THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,
SEPTEMBER 10,
1936.
HONGKONG TEXTILES RAMP EXPOSURE
"Telegraph" Articles Couse Big Clean-Up
Philippine Islands: Textile Imports Crash
MANILA CUSTOMS HUSBAND
AUTHORITIES
CLOSE "OPEN DOOR"
RE-EXPORT OF JAPANESE GOODS THROUGH COLONY
CEASES FOLLOWING NEWSPAPER EXPOSE
"Telegraph" Special
Following the "Telegraph" exposure last June of the amazing textile ramp existing between Hongkong and the Philippines, the Manila Customs authorities have staged one of the biggest clean-ups in their history.
WIFE
DAUGHTER-
---TOTAL 170 YEARS IN EAST
I
HONGKONG FAMILY HAS UNIQUE RECORD
THIRTY-SIX continuous years in Hongkong bad enough, but 69 years in the Far East-it just isn't done.
What's the use of retired majors and taipans sipping whiskys and sodas in a West End Club and telling about the
MALARIA FEARS ALLAYED
In
FEVER INCIDENCE IS
ALMOST NORMAL: FEAR UNWARRANTED
As a result of investigations, the "Telegraph" is able to allay fears, recently expressed, regarding the incidence of malaria in this Colony,
Although recent official statistics are not available, the "Tele-, graph" learns from a reliable source that the incidence of malaria is no greater than usual.
Hongkong
with
past decade.
1925 there In
are not
WATT
yet
WIES fre-
Of the 501 deaths in 1910, 282 oes
70 in Kowloon, both new free, 190 curred in the City of Victoria and in the villages of Hongkong, 30 in the Barbour, und ns at the Peak. Shaukiwan and Aberdeen were well- advertised malarial centres.
Latral available statistics concludeaths from malaria was 501 in
the whole of those days the entire Colony inn comparatively affected, ind Europeans died isely disclose that
malar-free.Colony when compared quently.
Malaya. Ceylon and other Ten years earlier, at the beginning tropical centres,
of the century, health statistics ghow Omeinl statisties to the end of 1934 | that more than 30 per cent, of the that the number of admissions Colony's Police Force was admitted to Government hospital hos de to hospital suffering from matarla.
591 DIED IN 1910 creased by 66 per cent. during the 1,142 admissions, in 1934 only 457. Win the exception of 1932, the 1934 20 years they spent in there is the lowest in the history of
the Colmay,
for 1135 In a series of articles, which were reprinted in Manila news-damnedest climate in the world Statistics
William J. vinile to dumme,
Press, but the papers, the “Telegraph" disclosed how unscrupulous merchants in when,
"Telegraph" 15 informed from a Hongkong were defeating the "Gentlemen's Agreement” between the Edwards naively admits to a
residence that goes back to 1867, reliable source that the incidence for this year is approximately Unt for United States and Japan.
Even when. hate and healthy at
1934.
During the first six months of the men's allotted span of three
current year 380 enses were admitted years and ten. he decides it's time thing to retire, he won't do the
to Government hospitals. This, on that the incidence for the whole year decently by going Home to a little the surface, would lead one to believe will be higher than usual, Such, cottage in the country, No, sir!
however,
cuse, as the nefdence is much higher during the that
Not me! I'm going to retire
of "ralny months than during the winter,
This agreement limited the quantity of Japanese textiles imported into the Philippine Islands to 42,000,000 linear yards per annum.
Hongkong merchants for a time defeated the agreement by importing Japanese textiles into this Colony, and re-exporting them to the Philippine Islands as "Hongkong Made" or "South China Made" goods.
An amazing series of framls, were unearthed.
The Japanese quota of 12,000,000 linear yards was filled in the first four months of the year, and direct exports from Japan'to. The Philippines were thereafter reduced to a minimum.
score
in
"Go Home and be miserable
scornfully. climate." he says
Shanghai
Elast
1 People years.
to
That's Hongkong for you. get that way after a few Won't admit that the climate isn't fu for a man to live in; or that anyone who stays over ifteen years has one foot in the grave.
Countless letters to Editors have
But, until the "Telegraph": exposure, exports from Hongkong lashed at Tiongkong's climate. Every
carb of the months, The figures
Duvar yards for previous March-July were:
to the Philippines continued at a merry pace.
In the first six months of this sear, Hongkong exparted a fotal of 35,460,303 hear yards of texiles to the Philippines, more than in the whole of any previous year,
tourist who visits us in the summer has something to say about it.
even four And
who the loyalist for
defends us against all traducers be comes silent when "climate" is the "Climate" is always a sub- subject. Ject a Hongkong: Jaurnalist can fall back upon when he's hard up for copy.
