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HONG KONG, May 31, 1937.
MEDICAL RESEARCH
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY, MAY
SWATOW INCIDENT
INVESTIGATION
Amicable Settlement Believed Possible
Canton, May 30.
A full report of the Swatow incident in which a member of the Japanese consular staff was involved was expected here to-day from Dr. Andrew S. F. Lin, secretary of the Special Delegate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Mr. Sadaji. Yoshitake, act- ing Japanese consul.
CHANGING THE GUARD
DOMINION SENTRIES AT PALACES
31, 1937.
SIR S. CRIPPS'S NEW ZEALANDERS "GET
"DISLOYALTY”
Manchester Lord Mayor's Rebuke
The "gross disloyalty" of Sir Stafford Cripps.who, in a speech at Stockton-on-Tees, described the Coronation as" bunkum" and "a circus"--was strongly denounced by Ald. Joseph Tools, Socialist Lord
·Mayor of Manchester.
Ald. Toole had made a tour of the gafly-decorated poor streets of com-Manchester, and said he had been deeply moved by the spontaneous demonstration of loyalty to the Throne.
Both investigators have pleted their enquiries and will leave Swatow for Canton to-mor-
row.
DOWN TO IT"
No Time Wasted In Practice
Within three hours of their arrival in London the New Zen- land cricketers were batting and bowling in the practice nets at Lorda's—although, as one of them remarked, "the land, after five weeks on board ship, is still swaying a little," writes a Rome. correspondent..
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This is enthusiasm. It is perhaps explained by the anxiety of the team to make up for lost time, caused by a delay on the voyage. The ambition of these uncommonly youthful-looking players is to win a Test match against England for the first time.
They reached Southampton four days Jute, thereby missing the Cup "An amicable settlement of the "My tour," he said, "has con-
Final. "We were very disappoint case was quite possible," said Mr.vinced me that when Sir Stafford ed." they told me; "but we are in Toyoich! Nakamura. Japanese Cripps referred to the, Coronation
time for the Coronation, at ang consul general in Canton, who as bunkum and a circus he has once
rate. Seats have been booked for gave an interview over the week- again been talking without think us, mostly in the Mall, and two end for the first time since the ing. I wonder what kind of a cir-will be guests at the Abbey.” incident. "Until I receive the full cus it was on that morning Sir
Canadian Precedence report. I do not wish to say much Stafford went down on one knee
about the controversy.""
"Canton ametals are sincere in working for an adjustment. I ex- pect not only to settle this site but also to bring about better Sino-Japanese relations in every way,"、
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before the father of our present King who knighted him. -
"They're changing guard at
HAD IT BEEN RUSSIA Buckingham Palace!" applied with
"The silly speeches of Slr peculiar aptness on May 9, and the Christopher Robins and Alices who
Stafford Cripps during the last watched them agreed with the his-
three or four years have done much torians that the occasion was Mr. Nakamura" deplored un- damage to great causes. Coming memorable. For the first time Do-founded reports concerning the at this time, when the country has minian soldiers-Canadians were Swatow affair. No credit should enough troubles to face and when on sentry duty outside Buckingham be given to agitation and rumours the King and Queen will have to Palace and St. James's Palace-the from irresponsible quarters, ad-carry such a heavy burden, his speech is an act of gross disloyalty. residence of the Sovereign and the monished the consul general- seat of the Court of St. James's. Union News.
and if I were guilty of it I should No wonder they caused such ex-
resign my title. citement, not only among the thousands of all ages and condi-. tions who assembled at the bottom of the Mall, braving a drizzle, to see a small piece of history made.
On May 10 King's Guard - of Australian troops took over for the full 24 hours from the Welsh Guards with all the reremony that attends the daily transfer of this military duty. Canada, to which. as the oldest Dominion, was' given the honour of precedence, furnish- ed sentries for all the posts outsidé the two palaces seven at each for a continuous six hours, begin- ning at noon.
A CHEERFUL WELCOME
non-commissioned officers. At
SEARCH FOR
A TOMB
Hidden For 1,500
Years
PRECIOUS METALS
FOUND
From Cosenza, in Southern Italy. comes news of a search for the burial place of Alaric, the great Visigothic King, who died in "410 A.D.
