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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE là, 1932.

UNQUALIFIED DENTISTS IN COLONY.

Government Take Action.

UNSUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS WITH SERIOUS RESULTS.

Sailor's Death.

Acting on instructions to the Inspector General of Police from the local Government,' in regard to

KENT TRAGEDY AFTERMATH.

Soldier Charged with Murder.

PRIVATE COLLINS OF SHORNCLIFFE,

Police Effect Capture After Gun Fight.

LITERARY OF THE CHINESE

1,072 Schools In Hong Kong.

DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION'S REPORT.

The Director of Education's Re- port for 1981 has been published, and reveals interesting figures. London, To-day,

At the end of the year there were James Thomas Collins, described tablishment, three posts having 28 European masters on the es- serious cases resulting from opers as a Private serving in a Regiment been left unfilled for reasons of tions performed by, unqualified dental surgeons,

stationed at Shorncliffe, Inspector John Murphy, in the Central Police Court Folkestone, has been charged with this morning, before Mr. Schofield the wilful triple murder at Ash- summoned two Chinese, Mak Kal-ford. ming, of 10 Queen's Road Central, and Kwan Chut-wah,, of 39 Queen's Road Central, for unlawfully hold- ing themselves out as dentists by private advertisement.

Both defendants pleaded guilty, and were fined $200 each.

Thrilling Capture.

near economy. At the end of the year there were 27 European mistresses on the staff.

The following figures which are of educational interest are quoted. from

the report on the census taken on the night" of March 7, 1931.

Chinese Non-Chinese

Total population .....

821,429

26,322.

849,751

London, Yesterday. After a thrilling pursuit, and an exchange of revolver shots, police early this morning apprehended a man on suspicion of having been Inspector Murphy said that the implicated in the murder of three Of the Chinese population 44 per prosecutions were taken out with women near Ashford, Kent. cent, claim ability to write and the concurrence of the Government, Numerous armed police carried read their mother tongue. who had received complaints that out a very extensive combing of persons of sixteen years of age and If only these "so-called" dentists were per- the Barnet Woods in the vicinity lover are taken into account, the forming operations very unsuccess- throughout Monday afternoon, with figure rises to 52 per cent. fully with, in some cases, very seri- the assistance of bloodhounds. Of the non-Chinese population ous results. The I.G.P. was in- After nightfall the search was approximately 90 structed to take action.

per cent. were carried on with the aid of torch-literate: in the

case of children ligts, but without result.

under eleven the figure drops to 87 He pointed out that any person, whose name does not appear in the policeman saw a man carrying

Soon after daybreak however, ajper cent. Government Gazette,

Not A Dentist.

a Of the Chinese population 6 per

is not a gun. As the constable approached cent, claim ability to speak Eng- dentist. The defendant, Mak Kai-the man made off, and a tense pur-lish and 5 per cent to read and ming had been in practice for a suit followed, several shots alleged- write in that language. considerable length of time, and itly being exchanged.

was public knowledge that he held

not.

The Superintendent of Census, however, warna. us:-"There is of himself out as ☐ dentist. The Finally covering the fugitive,

a strong temptation to average man-in-the-street did not with his revolver, the constable course know whether he was qualified or succeeded in engaging his quarry's Jelalm attainments which one does attention, while another constable not possess, or possesses only in a crept up behind him, and felled the likely, therefore, to err by giving very small degree. The figures are man,

too favourable an impression of Gruesome Finds.

educational attainments, and this The murders were discovered by error is made from time to time. a bus conditor who found a For this reason comparison with

Serious Case.

His Worship regarded the case as very serious, as the advertisment very misleading, and serious damage could be done.

was

In connection with the summons woman's body protruding from the previous censuses is of uncertain against Kwan Chut-wah, Inap. undergrowth in Kingawood, Murphy said that defendant had a popular week-end picnic spot near of the different method for pre- value, and is also difficult on account card bearing the name of "James Ashford, Kent. This started a sentation of the results adopted in Mac. Dentist." Mac was at present chain of gruesome finds within a 1921" In the country. The business was few hundred yards of one another. large and had many European and The bodies of an elderly woman, there are 119,000 children between According to the Census report Chinese clients attending. The another woman and a girl were the age of five and fourteen dis- Law Officers of the Crown were con-roughly concealed in the broken tributed as under;- sulted before and after the issuing brushwood and many hours, elaps- of the summonses.

ed before the bodies were identifi-: Special Complaint.

ed althose of grandmother, mother Insp. Murphy added that special and daughter, of Mrs. Janie Swift complaint had been made to the sixty-five years old of Ye Olde | Government about certain opera- Sportsman's Inn near. Whitstable, tions that had been carried out, re- Mrs. Jennie Stemp, thirty-five There were 1,072 schools in 1931) sulting in the patients being sent to years old and Peggy Stemp, thir- and the number of pupils in attend- hospital seriously 11.

teen years old...

His Worship remarked that there All had been shot. no previous.case of this nature in immediately began

the Colony for a number of years. district-Renter.

Sailor's Death.

Insp. Murphy replied that there

Hong Kong & Kowloon. 88,481 New Territory Afloat

17,940

12,587

Total

.119,008

ance was 68,598 as compared with Bloodhounds 62,297 in 1980. to scour the

Of the 1,069 schools controlled by the Education Department in 1981 twenty were provided schools. The cost of their equipment and main-

was one case in particular where a PRINCESS BEATRICE'S tenance is a charge on the colonial

Bailor went to 39 Queen's Road) Central to have д tooth either capped or filled. His mouth sub- sequently became septic, and the ship's surgeon decided to extract the tooth. This was done. The man later incurred septic tonsilitis, and was sent to hospital where he died.

EYE OPERATION.

Proves Successful

revenues and, except for

a few temporary appointments, the teachers are civil servants on the permanent establishment of the colony.

Of the 1,049 unprovided schools London, Yesterday. 312 are partly, dependent on assis- The Preliminary operation for tance from public funds. The re

As it was difficult to prove whether the extraction of a cataract was maining 787 unprovided school are the filling of the tooth of the to-day successfully performed subject to registration and inspec- extraction caused death, no charge upon Princess Beatrice's right tion by the Education Department of manslaughter was made,

eye. Princess Beatrice, who is but receive no financial assistance 75 years old, is the King's aunt, from funds at the disposal of the Mr. A. el Araull! appeared for and the mother of the ex-Queen Director of Education. the defence, and entered a plea in of Spain. British Wireless There are three uncontrolled mitigation of the offence.

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