THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
TUESDAY,
6,000 Refugees Take A Kowloon Site by Storm
LIVE IN HUTCHES WITH
Germany's
COLD EARTH AS FLOORS Fortifications
+
AND
NO NO SANITATION
George V
ONCE BESERVED as the site for a king Cecoration one dollar euch to erect the huts,
of Canton and Jordan Roads in Kowloon, has taken the appearance of an Australian aboriginal settlement with 3,000 refugees living at the lowest level possible and with no means of sanitation or cleanliness, while the place is becoming a veritable breeding crowd of disease.
The inhabitants, war refugees from Swatow, Canton, Shanghai, Sheklung, Foochow and other centres, live in casually erected huts made out of bamboo, old packing cases, metal sheets and gasoline tins. None of the roofs are water-proof and for floors, the hard, cold earth is used.
I
Inside the dwellings are boxes, old, rugs and blankels, lines to hang the
arty Unen, and filthy pols. In some of the huts there are such luxurles few can boast beds.
as mirrors, broken armchairs, and a
ther settlements have sprung up
Unconquerable
Berlin, Oct. 24.
The newspaper Angrig to day published photographs of Germany's French frontler fortifications, under which was the capilon "Unconquerable."
The paper sald that the world war delences "must have looked Ilka miner obstacle compared with the new forilications," United Press.
COLD
in Taikokisui where more people arej moving and adding to the menace.
In some parts of the settlements THE VERY COMMON rent rackets have sprung up 03 were paying several stated they money to friends in order that they cauld stay there, they told Telegraph,
the
The inhabitants seem hoppy and need
"NATUS
STENCH
(Continued from Page 6.)
now is a campaign for
glad of anywhere to live, as one arousing the public conscience.
There are few people, I hope, said. "Go street, no Chinese house,
who would send a child with Come niong
ONE DOLLAR A "HOUSE"
The stench arising from the areas whooping cough or measles into But there is no For sewerage the squatters use the is unuscous to European standards. the treets. dark and cavenous alley-ways be The camp has been erected in the one who hesitates to go about
of micke tween the huts which are erected s
residential area, and is ear to each other as possible. Water spreading its tentacles to cover every with a cold. Is obtained from the street-gutters inch of unclaimed land. nearby.
themselves, As many as fifteen people live moved in and settled in some of the huts which are they told a Telegraph representative no bigger than decent sized who made a a tour of inspection to
day. bath-room of 諄 moderate European dwelling house. The average of occupants per hut is about five.
Most of the squatters have been four months. there for three or The land 17 Crown property, yet they assert that no one has given them permission to stay there, or has tried to move them off. They had seen other people living there, so they had
As refugees from one area move
We must persuade people that The people live in clans, refugees in, they ask their friends to join it is a crime to cough and sneeze staying them unti in a few days a small in public. The campaign against from the various centres
In estimating the near other people from the same dis-colony has arisen.
cles resulted in an enormous im- triet. They said it cost them about tatal population of both orcas, 6,000 spitting in the streets and vehi
provement in health,
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We have to persunde people that it is, to say the least, very selfish, and therefore exceedingly bad manners, to cough and sneeze in public places, that the person who insists on going to work in an office with a stream- ing cold is not a martyr but a public nuisance.
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I wish I could be more hopeful that we could be successful in bringing about a real change In less than ten years. But I am afraid that until we have legis- lated and someone has been sen- tenced to two weeks' preventive detention in hospital for appear- ing in public with a cold, there will be no real improvement!
have Careful experiments shown that one sneeze can infect the air to a radius of over six yards, so it is quite possible that the enforced wearing of gas masks might save lives as effec- tively as in air raids! The cold germs are as deadly in their way as poison gases.
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When-sorry-if, you should catch a cold, drink hot water with a pinch of bicarbonate of soda in it, and should you be- come inclined to fever, then send for your doctor, who will get
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inhabitants would not be too high. are without The communities
witness, men doubt industrious us collecting broken bottles, pieces. of wood, stones, in fact anything with market value,
One Inhabitant said he earned $10 a month making wooden boxes for a toy factory. Another went fishing, others collected old newspapers and raps.
to
Meals are cooked in corners of the huts or between the rocks. The con- ditions of living of these people are Indescribable to anyone used modern conditions and standards.
What washing that is done taken place in the street gutters, or when
There is not it rains.
single water
of any sort in the settlement. the ypical of the conditions. place seems alive with children, happy and pleased with their way of living as they have probably known no other.
Very few min were lounging about in the hit, thought quite a number were lazing about in the sun on the so-far unclaimed sites,
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