THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1936.
199 Hats
BUFFALOES THAT BECOME "BEEF?
Slaughtered As Food For Hongkong Population Heath
Thousands Slaughtered THIS UNORTHODOX FOOD CAN COME TO YOUR HOUSEHOLD
NO DISCRIMINATION BETWEEN BEEF AND BUFFALO AT THE LOCAL MARKETS
Special to "Telegraph"
WHEN next your Chinese cook makes a purchase at the butcher's stall at any of the local public| markets, and it is a succulent beefsteak you'll be! thinking of for your next meal, it is best to specify hung ngau, or “red cow".
This particular designation may sound odd, but it makes all the difference in the world: for, without it, you are liable to be served with water-buffalo meat!
The somewhat startling fact has been disclosed that 40 per cent. of the meat sold at the Hongkong public mar- kets, and which later goes into the pot masquerading as "beef", is really derived from water-buffaloes of the Asiatic' variety, imported into and slaughtered by the thousands for food every year.
These figures are secured from statistics of dealers, confirmed by actual observations by a "Telegraph", correspondent at the depot | and abattoir at Kennedy Town. These show an average killing of 150 heads of "cattle" cach day.
But of these, only 90, or approximately six out of every ten
animals slaughtered, are bullocke.
Carmen and Conrad, who will make their first appearance in -
Hongkong at the Gloucester Hutel gain on Saturday night.
The remaining 60 are really water-buffaloes, represented mostly AT
by the larger Siamese and Indo-Chinese variety in the shipments.
regularly made to this Colony from near-by points.
On arrival here, the animals by taste alone. Not that it is con- are taken to the laan, or depot,tended that buffalo meat is the less
Wholesome.
SCHOOL AMID CHOKING GAS
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RADIO BROADCAST Scotts
A Relay from London. "Tommy Tune's Tours" FOOTBALL COMMENTARY.
Radio Programme Brondeust by Z. B. W. on Wavelength of 355 metres, (845 k.e's), 34.20 metres, (8750 k.c's), 10.75 metres, (15.10 megacycles):
5.15-7 p.m. Chinese Programme, 7 p.m. A Variety Programme. Plano Solos-Breakin' in a pair of shoes, Sugar Rose...Carroll Gibbons (Plano) and His Boy Friends; Iu- morous-In love again..... .Florence Desmond (Comedienne); Organ Solo
Indian Love Call.. Krumgold;
Vocal-Henriin' Home
The Hill Billles;
Prof. Giuseppe Gargano; Song Hypnotized...... Turner Layton; Orchestra Selection-- "This'll Make You Whistle."
Serenata Medlo.
Mandoling Solo-
7.30 p.m. Closing Local Block Quo- tations and Hongkong Exchange Market Report.
7.35 p.m. The London Piano- Accordeon Band.
Calling me home; I have lost my heart in Budapest; Hawalian Para- dlse; Dream Time; Our days together; · Rosalle; An Old Hawaiian Guitar: On the Beach at Ball-Bali.
8 p.m. Time, Weather, and An- nouncements.
8.03
p.m. The First Act of The Opera Tosca (Puccini), played The Orchestra and Members of La Scala, Milan, Conducted by Carlo Sabajine.
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1. Ah! I have bulked them; 2. Strunge Harmony: 3. Excellency, Am going: 4. Dost thou not long for our enttage cecluded?; 5. No eyes
Got why should T- on earth; a. hurry? 1. The cannon of the For- trens; 8. A stupid blunder; 0 T1 me he could not be untrue; in. And I who sought him here; 11. Three Agents and a close curriage.
8.50 p.m.
Three Light Violin Solox by Fritz Kreisler.
1. Rondino (On a theme by Bee-
Hongkong's Smithfield, at Ken- How the Chinese, who, from the nedy Town, where subsequently. standpoint of numbers, from the "TELEGRAPH” REPORTERS LEARN thoven), (Kreisler); 2. Feir Rose-
with ordinary cattle, they are largest consumers of the substitute sold at the early-morning nuc. In this Colony, should so long have tions.
