RETIREMENT OF, DR. J. H. SANDERS.
SUPT. OF MATILDA HOSPITAL LEAVES FOR HOME
22 YEARS IN COLONY.
Hongkong loses another of its well-known residents in the person of Dr. J. Herbert Sanders, until re- cently Medical Superintendent of the Matilda Hospital, who left for Home to-day by the P., &,0. Hiner Morea, on retiroment. He is to vall Egypt and Syrla en route.
"Dr. Sanders resigned from his position at the Matilda Hos- pital on August 31st, after
22
Ber-
years continuona vice, having held the post of Medical Superintendent from the establish- ment of the Hospital in 1908. He has been a most painstaking and ef- fielent officer, and during the lengthy period of his service he has done a great deal for the development of the institution of which he has been the head. He
will be greatly missed, not only in the Rocin fe of the Colony, but also amongst those to whose needs the Matilda Hospital has for wo many years culored.
Dr. J. II.
Montgomery, who has been attach- ed to the English Presbyterian
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY,
I CHAI-SUM SOON MYSTERY EXPLOSION
RETURNING.
PRINCESS MARY CHEERED,
LI
BELFAST'S ENTHUSIASTIC
WELCOME.
EXPECTED TO LEAVE NANKING IN TEN DAYS.
AND FIRE.
MANAGER FOUND DEAD IN LOCKED ROOM:
WEALTH OF MOTTOES. FRESH APPOINTMENTS. Co. in Manor Gate-road, Kingston,
London, Oct. 12.
Princess Mary was cheered by large crowds when she arrived at Belfast to-day with Viscount Lascelles.
The girl operativen at the large ropeworks had their machines decorated with red, white and blue ribbons when she paid them a visit,
Welcome mottoes were painted on the cranes at the shipyard of Messrs. Harland and Wolf where the keel of a 60,000-ton walte Star liner was inspected.
The Lord Mayor presented, an address on behalf of the Corpora- tion at the City Hall,
Princess Mary admired the War Memorial window and placed rases from her bouquet at the foot of the window-British Wireless
MAMMOTH AND MAN.
Mission in the Amoy district for DISCOVERY OF TEETH RAISES 'some 15 years, has been appointed to succeed him.
NEW PROBLEM.
OCTOBER 13, 1928.
The Very Idea!
Indignation has been caused in Zululand by the discovery that two young white rhinoceros had been An explosion on the premises of alot while wallowing in a river, and the Direct Mineral Water Supply their bodies left to decay. The animals formed part of a herd of recently, attracted a large crowd, about 36, all that are known, to and was followed by the discovery exist in South Africa. It is be Shangbal, Oct. 12.
by the Kingston Fire Brigado of the loved that the animals were abot Marshal Lt Chalaam has, ac body of the manager, Mr. Albert by a supporter of the movement cording to Nanking reports, tale-Edward Hall, who lived at Willow for the abolition of the game re- graphed to the Canton Provincial by-road.
serves in Zululand, Connell to the effect that the work Exactly how Mr. Hall met his There has been much controversy of drafting the schemes governing death is, at present a mystery. Hoover this recently, because of the the live Yuans of the new National was found, face downwards, in his ravages of sagana. This discase, Government having been accom-office, the door of which had been which is carried by the tsetse fly, plished, ho fa returning to Canton locked from the inside. He was infects the settlers cattle, and it is in about ten days' time.
not wearing coat or waistcoat, and held in many quarters, that the Menere. Sun Fo and Tai Chi-tao, near his head was a petrol tin with gamo are hosts of the disease, and arrived here by rail last night the stopper off.
that with their destruction the dis- from Nanking.
case would disappear. Tho Natal Provincial Council has appointed a special committee to consider the subject, and the Minister of Land recently intimated that if any practical suggestion were made for the removal of the rhinocéros herd to Kruger Park, in the Northern Transvaal, he would be pleased to consider it.
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Post for Mr. Koo.
Shanghai, Oct. 12.
It is reported that the former Canton Minister of Finance, Mr. Koo Ying-fan, who is on a trip to Nanking, is to be appointed at the first session of the State Council to be ita Chief Secretary. The Connell will meet on Tucadny.
