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Ampèrics has some special war preparation problems of her own, of the health of the huge embryo army pul under training at dif-
One of them is the conservation
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPI
BRITISH GUNNERS:
DAY
SUPPRESSED KAISER INTERVIEW.
England To Lose
Large
Colantes."
of the
of the
interview
像
1018.
RACECOURSE - DISASTER. masheds in 1904. He believed SHIP'S OFFICER'S DEATH,
mau,
to
600
there were two-sridi matzbeda. When he was-· Building | Authority he did not know
of
congested. The cause of death he sbought was some irritant or cor- rosive poisoning. The symptoms
He did not know of any other
come threa thonmand acces, and secondly an area of ten thousand sorea for training ground. “One of the special problems was the
The Enquiry Resumed. To-day, eradication of malaria, requiring
What They Have Faced.
if the abeda. were used for anah Enquiry at the Magistrac the extermination of Anopheles
The tale of what our gunnars
The enquiry into the sad calas sweeps. He did not know whether mosquitoes over an area of seventy.
trophe which occurred at the poles wars inserted in the ground; here have faced and done USD square miles, in all of which were never be told or understood; but
Racecourse, Happy Valley, on it had nothing to do with him. Before Me, Dysr Ball, at the enormous and prolific breeding
February 26, was continued at He knew the Tea Hop firm. They Magistracy this afternoon, an en places for the mosquito. With if only a tithe of it could be zade
Court to-day, bad done a considerable amount quiry was held into the circam- America's characteristic swiftness plain Britain would be se proud
New York, Dec., 17. The New (the Police and thoroughness; the task was fit so of anything in all her York Tribune publishes long being conducted by Mr. J. E of work. He had always been stances attending the death of a So writes Mr. P. and prominent article about the Wood, soting sa Coroner. The satisfied with the work. The firm Datoh ship'e officer named undertaken. There was an ex- history."
following jarymen were also pre- would not have gone on working Michael Van de Patie, who was haustive carvey of practically Robinson, the special correspond suppressed interview
ent every aquare yard of that seventy on the Western front, I donei Hale, the American writer, in (foreman) J. H. Wallace, and satisfied with their work. Whst Waericke, which took place on of the London Times, Kainer with Me. William Bayard Mera A. R. Barlow for him if he had not been Chief Officer of the as Van
· ferent points throughout a con- |miles, Dr. Blue states --- know how it it possible to do July 1998. The interview was Mr. M. K. Lo appeared on be the sheds was his difficulty in poisoning.
atruck him when he went through March 22ad, preromably from W. O. Jack. timent. Some facts recently mada
"It was necessary to drain justice to the work of our guns suppressed at the time by the half a number of Chinese who lost finding a way oat. He had to publis “by Dr. Bapert........ Blue,
Mr. Leo Longinotto appeared Sargeon-General, United States equito-breeding pools, abonnel and gunners in these battles. In strenuous efforts of the German Pablis Health Service, uske plein ailing or otherwise, many places fails to explain how largely suc set for publication by the Century L. Bowley represented the con- There was either more poles or D'Almads for Dr. Ton Toon-
water courses, and eliminate, by describing any attack, one never authorities, although it had been relatives in the disaster; Mr. F. B. call a man to ask the way out for the Crown, and Mr. F the taak. He gives an example not espable of such treatment, or, cess is due to the excellence of Magasins.
tractor, Tee Hok, who built the more bracing this year than cheng. of the kind of conditions which if this was not possible to destroy our barrage, nor could suy attack
matsheda; Mr. D. V. Stevenson last. In the model the upper Mr. E. B. Dovey, Government had to be combated. He says the larvas by careful "ailing at hope for success without the pre despite German efforts,
The Tribune asserts that, appeared for the lessees of the floor seemed to be properly analyst, stated that be made an "In one of the northern canton least once in every seven days liminary work of the artillery, copy
008 Unity Stand. Mr. G. H. Wake carried, Cross bracing at one examination of contenta ment areas, located in one of during the mosquito breeding which nowadays is generally so exists, and proves that the also present,
Orowa
iwo Solicitor, "was or
points in the deceased's stomach. The stomach the richest and most thickly season. Every case of malariat overwhelming. But when the portions of the interview which
row of sheds should have been and intestines were very populated States in the Union, the fever had to be recognised advance actually begins, the leaked out were right in the main Director of Public Works, said against a lateral thrdes.
