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Hoxa Kono, Avoust 13, 1938.
INDUSTRIALISING
WEST CHINA
FORTUNE LOST IN THREE YEARS
Mr. John Henry lles, of. Astor House. Kingsway, W.C.. who founded the National Band Festival 32 years ago, was questioned in the London Bankruptcy Court recently
CHINESE WIFE LAWSUIT
Lamentable, Says Judge
SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1938' THERAPEUTIC THEORIES
OF THE ANCIENTS
In studying ancient therapeutic theories and practices, we sen- ... that at the time diseases were held to be usually due to the action of certain gods or deinons who, if prevailed upon by prayers. and offerings, or coarced by those who knew the proper incanta- tions, could also cure them.
There were of course exceptions to this theurgie or magical treatment. Surgery was in part rational from the beginning. A dis- located joint, a broken bone, or a bleeding wound show such obvious relation of cause and effect that their rational treatment is almost Instinctive, though oven here charms are looked upon as valuable aids, especially in the treatment of haemorrhage.
cessful results.
One of the most feared diseases.
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"We are now at the end of this lamentable business--from every point of view 1 think it is lamentable" So said Mr. Justice Hawke, summing-up re- cently in the King's Bench Division action brought against the Empire Cotton Growing
Association by Dr. Sydney People were, however, quite un-mission of the League of Nations. Cross Harland. the biologist aware of cause, and treatment of a rapid cure will result. No after- who while in Trinidad married internal diseases and had recoursej treatments are given; but eventbal - his Chinese assistant.
to a dream-oracle in the temple of relapses are treated. In the same about his flm ventures.
Dr. Harland claimed damages Asclepius. It needs no demonstra way as the acute attack. For He appeared for his pubile ex- from the Corporation for breach of tion that these oracles were, as a preventing malaria the Commis- WF WHILE the army is engaged in amination before Mr. Registrar contract of his employment as rule.
a life-and-death struggle on Keen, and his statements of affairs head of the department of genetics treatment, often limited to reciting six grains, to be taken during the very vague and that the slon recommends a daily dose of the battlefield, large scale projects showed gross liabilities of £371.995 at their cotton research station in numerous prayers. seldom had suc whole, malarial season. for a protracted war have been against assets of £112,132.
Trinidad. taken in hand by the National
Replying to Mr. H. 1. Gafnę, the He pleaded that he was appoint- Government. One of the first
Omcial Receiver, Mr. Iles said that led to that position In 1929 fur tasks 35 to remove Hanyang he had been Arsenal and steel works into the limited companies.
a director of many twelve years at a salary of £1.400. for which one looked in vain for SUBSTANCE FROM.
There In August, 1935, he was summarily remedy. was malaria. interior. In.. Its new location the
In 1918 he bought proberty at dismissed.
were many opinions and advices arsenal is turning out rifles: light Margate for £50,000, and carried The corporation submitted that about something or other which. machine-guns, trench mortars, on business under the style of they were dissatisfied with Dr. in this mysterious and dangerous hand grenades and other light Dreamland." The concern was Harland's services;, that he had scourge, "may do good." armaments. The arsenal is now taken over by a company, and was adopted towards the senior mem-tortoise blood or crocodile dung is being equipped for the assembling a great success. He also formed a bers of his staff treatment in-strongly recommended by the Em- of feld guns and tanks. In add!-
number of
Dioscorides advises companies to runappropriate to their positions; had piric School. tion, the erection of an aeroplane amusements at Wembley chibi- vexatiously threatened to sue Sir crushed spiders and Galen is ut factory has been started. The tion.
Geofrey Evans, controller of the opinion that green jasper stones factory will do repair work for
research station, and had immoral hung round the neck are effica- AHEAD OF SCHEDULE. damaged machines and assemble
relations with women of colour clous, aircraft arriving from abroad.
These allegations were all denied. "RAKED UP" INCIDENTS Dr. Harland admitted that he provided evidence to enable his former wife to obtain her decree, but denied that he committed misconduct. He said the incidents on which the divorce evidence was based had now been Traked up" to support the allegations of im- moral relations.
