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CHOLERA.
SERIOUS EPIDEMIC IN SHANGHAI,
MANY CHINESE DEATHS.
We regret to have to record the The Hon. Sergio Oamena, Presid- In the last weeks Shanghai has death of Mr. Frank Glass, mains lent pro-tempore nad majority floor been hearing much of the cholera engineer of the Hongkong Electric leader of the Philippines "Soante, situation here, and the 'two patho- Company, which took place en who was sent by the Philippines logists in the Laboratory of the Saturday afternoon in tragic eir-Legislature as its special represen- Public Health Department of the cumstances.
tative to attend the past session Municipal Council have bean
During the past week Mr. Glass of the American Congress, and nak working ten hours a day in an en- had been considerably depressed for the immediate independence of deavour to put the final labora- owing to private worries, but the the Philippines, arrived on Satur tory authenticity on the clinical news of his sudden death came as day morning on board the President or hospital diagnosis of the
After a shock to his friends and equally Jackson.
staying rine disease.
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The Funeral.
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NORWAY'S KING.
BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY
a less
WAX EFFIGIES.
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80 to the writer who came to know months in the United States, he is "According to the health Mr. Glage Inst week-end, having now on his way back to Manila. authorities, Shanghai is at the visited, the Protestant Cemetery In an interview with a "China present moment in the state of a |with him to inspect the damage dono Mail" representative, the Filipino cholera epidemic. The fact does
by the flood.
leader made the following state-not imply, however, that the mor- At about 2 o'clock or Saturday ment:
tality rate from cholera is high. afternoon, he jumped out of the "It has always been the aspira- On the contrary compared with bathroom window of his residence, tion of the Filipino people to be last year the death rate is con- No. 12. East Polat Terrace, second come a free and independent nation. siderably lower and during the floor (opposite the Dairy Farm Having always had the generous week ending Saturday July 24, a Company's premises at Causeway encouragement of the American table prepared by the Health De- orders of the ruffians who have Day) Into Pennington Street, a droj, people. they have always been partment shows that one foreign He was found united in the pursuit of their aim. death" through cholera, that of a to be suffering from multiple la-
"The non-approval of any vi the Russian girl resident in the depths of degradation.
juries and died shortly after his Bills, for granting the complete in- French Concession, who tried to One does not generally look to a removal to the Government Civil dependence of the Philippines, dur throw herself into the Soochow ing the last session of Congress, Creek not long ago in an attempt paper like the Police News, which Hospital,
Before throwing himself out of shows a backward step from their to commit suicide, 28 Chinese uaually confines itself to reports
the window, Mr. Glass had locked promise and policy of making deaths in the Settlement, & Chin and pictures of sensational crimes, the bathroom door from the inaide Philippine Independence an accom-ese in the French Concession, 42 Chinese in Chinese territory and to indulge in outspoken language and placed a chair to enable him plished fact.
"In my opinion, nothing will 3 Chinese deaths of unknown re- on such a subject. It is, there to reach the window silt.
When a visit was paid late in the increase the good feeling of both sidence have occurred. The fore, gratifying to find in a reafternoon, a number of Chinese the people of the United States and lower death rate is attributed by [cent issue a smart rebuke to those were still on the scene. It was the Philippines, better than the the health authorities to
who would bolster up the "Reds." apparent from a casual inspection prompt and complete execution of virulent type of the disease, It points out that there can be no of blood stains on the road that such policies."
though a counteracting statement. Mr. Glass dived out of the window
Accompanying the Hon. Sergio is made in the fact that the Telephones Central 22 & 4641. longer any doubt that immense over the footpath which runs along Osmena is Dr. Jose Reyes, who is cholera season is just beginning
sums of money have beer. remit- the side of the house:
a Professor of the University of here and that the peak of the Deceased; who was about 32 years the Philippines, and whe is travel- epidemic is not expected to be ted from the Moscow Govern
of age, was unmarried and came ling with Mr. Osmena as technical reached before the end of August. ment for the sole purpose of
from Aberdeen. He had been in adviser.
