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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1927.

KIDNAPPING RIFE.

BANDITRY MANIA IN CHEKIANG.

vinces. Most daring escapades are | being enacted every day and mem- bers of rich familles are being car- ried away for ransom. Most in- tricate directions are given as to the payment of the large suma de- manded. The cash must be deposit "HUNTERS OF THE WEALTHY." ed In Shanghai with agents who aro in league with the nefarious business.

The Correspondent of the "N. C. Dally Newa" writes:-

In concluding a short visit to Thichow after a lapse of some ten odd years, one feels that this warm, less than a hundred miles south of very Ningpo, hearted people are Hittle affected by the whirl of aut During my stay, it aide events. was difficult to trace any real pro- gressive change in the general acti- vities of the city or its institutions during recent years. The sen trip. from Shanghai, through the Chuann Archipeinge, is most charming, and the trim tlie steamer "Chusan" makes the journey in about 26 hours, landing its passengers at Hai-| Men-"the Sen-gate"-which is the port for this old time prefecture. En route, a call is made at Dinghne and Zihpu, and a ensunt glance at these business centres makes it very! plain that business has fallen on evil days.

PUBLIC HEALTH.

DR. WU LIEN-TEH'S ADDRESS TO STUDENTS.

THE CHINA

larger part, consisted of public health. The result was that this. one time antiquated, backward re- gion of Europe, the conditions in which, from a public health point of view, were once as primitive ns THE CONSERVATIVE CHINESE, in any parts of the East, had been transformed into one of the most |interesting public health centres in

the world,

gress to Tropical Medicine,

Problems In The Esat

MAIL,

AFTER DARK.

SMUGGLING ANCIENT AND MODERN.

ARMED ENCOUNTERS.^

order to prevent escape his eyes cellency the Governor (Sr High Rolve. The problem in Indin he about such a little matter as the

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tha

of

friends and relatives of Robert | proportions it attained in seem to have interpreted him as a eighteenth century, the extent pious and forgiving soul, for his which may be gauged from the fact tombstone in Talland, churchyard, that in 1732 no less than 54,000 just outside Polperro, renda:- pounds of tea and 123,000 gallons of

brandy were seized as contraband.

In prime of Life, most suddenly

Sad tidings to relate: Here, view My utter destiny And pity My sad state: I by a shot which Rapid flew

Was Instantly struck dend; Lord pardon the Offender who

My precious blood-did shed, Grant Him to rest, and forgive

Me,

- Four balls thro' me Pearced

there way

Hard it was I'd no time to pray. This atone that here you Do see My comrades erected for the

sake of me.

The Revenue forces of to-day are highly organised and impec- cable, whereas in cartier times an alliance between smugglers and the forces of the law was not unknown, Moreover, although the ordinary citizen may still regard smuggling" likely to afford that actual assis as a venial offence, he is scarcely

tance in the disposal of the goods which was such a valuable asset to those engaged in "Free-Trading" In olden times. "John O' London's Weekly."

MALARIA FEVER.

MANILA BOARD DECIDES ON METHODS FOR 1928.

work

of healthi

Dr. Wu Lien-teh, the well-known

Are we going back to the bright Straits-burn Chinese doctor, who "Hunter of the Wealthy."

old days of the "preventive men" and the "running of cargoes” from Needless to say, the rich folk are has achieved distinction in connec-

the Continent? Continent?. It is a scared of these "Hunters of the lion with his plague prevention

In the East, Dr. Wu said, prospect to excite our romantic Wealthy" and seek refuge in the work in Manchuria, is at present cities. Government troops in pur-passing through Singapore on his they had other problems than novelists, who have no doubt observ-

All I have done amiss; met with in suit of these robbers Buffered way, to India, whore he will repre- were

the West, ed that the Isle of Sheppey is said

And that I may rewarded be severely at their hands in a recent sent China at the Far Eastern Con- because the people were not had to have been the scene or recent The island

With Everlasting Bliss. smuggling exploits.. engagement.

to the standard has a long history of association yet educated At

Not all the casualties, however, More soldiers have been sent the College Medicine on Nov. 7 he that was required, and work had with the "Free Traders." Indeed, were on the side of the law-break- into the district and a few days addressed a number of the students to be begun at a lower level. They the whole of the Kentish and Sussex ers, for in Hunstanton churchyard ago one of the robber chiefs was and a few interested friends on the had to understand their own people coast, by reason of its proximity to there stands, or stood, IL Blone captured. He was handed over, subject of the progress of public and that was the problem which the Continent, was favoured ground which perpetuates the memory of a by the local militia, to the mili-health in the world.