“STRICTLY ILLEGAL"
ADVERTISEMENTS. Chinese Government has mapped American producer. Mr. Rock save
OFFICIAL NOTICE.
PROPOSAL TO CHANGE A SHIP'S NAME.
the
Mr.
The debtor said that the man The newly formed Ministry of who first interested him in film Economic Affairs of the Central production was Mr. Joe Rock, an
out important plans for developing him the impression that the natural resources of the pro- cinema was a "gold mine." vinces of Szechuan. Kwelchow, There was laughter when Yannan. Kwangsi. Hunan
and les mentioned that the first film Shanst Western Szechuan will be he produced was called "Strictly the future chemical centre of Illegal." China owing to its plentiful supply of salt.
soda and petroleum.
Textile mills. paper mills, sugar
to improve the standard of wood off will also be erected, in this
refineries and modern machinery
province.
many transport facilities, is special attention. Iri
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Mr. Hes said that in January. 1935, he bought some fillm studios for £17.000, spending €10,573 on equipment. In February, 1936, he enlarged the studios at a cost of about £136,000, spent £14,000 оп equipment, and then formed various companies to take over the studios.
Mr. Justice Hawke sald nobody! suggested that. Dr. Harland was incompetent In the sense of failing to understand genetics thoroughly. The Corporation's case was that the Incompetence lay in failure to administrate.
I, John Johnstone Paterson of ardine, Matheson Co., Ltd., General Managers, lado-China S.N. Co., Ltd., Hong Kong, 6 a.m.9 p.m.
hereby give notice that in conse- Consumers
are earnestly requence of change of Ownership, quested to exercise every care in I have applied to the Board of HUNAN, with its rich natural and the use of water and to have Trade, under Section 47 of the receiving
Although he entered into defective water fittings repaired Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, Southern Hunan a new coal mine tracts with the companies, the without delay,
in respect of the ship HAI has been opened, giving a dally perty was never conveyed. HENG"
Mr. Iles agreed that he gave former wife with evidence for a of Shanghai Official output of 300 tons which it is
hoped, will be increased to 800 tons guarantees and incurred abilities divorce. number. 164,036 of gross tonnage shortly, white the local production of £155.614 and that as regards
"If he did," the Juage continued, 3415 tons, register tonnage 2065 of antimony has been increased. bills he made himself liable for "in my opinion it is a criminal tous, heretofore owned by TheIn order to Improve the communi- £39.699, receiving no consideration offence. Some doubt has been'i China "Merchants S. N. Ca..
R. M. HENDERSON. Water Authority. Public Works Department, 11th August, 1938.
6193 Shanghai, for the permission to change her name to "E SANG" and to have her registered in the
ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE, STANLEY
new
RAILWAY EXTENSIONS PLANNED
the provinces, the}
to
The jury had to decide whether con-Dr. Harland entered into a con- pro-spiracy to defeat the course of us- tice in regard to providing his
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cations through whatever.
Mr. Gaine: In addition, you made Canton - Hankow considerable advances Railway to run various companies, totailing £42. 23 an extension of 1287-Yes. Hunan-Kiangsi Railway to Kwelchow with the construction of a line connecting Hurfan with Kwangst. In addition new rail ways are under construction to
the name at the Port of Hong kong as owned by The Indo. (Middle School for Chinese Boys) China S.N. Co., Ltd.
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The New School Year of the Middle School will begin at Stan ley on September 5th.
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There will be an examination for new students on September | 3rd, at 9 a.m.
Any objections to the proposed change of name must be sent to the Registrar of Shipping at Hong Kong within seven days from the appearance of this ad vertisement.
Dated at Hong Kong, this 11th day of August, 1938.
The Preparatory School (in) Chinese) will re-open on Septem. (Signed) J. J. PATERSON, ber 5th, at 9.30 am., when (191
Parents are requested to bring
their children.
For Prospectuses apply to Mr.
