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THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1931.

HOW REVOLUTION IN

CHINA BEGAN. ·

Rotarian's Hankow

Experiences.

IN BRITISH CONCESSION.

work. By about 8 o'clock, however,

we had erected very decent workta ut] fall necessary points, and it was pro- bably a very wise precaution, ae by this time parties of loyal soldiers

who had evacuated Wachang had at to the Hunkow side, and were making for the. main rall-

SURGERY IN THE

PAST.

Ancient Methods Not Inferior.

way line to Peking. Wich LORD MOYNIHAN'S-VIEWS.

--Pharach suffered from acute ap pendicitis.

THE CHINA MAIL..

surgical tuberculosis thousands of There are instances on record of

ago,

The treatment for fractures 3,000.

the aid of European mia- sionary interpreters, of which "Hanków, before and after the there were a fair number available, Chinese Revolution" was the subject we managed to persuade these gen- chosen by Mr. G. G. Franklin for try that although passing through -his address-to-the-members-of-the the Concessions was a short eut, it Singapore Rotary Club at their could not be permitted. There was weekly Lithin at Raffles Hotel.

na. trouble, but possibly our bar In the course of hie address, Mr. ricades, and the pickets armed with years ago was in the way inferior Franklin said:

our interpreters in their peaceful made by Lord Moynihan in a rifles and machine-guns, assisted to that of the present day..

These were among the statements persuasions.

lecture on Ancient Medicine and Surgery" under the suspices. of the London Society recently.

The Foreign Concessions adjoin ing the native city of Hankow each are about half a square mile in areu, and following one another along the

Cheap to Live in.

The Burning of Hankow. "The rebels, as we called, them

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Today Central "A Man From Wyoming." Today. 'Majestic "Vagabond Lover." banks of the river, thus form a lit-thon, pursued the Imperialists ap Lord Moynihan' said that the the foreign town with a three mile the Peking line, and there was a

To-day World frontage to the river, and extend great scrap, lasting all day, in the sources from which they derive: The Cock-eyed World."

To-day — Star about 4 to a mile back from the open country at the back of the their knowledge of ancient medi- river. Each of the foreign conces-Concessions. The same thing hap-cine and surgery were the bones of "Wild Company."

Meetings, sions was run as a little part of its pened about three days later when individuals who had died as long.

June 15-Peak Tramwaya Co., own country. Each Consul-General the imperialists, having gathered ago as 500,000 years, the mummies. was not only the sole magistrate reinforcements, drove the rebels from ancient Egypt, the drawings Ltd., Hong Kong Hotel.

of prehistoric and early historic and judge, both for ely and back into Hankow City, and even-

June 17-Lane, Crawford, Ltd., YAU-KEE, are no longer connect- ed with my firm, and have tio au- eriminu cases, but Ee had tually to Hanyang and Wuchang. times in eaves and tombs, and the Exchange Building.

June writings of poets, playwrights and

17 -- Indo-China Steamthority to act on my behalf in any the. power of vetoing any To get them out of flankew the city physicians, some of them of the Navigation rules or regulations. Each con- was fired, and burnt for two wholy,

Co., Ltd. Mocars, capacity whatsoever, and I am not highest value.

responsible for any of their debts. cession bad its

Jardincs, noga, Muni- days and own

three night. I do not cipal Secretary. Municipal Council know if Any of you have seen a town

A. W. MILLAR.. Similar Disorders.

Home Mails. Jers, Sanitary Départment, police of 800,000 inhabitants on fire, but!

To-morrow-Inward from Europe

Building & General Contractor, The study of material from all via, Siberia (Shinyo Maru and "force, fire brigade, etc. We had ait was an awesome spectacle, about these sources showed that disorders Katori Mart); from Europe via

No. 134, Lockhart Road,

tarchai : Victoria Hall in the British Conces seven-eighths of it being entirely very similar to those now attacking Negapatam (Hakone Maru). sion where an occasional travelling burnt out. The small part that was mankind were very ancient enemies,

Hong Kong, June 11, 1931, company and the A.D.C. from all eft adjoined the British Concession and that until comparatively modern via Marstilles (Katori Maru), 9.30 Saturday-Outward for Europe the Concessions used to performs. so fortunately the fire did not reach times almost identical views as to a.m.; for Europe via Siberia (Pre-

our boundaries.

their nature, origin, and method of sident Jefferson), 5 p.m. arrived at Hankow in April, "After about the first three weeks controf were held 1911, and found the river almost the fighting more or less stabilised.

