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KWANGSI RE-VISITED: V
REFLECTIONS FROM A QUIET
PROVINCE.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THE FIRE BRIGADE'S DISPLAY.
SMART WORK AND EXCITING MOMENTS..
GREAT WATER PRESSURE
A portion of the roadway had been closed, and a number of European residents, together with
THURSDAY,
PENANG DISPUTE.
a
HOSPITAL TERMED A DISGRACE..
NOVEMBER
TAMPERING WITH A
JURY.
MIS-TRIAL IN TEAPOT DOME
CASE.
EVIDENCE TO BE RE-HEARD,
Washington, Nov, 2.
A joint statement issued by the who, with Mr. Fall, ex-Secretary of the Interier, is charged with conspiracy to defraud the Govern ment in connexion with the Tea pot Dome oil leases, declares that they have joined with counsel for the Government in requeating that. Justice Siddons declare a mis-trial in the case,
VISITING BODY RESIGNS.
The visiting committeo of the In the presence of H. E. the Penang General Hospital have re- Officer Administering the Govern-algoed en bloc, following a decision ment, the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn, of the Straits Hospital Board rul-counsel for Mr. Harry Sinclair, Abright October morning in clash with the man's. On a coun- the annual display of the Honging that the committee most only South China can be the expres try walk I met a pig being driven kong Fire Brigade was given you approach the Chief Medical Officer sion of the most perfect day in the by two men. The progress waterday afternoon outside the Con- when they wish for information. in the World! It is just cool so intermittent that an hour after- naught Road aide of the Fire In a letter explaining their re- enough to enjoy flannels, but not wards, as I passed again, the pls Station.
signation the committee disputa cold enough to be unpleasant, was actually further from its des
this ruling, and state that as a The sun is shining in a blue sky tination They were in despair.
result of a visit to the hospital they with fleecy clouds; and the birds I have seen a strong man actually
found, a deplorable state of affairs. are twittering in the trees, which alt down and weep because his
They allege that the staff is in- still have their summer green. pig had robbed him of all his very large crowd of Chinese, adequate,, the equipment unsatis
The trial was halted while s There was a blind beggar walk-nerve. The pig had finally settled watched the proceedings with factory, and the buildings antiqust- ing in the rond as I got out himself in a deep ditch and with a much interest. Police and Bored, and that the hospital is a grand-jury investigated the charge Hearing the gate click he turned grunt announced that nothing was Scouts drew a cordon across either scandal and disgrace to the Colony.of attempted tampering with the The investigation was going to shift him! There I left end of the area set apart for the
The correspondence between the jury. "O great one!" he cried, "Spare them. This morning, however, a display and were kept busy con- Visiting Committee of the Penang undertaken largely upon informa
obtained by Government me a copper" The doorkeeper in woman's wit had risen to the oc- trolling the crowd..
Hospitals and the chairman of the tion terposed. He feels tant my fin-casion. With a switch ane was
Hospitals Board, the Hon, Dr. A. L. agenta in a raid on an apartment: ancial cures are his own.
Hoops, is published in the Penang in a hotel occupied by private "Friend!" he exclaimed, "This
newspapers, as a result of a letter detectives from New York City, gentleman is not one of the great
from Dr. Hoops pointing out that Special Government counsel in the ones. If you seek the 'great' you
the duties of the local Committee case presented four aidavits to the must go to the Commissioner of
are merely inspectorial and that court Customs."
in future, when any information is required by the committee, on points of administration, equipment, buildings and so on, they should
The Teapot Dome affidavits refer address themselves to the CMO.,
jury and the activities of private who is the local head of the Medito the alleged tampering with the cal Department.
detectives, allegedly employed by Mr. Harry Sinclair in maintaining close surveillance over the jurymen. -Reuter's American Service,
towards me.
pretending to drive the pig away from the direction she wanted it to go. The result was gratifying, and the progress extraordinarii rapid. How long she was able keep up the deception it would have been interesting t kncy.
The beggar recognised that he had been wors, ed, and passed on. Since the Labour guilds have My way was in the opposite raised the minimum wage, and direction and I entered the city people cannot afford to pay this, by the East Gate. The city gates there are always loafers abou are all that is now left of the old How they live at all is a mystery wall. City walls only provoke There is no "dole" here to keep sleges; and it is well that this them going. The over-popula- one done with, and the splendid tion of China is a pet subject with old-fashioned bricks made to pave arm-chair economists. One has the streets. Walking is a differ-gone as far as to say that the ent thing from what it used to be on the old cobble stones..
