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CHOLERA AMONG SHANGHAI CHINESE.
RESULT OF GREAT HEAT.
Herole Fight by the Hospitals.
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BLISHED
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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1926. PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
: CASTLE PEAK.
"DIFFICULTIES IN ROAD CLEARANCE.
PATHETIC APPEAL.
BANDSMAN WHO "STOLE FOR WIFE."
ANOTHER WEEK.
ADMITS GUILT. -
It had been hoped that the work Sequel To Losses By Empress
Passengers,
of clearing Castle Peak Road would be sufficiently progressed.
Pheas
on
WHICH IS TRUE?
CANTON VICTORIES IN FANCY.
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10 DAYS' PROMISE,
Under date of July 29, the the military correspondent at front informed Canton that
Yochow had been taken, and that!
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WHAMPOA PORT.
$20,000,000 COMPANY
PROSPECTUS.
CANTON'S SHARE,
To Pay 10 per cent. Interest Annually.
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As a result of the excessiva hent by to-day to allow of a temporary The Filipino bandaman who was
With a capital of $20,000,000- board the R.M.S by pushing along the railway half Government half public Jon August 8, cholera is continuing opening but on enquiry the China arrested
unchacked anor the Chinese roni-Mall" was informed that the work. Empress of Asia was charged this (Le.. the northern part of the the Whampoa Port Develop- Line), both ment Co., Ltd. has issued its manity in Shanghai. say's the had presented more difficulties morning before Mr. J. H. B. Nihil Canton-Hankow "China Press" of August 7 which than had at one time been calcul at the Kowloon Mugistracy on three Wüchang and Hankow would be prospectus.
This prospectus was drafted Fadds: In spite of the berole ghated and it will be a week, before tersirate events of stealing from captured (by the Nationalists) ind
and submitted by the Blanning the high ten days.", mrried on by the various hospitals the roads opened even tempor Passengers whilst
The Committee, revised by the Wham- It now. August 11, against its spread.. the epidemie isarily
The first complainant was Mr. T number of days can be counted po Development Association, But to show the difficulty which and has been approved by the ager, from whom the defendant alleged to have stolen a sweater has to be contented with the Canton Political Council. It has dar. of Stulomb Pomade. "China Mai" points to the cabled now been promulgated by the The second complainant was Mr. V. report that Canton's allies were Nationalist Government" and is in | Racis, from whom, the defendant is retreating from Changsha, which the process of publication. It is alleged to have stalen a safety razoris even further south than expected that copies will be dis-
The third complainant is Mr. Yochow!
tributed and subscription för
stil anchecked and no effective | Castle Peak beach will there. pyntrol has been gained over, ik fore be isolated for another week Yesterday afternoon the Thibet end except by the long route via |Rond dafectious Diseases Hospital| Taipo and Fanling. Dreported two deaths from cholera Land 40 ou 182 Demple pucriveli Praline injections. The Tientsinj"
Read Red Chess Hospital treat.
5 patients, one of whom died and
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3 others received saline infections, days immunisation is complete na By the skill Road Summer Dis-mest immediate. The absorption Cases Hayitah no death was re-for this galled vaccine produces no
orded; but 48 patients out of 226 disorder or discomfort. attended anak saline injection. Whil
Recent Cases,"
and a
arl.
Some Other Items. Only a few days ago," a verna“ cular paper in Hongkong publish. ed a report that General Chapy Cherping would soon take the field on Canton's side. This ad- venturer, who trekked north- awards from Fukien a few years
As a result, greater vigilance was kep by the ship's watchmen:
The Discovery.
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1X
alleged that early
The Preference Shares, The capital of this company shall be $20,600,000 Canton currency. The capital shall be divided into 20,000,000 shares of $1 per share payable in one instalment.
The Government shall sub- scribe for 10,000,000 shares while the remaining 10,000,000 Shares shall be offered to the public for subscription.
