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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1931.

THE

HONG KONG

PENINSULA HOTEL:

HONG KONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL:

PEAK HOTEL

AND.

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE: PALACE HOTEL..

HOTELS,

LIMITED

In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lita, Peking.

THE HARBOUR VIEW PRIVATE HOTEL.

9-12, Chatham Road, Kowloon.

Finest Situation on the Peninsula. Large Alry Rooms with Full Benefit of the Cool Sea Breezes. Unequalled Colsine.

Phone

Tel. 66734.

Proprietress—Mrs. Gardiner.

Cable Add. "Harviaw."

SAVARIN HOUSE

Telephone

58730

PRIVATE HOTEL.

31-84, Wing Lok Building. Ist floor. ALL MODERN CONVENIENCES. UNPARALLELED CUISINE.

The finest of foods and wines served in the brightest and most

attractive surroundings.

class orchestra.

luxurious lounges,”

First- Specious and

Tiffin $1.10.

Hotel

Tel. Add.

"Savarin" HE

Cecil

Renowned

for its

High-Class Cuisine and Service combined wik a Moderate Tarif. Near shops and theatres. Yet in a pleasing neighbourhood.

Dinner $1.30.

ENCLOSED IN ORIENTAL FERNERY AND EASTERN CHARM.

SELECT PRIVATE HOTEL.

Furnished with an cyo to the comfort of its tenants, Luxuri: ous single and double Toams large and airs.

THE MARBLE HALL

21, Nathan Rd, Kowloon, Telephone 37089.

Modern

zooma

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TOOM, arid private gar- age benefits

• motorists,

POST OFFICE NOTICE.

INWARD MAILS

List of ships expected to be in wireless communication with Hong Kong to-day-Atugo Mara, Hikaws Maru, Melvi Dollar, Kwai Sang. Cracovia, Foo Shing, Tauruga Maru, Amagiaan Maru, Iyo Mara. Taikal Maru and Kashgar.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13.

Shanghai and Swatow U.S.A., Canada, Japan & Shanghal (Seattle, Jan. 24) and Europe via Siberia (Lon- doa, Jan. 24)

Shangkat and Amoy

Chusan

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FEBRUARY 12.

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E. & S. Africa, Aden, Egypt & Europe via Marseilles

Mau Sang............. Hai Ning

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G.P.O, Parcels.....Feb. 18, 4.80 p.m. Parcels ....Feb, 18, 5 p.m Registration.... Feb. 14, 9 a.m. Registration Feb. 14, 9.45 a.m. Letters

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THE CHINA MAIL.

PUBLIC HEALTH IN

THE COLONIES.

Sir H. Goschen on Needs of London School.

At the annual meeting of the Court of Governors of the London School of Hygiena And Tropical Medicine held recently the work of the School in the frat year of its Occupation of the new building in Koppel Street (Gower Street)-the gift of the Rockefeller Foundation, opened by the Prince of Wales in July last year-was revlowed. The chairman of the Court, Sir Holburt J. Waring, presided. į

VICISSITUDES OF BRIONI.

Made Salubrious by Science.

Vienna, Nov. 12. The death of Karl Kupelwieser the owner of the beautiful little island of Brion in the Adriatic, now belonging to Italy, recalls its remarkable development hands of Paul Kupelwieser. Karl's father.

at the

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In the eighties Paul, the son of Leopold Kupelwieser, a well-known Austrian painter, acquired the Island, situated close

Credits, to the then Austrian naval fort of Pola.

Brioni was A wild, uninhabited place, avoided In consequence "of malaria.

Sir Harry Goschen presented the sixth annual report of the board of management, of which he is chair man. He said the financial post-

Paul Kupelwiese, how- tion was satisfactory up to a point. ever, was struck by its magnificent The Court of the University had natural charms, and with great notifed, after an independent re- pluck, energy, and considerable out- view of the school's funds, the con- lay, turned it Into a highly-fre- tinuance of the yearly grant of quented bathing place, competing £40,000 for the present quinquen successfully with the French and nial period. The school, however, Italian Riveras. It was Dr. Robert had to supplement this hy volun- Koch, the Berlin bacteriologist, who tary effort to meet not only the coat gave it a new and salubrious as- of the present programme but also pect. the cost of developments, capecial- Brioni proved a paradise of woods ly in regard to hygiene and medi- and gardens by the deep blue sea, cine in relation to industry, which and was provided with a first-class was pressing for attention. For hotel, villas, and bathing establish- this the school must possess aments.

