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THE HÔNGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, OCTOBER 31,
·1988.
CENTRAL CHINA WAS SAVED FROM
GREAT CHOLERA EPIDEMIC
Disclosure By
Expert
League
MALARIA SCOURGE SPREADS
FEEL safe in saying that modern methods, though applied somewhat imperfectly, have undoubtedly saved Central China from a catastrophic cholera epidemic this summer," de- clared Dr. R. C. Robertson, English Commissioner of the League
At the request of the Hunan Provincial Governincat a compre- hensive survey of malaria in eer- tain districts of north-enstern Hunan was instituted a decade ago, These areas were once populous, but have been depopulated in re- cent years during the trouble be- tween the Communists and the Central Government. As farme were abandoned malaria spread until the rerion became most un- healthy. Now this offers a great abstacle to attempts, to repopulate]. the area with refugees,
LEAGUE MOBILE UNITS
The League mobile units have
of Nations' Second Anti-Epidemic Unit, with headquarters at foured the “llstrieta most affected, Changsha, in an interview with Reuter's correspondent discussing treating patients already collected by the League's work in co-operation with the Chinese Government the local authorities, and at the same Health organisation. He also outlined the campaign against time carrying out selentifle observa- tions intended to discover, a method malaria.
of mosquito control within the means of the poorest farmer,
The Incidence of malarla has
"The potentialities for disaster and chlorinating 0,000 wells and
buckets of river Water. Thousands have received the have been very great," Dr. Robert- 18,000 son continued, but at no time has Twenty sandiary police and 32 salt- quinine treatment, and at the end of the cholera epidemie got out of hand. ary coolles are constantly engaged in July, 1,007 patients were under care, For example, in Shanghai, where this work. Anti-cholera inoculations In one valley conditions were no bad resources are much greater and 600 in the city numbered 80,899 In one that the Inhabitants declared that It health workers are
the week during the early summer, and was haunted. One-sixth of the re- available, outbreak kas actually been more 24,974 in the month of August, the aldents there were treated. serious than in Hunan Province, doctor said, with population of 30,000,000,
A typical case of the League's markedly decreased in the arcas where the League detachments stemmed the epidemic and saw it work in smaller centres was in come visited, and the overage number of batting the cholera. epidemle at patients has fallen by 75 per cent. through the worst stages before it Chienlister. (Chengchow) in south- Research by the Unit has discovered had time to spread too rapidly.
eastern Hunan, 00 miles south of that a cheap local fertilizer, namely. "Hankow, the
cakes is deadly to mosquito Important Heayang. On July 22 the magistrate oil elly It Central China, passed telegraphed an urgent appeal for larvae, and the ground is being pre- through the summer without the medical aid, as more than 100 out of pared for an extensive mosquito con- victims of disease being more than the town's population of 18,000 had trol campaign. those from perfat bombardment died in ten days.
inost
an achievement new in the history
of modern warfare," the Commuls- sioner declared,
A unit was sent there, arriving on July 30, and stayed until the middle
of August, when only two cholera
CIFTS OF MEDICINE
the
"It is gratifying to be able to say The Second Unit, which is under patients remained under treatment, nt the population has implicit con- 200 persons, of whom doctors and Intion had been inoculated against Everywhere we are welcomed and British auspices, consists of barely By then half of Chienhsien's popu-fidence in the operation of
League," Dr. Robertson Bald. scalor technicians number 15. They cholera. continued work in areas near the
war zone, and in the Hankow Isola- is at Ichang. tion hospital two of their nurses were killed in a mid-August air raid.
The League shelter at the Chang- sha East Station was destroyed dur- ing an air raid ou Aug. 20. Dr. Robertson, himself, was twice re- ported dead, but, as he remarked, fortunately the reports were without foundation.
REMARKABLE RESULTS
In Changsha they have been test- ing the city's water supply every day
from the humblest coolle to the The latest outbreak of the disease governor of the province the entire well knows upper public a united in showing gratitude Yongise port, where many refugees for the gifts of quinine and the work are crammed in the old part of town. of the League staff." A mobile unit has already been hur ried there.
mying that their entire work is
has
The cholera season is now ending part of the romance of medicine, the and the disease will probably be Commissioner concluded: MIL spasmodic until the end of Novem- its triumphs, its hard-fought cam- ber. Dr. Robertson explained. Then palgns and its unsung victories, it will be replaced in Importance by Working for and with China in her maloria zest dysentery. Next to time of grout need, we at the same cholera, malaria in epidemle form, time are fighting mankind's unending is China's most serious medicat pro- battle against disease, and it is to be blem at present, the Commissioner hoped that the world will continue remarked,
to support our struggle."—Reuter.
