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DEATH OVERTAKES OPIUM "SMOKERS”

TWO MENT KILLED.

THURSDAY FEBRUARY

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

There must be quite a to take their places, and JAMES number who remember those, too soon passed away. CANTLI Dr James Cantle Again the beds were filed, and it falend of the late was not long before these Dry Sun Yat-sen-who spent twenty-five sufferers followed the many years in Hongkong-and other fifty to the grave.

We were absolutely ignorant of of Dr. Manson. In an introduction

A tragic fata overtook a number of Chinese who had usadas a pri- vate dpfum den an unoccupied house at Cheung Sha Wan on the to a recent book Dr. Cantle tells the plague, we knew nothing rpute to Castle: Feak.

how he came to practise in about It One morning a clergy- Renderad still more dangerous Hongkong.

man walked into my room and

by the recent rains; the building One day in the Christmas holi, we began to talk about the terri collapsed at 8.80 m. yesterday days of 1886 he says, my friendible, scourge that was afflicting - while the illicit opium, smokers Dr. John Mitchell Bruce, asked Hongkong. I dwelt on were congregated on the upper me if I could help him to find a ignorance.. Hoor."

doctor who could take the place

of a great man who wished to

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our

"You will find all you One man is reported to have ex- bricated himself and bolted from return from the tropics. WeIN THE want to know about the the scene. Four others were part knew of many young men, and BIBLE plague in the Bible," he

replied. ly buried in the quins and were discussed scores of those who rescued by the Fire Brigade. They might prove "suitable.. None, "Where?" -asked in amaze-. wora taken to the Kwong Wah Hos-however, seemed quite to fit the menta pital, but two of them succumbed situation, and we gave it up in "In the First Book of Samuel, to their injuries..

despair.

chapters four, Ave and six," he The work of searching the ruina Bruce, of course, knew the answered. for more victims was proceeding man who was writing home, but I took the Bible and read how this morning.

he would give, me no clue of his. the Philistines sent. back the Ark identity, nor tell me where he of the Covenant to the Israelites lived. I was then a teacher of with two gifts to placate the anatomy at Charing Cross Hoswrath of the God of Israel. These CORRESPONDENCE.pital, where I had been lecturing gifts were five golden enteroda, or seventeen years for a salary of buboes, to signify the plague, £75 a year.

and five golden ratsindis- "Well, Bruce," I said, "many putable proof that the Philistines. a man I have taught and put on knew that the plague was caused ing his carriage in London and The passage in the Bible earning a livelihood ten times as which, in the light of modern big as mine. I don't see why I knowledge, is so pregnant with should not have a try for it my-meaning, reads: "What shall be self. Where is it?

the trespass offering which we shall return to him?

They' and five golden mice, according to answered, five golden emerods,

the number of the lords of the

(To the Editor of the China Mail), the road to success is now drive by rats.

Sir-I presume 1 am sxpected to accept the letter of your corres apology. Se be it; one soon learns pondent on this subject, as a

not. to expect much in this part of the world

As regards the question of my ex-

chausen.

Bruce would not bell me. "Well," I said, "we'll leave out Mars. If it is Australia, New

Philistines: for one plague was

an-

we fain would order differently were it in our power to do so. It is ho compliment to our boasted civilisation-be it Chinese, or for-

periences, which certainly seem to Zealand, India, the Cape or eign-to see, as can be seen any have aroused a lot more interest America north or south, I am not night in Hongkong, bundles of than I as a modest and retiring going. But if it is Mackie's you all, and on your lords... humanity seeking repose in door kind of man, care to contemplate, practice in Alexandria or Man Wherefore ye shall make images ways, alleyways, and on sidewalks, it is difficult for me to enlarge on son's practice in Hongkong I am of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and them in public in such a way as to going." covered only by some piece of dirty bring all the story vividly before "It is not. Mackie's practice, ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure. he will matting-seeking this repose in the eyes of the Public.. Is is but Manson's,""Bruce replied.

"Good, I will go," I answered.lighten his hand from off you, and spite of rain and cold. It is dis. seldom,, in these prosale times that turbing.

anyone meets with an adventure "But how are you going to from off your gads, and from off The one bright spot that savours, almost, of the days of live?" he said.

your land.".. about this social sore,.

