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London, Mar. 15. A man whose lorry was wrecked The fact that 1,280,000 now at a level crossing and carried 100ft. houses, accommodating more than by train near Minneapolis, 5,000,000 people had been built in England and Wales since the war U.S.A., was served with a sum was mentioned yesterday by Sir tons when he crawled out for Kingsley Wood, Parliamentary falling to stop at the crossing. Secretary to the Ministry Health-British Wireless.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1929.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
AFTER 31 YEARS IN COLONY.
BRITISH ROYALTY IN BERLIN.
DR. MONTAGU HARSTON TO ENJOY FIRST VISIT SINCE
LEAVE SHORTLY.
OUTBREAK OF WAR.
AN ACTIVE CAREER.
4
AUSTRALIA CLOSE TO VICTORY.
PATIENT DEFENCE ALL DAY YESTERDAY.
EX-KAISER'S PALACE. STILL NEED 113 RUNS.
Hongkong will be losing one of
London, Mar. 16. its oldest and most prominent Brl-
The Duke and Duchess of York tish residents when the sa. Naldera
are spending to-day in Berlin an sails on Saturday, April 18th in the person of Dr. G. Montagutheir way to Oslo to attend the Harston, who is leaving for home wedding of Crown Prince Olaf of on his retirement from the firm of Norway, to Princess Martha of
Sweden. Drs. Harston, Black, Balear and Koch,
Dr. Harston will have all but com- pleted 31 years residence in the Colony, during which time he has been not only one of the leading members of the medical profession but has also been prominently identified with much of the Colony's public life. It was on April 15th., 1898, that Dr. Harston arrived in Hongkong from Charing Cross Hospital, London, to act for three усага
na locum tenems to Drs. Harligan, Stedman and Reanio да original intention which, through other circumstances inter vening, resulted in an active local practice of 31 years. Remaining with the firm, whose consulting rooms were then in the old Bank Building, which was demolished to make way for the Asiatic Building of to-day, Dr. Haraton became a partner in 1903, and succeeded to the senior partnership when Dr. Stedman retired.
In the course of an Interesting interview which Dr. Harston courteously granted to a Telegraph representative yesterday, he recail- ed how he arrived to find Hongkong
under-
Their visit, which is unofficial as they are travelling incognito, is the first visit of British Royalty to the German capital since 1914. There has been and will be, a official reception by the German authorities, though it is stood that the Duke and Duchess will leave cards at the residence of President indenburg before continuing their journey,
After breakfasting at the Bri- tish Embassy, the Royal couple
趄 in atarted
with Lady Rumbold, the wife of the Brilish Ambassador, on a round of sightseeing, in the course of which they went over the palace of the ex-Kaiser, where they spent two hours.
out
car
Fighting hard to secure a win ning position in the Fifth Test match, Australia vesterday hatted all day for 166 runs at the cost of four wickets. Curionaly enough all the batsmen sent back were clean-I bowlcd.
Something of a sensation was caused when Woodfull, the "unbowl- able" had. hia bails scattered by bowled for nearly three seasons, the last man to get his wicact in this way being Wilfred Rhodes, the Yorkshire trundler, in the Fifth Test in England in 1926.
Hammond. Woodfull had not been
Hammond was in splendid form with the ball. He found a spot and made the ball get up awkwardly, securing three victims. The only other player to take a wicket was Geary, who sent Jackson back.
Scores are as follows:-
England-let Innings.
J. B. Robbe, 'Thom. Ryder su
Jardine, e Oldfeld, Wall w. R Hammond, e Fairfax, Wall
Tidales, ce Hornibrook, k-Arder 0. Duckworth, e Fairfax, & Harnibrook
J. C. White, not out
Bir
bloralbrook
They displayed grent interest. Hendren, Hornibrook, Fairfax in what used to be the Imperial M. Ierland, Fairfax, b Oxenham
II. Larwood, h Wall sulle of rooms which have been a. Ger, Hornibrook loft as when they were occupied M. W. Tate, rulstitute, b by William II. In the afternoon, the Duke and Duchess drove out to Potsdam where they were shown over the palace of Fre derick the Great. They inspected Sans Souci and the new palaces
Total
Pall of wicheiss' 1/84; 2/146: 8/225: 4/245; /360: 6/401; 7/400; A/IZU; 9/4201 10/ELD
Bowling Antigal.
