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from firos, plagues, and other
pestilence, must continue, and
the only thing to be done is to | wait until they disappear in the course of time. That, of course, will unfortunatoly not be for a good number of years to come. So the idea of Hongkong boing fully rid of rats or plague is ons of those oxcollent visions which are probably likely to remain merely visionary.
DAY BY DAY.
THROUGH MUCH ENDURING COME THINGS THAT CANNOT BE ENDURED.-Latin proverb.
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The opening rate of the dollar on domand to day is 26. 4.7/16d.
A meeting of the Board of Education will be held on Wed- pesday
Capt. Frod Smith, of the Steam- boat Company, was a passenger. from Australia yesterday. on the 8.8. Changte which arrived.
In its general summary, the report of this Plague Prevention Service discloses the great amount
Sir Robert Ho Tung had the of work which it, and associated R H, the Prince of Wales at St. honour of being received by H.
interests, are doing for the James's Palace on October 23rd. elimination of disease in the East and in the world generally. In fections like plague, cholera, and smallpox, are international, and their prevention long, long ago built up a league of nations, to
The late Rav. Geoffery Gart-
age, Saxthorpe, Norfolk, formerly sido-Tippinge, of Saxthorpe Vicar-
of the China Inland Mission, left
2,310 (not personalty £2,459).
The late Mr. Guy Francis
SPECIFICATIONS AND PRICES which the different countries Hamilton Acheson (61), of Peking,
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MONDAY, NOV. 30, 1925.
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roport
THE LATE QUEEN.
· SCOTTISH PARADE.
contribute the best scientific China, formerly Commissioner
statue Chinoso Maritimo Customs, left brains thoy possess. China, and ostate in this country valued at the East generally, is fortunato £1,084.
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in having a man like the distin-
The later Mr. George Moore guished Dr. Wu Lien-tch at the
(73), of Bryndhurst, Mulgrave- head of plague prevention affairs. road, Button, Surrey, late of the Other Far Eastern countries are) Hongkong and Shanghai Banking also contributing their quota, and Corporation, loft £6,510 (net por-- in this Japan has come pro-1
sopalty £5,297).
minently to the fore in recent Fines of $15 in each case were years. It all augurs well for the imposed at the Marino Court to- future of health welfare in this boate who were alleged to be day on the masters of four cargo
part of the world, the importance under way without carrying re- of which was realised by the gulation lights, League of Natioris when it recently established its reporting centro at Singapore. In porhaps only a few years it might bo possible to speak of the East in terms of health equally with wes-
It is hoped that there will be a torn lands, and some of the chief menaces to residenco in the tro-the A. D. C's production of
full house at the opening night of A pics be placed in the category of Little Bit of Fluff," as the whole history, to be spoken of a century of the proceeds that evening will hence much as we recall the go to the M-1 disaster fund. Great Plague of Europe of the
There are points in the of the North Manchurian Plague Provention Service for the past your, just issued, which deserve special study, and in which Hong- kong is particularly concerned. Dealing principally with bubonic plague, the report includes a table of cases all over the world that: shows how the disease fluctuates middle zgos. in different seasons. One year some region is free, then it has over a thousand cases, and so
fort. In India, whore plague is
A Great Work.
If there is one institution more
than another which commands the practical sympathy of
During the week-end thero have been notified two casos of small-pox (one Indian and one Chinese, both imported), and one Chinese case auch of diphtheris |
and typhoid fever.
KILTED VOLUNTEERS AT
UNION CHURCH."
PASTOR ON CHINA'S PROBLEM.
About a hundred members of the Scottish section of the Volunteers, under the command of Capt. J. F. Ross, attended their annual church parade yesterday, at the Union Church, Kennedy Road, and it was an altogether Impressive ceremony, The company assembled at Volun- teor Headquarters, and marched to the church headed by the pipe, band, Old Scottish hymns were specially included in the service,
Preaching on the subject of nationalism and internationalism, the pastor, the Rev. J. Kirk Maconachis, after referring to the fine citizen service embodied in the Volunteer movement, touched o the question of nationality and Ite pitfalls for those who overdid their manifestations of patriotismo. the course of his address, he men- tioned the spirit of local patriotism
In
Above picture shows the of the late Queen Alexandra in Statue Square with wreaths placed at the base on Friday last by Hong- kong residents and associat-which is still manifest in the Bri
ions,
The Bishop of Victoria (Dr. The magistrate of Fa Yuon ro- ported to the Canton Government Duppuy) is here seen with his that the officer in charge of the
chaplain about to enter St. Jolm's Cathedral for the suppression of banditry in that district war waylaid while on his memorial service to the late way to his village home, and shot. on Mother on Friday last
(Photo: Meo Cheung). The Bishop of Victoria, Hong- kong, has appointed the Rev. N. Saviour's, Croydon, to be his
tish Isles and Colonies-from the healthy rivalries of counties to the joy of men who meet, in a far land and find they are from the same district of the home country. This wide, and splendid, spirit had arisen from the narrow feuds of a few countries ago, when even neigh- bouring villages were at logger heada. Unfortunately, in the world to-day there still existed the primi- tive idea of nationalism which was poisonous and disruptive.