"That does not trouble me," I

It is a most astonishing thing. is that the Magic Carpet, and naturally I

that the Bible should link the others are disturbed about the hesitate to lay myself open to a replied, and half an hour later we plague with rats, which in existence of this problem. We charge of out-doing Baron, Mun-wired to Manson: "Will Cantlie

elent days were regarded as do 1 know that there are those-Chin-

large mice, and thus paint the A few sympathetic friends have

way to solve the mystery of the ese let it be said-who, without however stood by me when cer-

Twenty-four hours later disease. ostentation, seek to alleviate hardtain low fellows of the baser sort THE ONE Came back the reply, It

WORD Was the ship by such things as the distri-descended to jeering at my story

word one

I went to Yersin which, be it noted, has been ex-

"Yes." That was the IN. HONGKONG and told him what bution of blankets. We believe tracted from me piecemeal, and by only communication that passed

I had read.. He there is a tendency to regard this no means with my willing consent between us, and in the month of was inclined to be sceptical, but particular problem as insoluble These friends, assure me that it la June, 188, I was in Hongkong. I made him listen, and he at last actually my duty, and only in keep No financial arrangements were realised that the Biblical associa- that, probably it is mixed up with ing with a promise I made pre-made and no stipulations set tion of rats and plague was no the, shifting nature of the work viously--and I am very sorry I did forth, and thus I found myself phantasy, but fact. When Yersin which this class of derelict does. make it now-to give the true the partner of the great man I arrived in Hongkong I gave him

version of my extraordinary It may be so. But we cannot get

exhad never previously met nora microscope and a deal of perience in public. That being so away from the fact that the pro-I have completed all arrangements ately I avoided the topic of to make the broth for his plague spoken to in my life. Deliber-scientific it, and my wife used blem does not seem to have been with a few of my comrades con money, and it was three months cultures. All of us strove, to de- nected with me in this affair before we discussed it and feat the common enemy, the During the Lenten season, the seriously tackled.

We are not

who by a purely fortuitous chance Cathedral devotes the self-much concerned as to whose duty happen to be in Hongkong at pre-knew what I was to receive. Our plague. Despite the danger, association, started iz: this those were happy days, full of sacrificing offerings it receives to it is to give it attention; but we sent consisting of my wife" and the little-known, but very excel-can point out that here is another brother, the lady who might have strange way, continued right up work, and as I glance back it

to Manson's death.

strikes me that work is the great been my wife, and others, together lent Society for helping Waifs matter on which Chinese and for- with the kind assistance of several The outbreak of plague in thing that matters in life:

Hongkong in the nineties found and Strays. Waifs and strays!eigner can find a common interest more Hongkong 'people who are

In my youth times were not good enough to help rie out owing me in Vladivostock: The plague so easy as they are now, I know There is a poignancy about these of unity,

to the great interest they take in hospital was built of bamboo students going through the Uni- words which drive the meaning of

and palm, and had twenty-five versity who had barely enough them home as nothing else but

"I have arranged to hold a series.

money to buy salt for their kale. the of public performances at

"Since you have been here, It was a desperate struggle for." Theatre Royal starting on Tuesday eleven patients have died," the many of them: Some, unable to next at 3.15 p.m. when I shall pub. doctor said.

afford candles, were compelled licly explain with every aid that In short time all were dead. to study at night by the light that Art and Science enn lend; all the Another _twenty-five plague entered the window from the

were brought in street lamp outside, « experiences that follow from the patients

Hongkong, Thursday, Feb. 25, 1928.

WAIFS AND STRAYS.

V

the sight of young human de- relicts can'.. It comes with in- creased force and meaning when the cold wind of recent days makes

COMMUNISM.

ACTIVITIES IN GREAT BRITAIN.

the businos88.

moment I accepted the gift from All

of a Jade Charin. The scenes vary between London and "Persia," to avoid appearing too egotistical. I Dancing and music. have arranged some wonderful

heds.

LITERATURE IN SCHOOLS.

the warmth of fires so doubly wel-NOT A FAVOURABLE FIELD come and when attention is drawn to the splendid work of the

(British Wireless Šervice;)

Hongkong Benevolent Society

Rugby, Feb. 24... which looks after waffs and strays Sir Austen Chamberlain's at

Ever since the school began to in the grand style, the "Inferno," of an older growth. There, may tention was drawn in the House of Now that I have screwed myself. be little or no poverty in Hong Commons to a speech made by M.up to the pitch like this, I hope that take modern languages seriously for instance, and "King Lear" as kong. What there is seems to be International Conference, in which their company. If after they have among the pedagogues as to what it is not every language which has Zinovieff at the recent Communist the public will honour me with there has been searching of heart the supreme achievement of the human mind in literature. But well hidden. On the foreign side he (M. Zinovieff) urged an intens heard all I have to say, they still French and German books should an Eschylus, a Dante, a Shake- it possibly does not exist; and it fication of communist activities in think that I am a romancer which be read in class. It was not speare. Perhaps Mr. Nicholson is only by a study of the neces-this country with the object of is a much milder term than any unnecessary. Some of us (says, asks only that whatever is read

promoting the revolutionary over-have heard used-I shall shake the the "Daily Telegraph can sarily private reports of the Bene-throw of the present constitu-Gust of Hongkong off my feet member being set down to This is in itself a sound and suffi- re-should be first rate of its kind. volent Society that we can realise tional system of government, with no regrets, and return to volumes of elegant extracts from ciently practical principle. But the want which affects numbers Sir Austen Chamberlain anid where I can find a little human ap who become stranded here and that he did not gather that Mpreciation..