most who wished to undertake for those who wished to deposit trooper named Webb, who was shot tary authorities at Haien. In

In Introducing Dr. Wu, His Ex-public health work would have to goods in England without troubling by smugglers in 1784. The poetic

record of his demise reads:- were put out and, it is sald, his

payment of Customs dues. Sir

I am not dead but sleepeth here, arma have also been maimed. A Clifford) spoke of him as a Chin-thought, would be much the same. Walter Scott did wonders with the

And when the Trumpet sound I telegraph order from Hangehow eac gentleman of great distinction, In the Straits, with all its advan- Sotway smugglers in "Guy Manner

say that ing" and "Redgauntlet." Why has

will appear. has sealed the fate of this young and declared that undoubtedly, tages, he regretted to

After holding three meetings to robber chief, who is only twenty through his skill and through the Chinese women were still a little so little been done with the richer

decide one question, the Malaria eight years of age. He was to organisation he had brought into too credulous about certain things. material of the South ?

Control Board on November 4 be publicly executed at Haimen, being and was now directing he had He found that they were still tied From Smuggling to Banditry,

agreed, after a lengthy discussion, and his head to be forwarded to saved the lives of a very large num- down to a lot of the old customs It was in Kent somewhere about

that for 1928 two methods of con- Hangchow.

He did not say that old customs the year 1740 that the notorious ber of people. His Excellency ex-were bad, but very often things Hawkhurst gang arose and carried

trol should be continued, namely. The Days of Robert Fortune,

Organized Piracy.

five special units devoting their pressed the conviction that the

The "Owlers,”

time entirely to malaria control, The capital of Chusan, and the

One of the strongest bands, caus- Straits Settlements has every rea- were done just because they had on a career of crime until 1750, in surrounding country, was a favouring great anxiety, at the present son to be proud of Dr. Wu as the been done in mast, times. In sup which year justice took toll of the Although nowadays. smuggling is second, that certain areas be con ite haunt of Robert Fortune, that time, is operating in the Taiping son of our soil, and suggested to port of this Dr. Wu referred to a leaders after a trial at the Old taken to connote the running of trolled by the reguar health per fine English gentleman, traveller County. Their rendezvous is very the students that in Dr. Wu they visit he had paid to the large house alley in all probability the gang contraband goods Into the country, sonnet of the bureau and naturalist, who made several strongly fortified and have visits to China 80 years ago. It successfully beaten off several ive had an example they would do well of a wealthy family here, where he would have enjoyed a longer life it is fairly well esablished that the This plan is exactly opposite to had it not estranged itself from the earliest conflicts between "Free- that proposed by health bureau found that the four or five front country folks by adding robbery Traders and Revenue men arose officials., was during these visits he discover-tacks of the Government troops. to emulate. ed flowers and plants hitherto un-This band of men claim to be con-

Dr. Wu, in the course of his sub-doors were locked up and covered and murder to the milder diversions from the activities of the "Owlers," In deciding the question, it was known to the Westera world and nected with the Chinese navy and jeet naturally made a number of with the yellow slips of paper of smuggling silk, tea, and "Hol- who were engaged in smuggling agreed that the special control specimens were transplanted to the their banner proclaims their mis references to China. The Chinese covered with hieroglyphics which lands."

wool out of the country in an en- units should be simplified by re- However, leniently honest. citi deavour to evade the export-tax on ducing the number of persons now Botanical Gardens, London. Not sion to be "Rob the rich and help people, he stated at the outset, are were supposed to protect the house

ex-employed in these units. It also far from the jetty, round by the the poor." This group are pirates very conservative, in the way of against diseases. That was a well zens, including magistrates and this commodity. In 1298 the headland, which is crowned by as well as robbers. Their objec- public health and medical matters educated family. If children were arsons, might regard the trade of port duty on wool was as high as was agreed that when malaria con

brought up in those circumstances the smuggler, it was scarcely to be £6 a bag, and later, in the reign of trol

is undertaken OR picturesque old temple, may be scentive is to waylay and raid the small i a walled enclosure with iron gates, coasting steamers from Wenchow.

they were a little too conservative;

expected that the same tolerance Edward II., the export of wool was haciendas or on private estate, the An inscription records the fact that Haimen and Ningpo. As unsuccess. their outlook in regard to medical they could not help being impress-would be extended to men who stole entirely forbidden; while later still, owners of such properties shall

ed with the importance of those horses, pillaged farms, and litlte very this was the larial ground during ful attempt was made on a steam-matlers

slew about the year 1660, the smuggling supply the control labout, and, ny the British occupation after

of wool was made, an offence, pun-fár as possible, the materials. The the er which happened to be carrying change during the ten years that things. As they grew up and con- their neighbours.