March 10.371.000 Alavesr yards April 10.706,000 near yards Alay 9.862,857 linear yards June 8,810.316 Rear yards That the greatest part of these
Therefore, Mr. Edwards had no July 5,326,478 Bnear yards. Hongkong exports were of Japanese
right to tell me that he's lived in origin was conclusively prayed by
It interesting to note that the the Far East for 6 years, in Hong- official statistics, which showed that Hongkong; imports from Japan hattures for the months following the kong for 36 years. It was rubbing it "Telegraph" disclosure are only in to add that his wife, daughter and increased in proportion, to its exports slightly in excess of the normal im- he can tot up 170 years residence in ports for the gentine Honghong Cathay between them, and that
to the Philippines.
summer
is not the
con-
No Europeans have fatally tracted malaria, and the percentage of Chinese fatalities is comparatively
low.
URBAN AREAS CLEAR Eteicnt drainage methods have ended malar. as far as the urban districts of Hongkong are, concerned, and persists only in certain parts of the New Territories and in some of the outer suburbs.
The ever-decreasing number of cases each year reflects the excellent work that ins been done by the Medical and Sanitary Departments in Hongkong to eendiente malaria.
In the early days malaria was the chief cause of sickness and death in Victoria and, in 1844, coneident with the breaking of the soil for the formation of Queen's Road, which was then the chief arterial road of the city. It became such a scourge that there were serious thoughts of
for July Just neither of them are thinking of leav-abantioning the entire island.
ing for many years to come.
It was estimated in one quarter market. The figures that fully 60 per cent. of long-year were 4,798,000 near yarde kong's exports to the Philippines were of Japanese origist. Yet the greatest part of the textiles enter- ing Manila from Ilongkong entered the Philippines as goods "Made in Hongkang or "Made in South
China."
Investigations by the "Telegraph disclosed that an amazing system of falsification was employed by several merchants in Hongkong in order to
the
Exports from Hongkong to Philippines have dropped in un even me sensational manner.
WIFE HOLDS RECORD
His wife, in fuct, can claim exact- In June, Hongker, exported 91.6-401 one month's longer residence in linear yards of Drills and Jeans. Ithe Far East than can Mr. Edwards.
"She was born in Shanghai July the exports were sil! Exports month
before I I was born up the of Miscellaneous Cottons amounted
Yangtze River, in August, 1887," he told me a chuckle. 10 3,543,933 near yards in June, and July had dropped to 1,081,969 Buear yards.
Few Europeans ventured up the Prints dropped from 482.490 linear yards in June to 254- famous inland waters of China
those days. Therefore, it comes na no surprise to know that Mr. Ed- wards was the first European baby born up the Yangtse.
secure entry for these textiles into lacur yards in July. the Philippines without disclosing that they were of Japanese prigin.
These methods Included the eut- Ung of Japanese brands and trade marks from the textiles when they were imported into Hongkong, and substituting Hongkong labels.
Another system was to open bales ur boxes of Japanese goods, take nut the top layers, and substitute genuine Hongkong or Chinese textiles. Only A cursory examination of the top loyers was made by Thilippines, customs officials,
A third method that attained some
popularity before the "Telegraph"
New Cure For 'Flu
Announced
VIOLET RAYS
Cambridge, Mass., July 24.
Two Harvard University scien-
In
In fact, Mr. Edwards can lay several claims to distinctions 醒目 equally newsworthy
fact as the that he was the first white baby born up the Yangtse.
He was one of the first boys to altend the St. Francis Xavier's Col- Lege in Shanghai, which was opened six years after his parents took him to Shanghai in 1870.
The graveyard at Stanley, where the first settlement was made, is an indication of the terrible toll taken by malaria last century. Nearly all of the inroates of this cemetery died fram maloris,
Available statistics show that recently as 1910, the number..... v£
of the sea took him to the engine- rouins of several West River ships. He retired in 1934.
-
IN JAPANESE NAVY
A half-century at sea in the Far East has included service with both the Chinese and Japanese navies and to-day Mr. Edwards' most vivid Impressions of the changes that have taken place during his life-time, has been the decline of the Chinese navy, the unpre- -cedented rise of the modern Japan-
ese feel,
"I have watched the Chinese Navy, as fine a fleet as you could wish for when Admiral McClure wos Its chief, decline to nothing, and the Japanese Navy, which consisted of a few small vessels when I served in 11, rise from
It would seem also that here, as in Malaya, the danger areas are not the large swamps and paddy fields remote from the hills, but collections of water within half a mile of the
Why it is so is not known, but spring water which has not, yet lost sparkle does have an attraction for Anopheles minimus and. Ano- pheles joyporiensts which, In this Colony, are the most potent carriers of malaria, Such water may be in poses, springs, pools or streams or it may be from the irrigation water for wet cultivation on the hill sides or in the valleys in the vichity. BEWARE OF HILLS
are.