Lammerts Auction. apart. up to the top of the band. A little The Imperialists occupied the North

June 17-18 Metropole Hotel He showed how Pithecanthropus furniture, 22, Ice House Street, later it came over the top, and for bank of the river, except Hanyang, was already the victim of a certain 10.30 a.m. some weeks the road in which and the rebels Wuchung_and_the muscular-disorder;-how-the-Heidel- lived was one or two feel under South bank. A lot of bombardment berg tuberculcals (Neanderthal waiter. There was no water supply, and raiding took place at different man, he suggested, like so many and every house had to fetch its own times, but no great, change resulted people to-day, supply from the river in buckets, and about six

was compelled to months later an drink milk infected with tuber- and allow it to settle in big kongs in armistice was arranged, and the culosis); how chronic estco ar- The backyard. 1-found Hankow a change to a Republic gradually be thritis occurred in the Nile Valley very cheap place to live in as not came accomplished.

thousands of years ago, and was so foodl naly was

very cheap, but "For the first few weeks we for characteristic that the determinant

ernor, of one Lot of Crown Land -smokes and drinks also, as in those eigners living in the Concessions of old age was the figure of a bent,

at Prince Edward Road in Melbourne, Yesterday. day's there was only a 5 per cent, ad felt a certain amount of anxiety.crinuled old man.

the Colony of Hong Kong, valorem tax to be paid on anything as

After approving the scheme of for a term We had no idea

of 75 voluntary conversion of the in-with the

years, iniported from abroad Another how all the trouble was going to

option of renewal ternal debt, with a general reduc- at a Crown Rent to be fixed by thing which spelt for economy was end. The wires were cut, steamers, The hand of the aunt of Tutankation of expenditure, the Premiers' the Surveyor of His Majesty the that there were only two clubs to except an occasional one bringing men showed signs of a healed frac-Conference concluded optimistical King, for one further term of 75 belong to, one the Town Club in the food and stores, stopped running, ture. it was a big, strong muscularly. British Concession and the other and, but for the wireless on the hand for a woman, commented Lord the Race. Club in Chinese territory gunboats, we were entirely isolated. Moynihan, and this particular bone about half a mile from the back of In consequence, all women and was very rarely fractured unless the the Japanese Concession.

children were sent to Shanghai, hand was conveying a blow with within "This Race Club was, I think, and had to remain there for good deal of force. These facts one of the finest clube have ever some months. In about six gave rise to interesting conjectures belonged to. It had a finc club week's time & force of about, as to the domestic life led by the house, including a full-sized swim-300 infantry, sappers and gunlady! ming bath, which was covered overners arrived from Hong Kong No orthopaedic surgeon in the and used as a ballroom daring the to garrison the British Concession, world to-day could get a better, re- Winter months. It had, I suppose, a force of about 200 Russian sult from a fractured forearin than two or three square miles of ground, soldiere and a regiment of Japanose was achieved 3,000 years ago in the and on this there was a racecourse saltliers arrived and were stationed ease of a young girl who had broken 1 miles round, an 18-hole golfin those Concessions. We felt both forearms and had presumably course, 20 tennis courts, a cricket fairly safe then, and the died of other injuries, for the bones ground, two football grounds, volunteers were relieved of were only just uniting and the bowling green, and clay-pigeon night-duty, end allowed to re-splints and bandages were still in Banks and Insurance companies shooting.

turn to their own beds, the position.

holding $219,000,000 of the total "The total foreign population of Victoria Hall being used as, barracks

As the bandages were unwrapped, [of £556,000,000 loan stock are pre- Hankow, excluding the Japanese, for the British troops.

they showed the exact methods by pared to convert-Reuter. was, I suppose, not more than 600 No Anti-Foreign Feeling. which splints made from Nile reeds or 700, including women and chit-

"As a matter of fact no anti- were applied and the accuracy of the dren. Everyone, however, seemed foreign feeling developed at any resulting allgament

DOCKYARD RETRENCHMENT. to pull well together, both socially time, both sides seeming anxious and in business, one got to know to do nothing to implicate us in the

Hardened Heart.