When the kind died, his people determined that his grave should be hidden and inviolable.' Having carried his body to the banks of the Little river Busento, they forced their prisoners to dig a new chan- nel for the stream, and in its vacant bed they buried their king. with a vast treasure of gold, silver, precious, garments and weapons,
"It is a pity that he should ac
cuse the Government of regarding the monarchy as the chief prop of their political position, because if there is a country in the world where the monarchy is free from politics it is 'this' country.'
"The speech of Sir Stafford Cripps. comes very badly from one who owes his position and political
eminence to the free institutions under which we live. Such a speech as the one, be delivered. If made against Stalin" in Russia, Hitler in Germany, or Mussolini in Italy, would have had very drastic consequences for the man who made it."
Fifteen players have made the
visit, 10 of them for the first time. T. C. Lowry, brother-in-law of A P. F. Chapman, is the manager, and once again W. Ferguson takes care of the baggage "and acts as the official scorer.
PARTY OF WELCOME
Lord Hawke and Mr. P. F. War- ner (now Sir Pelham) were among the group who welcomed the New Zealanders at Waterloo. Harold Gilligan, captain of the MC.C. team in 1929-30, travelled to meet them at Bouthampton.
Their late arrival here has caus- ed the post-ponement of the one- day fixture with the Maori C.C. will continue to practise in the at. Worcester Park. Instead they
Lord's nets each day until their campaign" opens at Kennington Oval against Surrey.
E. W. T. Tindill, the wicket-
keeper, who has also played foot-
ball for the All-Blacks, was mar- ried on the day of the team's departure from New Zealand; Mrs. Tindll is coming over on a later ship.
The rule, now generally adopted, by which players' wives are, not allowed with their husbands the tour, applies to these New Zea-.
Mlle. Amelle Cruvelin, has been following the course of the rivers
since last September, and with the aid of her scientific instruments
has found at a certain place ind!- cations of a vast quantity of pre- cious metal, seven metres below the earth surface.
For the first hour after the new guard was mounted-at 11 a.m.- the sentries were tali Welsh Guardsmen in grey greatcoats and In medicine, if nowhere else,
bearskins. The detachment of the it is certainly true that a little
Canadian Coronation contingent léarning is a dangerous thing; marched to St. James's Palace and the famous case, cited by many thence to Buckingham Palace a humorist, is of the layman who Two officers were in command; the read a dictionary of treatment 30 others were all warrant and [and promptly came to the con-tary Court, St. James's, and again clusion that. he suffered from at Buckingham Palace, the crowds nearly every disease that wus gave them a cheerful welcome, therein mentioned. He would mingled with obvious admiration of their bearing. Common to all have done better to have applied their field service uniforms was the himself to documents like the word "Canada," a red strip on each annual reports of the Medical sleeve. The chief differences, spart Research Conncil, a dew one of from badges, were those that mark which has just been published off the Scottish Canadian regi-t appears that a French scholar. in the near future. from the Stationary Office.
ments-glengarry and kilt-and the various tartans. of the kiits... The detachment halted in turn near each sentry awaiting relief, to
For those reports deal in more general terms with the war on ill-health, and usually the evi-whose successor a smart young kilted corporal read out his orders. dence they offer is encouraging.
As old and new sentries stood at The new report, for example, attention side by side the difference refers to recent researches into in stature was exaggerated by the the "effect of diet on teeth as Guardsman's towering headdreas. At the word of command the sen- possibly marking the end of a tries "passed," the Guardsman join- round in the fight of modern ed the mixed detachment, which discovery against dental decay'; marched away, and the new sentry due attention to dairy and market entered on his two hours of duty, garden foodstuffs for the young It was possibly a more searching should lead to a future generation ordeal than their steady demean- cur allowed to appear as they stood with greatly improved teeth,
at ease, out of the rain, in their a sentry-boxes. When one of them. a regimental sergeant-major, had thus assumed the posture of modi- fed relaxation while his comrades
Another achievement on more restricted scale seems to have been registered at Queen Charlotte's Hospital, where new drug has reduced the deaths From childbed fever from 22 per cent to less than five
Then the river was turned back
to its former channel and the cap- tives who had done the work were killed so that no Roman should ever know the spot.