The Hon. Mr. W. Chatham, enough to support the whole row much infilsmed. These Warg The examined for cantharidin and report of the preliminary survey promptly and reported, screened splendid behaviour of our in-pointe, despite strong and socept that with regard to his evidence floors were beautifully laced to afterwarde for other poisons. No showed that the city was absolute- and treated; and the general fantry inevitably dominates all ed denisla. While refraining given at the last sitting he was take the strain to resist the cantharidin or other poisons were ly unprepared to house the in public, by educational measures, else.
from publishing the fall inter not satisfied with one statement thrust. The structure of the roof found. The conclusion as regard- oreses in labouring population had to be induced to screen their It is the gallantry and steadiness view, the Tribums gives the he had made. The statement would help in the strengthening ed cantharidin was much more dee during the construction period of houses and porches, and, where of the infantry that must in the points, the canton 116.
The Chinese con- faite than the others. Cantharidin The city had no necessary, to take quinine in last resort win the battle. With
he referred to was when being of each shed. building code. When the hordes amali doms at regular intervals.” out them there is no viotory. Bai
The summery of the interview, cross examined by Mr. Lo Mr. tractors were very clever also at was easily decomposed by other of workmen began coming into Public to operation was enlist the few glorious hours of infantry which was given on the rachi Lo made a statement to which he taking advantage of every bit of sabetances.
He received from the town many of the people bead. Addresses were made in the advance are made possible only by the following pointa :—
Hohenzollern of Bergen, inclades assented, bat he misunderstood strutting.
Sergeant Cockle fcar battles, gan taking roomers, and the various clabe in the City Council the no less glations, if less specta
the question. His did not intend. Witness, continuing said, the three of which contained powders poorer portion of the city becème and at the moving pictare calar, weeks of labour by the
That King Edward, had been to say that he agreed that the best sheds had been built for 28 years and the other liquid. In the overcrowded; men were quartered theatres. In the busiest corner guns. That is the great burden humiliating the Kaiser for more precautions against fire in a mat without sooident of soy kind. bottle of liquid was one grain of in lofte in some in-tances there of the city there was an exhibi- which the gunner has to bear than two years, that he was ex- shed were sproper number of exits. They had been erected under the cantharidin.
j. were two or three men in a bedtion in large model of the mos- burden which is increased & asperated that Germany was the He thought the best precaution various besde of the Department
In answer to Mr. Langinotto, and several beds in a room; quito in its various forms of hundred fold by weather such as paramount power in Europe, and was an instant supply of water, without say critician. There had Mr. Dovey said that for bathing facilities were entirely development. Twenty thousand we are having now. He gets no that England was trying to There was another matter he never bees sny question ofdengan ordinary strong mans fatal dose wished to refrz to, and that was Letters were received daily and would be about a quarter of a lacking or inadequase; ventila- cireulara af advice were printed. rest. In periods of what we neutralise that power. tion was notably beart. The and one bang in every house in know as quiet, the guns thunder That he held-France in the traction of there masheds was papers made comments and these.
in 1902 the file dealing with the considered. Moreover, the news- geol was so overcrowded that the Country. Ten thousand unceasingly night and day." I hollow of his band, and Bussis referred to the Captain Super comments were considered. Hong intendent of the Government Dr. Woodman, Assistant Super- frequently four men were placed small circulars were handed out told in a recent despatch of the was of no account since the intendant of Police, Hr. Baddeley kong contained a very large Civil Hospital, said deceased. in a single cell.”