Much of this unfortunate side of the matter could be traced to the Great War. The sincerely inaugur ated principle of self-determination for weaker peoples had become ac centuated in bitter manifestations; so that instead of having a better. world to-day, they had one of mis- understandings and International suspicions. It was to be hoped that it would not be so for ever.
Against all these prejudices was the teaching that God had made of one every nation of men, to dwell on the face of the earth. It was necessary to distinguish between the unfortunate manifestation of
antagonism and the spirit of proper
never absent, the numberofdeaths Britishers the world over, a8-V... Halward, M.C., curate of St. (DENISHAWN DANCERS, Idirected into wrong channels. But ranges from under 9,000 to nearly suredly it is St. Dunstan's. On 38,000 within two years. For Saturday we published a few of diocesan chaplain. Mr. Halward Hongkong, at one timed blamod tenth annual report of this will sail for Hongkong on Dec. 18. |
to infect large numbers. everyone now
the many facts disclosed in tho!
the convalescent
annere
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SOME GLOWING TRIBUTES.
And
"Whatever may be said to the
men at large toward the Chinese
nationalism. This latter. WAS * term much abused, and an ider which only too easily could be
truo patriotism, the love of countr was above criticism. Christian doctrines were not Inconsistent for disseminating a great deal of beneficent organisation, and wo
with proper nationalism-It was the infection to other ports, the would now lay stress on
The Denishawn Dancers, who their hope that through the teaching a fow Shipping in Hongkong was statistics are very striking. We other points culled from the re-fairly brisk over the week-end, come to the Queen's Theatre on of the Founder of the Faith the cord of work done during the past there being nineteen arrivals and Tuesday for one night only, have warring races of man would be have 1,181 cases in 1922, 148 in ten years. It was at first thought twenty departures. There were been the subjects of undiluted brought together in reconciliation 1923, and none whatever in 1924. that when the war ended, there 60 vessels in port at nine a.m. praise wherever they have appeared. and peace,
One American writer enys:
Speaking particularly of Chinese If we judge by the usual fluctu- would be a diminishing need for to-day and exactly half of that ations, it might be expected that work, but that hopo has been
"Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn are nationalism, and the terms of exag- the continuance of St. Dunstan's number were British.
a notable pair who have, as much zerated "patriotiam contained in within a few years this port will falsified by the fact that since Sir Robert and Lady Ho Tung, ae anybody in this country, demons-an anonymous letter he had re eguín have a big number of plague the Armistico no fewer than 740 says a Home paper, recently left trated that art, to be the authentic calved from a Chinese in England, mon have been admitted to the 45. Cadogan-gardens, and are product, need not be brought to us Mr. Maconachie gald they all would cases to record, yet it appears institution, whilst to-day there staying at the Alexandra Hotel, from the dominions beyond the soas, hope to see the Chinese people possible that measures can be are in training at the head- Hyde Park Cornar. Sir Robert Their dancing comes very close to rise to their possibilities and taken that will prevent the origin quarters, or awaiting vacancies at had the honour of being received the line of true perfection; they become qualified for the honourable at by Mr. Winston Churchill last have trained a noble band of place in the family of nations which of the disease in the Colony, Brighton, no fewer than 103 suf-month.
dancers scarcely less skilled than in the course of nature and pro- whilst suppressing any imported forere. Some idea of the groat
themselves and they have, above all,vidence lay before them. cases before they have been able work of mercy which St. Messrs. Carroll Bros. are in re-the heaven-sent instinct for in He concluded:-
Dunstan's has carried out may ceipt of a cable from Singapore teresting their audiences. As also be gathered when it is notifying that the Raub Aus- knows, rats pointed out that over 2,000 men tralian Gold Mining Co., Ltd, hes they are Americans, of whom this contrary the mind of our country-
are prime more than two full battalione) declared a dividend of 5%, which land may be very proud."
have been given the rower to is believed to be the first paid Another writer says of the com- people has been one of kindly feel- factors in plague dissemination, achieve a measure of victory over since 1910. These shares have pany "Their creations are more ing and goodwill. We have there- through the fleas that carry the the great handicap of blindness, jumped from $4.00 to $6.50 buyers, than graceful rhythmic motions, fore inevitably felt deeply wronged. gorms, and the main principle of which has restored to them a with no sellors at present. They are dramas, poignant and pro-and grieved at finding our country.
