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THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1926,
THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1926.
of the monsoon to such situations na rain pools, borrow pits, wells, etc., should form part of any campaign against malaziu in the Colony.
DAY BY DAY.
IT IS TOO LATE TO BE ON OUR QUARD WHEN WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF EVILA-Seneca,
The Colony, had a health for Tuesday.
clean bill of
Engineer "Commander and Mrs. II. B. Scars are leaving for Home by the P. and O. liner Kanpura an Saturday, 24th instant.
**
Thore is much that might be. added concerning the measures which are employed In Ceylon to keep down the disease, in which respect mention may be made of the systematic distribution of quinine during the wat season.
The Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd. It is stated, however, that the (Hongkong Offices) is removing on attempt to reduce the numbers of July 26th to Prince's Buildings human carriera by quinine ad- (No. 1, Des Voeux Road Control), ministration recently has some-formerly occupied by the Russo what failed owing to the fact that Asiatic Bank. a high percentage of the inhabi tants refused to accept the drug. regularly. It is obvious, however, that much good work in being done in the island Colony, and we have no doubt that His Excellency Sir Cecil Clementi, who is well
acquainted with what has been attempted and accomplished, is fully alive to the importance of similar work here.
Sentie's reservations on which
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Mr. Hajee Mahomed Hajee Comall writes with reference to the report of the assault case at Happy Valley stating that the Hajee Mahomed Ismail mentioned therein does not refer to, nor is he, related to, the writer..
Ozorid Xavier at 86 years of age The death of Mrs. Archilides on the 15th instant removes from Shanghai the oldest Portuguess resident and one of oldest among the foreigners. "She arrived there 64 years ago.
Maritime Customs, and
FOOCHOW NOTES.
BANDIT OUTRAGES IN COUNTRY.
The Telegraph'a Foochow cor- respondent, writing under date of July 18th, Bays:
THE BORDER INCIDENT ENDED.
RELEASE OF DETAINED MEN.
RETURN OF TROOPS.
The past Spring in Foochow hus been on the whole a remarkably quiet season. All the Mission schools were able to close the term which we reported yesterday, in The sensational border incident
satisfactorily, and the pupils have which two European police officers, now scattered to their homes for four Chinese and the summer,. For this measure of
Indian peace we have to thank the Chinese Guard were seized and detained by authorities, who, acting in accor- Chinese pickets when the motor" dance with the orders of Marshal bont, in which the police were Sun Shuang-fang, prohibited ail
ono
on the
processions and other demonstra-travelling," ran aground tions during the month of May, Chinese bank of the Shum Chun The tranquility, such as it is, River, has ended with the releaso however, is confined to the city and and return of the mon to British suburbs of Foochow. In the coun- territory late last night. try districts, bandit outrages up. It appears that the motor boat pear to be as widespread and as daring as ever, and, what is worse, and men, after having been solx. little or no effort is being made to ed by the Chinese pickets, were put a stop to them. Quite a num-taken to Shum Chun village, in ber of missionaries, on their way
Kuliang for the summer, have had kept confined all night, being left from up-country stations to Chinese territory. The men were unpleasantly narrow escapes, and in wet clothes to make themselves where there has been loss of pro- perty, there is of course no hope as comfortable as they could for. of redress. The river launches the night on a concrete floor. which ply up and down the Min During yesterday morning they are compelled to pay tribute to the
announced of Mr. Henry George fest the banks, and any who have to transfer them to Canton, but The forthcoming wedding is various bands of robbers that in-keard that plans had been made Riddle Wheeler, of the Chinese not received their quota soon make these did not materialise. Muriel Edith Fowler, daughter of rille. No doubt these conditions The first demand for the release
Miss the fnet known by free use of the
are largely due to the attention of of the men was made yesterday the military authorities being morning, when two European police diverted to threatened dangers on officers and
G. Fowler, assistant, China Sugar Refining Co. residing at No. 1. Great George Street, East Point.
the border.