with rent receipts, and these strain upon the guns, and how, Japanese war. Here is a other picture from a aircalars dealt not only with mos- by the quality of the weapons
It was referred by the Colonial number of trained architecte That its pan European war Secretary to him. With regard and
As admitted on March 21, He engineers who always Southern city which had to be quite danger, but slao with other themselves, by the care and was inevitable the sooner it came to this question of regulations, the gave their assistance. It had brought, a note with him from dealt with in connection with matters. All milk producers in the admirable work of the gunners, the better, because he was ready P.W.D. was the Department been
Dr. Hareton. It was stated that Peid there were. not vicinity of Little Rock were called and by the unremitting labour of sad tired of the suspense; "Only 47 per cent of the to a meeting by the Board of the mobile ordaince workshops,
chiefly concerned with the erect eufficient exite, but evidence was suffering from a corrosive
Baid, population was supplied with city Commerce, and were impressed they endure much beyond the ent ustion since the victory in therefore might be
probaby cantharadin. That Britain had been a decad-ion of these matsheds, and bad showa that if there had been He was in 8 stato of water. The milk supply was with the precautions they must limit of what in all former waca South Africa, because bars was an ed
expect more exits it was possible they obtained from ten small, grossly take. Protically the whole com was thought possible. But how anrighteous and ungodly osuse; galations existed. This was the ing. He thought that perhaps the next moring. Witness made
the that re-might here weakened the build-ullapse and there was a big blister on his tongue, He died insanitary dairies, located in the munity mited with the author- is one to measure the strain upon vity itself or in its immediate |ities, local and Federal, in stamp- the men?
That the Anglo-Japanese daty of the government at large. the collapse was caused owing to s post mortem examination and "outskirts. All the ice-cream was ing out dangers which might im-
alliance as iniquitous against Mr. A. H. Hallingsworth, an internal bresking, possibly as "The reader at a distance per-all white races, and the only way officer in charge of the Water a result of bad timber, or weak found the intestines and kidneys- manufactured under dangerously peril the health of the soldiers. →insanitary conditions. - There was That is the kind of thing which only as he may have seen them on and America to act together at Chatham's evidence with regard action.
haps can imagine guns inflamed no inspection, enpervision or is going on all over the United some battleship at practice, or an early date; regulation of the city's single States. One of the functions of from the solid peaceful embra
to the water eapply. He thought. In continuing his statement That Bagiand would lose many it might be added that there was after tiffio,Mr.Perkins said that he in the heart of the city without collect data referring to the press pictured in old battle pictures Pacific, all the Kaiser would take at No. 2 Station. There was on weakness in the sheds. Looking irritant poisoning which would restriction. Mosquito-breeding valence of commanmable disease, anding ranged in orderly row, for Germany would be Egypt, Overseer apon whom the Fire at a plan witness stated that there flourished. Melaria, typhoid, and and these reports are received on pleasant gras amid a pastoral though he would liberate the Holy Brigade might call, but their were several points where bracingJan Jacob Classen, dysentery were of common oc daily at headquarters from landscape, firing at visibly mass Land from the yoke of the infidel; services were
all parts of the country. Reed ranks of the enemy before
not requested.might have been put in, to add of the In both of these onsee vest im-gistration arese have
been them. Try, instead, to visualise Zappelina would give Germany laid would have been able to cope bracing did not seem bad. Witness deceased was Chief Officer, said
That the perfecting of the Practically no main that had been strength. Generally apesking the provements in the conditions have established in order that steps those battlefields with the endless already been made, and many of may be taken in stamping our expanse of grey-brown slime sad
a powerfal war advantage. with a matched fire snob as went on to demonstrate his the Chief Engineer told him the objections to the localities disease among the orvilian popo-sagnant water, across which oured the Roman Catholic Church.
The Kaiser also bitterly attack the one at Happy Valley. theory of the fall,saying that it was (witness) that decessed had taken Br. Bowley: He had a probably a local fall of flooring Boad. Witnesa Ister as dessa sei antharadin at No. 12, Hollywood have been obliterated by prompt lation before it has opportunity batteries are pushed forward with The Tribune in the introduction clerk in his office named Chan which precipitated a crowd to one ed, who was not very bad, and sation. Dr. Blue states: to spread to the troops or gain incredible difficulty and where to the article states that the Kaiser Sik-U, hat he had heard nothing point. If the sheds had been
"The first step was to make foothold in the cantonment com every round of ammunition to ! rapid preliminary surveys in each|munity.
the forward field gone must yacht when he talked to Mr. Hale, cut.