Some Quaint Epitaphs.

ishable by death..

bealth bureau la to furnish the These stringent regulations were technical personnel. It is very interesting to read some loads of these brigands, it is reafter leaving the Straits Settle-

Armed encounters between the enacted in the hope of cutting off of the inscriptious on the tomb poted that only four escaped with ments. Paying a tribute to the ex-ed at Raffles School or the Anglo-awbreakers and the Revenue men the supply of raw materials to the expected to be carried on in a much.

Maluria control work for 1928 ia .' even though they might be educat- stones which takes the memory their lives,

cellent work that has been, and is Chinese School, to forget these early ging, but evidence that such affraya Intter to settle in this country and been in the past. New fields are are not features of modern amug- Flemish weavers and so forcing the more extensive manner than it has bark well nigh a century ago, when

being, done by the Rockefeller Foun- China, even then, delighted to be In listening to the conversation dation in the cause of public health, impressions, and when they had a were common in earlier days is to teach the inhabitants the craft of expected to be entered and a more anti-foreign.

chance to control a household there be found in the epitaphs recorded cloth manufacture. The some ex- vigorous campaign carried on. A of the people, there can be no doubt Dr. Wu stated that China was one but what they have been rudely of the few places in the world in themselves to advise them to follow country. One such in the church the restriction also had the effect of gramme agreed upon was suggest- always people older than on old tombstones up and down the tent the effort was successful, but budget for carrying out the pro- In the course of this sacred spot, shaken by the communistic storm which the Rockefeller Foun-

these methods.

Falmouth, turning the attention of many wool-ed. monument is inised

That was one of yard of Mylor, near the which broke over the province last Lo

dation had not interested it- memory of 12 sergeants 13 cor-spring, the rumblings of which are

growers in this country to the prac- the difficulties which our practition-runs- self, partly, it was said, be- porals: 4 drummers and 403 pri- not yet extinct.

In memory of Thomas James tice or support of the export smug- The Christian

ers had to surmount. China had *not pro- Wates who lost their lives in the Churches had reason to be alarm cause

aged 35 years who on the evening of gling of raw wool. Companion, With Hong Kong.

Ducember 7, 1814 on his returning! period of July 1841 and February ed when official steps were taken mised to pay the other half of the p 1844. Inserititions are to be found to "confiscate" their property, money required for health measures.

to Flushing from St. Mawes in n Dr. Wu said he was sure that the boat was shot by a Customs Officer To what extent the present re- relating to HMS. "Wolf" and Even though the danger of the He said he did not know how far "Arab"; also to the 39th and 55th threat has temporarily been lift that was trife, but he hoped that Medical School in Singapore, al-and expired a few days after. crudescene of smuggling is attri

Officious zeal in luckless hour butable to the reduction of the and other regiments of the line. it is deemed unwise to tear down before long the Foundation would, though the students did not receive A Standard Bearer is mentioned on the communistic posters, lest a see their way to help China. a. degree, is as good, if not better

lald wait,

constguard force is highly debat- able. History indicates fairly one stone, who was "Killed while charge of "anti-revolutionary" he

Referring to health matters in than the one in Hong Kong. In

clearly that a "boom" in smuggling carrying the regimental colours in preferred. The name "The Chris China Dr. Wu drew applause by his fact he had been told that a great the attack on the heights of Chu-tian Church"-over the doorway of statement that the most active many of the students managed to

is to be expected when tariffs are raised to high levels and when ban. October 1, 1841."

une chapel was covered over with

duties are levied on nuch casily- In those early days, as now, there a poster bearing the title.-"Let all medical officers serving in China pass their examinations more easi-

concealed goods as silks, laces, were men in the ranks, true and the world be united," and the door now are those who had been train-ly in Scotland than here. He told

watches, and saccharin. noble, who did not count their lives lintels were scrolled with particu-ed in this part of the world. It'the students that there was a ten-

In spite of the advent of the dear unto themselves, Near the lars that a certain "Party bureau" said much for the training their dency to limit one's sphere of use- fate is recorded in stone was Robert gateway, a chiselled slab bears the had opened its headquarters in this young men received in British in-fulness to the question of com-Mark, who was a member of the aeroplane and, the fast motor-boat,

place. Even though proclamations stitutions that the finest executives merce; some might feel after pass-the Lottery, of "Polperro.

