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ROTARIANS AT TIFFIN HUNGER STRIKE REPORT GLIMPSE INTO PERSIA DENIED BY POLICE ·
Interesting, Witty
Witty Talk Given By Dean Wilson
The Dean of St. John's Cathedral, Very Rev. J. L.. Wilson, was the speaker ni the weekly tiffin of the Hongkong Rotary Club in the Roof Garden of the Hongkong Hotel yesterday, and his "Glimpses of Persia" was an interesting and witty talk which was very well received. Called upon to thank Mr. Wilson, Professor C. A. Middleton-Smith added that he hoped the Dean's talk was but the first of a series.
The Hon. Dr. L 'Shu-fan pre- drearlest, desolate, and most blis- sided and welcomed Major R. D. tering places on the face of the
No Trouble On Board The
Goodship Li Hong
"There was never any hunger strike on board the sa. Li Hong. On the first day the arrangements as 'regards the food wis пов exactly perfect and there were some nitor complaints bas since then everything has been going on smoothly," said the Hon. Mr. T. H.. King, Commissioner of Police last evening. 'In an interview with the "Daily Prem.”
Walker, back from leave, and I globe. I was glad I had not to ENCOURAGING
up in a small motor boat up the wide river Tigris to Mohammerah.
Commdr. ADS. Murray, newly stay there long but was able to go elected Rotarian" Major Walker said that since he left Hongkong he had visited many countries and had been presented with flags by a number of Rotary Clubs,
one
Here I stayed a few nights getting stores
for my journey because there were no hotels and, nó inns Visiting Rotarians present were other than the wretched cara- Messrs. V: E. Ferrier, Canton; P. L. vanserias for the 300 mile journey- Marcel Moo, Shanghai¦ Horace (up to 'Isfahan. There was Kazoorte, Shanghai; L Luchso, other break in the journey at a Past President. Canton Club: Ed-place called Abwaz, To reach ward Z. Tang. Nanking: W. O. there we had to go in a lttle pad- Nodes. Hornsey, T. K. Waters, dle steamer up the Karoon river, a Wuhu: Gordon King. President, river difcult to chart because of Tainan Club; and HM. van der the shifting sands. Schalk. Canton. Visitors were Messrs. K. W. Lo, I. M. Lo. Gunther Stein. A. Nissim, and H. B. Joseph,
DEAN'S ADDRESS
Consequently all the way up we had the experience of two Arabs sitting, one each side of the boat sticking in long poles and tellurig us whether the river wus navigable
The nine hundred Chinese sol- diers who were interned in the steamer Li Hong in Kowloon Bay were removed to. 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 frontier is now con- sidered safe, as is proven by the
withdrawal. ď British troops from the border, re- fugees who can do so are being encouraged to return to their homes.
The Government has asked the Emergency Refugee Council, in co- operation with the various Chinese societies which have done so much
Eventually the ship was dragged time many changes have taken off the sand bank or the sand bank place and secondly I am only givitself shifted and we moved on to ng 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 aal oop theore." I found
The Dean said in part:-
there or not. One must have gone "On looking up the Directory....I'
to sleep because we found ourselves found that there are in the Colony stuck on a sand bank and all the no Persians or Iranians as they efforts and shifting were of for the rellet of refugees during are now called, and so I chose avail to get us off. We "Glimpses of Persia" for my sub-there for two and a half days. A open
the recent period of danger, to stayed
food kitchens at once at ject hele to-any. If there are peo-sand storm swept over us and made Shum Chun, Shataukok· and Lok- ple who, do know the country well
everything grilly.
mauchau, and, as soon as possible. 1 shall retort that it is 15 years
in the neighbourhood of Namtau. since I left Isfahan and in that
The Government wil make it self responsible for the provision of water, sanitary arrangements and medical attendance at the kitchens which it is proposed to open just beyond the border. When
at present operating in the New these are opened, the food kitchens Territories will be closed down.
lunch.
on this
WASTEFUL SYSTEM
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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 strike-that is rather a big word. Certainly there has been no vio- lenice aboard.
