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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SMALL-POX FIGURES.
LAST WEEK'S RETURN "SHOWS DECREASE.
The Medical Officer's return of small-pox cages for last week shows 4 decrease on that of 'the previous week. The number of cases re- ported was 16, na ngainst 21. The deaths numbered 36.
All the cures
were Chinese. Eight were reported from Kow. loon, seven from Victoria and one from Shaukiwan.
Yesterday four more cases (three Chinese and one
Indian) were notified.
The following table gives the weekly return sinco November 31. Week Ending Cases Deaths November 3 November 10
22
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November 17
31
9
November 24-
8
December 1
26
December. 8
61
16
December 14'
91
its ships, trains and hotels are
December 22
81
December 29
73
38
January 5
80 4B
January 12
January 19
01
85 44 83
January 26
78
February 2
67
58
February 9
80
· 69
February 16
47
61
February 23
54
69
March 2
G1 34
March 9
+37 42
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THE KELLOGG PACT.
JAPANESE RIDER TO BE ADDED.
*Tokyo, Apr. 23.
Offcial circles, intimate that the Kellogg Pact is now likely to be ratified without reservation, al though some sort of rider will probably bo added ensuring that
the words "in the name of the people" will be interpreted so is not to conflict with Japanese con- stitutional practice.
Though officials are non-com- mittal, the
vernacular papers Basert that the authorities are endeavouring to have the matter settled before the arrival of the Duke of Gloucester.-Reuter.
THE REPARATIONS, PROBLEM.
A SUB-COMMITTEE TO REPORT,
WEDNESDAY,
ST. GEORGE'S DAY IN HONGKONG.
(Continued from Page 2.)
He is representative of English nationality and cohesiveness-he in the bond which unites. English men throughout the Empire, and indeed throughout the world.
His Majesty our King, whose recovery from his recent Illness has brought so much joy to his subjects, bears the birth-name "George," after our Patron Saint.
So much for the history of St. George and what he means to England and to Englishmen, but there is something more—it is on St. George's Day that the thoughts of Englishmen, wherever they are, return to their native land, and there is no one who does not ask himself in his heart what it is that England stands for. And there comes into one's mind wonder na to what England may stand for in the minds of genera- tions to come, if our country goes on during the next generation as she has done in the last two, in converting her fields into
lowna."
The Country. To an Englishman, surely England is the country and the country is England, and when the Englishman is abroad, England
APRIL 34, 1929.
YANGTSZE INCIDENT.
WUHAN FORCES MAY BE BLAMED FOR SHELLING.
Tokyo, Apr. 28. Pending the receipt of further details the Government have thus far not protested against the Bairyo Maru incident and hope to be able to settle it locally, though they consider the situation will be complicated if it is proved that are responsible, the Wuhanites as it is felt that a protest to Nan king in' that event would be in effective under the present cir cumstances.
In the meanwhile the incident in Tainan, involving the death of Colonel Ito, is being settled locally, while Mr. Yoshizawa la still pres- sing Nanking to expedite arrange- ments enabling the Japanese gar- rison in Shantung to be withdrawn by the end of May-Reuter,
Japanese Concern.
Peking, Apr. 23.`· Mr. Yoshizawa, failing to get a satisfactory reply from Nanking regarding the date the Chinese can take over from the Japanese garrison in Shantung, left for Hankow this morning on a des- troyer for a personal Interview with Marshal Chiang Kai-shek. Later.
Owing to the receipt of fresh comes to him through various | Instructions from Tokyo, Mr. senses through the car, through Yoshizawa has altered his ar eye and through certain imperish-rangementa, and is not proceed. able scents, and what are they? ing to Hankow-Reuter. The sounda of England-the tinkle of the hammer on the anvil in the country smithy-the cornerake on a dewy morning- the sound of the seythe against the whetstone--the sight of a plough team coming over the braw of a hill-the sight that has been seen in England since England was a land.
The wild anemones in the woods
in April the last load of hay being drawn down n Inne as the twilight comes out, and you can scarcely distinguish the figures of the horses as they take It home to the farm-and above all, most subtle, most penetrating and moat muving, the smell of wood smoke coming up in an autumn evening that wood smoke that our ancestors, tens of thousands of years ago, must have caught on the air, when they were coming home with the result of the day's
forage, when they were still nomads, and when they were still roaming the foreals and the plains.
Love of Home.
These things strike down into the very depths of our being, and touch chords that go back to the beginning of time and the human race, but they are chords that with every year of our life sound a deeper note in our innermost being.
of their greatness. They go over- seas, and they take with them what they learned at home; love of justice, love of truth, and the broad humanity, that ard characteristic of English people.
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English Characteristics, It may well be that these
we pride our traits on which
show selves, which we hope to and try to show in our own lives, may survive survive among our people as long as they are a people-and just as today, mora than fifteen conturies since the last of those great Roman jegionaries left England, we still peak of the Roman strength, and the Roman work, and the Roman character, so perhaps in the ten thousandth century, long after the Empires of this world as we know them have fallen, and others have risen and fallen, and risen and fallen again, the men who are then on this earth may yet speak of those characteristics
of
Desire for Co-operation.
away,
of
which we prize as the cher- acteristics
England's, and that long after the name of the
Бая passed country wherever men are honourable and upright and persevering, lovers of home, of their brethren, justice, and of humanity, tho men in the world of that day These are the things that mako may any, we still have among us England. They ought to be the the gifts of that grent English inheritance of every English child | race,
-nothing can be more touching than to see how every man and woman will have their garden if they can-will go to gardens if they can to look at something they havenover seen, but which The Reparations Experts Com-their ancestors knew and loved. mittee in a communique states ft The love of these things is innate
In lands beyond the sen. has unanimously decided on the and inherent in the English. It
England I never knew till then appointment of a sub-committee, makes for that love of home, one
The love I bore for thee." consisting of the heads of each of the strongest features of our
In conclusion, whilst it is on group, to draw up a report em-ruce, and it is that that makes St. George's Day that our bodying the points already agreed our race seek its new home in the thoughts turn to Englishmen and
Dominions overseas, where they England, nevertheless
our good have room to see things like this, wishes and desire for hearty co- that they can no more see at operation go out to all the other home. It is that power of making | races and nationalities, who, to- homes, almost peculiar to our gether with us, make up the Great people, and it is one of the apurees British Empire,
1:
Lo.
Paris, Apr. 23.
Meanwhile, it is anticipated that all groups will continue their offerte to reach an agreement on points on which accord has not yet been reached.-Reuter.
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