Bested on the deck of the from him of the lashings being weak generally he would have a laughing. He said he had taken cantharadin and that it expected the sidea to have balged, had been given him by the ships area to determine existing condi- Dr. Blue says: "With this sometimes be packed on human His Majesty talked long-for tions, the additional memenres organisation we are laying the backs; for no male or pony can two hours. He had dined well but newspaper in which it was said must have been a local weakness, doctor that deceased had said he
Mr. Bowley produced a Obinets which they did not do,
doctor. Witness" told the ship's and organisation which would be foundation for permanent impro- get over the sodden, shell-torn not wisely, and his words came that this clerk had seen men
By Mr. Bowley: Tas building (the doctor) had given him the required to exercise adequate vement of public health. In each ground. There is no shelter for with a rash, and they had a sting going with knives to eat the of sheds Nos. 3rd 9 as one and staff, and the doctor replied that sanitary control, and the extent of the places where the public gaus or gunners, either from to them. He was an Emperor, lashings. to which State and 'loesl resources health service is now conducting weather or enamy fire. A brigade but more than that he was &
would have added strength and were available to accomplish this, ite operations, a strong and en-socamander is lucky if he has a human being, and as all human Bowley, said he was away at the have acted sa a strut. The arose that depessed had the "D Tan Witases, in answer to Mr. the staircase at the back would not possible to get sa sias with sach & medicins and Hard For this purpose survey parties, daring health machine is being dag-out for his skiff headquarters. beings are wont at times to do, time of the disaster. He did not bracing in this ahed was such as Witness thought deceased wo consisting of commissioned built up. If out of this awful Of rest in its true sense, of he was nabardening his heart, know if anyone had rang up and to make the shed very secure. medical officers, sanitary en-labour of war, a strong public changing of clothes, or any telling what was on his mind, asked for more pressure. The
always's sober man. By Mr. Wakeman:-In judging gineers, epidemiologists, and health sentiment for the entire comfort, there is none.
The Chief Engineer said he scientific resistants, were hastily nation can be born, then will our "The real mivel of what our ling his hatreds."
venting long pens up spleen, air clerks had orders to set on the whether athed was safe or not he went to the house in Hollywood instractions of anyone. When a had to judge the whole of the Road and as deceased and a girl thrown into the field. The sacrifioes not have been in vain." gunners are doing, and have magnitude of this single operationFrank Dilaot in the Daily done, is not any measure of the view was suppressed through the Brigade was not consulted. There shed could have been taken sgurl was crying and said she had New York, Dec. 17. The inter fire hydrant was put in, the Fire sheds as one building. If one lying on a bed vomiting. The may be sensed when it is realised Chronicle,
courage which they exhibit in efforts of the German Foreign was 8. plsa showing the positions something else would have had to facing danger, superb though Office, Hale offered it to the of fire hydrants. He did not be pissed in its place. He been poisoned, and the deceased that may be, but it lies in the New York Times but was forestall think, however, that the Fire thought that the price of $1,670 enormous physical and nervous ed by the German Embassy and Brigade had a copy of this plan. for all the eheda was a fair one. strain to which they are subjected, the paper refused it. in which smaller bodies of troops
He did not know if there was any Dr. Macfarlane also gave I can give no figures, of course, are to be collected, and that in
The Century Magazine paid mark showing the size of the main evidence... esch instance these surveys, of
*Extraodinary sa it may seem in or oa I be explicit as to facis, $200 for it, and it was printed Frequent tests of fire hydrants Mr. C. Sara, recalled, was come quarters, there are some the enemy to inference, as to faslly suppressed when the mente for extra pressure at the said he did notice that the floors | leet something said should help and ready for publication, but were carried out. The arrange questioned by His Worship and necessity, covered several hun- dred square miles."
thing more important than rs, our gun power and the methods Century owners were convinced City Hall were made prior to of the sheds were on different Practically all the cities and So thinks Mr. Justice Ebden. At
Baya the Singapore Free Press. of handling our
artillery of by German diplomate in the 1900. No each arrangements levels. The plan of the sheds districts concerned extered en the Acsisse, when the asses to be one kind or another. It mast United States that it might cause existed at the present time... thusiatically into the work of this heard were under consideration, moved into the line and wish-
(produced) seemed to him to be Lieut. Jones, B.G.A, was sum» suffice to say that no guns ́sIO WAT.