From this point, after having paased from dealer to retailer, they
remained in Ignorance of the fact, or, having known of it, should have remained wholly indifferent, is con- fusing, Sold at very little less cost than beef if beef had been
COWS AND Cows
sold
The Chinese description of or the nomenclature they have devised for these buffaloes, is merely sui ngau, Le. "water cows", literally. So after at can be argued that they üre cows.
TEARS
A LESSON WITH
Special to the "Telegraph"
mary
(Lehnr).
(Kreisler); 3. Serenade
(Ferraris); Kiss me again (Herbert).
9 p.m. London-News and An- nouncements.
9.20 pan. Variety. Planoforte Solo Tazz Gobbins... Raie da Costa; Song-Mon ami le ecnse, for all practical purposes, whole", it could scarcely be con- to enjoy an existence apart.
WITH tears streaming down their faces, and handker-vent....Mile. Lucienne Boyer; Organ Solo-Hermann Lohr Medley...Syd- tended that they preferred buffalo Going the way of all flesh, that
chief pressed to smarting eyes, "Telegraph" re- ney Gustard; Humorous-Pipe and and Jetsam; is to say, to the neighbouring obat-meat to beef for reasons of economy. It there be any explanation, it
Hawalian Maldi toir, their individuality is lost: they
Novelly Sweet the combination presentatives yesterday disproved Napoleon's adage that Cigarette Flotsam may be found In have now became merely "ment of conservatism and laissez-faire-a an army moves on its stomach. When there's tear gas Band-Romantic Waltz Medley. but much less buffalo tuin "beef fatalism, or ready neeeptance of
9.40 p.m.
Light Orchestrat You, yoursell, may already have
Music. at some time or other seen some of things which do not netuilly harm, about an army moves on its feet, and moves quickly.
which had resisted deviation from
ocean (Diading); A life on the these long-suffering but
The scene was laid at a small brick building just off patient
Speakeasy-Cuban Dance (Lowls E animals on the rice flats in the New another "olo custom".
Gensler); Ballroom Memories (arr. Territories. With their long, spread-
Queen's Road East. The Twelfth Company of the R.A.S.C.
Hobrecht): Echoes, from the Puszta Ing horns, and tough, hairless skin they bear very little resemblance to
were the actors, with a Gas Instructor as the villain.
London. A Relay from 10 p.m. the undersized Chinese cows along
Ben: "Tommy Tune's Tours" side
which they may have been
No Conducted by Josef Marnin toiling.
Music and and His Troubadours. Yet, after conversion to "meat",
The dealers, it taxed with a proc-have taken the full course of in- tions against gases,
Albert Diggenhof and probably after the animal has had tice which has permitted very little struction in anti-gay work.
Tear gas is used in the military Lyrics by a life of toilsome effort for The
and naval gas chambers because it Josef Marals. Script and production Chinese peasant with his primitive discrimination for consumers, may
Wa watched the soldiers of the is too risky lo use the more deadly by John Pudney.
10.22 p.m. Dance Music. plough, this buffalo flesh is very come quick in his rejoinder. He is sure
to say, "You cannot expect whole Twelfth Company, faces protected forms. Soine of the gases might
If p.m. Close Down. monly put alongside of, if not mixed beef at the price you are paying" ay gas masits, unconcernedly walk escape. with, beef, and sold indiscriminately They claim that there are not enough into a sealed chamber filled with as such to the unwary housewife.
red cows to go round in Hongkong tear gas, und, deciding to find out APPEARANCE THE SAME
Somehow, they will say, the supply what it was like, danned gas masks I am eredibly told that there is from munarts
always been ourselves. little, if any, difference in the colour Jimited, despite their best intentions
The first sensation as a gas mask AS YOU CROW READY FOR IT, SOME- and general appearance of the iwatowards consumers. meats, except perhaps for, a slightly So it is, at in your arst order is donned is one of sulfocation. But WHERE OR OTHER YOU WILL FIND WHAT courser grain in buitalo, which may to the compradere, tell him to get this quickly passed, and the only Is NEEDFUL FOR YOU IN A BOOK, OR
immediately
KOS-A FRIEND, OR IN YOUR OWN THOUGHTS. 1101 hve been
ap-"red cow", or you will run the risk sensation as we entered the brent. it would necd. too,
a of getting meal of quite a differentlled chamber was un after-a-blunt---Gcorgé Macdonald. veritable gourmet
discriminate category.
razor-shave feel on the bare arms únd neck.