Ubiquitous Propaganda. Some men were posting gaily coloured posters in the archway, and cursing because the past know wouldn't adhere. 1 don't who is responsible for these ubi
crowding is so great that poor unfortunates are actually being
Neighbours Quarrel.
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The Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe was present as the officer In charge of the Brigade, while Mr. G. Mosa (Central), Acting Super intendent," Mr. G. Saunders (Kowloon). and Mesara Smith, Bückeridge, and Woollard attend ed as officers in charge of the various detachments.
The manner in which the various drills and competitions greatest credit upon all concerned, were carried out reflected' the some of the displays impressively demonstrating that the personnel and equipment of the Brigade, is, generally speaking, of a very high standard of efficiency,
This
The local Committee, comprising the Hon. Mr. Palgrave Simpson, Mesars. AR. Thornton, E. E. Chambers and J. Crubb-Watt and Dr. McKern, in a long letter ten- dering their resignations en bloc, state that owing to the common talk that the Penang General Hos
an unsatisfactory pital was in state, three members of the com- mittee, namely Mr. Al R. Thornton (Chairman) the Hon. Mr. P. Simp, ser and Mr. J. Crabb-Watt, visited the hospital. -
Visiting Committee's Letter.
naming among others Mesars. Harry Sinclair, Edward Kidwell, one Juror and two private detectives.
A Mis-Trial.
Washington, Nov. 2. Charges of irregularity brought; against the jury in the Teapot Dome oll case have resulted in a mis-trial being declared, and all the evidence hitherto presented. must be re-heard by another jury.
Router's American Service:
MILK TAKEN FROM DOORSTEP.
ning.
HOUSE-BOY CHARGED WITH THEFT.
The programme opened with pushed over the edge, and are demonstrations of the "Fireman's compelled to live on boats: there lift," showing how an insensible being no room on the land! as person may be picked up.
matter of fact, i believe, Kwang-was followed by the Despatch Box used to have double its present Drill, which was smartly executed. Next came the Motor Escape population; and it could stili sup- port that number if there was Competition, which comprises the recurity of tenure, with safety no rescue of two men from the second quitous scraps of propaganda, orsured to work the land that has floor simultaneously with which where the money comes from an
The committee's letter to Dr. persistently, From what I know gone out of cultivation, and mine hoses are carried to the first floor
lies and brought into use. It was in Hoops proceeds:--"As" these visi- of my fellow townsmen I cannot the mineral wealth which
several of the drills which called tors had no expert knowledge of imagine any of them putting their ready to hand.
for the actual employment of medical matters, they asked for hands into their purses to improve ·
water that a weakness appeared information from the two officers the views of their neighbours!
te exist, inasmuch that the men they found at the hospital. The Funds must still be coming in Street crowds would be much seemed to experience great dif-visitors asked these two officers from outside 'somewhere.
more formidable if people were feulty in controlling the nozzle on various questions and in particular I looked to see if there was any-not afraid of being involved in account of the force of water. In whether their staff and equipment thing new on the posters. As far any disturbance. Thave, however, the case of the drill now being were adequate and, as their replies-Charges of larceny of two pint- as I enn make out it is just the seen as many as twenty men watch mentioned, it was seen that the were long and technical, the visi-bottles and one half-pint bottle of old stuff about the "Equality of a slave girl bowling because she two men with the hose were un tors asked them kindly to put their milk, from the back door step, of Male and Female" and the "lug had lost her mistress's ten cent able to control it, and for a answer in writing as a convenience No. 96, Nathan Road, the residence of Mr. C. H. Leddra, and of causing quality of Treaties." The people pieces to bus wine, and was afraid moment the fireman descending to the visitors. are getting a bit tired of all this. to go me. This morning there the escape with the "rescued"
"The visitors were, then, and are actual bodily harm to the house It doesn't seem, to lend anywhere, was only slight interest over a person on his back, appeared to still, and so are the other members coolic, were preferred against a And, after all, what do they care? quarrel between two neighbours. be in imminent danger of being of the Visiting Committee, entirely house-boy of 26, Humphreys Build- Propaganda could do good; and While one stood on his doorstep swept of the ladder. As it was, satisfied that they were entitled tongs, before Mr. W. Schofield at might help towards a National rein a truenient attitude, the other, the hose broke away from the men, ask these questions and the officers the Kowloon Magistracy, this mor- generation if it was directed from shouting at the top of his voice, and for a few seconds created questioned so understood, the poai- within and not without. What is periodically advanced and retreat pandemonium on the verandah, tion from the visitors; but we are The defendant denied that he required is a Diyine discontented, waving his arms in a very during which the sound of smash-informed by one of our members, stole any milk yesterday, the date (Dr. A. S. McGern, the only medi- mentioned in the charge, but ad- with themselves-with dirt, kam-threatening manner. There is no ing glass was heard.
