mechanism needed may take Yet an aeroplane has to take of years and many lives. On a sum-through the lower levels before mers day, at a great height towards it can reach the stratosphere: com- the zenith, may sometimes be seen tinuously adjustable engines and thin Alaments of cloud. These are controls with therefore be needed. the cirrus couds; they usually ap When pear at about the altitude of Mount Everest, and they represent the extreme upward limits of our local universe of visible matter Beyond them all cloud formation ceased and one enters a region without snow, hall, or storm. The "stratosphere"-though the word is ofter used too oosely to indicat and great height is a
well-
one. remembers that at 40,000 feet the temperature has fallen to 70 degress below zero-a degree of cold which can affect the bearings and seriously contract the control cables the mechanical difficulties of reaching merely
these great heights are seen to be formidable.
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consists of Lieut, de Ville, Q.M.S. with height stops--a layer in human freight? Unprotected, no
all details may be obtained. Moses and L/Bdr. Rees from whom,
EXAMINATION IN D.R.F. The undermentioned will be examined in D.R.F. by the instruc- tor in Gunnery, China Command, September 10 beginning at 5.30 p.m. at - Belcher's Fort on Tuesday.
No. 1324, B.Q.M.S., E. Mosës. No. 1780, Sergeant D. Marshall. No. 1829, Gunner G: S. Gamble. No. 1732. Gunner H. S. Jones. PROMOTIONS-AUGUST 30, 1935. No. 1813, L/Sgt. W. F. Webb to Sergeant.
No 1984, Bombardier J. Watson to L/Bergeant.
No. 1793, L/Edr. G. F. Rees to Bombardier.
No. 1815, Gunner C. E. Moore to L/Bombarter.
No 2051, Gunner A, J. Macfayden to L/Bombardier,
REVERTION
No. 460, Bdr. H. T. Buxton reverts to Gunnet on h's own request- 30.8.35.
APPOINTMENT
No. 1515, L/Bdr. C. E. Moore 18 appointed N.CO, /c Battery Rifle Shooting...
Corps Engineers Thursday, September 5, There will be no parade at Whit- of such a hum-field Barracks.
Monday, September 9, 1935-AA
drum, common-sense solution.
HONG KONG TRAVEL
ASSOCIATION
The Hong Kong Travel Associa- tion acknowledges with thanks the following subscriptions:- Hong Kong Land Investment
& Agency Co., Ltd... $1,000 Hong Kong, Canton & Macao
Steamboat Co. Ltd. Messrs. Dodwell & Co. Ltd. Messrs, Little Adams & Wood Hong Kong Tramways, Ltd...-
Messrs. Palmer & Turner ... Messrs. Mackintosh's. Ltd.. Messrs. Caldbeck Macgregor &
Co., Ltd.
500
50 250 100 50 100
50
-150
Dairy Farm Ice & Cold Stor-
age Co., Ltd. ̈ ̈ Hong Kong & Bhanghal,
Banking Corporation 1,000
continued his valuable help as be-Messrs. Johnson Stokes & fore by filling up vacancies, for- tunately very few, and by seeing any seriously I patients on the days when no clinic is held.
NUMBER OF PATIENTS
Mr. F. A. Joseph Masters
100
50
&
50
Messrs Lowe Bingham
Matthews Hong Kong d Shanghai
Hotels, Ltd.
The number of in-patients was 1.314 as against 1,043 for the pre-Messrs. Deacons .......... vious year. Of this figura 527 were Ye Olde Printerie, Ltd. discharged cured or improved, 11 Messrs Douglas Laprak & were still in the Hospital, and 978
Training at Stonecutters. Duty launch will leave Kowloon at 6.15 p.m. and return about 9.30 p.m.
Haversack rat'ons will be pro- vided.