Photos Began
Fung Man Sul or Mr. Chan Pak This Romance
Luk, Messrs. Harry Wicking, Prince's Building, (Tel. 30241) with
connect Yunnan, Kweichow and
Father
colossal
"COLOSSAL FIGURES"
but they were big ventures.
ngures? Yes,
Mr Iles declared that at
one
time he had a fortune of £200,000 Kwangsi. Plans have been drafted Mr. Gaine: You knew the risks to increase the production of tin or entering the film industry?......At copper and other minerals in these the time the impression was the provinces.
As the French Government is making plans to establish Iron and steel works in French Indo-China. Yunnan is busily arranging to in- crease the production of cral.
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reverse.
In three years the whole of your knows how fortune vanished and
goodness many thousands as
well? Yes.
You have
I suggest that it was one vast sumble on your part to try and SPECIAL attention is also being make another fortune?-I did not
paid to agricultural problems, regard it so. for China, being fundamentally of an agricultural nature, cannot en-speculative ventures of a very, rash|
beer. Indulging in
joy lastine and hazardous nature? As it 50 AGRICULTURAL prosperity 3-turned out. I did not regard it so
less the back then. PROBLEMS
bone. of the farmer-is In a
meeting
While airlines, railways and other, and were married in the highways may bring prosperity to pretty village church at
the big cities, the improvement of Kown-
communications, including inland 6167 hams, near Eastleigh, Hants.
The 30-year-old bridegroom, who river traffic, will bring prosperity had come from India to claim laisto the large peasant population, bride, was Albert Hollingsworth, a
A young couple who fell in love each other's photographs conducted a "postal courtship" bet- nation-the ween England and India, became healthy state. ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE, engaged
or to
STANLEY
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before
each
.:
HONG KONG TRAMWAYS, Yorkshirerian from Maltby, who MONKEY..
LIMITED.
NOTICE TO
a corporal in the 1st Batt, wit shire Regiment, stationed at Ban- galore.
The bride, a pretty 27-year-old
BUSINESS
brunette, was Rosina Mary Martin, BOOMS
daughter of a widow, and employed
as a cook by the squire at Rown- hams.
SHAREHOLDERS.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an INTERIM
Writing to her own soldier fiance, DIVIDEND of Forty-five (45) stationed in India, a giri; friend of cents per Share has been declared Miss
Martin
enclosed
Rosina's
it to his friend, Corpl. Hollings-
payable on MONDAY, 15th photograph The soldier showed AUGUST next, on and after worth, in Bangalore Barracks, and which date Dividend Warrants he fell in love at once with the girl may be obtained apon application in the photograph. -
Road East,
- at the Registered Office of the
Company, Canal Hong Kong.
THEIR FIRST MEETING Hollingsworth wrote to Miss Martin enclosing his picture.
That happened last October, and NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO chce then letters between the GIVEN that the REGISTER of couple have been carried by nearly MEMBERS of the Company will every liner and mail plane travel-
IN MALAYA
The rapid increase in gland research activities in United States laboratories is giving employment to hundreds of Itinerant monkey catchers in British Malaya. Every steamer leaving Singapore for Easter porta i the United States is carrying several crates of fat, healthy monkeys.
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Although America's own jungles are supposed to be well filled with monkeys, research organizations and that it te cheaper to procure
them from Malaya.
Cutcher receive as much as 27s
The examination was adjourned.
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Taking
What a pity that the ancients
were missing both mightiest weapons as well as to discover malaria $5 to fight it, the microscope and quinirie.
SHADOW
First Austin-Built Bomber
Recently at Longbridge, Birmingham. Str Kingsley Wood, Secretary of State for Air, saw flown the first Fairey Battle aeroplane 'to be pro- duced by Lord Austin and his company. The production is ahead of schedule.