"N. C. Daily News." creating anarchy and revolution Hongkong for about eighteen in Great Britain. Their idea months. that if they can only smash up The funeral took place yes- the British Empire they will find terday afternoon at Happy Valley little or no difficulty in smash-upong those who attended being ing up the capitalistic portion of Mr. F. R. Marsh (Manager), Mr
G Marray (Assistant Manager).| the rest of the world. If our own Capt. . F. L. Brown, Messrs. King Haakon VII, of Norway, To-morrow is the birthday of people are ready to take Soviet Sorby, A. C Everett, M. H. Arnold.
A new form of chamber of GLADSTONE-On July 22 at St. money for such a purpose they G.. Thomson, A. Watte. D. Ewho was born on August 3, 1872.
King Haakon is the second son horrors, stocked with the wax Mary's Hospital, Shanghai, to are traitors of the worst type and Western, R. W. Smith, G. Vickers.
of Frederick, King of Denmark, effigies of criminals against the Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Gladstone,
S. Deacon, C. Gahagan, C. R. ishould meet with the punishment Wilson. T. L. Foster, A
and was elected King of Norway human race, has just been opened
at the National History Museum, < HUCKSTEP.-On July 22. at that such miscreants deserve. If Langston. A. Allison, S. J. Clarke,,
|South Kensington. The exhibits Temple Hill Chefoo, o Mr. they are so
enamoured of the C. Fletcher, A. J. Manton and
are models of some of the more virulent disease-carrying insects, enlarged to from 100 to 200 times life-size, and the awful records of misdeede which accompany them suggest that, in compari- son; the common murderer is an angel of light. Strange as it may be, these ugly-looking parasites, some of them no bigger than pin's head in their nature state,.. have been responsible for the most formidable maladies, which have not only caused millions of deaths, but vitally affected the histories of countries and peoples. Conspicuous amongst these hibits are the malarial. yellow fever, and other mosquitoes, rela- tively less harmful and these by the Storting on November 18. greatly magnified models show 1906. He accepted the crown exactly the nature of the lancet- through his grandfather, the late like probosces with which their King Christian of Denmark, on mischief is usually wrought. They November 18, 1905; landed in are as valuable to the scientific Norway on November 25, 1905, investigator as they are interest- and was married on July 22,ing to the popular sight-seer. 1896, to Princess Maud, the third Then there is the tiny, midge-like daughter of our King Edward VII. sand fly, shown here as a fluffy.
JSON.
BIRTHS.
and Mrs. H. G. Huckstep, a son. methods of Moscow, and believe/6. A. Neves and others.
MARRIAGE.
July 22, at All Saints' Church.
Floral tributes were sent by. as they profess to do that Russia Messrs. F. R. Marsh, G. S. Rodger, is such a paradise to live in, why D. S. Hill M. H. Arnold, E. LOVELOCKCAMPBELL. On Heaven's name don't they go Thompson, A. J. Ablong. 3. J Clarke, V. Serby, A. Webster, Tam Tientsin, before the Revand live there?
Britain could Pok, D.. E. Western, A. Watts, A. G. Charlies Wired Senti, Jeare well spare them! But they know Thomson, Guy Hailey. G. G. Padgett, James Lovelock. of the C. M. in their hearts that if they did Tam Chun, John C., Capt. Langston. Customs, Lappa. Macao. -10
so they would quickly lose every Mr. and Mrs. At G. Langsten, Mr. Annie Beryl Campbell, formerly
and Mrs. Spurgeon," Mr. and Mrs. of Shanghai.
vestige of liberty and would soon May and family. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. sink to the degraded level of the Ramsay and family. Mr. and Mrs. poor Russian serfs who groan be. Rodger, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Wilson, the Directors and stuff of CHAPLIN-On July 20, the Rev.neath the sanguinary cruelty of the Hongkong Electric Company. Maxwell Chaplin. of the their rulers. But while they live the office staff of the Hongkong Presbyterian Mission.
at in Britain, in a free land, they Electric Company Ltd., Shift En- Showehow. Anhui in the Tsingtao Hospital of cholera. must be taught that if they con-gineers, Mains Department, instal- lation Department, H.K. Electric GRAY,On July 25, at the General Spire against the welfare and Recreation Club, Hongkong Tram
Hospital. Shanghai, Gordon E. liberty they will in the future be ways Ltd.. and Craigengower Gray. Chinese Maritime Cus met with sterner measures than Cricket Club toms, aged 21 years.
DEATHS.