But Pola being an Aus- large endowment, independent of trian naval centre, the Archduke any Government grants, and be Ferdinand, the then heir to the free from any hampering financial throne, disliked the idea of civilian anxiety, A special committee of ownership for the island. Kupel- the board of management had been wieser refused to sell the island, but conkidering the problem, and ita fort with a wireless station was was the intention that Sir Andrew established on it. Balfour when his health permit- During the war. many of the ted, should visit the Colonies and lovely trees were cut down for make an appeal on behalf of the milltary reasons and these gardens school.

were ravaged. Paul Kupelwieser died a few years ago and left the place to his two sons, who several months ago, owing to financial difficultice, furned the enterprise into a limited company. Although they kept up with the times and Brioni became a centre of sports. other bathing places of more south- era situation, although far less beautiful, proved more attractive.

Valuable Service.

A further income of at least £5,000 should be assured from Colonial Government resources. The reception of the Colonial Governors at the school in July would have given most of them an opportunity of seeing at first hand the building and its equipment. The school had rendered most valuable services to the Colonial medical service with properly trained men; and the high stand ard of the school's course of study in tropical medicine and hygiene were being maintained.

Karl Kupelwieser, who was mar- ried and aged fifty was found dead in the garden of his villa in his aland paradise, the tragedy being alternatively ascribed to accident and suicide. Through the Peace

CAN THE CROWN ACT AS FOSTER-FATHER?

The Dean of the School (Profes-Treaty Brioni had became Italian. sor W. W. Jameson) said that dur- ing the firat academic year, which friends, and

Karl Pupelwieser had many Italian ended In July, no fewer than 217

a fascist guard of honour watches over his coffin. post-graduate students had attend- ed the courses, and a further 75 PARENTAL PROBLEM non-medical persons proceeding to the troples had attended the lec- tures on tropical hygiene. He re- ferred to the valuable assistance rendered by the Seamen's Hospital Society, whose recent extension of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases provided a centre for the teaching of tropical medicine in association with the school of which the whole Empire might be proud. He com- mended to the Court the school's activities in the divialons of medi-

The Swedish Government will soon have to decide the intricate problem of a Swedish subject.. aged 63, who has applied for in- formation as to who his mother was.

gave birth to a boy in the Swed- In 1877 an unknown womar cal soology, of bacteriology, ofish parish of Virestad, and after biochemistry and chemistry, and of epidemiology and vital statis-abroad. Before her departure she a short stay there she left for ties.

Through the public health divi- of the church, with instructions gave a sealed letter to the vicar sion, which he described as the that it should not be opened by general utility division of the

anyone but the foster-father of school, A valuable liaison was the child. The foster-father some being rapidly established with the ten years afterwards left Sweden public health services, not only in for the United States and is now Britain, but in all parts of

dead. the world. A beginning had beenThe vicar, as well as the chap- made with the teaching of indus-ter of Vexioe, considered that trial physiology and medical in- they have no right to open the en- dustrial psychology, in both which branches of study consider-the Government.

velope: hence the application to able problems were pressing for the attention of the school.

MILITARY CUTS.

of

All the ecclesiastical authorities agree that the vicar is right, while on the other hand some lawyers hold that it is not just to deny an abandoned child. know ledge about his mother. MUSSOLINI SAYS ITALY CANNOT Code Napoleon embodied the rule The DISARM.

that it is forbidden to investi- gate paternity, but otherwise no laws up to the present protect the anonymity of the mother.

Rome, Dec. 18. Although gripped by an econo mic depression which mado re- In this case it was evidently the trenchment imperative, Italy intention of the mother that her rould not reduce military expen-identity should be revealed to the ditures "while all the rest of the boy after the lapse of some years, world talks peace and feverishly und considering the fact that the prepares for war," Signer Museo birth happened fifty-three years Fini told the Senate to-day.

ago it is argued that the Crown The Premier blamed Italy's ought to act as foster father. situation upon the financial crisia

in the United States in October, Italy with a national deficit of saying that the crash there left 350,000,000.

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