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entitled to that satisfaction, for tropical medicine is one of the Igreatest of Britain's gifts to

mankind. Not the least valuable. of the services rendered by, Lord Dawson in his inspiring review was his insistence on the danger of setting too great store on achievements in the realm of pure science. These achievements jattain their full value in the

practice of medicine. Like all} other human achievement, they must be measured in terms of service rendered. There is no disparagement here of the pur- suft of truth for its own sake. That pursuit belongs to the very essence of service. But let thej doctor remember where his work is set. Let him, while accepting gratefully all the help which the knowledre of others can give him, hold fast to his own know- ledge, exalt it in his daily, prac- ¡tice, and make of it the vehicle of his enthusiasm, his philan- thropy, and his faith.

News In Brief. One case of diphtheria was hed to the Health authorities Wednesday.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER

1932:

Horror And Beauty

Of Inner China

Dean Of Canterbury Writes On Journey

THE STRUGGLE TO TIBET

The Dean of Canterbury, who has been engaged on relief works in China, contributes the fol towing accouns of a journey which he made across the coun- try into Kansu and over the Tibetan border.

sufficient homage to the law. The comedy is in adequate communica- tions, which will lengthen the reach of Nanking and remove the economic, causes of opium growth. A roadless Europe with its only cen- tral Government in London might expect lawless behaviour in its out-

Fields of Death.

walls. it houses" some of China's

By The Dean Of Canterbury.." Travel in Western China to-day posts. le difficult and dangerous. Few undertake it; few are permitted to

So poppies are allowed to grow. do so.. One of the rew is Major: saw thousands of acres in bloom, Todd, the Chief Engineer of the The results, even the local results,. China International Famine. Re

are disastrous.. My last night in a notier Commission, a man with vast Shensi village, amid the glowing on credit in China, whose white cross huddled forms, reclining in an

engineering construction to his fields, remains a haunting memory:- flag can travel where none others open-fronted temple; bent yellow The Rev. C. I. Blanchett, of the penetrate. He took me with him faces over tiny lamps; the innkee Church Missionary Society. Canton, through Shansi, Shensi, and Kansuper's wife, on a couch in a hovel. left the "Colony for Shanghai onto Tibet, studying the associate doping herself to death.

problems of poverty, inmine, "ban- the P. & O. s.a. Corfu yesterday.

Sian is a lovely city. once the dits, and communications, a rough capital of China, and bound up with. Knocked down by a public motor and hazardous journey or some its earliest history. Standing no- car at the junction of Pokfulam 1,600 miles. Road and Second Street, a Chinese Our vehicle was a Dodge truck.bly girt by 16 miles of massive man, Ng Kwong, 56, sustained in-laden with ropes, picks, spades, greatest treasures: memorial tab- juries which necessitated his re- poles, and planks. for a wild ride lets grandly sculptured, the Nes- les before any car in the west of torian tabiet among them; bas-re |moval to hospital.

of China, Tolerable stretches of lief horses of the Tang dynasty; A Police report to-day stated mud road may radiate from this and a marble bowl exquisitely chas- that on September 7 last, the body town or that, but the tracks con- ed with lotus lilies to my mind traverse deserts, China's most lovely single posses- of a Chinese female baby, 2 years necting them old, was found in Gilman Street. ravines, river beds, and gradients sion. The streets are clean and bauchery Fear is the mother Extensive scalds were found on ascending nearly one in three over orderly and thoroughly Chinese. of cowards as well as of heroes, the body and these had been treat-mountains 6,000ft. 8,000ft, or even Clear streams, descending on either Fear which cannot be overcome ed with a dressing of Picric Acid 10,000 ft. high. Petrol consumption side of the city, are spanned by

The Folice require in-averages a gallon to five miles. We bridges of the Tang dynasty. tends to wear

down the resist-solution.

worked from dawn until after dusk city can boast some motor-cars, as ance and enterprise of men, and formation in the case.

and slept beneath the open sky can others still farther west, de- The Wonderful Years. so, in the end, to sap the founda-

tions of their faith. It was from A bazaar and fete to raise funds Men, mules, and oxen helped us spite the trouble of transit. They such fear, as Lord Dawson in- for the Children's Hospital and Or-over the worst obstacles..