The World Court. It is hard to understand the optimism of the State Department at Washington regarding ultimate aspent by all the Powers to the Amerienta willing to join the ternational Court of Justice at the Hague, known in America as the World Court. If out of 42 coun-
sume Indian police ANTI-MALARIA WORK, |tries invited, three accept, 19 make Before Major C. Willson, ht the
Kuliang, the hill station six sent a message through to Shum non-committal acknowledgment of Central Magistracy this morning, miles from Fouchow, must offer a Chún village. After some delay its receipt, six, reservo decision, two men were charged by Sub-welcome rest to folk whose nerves the receipt of this message was Although Hongkong, has long and 14 make no reply of any kind Inspector Field, from the Bay have been on edge for months with acknowledged, and Mr. W. G. Ger- It would seem that there is much View Station, with armed robbery threats of robbery and violence. *
indifference plus not a little con-at No. 34, Causeway Bay Road. This summer the mountain is perrard, A.5.P., Mr. A. E, Wood, Mr., Colony in which malurin claims a trary opinion. It will be remem-It was stated that one of the de-haps more attractive than usual, E.-H., Williams and Sub-Inspector, big total of deaths yearly, the
bered that the League of Nations fendants was a servant boy mowing to the fine weather which Hoare, of Sheung Shui went over disease is still prevalent here to America's reservations should building. The case was remand. cellent condition in which the gut. fus a negotiating party. Mr. Wood officials at Geneva thought that ployed in another floor of the has so far prevailed, and the ex-
since lived down its name as
considerable extent, especially in the urban areas. Indeed, the authorities are constantly waging war against it, not only in regard to curative treatment but also in the taking of preventive measures. We have just been reading some extracts of similar work done in Ceylon. And from these we gather that a rigid campaign far being conducted against the disease, which is said to be prevalent in the greater part of the island. Of particular interest-and possibly worthy of notice by the authorities here is the statement that publie lantern lectures in English and the vernacular tongues are given in various centres, including schools and colleges, whilst thousands of pamphlets and hand- bills or malaria and mosquitoes HFC regularly distributed in various part of the island in con- nection with the anti-malaria campaigns.
He was
have been circulated to the nations ed.
tlement has been kept through the returned about three hours later,' which are members of the Hague
activities of the Council. The new saying that the men were going to nothing at all to do with Court, but that Amerien, wanting
club building, completed last sum-be relensed and the motor boat re- Peking, July 4-Two rmed mer, is a great success, and will be League of Nations
the Fongtien soldiers robbed a gold-in constant demand for all kinds of turned. Just before six o'clock that the World Court also had yesterday. They were chased by The tennis courts, ere also in bet-Hughes and the others who had and holding smith's shop outside the Chiermen gatherings daring the summer, last evening, Sergeants Ryan and nothing to do with it, insisted on the police and one fed into the addressing Notes individually to legation Quarter compound, where years, and, altogether, those whib remainder
ter form than they have been for been detained, together with the the various nations herself. Not a he was captured and turned over have arranged to spend the sum-party, came over the border back of the negotiating little of the seeming difference to to the Chinese police. the fact that many of the nations his companion who was arrested America's suggestion arises from executed this morning and alsely good time."
mer at Kulinng should have a real-to British territory.
The detachment of East Sur- which have been addressed con-
It is sad to have to say good-bye | reys, "which had been sont up to in the city. sider the World Court to be an in-
to one of the oldest residents of Lowa during yesterday, returned tions and that the League's posi- the rescue tegral part of the League of Na-
Foochow, who has been a familiar last night, arriving at Kowloon It is not generally, known that figure at Kuliang ever since it be- just. before nine o'clock. tion ought to be respected and struck by lightning, the aftermast C. Skerrett Rogers, who has been Colony yesterday by one of the tug Kausing was came a summer resort, namely Mr. A message received in the acknowledged. There is no ques-being split to the deck, damaging compelled through failing health vernacular papers stated that the desirability of getting America to she has had to be docked for tion, of course, as to the great the fittings to such an extent that to retire from business and return pickets at Shun Chun were tele make one of that great concert of
Home. For many years he render- graphically instructed from Can- nations which has agreed to cer- other parts
pairs. The wireless room and ed inestimable service to the tton, so soon as the Government tain international laws and establooded and had to be bailed out the Council, and both he and Mrs. ed, to release the police, the boat of the vessel were Kuliang community as chairman of had learned of what had happen- which offenders against those laws cal equipment was put out of com- missed. lished a world court of justice at by buckets and most of the electri- Skerrett Rogers will be greatly and all arms, and not to have any can be brought to the bar.