Ziniovieff's animosity at the existi have no power of themselves to ing organisation of society in this help themselves. Of the Chinese country was any stronger than his side of the question there is prob dislike for conditions prevailing in ably little, to indicate what the exact position of affairs is, and how it is to be regarded. These beggar people, for instance. The idea of beggar guilds affronts the good taste of normally charitable

people. Making a business of poverty and doing well out of it,

is not. In keeping with charitable

thoughts." So, when we read that

other civilised countries, nor could he bring himself readily to believe that our people afforded a favourable field for propaganda of this character.:(67

LABOUR COUNTESS.

GIVES AWAY HER COUNTRY

HOUSE.

Yours, etc.,

JOHN BEAL

Hongkong, February 25...

HORTICULTURISTS, PLEASE NOTE.

(To the Editor of the China Mail)

authors whose works we have we do not know how to reconcile never met since. There were. it with the condition that the book when Plancus was Consul, schools must deal with history, art, and in which certain innocuous tales social conditions." This would of the late M. Zola were chosen let in almost any good novel, but. by an inscrutable Providence as seems to exclude most of the best the best introduction to French poetry. Whether Ronsard is Literature, Stalky and his young writing a ballad or Racines friends, it is recorded, had to tragedy, their verses have nothing wander through the sands of the to say about social conditions or “Roman d'un Jeune Homme history, or any art but their own, Pauvre, Many generations since There are, of course, schemes of Sir, May I take the liberty of Major Pendennis was a child education which would condemn asking you to mention that as the have been fed upon the edifying such poetry. Dr. Arnold never pages of Télémaque." In the could understand why people entries for the Flower Show close learning of German the works of wanted to read poems the sub- at 1 o'clock next Monday, March 1 Schiller verse and prose, used to jects of which seemed to him It is hoped that all those interest loom so large that he seemed to undignified. But though a school- ed in horticulture will devote & be the only German author. They master must in the nature of so many beggars have been de

part of this week-end in shroffing have changed all that, or most of things act on the assumption that. ported to "another place, the

up their gardens with a view to it, but even yet the headmasters he is always right, he had better newa is taken as one of those

(British Wi 88; Bertigo:)

sending in as many entries as pos- cannot rest and be thankful. not erect his private taste into a sible. If there is any reasonable Mr. H. Nicholson has been telling universal law The most difficult things of life out here which must

Rugby, Feb 24 doubt as to whether any particular their assembled Conference that problems in the choice of foreign be accepted as it is, and which is The Countess of Warwick, who exhibit will be ready or good much of the stuff which is being books for class reading are not in being dealt with in the only man has long been associated with the enough for the Show on March 11, read in modern languages la excluding whatever not valu ner possible in all the circum- Labour movement, to-day handed Intending exhibitors should cer merely amusing and of no high able The riches of those modern stance of difference of thought over Easton Lodge, her country fainly enter same remembering literary value. He demands that languages which are taught in house in Resex with 900 acres of that one week of fine weather can every book chosen should be first schools are ample. But to choose and outlook. But there is another and to the Labour Party for use make all the difference to rate not only should it be good such books as will rouse and class of waif and stray to which as a trade union centre RAM 1 Kar

terature, but it should deal with stimulate children's mite the mind, at this cold season o The Trade Union Congress, In

the history, art, and social con in reading, while, providing such the year instinctively turns. More thanking the Countess, declared

ditions of the country whose mental exercise and discipline as that her magnificent gift would

language they were studying their minds need and a store of often than not, the existence of be devoted to the progress and de

Nthis is hard saying. What is knowledge and thoughts whi this class is thrust upon our velor of the Trade Union

first rate? The world has will endure this is none too easy. I notice by the sight of things which movement on educational lines:“”

agreed to consider certain things in a world of unequal brains.

TRADE UNION'S WINDFALL

Yours, etc

E B C. HORNELL

Hon Secretary Hongkong Horticultural Society: Hongkong Feb. 267