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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1929.

CLOSING OF WELLS

Opposed By Chinese On Sanitary Board

OUTRAGEOUS SUGGESTION

thought the Board should take the word of it.

The three Chinese members of the Sanitary Board yesterday opposed motion for the closing of wells, which Mr. T. N. Chan also supported Mr. was eventually withdrawn by the Pre-La, saying that he was against the sident.

whaloanie conloganation of wells.

the

Mr. Carrie's motion was that Standing Committee on Wells be ad- vised to take early action to close: wells

The M. O. H. on Closing

THE CHINA MAIL,

RUSSIA AND CHINA

RED TROOPS INCREASED IN SUIFENHO AREA

MORE SABOTAGE

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Harbin, September 2. Russians have again increased their infantry and field-guna at the Suifenho area. This has been detected by Chinese military circles.

handed to the Chinese authorities

for trial

Red Journal Raided

Four Russians were caught cut- The Medical Officer of Health point-ting telegraph wires on the Chin- ed cut that during the discussion some

CHE Eastern Railway and were illegally opened in the Colony during mendars had strayed from the original the water crisis, unless very strong question and statements have become Wholesale reasons for not doing so were advanced, wilder with each speaker,

the Pre-closing of welis was not suggestert and Explaining the motion. sident said that during the recent was not intended. There was an enor- sous number of wells in the Colony, water shortage a number of wells were opened some legally, others illegally. The majority of them were essentia! for Bosh It was therefore proposed, in order to and harmless, being used strengthen the hands of the Standing closets. There were other wells which Committee on Wells, that the Board provided a goud water supply. They' should give some expression of opinion were talking only of wells illegally

e the mattes. It was proposed that a opened-those opened purely on the nustion should be put to the meeting initiative of people themselves against Government's Ordinance on the pointing out that as wells opened in the contravention of Section 215 were a subject, These were the wells they canger to health. the Standing Com-wished to get clored. mittee should he advised to take early setion to close all wells under this seeing tion unless very strong reasons for not started doing so were produced.

Mr. Carrir also told the meeting that both the Medical Officer of Health and himself had felt considerable anxiety on the question of wells which had been illegally opened. They could not foresee where the action would load and What epidemic it night cause. How- ever..the situation was then critical, and it had reemel better to allow the wells to remain open than perhaps pre- cipitate a more serious crisis. Now, he thought, the water crisis was ver Inr this year at any rate and that the Board should take steps to have the wells he referred to closed.

Dr. Fawcett

. re-

added that dur- the water shortage he had

number of files garding cerin wells and he had Now fifty such files dealing with wells Funk illegally. Many of the files dealt with more than one well and showed that there were many which in other times would not have been allowed to he opened.

Wells of No Use

Continuing, the M.O.. said that it had been suggested that these wells helped during the had in some way water shortage. If a member cared to read through the files which he had kept be would be struck by the fact that practically none of the wells had been of the slightest use. He doubted whe Mr. Carrie then proposed the mother any of them had contributed to an the water crisis. The Standing Committeelleviation should be advised to take early action majority of these wells had only yield The Medicaled a few drops of moddy water which with regard to closing.

Iprovided more dangers for the users Officer of Beaith seconded,

than if they had gone without water,

tion at

the

The Opposition

Leading the opposition, Mr. M. K. Lo said that he was not at all sure that the motion was either necessary or desirable. His personal recollection of the history of the matter was that when the Board discussed a motion by Mr. Wong Kwong-tin for the opening of wells, the Board took up the stand that it had never refused the opening of new wells unless there were sanitary Bojections, and that under no circum- stances would it countenance the re- opening of wells which had been con demned.

Further, Dr. Fawcett pointed out that all the motion did was request the Standing Committee to do its duties and to do them a ble more expediti ously. The motion had been put in

A Communist journal published at Harbin by Russian "Reds" was raided by Chinese Police on Thursday and three "Red" Rus sians were arrested by the Police who seized over 1,000 copies of the Communist paper. It is un- derstood that the paper published long

accounts of anti-Chinese plans and exaggerated on the large number of Russian youths who enlisted in Moscow for service in the Far East.

