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MODY-At The French Convent Hospital, on April 1st, 1029, to Mr. and Mrs. F. II. Mody,
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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY APRIL 2, 1929
TUBERCULOSIS.
We notice that the question of the continued high mortality from tuberculosis has been raised
TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1929.
here in Hongkong is just what it is In Singapore-such treatraent as is available is confined to that procurable at the general hos pitala. Obviously this is by nO manner of means a satisfactory method of dealing with the matter. It is neither fair to the sufferers
DAY BY DAY.
TRUE COMMERCIAL BUCCESS CON-
SISTS IN GETTING MEANS FAIRLY AND USING THEM WISELY.-J. Passmore Edwards..
nor to those who are in hospital Shanghai, is due here at 9 pm. The P. and Q. s.5. Padus, from for treatment of other complaints. to-morrow.
THE POLICE RESERVE.
ORDERS OR THE CURRENT
·· WEEK.·
Orders by Hon. Mr. T. H. King, Acting Captain Superintendent, of Polico, stato:
Chinese Company. Strength.-Constable R38 Chung Sam Chong la dismissed from the Forco as from March 21et 1029,
"First Add to the Injured".-
The Very Idea!
Ono man in every four Is; declared Mr. Mervyn O'Gorman, colourblind, but no women are, vice-president of the Royal Auto mobile Club, when he was ques tioned at the Royal Commission on Transport.
In the absence of a sanitorlum and " of clinics where 'early treatment can be given, it is scarcely to be HM.S. Dartmouth, II.M.S. Carys-Class for Instruction in First Aid wondered at that tuberculosis fort 'and H.MS. Cleopatra, bring. will be held at the Company's Head- is almost useless. Twenty-fivo
ing China Station reliefs, will ar-ht 5.80 pm, sharp
- יו.
Mr. O'Gorman was asked if he thought the system of road signalling with lights was likely to develop. He replied:
The employment of the red light quarters on Wednesday, April Erd.. takes such a huge yearly toll of rive here on April 8. On the Signalling-The
per cent of men aro practically or the Chinese. Singapore is at any homoward trip the Dartmouth is Squad will attend at the Company' the red light in connexion with Signalling totally colour blind. The uses of rate going oge botter than Hong-due at Singapore on April 22, be-Headquarters for practice in Morse motor care should be abolished. kong, by erecting a hospital to be ing dus to reach Portsmouth on and Semaphore under Crown Sort is an inheritance from the used solely for the treatment of Jufio 10.:
geant R1b Ow Young Kin Heng on railway companies. Wednesday, April 3rd: at 6.30 pr.) The whole question of signals tuberculosis cases. Wo-suggest
sharp.
Ved by lights should be carefully over- that that is the Toast that this
Annual Examination in Part 2 hauled. It is preferable to signal Colony should do..
The following vessels are expect The examination In Part 2 of by forms or shapes rather than 1
ed to be in wireless communfeation Training Course will continue at the by colour. If the triangle is a The matter is one of such grave with Hongkong, to-day: Kidder Company's Headquarters on Thurs- danger-sign, there is no need for importance to public health that pore, Padua, Diomed, Hanyang, under Chief Inspector II. J. Pater
day, April 4th. at 5.80 p.m. sharp it to be red. '. we should like to think the now Alderamin, Canada Maru, Taco son, Principal of the Police Train Colour blindness is a thing the No woman is colour blind, Director of Sanitary and Health Maru, Modjokerto, Nanchang, in School.
female sex can transmit but does Services will be empowered to in- Keullworth, Glengarry, Esquilino,
Indian Company. Tonkin and Kwaisang.
not suffer from itself. That is vestigate it from all angles. Next
one of the reasons why men Parade-All ranks of the Indian ususily do not care about colour to his work pp majarin, he could
Company will. parado a Police in their dress and why woman not, be better employed. We admit II.M.S. Bridgewater and H.M.S. 16th for drill under Sorgeant Con-
Headquarters on Tuesday, April always do. that much of the trouble lo due Sandwich, the new aloops replac-don. Fall In at 5.30 pm. sharp. to bad housing conditions, but ining the Bluchell and Foxglove, are Dress Blue Uniform, belt and cap charge of being a suspected Man acquitted at Highgata on a this respect also the Government due to arrive here on June 7 ap- absent from this parade without after seeing a girl home,
without cover. No member may be person-I had to run to get warm. has a duty to perform. Whatever proximately. The Foxglove left leave from the Company Comman the solution, there can be no quoa- and the Bluebell arrived at Penang
Singapore for Penang on Monday der. tioning the fact that so long an no special efforts are undertaken to combat the disease, so long will It constituto, a real
of aourco
danger to the public xenerally, especially during the dry seasons of the year, when germ-laden dust is encountered on all hands.
Naval Discipline.
a
on the homeward trip.
