HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
GENERAL
REPRESENTATIVE GATHERING PLEASURE PARK
AT CELEBRATION OF HOSPITALS WEEK
HOSPITAL SUNDAY WAS CELEBRATED AT ST JOHN'S
BEING. THE HON. CATHEDRAL YESTERDAY, THE PREACHER DR. P. S. SELWYN CLARKE, DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL SER- VICES, The service was conducted by the Rev. A. P. Rose and was well attended, many distinguished personalities being present, in" cluding Hon. Rear-Admiral and Mrs-A M. Peters, Sir Atholl and Lady Macgregor, Dr. D. J. Valentine. Deputy Director of Medical .. Services, Mrs. DJ. Valentine, Hon. Secretary, Auxiliary Nursing Ser- vice, the Hon. Dr. Li Shu-fan, Dr. Arthur Woo and Mrs. Woo, MIKS S. F. Sutton, Principal Matron, Government Nursing Staff, pir. Lee Iu-chunr, chairman of the Tung Wah Hospital Committee, Mr. E. M. Raymond, Pirector of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, Officers and Nurses of the Brigade, members of the Auxiliary Nursing Ser- vice, officials of the Nethersole Hespital, Prof. Gordon King and many others,
In the course of the service Mr. Rose announced that the Bishop of Hongkong had received 1 telegram to the effect that the Christian Mis- sionary Society Hospital at Kunming, Yunnan, had been savagely bombed by the Jap anese and all the wards, m- cluding the out-patients de- partments and living quarters had been destroyed.
The CMS. is planning to erect several new centres. for giving medical relief to victims of air raids in Kunming. he said, and made an appeal for funds for the purpose.
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DEAN RETURNING
It was also announced that Dean Wilson, who has been away
ROUND THE
·POLICE- COURTS
AT CENTRAL
SNATCHER GAOLED
FOR KOWLOON
SCHEME AWAITING GOVT. SANCTION
The 24 up-to-date, shops built by C. Ingehohl Ltd. in front of their Orient Tobacco Manufac- tory in Nathan Road will, it is learned from usually reliable sourees, soon give way to a block of modern apartment houses with the
for ground floor reserved business premises,
PLEASURE PARK PLANNED
lp Ylu. 41, unemployed, was sentenced to six months. hard labour when he pleaded guilty
A syndicate has been formed before Mr, Sheldon on Saturday some time ago to formulate com- to snatching A handbag from prehensive plans for taking over Tung Kwai. 35, woman, in Jaffe the six acres of beautiful lawns, Road near Stewart Road at 7.45 at the rear of the shops, and con- hardship and misery in this other-p.. on Oct. 18.
verting them into an amusement wise beautiful Colony of ours. To Det.-Sgt. Morrison stated that park. those of you who are already defenant broke the strap of the. The scheme, it has been divulg- working for humanity, I would bag. Accused was arrested at Ten-ed, includes the building of a restaurant theatre, dance-hall, apologise and ask for your kind nochy Road, after he had thrown indulgence.
the bag away. Perhaps I should preface my remarks by making it clear that time permits me to touch but the. fringe of the subject. I trust that I may be forgiven for the very nadequate picture which I may be able to present to your minds.
REFUGEE PROBLEM
and soda-fountain, the ever-popu- lar skating ring, and so forth.
Should official sanction to pro-
GAOL FOR SNATCHEK Saying that as he had caused ceed be obtained, Kowloon re- considerable pain to the comsidents will have their very own. plainant why defendant himself amusement park instead of hav- should not suffer some pain, Ming to cross the harbour in search K.M.A. Barnett imposed senterice of such recreations as the park of six months' hard labour on L will provide. Wing-on, 18. unemployed, on Saturday.
First of all, Hongkong has been
Li was charged with snatching a compelled to absorb, for longer or shorter periods, almost as many pair of earrings from Tse Tuk- refugees from disturbed areas in ying. 40, married woman at Con Chtha as 12 Has normal in-naught Road West on Oct. 11. „... habitants.
