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forming of a Geological School is necessary to the welfare of the South of China: and that, › the.. Governments of Hongkong, Can- ton, and the Republic should be

THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1925,

CORRESPONDENCE.

CROWDED HONGKONG.

asked for their support." Dr. (To the Editor of the China Maji.]

Hennley said that the matter was

one of great importance not only

to the engineering students of the

Sir-In your issue of Tuesday

WOUND UP.”

LEAGUE OF FELLOWSHIP

AND SERVICE.

FINAL MEETING.

University as affecting their I notice that you quote the A meeting to wind up the careers, but to the British and Colony's premier hotel as having | League of Fellowship and Service Chinese merchants of the Colony 60 resident boarders. The num-and devote its funds to and to some extent the manufac

tion,

Wireless and Piracy.

People who delight in saying "I told you so have not been slow to point out that the presence of

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Sir Henry. Pollock, K.C., who

turers in Britain. The advice of ber may not seem many, but useful object was held at the old | Chamber of Commerce Room, at the geologist was invaluable, said there are other hotels and private the City Hall, yesterday after- Professor Schofield in the course boarding houses in the Colony noon. of the lecture, and every good which have resident boarders to mining company employed one a number in keeping with their permanently on the staff. It was size and importance. No census presided, explained to those pre- the duty of the economic geologist has been taken of those who sent that the membership of the to trace the relationship between either prefer to Hve in this man League was 408, of which 270 rocks and ore, and to predict what ner, or are compelled to do so. Were Chinese. Amongst the ob would be found at certain depths We may, however, agree that thejects which the Longue had What ought to attain were the estab of the mineral vein. Professor F. number is considerable.

A proportion of lishment of an industrial home Redmand, who presided over the does it mean? meeting, said that the University those who are not householders for boys; the formation of an Sonate would no doubt be glad to are undoubtedly bachelors who international club; instruction of consider the question of founding prefer this mode to that of shar- school children by means of & Chair of Geology at the Univering a flat or house with fellows cinema films; and the formation The Chairman sity, but he did not think that the of their kind, leaving a number of of local branch of the Roval time was quite ripe. Dr. Heanley married folk who find agreeableAsiatic Society.

then mentioned that the question It may be did not therefore press his resolu-sanctuary in hotels!

that some of these married people of an industrial home for boys

had now been settled, indepen- ' prefer to live this, avoiding as it does to a considerable extent the dently of the League, by Sir Robert Ho Tung and an influen- worry of supervising servants and buying furniture, which, tial body of Chinese gentlemen when the time comes to sell, very subscribing for such a home for often shrinks, in value to a re- boys to be built in the neighbour- markable degree. But it is a fact hood.of Aberdeen. The amount that there are numbers of mar- of funds to be disposed of was a wireless net on board the "Hongried people who are compelled to roughly $1,450, and it was Hwah" did not help that vessel live in hotels and boarding houses. originally suggested that in view when pirates carried out their eir instincts are domestic to of the International character of surprise attack last week during the extent of wishing to have the membership of the League, the voyage from Singapore. But their own freside, but circum-the funds be devoted to some people who merely say "I told you stances of high rents, disposses association doing international so" and leave the matter there are sion. the extreme difficulty of find-werk, as, for example, the League. taking the attitude, typical of their ing suitable accommodation, have of Nations. At the time, how- kind. No sensible person expected forced them to hotel life. Let ever, when that suggestion was that wireless would form an in- those who know dispute this if made, it was not realized that the fallible safeguard against piracy. they can. My point is that it inese members of the League Criminals desperate enough to tends to prove that the housing constituted two-thirds of the total seize an entire steamer were problem is by no means settled: members. That being so, it was hardly likely to overlook the that there is a scarcity of felt that it would not be fair to danger wireless must mean to habitations; and that the con- send the money out of the Colony, themselves or to have any mercy. tinuance of the Rents Ordinance; ed that it should be devoted to and he (the Chairman) consider- for those who might attempt to even though it benefit only a few, | defeat their efforts to remove that is imperative. I go further in some deserving local institutions Obviously the very first this matter and say that if the in which the Chinese were special act of the pirates would be to permission given to Government ly interested, such as the Alice smash the wireless set beyond servants to allow certain depen, Memorial Hospital and the Tung

Wah Hospital. repair. But while, all this has dants--or more correctly rela Sir Henry Pollock then formal- always been fully admitted, the tives-to live with them in Gov- Thomas Clifford Allbutt points hope has also been entertained ertment houses, the housing pro-ly proposed the following resolu- out, we are faced with the pheno-that just possibly an alert operator blem would be more acute and tions

(1) That it is desirable that succeed in getting would come to the notice of the menon that generation upon might

message away, especially if the Government more prominently the League be wound up. Second- generation of clever people failed wireless room were specially pro- than it does at the moment. The ed by Mr. W. Jackson and carried. to see what lay as open to their tected against sudden attack. Government is pursuing its policy hand over the remaining funds of (2) That he be empowered to eyes as to those of their ancestors. Besides this argument in favour of housing all its employees, but This naturally does not apply to of wireless, there are, of course, it should hot blind its eyes to the the League to the following insti- tutions, namely, the Alice the even stronger claims that have fact that there are those who are amazing discoveries such as those been recognised all over the world. not Government servants and who Memorial Hospital and the Tung relating to bacteriology, the Piracy is by no means the only are not so happily placed as to Wah Hospital, to be divided in chemistry of the body, and the peril of the seas, nor is it the know what is to happen to them equal shares between those in

Seconded by Mr. J. double nervous system, which worst danger local ships have to in the matter of living quarterswitcheil and carried.

Accordingly little heed during the next six months.