sur
atmosphere in which the steady d:crease of temperature with height stops a layer which, the temperature is virtuall constant. The position of its lower base varies
THE HEIGHTS Over Great Britain the strato phere is entered at a height of about seven miles. Over the Poles
HUMAN FREIGHT But what of the machine's
one can live at these heights. The would have perished if deprived of airmen who flew over Everest
their oxygen masks for a few minutes, and that at much lower levels than the summit itself, since. they lacked the acclimatisation which the Everest quality 0:
ellinber can acquire by weeks of living on or near his mountain. it begins only three miles up. At The pilots to-day who, ascent to thin, and it is this fact that makes heated suits and are continuously these heights the air is extremely great altitudes wear electrically the stratosphere of such intense in supplied with oxygen. It is ob- is the chief obstacle to aeroplane passengers terest for aviation. Air resistanoviously Impracticable that ordinary speed. But at 40,000 feet (roughly where the stratosphere begins in British latitudes) the density of the air has sunk to unly a quarter of what
THE PREPARATIONS
THE PROBLEM
to
could be asked endure any such precautions. The stratosphere aeroplane of com- merce, it is agreed, will have to be fitted with a completely sealed Theoretically, therefore, since speed and oxygen content are maintain- its at ground level cabin in which the temperature varies according to the square rooted artficially at about those of of the air density, an aeroplane ground level. should be able to fly nearly twice as fast at 40,000 feet as at ground level. Transport aeroplanes are al- cabin within the limits of weight The problems of making such ́a ready in existence which fy at 200 allowed to an aeroplane, are im- miles an hour. At the entrance to
mense, The chance the strantosphere the same aero-
of the planes should, in thepry, be capable | guarded against far more rigorous- slightest fault would have to be
1935-hour-and that in a region far sexgo'ng ship. It
of flying at nearly 400 miles an ty than with the metal hull of any above all fogs or other weather dis-require much of a leak to whip out would not turbance. New York might thus be the oxygen, leaving an asphyxiated brought within seven or eight hours crew. *Bulkheads of London, and no two points on fuselage into compartments may dividing the the globe would be separated by be needed. Crew and passengers much more than a day's flying.
of the stratosphere aeroplane will, in a work, have to be encased in It is little wonder, then, that the equivalent of an aerial sub- preparations for exploring the up-marine to protect them against per air by aeroplane are now being heights of the air every bit as' conducted in many countries, by deadly as the depths of the sea. Farman in France and Junkers in The design of many modern air Corps Signals
Germany, by a military "stratos-liners, however, already tends to- Parade at Volunteer Headquar-phere section" in Italy, and by the wards the airtight cabin with the "ters on Tuesday, September 3, 1935 British Air Ministry with the atmosphere under artificial control, at 5.30 p.m. for Signal Instruction. special "high altitude" aeroplane it so this problem may not be so has recently ordered. The value of hard as it looks. There will, by Parade on Tuesday, September 3,
the qualities of speed and surprise the way, be no chance interest in 1935 at 5.30 p.m. at Causeway Bay Inherent in a stratosphere plane travel by these planes of the for Gymkhana events..
for military bombing purposes future. There will be no scenery Armoured Car Section
need not be stressed. It is enough to admire. They will merely res- Section will parade at Volunteer for the moment that the did-emble nying railway coaches with Headquarters on Tuesday, Septem-culties of getting to the stratos drawn blinds which whisk one ber 3 at 5.30 p.in, for Vickers Gun phere at all are very great. At about the earth as one sleeps or Instruction-Laying and Travers 40.000 feet only a quarter of the reads. But the journeys will per- weight of air is drawn into the hapa be too short for one to want cylinders of a petrol engine. as is to do more than sleep or read; no drawn in at ground level. Thus room, and no need, for the tennis the power output seriously declines. courts and swimming pools and Several super-chargers have to be all the other tedium-killing devices used to pump in extra air, and of the slower sea leviathans of to- even so the power used to drive i day and yesterday.
Dress-Overalls.'
Members should make a special effort to attend as it is essential a second detachment be formed and trained.
ing.
Troop
From now on the Section will parade on Tuesday."
Motor, Machine Gun Section Section will parade on Wednes- day, September 4, 1935 at Volunteer 1.000 Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. for driv.
30 ing practice.
Monday parades for Machine Gun and revolver training will be resumed on Monday, September 9, when a full parade will be ex- pected.
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died. The results are about the Messrs. Williamson & Co.. same as the previous year, that is
Company
Ltd.
60
50
about three quarters of the patients Messra Olbb, Livingston & died. This is pretty ghastly."
Co., Ltd.
50
The number of out-patients re-Messrs. John Manners & Có... gistered was 2,956 as against 1,760 Ltd.
50
50
500
for. the previous year, while the Messrs. Noronha & Company total number of attendances was Hong Kong Electric Co., Ltd. 8,437 compared with 5,828 of last Hong Kong Telephone Co., year. This gives a total number of
"Ltd. attendances for each child regis- tered of less than three, and an average for each "clinic of over sixty.