F. Noris from whom the defen-} Then again, the report which shares will be open to the public dam is alleged to have stolen 245 is first quoted, promises a march in a short time. Extracts from in Thos. Cook and Sen notes, and much further than either Chang- the prospectus. (which is in $45 in Shanghal notes.
sha or Yochow, over the Yungisze Chinese) are:- It is alleged in the charge that River and into Hupeh province. two days from Vancouver, a number | adding that little resistances ex- of complaints from passengers and pected. -ituation. |_ } } Hongkew distric Thuring the week from Augustofferry were made to the pürset. agems" much improved, as the St. to 5 says the "-c. Daily News. Some alleged that they had ox1 | Luke's Hospital reported "the ad
August 7, there have be $100, others $50, and others, watches mission of only two cases esternotification
of 76
eases in the and personal effecta. French Concession, 74 Chinese and in the native city; Ngata, a foreigner Russian.. Of this Chinese woman who was overtaken kuumber 26 have died. by cholera at two o'clock Thuring" | In the Settlement, while notificн.i night died at five. Friday morning ton of new cases are stated to have 14 A ense of heat prostration oeur-decreased, the number of deaths re-morning when the steamer left ago and won a name by a stub. red in the West Cate district, we encoded from cholera have increases Shanghai bourd for Hongkong, one born defence of the environs of Chiese e cream hawker, while Theeg, foreign cases were reported the ship's cfficers Aw the de- Shanghai. is now supposed to be Janning about to sell his com-
suppressing bandits in Anhui pro- jodis, under the musk-day sun. India on Tuesday, 14 Chinese imong The officer asked the devince, which is still further away en Monday ctwo Japanese and one ferdant in "B" deck, robed in a Bddenly fel, down aneunscious on Wednesday, one foreign case and
endant what he was doing there from the war zone. and did on the way to hospital Chinese, In Chinese Territory, and in the absence of a satisi netory Another reference is one to
a Potong five more people "sue-notification was made on Monday reply, his suspicions were aroused,
General Fan Chung-sati, who cumbed Pholera on Thursday and of 108 cases, on Tuesday 108 and Defendant's luggage was subke commanded the Honanese. mer- Chinese of unauently searched, and in them were cenaries in the late Dr. Sun Yat-
sen's army Fan brought down! 12. and on Tuesday. Kers,
with him the remnants of the notorious White Wolf's band of outlaws, and then left Kwangtung because he was disappointed. In a communique published yesterday, there is the following paragraph by the Canton In- formation Bureau:-
jin shapei, more the seven deaths
on Wednesday 30,
gere Pecorded. Among the victims known resfence were reported on found articles missed by passen-
teven.
were
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Very
"The reports appearing in for- eign newspaper's describing the financial situation here as alarm- jing are entirely false."
in the various places, the majority Monday as fre boys and children. According |
Defendant pleaded "Guilty" when to a report submitted to the Shang-i Deaths in she Settlement
the charge was read to him. When maj-Woogung „Constabulary by the six Chinese on Sunday, and on the His Worship asked him whether he rend Police Station in the Westhame day in the Concession one had anything to say before judg bate district five persons, three death was" reported. In Chinesement was passed, he made the
oien and two women, beaume in-territory four deaths were recorded following fected with cholera on Thursday
u well as two Chinese of unknown appealing manner with tears in his nd all of them died, in the night.
residence,
eyes. I am a very poor man und New Health Bureau.
It is said. however, that the married a girl not very long ago. In order to combat the epidemic medical authorities have the sibua-As I could not find any employment Dr. V. K. Ting, has ordered officials
tion well in hand and that should in Manila, I became a bandsman on to anagarate the services of the the next week see lowered tempera- the Empress of Asia receiving a The China Mail' states em- newly-fromised Shanghai-Woosung rare with rain in Shanghai, the very small amount. About three
The Bureau, aback of the cholera epidemic could weeks ago, I received a letter from phatically that no report, alarm- Health Bureau.
ist or favourable, on reported has been under proċess 4o be broken.
my wife, saying, that she was about
has been published in organisation for a considerable
to give birth to a baby In Yoko finances, time and it is hoped that it will be
hama. I received another letter from this paper for months. opened by the middle of this month,
her saying that she was ill and Mr. Hsu Hung-ghi, assistant direc-i
was confined in a hospital and could sor of the Bureau, has just come)
not meet the expenses. I love my wife very dearly and not knowing where to find the money, I decided to steal to help my wife and my new born son."