įcrew of a famous smuggling vessel | however, it is highly improbable following verse,——

The that smuggling will ever reach the are now exhibited, claiming protec in China were to be found among ing their final examination, that tion of all foreign and church pro- those men.

they had done all that was needed; perty. the officials of the "Party"

but medicine could not survive `with still demand the right to "borrow" For it shall rise when death and chapels and schools, in which to

that kind of spirit. The masters of medicine had established their No more shall triumph o'er de-hold their demonstrations.

reputations by leaving something behind in the way of research, or books, or great efforts; not simply

'underwent

storming of the town of Chusan. Roldiers. Out of four large junk he was studying medicine in Europe them. it was very hard for them,

tinued to see those things around!

#

The Battle of Caturan.

It matters not what distant clime Receives the body's mouldering

clay,

time

cay.

The Renaissance of Talchow.

Confiscation of Churches.

Honest Men Advertised For.

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were

Dr. Hoops and Mr. J. Bagnall

Prevention The Final Aim. What, the lecturer asked, was this new public health that high au thorities were beginning to under- Judging from the banners stand and commercial bodies to ap stretched across the streets, it preciate, and even their conserva-ns millionaires. On entering the mouth of the would seem there are still some tive officials in China beginning to Taichow River, the military police thinking people about who are not understand? It was something in also addressed the students, and overhaul incoming craft with cave-nt all satisfied with the present ful scrutiny. A very real fear is trend of national events. For in many respects entirely new. Stu- His Excellency in thanking Dr. Wa still abroad that emissaries of Sun stance, one such streamer pro-dents nowadays were taught that for his lecture, said every one of Chuan-fang continue to scheme poll claime-"The present grent need the aim of medicine is not entirely, the students had got a similar op tical and military plots. After a of the Revolutionary Party is for to treat disease but also whenever portunity as Dr. Wu, just as every long delay, anchor is weighed and men who have, the true spirit." In possible to prevent it. The final private soldier, as they used to say, a short run brings us to the land-a busy section of the city, another aim was to banish altogether pre carried a field marshal's baton in ing stage at Haimen. What was announcement rends, "Business ventible diseases, such as small-pox, his knapsack; but it required a once a muddly flat, a little over 29 men want to do business, therefore scarlet fever, hook-worm and tuber- great deal of courage and energy years ago is now a thriving tart, oppose with all your might the culosis. Knowing the causes of and brains far beyond the average

humming with commerce and ship- Communist Party." Over the door those diseases and knowing how for that field marshal's baton to ping. Streets have been laid out way of the newly established Cen- their germs might be suppressed it leave the knapsack and come into and paved with stone, and fine tral Office of the Party- the follow- shops and wealthy stores have tot ing message is set forth to the was a shame to allow them to exist. the hand.-"Free Press." up with mushroom growth. Large public gaze-"Let us continus the To show that this was not a very

sections of the foreshore are being struggle by peaceful methods." ambitious programme Dr. Wu ex- reclaimed, from time, to time, aad

as this work is extended, Haïmen

"The Rowstring Will Break.” ampled the case of the suppression Russia, her people and officinis, of yellow fever in South America'

bids to become a maritime centre of are becoming a topic and debate in a Cuba, and of small-pox and

the least expected quarters. In the leprosy in Europe.

first importance.

Three Chinese

stream, and as we neared

our

turboats were anchored in mid remote corners of the wild moun-

Small-pex in the East, he stated, MR. tain ranges the Bolshevist propa- was still very prevalent, in Hong That Kong it was still in an epidèmic

,י

and

to

1

CEYLON'S NAME.

TAMBIMUTTU'S INGENIOUS

CLAIM FOR TODDY.