Pte. F.&. Barroughs, of the correct He formed his own moned before Hr. Dyer Hall, at health, copservation, and it was his lordship said that if necessary drawn in the same rotation as the again wanted so print "it, but before he joined the Army he was at the back was sufficient for driving a motor cycle along not an easy task, for there were the court would eit late on some
Later, in 1814, the Century Middlesex Regiment, said that opinion that the cross bracing the Police Court this morning, financial difficulties to overcome, days. No question of drills (of infantry. All the gune here Bezastori was horrified at its professional photographer and Having in mind all the the Praya Eset and not giving as well as the obstacles in the the jurors) would be taken than any infantry, and some in particularly of Italy and Austris, at the tims of the disaster. All sheds were quite sound. LaAn Indian constable' was the chief sotaal work of organisation. The into account. In the afternoon,
longer spells of work in the line possible effect on the Catho lice, took the photographs, produced, conditions he thought that the foient warning of nie spproach. scope of tom operation can be when the jury in the gang rob comparably longer than others. and the magazine withheld pab the photographs of the fire were ordinary buildings haalways saw witness, and, after a long hearing. gathered from the fact that cities bery case, a little before toure gunnere bave often to face lication after President Wilson's taken from the same spot-Col. s plan at the works, but he saw his Worship inposed a fine of having a military population of o'clock, were retiring to consider spells of work which would, neatrality stand.
Ward's box..
no plan for the sheds.
He $10, Lieut. Jones objected to from 40,000 to 80,000 have been their verdint, his lordship exhort-in any cirommaliances, test human. It is expected that the inter-
Me T, L. Perkins, Assistant thought he was able to pass the decision and intimated that trated in a few weeks; that the ed them to take plenty of time, endurance to the uttermost, bat view will be fully published in Director of Public Works, said he building for its stability without be would be engaging solicitor inhabitants of these new raised and not to hurry their decisionconditions such as those which the faters-Exchange, passed through the matcheda the a plan. He based his opinion of and applying for a re-hostinga cities have been brought from because some of them had to go to prevail here now, the shinge they
Bunday week, he believed, before the stability of the sheds on hisĮ every corner of the Union, sad drill. There are things which have to do, the strain they stand,
the Roces, though he did not visit own general knowledge-a com that many of them, in spite of are of more consequence then the spirit and cheerfulness with
them with the intention of inspec mon sense: view. He had no ing them
work on, like figuras to A Splendid Result,
By Mr. BowleyHe was in in ordinary buildings. He Presiding at the annual meet- The concert on behalf of the charge of the building authority never raised any protesting of the Newcastle Brewerien orphaze of the Portuguese victims office from 1004 to 1911 at having to pass the sheds, and (Limited), at Newcastle, Mr. £y in a Day Er Begging labourers, and their families, and The Borneo Government re
Lovibond said that through the An old man who was charged who perished in the Racecourse and during those years he took it as part of his daty. those who inevitably follow in cently sent some Dasan tobacco at the South-Western Palice-court, disater given by Professor Danen isened permits for the building By Mr. Wakeman: Be had action of the Government, boer had the train of armies. Ewon of the to Hongtong for manufacture. It with begging, had over 42 in his berg and his pupils realised of the Racecourse mataheds. He been a building inspector under established its place se cantonment sones presents an was returned in the form of possesion, and told the officer $1,100, which has been banded inspected them on several boos District Council in England, ary food, and har individual problem.
cigarettes which at ten cents per who arrested him that he had over to the
member, bat
weeded for temporary build- deprived of it wit expenses having been Ha did not
was that inen or platforma. ment at Little Rock, Arkaness, Favourable opinions were ex“People are very good to me," he borne by Professor Danenberg his improm
of views which no Ga somprised årst of all of a tract of" pressed by smokers,
himmali, explained.
theme-storied 1: The mistiry la proowding.
abattoir. Stables were conducted the Public Health Service is to sarea in some coast fortress, or large colentes, especially in the a turnecck-permanently atstioned did not know there was a line of "ggested cantharadin poisoning.
currence."
"
that for the army alone there are 16 national army cantonmenta
and 16 national guard campe, in
Judge and Drills.
addition to many military zones
the utmost precaution, carry in drills," concluded the judge.
their bodice the esneal agents of
disease; and that existing towDA "near cantonments andderly, re
Fceive a large inflar of artisans,
Manufactured in Hongkong.
which they carry on, are almost super-human."
M
There
Osptain
vessel on which
very angry with the doctor. He said to him; "You have givan" me the wrong stuff”.
The enquiry was adjourned.
Here is a sample, The canton packet of 30 sold of in two days, taken 65 the previous day's all the fortuguese Cansal, sions, but not each year, but did not know whether plans drin
there" were
A Lieutenant Fined.
Beer & Food.