are American cars, the American in-- The consequences of such meansdustry straining every nerve to gain It is impossible in these dayssisted, using a note of sober phanage and other charitable work

la footing Right in Tibet 1 found to recapture the feelings which a triumph, that the pioneers and under the auspices of the Precious of communication are: Interna century ago the peoples of masters of modern medical Blood Convent, will be held at the poverty, primitive trade, slender an expedition of adventurous young building, Yuen Chow cohesion with the central Govern men with wireless and film-taking Europe experienced in the pre-science delivered the world. They Convent sence of epidemic disease. These were a small band, labouring, for Street, Shumshuipo, at 4.30 p.m. to- ment, feudal banditry, and highway equipment sent out by an American

Around the cities: feelings had existed as a herit the most part, in obscurity and day when Mrs. W. T. Southorn will robbery. Military satraps flourish, motor firm.

the world counts for little, and themselves motoring is compara age from immemorial time. His with no other inspiration than perform the opening ceremony.

when famine comes peasant tively easy. It should be even easier torians are agreed that the, Black the love of truth whith domin

The 's Men's Club held their farmers die like flies. Conditions for English than for American cars Death effected upon the mind of ated every one of them. Far

Governors in a place where streets are narrow Europe a shock not less severe from trying, as has been stupid-weekly meeting at Lane, Crawford's naturally vary; than had been effected upon her ly charged against them, to op- Restaurant yesterday during whichland Generals are enlightened men, and petrol dear. The American body. The Great Plague laid a pose the fallible reason of man . . C. Yeo. Chairman of the others' the reverse, but all are name is known everywhere. When Major Todd said he was American chill of fear upon

London and to the will of Frovidence, they Chinese Medical Association. Hong handicapped.

he was greeted with a smile. When England, and that chill was felt were, for the most part, men of Kong, gave a talk about his visit to

Our journey proper began at I said I was British it was differ- again during each of the a deep and abiding faith in Pro- the Shanghai Y's Men's Club. re- epidemics of cholera which mark-vidence. In the middle of the cently while he was attending the Tungkwan, the present railhead, ent-there was no hostility, but the

a city word meant nothing, ed the early years of the nine-hosts of death they dared, alone Chinese Medical Conference in 700 miles from the coast, teenth century. In addition to of their age, to draw the sword Shanghai. Dr. F. I. Tsang also striding strategically across the an

Great Philanthropy, I attribute this to three things with which, for his gave a short talk on his trip to cient roadway leading towards Cen these exceptional scourges there of reason

The tral Asia. Its massive medieval and I must confess that America were afflictions which remained salvation, man has been endowed Shanghai and Hangchow. as a permanent danger, for ex-by God. Pasteur, Lister, and meeting was presided by Mr. Tan walls and gates and the soldiers deserves all the credit she gets in men of humbleng Hooi, President of the Club, guarding them, who demanded our China. America is doing great ample smallpox, typhoid fever, Manson were: and typhus fever: "a mother's piety and devout Christianity and, nearly 30 members were pre- papers, cut off Western China from philanthropic work; her merchants son is never her own," ran the They are the rocks upon which proverb, "ll he has had the the hole structure of modern though the smallpox." Scarcely less dread-knowledge is built,

sent.

Personal Pars.

some

The Ancient Way

The

the East. Beyond this point the show enterprise and penetrate the traveller is not welcomed. Major country eagerly; she spends her Todd's pass generally ensured our Boxer indemnity on granting scho- passage, but soldiers were often ob- larships to Chinese students in ed than smallpox was "conaump name of Jenner must never be

tuse, and several times we had America; and they return Ameri tion," which stealthily, year after forgotten.. Lord Dawson placed

Mr. C. J. Chancellor, Far Eastern trouble, ance being forced to walt canized.. Trus, it was an English year, carried away young man- Jenner in a position by himself,! hood, so that the families which and rightly so. For it was vac-manager of Reuters, arrived in the all night before gaining admittance missionary who made the first call

morning from the to a city.

for philanthropic aid. Findlay An- escaped its visitations were few.cination which broke the evil Colony this

North, on board the ss. Naldera. A rough but tolerable mud road.drews, who rescued Captain Baker But the dread inspired by dis-spell of helplessness. As soon

190 miles in length, connects Tung-on the Yangtze, told me that he had ease itself was less, probably, as its beneficent power became

The Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson was kwan and Sian. Rain is rare in the been through foods, famines, and than that which was awakened known a wave of new hope spread by any suggestion of treatment over Europe. Napoléon uttered the Colony from Shanghai on board cellent going if well drained, hard the hands of bandita; but would go among the passengers returning to west and mud roads provide ex-earthquakes, and four times was in by surgery. The hospitals a the famous prophecy that the

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hundred years ago were reputed populations of the European the ss. Naldera, which berthed at tamped, and protected

daylight to-day..

