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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1927,

EUGENE CHEN.

The Man In Charge At

• Hankow.

"A GIFT OF SILENCE.”

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TYPHOID FEARS.

"GROUNDLESS” SAYS OUR

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SANITARY BOARD MEETING,

The putting of Mr. J. P. Braga's Mr. Eugene Ch'en, the Cantonese questions regarding the incidence Sir-In connection with, the Foreign Minister, who is now prac of typhoid locally and their un- Y.M.C.A. campaign for raising tically in charge of affairs and lower by the Medical Officer of funds on behalf of the Services in conferring with Sir Miles Lampach,

Mr. Braga asked:—

Hong Kong, an interesting event le not exactly unknown, in London Health (Dr. G. W. Pope), con- ia taking place next weak which, (says a correspondent of the Lon-stituted the only business of apart from its charitable purpose man came here first in 1912 or 1919, Board yesterday.

don. "Observer"). This remarkable public importance at the Sanitary merits the attention of the public. and came to my collongue and my Miss Nors Moon, the disself at our office, in Norfolk-street,

With reference to the fatal, tinguished English soprano, who Strand, with a sort of introduction

(British) case European

of is here on a short holiday from from the late Sir Robert Bredon.. Shanghai, is giving a recital at then living on his pension from the typhoid,. reported in the local newspapers of Feb. 14, and to the Helena May. Institute on Chinese Customs at Peking. March 3 at 5.30 pm, the entiresion he made upon me. It was one happily convalescing, and in order I remember well the fret impres-other cases (also European), now proceeds of which will be devot- of the most extreme tidiness. Some to allay public apprehension, will ad to the Y.M.C.A. Services Fund thing below middle height,

Miss Nora Moon won the clean-shaven, hair black as might please state whether, in his opin

Ye the Medical Officer of Health. King's Scholarship and the and carefully smoothed down and Courtnay Scholarship

we

at the without a yestige of parting, quietion, these cases, which have oc- Royal College of Music, wherely, even sombrely, dressed and with curred among the European re- she became the favourite protegee a voice that was clarity itself and sidents of Kowloon, may take the of Sir Charles Stanford and also yet always used sotto voce, he made form of an incipient epidemic of studied under eminent musicians And it was a permanent atmosphere

his atmosphere at our first meeting this malignant disease?

The M.O.H. replied:- like Parry, Bridge and Parratt.and impression. for though, during She made her debut at an early the subsequent three months

"After careful inquiry into all age and on her first appearance saw him often, almost daily, yet we recent cases I have not found any in London received unanimous learned little more about his per-evidence to justify the apprehen- acclamation at the hands of the sonality or hie affair than wasion that typhoid has assumed or is likely to assume epidemic. critics, not only as a singer but gleaned on the first morning.

He had, aven, for a Chinese, a most proportions at present." as an artist of great promise and marvellous gift of silence-A versatility Numerous press cut-silence which invited confidence. Other questions asked by Mr. tings from such papers as the He told us practically nothing. We Bragu were as follows:- "Standard" "Telegraph," "Re-al know that silence is a golden 2. Has the source of infection feree," "Musical Standard" etc., gift; that the silent vacuity of the in the cases mentioned in (1) beon tell of the enthusiasm with which owl can easily be mistaken for the traced and, if so, what is it? If" she was received whether in the quietude of Eugene Chen was Health be so kind as to explain, inacrutability of intelligence; but not, will the Medical Officer of

ability he had an air of honest disease being contracted by the

operatic arias, oratorio, German different. With all his inserut what, in his opinion, led to the

lieder or English songs •

After appearances in leading candour and assured intelligenco

we

roles with the British National possessed by no other diplomat patient who unfortunately sue. Opera Co., she accepted an en-1 have met.. He seemed to bare his cumbed to the disease? gagement to ging arias at the soul when he said nothing of him-) The M.O... replied: The actual source of infection has not been Moss-Stoll Empires throughout self or his mission. Great Britain, during the War, An Embarrassed Legation.. traced in these cases. In the and though, as she says, she was that he would like to meet importo the source I am unable to ex- We gathered, scarcely knowing it,absence of definite knowledge as frankly scared to follow a red tant people in London, and nosed comedian who warbled agined, unknowing why we did so, press an opinion as to the prob- Why did the sausage bark at that we would help him. That he able cause of the infection. This father," with some of the great was a friend of Sir Robert Bredon applies also to the fatal case who, est arias written, she had an cut we knew that he was acquainted I might add, lived in an institu standing success and brought the with "Putnam Weale" (Simpson), tion from which no other cases audience at the London Coliseum the "Daily Telegraph's" correspon have been reported.