It was stated in Court that com
AT KOWLOON
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There has been no doubling of plainant and her daughter was in Australia for many months, will the accommodation in houses and walking along the road when de be back in Hongkong on Tuesday, tenements, no corresponding In- fendant came up and snatched! Oct. 22, and would probably preachcrease in the amount. of employ- hef earrings. Defendant Was at next Sunday's services.
ment available. no comparable chased and was arrested in the petent authority, and Tam Kam- The Collections at yesterday's augmentation In the medical, Western Market. services are for the Alice Memor- health and social welfare services.! fal Hospital and other affiliated Instead, while rents for bed hospitals in the Diocease and as spaces and cubicles have risen and auch a part of it will be sent to overcrowding of tenements has at Kunming for the urgent work to tained alarming proportions, and be done there.
while the cost of staple foods of the masses has increased by at
THE ADDRESS
Addressing the congregation, Dr. Selwyn-Clarke said:-
Today we are celebrating Hos-
POSSESSION OF ARMS
UNLICENSED WIRELESS SET
Kam Kam-fu, 51, wireless opera- tor, charged with possession of wireless apparatus at No. 83, Prince Edward Road without license or permission from com-
woo, 26, clerk, Wong. Wat and Chau Wing-pan, 20, salesman, On the application of Sub Insp charged with aiding and abetting, Cunningham a remand of 72 hours appeared before Mr. E Hims- Was granted when Tong Fung-worth on Saturday and was again cheung," 33: unemployed was remanded until this morning. charged before Mr. Barnett on! The first and third defendants Saturday with possession of one were each allowed $2,000 automatic pistol and four rounds while the other two accused were of ammunition-without a licence granted $500 ball.
least 50 per centum in the past two years or so, daily earnings of the bulk of the population have remained stationary or have ac- Oct. 17. pital Sunday, the nearest Sunday tually fallen-less scrupulous em-
INEVITABLE HESULT
on
MURDER CHARGE
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Another man, Kwok Yu,...25, wireless operator, who Waa reated in connexion with the
was
ar-
to Saint Lake's Bay, on October ployers "having taken advantage Appearing before Mr. OT Lowry 18. You may remember that St. of the surplus labour available on Saturday Chan Tal-tau, 46, offence, was also remanded until Luke is referred to in the, New amongst the several hundred described as being unemployed, was this morning. He
granted Testment as "Luke, the Beloved thousand refugees.
remanded 72 hours on a charge of ball $2,000. Physician." It is, understandable
murder.
Mr. M.A da Silva will appear that he was early regarded as the
Chan is charged with having for the first. second and fourth patron saint of physicians and of The inevitable result of this murdered a Chinese by the name defendants. the sick.
combination of circumstances, is of stu Muk on the roof of the JEALOUS HUSBAND FINED He Was a Greek, possibly from that there are more, men, women Tin Yin Yat Po newspaper firm. That the complainant was firt- Macedonia, and from his langu- and children sleeping the situated at the junction of Des ing around with his wife was age and thought was obviously a street pavements or in insanitary Voeux Road Central and Douglas the plea given by Chan Sang, man of culture. He went with hovels, on roots of houses and in Street on Oct. 9
tailor, 28, when charged before. Saint Paul on some of his mis-stairways than ever before.
Det.-Sub-Insp J. O'Donovan is Mr. Himsworth on Saturday with sionary journeys and to Rome, This situation, obtains in
In charge of the case
assaulting Sun Tak-shing, 37, and was, in fact; with him to the
coolle, + end Hospital Sunday is observed in order that emphasis may be! laid on the Christian doctrine and practice of the care of the sick.
I should like to read the third i verse of the ninth chapter of "the St. Joha Gospel according to which clearly negatives the Old Testament view that sickness arises from sin. "Master, who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" Jesus answered neither hath this man sinned nor his parents."
PROBLEM OF SICKNESS
spite of the repeated nightly visits of a Medical Department ambulance to collect women and children from the streets and to offer them shelter in the camps erected by tho Hongkong Government in Its attempt to cope, in a small way at any
rate, with the situation.
MARKET ASSAULT
When Liu Yat, 34, unlicensed The complainant was a "distant hawker, pleaded guilty to assault- relation of Chan's wife and was ing Fok Mul 20, woman, at the: a frequent visitor of the family. 18 the Lockhart Road Market, about 9.30 Op the evening of Oct. p.m. on Oct. 18, Det.-Sgt. Morrison complainant went to a show with
Sheldon to take
defendant's wife. asked Mr.
When they serious view of the case as such came back the defendant was so assaults by market people were furious that he picked up a Then again, there are many getting very common"
chopper and assaulted the com plainant, who received injuries to the arm and the back.
