HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
GENERAL
TIFFIN HUNGER STRIKE REPORT
DENIED BY POLICE
ROTARIANS AT GLIMPSE INTO PERSIA
Interesting, Witty Talk Given By Dean Wilson-
The Dean of St. John's Cathedral, Very Rev. J. L. Wilson, was the speaker at the weekly tin of the Hongkong Rotary Club in the Boo! Garden of the Hongkong Hotel, yesterday, and his "Glimpses of Persia" was an interesting and witty talk which was very well recdived, Called upon to thank Mr. Wisos Professor C. A. Middleton-Smith added that he hoped the Dean's talk was but the first of a series.
The Hon. Dr. Li Shu-fan pre joreariest, desolate, and most bils- sided and welcomed Major R. D. tering places on the race, of the
No Trouble On Board The
Goodship Li Hong
"There was never any hunger strike 'on board the ss. Li Hong. On the first day the arrangements as regards the food was not exactly perfect and there were some, mitnor"'complaints but since then everything has been going on smoothly," said the Hon. Mr. T. IL. King, Commissioner of Police last evening, in an interview with the "Day Presa"
Walker, back from leave, and Lt globe. I was glad I had not to ENCOURAGING
Comindr
A.D.S.
Murray, newly stay there long but was able to go elected Rotarian Major Walker up in a small motor boat up the said that since he left Hongkong he wide river Tigris to Mohammerah. had visited many countries and had been presented with fings by number of Rotary Clubs."
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Here I stayed a few nights getting stores for my Journey because there were no hotels and no inng Visiting --Rotarians present were other than the wretched cara- Messrs. V. E. Ferrier, Canton; P. L. vanserins for the 300 mile journey Marcel Moo, Shanghai; Horace up to Isfahan. There was Kaccorle. Shanghai; Li Luchao, other break in the journey at a Past President Canton Club; Ed-place called Ahwaz. To ward) 2. Tang, Nanking: W. 0. there we had to go in a little pad- Nodes, Hornsey, T. K. Waters, die steamer up the Karvon river, a Wuhu: Gordon King, President, river difficult to chart because of Tsinan Club; and HM van der the shifting sands. Schalk, Canton. Visitors were
Messrs. K. W. Lo. 1. M. Lo, Gunther Stein, A. Nissim, and H. B. Joseph,
DEAN'S ADDRESS
The Dean said in part:- "On looking up the Directory I Lound that there are in the Colony
reach
Consequently all the way up we had the experience of two Aral sitting, one each side of the boat Isticking in long poles and telling us whether the river was navigable there or not, One must have gone to sleep because we found ourselves stuck on a sand bank and all the
or no
Do Persians or Iranians as they efforts and shifting were are now called, and so I chose!
avall to get us of We stayed "Glimpses of Persia" for my sub- there for two and a half days. A ject here to-day. If there are peo-sand storm swept over us and made ple who do know the country well everything gritty.
I shall retort that it is 15 years since I left Isfahan and in that time, many changes have taken
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. The nine hundred Chinese sol- diers who were interned in the steamer L Hong in Kowloon Bay were.. removed to a barbed-wire concentration camp adjacent to the Kowloon riding school yester-
REFUGEES TO
RETURN HOME day
Food Kitchens Beyond Border
As the situation in districts Immediately beyond the New Territories frontler is now con- sidered safe, as is proven by the withdrawal of British troops from the border. re- fugees who can do so are being encouraged to return to their homes:
to'
The Government has asked the Emergency Refugee Council, in co- operation with the various Chinese societies which have done so much for the relief of refugees during the recent period of danger, open food kitchens at once at Shum Chun, Shatakok and Lok- mauchau, and, as soon as possible, In the neighbourhood of Namtau. self responsible for the provision The Government wil make it
From an authoritative source it was learned that the removal was hastened by the fact that several. hundred of the internees threaten- ed to go on hunger strike.
"NO VIOLENCE"
The Colonial Secretary. Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith, said. "I do not know if there has been a hunger i strike that is rather "a big word, Certainly there has been "no vio- lence aboard.
"There was grumbling from the start of the men's tricarceration, because the cooking arrangements were not suitable, but the men qutetened down when they were told they were going ashore."
The Chinese troops were taken across to the new barbed-wite camp in batches in a junk which
was towed by a police launch.
It is not known whether the in-
ternees will be kept permanently at the Kowloon City concentration
that the Government could give no camp. The Colonial Secretary said
Eventually the ship was dragged off the sand bank or the sand bank place and secondly I am only gly. Itself shifted and we moved on to of water, sanitary arrangements | Information at present on this: ing glimpses into a country that Ahwaz. Here the first thing I heard is worth a great deal more study as someone speaking to me in my that I have at the moment at my own language. "You've got, to put disposal or that you have at this them aall oop theore." I found
Junch.
I arrived at the end of November, 1923, at Abadan, having made the journey out in a tanker of the company known then as the Anglo- Persian Ol Company: There may be more amenities now years ago It WILS one
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On this
I had been preceded journey by an English man who, not wanting to be troubled by the complaints of the people said that there was an English "Hakim"-
that is a doctor coming up behind him. The result was that when I
arrived in a village 7 was met by
¡all kinds of sick and wounded pro-
and
kitchens which it is proposed to médical attendance, at the open just beyond the border, When at present-operating in the New these are opened, the food kitchens Territories will be closed down.
WASTEFUL SYSTEM
In the meantime, the Govern-
subject.
