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THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1932.
MENINGITIS.
tu
ram-
DAY BY DAY
THE HISTORY OF A LIFE 18 THE 11ISTORY OF A BODY NO LESS THAN THAT OF A SOUL-Morley,
from n successful tennis tour Malnya and Sumatra.
attend.
tractors,
WHAT I SAW IN
I
thanks to
SOVIET RUSSIA.
By A British Seaman.
that this is its total value--pre- ventive treatment of such a kind might poancas a distinct advan- take. We do not know the extent of the efforts which the Authorl-
of black ties are making to grapple with
SAW & Means Test demonstra-, stretch, on two meals the problem, but, if we are
tion in Edinburgh recently, bread and water and sometimes a judge from the observations re-
and some of the banners displayed, little mince or fish ple, the latter contly made by the Medical Officer
You have only to say a word in Mr. B. Wylie left Hongkong to-day such as "Support Soviet Russia," a nauseating concoction. of Health, there would appear to
in that, distressed country the wrong ear and you are la pri- that practically by the .. Glenluce on flame leave. brought memories of my experi-
son. The "Ogpu," or secret police, be an attitude
During his absence, Mr. F. P. Frank ences nothing can be done in the mat-in wil net as General Manager of back to me.
About twenty months ugd I was are everywhere. In Russia, please in ter. This will strike the publle South China Morning Post, Limiled.
surprised on rejoining my ship, a note, all sentences are "hard in- as reflecting a somewhat fatalistic
Among the passengers arriving here Newcastle tramp, to find she had bour." The prisoners work frame of mind. Surely medical
by the P. and O. liner Ranipura was science han advanced sufliciently sir. Denis H. Hazell, Far Eastern been leaned to Russia, and that twelve hour shifts under guards of become a unit of the Soviet Mer-ply of prisoners is so great that to permit of something more than director of Wm. Sykes Lu., returning ship and crew had automatically with fixed bayonets, and the sup- canlite Marine. None of us folt no care le taken of their welfare. merely sitting with, folded arms
elated to be serving under the Thoy develop soros and disonses, and allowing maiters to take their]
lantern Red Flag, but we were all curious moet with accidents, and work on own course. For aught we know, A paper, Illustrated by
where all were rench that stage it is left to fate the Government may be
much slides, will be delivered by Mr. P. C. and anxious to see for ourselves until they collapse. When they
whether they recover or dic. the Institution of En-equal.
The prison camps are heavily more active than that, but the im-Barrand on "The Ljunstrom Steam this "Eldorado”
Turbine" at
We sailed to Onega, a timber) pression docs certainly
prevailgineers and Shipbuilders, on Thursday, that the full seriousness of the April 14, at 6.30 p.th. Members and port in the White Sen, and finally guarded, but there is a right of their friends are cordially invited to made a landfall after being lost, way through several, and wo uned old charts. We lay these frequently. The shacks the situation is not realised.
pri- We urge the utmost concentra- tion on the outbreak, on the ground Falling from the first floor of a there for a week, and not a soul men live in are mere shelters and that it will be late in the day to house under construction in Portland came out to us during that time, indescribably filthy. Each take special measures if and when Street, a plumber, Chung Man-kwong, not even to take their own pilotsoner is given a cotton suit and a of the Yau Lee firm of building con- ofl. At the end of the week we pair of jack boots, which he wears received injuries to his were ordered to Archangel, and until they rat.. His boots are then the disease becomes more
to arrived there on a Sunday morn- replaced by sacking,
One or two women are employed pant in our midst. Macao would head, necessitating his removal
all day washing the clothes of jou dozens of ships. appear to be doing its utmost to the Kwong Wah Hospital in a serious ing, to find work going on noisily
condition.
ofcials swarmed hundreds of follow prisonore, an Uniformed restrict the effects of the scourge
March 31, aboard-and, by the way, they almost superhuman task. I have by insisting on isolation of suf
Up to and including
with decent een barefooted women and chil ferers, disinfecting all premises in some 100,579 persons had been vacare the only ones
of the Sclothes.
wireless set was dren packed from compounds at Our
taken the bayonet point. for work up the This Brigade. which cases have occurred, and cinated by the members
John Ambulance
ships giving special treatment to con-
work was done free of charge.. The sealed, our cameras were
To beg food from the tacts, as well as keeping them un-
largest number of vaccinations were away, and our money put in the line.
ten years hard labour, der observation. To what extent performed by the Mongkok Division safe the latter because the Rus
Russian roubles are use-which penalty I saw enforced once the Hongkong authorities are do-33,201, and the next largest by the sian pensants try to board foreign means Chinese Athletics Association Blvi-money.
loss for saving, the currency being on two hungry pensants. To try ing likewise has not been reveal-sion-17,590.
altered every two years, making to escape from the country and be caught is to be shot in your tracks. ed, but it is sincerely to be hoped
Tim exhibition of paintings by Mr.ench previous currency Invalid.