The business of the meeting were the outcome of long series of should be, paid to the wiseacres

Yours, etc.,

being concluded, Sir Henry abstruse investigations by bril-who draw the moral from the

A RESIDENT. Pollock said that the thanks of liant scientists using methods "Hong Hwah" piracy that wire-

less is not worth the money. Hongkong, January 22,

the League were due to the Hon." Mr. R. H. Kotewall, one of the undreamt of in former days.

Wireless is an essential for every

joint. Honorary Secretaries, who It is obvious, "continues Lord ship, and the day is coming when

interested many of the Chinese in Riddell, even to an ignorant we would no more think of a ship

this Colony in the work of the layman (as he modestly calls him without wireless than we would

League; and to Mr. Charles Gerken, who, was the Honorary self) that to use a military think of a house without a bath.

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during a century from bows and arrows to machine-guns. X-rays, chemistry, bacteriology, and the rest have effected a revolution Hongkong, Thursday, January 22, 1925. both in diagnosis" and treatment.

ADVANCE OF MEDICINE.

the Nevertheless, continuing analogy, Lord Riddell points out that the man counts for as much in modern medical warfare as he

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Time was, not so very long ago either, when history took a back

seat in the hearts of school chil- dren. It was presented to them by old-fashioned methods that were nothing if not crude and uninvit

stitutions.

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SAINT JOAN."

In the

The "Shanghai Times" is in- ing like the boy who never liked CLOSE OF SEASON TO-DAY. formed that at a meeting the French-in fact, hated it all his

The members of the Hongkong Consuls-General for Great Bri-life-because the dominie would, tain, the United States of insist on the true Parisian Amateur: Dramatic Company had A strenuous time yesterday, It is strikingly appropriate that did in the time of Dr. Sydenham America, Japan, France, Italy accent," during a week notable for the And the man, like the machinery and the Netherlands decided to To-day there is no reason why when they gave both a matinee sessions of the Medical Conference he uses, has improved, and only send identical telegrams to their all the school children should not and an evening performance of in Hongkong the Home mail the foolish and ill-informed prefer respective Ministers in Peking simply love history, if only as a "St. Joan," the attendance of the should bring us a journal contain, the good old days" and Early suggesting that the latter should pleasant diversion from their public on each occasion being all

reconsider their instructions other studies. They have a great, that could be desired. given in August owing to the big help in the cinema, which is afternoon Mrs. Beale's place in ing an article by Lord Riddell on Victorian braina. Thomas Sydenham, whose tercen- But the human body has still serious situation that has arisen constantly presenting pictures the title role was taken by Mrs. tenary the doctors have been doubtless many more wonders to in Shanghai as a result of Gen- full of historical allusions with an Salter, who was warmly applaud- eral Chi Hsieh-yuan's coup last accuracy that would have baffled ed for the manner in which she celebrating. According to Lord unfold to the medical faculty, Sunday. Further, we learn that the old-fashioned, dominie and portrayed the French saint.

The season comes definitely to can these telegrams have been des- with an attractiveness not to be Riddell, Sydenham was a sort of the discovery of

found in the cold, dull pages of a conclusion to-night, when thera medical Bacon. He taught that, undoubtedly be accelerated by patched to Peking.

is sure to be a packed house. history books.. The instructions referred to

An instance of this was forth- instead of theorising about dis. such gatherings as the Medical

are in regard to the admission of eases and speculating as to their Conference in Hongkong.

Chinese political and military Richard the Lion-Hearted"" was

coming some time ago when ( leaders into the foreign areas at screened, at the Coronet, a picture HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. causes, the doctor should examine

Shanghai. We understand that brimful of history that should the patient and exercise his

the Consular Body has no power have been witnessed by every powers of observation, Sydenham

to refuse admission, provided, the school boy and school girl in the The geologist whose interesting fugitive or suspected plotter is also taught the danger of being governed by dogma, and that fossil discovery has proved of not accompanied by troops, and Colony, as well as by every

teacher. It was only after one. A general meeting of the mem- immense value for placing the it cannot definitely be shown that school had gone in full force to see bers of the Hongkong Horticultural medical men should ever be on the period of origin of Hongkong is he purposes to carry out a plot in this historical film that the heads Society will be held on February alert for new discoveries. Could Dr. C. M. Heanley and not Dr. the Settlement or Concession.

of the other schools realised what 5 at 515 p.m., in the board-room he be resurrected for one short Hinton, of the University of Hong-

Obviously, not only should the a golden opportunity for imbibing of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & week and be present at the Medical kong, as appeared in the report of authorities have power to refuse and imparting history Iny in the Co., Ltd.

The date of the annual Flower Conference now being, held in a lecture given yesterday at the admission to any undesirable per cinema.

scientific conference by Dr. son, but also to arrest or eject any Two other opportunities are Show has been fixed for March 5. Hongkong, he would be delighted Williams. Dr. Heanley is Principe! military leader or head of any forthcoming, however, and both The usual schedules will be posted

Hongkong's Geology.

Vaccino and

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world at least, his teachings have Bacteriological Laboratory, Hong political faction so soon as they at the Coronet, the management at an early date.

have evidence that he is plotti

not fallen upon deaf ears..

to find that, in this part of the of Heanley's

The annual subscription to the kong, and has taken a keen and thus is a menace to the peace its enterprise. In "When Knight interested in horticulture, and of which is to be commended on Society is $5, and any persons. interest in geology for a number After tracing the history of of years, being particularly and good order of the foreign hood was in Flower," to be desiring to become members

on Saturday, teachers and should communicate with the Hon. early medicine, Lord Riddell re-interested in questions appartam

scholars will have a picturesque Secretary, Mr. E. B. C. Hornell, marks that Harvey's, discovery ing to the history of the physical

and accurate history lesson on the care of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson to be hoped that every school will

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