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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
PYRENE.
THE BRITISH FIRE EXTINGUISHER.
SAVES
LIFE,
KILLS.
FIRE,
Protect
your Home
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1925,
DAY BY DAY. ̈
DEVOTION, LIKE "FIRE, GOETH! UPWARD.-Zoroúster,
The opening rate of the dollar on demand to-day is 2s. 47/16d.
Mr. and Mrs. D. Templeton were amongst the passengers who press of Asia. arrived from Manila" by the Em-
forefront of items in. the pro gramme of local legislators and welfare-workers that wo again lay stress on this monacp to the whole community. And with this in view we rofer'to measures which are being taken by the United Statos Pabllo Health Servico in their campaign against fever were reported over tho Two Chinese casos of scarlet tuberculosis! Many of the week-end. methods they advocate-such as caroful sogrogation of all infected persons--are impracticable here, but wo shall take a few items from their list which could in time be applied, to Hongkong. by That our proportion of cases is Installing
so high as to render several curative schemes impossible is in PYRENE itself a damning indictmont of local conditions. TO-DAY®
Inspection
Invited
at
The 8.9. Talma, which was duo. Singapore, has been delayed by: here to-day from Calcutta via
bad weather and is expected to arrive on the 10th instant.
Mossrs, Moutris and Co. have issued a striking calendar for the The American campaigners coming year, in which titles of are at the outset insisting on, books are most amusingly tra- vestied by à sories of coloured compulsory, notification of tuber-sketches.
A NOTABLE TRIO.
This photograph, taken on the occasion of Viscount Coell's rectorial address at Aberdoon University, shows, left to right, the Vory Rev. Sir George Adam Smith (Principal of the University), Viscount Cecil and Sir Thomas Jeffries.
culosis casos to the health authorities, It is urged that Members of Kowloon Bowling) education in the prevention and Green Club are notified that tho closing of the Bowling Season treatment of the disease be and Presentation of Prizes will Mustard & Co.,Ltd. arranged for all cineson, by take place on Saturday, 12th, 16-17, Connaught Read Central. personal visits and the dis.December.
'Phone Central 1186,
tribution of literature on the
At the Marine Court this morn- COCAINE SMUGGLING. subject. Facilities for curative ing soven boatpeople were fined treatment-free if necessary$3 for mooring inshore, arid a boatmistress was similarly fined are an essential, as woll LE for having on board dangerous" clinics for free diagnosis and goods (kerosino oil in other than
The Telegraph.
TUESDAY, DEC. 8, 1925,
THE CONTROL OF TUBERCULOSIS.
schemes of
unremitting effort must tually have its reward..
evon-
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EUROPEANS CHARGED AT BOMBAY,
A
RUBBER BOOM.
FRENCH FINANCE
PROGRAMME.
OPPOSITION HAVE WIDE.
CHOICE.
venue, establishing a sinking fund, preventing fiscal frauds and the flight of capital, altering railway rates, and improving methods for collection of income tax, M. Lou-. cheur hopes' ultimately to secure an additional eight milliard francs un- nually.-Beuter.
U. S. TAXES.
WILD RUSH FOR SHARES. · In connection with the proposed)
London, Dec. 7.'
PROVISION FOR REDUCTION. visit to Canton of a big delegation Young Sai-ngam is due here this over rubber shares is more acute of Hongkong merchants, Mr. The Stock Exchange excitement
Washington, Dec. 7. afternoon from Canton, together than, ever, this morning's, large
Before the adjournment, the with Mr. Wong Kwei-hi and Mr. accumulation of orders together. 1ouse of Representatives “placed Lu Yan-suen, Hongkong mer with the firmness of the commodity at the head of the agendi a tax chants. It is thon hoped to make causing a wild rush for shares at reduction Bill reducing the next final arrangements for the delega soaring prices.-Reuter. tion to proceed to Canton.
ADMIRAL ORIENTAL
LINERS.
Later.
year's revenue by 326- thousand dollars, of which 194 thousand There was wild oxcitement on will represent relief of Income the rubber market yesterday ow-tax-Reuter's American Service. ing to the accumulation of week-
end orders. Subsequently profit-]
early detection. Ample provision dangeraus goods anchorage.