Hongkong Monday, August 2, 1925.
CLEAR THEM OUT!
CAFE CASE.
WITHDRAWAL OF FURTHER
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A "MISUNDERSTANDING.”
TO-MORROW.
KING HAAKON
SUN'S PHASES.
Calendar for August.
in the past, and that, as traitors to their own kith and kin, they will find every hand against them. As for the alien intriguers in Bri- tain many of whom are there un- der exceptional privileges, there is If the recent general strike and only one thing to be done with, the present coal crisis at Home them. Clear the lot out bag and have to be deplored, both are to baggage, and take such steps as be thanked for directing attention will prevent their polluting to the machinations of the "Reds." tain's shores again.. Several reputable-
Were all the newspapers newspapers
at had been taken out against Madame August have given prominence to their Home to take a similar stand; the Flint by Mr. Geoffrey, who took activities, and, incidentally, re- Government would be compelled to over the management of the Cafe
after Mr. Taylor left. buked the Labourites for belitting move against alien agitators and
At the Magistracy, before Major the tell-tale documents exposed in Communist Sorieties that bade no Willson, on Saturday morning, Mr. the House of Commons by the good to Britain and the Empire Hugh Jones, appearing for the And there would be Cafe management, announced that Government. As one paper puts as a whole. it, too many of the members of no place in the House of Com-an amicable settlement had been
mens for a Communist! the Labour Parliamentary Party are always ready to place the for-
In the course of the Police Court for August, 1926. (Standard Time Sunrise and Sunset in Hongkong Bri-hearing of the Cale Parisien case of the 120th Meridian, East of
it was mentioned that a summons Greenwich). for abusive language and asemalt.
eigner invariably in the right Bucharest, Rumania, July 25. Geoffrey.
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when any question arises between-Owing to continued raids by aliens and their own countrymen. Bulgarian border troops, martial!"
law has been proclaimed in the The way that they try to gloss district of Dobrudja, and all over every unfriendly act of the movements of men in groups of CHINESE FALLS FROM BARGE Soviet Government, which is the more than four are forbidden by mildest term we can use, toward the Military Commander of the district. Additional troops are bringing about a revolution and being sent to the district. the overthrow of the British Em- pire, is a scandal to their patriot- Malolos, Bulacan, July 26,
The passenger train from Saned at work on. ism that is, if they have the Fernando, Pampanga, which left slipped and fell from the deck ou slightest particle of auch a virtue. Malolos, at 9 o'clock this morning to the ground adjoining, striking The disclosure of direct
com- for Manila, while passing over his head with great violence. munication between Communists the bridge under repair almost in He was picked up inconscious,
.6.05 .6.42 front of the Guiguinto station, and, although first aid was forth- Home and the blood- fell into the river, as a result of coming within a very short time, stained Soviet Executive at the collapse of the bridge. The The only lived twenty minutes.
Cupid, M.D... Moscow has been most locomotive and one freight coach
Elsie was inclined to be senti- fell into the river. The freight
Getting It Out. clusively proved by the mass of coach was thrown straight on the
mental. Harold was nothing. If Landlady: "I believe in letting|not practical,- documents published in the Blue river bed and served to stop the coffee boll for thirty minuter: "Would that you could tell me Book. As a nation we are not passenger coaches from falling. that's the only way to get the how to mend a broken heart?"
she said. only being attacked from Moscow. This prevented deaths or serious goodness out of it
damage. The engineer was New Boarder (tasting his, and "I have known of cases where it] The plottars are on our own miraculously savādi He was leaving it) "You succeeded ad-has been done by splicing," he nolle, free to carry, out the bruised on the face,
mirably, ma'am.
repller
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INSECTS THAT WAR ON MANKIND.
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creature, with wickedly piercing coal-black eyes. In the Eastern, theatres of war its cruelly painful bite, though not fatal in its effects, put whole battalions, out were apparently the females of of action, and the worst offenders the species, which usually do their infamous work by night.
The models, the work of three gifted artists, have been pre- pared under expert supervisión.. and it is claimed that there is nothing of the kind elsewhere so comprehensive and complete. In all there are about a dozen case, and the explanatory labels, which give the fe stories of the insects, with maps to show the parts of the world where they exact their greatest toll of man and animals, have been kept as free from technical terms as pos- sible.
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