Hornbrook
less,
Grimmrit
Fairfax
K. F. C. TENNIS.
Birder Kippax
0. M. K
120
Australia-la Tantera.
W. M. Woodfull, e Geary, b Earwood
A. Jerkinn, run out
In the midst of a very serious also. They leave for Norway this Wall plague epidemfe. The isolation evening.-Reuter and British Wire-Oxenhar hospital accommodation at Kennedy Town was inadequate to accept all the cases, and matsheds had to be erected to cope with the numbers. Two of the nursing sisters of the Government Civil Hospital and other Europeans, including two members of the staff of Messrs. A. S. Watson and Co., were among the fatalities that occurred during the outbreak. It was three years previously that the cause of plague had been trneed to the rat flea,
tho
Sanitary Department Praised.
A good entry has been received for the Ladies Singles Handicap (American Tournament) which is to be played off on the Kowloon Football Club's courts to-morrow.
The matches are to comnience at 2 pan, sharp, and ten will be served ut four o'clock.
J. Ryder, Tale, b Hammond D. Bratman. e Tato, b Geary
A. F. Kippax, e Duckworth, White
Fairfax, Lb... Gep
RK, Urnham,'c Duckworth, b Geary
w. A. Oldfield, and b Geary C. v. Grlounett not out
T. Wall, Duckworth, b Grary
P. M. Hornibrook, b.w., White
Betran
502
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Total
201
Fall of wicket: 1/74; 2/143; 3/2051 4/103; 6/186: 6/309; 7/409; 8/120; 6/482: 10/491.
Dewling Analysis,
M.
The
AT THE
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82
24
141
61
Inte
WHIL
Hammond
Egland-Iné Innings.
College of Dr. Harston here broke his narra-pathology) at the tive to pay a high compliment to Medicine, in Hollywood Road (later,
anti-plague work of the the Hongkong University) gave Irwood Sanitary Department, suying that special attention to the opthalmic Geary few people of the present genera- side.
He had lived to see Chinese etu-land Lion realised the tremendous achievement that had been effected. dents go Home to London and take in the early days of which he spoke, high degrees in opthalmic work, J. B. Hobi, e Fairfax, b Grimmett there were frequent and terrible and there were in Hongkong to D. 1. Jardine, e Oldfeld, & Wall visitations of plague. Enormous day Chinese doctors well qualified Lawood, b. Well...... numbers of emigrants came down to carry on the war against eye Tyldesley, Oldärid, & Wall from Canton overcrowding the disease. In 1925, the whole of the Hendren, e and b Orimmett western portion of the city-and opthalmic department of the Tung, Hongkong was, at that time, one Wah Hospital was transferred to of the most overcrowded cities of the Government Civil Hospital, on the world. It was against condi- the recommendation of the late Dr. tions such as these that the Sant Addison, special quarters being built to accommodate It. A really Lary Department had to werk.
valuable work.was being carried on.
Value of University.
W. . Hammond, e Ryder, d Fairfax
J.
Lerinud, not out wi
W. Tale, e Fairfax, liornibrook
Geary, Wall
G.
G. Duckworth, 1.b... Ornbarn
Extrat
C. White, e Oxenham, b Wil
Total
257
Fall of wickets: 3/1: 2/10; 9/75; 4/119: 5/12: 0/13: 7/212; 8/117; 9/231: 20/267,
Dowling Analysis.
Wall Hornbrook
Fairfax
The annual cleansing of houses and the lime-washing, together with the flushing of drains, had been carried on so thoroughly that plague. had been entirely stamped out in Ühis Colony. It used to be naverted that plague was endemic to the Colony, but that assertion had been falsified, and he did not think that the public quite realised what a Speaking of the war-time period, beneficial Sanitary Department It Dr. Harston stated that there was had. The war on rats, the cleans- an urgent appeal issued through the ing of bed boards, the disinfecting British Medient Journal for special- of personal belongings and theists, who were needed at the front. constant vigilance of the Sanitary He went Home to offer his services, Department officials had placed the but was turned down as being too Colony under an enormous debt of old and as having a residence of 18 Kratitude,
years in the tropics against him.
Dr. Harston added that the establishment of the University out of the old College of Medicine was t a great event for Chinese medicul students. He was still on the list of Lecturers.
