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Togoland Increases Its Wealth
Geneva, Oct. 25,"
FIGHT-TO-THE-DEATH BATTLE FOR BOCCA TIGRIS FORTS
(Continued from Page 1.)
million people. The wind is keeping The bluzes away from Shameen.
The first Japanese to reach Canton -before the war Japanese machines an-were not allowed in Chinese territory
The Mandates Commission to-day examined the report on Togoland. The British representative
nounced that the increased prosperity-landed on the outskirts of the clly was due to the production of cocao, at 11.15 am, on Tuesday and de-
parted almost immediately improved photographs and news-reels for
Japan.
in
the im
and this was reflected living conditions of the natives. It is understood, however, moral progress is slower than material progress.--Reuter Special.
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1938.* HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,・・ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26,
CANNIBALS IN ROYAL PARK
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TOKYO TO TELL WORLD OF POLICY TOWARDS CHINESE GOVERNMENT
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last
DOCTOR'S VIEW OF" ALCOHOL
क
Nurse For Rotary Club Hears About Audience Education
Strong Condemnation
The National Federation of Chríi-i an Workers among Poor Children held their autumn"rally and con-
Every timo the big scene la ference in Manchester. They visited
In approached
Emile Zola's Mr. W. L. Handyalde, Headmaster tic Central Library and listened to!
melodrama "Thou Shalt Not," nt of Central British School, and Act- an address by Mr. C. Nowell, Chief to Playhouse Theatre, Londonning Inspector of English Schools, ad- Librarian of Manehealer. After tea nurse quietly
Injo alips
the dressed the Hongkong Rotary Club deal with yesterday on education and stressed
the value to both the business com-. munity and
pupils, of the extra year at school in which the student learned to dealt
with the human element in the capacity of Prefect, House or School Captain.
Councillor T. R. Ackroyd, and Ils- tened to Mr. Arthur Black, of London. Many of the delegates altended divino service at the Albert Hall, to which they were welcomed by the Hov. F. J. Gould. In the afternoon Dr. E. Vipont Brown addressed the conference on Temperance" in the Charter Street Ragged Schools, Dantzle Street.
fainting women.
A tri sliting in the stalls screamed out last night, "Slep
to
Stop It!" and collapsed. An old man at the back rose in his seat, exclaimed "I can't stand B," and stumbled out.
It was a mistake to be forced, by The scene is that in which Nancy the absence of a commercial course price, as an old woman, discovers in the school curriculum, to take a that a young married couple staying pupil away from school in these im- int her house are the murderers of portant years so that he could be-
the three cities is not going according to plan.
A "Reuter"
message states sanguinary street fighting is in pro- While most of the wild birds greas in Wuching, the couthern city. where the two advance detachments in London's parks are becoming of Japanese entering to take posses-ht Wood Street Mission Hail, they progressively tamer and aston-alon of the walled city met stront conferred under the chairmanship of auditorium, ready to with
the Chinese resistance, country visitors to
St. The units advanced on. Wuchang capital, the pelicans at
possession of Kollen on Tuesday. It is announced that the Japanese James's, favourites of the crowd, from the Yangtze bank after taking
have turned cannibal.
They arrived at Wuchang Consulate-General in Canton, which
Their "abominable behaviour" night, and began entering the city hus been entrusted to the care of the French Consul General since the Is recorded in the 1937 report of at 430 o'clock this morning. beginning of hostilities. will be the Committee on Bird Sanc-j BLAZING FIERCELY
tuaries in Royal Parks.
Wuchang is, blazing fiercely. Nearly Tufted duck are the victims and all all the bund cotton spinnerles und the blame is showered on the re- factories have been dynamited, the cently-Introduced North American Wireless
government buildlugs, which are concentrated in the walled city area, have been reduced by the Chinese,
Included in the buildings destroyed is the one in which Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek resided during the long Yangtse campaign.
Entrance into the walled city of Wuchang was made through Pipyang- men Gate, just inside which are the wrecked radio station, XVth Brigade Nightingales returned to Rich-barracks and High Normal School.
One of the Japanese detachments mond and Greenwich.
to the bund,
CHOLERA TOTAL formally re-opened on November 3,
EXCEEDS 500
The total casos, in the present cholera epidemic passed the 500 mark yesterday when à further two cases were reported.
There were also four noufications of dysentery, bringing the aggregate up to 836.
Olber notifications included three, cases of diphtherin, two of enterie fover, and cach of measles,
ons menigitis and purperal fever.
The first Japanese Consul-General in Canton will be Mr. Katsuo Ókozaki, who is now in Hongkong.
PEARL RIVER TROUBLES Japanese warships and transports have not yel succeeded in reaching Canton. At 10 am. yesterday they were about mid-way up the Pearl River.