New Appointments.
Shanghai, Oct. 12. New appointments made at the meeting of the Nanking Central Executive Committee this morning were the election of Messrs. Wu Chi-tao and Dr. Han-min, Tal
Wong Chung-hul to form the new! Committee in the Foreign Minis
ry, Mr. Chiang Taopin to bel Minister to Germany; Mr. Ko Lu, Minister to France, and Mr. T. V. Soong, Chief Executive
Dr. Sanders was 25 years of age
Johannesburg, Sept. 9. before he began the study of
In the Pilandsberg Range in the medicine.
eight For
years previous to that, he liad been in Western Transvaal there have been commerce, his father being a mer discovered two teeth of the mam He started his medical moth, between 12,000 and 20,000 chant career in 1894 and subsequently years old, and surrounded by Stone continued his training at the Lon-Age axe beads, raising the pos-Central Bank in Shanghai. don Hospital, Whitechapel, hold-sibility that it was the site of a pre-
ing most of the customary. appointments during his two years there. Later, he joined the staff of the Contrat London Thront Hos- pital.
First Visit to East.
historic settlement..
of the
. Nationalist Proclamation
Shanghai, Oet, 12..
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On the table was some loose cash, suggesting that Mr. Hall was await ing the return of some vanmen. One theory is that he was cleaning his clothes with petrol, which be came ignited and set the office on
re.
There was a loud report, but the fire as such was of no great con- sequence, and practically burned itself out. Mr. Hall was badly dis- figured about the head.
Chief Officer Drury was in charge of the brigade, and made a thorough examination of the interior of the office, but could find no other evi dence as to the cause of the fire other than the petrol.
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REGISTRATION PROBLEM.
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Cockle seller at Southend: No man in Southend can handle a cockle barrow single-handed.
Man summoned at Tottenham for I am a plumber. alimony arrear Magistrate: Then vou must plumb in your pocket for money.
Magistrate at Willesden to a man: This is by no means your i first convletion, and apparently you' hope it will not be the last.
cupation,
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It was suggested at Shoreditch County Court that a lodger and he DIFFICULTIES OF AMERICAN wife had a quarrel on a Friday. VISITOR SETTLED IN COURT. The wife: That could not have been so. My husband comes home with his wages on Friday night. The teeth belong to a type of
Mr. Tan Yen-kal has announced
Inverness, Sept. 11.
Judge Chetwynd Leach at Ips- The difficulties of an American with County Court: What is this unknown to mammoth, hitherto
that an important Nationalist pro-
spinster. science.
Professor Dart, the discoverer of clamation to the Chinese people woman with the British law govern-woman? Witness: A the Taunga skull, attaches big im- and foreign nations is to be made ing registration of allens were de- The judge: That is not an oc-
to-day, when Mrs. Violet Mary portance to the find, as, the pre-shortly by the Nanking Central scribed at the Sheriff Court here Thomną of Mr. vious six mammoth teeth found in Executive Committee.
Senily, wife The proclamation will announer Augustus Scully, shooting tenant He first came out East in 1902, South Africa have all been in the on a trip to Japan, and it was then Vaal watershed, whereas the pre- the establishment of the new Na-nt Cluny Castle, Inverness-shire, that
with failing to re he became acquainted sent discovery is far north of the tional Government and the unifica- wna charged
Whilst here, mountainous district of Limpopo, tion of China and also touch on xister as an American subject. with Hongkong.
schemes. Mr. Scully said that his wife felt he met the late Bishop Hoare,proving that mammoths inhabited future reconstruction and when the latter was Home the mountains as well as the low- Messrs, Wu Han-min and Tai Chi- she could not register as an Ameri- tao have been appointed to draft can citizen as she was registed in on leave in 1905, Dr. Sanders lands.
the statement.
America as an alien. She again met him. It was then that
British born, the daughter of a Bishop Hoare suggested..to Dr.
Scotsman, Sir William Simpson. Sanders that he should come out
If she signed as an American An estimated account of the citizen she was afraid she might dubls of the former Peking Gov-he prosecuted for making a false lernment is given by Peking Chin-statement,
to Hongkong to take charge of the Matilda Boapital,
which Wis
in course of construction.