THE TOYO
GERTRUDE GELBIN
RESUME
Gilberte Ngard, called Frou- frow, comes home from school in France with her alster Loulao tu their father's plantation in pre- Civil War Louletana, Andre Par taire, young inan-about-town Jalla madly in love with delightful," "frivolous Proufrou; ho does Georges Bartoris, «OTIONA young lawyer, Louise Hisa loved Georgen since childhood; when ako discovera kis love for Frow
· frów - she-urger her aster ta
the
marry Alus Proufrou eetpla Georgea. Andre poča to France, Por five gedra Froufrou la pelių happy. Gorger adores hiếp đến spite the fact that her whima nad caprices ruin hie carter, hià
household and the upbringing of their child. At Froufrou's re- quest ha senda for Loute to straighten matters out in their home. Within a short time, Frou- frow reallces her mater has usurped her place in her home, with her child and in her hus bunda confidence. Andre Yat- Jatre returns from France, still deeply in love with her,
Copyright 1939 by Loew's Ing.
Chapter Eight
that flize,” Louiso answered, her voice, low and strained. "I fancied myself in love with him that tine-"
"That time you urged me to marry Georgen?" Froufrou do. mandod. "You are certain you did fancy yourself. in love with him then 7"
Whether I was or not." Louise aniti evasively, "I'm quite cartain that I don't love him well enough to marry him now,”
"So am It" was Froufrou's sting• ing retort.
Well," said Louiso helplessly. "thon-then you have the real rea son for my refusal,”
"I did not Tavo my husband when you decided I was to marry him,” Froatrou replied meaningly.
"That was differant--"- "But I learned to love him after- wards-an you were sure I would."
Loulse remained silent, her head downchat. · Froufrou smilled. "Bo why should I not take your fate in my handa," she cried, "just as you took inine" Don't you think you would love Monstour de la Richelle In time-se I love my husband ?"
"No. Gliberte! No!" "No"
"No" Louiso repeated nervously. "In Terent from you. I am nider- ahould not be happy-T know myself?"
"Net so well as know you, my dear sister!" Froufrou placed her words with deadly nlm.
"Gilberte!"
FROUFROU SPEAKS HER MIND Froufrou wat by her window, her hands buoy with her embroidery, Andre, in boots and riding cloak, "You needn't yar that tane, his tail hat under his nem, bis Louise, I'm not a child anymore. gloves in hand, towered over her. And I'm not afraid to tell you what
"Are you doing that right?" hoI think of you" asked after a triet pause,
"No," she answered with a short Jotazh.
He raised her faén, me he begged.
"Lonk nl
Their glances met for an instant, "ve, onited you nat to came here," she said "sbruptly.
"And, I come to tell you I'll not
me” Andre cried, "d
"If that was a tear for
not leave without you.”
"But I'm afraid--afraid you're not yourself." So raised pain- filled eyes. "You may any one- thing you'll be angry for."
Froufrou stared düwn nf her with inte, "You thief!"
Louine half rose from her chair. "Hush!" she cried.
Froufrou advanced towards her
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THE SCOTS SABBATH
WHEN I was last in Lewis, in the
One furm servant lass offered to wad hae us to be mair particular, a western end of the iste, there anilk the cows on the Sunday, but steam engine's no' 'a imoral being; was a pile of peat left lying by the she firmly refused to feed them. it's not an accountable agent." side of the road. Even when it "The cous canna mills themsels,” she meant an extra mile's walking to get
explained so to milk them is clear work of necessity and mercy:
•
In a certain Ayrshire manse there a creclful of peat this particular, lot
but, let them got the the fields, and was once trouble because the mald was passed by with averted eyes.
On a certain Sunday, they told me, they'll fend for themsels."
had forgotten to Bf the usual pota- in absent-minded erofter," equipped Even more subtle was the distine- locs on the Saturday night. with the usual creel, had sauntered tion drawn by a party of old-time
"Mistress." the mald suggested, oul in the direction of his peat stack. Paisley weavers who wished to cross "I just fake the grasp and slip vot Returning with his load, he met his from Gourock to Dunoon one Sun- and howk a wheen. Nnebody will nelthbours soberly wending their day morning. As a matter of con- ken, and if the minister should come way towards the kirik, and, with selence, they decided they could not to ken o't, I'll tak' a' the wyte and crushing force, the realisation came go in a boat which was rowed by the sin on my nin shouthers." that this was the Subbath day which cars, so they asked the captain of the "No, no, Betty?" the mistress
Rothesay steamer to east got a bit of objected. "Sin I
he had just been profaning.