The nemnda's journey up the river has been considerably hampered by sub- inines, scores of these deadly marine explosives having been laid in the river by the Chinese,
Several mine-sweepers are preced-
18 DIE IN AUSTRALIA'S | ing the ships, BIGGEST AIR DISASTER
(Continued from Page 1.)
liner of the Australian National Air- ways fleet.
The machine, with fourteen pas-ļ sengers and a crew of four aboard, left Adelaide un schedule al o'clock yesterday morning.
i
She was due to arrive at Essendon Airport, Melbourne, at 2 p.m., but
So far, the Japanese ships have had to dynamite their way through four booms across the river.
Japanese troops clalm that they will beeny Faishan to-day. The having city is burning fiercely, been sei alight before the entire populace evacuated.
MACAO'S PROBLEM
The Macao Correspondent of the
overshot the mark in denso Jow-Telegraph" reports that the Influx
lying clouda.
ol refugees inte the Portuguese The machine was roaring only a Colony has reached phenomenal pre- Tow hundred feet aboye the portions, as all steamers from near-
ground, endeavouring to pick up by ports and highways from Shekk! her bearings when she crashed into and other inland places disgorge their the wide of Mount Dandenong constant streams af humanity into Ranges, 30 miles east of Melbourne, the Colony. The machine caught fro, Incinerat-
ing all but seven of the eighteen An average of 0,000 persons dally persone aboard, the seven being has been arriving since the begin- Hung clear of the plane.
ng of the week.
STORK SAVED HIM
of
The wife of a young lorry driver, Joseph Callard,
Ashley-road, Upper Parkstone, Dorset, was ex- peeting a happy event. In his hurry to get home Caltard was gongod on the main London-to-Bournemouth road for travelling at 40 to 42 miles Jn hour.
At Romsey Borough Police Court, Hampshire, recently Callard wrote pleading gulity and his employer, who appeared
his behalf, ex- plained that on the day of the Offence Callard's wife was expecting
baby
on
A considerable number of the better-class people are making their way by ship to Hongkong after passing through the Macao barriers.
It is estimated that the population of Macno has been increased by well over 20,000 in the last few days.
BRITISH REVENUE
INCREASES
London, Oct. 25. Exchequer returns show that total urdinary
amounts revenue
10 C362.538,745, compared with £359,- 085,160 at the corresponding date Inst year. The yield from the National "I hope the baby arrived all right," Defence Contribution is now £81,- commented Admiral Sir Reginald 500,000. The total expenditure, less Bacon (the chairman), who an-self-balancing items, is £539.814.227 nounced that the summons would-be compared with £467,308,211 year dlarniased.
ano-British Wireless.
A FULL SUPPLY AT EVERY TAP CAN BE OBTAINED WHEN THE SYSTEM IS PROPERLY DESIGNED
THIS IS THE Great AD- VANTAGE OF HAVING THE INSTALLATION CARRIED OUT BY
EXPERTS
+
Dr. Brown attacked the USC of
pelican, "who seems to prefer a diet and station is a mass of ruing, ] a medicat man, and said that it had
of tufted duck to any other."
old Now he has taught all the pelicans how to catch them, and the
that superintendent suggests
the pelleans should go, or at least be shut up during the nesting period.
NIGHTINGALES RETURN
But the parks have pleasanter
During the year
records.
tho
staff said.
alcohol from the point of view of her son, and a member of the theatre come proflelent in stenography or
"We usually anticipate some kind been shown by experiment that
The speaker used Herbert Spencer's of a disturbance in the audience nt alcohol deteriorated
comment on the technique of re- nerve- centres. The first effect of alcohol this point. So far the action of the comm
play has not suffered interference, moving dents from iron plates by. was to paralyse the highest nerve but as a precaution members of the beating everywhere except on the centres. Alcohol was one of the staff are stationed here and there to actual spot, in reference to such local predisposing causes of consumption; keep their eyes open for any faints, problems as mul taal, slum clearance, it affected a man's judgment, des-
"A nurce has also been engaged town planning, child labour and troyed his moral sense, and weakened to deal with casualties."
Every achool should be a centro of his willpower and sense of honour.
Communal life culture, craft and It was one of the causes of insanity
health for both young and old. and of melancholla.
Education, free and compulsory along such llocs appeared to the speaker to be the right Lne of approach..
It had been said that alcohol was
first time and the Round Pond to have pushed through carried off those, who were
Waxwings visited Kew for the
sheltered London's first red-necked grebe.
Shelducks in St. James's took advantage of the Coronation flood- lighting to Improve their toilet on a raft in the lake.
No attempt has yet been made to occupy Hanyang, which is divided from the Japanese by the Yangtse and Han rivers.
Preceded by a motorlaed column, the
of the Hirata contingent
returned bulled along
it
blessing in disguise because
least filled to survive, but it affected men of the keenest sensibilities and the cleverest and the sometimes
best
Dr. Brown went on to discuss the
BOY CLOSED
THE SCHOOL
the Ocheng-thies, and denied the popular had a grudge against thoir
Yan, on the north bank of the
A Scots gamekeeper, home after a holiday in London, was Wuchang highway. asked what impressed him most in the capital.