Bombay. Nov. 16.-Captain of parks and public playgrounds
Ternell and Mr. M. L. Messias,
Paris, Dec. 7, are further desiderata. Pailing ber 1st shows that the total con- cocaine smuggling case, the hear exercise in disagreement with the The water return dated Decom-two of the accused in the large
The scope the opposition will improvements in social and tents of Hongkong reservoirs on ing of which was resumed to-day comprehensive financial policy of industrial conditions, that can that date were 1,450.31 million, by the third Frosidency Mag- prevent re-infection or aid in a gallons, as against 1,799.90 on the strato, pleaded guilty to the M. Leucheur is embodied in seven samo dato last year, whilst the charge of abetment, while the first separate Bills, including menaures cure, the educative method is respective figures for Kowloon accused, Mr. G. W. King, of the for creating fresh sources of re- perhaps best-so that contacts were 323.60 and 336.75 million, skating rink, pleaded not guilty of The cold weather having defin-avoid contracting the disease and gallons,
smuggling. The case was itely set in here, there will now incurables do their best not to
adjourned to November 23rd. Mr. W. E. Kirby, secretory of bo few windows ör doors in the
The quantity of cocaine is spread it. Such ! scheme, the China Coust Officers' Guild, välned at Rs, 54,000, pooror-class tenenients open at naturally, requires active ca- having returned to Shanghai. night, and tens of thousands of
operation on the part of the R.N.R., who has been in charge
Captain T. T. Laurenson, D.S.O.,| Chinese, many already tuberen-
populace. The apathy of the of the Guild's local interests dur lous, are for the next four months Chinese working-classes might ing the absence of Mr. Kirby. or se destined to crowd together)
well wreck all the best-laid expects to return to Hongkong! in small, unventilated 700m9.
very shortly, focal health Hongkong already suffors the
dopartment; but that is no reason notoriety of having a ratio of tub
for despair: Much can be done erculosis amongst its population towards relieving sufferers and which is greater than the figure protecting healthy citizens, and for nearly every other city of similar importance, With thef herding conditions under which the poorer elassos live, the indis-
Something for Nothing. eriminate and unchecked expec-
The telegrams over the week- toration, and the under-nourish-end speak of a tremendous ren! ment of so many work-people, it estate boom in Florida, which is is only tube expected that the foll attracting people to that State in such numbers as to recall the big of phthisis is to be greater every gold rush of 1849. Great numbers year, and the ratio of infected] of the people are apparently seek- persons higher. Apparently tubing homes, but we may be sure that there are many others who erculosis has obtained such a
are plapning to indulger in hold now in the Colony that it is speculative vontures in the hope Washington, December 1-Pro- endemic. It is a terrible fact in of getting rich quickly. The sident Crowley of the Emergency
world over, we find folk who are Flest Corporation to-day recom have to contemplate that hun over eager to seek something for mended the rejection of R. Stan- [dreils of perfectly healthy citi-nothing, and it will only be whenley Dollar's offor for the Shipping zens, cuch no doubt useful in his the truth downs on people that Board vessels being operated be- this is not only bad economics tween Seattle and the far east by or her way, are doomed every but is bound in the long rin to the Admiral-Oriental Line."
Dollar offered in behalf of tho' year to contract an almost incur- lead to disappointment, that the abie, wasting disease, through no groat army of swindlers and con- Dollar steamship Company to the English Cup resulted fault of their own. Compelled by is this desire to get rich quickly rental of $1,000 aach and at the
fidence tricksters will vanish, It charter the ships at a monthly follows:
adverso social and economic cor that results in the loss of mil-end of a five year period to pur- ditions to come. in daily and lions of pounds sterling bvery chase the ships at £600,000 each.
year lo man who are on the look- President Crowley recommend-] nightly contact wish dangerously out for gullible people of the ed that new bids on a competitivo In the second round, to be infective cases, Jacking adequato type which places a most amazing basis be invited and if none prov-played on Saturday, Bradford have" facilities for treatment in the confidence in others." We alles satisfactory the lino should be to visit Boston, Reading will be at
who want to takon from the Dollar interests. home to Leyton, whilst Kettering) curly stages of the disease, and know of
put a few hundred dollars into President Crowley held that the entertain Grimsby, Blyth Spartansdiscussion on the report stage.of usually not seeking a cure through a project that will make them Dollar prices offered were inade-and Hartlepools have yet to decide the three safeguarding. resolutions. ignorance, they are mostly mark wealthy-not to work for their quato and that the bid lacked suf- who shall meet Accrington in the passed in committee Jast work, has ed down to be victims to the and energy in laying up a com- bond for the maintenance of drawn game between these teams, finance Bill, entitled the Safeguardinal
wealth, not to spend years of toil ficient guarantees in the way of second round. This is the third confirmed the embodied special ¿' scourage. It is a death sentence petence, but to get it for nothing: the line.