It is mission.
clash with British military. a step in the right direction of in principle, but it is in order to which America Heartily approves
In order that the wants of the. conform to the wishes of those European passengers and ship's who want nothing at all to do with officers be amply catered for with, what they consider is a discredited regard to cool drinks etc. the s.8. League of Nations that America Hongkong yesterday bound for the "Haiching" which sailed from is playing the lone hand in trying South Sea Islands, was installed to get assent and approval for her with a special type of ice chamber reservations. America's optimism by Messrs Lane, Crawford, Ltd.' think so with the information at "Kelvinator" one. may be justified, but it is hard to which was equipped with a present available.
ised fee producing machines, for
EXCHANGE RATES.
Recently, quite a lot has been heard locally regarding the utilisa tion of larvivorous figh as measure of mosquito, control. It Is interesting, therefore, to read in the,, report of the Prinicipal Civil Medical Officer of Ceylon that the practical value of these fish is more limited than is generally supposed. It is a mis- Brussels take, he says, to imagine that Amsterdam,
Berlin under natural conditions they are-
Copenhagen Vienn
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of equal importance in all types Helsingfors of mosquito-breeding places, or Lisbon....
Buenos Aires that they can be used to supplant Shanghai more labourious and
Yokohama costly
Now
York methods of reduction. Normally, Geneva
Milan their beneficial action is much Stockholm
Oslo restricted by nature's barriers,
Prague and it is doubtful whether, with Madrid
Rio out human assistance, their pre- Bombay Rence in natural waters has any Silver (spot and forward)
Hongkong notable effect upon the prevalence
of mosquitoes. Under artificial conditions or in mosquito-broed-.
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re-
of the widely
The Horry Joba!
Idea!
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GERMAN DISARMAMENT,
NOT SATISFACTORY.
Think the trouble it saves Andrew?" you, man. Helps you to...side- "Weel, I dinna" richtly ken," track the sprinkling can. Think answered the prostrat sinner; o' the growth that the garden's "whether it was a wadding or a gained. How 'bout the muscles funeral, but whatever it was, it that are not strained?
has
been a most extraordin- Maybe you, planted some seeds ary success."
last week waitin' and hopin' to
see them peek. Fate serves this
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After all, the best way to raise
dish in Its garden cup: the rain chickens is with a fork-from the
comes down an' the seeds come plattor to the mouth.
Rugby, July 21, In the House of Commons, Mr.
up..
Naturo, you know, has to have He Would you be angry if 1.
out the
She: Angry-I should be sim-
149 Rennie Smith (Labourite) asked a drink. Maybe a man doesn't hugged you? 18.16 what was the nature of the Note stop to think. Cut 22.10 which had been recently addressed frettin'cause what do you gain? ply furious! How dare you sug 1644 by. General Walsh, Head of the The most you can do is just let geat such a thing! If you try any- 30.91 Inter-Allied Military
Control it rain.
.7.9/10
thing like that I never speak to 1/67 Commission to Germany, on the
you again. And this isn't a very .2/2% subject of German armaments. Those who wish to weigh their good place anyhow, 29.0/16 Sir Austen Chamberlain said words can do so in a new sense at
-British Wireless.
that in view of recent reports the Central Hall, Westminster. An organization of women has which had appeared in the press where a machine will register the just been formed in London known on this subject, he had taken the difference, any, between a signed as the "Anti-Wives Group," which
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It is reported that the Japanese opportunity of making enquiries and an unsigned cheque, and find belloves that husbands are dar
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dom from domestic influence and criticism, the women hope to "make dull married men bright
porary nature only-they, how-Teheran immediately after the result had been what he had twean Cobb and Cholmondeley. municative when their wives are ever, afford an important mensure ratification of a treaty of naviga- anticipated-that no Noto of a With a little further development, out of sight had bearing. By of control; and it ia put on record tion and commerce between Japan special character had been sent by it is expected to distinguish Sencca giving the husband absolute free that it is in this connection that opening of a legation in that
and Persin. Pending the formal the Military Control Commisalon. from Plautus,
Mr. Rennie Smith:-May wo. their exploitation in Coylon should country, it is said that Mr. take it that the conditions of dis- ultimately prove of value. It is Iwataro Uchiyama of the Japan- armament in. Germany are satia- added that the formation of will be appointed first Japanese
cse Embassy in Constantinople factory? nurseries and systematic distri- Diplomatic
Austen, Chamberlain :- representative in I am sorry to say "No". bution of these fish at the outset Persia.
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It's a real quartotte when all fotir of them think the other threa can't sing.