"There was grumbling from the start of the men's incarceration, because the cooking arrangements ! were not suitable, but the men quietened down when they were told they were going ashore."
across to
The Chinese troops were taken the new barbed-wire 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 camp. The Colonial Secretary said at the Kowloon City concentration that the Government could give no information at present subject.
on this
PRISONER DEAD
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WAS SENTENCED IN 1934
out that he came from the same town on Tyneside and he enabled I arrived at the end of November.me to get a bath and other re- 1923, at Abadan, having made the freshment. Journey out in a tanker of the
I had been preceded
In the meantime, the Govern- company known then as the Anglo- Persian Oil Company. There may journey by an English man who.ment earnestly requests that the but 15 not wanting to be troubled by the food as bread and buns and bis- indiscriminate distribution of such of the complaints of the people said that cults should cease immediately
there was an English "Hakim"-- that is a doctor--coming up behind this method of supplying food The urgent need which prompted him. The result was that when I arrived in a village I was met by now no longer exists: the system assisted
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A verdict of death trom natural causes was returned at an inquest held at the Central Court yester-
day into the death of a prisoner,
Cheung Shing.
Mr. R. Edwards sat as Coroner, by a jury.comprising
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WEEKLY HEALTH ·
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BULLETIN
The health return for last week
0. Sadick Foreman) is as follows:-cholera, 2 cases, 1
Chief Warder J. W. Fitzgerald, of
all kinds of sick and wounded pro-blishment of regular provision for Wong Kam-to and Lui Chung-un.deaths; "small-pox, 5 cases; diph- ple demanding to be healed. I was those who are really in want. able to bandage up a few people Band those who suffered trom physical ailments received some pills.
POLICE PROTECTION
Most of them seemed grateful and on the next day brought me presents of eggs and'chickens as a thank-offering for their recovery,
which is the Stanley Prison, sald deceased theria, 10 cases, 3 deaths; enteric provided for refugees in Kam Tin was sentenced to 10 years hard fever, 6 cases, 1 death; measles, 17 Camp and at Fanling will remain labour in July, 1934. at the Su- cases, 2 deaths; chicken-poz, 2 in addition to the Urban camps.
cases; cerebro-spinal meningitis, preme Court.
200 REFUGEES
RENDERED. HOMELESS
'com-
Dr. G. Ingram Shaw, medical cases, 3 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. tion 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. More than 200 people were ren-of tuberculosis on November 24. police protection that was afford-dered homeless by a fire which rd me. When I arrived at my des broke out at Taikoktsul yesterday
OBTAINED GOODS BY tination in the evening I would be shortly before 1 p.m. and
FOUR COMMITTED
FALSE PRETENCES met by two Ice" guards with pletely destroyed about forty huts,
Sentences totalling one month's rines who undertook that they quarters for refugees.
FOR ROBBERY and 12 weeks' hard labour were in- would look after me and my
Appearing The flames, fanned by a strong
posed on an 18-year-old unemploy- remand before possessions but that there would be north-easterly, spread with rapidity Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Cen-before Mr. R. Edwards at the Cen- ed, Chan Nang. when he appeared a certain fee. It was only later that I discovered that at that time through the dry wood and rotting trai yesterday on a charge of arma-
tral Court yesterday and pleaded ed robbers, four men, Cheng Lam, guilty to four charges of obtaining the police paid the government to rags, and within thirty minutes
the huts were reduced to ruins,
Yu Man, Tsang Chol and Tsang goods by a false document and get the job and made up anything
Kam-lam, were Four are appliances were soon that they had lost and made pro-
committed
possession of a forged die. on the scene. At out of the travellers who came
Det.-Bergt. R. Davies prosecuted. through,
It was stated that on December defendant telephoned to a shop
oni
to
stand trial at the Criminal. Ses- sions.
A few hundred yards away from the burning area was the installa- They were alleged to have en- 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 Shauklwan on Novem-packets of elastic and 60 packets extraordinary agility of the Per-gallons of petrol were stored, and ber 13 and robbed the inmates.
slan 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-
most perilous I have ever known. liquid was not endangered by the secuted.
At times one had to go alony 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
DIAMOND RING
porting that he had been sent by the Butterfly Company.
Later in the day the shop sent a bill to the Butterfly Company, and it was then discovered that ROBBERY CASE the transaction was fraudulent.
Defendant repeated the prac-
A further remand till this mornice 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 romanes! taken up the practice of walking his house at No. 19, Pokfulam at the Central Court yesterday
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of mules, coming the other way it for help and frightened the men manager sometimes takes tour or five hours away... to get past each other.
(Continued on Back Pare)
It is believed that kidnapping sell the rings to anyone on the has been obtained and the Central was the motive of the attack. day when the rings were lost. Government has ratified it.
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