found. capacity for productive work
They portray the most singled out as the object of peculiar previously thought beyond the Passengers due to arrive in subtle shades of human emotion, ill-will, and all the woes of Chinese Much has been done here in past realms of possibility. It is a Hongkong on the Kutori Maru, The women of the dance are by laid at its door. years to improve the conditions truly wonderful record which St. which sailed from London on turns graceful, alluring; then Let us trust that truth and wis- that formerly existed, Old double much as it has done, more revor Mr. L. Demeure, Miss F.scious of youth's allure; now two people so essentially sane os Dunstun's has to its credit, but, October 24, include Miss M. Car- innocently youthful and uncon-dom will prevail, as, in the case of coilings, and NA forth, are mains to be accomplished in the Dodwell, Mr. and Mrs. W. Mac- passionate in their abandon, and the British and the Chinese they condemned, and the careful future, for after the train- farlane, Master W. Macfarlane, again delicate und restrained. The surely must,
war-blinded ing of the screening of drain openings has After-Care Organisation bagine Mrs. A. J. J. Martín, Mrs. B. L. ballet for the most part express hopes for the allaying of all the
the Mastor A. Macfarlano, Mr, and younger men of the Denishawn been another valuable factor in to operate and doos not Vach, Master W. E. Nash, Miss through their dancing the un-stractions which at the moment. our local preventive work. The conse until death-St. Dun- B. M. Nash, Mr. H. C. Pullen, restrained emotionalism of youth; manifestly afflict our world. extract from the report concorn-responsibility for all the men who W. Sowell, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. because it is a youthful tragedys
stan's is pledged to a life-long Mr. and Mrs, J, Rodger, Mr. G. the tragedy that is so moving out of seeming evil good will come, If we wait for it and work for it, ing Hongkong is of spocial have come under its attention. Stapleton, Mrs. A. McC. Stewart, untempered by reflection; the light-in God's choses time: interest. Referring to the fact Hence the call for help is still Mr. and Mrs, W. J. Stokes, Mr. someness of spirit that disregards that no cases of plague have been insistent, and in this connection) C. Watt, Mr. and Mrs. W. Althe impending cloud; the clean, un-
It must be remembered that the Weight. recorded hore from September Home has never received any
fettered passion of youth. It is 1923, it says "this offers a fine Stato aid or Government grant
Ted Shawn alone among the men The oase with which brush fires whose dancing plumbs the depths of opportunity for those in authority
whatever it is solely maintained occur here during the dry season drama, but there is scarcely a shade on 4 voluntary basis.
Wo was oridenced at Fanting yester- to be fully rid of the post by once again commend, to those day, during field operations by of emotion, tempestuous, torrential,) systematic rat-proofing of able to help, the claims of St the local Volunteers. The En. that he cannot express by the lithe
and other rodents
prevention is a
war on rats,
!
Wo must cherish also the like
"Then let us pray that come it
may,
As come it will for a' that, That man to man the world o'er Shall brothers be; an' «' that!"
Five masters of fishing junks Dunstan's, which exists to bring gineer Co. had just concluded a movements of his superb body, fine were fined $5 each this morning.
houses." We suppose that is one hope and happiness to the very burst of firing at targets on a hill.ly modelled as a piece of sculpture, at the Marine Court for dragging,. of the things more easily said gallant gentlemen, our war-blind-side when snicko was soon rising There is a Draeden chinn dainti-in the harbour without permission than done, for this place is stilled citizens of to-day." The motto from some dry grass, and a fairness about Ruth St. Denis that is hampered in disease prevention at this great institution is "Vic-blaze soon developed. The mon oddly in evidence even in the most by the hundreds of rickety, jerry-all have a part in that glorious out the fire by beating it down fentely and gracefully moulded, a the Bobbies" team of girl base. tory Over Blindness," and we can immediately turned to and put spirited of her dances. She is de According to an Osaka paper, built tenement houses, in the work by sending a donation, how-with pine branches. It is sur- creature of spirituality and lofty ball players have left for America Uhinose quartors of the city
ovor small, to the Headquarters, mised that the grass became thinking, and beautifully as she by the Empress of Russia; a areas, which were just allowed to London, N.W. by whom all gifts a bullet striking a granite boulder in her dancing, it is this quality money having been provided by (Inner Circle, Regent's Park, ignited through sparks caused by simulates moods other than her own cheque to cover their massage spring up in years gone by. will be gratefully acknowledged near the targets.
that inevitably sinuds out.”
an anonymous donor.