There and then, he penitently emptied his creel by the wayside, and us no one would touch or handle the accursed pents which had been gathered on the day of rest, the clods remained there as mute evidence of his "in" for many years after.
moun
hat the
his tow and tak them wi' bim, as tattles for dinner this day. Just gang- he was gaua that way at any rate." awa' oot and pouter a wee pickle. "But." asked the captiun. "what's fine the roots of the shaws wi' your the moral difference between being hands. Tek' nue grap wi' ye--use rowed over with ours and towed by nae warkloom made the hand o a steamer?"
man on the Lord's Day. And if the "There's a hantle difference," he minister sets on me aboot it, I'll just It was in the Isle of Lewis also was told, "between rowing by the tell him that there wasna a grip that a visitor from the South, a lass power of man, who maun answer for shank in the hands o' onybody aboot of about fourteen, was sternly what he does, and twa water-wheels the hoose this, day," taught the serious consequences of pu'ing us. In her words, gin ye
Sabbath-breaking.
She was spending a holiday with an aunt, and, on Surday morning, she blithely sat down to brush her Sunday bocs. One shoe had been brilliantly polished when the horri- fied face of her nunt appeared. A stern volce commanded her to stop, and among the church-goers that day the scarlet-cheeked girl had to take! her humiliating place with one shoe pullshed and the other duil and mud- begrimed. The gure that she cutt mattered nothing to her elders. She had broken the Sabbath day, and
i was her punishment.
Refugees At Kam Tin
Donors Of Food And Material
The following are the donors of
necessitles
Rather different in its outcome was food, clothing and other the story of the visit which was once to the refugee camp at Kain Tin: paid to Iona by Russian Grand Women's Relief Society, Hongkong Duke on a Sunday. The captain of branch, Chung Ayah School War the steamer which had brought the.
Ruler Association, Sun arrival asked the custodian of the University War Service Corps, Sat Yat-sen ancient church to open it for the dis- Wah Ho Mun Wah Middle School, Linguished visitor's Inspection.
"Not so, sir," he said sternly, "not School, Mr. Lo, Man Lee Co.,
Gospel Union, Mong Kok Girls' Woo on the Sabbath Day."
"But it's for the Grand Duke Con- Kin Mang. Kowloon Bot-fook-yec
Shing Chee-san, Mok
Befugee Children's School, Mrs. Lung. Sun Hwal Chamber First Chung 5A, Chung Wol Primary
Yuk-king, Chan
stantine of Russia.”
"Had it been the Queen hersel' I wadna gl'e up the icys o' the kirk on the Lord's Day."
Lal
of
Free
Wah
on the Sabbath?" the captain asked:
"Would you tak a glass o' whisky
School
Class
Schuel
Clan
Blyly.
•
of
A. W.
ROYAL SCOTS BAND
Gives Concert in Lounge
Of Peninsula Hotel -
The Royal Scots band gave a concert before a large oudlence in the Peninsula Hotel lounge last night. The conductor was Bandmaster II. B. Jordon.
The programme was: Spanish March-Amporita
(Texidor).
A Nautical
Roea
Overture-Plymouth
Hoe (Ansel). Cornet Solo-L/C. A. Weller. Vaise-Moonlight on the Alster
(Straus).
Selection of Sullivan Songs, Selection Trovatore (Verdi).
Xylophone Solo-La Juana Bdsm. R. Phillips. Fantasin-Aplino Memories (WIn-
ter).
Violin Solo-Souvenir-L/C. A.
Alscy, Selection--The Thistio (Myd-
leton).
Chamber of Commerce, Heung Hol Mts. choy, Mrs. Wong Walc
CO
That's different thing entirely," Sheung-ying, Sin Wai-fook, An Ah tho keeper replied. Under The Man Hog Cheung, Lukk Yung-lok, Youth's Rellet Service Corps, mellowing influence of a glass of Chan Tang-chice Kwan Ming School, Chinese National Government Relief whisky his views become less strict, Dr. Li Sung. Chan Family, Chan Committee, Yuen Long War Rellef and the Grand Duke was allowed to Wal-hung, Madame Wit Teck-sena Association, Ying Fat Loong, K. E. inspect the church.