12 mlles cast of Hankow, and Seeing the cuble-doos (wood was captured by the Yoshilda pigeons) in St. James's Park," he Yuda detachments, which advanced the Yangtse River and Changtu Lake areas.
replied, "enting from a man's hand."on Hankow from Hwangkang through abstainer from alcohol. He was toldt squeezed nli over a room.
TO WED SOON
Central News reports that fighting on the cast and north Honan fronts The following forthcoming wed-has relaxed into an ominous lull,
Part of the Japanese forces there, dings are announced: Mr. Rudolf Kaufmann, engineer, ned Missit is reported, have been shifted to Claudia Blogukanski, residing at the the southern part of the province for Trocadero Hotel, Kowloon; Mr. Looperations against Hankow.
column rushing to A You Yim-pan, preacher, and Miss
Јарапезе Sou-hung, of 50 Un Chau Street, Sinyang has been intercepted by the second floor, Shamshuipo; and Mr. Chinese. Mul
servant, Hok-cheung, civil Kwangtung Provincial Government, and Miss Chan Yi-slu, of 4 Shul Wah Fong, Hongkong.
EUROPEANS IN TIFFIN- TIME CAR COLLISION
(Continued from Page 1.)
Miss Dora Phone,
belleved to be residing Peak.
AND
FRENCHI BRITISH
DISCUSS HANKOW
Paris, Oct. 25.
As soon as the fall of Hankow be- came known here the French Govern- ment communicated with the British Government to discuss measures for the protection of the British and
CS-
and
active
two
French, concessions.
Both Governments agreed to
strong police control in the tablish concessions and the French British ships lying in the river near instructions on the Hankow have received
remain prepared to lend to Chi- As a result of the collision a
1.ssistance. nese constable on point duty at the
It is declared here that the intersection of the roads received in Governments are in a complete agree- juries which necessitated his re-ment on the eventual steps
to be moval to hospital. The two Euro- taken should the occasion demand peans miraculously escaped Injury-action Trans-Ocean.
The car driven by Miss Phone was travelling along Upper Albert Road and was crossing the Garden Road Intersection when it came into colll- sion with the car driven by Mr. Mundy, proceeding downhill Garden Road,
The
JAPANESE AND MEET
BRITISHI
and
Hankow, Oct. 20,
reached Japanese Inunches have along Hankow and established contact with the British naval authorilles Mr. Father Jacquinot, who is in charge overturned impact Mundy's car, which struck the Chi of the refugee areas.
Rain all night damped most of the nese traffic officer as it somersaulted.
the invading Mirst enthusiasm of Both cars were durnaged,
signs
Mundy's vehicle being badly smash forces.
At
cd.
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Nineteenth century European con- ditions began to disappear with the Introduction of compulsory education and the gradual raising of the school
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effect of alcohol when taken in small Two boys, aged 10 and 11, who that alcohol effectively warm-teacher, took their revenge by ed the body,
A hundred years ago, he said, wrecking the school so badly that CZECH IN COURT: there was a case of a member of the it had to be closed for a day. Society of Friends who had applied
and Windows
DID NOT REPORT furniture for insurance and been quoted namashed with a hammer and paint higher premium because he was on
HIS ARRIVAL The damage cost £30 to repair. that a young man who neglected the "We pay back our debts," read a. Suummoned before Mr. H. R. gifts of God's was not expected to note they left behind.
Butters at the Central Magistracy live long. Nowadays many insurance
A: Pontefract (York) juvenile this morning for failing to report companies quoted a higher premium court recently the boys were accused his arrival in the Colony within 40 for non-abstainers and their action of breaking and entering the school hours, Karel Longer, did not arise from any fanatical
of Prince temperance opinions, but from hard damage and stealing money.
at Hemsworth, committing malicious Edward Road, a Czecho-Slovakian
subject, was
cautioned. One boy's parents attributed the
Longer pleaded that, when he left action to "the pictures."
Shanghai, the situation involving his The Bench deelded to suspend judg-country in Europe was tense, and he ment for six months for n report on forgot to register with the police on
arrival. he boys' home conditions,
business sense,
One questioner asked Dr. Brown whether alcohol should be used, as a palliative in cases where certain workers were liable to suffer from Jung troubles caused by dust, and he said that far from being a palliative, alcohol encouraged tuberculosis.
Mr. Nowell told the delegates what all teachers must realise was when he conducted thern round that it was equally important to the Central Library, that although educate the child in taste, and to teaching child to rend and encourage him or her to read the
was extremely Important, right books.
wrlie
Langer
Sub-Inspector II. E. Langley sald arrived in Hongkong on board the Conte Verde on October 1, and wrote a letter dated October to the police, reporting his arrival. The letter, however, did not reach the police until October 11.
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