There
were no
Proceeding, Dr. Harsion recalled in face of this physical disqualifies how the central reclamation scheme, tion, he returned to Hongkong; thus by which Des Voeux Road and Con-releasing Dr. Marriott, who was naught Road were added to the over in France within the year. Colony, had just been completed,
Other Services. how Queca's Building had just been erected and how Prince's
Dr. Harston stated that in 1909 Building was not, then in being, he served, at the request of the
trams and the favourite forms of transport for Government, on a Commission to Europeans were the old push-bike inquire into the high rate of in- fantile mortality in the Colony. In and rickshas. Sir Henry Blake was Governor, after whom Blake Pler his carly days here he was a mem- bor of the Volunteer Reserves, was named when it was completed being Surgeon Captain; and was at one time a member of the Com- mittee of the Royal Hongkong Golf Club, the membership of which Referring to his professional Club he had just resigned after work. Dr. Harston stated that na
over 30 years. In the early days he had always been interested in there were only two courses--those eve disease he was struck by the at Happy Valley and Deep Water fact that there was very little ex- Bay.
rome time lator..
Opthalmic Work.
Oxenham
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Australia-2nd Innings,
W. A. Oldfield, b Hammond I M. Hornibrook, b Haminueni W. M. Woodfull, b Hammond A. Jackson, b Geary A. F. Kippax, not out J. Ryder not out
Extras..
18
AK 48
12
Total (for 4 wkts,) ............ 173 Fall of wickets: 1 for 51 runs (Hernibrook), 2 for 80 (Oldfield), 3 for 129 (Woodfull), 4. for 158 (Juck
Bon),
COMMUNIST PLOT UNEARTHED.
BOMBS AND EXPLOSIVES AT KUALA LUMPUR
Kuala Lumpur, Mar. 8. A startling discovery was made early this morning by the local detectives, reaulting in the arrest of the seven suspected Chinese Communists, and the seizure of a large quantity of daggera, ammant. tion, bombs, explosives, automatic revolvers and books and pamplilote of a seditious, nature..
A chop bearing the
Labour Union for "General Malaya," was also seized. Threes raids were conducted by the police, the first at Setapak, the second at Pudu and the third at Imbi Road) and Gaol Road,
-
EUGENE O'NEILL.
1.
name
TO BE MARRIED AFTER. DIVORCE.
pert knowledge of opthalmic dis- To the above, we must tdd that enves in the Colony when he arrived, Dr. Harston, who is the author of notwithstanding the fact that there a well-known work on the care of was a tremendous amount of eye children in the tropics, served on Jisense among the Chinese. When the Committee of St. George's he went Home on leave in 1903-04, Society for many years being he took a special course of study honoured with the Presidency in at Moorfields Royal London 1925. He has also been a member. Opthalmie, Hospital, doing six of the War Memorial Committee, month duty as Clinical Assistant. Freemason since 1899 (Persever- On his return, he suggested to the anco Lodge), and a medical officer of Chinese ventlemen Interested in the the Hongkong Boxing Association,
that Tung Wal Hospital opthalmic out-patient department nearly thirty years,
an as well as a Justice of the Peace for
New York, Mar. 8, should be openeda auggestion On his departure, Hongkong will
Eugene O'Neill, noted American which was eventually accepted by be saving good-bye to a realdent playwright who left Shanghai in the Committee. The department and medical practitioner who has December last, will marry Carlotta was opened in 1900 and proved over spared himself in the service Monterey, an actress, as soon as enormously Buccessful, He was in of his fellow residents and of the his present wife, Agnes Boulton charge of the work for many years, Colony generally. He will take O'Neill, obtains a divorce, it was and among the Chinese the repule with him the best wishes of all for reported here to-day. Friends of the consultant the playwright, whose home is in of the department spread far be- the success of
intends to New York, said he had informed yond the confines of the Colony, practice which he patients coming long distances from establish in London, and the hope of them of his intention to marry all parts of the country. Perhaps all who know him that he will en Miss Monterey in letters received the prontest value of the work done joy strength of health-n posses today. there was in connexion with the ion he has lavishly spent in the O'Neill has been in Europe since training of Chinese medical stu-service of others. The loss of his leaving the Far East. United dents in opthalmic surgery. He as cheerful personality
Will leave Prest. one of the original lecturers (ia Hongkong much the poorer.
AND
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