GENERAL
It is sad to mention that in spite
B'r Elly Kadoorie & Sons...... Mr. H. R. Kurt
Messrs, Melchers & Company, Bank Line (Chíña), Ltd. General Electric Co. Ltd. Messrs. Loxley & Co. (China),
Ltd.....
of persuasion the poor people are Mesara. Thomson & Company still reluctant to leave their chlid-The Hong Kong & Whampao
ren in hospital except when they
Dock Co., Ltd.
are obviously extremely 11. Add-
ed to this obstacle to treatment is
the children's weak resistance to disease due to poor food. Conse-
No. 2378, Pte. F: Silva, P.W.D., No. 3 Company, 26.8.35.
No. 2379, Pte, N.. Sykes, No. 1 Kennedy Road, No. 1 Company, 27.8.35.
No. 2380, Pte. J. L. De 8. Alves, Lea D'Almada, Corps Infantry,
qualifying them for the rank they so, will undergo an examination hold and for promotion for a high- er rank A Syllabus will be issued No. 1 (M.G.) Company
and the date of examination will Parade at Volunteer Headquarbe notified shortly. In the mean- ters at 5 30 p.m. on Friday, Septem-time members of the Company ber 6, 1936. Recruits Stripping study their Training Manuals
concerned are recommended to 278.35. and Assembling and Mechanism First year. men' WTH continue
On Tuesday, September 10 at 5.30 Schedule B; remainder, Use of Dials Pm The Hon. Mr. J. F. Braga will 500 and Clinometers, under Lieut, Dresent the Medals gained by
M. Richards.
members of the Company in con-
50
25
50
60
50
50.
50
$6,110
quently, most distressing are the deaths, with broncho-pneumonia results for the in-patients under following close. the circumstances,
The Company Rifle Club wifi nection with Recruiting, etc. Al shoot for the Mitchell Cup on Sun-members of the Company are re- day, September 1, 1935 at the Peak quested to make a point of attend- Range, commencing 9.15 a.m.
Platoon, Commanders will see that recipients are wared to sttend
RANGE ALLOTMENT-KENNEDY
(Bd) F, 8, M. WILKINSON,.
Captain, Adjutant, HKV.D. Corps.
NOTICE
Sergeant Mess Committee Representative No. 1 (MG)
L. H. Holmes,
ANTIQUE DEALERS' FAIR
AND EXHIBITION
The Duke of Kent will open the Exhibition at Grosvenor House, Becond Antique Dealers Fair and 1935-Park Lane on Friday, September
27th.
ROAD RANGE Tuesday, September 17, 1935, and Tuesday, September 24, Armoured Car Section.
LEAVE
No. 3 (M.G.). Company Monday, September, being a Bank Holiday, there will be no parade. The next parade will be held on Monday, September 9, 1935. Corps Infantry Winter Training Season The Company's Winter Training Season
ber 3, at 5.30 pm, at Volunteer commences, on Tuesday, Septem-
The Fair will be continued for three weeks during which time. Headquarters. All members of the
there will be displayed exhibites of In the out-patient quarters. Company, are requested to make à Recently the babies with tetanus bronchitis and broncho-pneumonia special effort to attend on this date
an estimated value of ove have been sent to the Kwong Wan take pride of place. closely follow so that detalls of re-organization
000,000 Every exhibits Hospital, where Dr. Bay and his ed by stomach and howel diseases and training can be arranged. All No. 2 Platoon, as from 30.8.38. (Of the
feast 100 yea colleagues have been treating them due-to-faulty feeding in many cases deficiencies of kit and clothing with serum, but with results, I e- or to infection Worms are a large should be attended to prior to the Platoon, as from 30.8.36.
No. 2107, Pte. R. T. Ta jot, No. 3 two shill Mèvė; dhawfile not much - facier also. Eye and ear troubles commencement of the Trainings couragement. Tuberculosis and re common also various skin dis- Seasons
STRENGTH dissase due to faulty feeding scesses, especially bolls and septic N.COA Examination-All N.C.OS. Petroleum (80) Ld MG) Ún count, for a large proportion of the sores in the warm weather.
and any Privates, who wish to do No. 1 Company, 121835
L'eut. C. Blaker, A.B.C. Cadre, is granted leave from 31.8.35 to 5.10.36. STRUCK OFF THE STRENGTH Left the Colony No, 2175, Pte. AE Greenford,
No. 2377, Pte. Davies Astatic
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