There was a clean bill of health in the Colony yesterday, After Mrs. C. G. Alabaster is leaving reading the will of the late Mr. the Colony to-day for a short Granville Sharp, under the terms | day in Canton und Macao. of which the Hospital was being erected, Dr. Sanders decided to take up the post of Medical Super- intendent, although some of his professional colleagues considered. that in so doing he was commit- Laig "professional suicide."
Having completed refit and overhaul at Kowloon Dock, the ss, Tai Lee left on a trial trip to Macao this morning.
- Two further candidates from the Nautical School passed the examination for coxswains at the Harbour Offee yesterday.
Wireless messages from the North state that quiet conditions reign in Chinwanglao and the Tangshan mining area. A column
Peking's Debts.
Shanghai, Oct. 12,
Was
ese banking circles as follows:- The Procurator Fiscal said that, Non-secured foreign loans borrow having married an American, Mrs. ed by the Finance Ministry, 350 Scully was an American in the eyes million dollars, and by the former of the British law.
Mr. Scully suggested that the Communications Ministry, 250 mil- lion dollars; non-secured domestic words "under British law" should loans, in the shape of public loans, be added to the declaration "Ameri- borrowed within the country, 80 can subject," but Shelff Grant sald million dollars, from bankers in this was unnecessary, and ordered Chiga 110 million dollars, and Mrs. Scully to register as an Teans secured by the issues of American citizen.
Mrs. Scully accordingly signed. Government Treasury Bonds, 50
the necessary papers in Court. million dollars,
The First. Meeting.
Nanking, Oct. 12.
Arrival in Hongkong, Dr. Sanders arrived in long. kong in 1906, and the Iospital was opened in the latter part of that year by Mr. Hamilton Sharp, a From that brother of its donor.
The first meeting of the State mittee it was decided to hoist the time up to the end of August last, Dr. Sanders has been the Hospi- of 5,000 Nationalist troops with Counell will be held on the 16th Nationalist flag at the time of tal's only Medical Superintendent. transports moved west from Lan- Inst. It is understand that regalar General Chang Hsuch-lang's as There is at present no-one con-hsien through Kuyeh on Friday meetings will be held twice a week sumption of office as a member of
on Tuesdays and Fridays, while the State Council.-Reuter. nected with the Hospital who was morning.
Peking, Oct. 12. extra sessions will be called when- here when Dr. Sanders first
After eating a meal just even- | ever necessary.
Pel Chung-hsi's representative, arrived, with the exception of Sir
and hoy
The State Council has wired Yeh Chi, has arrived at Mukden Henry Pollock. At that time, ing, a Chinese woman even the main block of the institu- living at Kramer Street, Yaumat. Feng Yu-hsiang and Yen Isi-sban where it is believed he will discuss
Since, xave signs
of being poisoned. urging them to attend on the 16th the hoisting of the flag and kindred tion was not completed.
considerable They were both removed to the-euter. been there have
1916,
in-Kwong Wah Hospital where the The extensions. In adequacy of the buildings neges-boy died soon after admission, sitated the provision of a new The woman is in a dangerous con- maternity block, as it was found dition. desirable to have maternity cases
A warrant has been issued for housed away from the main build-
of Lee Kul, an ing, whilst in 1924 the sisters the arrest. quarters in the main block were countant of the Wa Fung native utilised for an extension of the bank in. Winglok Street, on a were charge of embezzlement, in a re- wards and new quarters erected for the staff. Dr. Sandersport issued by Police Headquarters supervised the whole of the re- this morning, It is alleged that which these Lee Kul disappeared after mis- Arrangements
appropriating a sum of $25,000, changes involved.
while his employer was absent on business in Canton.
Dr. Sanders was married in 1909 and his wife resided in the Colony from that year until 1914. and, her only daughter are present in England.
She
at
From 1915 to 1917, Dr. Sanders
ac-
Colony to provide some hospital accommodation for the deserving poor, and he approached a cousin anw war service. He was for with the view to their combining time at the Norwich War Hospi-resources and building such a hos- tal, whilst later he was in charge pital. But as the cousin did not of the Boscombe Military Hospital, feel inclined to join in, the matter remained in abeyance until Mr. Bournemouth, for a period of nearly a year.