・ ・ WORKMEN'S DISCOVERY Now, after more than 1,500 years,
At'a spot not far distant from the river, workmen engaged in constructing a lime furnace came upon traces of antique brickwork in the ground that had evidently once been traversed by water.
If the indications are correctly reported, it is possible that the Visigothic secret will be discovered
Church Rebukes M.P.
Sir, Murdoch Macdonald, M.P., ¡ warn him, and. If he ignores the is severely rebuked by the Free warning then, it is time for the Church of Scotland for his critic servants of God to oppose the civil m of their attitude towards Lord magistrate by all the means at Álness's Marriage Bill in the their dispósti. following letter addressed to him
"You know that has been done by the Rev. James Macleod, Gree-in your native Sotland on many nock, clerk to the Free Church sad and painful occasions.
Meaningless General Assembly:--
"In reply to your letter of the
14th fast, wherein you charge us with tampering with the text or scripture, we repudiate the groundless charge. God shall not allow you nor us to tamper with His ever blessed Word...-
We allow desertion' because
+ were marching away, his mouth the Word of God; allows It But if
was seen to form an inaudible the onbellering depart let him "Phew!" All the afternoon the depart. A brother or a sister is Christopher Robins and Allces were
not under bondage in such cases, peeping admiringly into the sentry but caod hath called us to peace'
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The warfare against influenza boxes. still continues, some of it being Among those who watched the waged on what might be describ-ceremony were:- ed as the ferret front"; and in that sphere of research it is at least interesting to learn that nferret, which sneezed at an experimenter (after it had been duly inoculated with infoenza) undoubtedly returned the com- pliment by infecting the human inquirer with a violent attack of the same malady.
Important researches into nu- trition have also been carried
Layman's Duty
Desertion defeats the and of
marriage as adultery annuls the Mr. Ian Mackenzie, Minister of marriage hond. If you had been Defence, Colonel, G. P. Vanter (re-a little more acquainted with the presenting the High Commissioner) Word of God you would never and Mme. Vanier, Lady Margaret make the charge against us that Boscawen, sister of the late Lord we were both straining the Scrip Byng, who commanded the Cana- ture and inconsistent in our con- dian Corps in France, and Miss|clusions."). Bandford, secretary to Lady Byng "It is the duty of the layman during her husband's terms when he enters upon the domains Governor-General of the Dominion of practical theology to sak advice and now a lady-in-waiting to the and not to tender unwarrantable "criticisin." It is our duty and privilege to instruct in righteous
essings, politicians, and peasants in strict accordance with the Word of God. It is our privilege and duty to obey the civil magistrate, it, and as long as, he regulates the affairs of Blate ac cording to the Word of God
"You say, "To me it seems the
Saviour meant no one who put away his wife for unjust reasons', should be regarded as 'divorced That statement is meaningless, Again you say, "The Saviour had the God-given ability to compress into few words a line of conduct for all of us.”-
"The Baviour was not a mere creature but God with us. Fla God-head was neither given nor created.
HORRORS OF "NEXT WAR
Expert's Grim Picture
A high-explosive sheil will hurtle through to the basement of any building. Nothing can stop it except 16 feet of reinforced con- crete." To be really safe from such a missile one must hide, 60 feet underground. People cannot rush about in the open fields and hope to escape, because gas will fall like rain,
That description of modern-war- fare was given recently by Brigadier E F. J. Hill Home Office expert, when he spoke to members of the Institute of Municipal and County Engineers at their meeting at Dunbar,
"It is impossible to protect fram a direct hit by a high-explosive bomb," declared Brigadier Hill,
"but the number of direct hits-will. cause comperatively few casualties to those caused by exploding bombs on roads and outside if people cannot get under cover.
GAS-PROOF SHELTERS "In the last war the men at the front in the trencher got the strafe-ing That will not happen war breaks out again This will be the front.""
landers; as does the bar on inter- views, although they are amateurs. in practice as well as theory.
They will not be paid a bonus... and all they receive during their stay here is a few shillings a day for out-of-pocket expenses. Their situations-mairly AJ managers and clerks in offices and banks and school teachers-are, being kept open for them.
FIVE LEFT-HANDERS
小
The team include ave left- handers." Considerable interest was shown in the batting practice of Carson, a powerfully built left handed ̈ Aucklander who recently shared in a world's record partner- ship for the third wicket. Out of 445 he scored 290.