Anti-Russian feelings were run- ning high on Saturday when over 100,000 Chinese soldiers, students and labourers and all classes of citizens took part at a huge de- montration in Fengtien to parade on streets denouncing the Russian Imperialism and Communist inva

sion into China-Kuo Min.

CHINESE ILL-TREATED

Consul General on Hardships at Vladivostok

of

The alleged -treatment Chinese by the Soviet Russian authorities in Vladivostok as a re- sult of the severance of diploma. tic relations was the subject of an interview granted to members of the vernacular press by Mr. Hou Hsiung-chang, the Chinese Consul. General in that port.

Mr. He said that, before the rupture of diplomatic relations be

to get the question dealt with as quick-tween China and Soviet Russia, Jy as possible.

In conclusion the M.O.H. said it was absurd to suggest that in this en- lightened period of its history, Hong Kong should want to go back to the well system in order to solve its water problem. Such a suggestion was an outrageous one.

The President said that in some res- As Maybe the new position was that the pects the motion was unnecessary. Board might have been more lenient, there had been objection to it he was but he did not think there had been any prepared to withdraw it and leave the relaxation in the Board's attitude. matter in the hands of the Blending With regard to wells which were Committee. objectionable to health the Board had ample power to close themi,

It was all very well for people to say

The motion was secordingly with drawn.

there were no fewer than 30,000 Chinese citizens in Vladivostok and this number was closely followed by Koreans,. There was a very large Japanese community and the number of Europeans was by no means small. Prior to the Russian revolution, stated Mr. Hsu, Chinese! citizens owned properties in Vladi- vostok valued at an immense sum of money but, after the Soviet came into power, these properties were seized and confiscated by the Reds. Owing to their change of policy in 1925. the Soviet returned all Chinese-owned houses to their

that the Colony was out of the water DESTITUTE MOSLEMS | owners. This, however, was purely

crisis so far as this year was concern-

ed. He maintained. however, that the Colony was out of the crisis only in so far as there would be no actual famine, and that people would not have to wait For hours in the streets for water. That, thank God! But restrictions were stil in operation. There was only a twelve hour supply and there is still over the heads of the people a warning that this supply was contingent on s good many things and there was no as Buranea that before a few more months had elapsed the water supply would not again be cut down.

Playing "Hide and Seek" Therefore, the water.problem was still with them. At present the respon

sible authorities were not in a position

to tell the public that the water ques-

tion was not their concern and that they could always have the full 24 hours supply.

When that ideal was attained he (Mr. Lo) wenld be the first man to hold up both hunde and say "No more wells." But before that object had been attained it seemed to him to be playing hide and seek to first say: "Yes, open the wel's," and then, when there was only a 12-hour supply, to say: "Close facin."

Mr. Carrie interposed to say that the wellà affected wore those which came within the scope of Section 215 of the regulations.

Mr. Lo replied that in that case the motion was unnecessary,

the

Board's. Constitution Proceeding, Mr. Lo discussed composition of the Sanitary Board. He said that as one of elected repre- sentatives to the Sanitary Board he knew nothing of the Standing Com- mittee referred to. In his opinion the Sub-Committees were necessary when the main body was too big to deal with , certain questions. There were four elected members of the Sanitary Board and he did not see why they should be excluded from sub-committees.

He felt it rather embarrassing, vis-a- vis his "constituents," when he was told by people that he had nothing to do with the Sanitary Board except: on formal matters.

Concluding his remarks with regard to the motion, Mr. Lo said that he hoped it would not be pushed to a divi- sion. He thought that the Standing Committee on Wells "should be able to deal with the matter under the powers. already vested in them,

If No More Rain?

Supporting Mr. Lo's objection, Mr. Wong Kwong-tin said he quite concur- xed with every word which Mr. Lo had sald. He objected to the wholesale -closing of wells, and inquired what would happen when wells were closed in a district where there were no street fountains. Further, he pointed cut that at present the Colony's water supply was sufficient for 35 weeks only, what would happen after that if no -more rain came?

The fact that there were still restric fiona showed that the storage was not yet entirely satisfactory. As there Was Standing Committee on wells ho

APPEAL FOR FUNDS BY AGA KHAN

London, Yesterday.