Te-

on the ancient

berth, two steamers swung off, one ganda is being discussed. to Shanghai and the other for Wen-the Chinese farmer class should be form; it was one of the most com- chow. I understand there are

"I have been making some daily sailings to Shanghal and compared with the old time Rus-

in Peking, and he mon diseases Ningpo, and the towns of Talchowian serf, is scornfully repudiated, stated that

one of his slogans searches as to whether this drink- and therefore. "Bolshevism can and Hwangyen are reached in a

in Peking in order to calling of toddy is so great an evil minda

as it is made out to be by tem- few hours by numerous river craft never take root in the

of the men.

was its dangers

perance advocates," said Mr. E. R. women attention which ply at regular intervals. of the Roll, at least

in that one out of every four women Tambimuttu, in opposing in the Greetings to the Stranger.. the province of Cheklang, where one met in Peking had the pock Legislative Council the motion..by It is a pleasure to walk the the land tenure is on terms ao mark. That was a little exaggerat- Mr. S. Rajaratham proposing the streets of a rural town, which of- favourable to the labourer," reed, but it was surprising what a immediate application of the per- fers auch a contrast to the hum and marked a well-informed official. large number of very fine hand-mit system in Jaffna as recom- bustle of a treaty port. On the Increasing taxation, however, is some women showed the pock mark, mended by the Excise Commission, surface, everything apparently is causing many murmurs to be heard They were, he said, beginning to Mr. Tambimuttu went on to tranquil. The peasantry are not throughout the countryside and greatly worried by the ebb and flow "The bow string drawn violently concentrate upon small-pox. as the speak of a book. of the National movement, and even will break; the people pressed hard beginning of public health work in history of Jaffna, which showed, he said, that "ilam," the Tamil the propagandlat has made but will rebel, is an old. Chinese Bay North China.

word both for toddy and for gold, Dr. Hoops, the lecturer stated, had given rise to the feeble display, judging from the ing very apt, when speaking of

name of had told him that the 'people in this Ceylon. paltry hand-written posters on the present-day administration.

(Laughter). Jaffna was walls which Invite our attention. Two glaring signboards speak part of the world were beginning renowned for its to-ddy, and so the The advent of a foreigner is hail- eloquently of two new organisa- to understand much more about word "Ham" was applled to that ed, with delight. His presence is tions which are digging themselves public health matters; he felt sure district and finally to the whole reckoned as a token of peace and in for future operations. In al- that they would when they under- Island. Tam then became Ceclam stability in the affairs of the na- most, every important centre, wheatood that public health pays. To or Zeelam, which later developed tion, and "Glad to see you back ther village or town, the Labourers quote the American slogan: Public Into Sinhalam, The Portuguese again" is the warm, word of wel- Union and the Revolutionary Party, health pays dividends. Not only in made it Cellan and then when the come heard at every turn

have established their business pre-

British came they called the mises.. In some places, these offices the way of lives but in money. In Island, Ceylon (Laughter), are situated within the Yamen pre-Europe there was a reallsation that go after all, air, declared Mr. This whole distict has suffered cincts, and give the appearance of it was necessary to call in the serTambimuttu, this toddy is at the remarkably little from the vicissi-belonging, and being part of the vices of public health to protect the bottom of it all. (Load laughter). tudes of the invadence, however, National government

Army Deserter Bandits.

ing armies.

living, the birth rate in nearly every This question refer to as the time country in Europe having diminish-sands of years B.C. Has the now looming, with starting pro-

ed since the war. Particularly the come now, when, after all these portions in sections of the various countles. Armed banditry, on a

Lives of the babies. In some parta centuries, this honourable associa -WHEN. DREADED CROUP. large scale, la menacing life and

of India the death rate among chil-tion of names is to be ended? COMES. commerce. These robbers are de

dren of less than a year old was as (Laughter). Are we now going to Kserters from the army, followed by A thing of dread, that comes in the high as 500 per thousand, in Eng-say that we will not have anything roving spirits of like passion, and night without warning. Just a hoarse, and it was 70 per thousand to do with toddy, that we will put a stop to it? Perhaps it will not whole regions are raided. These mataille cough, a choking, gasping for organised bands are anid to be breath threat of suffocation Ohi Dr Wu referred to the attention be long before we ask ourselves the relief of knowing that there is a given in the young country of Jugo whether the name of Ceylon bas equipped with the latest weapons battle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Slavin, to matters of public health too sinister, derivation and we war and their standard an in the house. See how it clearaway explaining that out of a revenue of should remove that appellation In dounces that they are following the the choking phlegm, atops the hoerne

of a general who has made cough, and brings rest and sleep to $60 millions one tenth was devot favour of something else." (Laugh- If supreme In seven pro- the little sufferer, Bold everywhere. od to, social welfare, of which the ter)Times of Ceylon.

And wilful sent the murderous

ball of fate; James to his home which late in

health he left Wounded returned-of life is

soon bereft,, Another Cornish smuggler whose

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