cal practitioner on the Visiting mitted that he took three bottles bling, opium. polygamy official need to be alarmed on these occa-
Similarily, in the motor pump. corruption, general apathy, and alfsions. He won't strike. He knows competition, the strength of the Committee) that he was told by from the complainant's house some those other curses which drags that. His opponent knows. it; water proved too much for Home Dr. W. A. Taylor, then the C.M.O., time last month. In reply to the the nation down. Dr. Sun Yat-and the onlookers know it. The of the firemen, and in one instance, that permission to answer in writ-second charge, he said that the sen was a poor hand at politicalther man shouts, too, and appeals two of them were swept complete ing had been obtained from him coolie fell down and struck his diagnosis. It is the constant to the neighbours. They say nothly off their feet, while the nozzle and in fact the written replies had head on the kerb-stone. struggle for existence the cease-ing. I didn't wait to see the end. itself became detached from the been shown to him.
Mr. Leddra, in evidence, said, "As a result of this visit the less effort to keep body and soul Industries are carried on in the hose. These incidents seemed to together which occupies the atten street as well as everything else: indicate that more practice is re- Committee found that a deplorable that each morning three bottles of tion of my neighbours. How can Someone had died and they were quired in what we believe is state of affairs obtained at the milk were left at the top of "the they be bothered with politics making a paper chair for his use known as "wet drill."
General Hospital and that the staff back stairs of his house, which was inadequate, the equipment was the top floor of No. 96, Nathan What does it matter to them if in the next world. Nobody in
Road. Yesterday the milk was Various interesting life-saving unsatisfactory and the buildings missing. Witness had missed milk Chang Tso-lin, or Peng Yu-hsiang, | Lungchow can, afford a real chair
In fact, in the con- two thousand miles away, are up like that. (The officials, who cold devices were demonstrated, includ-antiquated. to-day and down to-morrow? afford it, drive in motor cars), ing jumping the sheet" and cluding part of their report to the on one previous occasion last
month, canvas Hospitals Board, the Visiting Com- So evidently his friends expected escape by means of a
The case was adjourned until mittee felt.it incumbent upon them Puppets of the Hour,
" him to have a belter time where chute.
to-morrow. Our newspapers, in Hongkong he was than when he was alive,
The new motor cycle combina- to record:-- and Shanghai, are full of the Strange that such materialists as tion was brought into ase; and' ings of these puppets of the hour; the Chinese should have such im- sent a stream of water But these don't represent the Chin-plicit faith in a future life! But siderable height into the air it is not a life of the Spirit, "but This demonstration was some ese people any more than King John or Charles 1 represented the very much one of the flesh which what handicapped however by the fact that the hose leaked to a very English people of their day: they anticipate. though the history books tell se In one of the wider roads I saw considerable extent. far more about the struttings on looked just village louts with a a squad of soldiers pass. They
The large fire float which was the stage of these Monarcha than
minimum of intelligence.
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a con-
One case of enteric and one im-
Human Lives Endangered. "The Committee consider that human lives are being endangered ported case of diphtheria were on Tuesday. Both were without excuse and that the hospi- reported and a disgrace to the Colony." tal is, to speak plainly, a scandal, Chinese,
"That the Report of the Com- mittee was, at any rate to a great
They alongside the pier, gave a most extent, justified is shown by the re HOW MUCH DO YOU of the burdens which the people have never thought in their lives, impressive display, the volume of ference to this hospital by H. E. the areal English people, had to. What can you expect if you pick water from its monitors dwarf- the Governor in the Legislative
tence.
ing the effect of the ordinary land The combined work equipment. of the whole of the Brigade's hose facilities was most spectacular.
Council on October 10, 1927, and by the improvements which have
Committee's Report was sent in. been, and are being, made since the
KNOW?
TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS.
1 What is Scotland-yard's telephone
number?
What are the full Christian names of H. G. Wella, Arnold Bennett, Dean Inge, the Prime Minister, the Prince of Wales!
3 How many.pounds are there in a
ton?
bear; the daily cares, their joya and sorrows, and all the hundred such rasties up, put them in a and one things that went to make uniform and give them a gun? up the sum total of their exis-They are not the problem of "Mill
"The Visiting Committee has Our young China students arism." They are only the heed
The following general know- can afford to strut about and less pawns in the game of China's
The display was generally im
Committee's duties are inspectorial the Daily Express. prate on platforms. Their family "utch who catch can." They are pressive and at the conclusion, the now been informed by you that the ledge paper has been taken from Officer Administering the Govern and that, if in future any informa Answers, for those who need cares haven't come. Their par- product, not a cause. "ents are doing the working while
ment congratulated the Capt. "Saving Face."
Supt. of Police, the Hon. Mr. E. D. tion is required on points of ad them, will be found on Page 14 they do the talking.
the Committee should address In the carly morning you see the
"Some houses" have been burnt C. Wolfe on the fine turn out. He ministration, staff, buildings, etc..of this issue. women standing at their doors. ately and put up again, mostly expressed regret that he had not themselves to the Chief Medical be present on Officer who is the responsible local This is their one daily excitement. with bamboo and plaster. On the been able to
previous occasions but hoped that They know, to a cash, how much steps, of one of these, I saw in future he would have further head of the Medical Department, money they can well spare to buy a "band of musicians the meat and vegetables for the ing, yesterday, as a group of in competition, as that which he
play opportunities of seeing the brigade and not to any one subordinate to
him
"The Visiting Committee feel family. The villagers from the wedding guests arrived. The had seen had convinced him of country fields come in with, their bridegroom was at the door bow the superlative efficiency of the most strongly that the only proper and satisfactory way to obtain in- baskets laden, and are hailed with ing low. In the old days he would Brigade. the ever-recurring question, "How have shaken his own hands at
The Hon. Mr. Wolfe expressed formation at the Hospital is to ask much?" Everything is done on them and kept his own cap on, the thanks of the Brigade for Mr.those persons who have special and the door step or out on the street. Here they were doing their soft Southern's presence and for his direct means of knowledge and are There's no room, or light, in the felt hats in the most approved and remarks relative to the directly responsible for the lives narrow dark interiors. If you foreign style. Only the family Brigade. He hoped that further of the patients and that to direct
• Who stood in tears amid 1
the hear a pig squealing as if it's inside the house would know what opportunity would be given him questions to the C.M.O. (who no doubt might consider it desirable heart would break it is being hung that wedding cost in
alien corn"P effort, to view the work of the men.
to consult the PC.M.O. before an-
7 Who pointed these famous up on a board, head downwards, anxiety, and debt. Yet appearances
swering) would be to ask the off-
The Blue Boy! pictures: (a) while the householder performs an have to be kept up at any sacrifice.
cials responsible for the adminis
(b) The Ambassadors" (0) operation and that without an Above his health, his wealth, and we have received from the tration, (an apart from the direct
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Ros aesthetics or antiseptics.
even life itself, a Chinaman prizes Japanese Consulate a booklet give treatment of the patients) whe() "The Angalus Intractable Pigs.
his "face". With that "gone" he dare not face existence. After all ing some interesting details of the ther they had done their duty in a Where are these places! Swan- Sandwich, Tenby, Mother- Red Cross Society of Japan: The obtaining for the hospital the staff Pigs and chickens are every- that is what all these wars are edice of the Society have been and equipment necessary. Nowell, Gratham, Ba
these architectural forme where Inside the houses and out. about. They are not for the amended in order to still further thing more likely to reduce the There are more or
plinth; (d) capiteedimo than one of moving a pigi 1 ays count on the people. Then consolidate the foundations on Visiting Commiteto reduce(a) Korbel: (b) pedimenti (0)
rests. The booklet gives stultify the object of its appoint saw one following a man like a the Military Baron's name, or the which it rus of the medals, and mental coverely costinere at 10 What is the colour of the hop
(used in brewing) dog. Usually a pig is convinced reputation of the political de orders bestowed on members of tivities with red tape can well be 11" Who is Minister of Health? that its interests must necessarily (Continued on Page 11.)
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