Social Conditions.
This I never witnessed personally, that nothing will be left undone
M. Kitchigin at the Athena Studio, in check.
Gloucester Building, continues to
We lay six weeks in Archangel. but I was shown a freshly-dug to keep the outbreak
I met. The dread nature of the disease, draw daily crowds of art lovers. with its high mortality rate, is in Opportunities of this kind are natur- was tallying cargo most of the grave by the roadside, which, ac- ally restricted in Ilongkong, and art time, and gained a lot of informa-cording to the apprentices of in- itself sufficient reason for every
One or two had was that of a stowaway, traced to lovers have not been slow to grasp tion from prisoners who tallied other British ship whom
Aalong with me. opportunity now presented." possible precaution being adopted the
remarkable nude study by Mr. Kit-been priests-there le no religion the hold of their ship, from which to limit its sphere of influence.
chigin entitled "Firelight" has at now and others studied at Univer- he was hounded out and shot. the revolution. Since then the British chief en- tracted con
attention, and considerable several other works of art have a sities hefore
The exhibition is asked the same questions of dif-gineer of the same ship has been ready been sold. open daily from 9 a.m. at the Athena ferent people, and their answers shot dead in Archangel for refus-
varied little. Ashore 1 gained the ing to show a passport.
Printed in Britain. Studin, Gloucester Building.
rest of my information, and see-
In the matter of propaganda ! ing is belleving."
The great majority live in com- take off my hat to the Russians. munity houses-one family, re- A ship docks and a suave gentle- gardless of numbers, to two rooms, man comes aboard, pats you on the and filthy rooms, too, devoid of all back, and escorts you to the Inter- ornament. Children remain with national Seamen's Club of the dis- teen, when they, too, go to live in fairly good English, in which you their parents until the age of four-trict. You listen to speeches in community houses. The marriage are urged as downtrodden work- ers of the world to unite and by law is a bauble,
U.S.A, and Japan.
of
CANTON GOVT.'S
MONEY.
WITH THEFT.
plots.
It does not follow that because an Admiral has predicted a Japna- ese-American War. it cannot be avoided. Neither is the sugges- tion lightly to be disregarded. that factors There is no doubt have been at work in the United States turning the great body of AUCTIONEER CHARGED opinion almost violently against underlying Japan, including an
Described as an auctioneer of 23,
The people are in three classes free, and you are told all about the racial antipathy, ecouamie rivalry Staunton Street, Tong Hon-chu ap and the "yellow peril" seare peared before Mr. Wynne Jones at for ration purposes I believe Wall Street crash, and many other While the the Central Police Court this mor labouring, clerical, and skilled incidents twisted and contorted to twenty year's ago.
of theft of workmen, the clerical classes hav-appeal na diabolical Capitalistic earthquake of 1923 and Japan's ning on a charge
The walls of the clubs are But everyone is rationed, the enlightened policy following the $22,680 (Hongkong currency), the ing the least most.
housewife usually spending all the covered with horrible pictures of Washington Conference greatly money belonging to the Govern-
ment of Canton, sentiment,
Mr. D. L. Streilett appeared for morning in the queues. The price the revolution and with banners in improved American
of butter I found to be 8s. 6d. English and other language, such popular prejudice has persisted. the defendant,
of clothes Dectective Inspector A. J. Dor-pound-and they export butter-as "Down with the Pope” and of poor "Down with the Capitalists." The Exclusion of Japanese immigru- tion was a gratuitous affront that ing intimated that Detective In-and n suit Without wishing to be in any
the revolution. Many way alarmist, we camot help could only have been made por-pector K. W. Andrew, who was in material would come to about £15, tables are covered with pamphlets pital, and the police were not ready person has an Identification dine printed in Glasgow, London, Ber lin, and even as far away as New not and is virtually a prisoner. doubting whether the authoritiessible by a latent, deep-rooted anti-charge of the case, was ill in hoa-but were hard to get at all. Every
violence of the to start the
Working Conditions. York. The strange part in that are taking the present meningitis pathy. Recent
Everyone but the housewife, many of these stupid things are outbreak seriously enough. The Japanese military has stirred the known when the officer would be
in able to attend Court.
of normal number of cases in a year feeling into active animosity
Mr. from the age of nine, works in written by Britishers. suggestion At the It
In these clubs women, old and in Hongkong is between twenty many widely-varied quarters.