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Spain And Hongkong
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Civil War Stifles Trade with Colony
CIVIL
We were making a brief visit to the Military Gas Chamber, where already themennds of soldiers, members of the Hongkong Volunteers and St. John's Nursing Detachment
DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF
A married woman, Lee Yu, 33, was knocked down by a bus in Nathan Road yesterday. She was removed to the Kowloon, Hospital for treat- ment.
Among the passengers who sailed A woman, Ching Shek-hin, was yesterday aboard the s.6. Gneisenau A container above a small fre in admitted to the Government Civil was Mr. R. I. Scott. recently Acting the centre of the chamber holds the Hospitul yesterday suffering from Trade Commissioner in Hongkong. gns, One small pessary, no larger Lysol poisoning, said to have been travelling to Shanghai on transfer. than a rain-drop, is sufficient to taken in un attempt to commit sul-Mr. Scott. relieved Mr. G. Clinton the room with choking and blinding į cide.
Pelham who recently returned from home leave.
fumes.
It is quite easy to carry on a con- A coolic, Chee Lo-chee, was re- versation with the new type gas moved to the Government Civil Hos masks, and our guide explained, in pital yesterday suffering from injuries a curious tihny voice, how a speck received when he accidentally fell of mustard gas only a millimetre in while walking in Des Voeux Road a ten cent plece upon the skin, and the rain, and Chee alipped whilst in
n hurry. pears it is too late to do anything
Prol. K. H. Digby will deliver a lecture under the joint auspices of the Hongkong University Medien Society and the Chinese Medical at 8.30 p.m., in the School of Surgery, University, on "The Role of the Subepithelial Lymphatic Glands."
war in Spain has brought trade with this Colony to an el. size will make a blister the size of West: The rond was wet, owing to Associatlon on Monday, November 9, most complete standstill, latest statistics issued by the Imports low by the time the first effect ap- and Exports Department reveal.
At best, firms importing from Spain are in a perpetual state of about it.
SCENTED-BUT DEADLY
uncertainty and anxiety as to how or when their goods can be obj tained and shipped to Hongkong.
no
He told us about Lewisite the deadly geranium-scented Kas which even in the most diluted form stings
the membranes of the nose.
"Take off your masks," our guide said. Doubtless the fiend smiled
he still retained his mask.
"Run for the door," he roared. We dabbed and did!
Fourteen cases of Diphtheria with (one imported), ane
Appearing on remand on a charge of unlawful possession of a radiator cap with a calormeter attached to it at Johnston Road on Sunday, Yu-llol, eight deaths weeks hard labour by Mr. W. Typhoid with three deaths, one case 21, unemployed, was sentenced to six case of Scarlet Fever, ten cures of Schofield, at the Central Magistracy of Meningitis, one case of Puerperal 'the radiator cap had not been culosis were reported to the local this morning. Inspector Logan said Fever and sixty deaths from Tuber-
claimed.
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IIealth authorities during the week ending October 31. On Monday two cases of Diphtheria were reported.
Just as trade between Hongkong and Italy was brought to a standstill by the imposition of sanctions a year ago, so dealers with Spain are faced with an impossible situation to-day.