Ident in Peking in 1913, and with

Jordan, Backhouse, Bland,

Kowloon Market Gardens.

and

there exist any factors that stand in the way of every young man joining, these must be carefully examined by those responsible for the maintenance of the Corps. If the individual is at fault then the Colony is not so big and Bri-to its feet. tish subjects not so scattered as By a lucky chance, Miss Nora others, seemed pretty obvious from Mr. Braga asked:- to make it impossible to reach Moon is for the moment in Hong his chatter, but somehow you liked 3. Owing to the recurrence of Kong. It is for music-lovers him, and could not worry. That, i every potential recruit personally to seize the opportunity of hear even in those days, he was a person typhoid cases, and so as to avert

In times of crisis or even

ofing her. They will also be en- of much importance, was obvious, the danger of the dreaded disease minor difficulties. it is to the abled to hear a talented violinist, At a time like then, when the Chi-spreading in an epidemic form, Volunteer movement that we na-Miss Vera Godson, who is also nese Legation was rather worried will the President cause instruc making only a short stay here from Peking, and were refusing in and more frequent visits of Chin the staff were receiving no money tions to be issued for the periodie turally look to supplement, or and will appear twice on the pro-vitations to receptions because they ese market gardens in the out- [sometimes substitute the regular gramme at the recital

had no gloves to wear and no money Forces of the Crown. The The $2 tickets, which are with which to buy them he would skirts of Old Kowloon by officers limited to 200, are obtainable at give instructions to the Legation by of the Sanitary Department with splendid work of the Volunteers the Helena May Institute. Phone to send what he required to the object, of (a) better supervi

Yours, etc..

during the war and also during the strike and boycott of 1925-26 will never be forgotten. Equally splendid work still can be done on behalf of the community if the need arises. "A volunteer," says ten an old axiom, "is worth pressed me." A man who be comes a Volunteer because he feels is his duty to share in the

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A. M. BOWES-SMITH. ~ Hong Kong, Feb. 22.

THEFTS AT A.P.C.

YOUNG CHINESE CLERK COMMITTED.

any destination he named and, insion being exercised over the sup short, generally treat the star there ply of vegetables and other mar in every manner as his subordin-ket produce cultivated with man- ates who were bound to carry, outure derived from human and ani- hla instructions. In effect, you mal sources: and (b) controlling knew he was an Influence, though the use of offensive matter for still a young man. He did not

WAR

appear, in 1913, to be much over manurial purposes so as to reduce thirty)....

to a minimum the danger of dis- While he

dia- here he met seminating communicable Vickers, the armament people, and eases in the event of an outbreak many of the big financial people, all thereof ?" of whom showed him the greatest The President, Mr. N. L. Smith, deforence. We never knew whereplied: Chinese market gardens On a series of charges in con- ther he ever arranged any business That heading emphasises the defence of his own. Colony is annection with thefts at the A.P.C. with any of the important houses/in. New Kowloon are not at pre- I never sent inspected by the staff of the possessive. It is as well, that it asset that cannot be appraised building, a young Chinese filing he met, and, personally,

too highly. True, the opportuni- clerk formerly employed by the expected to know. Eugene Ch'en Sanitary Department. If the in- should. We have taken

asked (Sir Miles Lampson CRM re-spection now suggested is to have pride in "our" Volunteers, asty for actual defensive measures firm was yesterday committed by member this) quietly for all; got any practical results it will I

Major C. Willson to stand his much and gave nothing.

think, be necessary as a first step has the community in general may never arise, but prepared- trial at the next Criminal Seg- An Intense Nationalist.

for the Board by resolution to re- Prior to yesterday's hearing, gusto a remark attributed originyerse its ruling that the Scaveng men who likewise talk of "our of which is immeasurably great defendant had pleaded guilty to ally, I believe, to Mr. Elmore, thefing and Conservancy by-laws are charges, which included the fol-gid merchant traveller through not to be enforced in outlying

India, China, and the East general areas. lowing:

ly, "The Chinese word is as good as Mr. Braga asked:- the Japanese bond:" And used to 4. In the hypothetical, though add, with emphasis, "Only an Eng-not improbable, case of the dis- Hishman could have had the under-charges of a typhoid patient find- standing to say that."

ing their way into the cesspool in He came again to London in 1915. Kowloon Teng (referred to in my doubtless watching and searching)

But, there are numerous young

Volunteers although they them selves are not as they ought to be-members of the Corps. There must be a substantial reason for the strength of the Corps being

29 under what it was at this time tast year. A special campaign to.

ness is a virtue the moral effect sions.