Strellett, the case was remanded some way for the State. Girls and twenty-five: already since is of such things that wars are formally until Monday to see whe-and boys from the age of nine till young, and men of course, are This situation unquestion-ther the officer would be able to they reach twelve have to work made to stand in order that we January there have been about made. forty, with quite a dozen deaths.ably holds possibilities of grave attend and if not whether Inspec-four hour day. Hundreds of such can have seats, and such was their astride horses dragging the slings again when we objected to this Five fresh cases were notified on dangers, and it would be well for tor Dorling would be in a position children helped to load us, sitting fear that they would not sit down
of timber. From the age of twelve
practice. farts Tuesday. These
are in Americans to turn for guidance to conduct the case,
of their two
till sixteen a six hour working themselves suficient proof of the to certain words fact that the Colony is facing a greatest presidents. One of the goodwill which must underlie that day is demantied, and from that relatively serious outbreak, which most striking things in Washing friendship. But hatred is not aage up till eighteen they work a may grow into even larger dimen-ton's final advice to the infant na-solvent, and it is more necessary eight hour day. From then on
his adjuration to ex-
I often saw girls stamping and |sions unless every possible effort tian was
tallying eargo for 24 hours at wards it seems to be all work.
na-
And among Lincoln's Inst words to his countrymen
were
On
avolded.
was сабе. It
is made to combat it. We have reclude "permanent, inveterate anti-to-day than ever before that it be collections of the terrible visita, pathies against particular tion in 1918, when it became neces-tions." sary to institute special measures; and, knowing the facility with those asking them to press which the disease spreads, the pub."with malice toward none, with lie would like to feel assured that charity for all, with firmness in something more than merely trust- the right as God gives us to see firmness In the right." To-day ing to the effects of the warmer
no hatred. weather will be done in the pre- the right requires
Stendfast maintenance of Ameri sent ouibreak.
The facts of the situation are can rights and determined insis- ach- well-known. Macno is at the mo- tence.upon the recognition of in- ment experiencing a bad enidemic ternational obligations will
ieve more than excited hostility. of the disense, and, even effective quarantine restrictions it is essential that Japan should uc allowed profit by possible, which seems doubtful, it not
were
to
is believed that this would provide violence, but it is equally neces
into
no guarantee against the discnsenry' that violence should not be prevent violence. being brought
Ilongkong. employed to The problem is rendered difficult And that the seeds of future vio- owing to the spreading of the com-lence should not be sown. And plaint by healthy carriers. But if if u "permanent, Inveterate" anti- the disease cannot be tackled at its pathy toward Japan is to be avoid- Hource, surely something might be ed In Amerien, it is important that accomplished or attempted in the greater effort be made to under- why of preventive measures in this stand Japan. In so far as anti Colony. In the 1918 outbreak,pathy is founded on ignorance and atomizing centres were establish-fear, they should be removed. One ed at various points, which the noed not try to justify unjusti publle were required to visit daily.fiable actions, but it is impossible The Medical Officer of Health falto judge fairly without knowing sceptical of the benefits of such more of the background of tho treatmont, but to the lay mind it Sino-Japanese question than would seem that nothing would be gonorally known in the United lost, and possibly much gained, by States. The key to pence in the the instituting-of some such mea-Pacife lles in Japanese-American sures. It is common knowledge friendship. Regret can hardly be that in times of epidemics there is too great that Japan's prosont such a thing as communal fear, mistako has tromenduoaly and, to put it no higher-thoughplicated the problem of achloving understanding ----and wo are by no meana convinced the mutual
coiri-
"Of course
don't really intend to disinherit them, but it's Just us well to keep them thinking so."
on
are
I found by comparing notes with the tally clerks, who put down rough estimates of the "Red" bare 15 per cent. of the country because the population of the big cities, that a was "Red." Only minority have the control of the communicationa, arms, and food, and because the policemen are given the ran of the place to keep them happy, is order kept. And- the biggest factor is that the Rus- alan peasant la comparatively chil-. dish in mind owing to a lack of education over conturies. The majority have a very strange con- of conditions in other ception countries, too.
Dumping. The peasant is being starved and slaved so that farm produce and the wealth of that vast coun- try can be sent abroad ridiculous- ly cheap: the biggest factor in the world alump of to-day. The majority of the Russians, mark yau, are a lovable people, who. have never had a break, Brat tram-. pied under the hoofs of Cossacks' horses, and now mere tooth in the cog-wheel of the Soviet machine.
Only the prisoners showed any tendency to talk, and they wore glad to do so. Others, who had their freedom to consider, had to. be coaxed, and as they talked their.
were never still-always eyes watching.
Although our ship was under the Soviet, we could not obtain any stores. not even fresh water, for it was purifled by the slow process of boiling, and so was scarce. For five weeks in Archangel wo lived on salt meat and canned stuffs.
It was not possible to ace inside the factories, for they were close- ly guarded-another Soviet cus tom. Propaganda and guns seem to be the only plentiful things; and Propaganda went so far that if fresh meat wore available! foreign sallors were given prefer- ence for appearances' sako,