Flying Squad,
•
Agent at Glasgow I suppose the butches were completely empty when they came back? Witness
The weekly instructional patrol-No. the one that I emptied was. of the Kowloon Section will take still full Pleading guilty to a charge of in at the Tsim-tea-tout Fire Brigade She was christened Catherine, and
place on Tuesday, April 2nd. Fall Solicitor at Newton Abbot Chinese, who was deported last-Winter Uniform, returning from year for a period of ten years,
banishment a Station at 5.30 p.m. sharp. Dress was afterwards called Kate. She married in the name of Catherino, was sentenced to six months hard of the Hongkong Section will take
The weekly instructional patrol but now calls herself Georgina. labour and 12 strokes of the birch place on Thursday, April 4th. Fall don, N.W-I can't pay anything
- A defendant at Willesden, Lon by Mr.. T. S. Whyte Smith at the in at the Central Police at 5.15 p.m. because I'm broke: Magistrate- Kowloon Magistracy this morning, sharp. Dress-Wintor Uniform. What are you? Defendant-A plumber's mate when I'm at work.
you will be a capitalist. ed for a weak, and by that time Magistrato The, case, is adjourn
Sharpshooters Company.
An elderly Chinese woman who take place on Kennedy Road Range The next revolver practice will arrived from Canton by train yes on Sunday April 7th, at 10.00 a.m. terday appeared before Mr. T. S. Members will assemble at the Range Whyte Smith this morning on a at that time, with belts and holsters charge of being in unlawful pos- with revolver opium and 4.5 tacle of raw opium.] session of 0.5 taela of prepared] (Sgd.) W. KENT, A. 8. P. His Worship remarked that the
Adjutant. quantity was smaller than in pre- vious enses, but, as he aald on Saturday, he was increasing the cases. The defendant was fined term of imprisonment in such $800, or four months' hard labour.)
HAWKER'S BRIBE STORY.
INDIAN WHO WANTED TO WIN MEDAL.
WOMAN APPOINTED AGENT-GENERAL.
CHOSEN TO SUCCEED HER FATHER.
Mina Jean Iris Howard, the daughter of Mr. John Howard, Agent-General for Nova Scotia, who died on March 6th, has been appointed acting Agent-General in her father's place. She is the first woman to hold such a post.
...
breach of a condition of his licence age, had for years assisted her
A hawker, on being charged with
Miss Howard, who is 87 years of and with offering a bribe to an father in his work as Agent morning, that the constable asked her work that the Canadian Gov Indian, told Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith, General. at the Kowloon Magistracy this him for the bribe and then arrest ernment has cabled that she to Of such a high standard was
ed him as he the constable was "carry on" as the Administrative: trying to win a medal for good head of the Province's offico In services.
London,
Brown "How did your bridge party come off last night?"
Smith-Top-hole, thankė, though Jones didn't turn up.”-
Brown "But surely that was rather awkward; how did you get. along without him?"
Smith "Oh, I togged up my butler' In a spare suit of dress clothes and he played the part excellently."
Brown That was folly. lucky." Snrith "It was. I won a month's wages off the blighter.""
+
A Berlin burglar has just been identified by the tooth prints he left bekind in a cake of marzipan
No finger-prints were there as
eluo, No foot marks could they
meet;
/
In fact, the only thing they"
know
Was that his tooth was sweet.
But though his ways ware won-
drous slim,
His trail they quickly hit, So once Again we see in fin
A case of biter bit, m
The motorist walked into the
+
It may be taken for granted that the principles of discipline in the Royal Navy are not varied in any important degree by the new rules governing the relations between men of the Senior Service and their superior officers, just lasued to the Fleet by the Admiralty. Only a brief summary of their purport has so far come to hand, and this suggests that placed on a more simple and well- the old regulations have been in the Legislative Council at defined basis, rather than that any Singapore. One of the Chinese radical alteration has been made. members brought forward, in this The most important feature of connexion, a suggestion that the the new rules is the clear under- Government should cause clinics standing that every man, irres- to be established at such centres pective of rank, has the right, of as Singapore and Penang, under appeal to the Admiralty as the charge of specialists, for the final resort in the case of a purpose of affording advice and grievance. That some such right treatment, particularly in the early should be implied was shown at stages of the disease, The just a year ago, when it became the Royal Ouk" court-martial hela dom of such a atop was, he said, obvious as the case wore on that admitted by the Principal Medical belief had been gathering strength Officer more than a year ago. The in the junior ranks of the Navy official reply to the questioner was, that complaint against a superior to the effect that advice and treat was an invitation to punishment. His Worship pointed out that! ment in all stages of tuberculosis The new rules are expressly de- even though the constable
Verse Prize for Woman. had' are given in the general hospitals signed to remove that. belief, and asked for the money, it was an
Another woman has gained an local antique shop. of the Colony, and will also be we imagine that their purpose given it to him and if the Indian Elsie E. Phare, of Newnham grotesque to put on the front. of
offence for the defendant to have unusual distinction. She is Mise given at the now tuberculosis hos-will be achieved. Much formality wanted to recolve an award he College, Cambridge, and she has
"I want something funny and pital which is to be orected this must exhaust every other Service manner suggested..
is required. The "complainant" would not have gone about it in the been awarded the Chancellor's my car," he said to the girl in year. On the point of providing method of accuring rectification
Medal at Cambridge for English charge, elinies, it was stated that the of a grievance before he will be dant if he did not realise that the been won by a woman, although
His Worship asked the defen- matter had been considered, but considered justified in appealing constable would have got into Miss Phore was honourably men- This is the first time it has the Government had been to the Admiralty, while, the com-
trouble if known to have taken a tioned last year,..