The must malarious areas therefore, those in or near the hills. Unless carefully watered and cure- fully controlled works in the vicinity of the hills which involve disturb ance of the sul such as roads, rail- waterworks are nearly ways, or always attended by high sickness and death rates among the labour forces In Malaya this was employed. especially the ease when the soil was of granite formation and the same apples in Hongkong.
"RIPE" MOSSIES
An interesting point, which is not generally known, is that although a mosquito may bile a person suffering from maturis, it cannot transfer the infection until it is "ripe", ur sick of the discuse Itself,
It takes fourteen days for the mosquito to get "ripe", so that for fourteen days after biting an infected – person it does not transinit the germ
to another person,
RADIO BROADCAST
Dance Music from The Hongkong Hotel
Z.E.K. PROGRAMME
From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 kilocycles):
6-8 pan. European Programme. 5-7 pm. A felay of the
Garden.
Dance
disclosures was to enter goods with Itists have announced discovery | run on rails on Chinese soll. That nothing to a world power," he told Orchestra from the Hongkong Hotel
out consulur déclaration, posting a
FIRST TRAIN IN CHINA He rode in the Best train ever to, was in 1870, when the Chinese Em- 100 pesos bond that the declaration of a means of killing influenza pire, with great pomp and ceremony. would be delivered before a specified time. Non-delivery of the declara-germs by violet ray and hope inaugurated a railway service from tion meant only a forefeiture of the eventually to perfect a technique Shanghal to Woosung. 100 pesos bond, which represented that will remove the discase from an infinitesimal value of the goods that passed the customs before the among man's major scourges. 100 pesos became forfeited.
laken stringent measures to pre-
ing via Hongkong.
CAREFULLY CHECKED
Ench Consignment is carefully cheeked to prevent substitution of Hongkong labels for Japanese, and instead of the cursory examination of bales and boxes formerly made, strict examination of the entire con- tents of packages of textiles import- ed from Hongkong is made.
Influenza virus from the lungs of an Infected ferret were sprayed into the tank, then drawn off in test tubes.
the
MET PRESIDENT GRANT. One of Mr. Edwards' earliest recollections 15 that of meeting General-afterwards U.S. Pre- Mident-Grant when he visited
me.
P.m. Half
The Scene. Changes,
Maria
7 Incidentufly. Admiral McClure was
an hour with at one time a "skipper" in the indu-Brahms. China Steam Navigation Company's
May Night, Song-The fleet. He succeeded in command of "The railway wasn't too success- the Chinese Navy another old Olszewska (Contralto); Pianoforte ful." Mr. Edwards told me, with alme Hongkong resident, Admiral Sole Capriccio in B Minor, Op. 70, Rubinstein; Orchestral- reminiscent smile. "The bont "Chinese" Lung, whose son, Lt. Cdr. Arthiar Dr. W. F. Wells, an instruc- people plying along the river did not Lang, only recently retired from this Tragic Overture, Op. 81, The H.B.C. The decadence of the Symphony Orchestra; Song--Feldo- like this new competition on land. Colony. Following publication uf the tor in sanitary science at the So they bribed the country people to Chinese fect starts from the date of insamiteit. Elena Gerhardt (Mezzo- "Telegraph" articles, the customs | Harvard School of Public fie across the steel rails. Either the Admiral Lang's retirement.
Soprano); Violon Solo-Hungariun authorities in the Philippines have Health, and Dr. H. W. Brown of train-they
Dance No. 6 in B flat Major, Yehudi had two engines,
HELPED FOUND K.C.C..
Menuhin. vent Japanese textiles from enter the London School of Tropical "Celestial Empire" and the "For
It is interesting to note that Mr. Cathny" had to stop or run over
7.30 p.m.
Closing Local Stock Medicine have been working a
the protestants. In any case, there Edwards was, with Dr. Swann, Copt. Quotations. year on the experiments using a
was usually a thumping big, claimT. W. Selby and Mr. J. P, Robinson,
7.33
A Variety Concert. p.m. one of the original founders of the specially-constructed, hermeti- for damages from someone.
Instrumentai -- All in y life George cally-scaled tank.
Kowloon Cricket Club, which started ("Laughing Irish Eyca"), In 1992 with a "few second hand bats Elllote's Hawaiian Novelty Quartets borrowed from the laland club." le Organ was also one of the founders of the
Solo Second Reginald
Foort. (Heykens), Kowloon Junior Golf Club.