Since his retirement from the Sharp's death, which took place in
the year 1808, Superintendency of the Matilda Hospital, Dr. Sanders has been on a trip to Salgon and the Angkor His ruins
Tudo-China. in numerous friends will wish for him and his family many years of health and happiness in the Old Country.
number
of
Then it was found that he had left an catate of over one million dollars and in his will he be-
a large queathed legacies to all his relatives, and certain annuities, The residue of the estate was to go to found a hospital which he desired to be called the Matilda Hospital, after his wife's first name, to be situat- It is interesting, in view of Dr. ed on a site that he selected at Sanders' Intimate association the south end of Mount Kellett, Mr. Sharp wished with the Matilda Hospital from on the Peak.
History of Hospital.
ils Inception, to give a brief his the hospital to be self-supporting tory of that institution, founded and to be considered an absolute- through the generostly of the lately religious and evangelistic
Institution. Mr. Granville Sharp.
He further directed The late Mr. Granville Sharp that it must be maintained "for came to Hongkong about the year the glory of God and the good of 1858, being employed by one of the man," and not for the glory of the banks. He retired soon after and medical profession in any way-- commenced as a broker and later that it was to be a hospital for began investing in land. This "the poor, the helpless, the dor- continued during his life and in saken, and for him who is alone the year 1893 his wife, Matilda and desolute," of British, Ameri- Sharp, died. After her death, he can and European nationality. thought it would be helpful to the (Continued on Page 11.) ..
Nationalist Flag in Mukden.
Shanghai, Oct. 12.
matters, Reuter.
Formal Acceptance.
Nanking, Oct. 12. An official statement. has been A report from Mukden says that issued that General Chang Hsuch- ut a recent meeting of the Man- liang has nécopied the afore churian Peace Preservation Com- mentioned post-Reuter.
01020, my hra BLAVICE
"Honestly, isn't it just priceless and he isn't a bit
Hke that when we're together.
(It is said that your character! is shown by the way in which you stir your tea)
When Arst Amanda filled my
dreams,
I
I took a cautious view. And warned myself "Although
she seems
The very girl for you,
Go easy in your sult to her
And rather seek to be Acquainted with her character
By watching her at ten."
This simple plan I know full well Woula amply serve my turn; The way the stirred her cup
could tell
Mu all I wished to learn; But all the hopes with which I'd
planned
Were doomed to droop and fall; The maiden took u Bugar and
Disdained to stir at all.
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This one is going the rounds. He was feeling mortally sick. He crept out into the night with a stake, a length of rope, a mallei, a pistol, some prussic acid, a can of petrol, and a box of matches. He peered over the cliff and heard the wave mountains lunge and roar in
their fury.
It was a night of sultry silence and awful darkness, a night in tune with his restless suffering soul. Feverishly he drove in the stake, allixed the rope and twined the
other end round his neck, threw the petrol over himself, struck a match, swallowed the poison, threw himself over and fired the pistol.
The shot missed, severed the rope, the water extinguished the flames, its salt annulled the poison, and had he not been a swimmer there is no saying, he might have been drown-
ed,
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Bullets that will drug wild ani- mals but not kill them, are claimed to have been invented by Captain Harris, director of the Harris Zoo- logical Expedition to South Africa.. The bullet, he states, is fired from an ordinary shotgun with hiack powder. The nose of the bullet carries a hypodermic needle which, on impact, discharges a powerful drug which makes the animal al- most unconscious for an hour. If the invention proves to be all that Is claimed for it, it will be a boon to big game hunters, and will ob vlate the slaughter and cruelty at present involved in the collection of specimens of wild animals.
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At a family reunion the other day, when the children were gather- ed with the grown-ups, a benevolent uncle turned to his nephew and nak ed, "Well, Johnnie, what do you want to be when you are a inan7"
"Oh, I've made up my mind, uncle,' the bay replied promptly. "I want to be a retired merchant,
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"While the rates remain high," the Ministry of Health has refused Poplar Council's request for sunction for a loan to extend Bow-Library,
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