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Theft of an automatic pistol and ammunition, silver, cigarette case, silver cigar cutter, cheques, etc., belonging variously to Mr

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He quoted once or twice with

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L. M. S. Lloyd, Mr. W. A. Butter- field and Miss D. L. Gattey;

Forging a cheque for $500 (to to see how England was shaping in questions on January 25 last) and the crisis. He stayed then, is be- the liquid manure sprayed over "Mr. Brown") in the name of Mr. fore, in Maida Vale, but I met him the vegetables in cultivation in to be under consideration - lasa

only twice. "on this visit. And the district, will the Medical Offi- The story of the medical ad- Butterfeld; when His Excellency the vice given the chief steward Dr. Burton or bearer") in the he believed England would be vic-Board whether such a source of Forging a cheque for $50 (to vaguely, he let me understand that cer of Health please inform the Governor met the heads of the the freighter "Navua" by the name of Miss Gattey;

(like many Easterns. he infection would not be a real men- Forging a reference (of employ-never spoke of Great Britain or the various firms in private confer-doctor on the, mai steamer

ment) for himself, from the Empire, but always England), and ace to the health of the residents The outcome has not beenOrvieto," when the tramp was APC., purported to be signed by that he thought it should be so, as of Kowloon Tong

The Medical Officer of Health divulged, but if it can only be re- over 250 miles from the passen- Mr. Butterfield, with intent to de, England had the highest ideals, and flected by a decrease instead of ger ship, is a striking commen-fraud. an increase in the membership, tary on the wonders of this age, there must still exist weak points Well within the memory of al- that require tightening up.

FIVE YEARS FOR SAFE RIFLERS.

was the most honest nation. And replied: Under the circumstances then he vanished again into the postulated in this question any melting-pot of China, to re-appear one who ate the uncooked veget again in Hankow.

ables in question would run a risk of infection and that risk would

Sir Robert Bredon's contribution

person lived at Kowloon Tong

most everyone are the days when ROBBERS SENTENCED Speaks Little Chinese, In view of the possibility-a vessel put to sea equipped as

on the enigma was curious and in- be the same whether or not such formativo. Sir Robert reached hinted at by the G.O.C., Souththoroughly as possible for a voy-

London in the spring of 1914 (re- #ge of indeterminate length, be China Command, at the annual cause of the vagaries of the

turning, fo' China, or rather Japan, Inspection of the Corps yesterday motive power, whether it be sail The man arrested as the result via the States, in the middle of

of the action of a toki where the same August), and he told me as well as he knew one, so it is GRÆCO EGYPTIAN TOBACCO STORE, LTD. evening of the defence of the orders left a terme days, one turned, after being sent out on a able man; that he had lived largely should find little diffenity. In con

that Ch'en was a most remarkably certain that Sir Miles Lampson. Island being handed over to the was isolated, and emergencies men who had bound the account States, and had been educated in tonese. Foreign Minister.

land was left astern, the vessel false errand, and disturbed three in our West Indies and the United versations with the dapper Can And it Volunteers. it is to be trusted had to be met by such rough ant of the Yee On Company (Des both places-facts which accounted, equally, certain that Eugene that a "combing out" process will treatment as was possible in the Voeux Road, West) and were if only in part, for his marvellous Ch'en, with his curiously exact, be inaugurated with a

self-contained floating world. view to

How different things are in, this rifling the safe, was found guilty command of English, which was too quiet, and orderly mind, can have at the Criminal Sessions yester good even for a Boston man, and nothing at all in common with impressing on every eligible era of dependable transport and day and sentenced by Mr. Justice also beyond the English of any Bolshevista sa they are usually young man the benefitspo kim-constant communication over Wood (Acting Chief Justice) to Briton I have ever met in Its met paisted. He will use them, as he self and to the community of long distances. The master of Ave years hard labour

culous exactitude of application would anyone else, as a counter the "Navua found a ready reply Man Without Boots he used; during the political emer- our people,

and fitness of expression; and that in making his bargain with joining the Hong Kong Volunteer to his inquiries for the method

with whom, "The man who couldn't get up" gencies even then occurring in am convinced, this Sphinx Defence Corps. If they are to to treat his sick chief steward because Ee had left his boots on China, to write leading articles in of China desires to compromise, if continue to be described as "our" from a source that, although 250 the scene of the robbery) was the "Peking Daily News" setting he can, and whose co-operation he

miles distant was 28 ens

found guilty at the Colminal Ses out the views of the reformers will value, if he can force a position Volunteers there must be an end

access as if the vessels had of apathy. There must be stimula steaming bow to Bow, and, though her for

ons yesterday, together with one And this is a curious points Bir to take it, above anything else.

Aving participated in Robert added that, though "Chen For though he was so silent tion given to the organisation. the distances between the two

Is one of the most ardent Nation when here, he at least let me know, robbery of 8 talists in Chins, he can hardly speak during his sojourn with us, that, Membership must be made as atvessels Increased, the medica

mloon, a word of Chinese English is the above all, he was certain that China hil sentenced only language" he knows properly." could and would stand as a nation cars hard 18, a Knowing the English of Bugane) by herself, and that the only coun-- trokes of the Citan, I can believe this, for surely try he thought worthy of being her

no man could know two languages colleague was England.

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