INTERESTING DEBATE AT Y.M.C.A.

against through any of these experiences. native carts. The old cart-track again rather than face again such the gateways of death, because States would be doubled. To-day,

ran for awhile beside us and pre-a drought" as in Kansu, where the few who entered them came out after the fulfilment of that pro-

sented a contrast. Struggling Chinese Government estimated that alive. Even the smallest wounds phecy, the hosts of disease are in

through its ruts. 10în, deep a cart (2,000,000 had died. He saw the were followed, invariably, by the full retreat along the whole line

was drawn by a couple of mules. On dead and dying on the roadside, dreaded would fever," against of battle. British Judges still

A keep debate resulted from the our road coolie hauled a rubber- and stood before 's crowd with which every art off the phy. carry their posies of flowers to sician or surgeon was unavailing. the bench of the Central Criminal motion proposed at the Y.M.CA. tired ricksha. We compared the wheat supplies enough only to save Because of this fever a com- Court, but the disease from last night "That the House of Com weights. The man on the new road a few. He had to choose who rivalled the beasts on the old. Mules should. live, He could scarcely pound fracture was a sentence which the posies were supposed mons be Abollahed."

It was the first: debate; under the eat fodder Replace them, by men, speak for months afterwards. He of doom. From cradle to old age, to give protection has disappear- indeed, human life was placed jed. Typhus fever has been auspices of the Y.M.C.A. Literary and foodstuffs increase; prices also begged for roads; and the Ameri- under constant threat. The in- abolished; typhoid fever has be- and Debating Society of the 1982 drop. Add the motor-car and prices cans responded.

will drop still further: wheat drop- The roads took us West. On the fant death-rate was three times come rare; tubercle is declining; 83 season.

Dr. E. L. Allen proposed the ped 10 per cent. when the railway way we visited the Welped Irriga as high as it is now. The ex-while potent remedies for diph

ition Scheme. Outside: Stan :stands - pectation of life at birth was theria, tetanus, diabetes, myxoe-motion, Mr. S. A. Gray seconding, reached Tung-kwan.

the tumulus of the Emperor' who more than twenty years less than dema, and pernicious anaemia the opposition being led by Mr. Fields of Poppy.

On our left the great mountain built the Great Wall. The China. the present expectation. Nor are available. In the sphere of D. J. S. Crozier and Mr. J. J. Fer-

range descending from Tibet drops of his day knew drought and was escape of any sort possible. preventive therapeutics are the guson.

At the conclusion of the debate, abruptly.to the plain from summits famine, and in 240 B.C. he utilized The tropics were ravaged by new methods against rickets, diseases more terrible than those dental caries, beri-beri, and 4 vote was taken, resulting in 10 of 6,000ft. Trees fringe the crests the King River, 20 miles west of the and clear streams fall down the Slan, for a huge irrigation scheme, of temperate climates. Names scurvy. Surgery is now safe as voting for, and 32 against,

motion.

sides. as painless. The modern of fear, such as "Yellow "Jack" well

Slender poplars throw off In course of time the channels showers of emerald leaves from silted and the river fell below the preserve their memory, which is surgeon opérates without fear,

{eliver stems; and in alternating intake. Successive dynasties enshrined further in such geo- and the hospitals have become graphical terms "as "the White symbols, in the public, mind, of

strips beneath them grain and poppy Sung, Yuan, Ming-renewed the Man's Grave" Lord Dawson of charity in its most blessed and

flourish side by side. Immense fields work, tapping the river higher and of popples bloom as flourishingly higher up its course. Then irri- Penn exaggerated nothing, per most beneficent form. In the tainly, when, in the course of his tropics progress is not less en- Twa minor accidents occurred at ly as tulips in the Netherlands. They gation practically ceased. The ap grow where wheat is needed end i palling drought of 1928-1980 caus Presidential Address to the Bri-couraging. Thanks to the work the Talkoo Dockyard yesterday:

they yield three or four times the led the China International Relief tish Medical Association, he des- of Manson,

n. Böss a BriteTM Leish-

profit of wheat. That is why they Commission to co-operate with the cribed this age of disease as an man, and many others the great and foot and was age of shrinking and helpless re- ígyers are now passing under

Civil

grow there; oplum weighs light for Shens Government, contributing signation: - The fear

transported. some £25,000 towards the costit of value, and is easily

weighs of 250,000 scheme. Major Todd has ever present was

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