Eton's new Jazz band made its advised that 'ft. 16 more plaint cannot be forwarded direct
bribe.
first public appearance, recently important to concentrate on the but must pass through, certain
The Newbridge Prize for Eng-in connexion with a cinema entor In cautioning the defendant on lish Verse at Oxford, on the other tainment given in the School Hall. Worshly remarked that he did not men in two consecutive years, these lines are, of on
In present Etonians, who enjoyed apparently realles the seriousness 1927 it was awarded to Miss Gor-both the music and the pictures. absolutely песозайгу to din-of the offence. The defendant was trude Travelyan, of Lady Mar- The hall was packed with an cipline, and the importance of the fined $4 on the charge of breach of garet Hall, and in 1928 by Miss enthusiastic audience. The problem touched upon in the specific granting of a privilege
Admiralty decision consists not in a condition of his licence.
Angela Cave, of the same College. the Singapore Council is one which (to be used as a last resort) but Hongkong has long had before it. rather in, if we may say so, its Indeed, it has still to be satisfac-psychological effect. If a junfor torily handled. How great a hold officer of the Royal Navy feels he tubercular diseases have on the has a grievance, the Inclination Chipcse of this Colony may be to nurse it will be exhibited in a gathered from the fact that in much lesser degree than in the 1927, the latest year for which past, and the net result in most cases will be the clearing of the figures are available, there were air, and a satisfactory settlement, well over two thousand deaths without thought of recourse to the from this cause, a figure which re-new privilege. Naval officers will presents more than fourteen per study the new rules with the cent, of the total Chinese deaths. keenost interest, and with the In addition, there wore over four satisfaction that they will mili- thousand deaths from other re- gate against 趄 possibility of
verac.
"Father," she called to the back of the shop, "you're wanted.".
··
Improvement of housing condi-specified, channels. Regulations the charge of offering a bribe, his hand, has now been won by wo Jazz is immensely popular with
tions, in which respect extensive schemes are being developed in Singapore.
spiratory diseases, with the re-another "Royal Dak” affair. sult that if we total the mortality
course,
MINIATURE STERLING SILVER CUPS spiratory diseases we find that it Works Department, charged a con-
rate for both tubercular and rs- Mr. J. A. Howe," of the Public
ALWAYS IN STOCK,
Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
Jewellery Dept.
Tel. C. 4687.
reaches nearly forty per cent. pf Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy tractor before Mr.-T.. S. Whyte the aggregate Chinese deaths. yesterday with dumping building
figures are, in all con- material on
a vacant plece ground near the Police Training,
The
of
COMMON ERROR/
IN BRIDGE AND HOW TO CORRECT THEM
by ww.wentworth
North (Dummy)-
Ka
. . . . .
The leader of the band was W. J. H. Novingon, a member of the cricket alevon, and the other players were P. F. Tarka (violin), E. A. Dawson (plano), J. H. Little and M. N. Crossley (saxophones), G. H. Lowther and D. P. Lelth (banjos), O.G E: Hoberts. (drums), and E. J. Cook (organ),
The band played popular airk both before the pictures began and in the interval.
83. GIVING OPPONENTH COX be played from Dummy and by During a recent revolution In
TROL OF ALIT
Declarer? 22
The Error: The 3 of spades is just one of the many prisoner
Mexico no special revolution played from Dummy and when under sentence of death took .. East plays a card higher than 6 of On the slay fixed for his execu- apades, Declaror takes with the 'tion, he was lying low with fever.. Queen of spades. Applying general
The prison doctor wrote to the
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120 5 2.
◇ A 16.4 4 4K 4-2
South (Declarer)== 4904-2
AK 10 QJ61
in
Tho Correct Method: the rule of fourth hest, Declarer locality: Your honoured excel- charge of ~ tho knows East holds three spades. Iency-In my opinion the prisoner The hold-up is necessary exhaust East of that sulf of execution without imminent to cannot be removed to the place Declarer should refuse to take the danger to his life." frat trick. East will continue to
play spades and the King of laat va spades will force Ace of spades. Barrister, asking Mr. Justice When Declarer wins the third Rowlait, to fix a date for hearing.. trick with Queen of spades all his case-Would you kindly fif any
game must be made.venient for me? Mr. Justice Row- The Frinciple: The ace of a sult latt-I suppose you always go to Deciding the Play: West leads is not absolutely necessary to Monte Carlo for the week-end. 5 of spades.
What card should execute the hold-up,
The barrister denied this.
science, staggering enough to School. The defendant was fined The Bidding: South opens with finesses are taken toward East and day but Monday, which is incon point the necessity for special $10 and ordered to remove all the no-trump and all pass. means being devleed of combating refuse that he had deposited on the scourge. Yet the position
the land,