Shanghai from Nanking and is new conferring with Dr. Ting and Central Yen Tsung-yank, Chief: Director of the Bureau, regarding the establishment and opening of the offer in the near future.
Preventive Treatment. With the daily toll taken by cholera mounting steadily and constant vigilapce being applied to the situation by the health authori ties, it is interesting to note the preventive measures, other than the usual cautions about contaminated food and water, which the French
munisipality in using.
According to Dr. R. Poupelain, Health Offer for the Concession. more than 2,000 doses of the Anti- eholerie Billyacein have been given to pulicemen, firemen and other! employees of the French Mun! cipality in an effort to prevent the spreading of the epidemic.
CHOLERA RIFE.
NEARLY 3,000 CASES IN SHANGHAI
FAMINE FEARED.
"Shanghai, Aug. 10, The Municipal Health Authorities state that last week 2,053 Chinese and 22- foreigners Were suffering from cholera, of which 321 Chinese and six foreigners died.
This week up till to-night (Tuesday) there have been G54 more Chinese and eleven more foreign cases, of which 125 Chinese and three fox- eigners have died.
The China Press states that the continuous lack of rain and the excessive heat (yes- was 101% terday again it degrees) are not only causing" the spread of cholera but threatening a great famine.-. Reuter,
As explained by Dr. Poupelnin this vaccine, which is known only as a preventive and not as a cure after the disease has been contract- d. is taken in the form of six tablets and not in the usual way of inoculation. Three tablets prepare the digestive tract for the remain. ing three tablets containing the real cholera. vaecine and this for of Inoculation is in line with the Raateur Institute" discoveries per- taining to local immunisation. As the intestines affected in ANOTHER TYPHOON? cholera, swallowing the anti-toxip
are
In conclusion, defendant said to: his Worship: 1 think you" have ai wife too, and I am sure that if you were in my place, you would have done the same thing.".
Defendant was sentenced to six months', hard labpur
CANTON STRIKERS.
NEWSPAPERS STILL NOT PUBLISHING.
POSTMEN BACK.
Canton's vernacular papers are still not publishing.
One report indicates the pos sibility of the two alleged Gov. ernment organs being involved- not in the actual strike, but in the dispute. The report goes that a certain section of Labour is not now supporting the official pub lications because of the attitude taken up.
The Canton (vernacular) Press Association is stated to have ask- ed the Government what policy
COAL CRISIS.
Canton
CLERICS PROPOSAL
TURNED DOWN.
BALLOT'S SURPRISE.
+
Rugby, Aug. 10. Contrary to the expectations of the newspapers the district votes in the mining areas, which were considered to-day at a meeting of the Miners' Federation Executive in Lon- don, disclosed & majority against the proposals for a settlement of the coal dispute, which had been advanced by the Industrial Christian Fel- lowship and approved by the. Miners' Executive.
The statement issued at the close of the meeting gave no details of the voting.
It merely stated that the decision reported from the districta was against the re- commendations of the last de- legate conference, and added that the Executive had decid- ed to call another delegate conference of their members on Monday next" to give the
it will adopt in the present dis-report of this voting to them. pute.
British Wireless Service.
On Monday the striking post-i men are said to have returned to
rather than receiving it through in- MAY BE FORMING EAST OF work, without incident.
jection carries out the principle of
| kcal immunisation. The vaccine
The Treatment.
companying the medicine, as fol-
LUZON.
An indication that a typhoon
No further street riots have been reported but a disturbed] atmosphere still prevails.
MRS. STIRLING.