But the most Impressive knock" on a soft pitch was by Wallace. whose footwork and wristwork straightway marked him batsman in the C. S. Dempster class. He may, indeed, prove„ as successful as Dempster.
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The team are more coriadent about their batting than the bow-
ling. But one of the players, in the day's match at Lord's between the M.C.C. and Yorkshire, who stole away to watch the practice. and who has seen the New Zea-
landers
own in their
country. stated that Lamason, a last-minute selection, will make the ball "move."
He also recalled that Roberts, n medium paced bowler, used to swing the ball effectively when he came over here several sünimera. ago.
Official Secrets Act Case Dropped
ARRESTED GERMAN
DISCHARGED
The charge under the Ometal Secrets Act against Otto Karl Ludwig, a German, was withdrawn. at Clacton-on-Sea recently and he was discharged.;
-- Ludwig is leaving the country
under, a deportation order:
Ludwig was brought from Brix- "ton in a prison van and an inter- preter Was SWORD in Jewish fashion,
Mr. G. B. McClure, for the Public Prosecutor, said when Ludwig' landed at Harwich' on April 10 trom Germany, he was asked the reason of his visit.
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He said he wanted to go to the German Embassy and mentioned another business matter of a ̈pri- vate nature. He had £86 10 in English money—an unusual amount for a person to take out of. Ger- many-and considerable sums in other currencies." "I have to say.” added Mr. McClure; "that he was obviously anxious to conceal "his real, reason for visiting, this conn-" try.
"When he made statements they were palpably untrue.. Certain things were discovered and it was obvious that inquiries had to be made."
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Building of gas and bomb-proof shelter on a large scale and the
"...The War Office was communicat- organising of the whole civil popu- lation were among the subjectsed with: but, the Public Prosecutor dealt with by Brigadier Hill. who
had since copsidered-- the matter pointed out that only some seven
and felt that. It would not be right to put the man on trial. to ten minutes warning of an air and could be given effects and ARMOUR-PIERCING BULLET
He spoke of the effects and treatment of gas and liquid gas, ot incendiary bombs and high-explo
ve ones, and described the types of masks which would be issued
"If you study the nefarious Bin in the light of God's Word you cannot fail to see that, it carried
"One of the things found in his bag,” Mr. McClure continued, “was out to its practical conclusions, it
a series of blue prints dealing with, shall legalise immorality in its grossest forms. I appeal to you
the specifications and plans of an to oppose it with all your heart.
armour-plercing bullet." There was We must give our final account to
After Brigadier Hill had detailed a lot of writing in English on Jaris Christ, 2
the numerous types of shelters that them. Lat, us not be carried away with would have to be built Councillor When questioned by Colonel
Cooke" of the War Office. Ludwig," the sentimentalism of mere mor- Brown, Glasgow, asked a question. tals.
Itened with dismay to what he added, said the plans had been "Follow the memorandum sent we have heard." he said, "and given to him by someone in Berlin' you, which is in accordance with although we all recognise the whose name he refused to disclose, the revealed will of God in His tremendous dangers to which we |-. Eventually it was discovered that Word, and you shall have no cause are exposed in the event of an air the plans were some which had to regret it. Do you feel for one raid are we to stop all progressive already been submitted to the War moment that we would try to work, such as housing, and tumomce by certain armsment arms. lead you or any of our fellow our activities to air raid Drecau- On one of Ludwig's previous countrymen astray? If you do let tions? It is an appalling outlook visits to London, a friend thad me assure you that is a trave I'make bold to say that air raids given him the plans and asked him mistake.
should be met by military and air if he could put them before certain we might be in error as poor craft measures and not by con authorities and persons in Berlin. confronts both ignores the Word of God, it is the God shall never lead you nor us shelters, which are almost hypo- shem.
duty of the servants of God to astray."
Duchess of Gloucester...
out, and it is significant to notice mental qualities have been deve yet another reminder that, alloped to their innate maximum though physical exercise and by proper feeding. games are undoubtedly of first Enough food and the night class importance," the full value food is at
from them is to be gained only problem, root of many "When the civil magistrate sinful mortais, but the Word of struction of great and bomb-proof so that they might be offered to
'those whose bodily and doctors and sociologists.
thetical places of safety,
Ludwig was then discharged.