Kobe, Yesterday. almost everybody in a very short trouble, but those in authority The Pharach of the Oppression

Owing to the stress of economic space of time, and I found it a very were not always able to

control suffered and probably died from conditions the Kawasaki Dockyard cheerful and friendly life.

their men, and besides the stray acute appendicitis. Examination of Company are discharging 8,000 Beginning of Revolution. shot and shell which naturally his heart gave an ocular demonstra out of their 8,400 employees. "Isported a dog.cart in those came our way during the scraps tion of the Old Testament state. This step has become necessary daye, and coming back from the already mentioned, there was a lot ment: And the Lord hardened the owing to the absence of orders and Race Club at about 8 p.m. on Octo- of intentional sniping

the need of making financial ad- beart of Pharaoh." ber 10, 1911, u day that will always houses were struck by shells, over

justments.Reiter. The aorta was found in such a he famous in Chinese, history; I saw

20 Chinese were killed in the well-preserved state that Mr. S. G. a big crowd on the band of the Bri-streets of the Concession, and Shattalk, of the Royal College of posited in the cells of the vessel, tish Concession, and get out to see many were wounded. No foreign- Surgeons, wae able to make sections making it rigid and inelastic. what it was all' about. I found ers, however, were killed, and only of it and compare them with those

I did not expand adequately to from Hong Kong to Pakkai, San that they were looking at some big two were wounded, So We were made from a man recently dead. the stream of boy coming from the Wul, Kwangtung, on January 18, fires which were blazing Wuchang Dn the opposite bank of the riverfucky. In about April, 1912, bust-No pathologist could tell which was heart. Mental changes went with 1980, at the age of 60 years, leaving ness recommenced, and life soon the ancient and which was the this rigid arterial system. There property in Hong Kong worth and listening to a continuous-rattle became more or less normal again, modern vessel.. Both were atacked was a narrowness and rigidity of $13,300. Besides his widow, he la of rifle and machine-gun fire.

"We went to bed that night won-been very stirring days.

It seemed very dull after what had by the disease atheroma, a condition outlook, a lack of enterprise and survived by three sons and ai

in which calcium salts were de: initiative. dering what was happening, but at about 3 a.m. the next morning our Consul-General got Dews that a mutiny had broken out among the troops. Wuchang not only being the capital of the province, but also a big garrison town. The mutineers had set fire to the barracks, and“toj many of the Government offices, but

a certain number of the troops had

remained loyal, and the fighting|

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EX-KING FERDINAND,

Alleged Payments By Germany.

Many

The Socialist Deputies in the

going on was between these two Reichstag have asked the Govern -parties.-

ment to state whether, as the Co-" This was the commencement of munists have asserted, ex-King the revolution, which ended in the Ferdinand of Bulgaria has received abdication of the Emperor and a subsidy or other payments from China becoming a Republic. Our the German Government, and par- Consul General had the general ticularly whether he has been paid, Alarm sounded, and in a short space a sum of £25,000 this Spring. of time the volunteers and firemen had collected at their respective the reply be in the affirmative, a statement of the grounds for

rendezvous, practically every able such payments to requested. bodied Briton being a member of

When the question was first rais-

one or other of these two force ed the ex-King's agents, stated on Two British gunboats in port also his behalf that it was untrue that Janded parties, and the senior naval ex-King Ferdinand had received a officer took command. We were mobilised at once, and for the next sum of money from Germany for Joining the Central Powers in

aix weeks I slept on the floor of the 1016, On the contrary, Bulgaria Victoria Hall, and did, four hours' picket duty, at night, and various as herself pleased Germany fram fatigue duties in the day-time.

her obligation under the military convention to pay £10,000,000 down

2,500,000 a month.*** an -6. war: subsidy and thereafter

Our first duty was to barricade the entrances to the Concessions and to prevent anyone entering, On the other hand, the King had especially men in uniform w been partially compensated for the Arma No coolies were available, so loss of his extensive properties in we had ourselves to get the bags of the territories of the Entente by seasamum seed and other material the German Government, This to construct them with. I found Humping bags of seed weighing 120 compensation, it was stated, cover that that hour of the morning, and ed only a small fraction of the

empty stomach, rather hardsume the King had lost

was that holders not prepared to An important decision reached

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R fortnight from launching of the appeal, otherwise their stock will be automatically converted.

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