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PRISONER DEAD
WAS SENTENCED
IN 1934.
ment earnestly requests that the A verdict of death from natural Indiscriminate distribution of such food as bread and buns and bla-causes was returned at an inquest held at the Central Court yester- cults should cease immediately.
day into the death of a prisoner, The urgent need which prompted Cheung Shing. this method of supplying food now no longer exists; the system is wasteful and prevents the esta-
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Mr. R. Edwards 'sat as Coroner, assisted by "a Jury comprising Messrs.
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WEEKLY HEALTH
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The heal return for laat week
ple demanding to be healed. I was those who are sealny provision for Wong Kam-to and Lul Chung-sun. deaths; smál-pox. 5 cases; diph-
able to bandage up a few pel
Fund those who suffered from Iphysical ailments received some 1 pills,
POLICE PROTECTION Most of them seemed grateful and on the next day brought më presents of eggs and chickens as a thank-offering for their recovery.
those who are really in want.
The accommodation which is provided for refugees in Kam Tin Camp and at Fanling will remain, in addition to the Urban camps.
200 REFUGEES RENDERED HOMELESS
which
0. Sadick (Foreman), is as follow-cholers, 2 cases, 3 Chief Warder J. W. Fitzgerald, of theria, 10 cases, 3 deaths; enteric the Stanley Prison, sald deceased was sentenced to 10 years hard fever, & cases, 1 death; measles, 17 labour in July, 1934. at the Su-cases, 2 deaths; chicken-pox. 2 preme Court. :
cases; cerebro-spinal, meningitis,
Dr. G. Ingram Shaw, medical 7 cases, deaths; dysentery, 16 officer in charge of the prison hos-cases, 7 deaths: puerperal fever, 5 pital, said that deceased's condi- cases: 86 deaths of tuberculosis. lon was good when first commit- On Monday, two cases each of ted to the prison. In May this enteric fever and measles and one I had noticed a curious form of
year he developed abscess' and died case of diphtheria were reported. police protection that was afford-dered homeless, by a fire
More than 200 people were ren-of tuberculosis on November 24. ed nie. When I arrived at my des broke out at Takoktsut yesterday
OBTAINED GOODS BY tination in the evening I would be shortly before 1
FOUR COMMITTED.
FALSE PRETENCES met by two police guards with
Sentences totalling one month's ties who undertook that they
FOR ROBBERY and 12 weeks hard labour were im- would look after me and my
posed on an 18-year-old unemploy- Appearing on The flames, fanned by a strong possessions but that there would be
remand before ed, Chan Nang, when he appeared orth-easterly, spread with rapidity Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Cen- before Mr. R. Edwards at the Cen- through the dry wood and rotting bral yesterday on a charge of arts trai Court yesterday and pleaded rags and within thirty minutesed robbery, four men, Cheng Lam, guilty to four charges of obtaining the huts were reduced to rins. Yu Man, Tsang Choi and Tsang goods by a false document and
Kam-lam, were Four fire appliances were soon
committed to possession of a forged die. stand trial at the Criminal Ses- on the scene.
a certain fee. It was only later that I discovered that at that time the police paid the government to get the job and made up anything that they had lost and made pro- fit out of the travellers who came through.
p.m. and com-
pletely destroyed about forty huts,
quarters for refugees,
A few hundred yards away from sions.
the burning area was the installa-
Det.-Sergt. R. Davies prosecuted. It was stated, that on December They were alleged to have en-1 defendant telephoned to a shop After the desert we began the tion of the Asiatic Petroleum Com-tered an unnumbered hut on the in Lee Tung Street and ordered 60 climb and I am still amazed at the pany. where many thousands of hillside in Shaukivan on Novem-packets of elastic and 60 packets extraordinary agility of the Pe-gallons of petrol were stored, and ber 13 and robbed the inmates. stan mule. The journey was the it is fortunate that the inflammable
of tape. He later called at the Detective-Inspector Darkin pro-shop and collected the goods pur- porting that he had been sent by the Butterfly Company.
most perilous I have ever known. liquid was not endangered by the secuted.
At times one had to go along nar- outbreak.
row paths with a high wall of rock
on one side and on the other a sheer drop of 3,000 feet down, to the swirling river below. By ex- perience of hitting their loads against the rocks the mules have
CHINESE NEARLY
KIDNAPPED
Later in the day the shop sent DIAMOND RING
a bull to the Butterfy Company, and it was then discovered that ROBBERY CASE the transaction was fraudulent.
Defendant repeated the, praċ-
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A further remand till this mord-tice on two other shops and was While ringing the door bell at ing was ordered by Mr. R. Edwards arrested by police. YOUR LIPS for romance! taken up the practice of walking his
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The Ministry of Economy are: ment, use Tattoo Powder, Rouge alde of your mule you become sick rushed upon by three strangers mone rings, receiving stolen pro-worth of national reconstruction Issue $500,000,000. and Mascara (cream with brush). and dizzy because you see nothing who attempted to gag him with a perty and illegal pawning of a bonds to be devoted specially for
underneath you. When on such a piece of cloth. After a violent diamond. path as this you meet a caravan struggle, he managed to shout out
the development of the natural re- of mules coming the other way it for help and frightened the men manager
Evidence was given by the sources in the South-West. It will sometimes takes four or five hours
of Messrs...
Bennet be officially proclaimed as soon as to get past each other,
Freres, who said that he did not the guarantee for reserved funds It is believed that kidnapping sell the rings to anyone on the has been obtained and the Centrai was the motive of the attack. day when the rings were lost. Government has ratified it.
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