The modern treatment 0: malaria is one of the greatest triumphs of medical knowledge. Two years ago the shadow fac- Just to quote the words of antory at Longbridge did not exist: eminent authority:
there was a farm. In rural sur- pleasant. undulating "He who sees a physician at roundings -
with his work knows not whether to land
no apparent future admire more the precision of association with any branch of mloroscope technique which has Great Britain's defence. shown the malarial parasite in Now there is a huge factory. the red blood corpuscles, or the planned and laid out on the most skill and perseverance of these modern lines, close to the parent who have traced its life. history factory, and engaged partly, in the in man and the mosquito. and production of Battle bombers and determined the phase in whien partly in the manufacture of com- it is most vulnerable to quinine. ponents of the Bristol Mercury Each day the physician places a aero-engine. The factory occupies drop of the patient's blood under a site of 28 acres, and the build- the microscope tih he sees the ings cover more than half of that parasite in that stage of de-area. .velopment in which qumine will The Battle is a two-seat low-wing
destroy it."
monoplane: It is constructed in
raised by Mr. Gilbert Beyfus, K.C.
It, at the very moment, during metal, with the exception of the (counsel for the Corporation) as ye to seven days, a daily dose or control surfaces which are fabric to whether he did or not. Mr. 15 to 20 grains of quinine is ad-covered" The engine is a Rolls- Beyfus puts it as a dilemma. niinistered to the patient, as re-Royce Merlin I 12-cylinder. quid- "The defence is that Dr. Harland commended by the Malaria Com-cooled unit, rated at 990 hp. at either conspired with his friends Vincentini and Mendes to deceive the President of the Divorce Court. or committed the immoral acts of which they gave evidence--and
that either constituted misconduct
relation to Dr. Harland's con. tractual duties to the Corporation. "It is a little difficult for me to forget that Mr. Mendes and Mr.
themselves. Maybe they would in- Vincentini are not here to defend
dignantly deny that they were parties to a 'fake.'
NOT A GEORGE WASHINGTON
"Dr. Harland told you that, where it suited his own pur- puse, he did not hesitate to mislead the Divorce Court, se that Dr. Harland cannot leave this Court saying, 'My name is George Washington. I never tell a De."
| 12,000ft. The bomber inspected by Sir Kingsley Wood was put through its paces by Squadron Leader Eng-
FIGHT AGAINST and
TUBERCULOSIS
Progress Praised By Mr. Elliot
Figures showing how Eng- land and Wales are winning the war against tuberculosis were riven recently by Mr. Waller Elliot. Minister of Health.
con-
Ministry of Health 'statistics
Afterwards Lord Austin and Sir Kingsley Wood addressed a great. meeting of work-people, the former promising that the company withi which he was associated would keep ahead of schedule in production. and the latter congratulating
everyone concerned on the extra- ordinarily rapid progress which had been achieved since the shadow factory was projected.
NEW CAPACITY CREATED
Sir Kingsley Wood said that the plan of setting up shadow factories would always be as- sociated with the name of Lord Swinton. In turning to the treat motor Industry this coun- try secured the creation of a new capacity, the introduction of new methods, and the asso- ciation with aircraft production of men like Lord Austin, who could be ranked among our first captains of ladustry.
Mr. Elliot, who is a doctor and. a former member of the Council of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis. was On the question of whether Dr. opening the association's Harland had been guilty of imference in London. morality. It was only right to point He said that enormous progress out that some of the charges had had been made within the last 70 been dropped.
years Mr. Beyfus had raised a question of some cogency. Why was not showed that between 1857 and Mrs. Harland present to defend her 1860 tubérculosis was killing 65,
That policy was fully justifying own honour?
000 every year in a total popula- itself, "and would do so still more, "But perhaps you will consider as tion of less than 20,000,000. At in the future. Some £11,000,000 more important the fact that she that time the general death rate had already been expended on the Helsinki, found 50 cats Inside.
has a little child. You may "take was so terrine that half the popu- shadow factory scheme. The The tenants of the villa, an aged the view that it would take a good lation never reached the age of 40. shadow factories were employing couple, apparently never allowed deal to induce a woman to leave a and only four out of ten reached many thousands in, the Birming- the cats out of the house. The little child, even though it might| 50 condition of the place was one of lead to some criticism of her here."