As a result of the uncertainty | foodstuffs and provisions, oils and existing in Spain, Hongkong's im- tats, palats and sundries,
In September the only imporis ports from that country dropped to a total of $180 in September. into Hongkong were Spanish liquors,
Whilst walking along Castle Peak valued at $180. There were
"It won't hurt you," our masked As a comparison the imports from exports whatsoever, local exporters guide said pleasantly, as he leisure- Road yesterday a woman, Chlu Tal Spain during March were $22,664, declining
out into the fresh 75, was knocked down by lorry No. to accept the risk. Welly followed us while in July, two months before usually export olls and fats.
nir. "But you see how difficult it 4283. She was taken to the Kowloon It civil war broke out, they stood at
almost certain that the would be to the a rifle after you Hospital suffering from slight in of quantities of brass from Taikoo $75,785.
Christmas trade of dried fruits and have been gassed with tear gasi" juries. At the time of the accident, Dockyard. Wu Chol was alleged Spain's experis
like delicacies in this Colony, much
carrying long stalks of ilongkong
A strong whiff of the gas leaves Chlu was 10
of which comes from Spain, will be you helpless. You cough and choke sugar cane on her shoulders. The have stolen ten pounds of brass, and. reached record figures this
ho was fined $20, in default, six and the tears stream down your lorry, turning a She was one of the few nations to seriously affected..
blind corner hit weeks hard Inbour, while Tsang 07, against the Lalics and threw the face.
who had stolen eight pounds of brass, capture a big portion of the trade
woman into a ditch. formerly enjoyed with Italy; whose
was given two months' hard labour trade dropped to nii-during
he hnd a previous conviction, early part of the year.
year.
the
Now Haly has stepped in and has not only regained her former trado lost to Spain durlog, sane- tions, but has additionally gained, Spain's own portion.
ITALIAN TRADE BOOMS While Spain's, trade has, de- clined, Italy's las boomed. In Sepleinber, we made our first ex-
ADOPTED BY POLICE
Two men appeared before Mr. W. Schofield, at the Central Magistrocy this morning, charged with larceny
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That is why it has been adopted Shum Chok-chiu, unemployed, ap- paris since the beglaning of by the Hongkong Police for quel-
Two unemployed men, Ngai Ho. "Sanctions" to the formerly boy-ing riots. A tear gas bomb will perred before Mr. K. Keen at the colted country, sending goods to clear a street of combatants quicker Central Magistracy this morning 34, and Ny Shing, 39, were brought
a charge of unlawful posseaston uf the value of $7,440. These com-than a dozen squads of police. prised. Chinese medicines ($800) Tear gas, unfortunately., is not seven samples of cloth. Defendant before Mr. K. Keen at the Central and Minerals and Ores ($6,550). used in modern warfare. Those denied the allegation of having stolen Magistracy this morning charged with having stolen from Leading Seaman The most important products ex- ported to Hongkong by Spain are As compared with the negligible cases are much more deadly. Tear the samples, A. C. Webster, of H. M. S. Olympus,
outside the Hon
wallet containing $40. Det.-Ser- dyeing
and tanning materials, imports from Italy during Sanc-gus has no ill-effects on the system. ed them up liquors, metals and sundries.
Lions, we Imported goods lo the Gases used in modern warfare are Hotel. Det. Sergeant Pilkington
those they leave defendant was arrested in Pedder Keant Pilkington prosecuted and sald In July we Imported Spanish value of $37,002 during September, more terrible to wines and liquors to the value of These comprised Chemicals and alive than to those they kill, That Street with the samples of cloth in the theft occurred yesterday. He that complainant was out at sea. $10,560, metals to the value of $58- Drugs (50,000), Hardware ($1,300), la why: soldiers, sailorn, the volun- his possession. He added that de asked for a 48 hours' remand, saying 012 and dycing and tanning Intoxicating Liquors ($4,500), Metals teers, nurses, the police and civilians fendant's story might be true. De-
pleaded not guilty. materials to the value of $5,800. Im ($18,000), Pleco Goods and Textiles in essential services in the Colony fendant was bound over in $50 for. The remind was granted. Defendants ports in that month also included ($3,057) and Sundries ($2,030), are receiving instruction in precau six months.
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