The Far Eastern history Edwards family actually dates back I do. Len Bormon; Clarinet Solo
of Mr. Song-It ain't nobody's Biz'ness what China in 1876. General Grant was introduced to father went to Shanghai from India.
to the end of the Fifties, when his Somebody's Wrong. Ern Peltifter;
Song When
Again April Comes Edwards Senior, who in turn in His mother arrived in 1805, the trip The Hollywood Revels of 1936"), refuse to accept a monetary bonds In Cee, while those that breathed the troduced his nine year old son. One from London to Shanghal occupying |
of young Edwards' proudest lieu of consular declarations regard- nituled virus immediately
re-six months!
Connolly; Piano Solo-The
Prince-Serenade, collections was that General Grant ing the country of origin of texiles, veloped influenza.
Mrs. Edwards, who was also bern Student gravely shook hands, called him a in Shunghat, in the eldest daughter Lowry: Song-With all my "Hind Ind"!
Master's of the late Alfred Silverthome, who ("Her Mr. Edwards first visited Hong-spent many years in the Far East.
Carlisle. in As a result of the more siringent efforts
8 p.m. Local: Time Signal, Weu- spent all but two years in Shanghal ther Report and announcements. measures adopted in the Thillp-fiving micro-orgilsins are justified in 1900, 1991, and came to live here Mrs. Edwards, like her husband, has
From 1892 to 1018 ho served with and Hongkong.
8.03 p.m. Chinese Studio Concert, pines to prevent fraud, Itongkong In the light of general sanitary
effectiveness imports of textiles from Japan, and principles.. The
of Jardine, Motiteson's floating staff in An only daughter is the wife of 31.p.m. Close Down.
p.m. European Pro- export of texilies to the Philippines ultra-violet light for such purposes various Indo China Navigation Com- Mr. Claude Glover, well known in 8.05-11 dropped in remarkable fashion in would also seem to be demonstrated pany steamers, and was a picturea-Hongkong as the skip of the Shang-gramme From Z.E.K. on n. Fre
que figure along the China coast. hat Interport Bowls Team which has July and August.
by our experiments."
The great reduction of intestinal DOWN TO HALF
discare through water purification Exact figures for August are not since the turn of the century might yet available, but official statistics Prompt us to hope that some of the diseases which arc transmitted slow that imports from Japan during the month of July were only 5,326,- through the respiratory tract may be the werepared with elecked by methods of purifying air an average of more than 10,000,000 supplies."United Press.
Ferrets that were given the treat- The Philippines authorities now ed virus falled to contract the dis
de-
and insist that before delivery is "In view of the proven possibility
mude the consular declaration be forthcoming.
of infected matter being carried by air, Dr. Well sold, "reasonable to free alr supplies from
kong
I
"Volce"),.
Tony heart Elsic
During the Great War he served taken Interport honours to the north-quency of 640 kilocycles.
Richard Crooks
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Georg ARLISS
In
THE
IRON DUKE
A GAUMONT-BRITISH
PICTURE Directed by
VICTOR SAVILLE
p.m.
Turner
Сурку Love Waltz Melodies mories",
8.30 (Lehar). Moonlight on the Danube
Layton Waltz (Gay), 5. Song-Kathleen (Vocal), Ivor Moreton and Dave Mavourneen (Crouch).
Kaye on Two Pianos. 8.35 p.m.
"Quartet in F Major" (Mozart) played by The Budapest String Quartet.
8.05 p.m. In the Transport Horolan, and was ern city, on three, occasions. Mrs: demobbed in Hongkong six months Glover left Hongkong 14 years ago. (Tenor) with Orchestre Mascotte. before the ship foundered with all and is resided-In Shanghol since.
Song-Killarney (Falconer-
བ་ hands off the Paravela ln' 1020. : .... Mr. Edwards, on retirement this Balfe), Good Liye (Tosti), Mr. Edwards Joined Messrs. W: S. month, will join his daughter and chestra-In Dreamy Night-Woltz Bailey & Co. after the Great War, son-in-law in Shanghal, and will (Zichrer) Evening on the Rhine- served on the well-known hip reside in the northern elly for some Waltz (Richartz), 3. Song-Love
9.20 Everlasting (Frimi), 4. Orchestra yard's staff until 1927; when the call years before going Home.
lev. 2: Song-Tm a fool for loving 1. Iustrumental-Fox-Trot Med. p.m. News and announcements you, Au Revoir, 3. Instrumental-
Quickstep Medley, 4. Songe-When from London.
p.m. "Alice Delysin Mc-
(Continued on Pago 4.)