YAUMATI AFFRAY.
CONSTABLE ASSAULTED &
DISARMED.
To expedite the work of port development. this company's ' Executive Committee has ployed experts who have pre-
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HONGKONG AGENTS—
pared schemes for immediate MACKINTOSH
operation. The first,stage of the work shall be commenced before the shares shall have been fully subscribed.
The shares shall be divided. into two classes preference shares and ordinary shares.
Those shares which are sub- scribed from China, Hongkong and Maçao, and paid within two! months; and those which are subscribed from abroad and paid! within four months; shall be treated as preference shares. A 10 per cent. discount shall be allowed on preference, shares.j Ordinary shares shall be paid in
full.
"No Salary, but Expenses." The subscribed capital shall be devoted solely to the development of Whampoa. The Executive Committee or Board of Directors. shall assume füll responsibility for the custody of this fund and it shall not be used by any other party or for any other purpose.
The interest on the capital shall be 10 per cent, per annum reckoned from the date the ceipt is issued and payable an- nually..
re-
After first deducting the in- terest and then the bonuses the company yearly profit of the
shall be equally divided among the shareholders or appropriated into the reserve fund, according to the decision of the Board of Directors.
No salary shall be paid to members of the Executive Com- mittee but an expense allowance may be made to them according to circumstances.
The Management. Every share is entitled to one vote and every shareholder shall be entitled to the right of being elected as the President, Direc- tor or Supervisor of the com- pany.
This company shall have a Board of Directors composed of 16 persons, 7 of which shall be the Government elected by shareholders and 8 shall be elected by the public share- holders. There shall be 9 super- visors, 5 of which shall be elect- ed by the Government shares, 3 by the public shareholders and 1 by the public organisations which promoted the project. The term of office of these off- eers shall be one year but they The Board may be re-elected. of Directors shall appoint one President and two Vice- Presidents. The Board of Direc tors shall have authority to dis-) miss them. All the other officers of the company shall be ap- pointed or dismissed by the President and Vice-Presidents.
is believed to be efficacious," not only in cholera, but in prevention may be forming to the East of
"Three Chinese held up and as- of dysentery, typhoid and other
saulted an Indian constable at Luzon is given in the Observatory disturbances of this nature.
Mrs. Stirling (wife of the Com-Waterloo Road, Yaumati, at 5 report issued at 11.15 a.m. to-day modere), accompanied by Misa 'clock yesterday morning. Rules for taking the cholera The report states that pressure Stirling, returned to Hongkong It appeared that the men in- vaccine are given on a sheet achas increased slightly from cen- to-day, from a holiday at quired the time. While the con- It Welhaiwei, by the China Naviga-stable was pulling out his watch, "To preserve oneself from tral China to S.. Manchuria. cholera a gall pill (round) immed has decreased slightly over the tion. a.s. "Kueichow." She has one of the men ran away with
Mr. J. C. Faers of the News- been away for two months and it his revolver and another assaulted ately followed by a compressed Philippines and is nearly station-is regretted that she should have him.
paper Enterprise Ltd, returned to tablot of vaccina (fat) must be
Colony The constable gave chase and the
to-day by
the ary elsewhere. Pressure is low become indisposed yesterday, absorbed each morning on an emply
caught one of the men and also "Kueichow" after a holiday in stomach, during three consecutive over N.E. China and 8.5. Mongo-
After the paragraph on page 2 recovered the weapon.
the North... duya. The previous ingestion of lia and high from the Loochoos to
of this issue was printed, the A formal remand for a week the gall pill is necessary in order the Bonins.
announcement referring to Hong-was made when the arrested man Lo enable the absorption of the The forecast for the 24 hours kong Amusements, Ltd. was can- was brought bofore the Kowloon Ingestion of the entire dose (three ending at noon to-morrow is east celled, pending further considers- Magistrate this morning, charged gall and three vaccines) in three or variable winds, light; fine,
Recine by the intestine. After the
tion..
with highway robbery,
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