H. H. the Aga Khan, as President of the British Red Crescent Society, has issued an appeal to Moslems for funda for the relief of destitute Moslems in Palestine.-Reuter.

[The Aga Khan, Sultan Sir Mahomed Shah, is head of the Ismail! Mahomedans, and has many religious followers in East Africa, Central Asia, and India.]

The record number of 685 whales has been caught so far this season off the Natal coast of South Africa, where the supply of whales has re- cently been alarmingly depleted.

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PLAGUE. CASES

DISCUSSION BY THE SANITARY BOARD

DISINFECTION ORDERS'

A meeting of the Sanitary. Board held yesterday afternoon, when the following were present:-

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The President laid on the table a

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Mr. W. J. Carrie, President, the Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North, the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, Dr. H. A. Fawcett, M.O.H, Dr. to be held Сп MONDAY, the W. V. M. Koch, Mr. M. K. Lo; Mr. 9th day of September, 1929, at Wong Kwong-tin and Mr. T. N. Chau 8 pm, at the Offices of the

Works Public minute by the Medical Officer of Health Order of His Excellency the Gov- Department; by relating to the recent en undernor, of one Lot of Crown Land cuse had occurred in the house adja-at Wong Nei Chung, In the Colony cent to the one in which the first case of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal was discovered.

and informed the meeting that a second

The plague situation now amounted at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the to two human cases and four infected Surveyor of His Majesty the King, rats, three of which were captured in for one further term of 75 years. the house from which the first case way reported, and the fourth elsewhere.

The President then proceeded to re-

ply to various questions raised by Mr. Wong Kwong-Lin on the minute.

Speaking on the subject of disinfect-j ing, Mr. Carrie said that when this work was to be carried out by the San.- tary Board staff it was customary to warn the district kai fong through the public dispensary in the neighborhood. This was done in case which Mr. Wong Kwong-tin had referred but the clerk was not at the dispensary. The order was always carried out.

Plague and a Theatre Further, Mr. Wong Kwong-tin had; should have been inchided in the pre- suggested that the Ko Shing Theatre

mises inspected after the first case of plague was notified.

As the theatre

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was, some distance away from the area where infected rats had been found the Medical Officer of Health wsa of the opinion that it was unnecessary to in- clude the theatre in the inspection.

Mr. Wong Kwong-tin had also raised to be held the question of notification to members 9th day of September, 1929, at of a case of plague at a meeting, thus 13 p.m., at the Offices of the

Public creating unnecessary alarm.

Works Department, by Mr. Carrie pointed out that the re-Order of His Excelleney the Gov turn of the Medical Officer of Health was always made public on the follow-ernor, of one Lot of Crown Land ing day. It was issued to the Press and at Shamshuipo, in the Colony of the Consular Body, etc.. and it was im- Hong Kong, for a term of 75 perative that it should be. Therefore, years, commencing from 1st July, the mention of a case to the Board was 1898, with the option of renewal merely anticipating publication by 24 at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the hours.

Surveyor of His Majesty the King, Concluding, Mr. Corrie said he for one further term of 24 years thought members of the Board would less three days. appreciate the excellent work of the PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. staff of Sanitary Board inspectors in the intensive cleaning done in the dia- trict where the first case of plague was discovered.

Warning of Disinfecting

Mr. Wong Kwong-tin said he thought that a telephone message regarding in- tanded disinfecting was not enough. He suggested that in addition a written notification should be sent to the dis- pensary clerk.

Mr. Carrie replied that there was no legal obligation to inform the dispen- eary but it was done in order to pro- teet the Sanitary Board inspectors. In such a case as the one under discussion nominal, because the Soviet laws did not allow private individuals to

it was impossible to give long notice. It had been customary, since the pro- own' properties so the Chinese could cedure was adopted, to telephone the not sell their holdings. Moreover, clerk at the dispensary the time at said Mr. Hsu, there were numerous which disinfecting would take place, taxes, such as the land tax, ap. He would look further into the pro- praising tax, bonus tax, social procedure. tection tax, etc., which were impos ed on house-owners. Chinese, being the largest owners in this respect, suffered most and Chinese trade ceased to exist.

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