previous scores being 2-2 and 1-1.ing of Industries Customs Duties an cruel as it is slow in operating, in other words, without saming If the Shipping Board accepts it. That is where the confidence Frosidont Crowley's view Stân-
Bill, which was formally read a In the First Division of the first time.-Regter, man comes in, and eventually his loy Dollar will consult his asso- Such a state of affairs obviously pray becomes a gaddez and a ciates further. Crowley also hold English League, Burnley beat Birm- cannot be suffered to continue in-wiser man, We cannot hope to that the Admiral-Oriental Line ingham by 8 to 1, whilst in the definitely. This is, unfortunate- get anything worth while in this was as profitable as the Pan-Second Division Portsmouth defeat- lifo for, nothing; things do not American Line which recently ed South Shields by 1 to 2-Router. ly, no time for expensive reforms work out that way, much as some was sold to the Munson Steam-
and as inexorable.
mon
DOLLAR BID MAY BE REJECTED.
taking occured in some directions COST OF COAL SUBSIDY. and the final quotations were-bo- low the best, but the tone remains confident.-Beuter,
.
HOME FOOTBALL.
REPLAYED CUP-TIES.
London, Dec. 7. Replayed ties in the first round of
Bradford 2; Lincoln 1.
Reading 2; Torquay 0.
115
AT LEAST 419,000,000,
London, Dec, 7 That the coal subsidy will cost the nation nineteen millions sterl ing, is revealed in Supplementary Estimates, showing that the original estimate of ten millions has been exceeded by nine millions.
Simultaneously the estimates pro-` vide for £1,100,000 as the Govern- ment's share of the Wembley guarantee. Reuter.
Blyth Spartans 1; Hartlapoole 1, SAFEGUARDING BILL. Keltoring 2: Worcester G.
LEAGUE MATCHES.
CONFERENCE OPENS AT ROME.
Rome, Dec. T. Forty-five nations are ropresent-
to bo suggested, but the ideal people would wish they did.ship Company for $1,026,000 per should always be kept fully bottom of the whole matter, just Oriental Line ships should bring WORLD EMIGRATION. Greed and avarice are at the ship, and he believed the Admiral- illuminated, so that it will not be as they are in the case of people the same. overlooked in the future years of who plungo on stock, and sharos The re-allocation of the Admi-] returning prosperity. The sick when their only asset (if asset it ral Oriental Lino to another oper- can be called) is an abounding ator was suggested because of continually menaco the healthy, confidence that things will turn the fooling that a monopoly is and in these times, when the war out all right. There may be few objectionable. Associated Press. on disease has become a subject and boom in Florida just now, of these foutures about the big
of international import, Hong-but that there are many people kong is bound to omorga some who hope to mass great wealth day into a most unonviable pro-in that Stato-at the experise, of out of the developments occurring minence unless matters he .con-aomobody else, let it be romom- siderably improved in the rican- bored-wo have little doubt. That time. So it is with a view to is always thogase where there aro 'booms" or rushes, no matter kooping the subject to the
in what country they occur,
PIONEER SUFFRAGETTE DEAD.
PASSES FIRST READING.
London, Dec 7.
The House of Commons after.ne
OBITUARY.
New York, Dec. 7. Percival Smith Hill, President of The death is announced of Mr.
the American Tobacco Company Reuters American Sérpico,
At a meeting of a number of ed in the committee of the Inter- wireless onthusiasts hold recently national Conference on Emigration,at the office of Messrs. Duroge the outcome of the Rome conference and Thomas, Penang, It was in 1924. Signor Mussolini, we decided to form Penang coming the delegates, extolled the Thorpe, Acting. Municipal Eng- Wireless Socioty, Mr. M. J. work of the Rome conference, proineer, was elected President. A minently drawing attention to the subcommitton was appointed to Amsterdam, Dec. 7. The death is announced of Heeren problems of migration to which the draft rules and to submit tham to Wilhelmina Druckor, Holland's war had given exceptional Impor a general meeting to bo called {fret suffragette.Router.
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lator.