Ling Tung Middle School, Yuen
Yuen Van Marke, Lau, King Tsing, Mrs. Long War Relief Assn. Wat Yeung Kam
Tam Queen's Sin C
Club,
Lan Girls' Middle studenta, Students
of the
French Sunday shaving has often been t productive of much heart-burning in School, Hongkong, Longevity
School
Canton See See Middle Convent, Causeway Bay, Mrs. D. M. tho. North. When Dr. Thomas densed
Con-Richards, Miss M. W. Newsholme, Milk
Chuch Yip the Great Star Motor Co., Mrs. M..K. Guthrie onto went to pred for. Buliding Co.. Cheung Yu Co., Ltd., Lo. Miss Wise,
Sow friend in created a
Medical minor sensation by asking for hot Hongkong and Kowloon Educational Rellet Committee, Shing Chu
Union, water for shaving on Sunday morn-Workers' Union, Mr. and Mrs.
Choung. Hongkong Employees of China Emporium, Miss inic
So Tung Plu-yin, Mrs. R.J.D.C. Griove, Speak of shaving on the Lord's San-fung, Tung Wah Hospital, Yuen Students of Ricci Hall, Chinese Y.M. Day In Ross-shire,” ho was
Lang War Relief Azan., Dr. Selwyn-
wyn C.A, National feliat Commission, "and you need never preach here or Reller Association, Leung Yo Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. Macaskill, Mrs.
Cinrke, Hongkong Chinese
Miss Dillon, Mr. Yip, Mrs White, Women's more.
"In some quarters there has been a Chee Ping. Wal Yeung Chamber of Ng. Mr. Trevor. tendency to show a nice distinction Commerce, Mias Ou, Mr. Ou Young, The following monetary donations between the jobs which
and Ling Nam Middle School, Hongkong, have also been received Teal Tel- which can not be done on the Bab- Mr. Leo, Mr. Cheung, Tai Tung fün $100; W. H. Lack $100; Bank of both.
Restaurant, Kow, Kowloon Auchiwan East Asia, $1,000.
con
told,
Yat
coina any more. I'm going away."; and forked away the keys to her "When?" her valca filtered as she | household which Louise had kept naked the question,
suspended on a cord over since the Tpinorrow, First to the planta- day of ker marival-ever since thin tlan to see my mother and put my day Froutrou had given them to affairs in order. Then-nomewhere; | her with gay abondon of her duties. for. As you naked."
"I gave you these keya," Froufrou "That's good," she paid milly, | sald "with deadly calm. "I trusted "That's what you should do." Ale you-and you've stoken everything bent her head low over her em- in this hou☐a!" broldery.
"Gilberts" pleaded Louise. "ROMIO- one will hear you.”
"Let them!" cried Froufrou. "Why not? Even the servanta know it before I did! You've stolen my
He touched her check Hghtly, "What's this?" he whispered. "Was that a tear, Froufrou?" She nodded, "For me?" Sho shook her head He neizes her handa in his. "If that place, my husband-and now my was a tear for me," he said hoarse- Child ly, "I'd not leave you.
We'd go together."
"No" she answered, "I'm just "And that's why you want neither sily sometimes," Sho managed a home nor husband nor chlidren of Amilo. "I'm like that. I'm--I'm your own!" really glad”
He stared down at her. “I'll nee you once more," he said Armly, "when I come le say goodbye."
In another moment he was gone, She picked up her embroidery and tried to sow; but her tears were faster than the stitches,
"It's not true?" wept Louise. "Il's not true"
"Gliberte! You must ston- "Deny you love him!” cried Frou- frou. "If you can"
Louiso ted her face proudly. "I don't deny it"
"Ah!” Froufrou breathed droply. "Well then," answered Louise, her eyen fixed upon her sister's face. With aching heart, Froufrou "1 loved him first. But be loved nought nome solution to her prob, you; and it was for his sake that i lem. The solution offered itaall made your marriage-and only to the following week when her father | save that marriage did I come into returned from Franes with Mon- this house."
aleur de la Richella who had come "That's a lle?" Froufrou anapped to ask Louino's hand in marriage back. "We wore happy when you
Froufrou was bealde herself with came."
hope and excitement. Louiso must "He wasn't" Louise replied short- marry him! That would solve ly, “Ask him! Ask him what he everything. Then Louise would | sald to me the day you sent him leave their home; Froufrou aware for me. Ask him what he called to herself that che would undo all you.” the harm her whims had wrought "What?"
between Georges and heract. She "He said your marriage would thought hard, Georges must con- end in disaster unless I saved it. vince Louise that the marriage was He said your frivality was destroy- perfect for her; for she knowing his pence of mind and ha Louise would listen to Georges, and career, fte eatd you were incap- Georges alone.
able of caring for your home, or Without revealing her true, feel your child, as a woman should."