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more persons living in the Colony In his outline of the case, Sgt. who cannot buy enough food to Morrison said that complainant keep them in reasonable health approached defendant's" stall to
The accused was fined $5 and and to prevent themselves from inquire about the price of shrimps. bound over in the sum of $5 for falling victims to acute infectious She was told 20 cents a catty, six months. diseases like cholera, dysentery and, picking up a few, was told WATCHMAN CHARGED
of their responsibilities to hu- manity by adopting the attitude
· MASS OVERCROWDING
"
that it is no business of theirs The foregoing very brief and
*** GIRL BEATEN
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I think that it is rather im- any typhold or to other illnesses that the price was ten cents. Charged with impersonating a portant that we should try to which take longer to kill the suf- When she counter-offered seven police officer and stealing. $5 from study the problem of sickness terer like, for example, tuber-cents, defendant picked up the around us from the correct angle. culosis." beri beri, pellagra and shrimps and threw them at her: Argyle Street on October 18. HO a Chinese Fan Ming-hing at There is a tendency sometimes, similar conditions which bear a tace and mouth. She spat them Tim, 30, watchman, appeared be- for less thoughtful people to en- fairly close resemblance to sheer back at him.
Liu then struck fore Mr. Himsworth on Baturday deavour to unburden themselves starvation.
complainant on the nose, causing for a remand of 48 hours in Police ner total),
custody: L Imposing a fine of $100. in de- It was stated that the defen- and, in any case, the majority of incomplete description brings me Worship told the defendant that he was a police officer and search- fault two months' hard labour, bis dant told the complainant that those who are sick suffer from by logical sequence, to the results praventible conditions which could of this overcrowding and under- it was a very serious matter to ed him near the railway station have been avoided had the suffer-feeding on a mass scale. Need.ess assault anyone. er not been so careless or im to say the victims of this regret- provident. There are. I know, table combination often fall l Appearing before Mr. Lowry on, none here this morning who share and need hospital care, even if this viewpoint.
only to allow them to die in com: On the contrary, I have only to parative peace, It all the strenu look round to see that there areous efforts of the doctors and very many present who are act-nurses ministering to them vely devoting their lives to care insufficient to drag them from the for the tick and, needy. On the jaws' of death. other hand, there are those be yond the walls of this cathedral who are prone to turn a deaf ear" to appeals for personal service in one form or another; and it is my hope and belief that you will do your best" to secure a change of heart in such persons.
say
- KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
Here, in Hongkong, there are a thousand and one ways, in which all of us can do our share in bringing about a better state of affairs than exists at present. It is only fair. In the first instance, that we should know what the problem
Knowledge is
are
Those of you who have worked in the Government and "Chinese group of public hospitals in Hongkong minist Sürely have been impressed by their sadly overcrowded condi- tions, whether affecting those actually admitted or those with minor illnesses or wounds
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st-Argyle Street," "He"" found $80 Gadnean currency (amp»55% Hung- kong currency on the complain.. Saturday, a 50-year-old widow, ant and took away the latter, Chan Fing-na, of No 86, Welling- KO SNATOREW GAOLED› top Street, charged with illtreat-
So Yiu appeared before Mr. ing a 13-year-old cunt was sen-
Macfadyen on Saturda tended to two months' hard labour. charge of larceny of a handbag Insp. H.W. Fraser, of the B.CA from a woman at the stop who prosecuted, said about 10.30
*Flue Taxicab, Nathan near the p.m. on Oct. 12 a police sergeant Rosa, on Oct. 18. saw a Chinese girl crying in
Defendant pleaded guilty. Calne Road. When approached the girl said that she had been beaten was sentenced to four months' and bruises were found all over hard labour. her body...
MENDICANT BOUND OVER :: „The girl was taken to the Cen- Ah 80 year old "woman, ~ Wong tral Police Station and later to Klu was charged with begging
pus
and
who deserve to be admitted-Queen Mary Hospital for treat at Nathan Road on October 18.
ment.,
Before Mr. Macfadyen un --- Satur-
but have to be treated as out- The girl was beaten with a day?" patients.
wooden clog and a feather duster Remarking that arrangements Owing to pressure on space the because someone matched. 98 cents would be made for her to go into remainder of the address will be from her while she was purchas a refugee camp his Worship published in our issue, tomorrowing vegetables in the Western bound defendant over in the sum
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Market.
The evening service at St. John's. Defendant stated she scolded Cathedral yesterday was conduct-the girl because the girl stole some ed by the Rev. AP Rose. Mr. R. clothing and money from a fellow To many of you what I have to Rees was the preacher. Special tenant appear trite, and you may prayers were sala for the sick in may
power,
of $5
"BURGLAR SENTENCED Leung Kwong, 31, was charged before" Mr. Macfadyen on Saturday at with larceny of 10 yards of elec
Medical evidence was given by triesire from No: 63 Tal Nan
Hospital
be just as familiar as myself with continuation of the Hospital Sun-Dr. Vargasoff, of Queen Mary Bureth the mass of avoidable suffering day celebrations.
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