50 CATS IN A VILLA
Policemen, who entered - a villa in Faga, a suburb of
appalling fith.
RADIO
TOMORROW
Today the annual deaths were down to 28,000, and the death rate from tuberculosis was one-fifth of what it was 10 years ago.
VOLUNTARY EFFORT.
ham and Coventry area alone, and the aircraft that would be pro- duced would be a considerable, contribution to our national, de- fence.
The cats
were almost starved and many
were dead. Severa! | bodies were discovered, wrapped in
Lord Austin's factory had also sheets of paper, in one of the
been turning out engines for some rooms-the mortuary." RS the
months past, and all of that had couple informed the police:
"(Continued from Page 13) Mr. Elliot praised the value of been accomplished in a compara- Most of the cats still alive have
been destroyed by the au- For we love you still; You are my voluntary effort in the campaign tively short period. Lord Austin's thorities as their condition was so songs: Love will and you-London against tuberculosis, backing up factory was laid out on the most
local authorities, which Theatre Orchestra conducted by
were modern lines and it was designed pitiable.
The couple have been removed Walford Hyden.,
now spending £3,500,000 a year to make the greatest possible use. modern quantity production. to a mental home..
9.30 p.m. Reuter and Rugby on tuberculosis schemes, exclusive
methods in the construction of air- Press, Weather Forecast and of loan charges.
craft. Announcements.
He mentioned as "a fact of very
now
CONFERENCE ·AT CHUNGKING
of
DETERRENT TO WAR This year we were spending some 128,000,000 on our Air Force alone. very considerable ex-
9.40 p.m. B.B.C. Wireless Military great scientific importance" that Band..
for more than 20 years no child The Jolly Robbers-Overture had been born with tuberculosis (Suppe). Lynwood, March Ord at the Papworth village settle-It was a ling between England and India,"
Chungking. August 12. Hume); Prairie Flower, March (Ordment, a community of tubercular penditure and it was being made be closed from SATURDAY, One air-liner acted as Cupid.”
Following the assumption of Hume), La Tarantelle De Belphe people in Cambridgeshire under at the same time as large sums 30th JULY, to SATURDAY, the smiling bride told a reporter & each for a good rhesus, the most office of General Chang Chun as gor (Roch Albert); Malaguena proper medical supervision. were being expended on our Army 13th AUGUST, 1938, both days. Just before her wedding "Bert saleable type of animal.. Director of the Generalissimo's (From "Boabdll”—Moskowski arr. This remarkable 'fact, he said. and Navy. We were making those inclusive,
proposed in one letter and I an- Animal dealers in Singapore slso Provisional -Headquarters in Lake). swered by return.
make good money catching tigers. | Chungking, an important con- 10.02 p.m. Organ Musle. "When he came home for six panthers and pythons for Ameri- ference will soon be held here Toccata and Fugue in D Minor months' leave. I met the troopship. can and Continental zoon. Holly-between leaders of Blechuen (Back). Thalben Ball playing We found each other every bit as wood in recent years has become and Bikong to discuss political, on the B.B.C. Organ interesting as the two photographs another large-scale buyer of wild military and reconstruction affairs 10.10 p.m. Studio Sunday Hong Kong, 21st July, 1938. and letters had led us to believe, animals. Hollywood is, particularly in the two provinces (Central | ing Epilogue.
6141 | There and then we fixed the date, keen on doclle crocodilēš, ̧¡
News).
By Order of the Board, W. F. SIMMONS,
Secretary
10.30 p.m. Close down,
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emphasised the Importance of great efforts and making those vast, proper housing, which was as dif-payments, not for the purposes of cult a problem, in many rural aggression, but because we believed areas as in the industrial districts. they would be a vital and stabilizing
**r "am," said Mr. Elliot; "giving factor on the side of peace. :) Even-this problem of rural housing” as A formidable British Air Force-
·much of my personal attention: es was certainly one of the most I can."
powerful deterrents to war..