"No!" Froufrou's volco roso in Ings in the matter, she brought up the subject with her husband, oven-sharp agony. "I don't hellove it! Inally inafaling, despite his demur,¦1 don't belleve it!“
that he speak to Laulso. With mal "It's true, And more. Ho onid face aho lend him to the nuchery you were only a toy wife-and a where her sister was playing with real wife was needed in this house- little Georgie, She herselt began hoki.““· the tall, eventually throwing the "A toy wife?" whispered Louise. Teine of conversation to her hus "Not a real one?" tand so that he was forced to
In the pause that followed, • alın speak
footed about wildly, like a trapped She ant back with cold eyes and and hurt creature with no chance wntahad them, as, miserable ani¦ for escape. Bhe backed away and beaten, they discussed. the matter, leaned against the door pa if for It was Louise who made the dect support, staring helplessly, miser- nion, despite them both: "I cannoi i ably at her sister. marry Monaleur de la Richelle." she said with finality.
ainne-"
"Ho you came here to save this marriage?” Her voice was plufully Froufrou rose. "Bince you baye mall and strange. falled, Georges” she said eventy. "Yes. To save the marriage for "I shall talk to Louise myself. But which I was responsible. And I not in the nursery. Come, Louine, have—If you'll let wall onough we will go to your sliting room."
Froufrou laughed shortly, "You As they apod down the corridor, Pick darted out. "Missy," aho whithinit ao?" She paused and smiled. pered, "M'sleur Valiaire is goin' "You haven't very good eyes, my Bway tonight-to New York, Al Wise sister" promised to carry him word when he kin tell you goodbye-
"Tell me later," Froufrou mur- mured
"Now," she said when they word; alone, let us have the real reason why you refuse this iden! mar-1 ringe. Do you want to tell m what that respon is -- or shall T full you?"
"I suppose you think I Had in you about Monsieur do in Richelle
"What do you mean?”
Her hand found the doorknob, Her eyes grow wild and bright. "You'll soo," she whispered-"you"?!
She turned and ran out of the room.
What will Froufrou do not that's she's learned the truth about Georgeď feeling toward (her? Na aura to reail tomor
row's stirring chapter.
COUNT THE "TELEGRAPHS
EVERYWHERE
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
21
10
16
ACROSS
8 The end of a line but not the
end of a royal line (8).
In this vessel there's only one article in a meal (6)
10 Does a cattle lifter need to bo
exceptional in this? (8)
12 To make this is certainly asking
for it (0)
14 He is often "told off" on purely grounds (10)
private
18 The slack pupil can hardly be
this, soundly or otherwiso (4) 21 In this part of Africa is, inter
allo, a former English line(7)
22 Material for a pudding (7). 23 A less pleasing alternative to
bridge (4)
25 The beginnings of a town may
damage a house (10)
28 This sign of the zodiac has a bad
influence on health (0)
30 What to do if the hands are not
up to time (8)
32 The way of the swallows(6) 33 Notice (8)
DOWN
1 Spring makes it go (0)
2 When matrons lose their head
they are never the same (0) 3 One night tell this vessel by it
selt behended (4).
4 Most of this money may have
come from a fire (4)
Its successful employment de
pends on current uplift (6)
A kind of top (0),
7 After this n backward lad should
be discouraged in conversation
(4)
11 Not lacking will (7)
13 This comes from red lact (7) |-
14 Well known London jam maker
(7)
15 Middle aged, but more than will-
ing (5)
16 Refuge for sailors frequently
drunk (4)
17 "Lent to" (anag.) (7)
10 The homes of sailor song (5)
20 Recess (4)
24 A patient obsever (0)
25 One third of him stands on cere- money, but he is mischievous (0)
20 A
well known corn reducer (0) 27 No ollen turns it in part of à
church (6)
30 A man without nerves never experience it (4).
would
30 It may be seen stranded on a
beach (4
31 Surrounded (4) ·
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