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to provision of treatment in Hong Kong for TB.

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Notice To Contributors. All communications intended for It is not generally known that MR. ATTLEE'S RUSSIAN HARVEST On his holiday visit to Russia, publication should be addressed to at the Haw Par Hospital. Cheung Mr. Attlee can hardly fail to gar- the Editor, and be accompanied by Chan, there is a ward devoted to the Writer's Name and Address the treatment of not necessarily for insertion, but taken over as a quaranten af good faith..

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WITH SHARK

MONSTER CAUGHT WITH BARE HOOK

FLUKE WITH HARD-BATTLING SEQUEL FOR FISHERMAN

(By Norman Caldwell)

TB. children ner his impressions. When hel from the Tung Wah brings his harvest home Hospital, from the funds of which trouble will begin.

Sir Walter Citrine's case shows) organisation a small contribution is made towards the cost of food that this deserves to be classed TT is not often one catches aja merry tussie, and I was kept This et after one ft the mid busy trying to check the violent of these patients.”

as a dangerous occupation.. could be done for

And spurts. It wanted to go to sea. Much more

Here are some of the rarioas of bait. I did, though. similar cases if a larger measure jopinions given by Socialists, Lab-what a time I had before I got I wanted it to go ashore. The

Itug of war became hectic. of financial support were accorded.jour leaders and others who have the brute ashore!

The air was full of scream- Applications for admission have preceeded Mr. Attlee on the pil- I had just started fishing off to be refused for lack of support grimage to Moscow.

south-western beach atling seabirds that wheeled (not lack of accommodation) as Lord Passfield (1932)-Russia is Grassy. Island, North Queens-Jabove me. They had come for apart from every other considera-not a comfortable place to live in. land I was fishing for bait, a share of the spoils that were tion, food alone is a large item in Mr. Joseph Toole, MP. (1930). and only using a light line. theirs whenever I made a “kill.” Famine and misery are the chief fea-Coming towards the boat, I The tiger shark bad a dis- the mouthly bill

could see

turning The Hospital, which has a resi-tures of the country.

in the clear water iconcerting trick of Sir Walter Citrine (1935). The There is a music-hall artist dent M.O, and a staff of qualified standard of living is still distinctly that covered the reef, the dark quickly and diving as I tried to haul it towards the boat. Its well known in London and the nurses, is ideal as a residence for lower than in most other countries. outline of a tiger shark.

Lord Lothian (1931)—The most The tiger had evidently many changing mbods had me provinces whose turn consists T.B. cases, situated as it is on the

bait. maximum of gigantic and heroic experiment ever scented the

Then it guessing. It fought solidly. of a rambling, completely in-seashore with the

tried in history.

circled the boat in a manner and well, but did not turn in consequential and extremely sunshine and ozone. Medical men

Perhaps, Mr. EL G. Well's rethat plainly told me that he circles like all my previous cap- amusing parody of a public who have visited the institution mark was the most caustic.

He wanted something to eat; tives had done. favourably man making a speech about are impressed most

for TB said that what was really wantsharks have insatiable appe- But there месле nothing saying absolutely with its suitability nothing about anything, and children.

2

X10 halt ied was the invention of a five-tites. I had nothing on the boat measures about the brute. It near year plan to reconstruct the har with which I could bait a shark had lots of "punch" as it twist- taking several minutes to say It is hoped that in the it. Non sequitors · follow one future

public benefactor man brain. Our present mental hook, but I had a shark booked and twirled in the depths.

To make things harder for another with bewildering and philanthropist will add an apparatus, he observed, obviously and a stout line. As the brute rapidity: no thought begun to additional storey in the form of lacked many things needed for a came to the surface, and swam me, the wind had freshened, be expressed is ever brought to an open air ward for the benefit perfect social order. any logical or other conclusion; of T.B. cases, on the completion of and the whole thing is a superb which accommodation for an addi- example of that evasiveness tional 100 TB. children will be which public men postulate provided. The building is not re-

The Architect when they are harried about garded as a Sanatorium in any

any complaints you some point in connection with sense of the word, and in view of make?" asked the prison governaz which they know they have not the enormous zumber of T.E. "Yes," replied the prisoner, "the a leg to stand on. With the cases in the Colony is but "a drop prison walls are not built to scale." utmost respect, we suggest that in the ocean.”

Your Daily Smile!

“Have

To-day's Limerick something of this technique A beginning has been made to Long after a painstaking search. was adopted by the spokesman "save the children." and it is from The groom was found outside for the Government in reply to little acorns

that

oaks great Dr. S. N. Chau's questions at

grow."

chearch

Amid crowds of people, Eyes glued on the steople,

pearch.

Last Tuesday's meeting of the Arrangements will be made for where painters had taken Urban Council with reference members of the public sufficiently to the incidence of tuberculosis interested to visit the Haw Par in the Colony and the steps Hospital at Cheung Chan and see taken or contemplated by the things for themselves. Government to remedy the pre-

sent conditions.

R. LANGLEY.

Hon. Secretary S.J.A. Assoc.

It used to be and may still be, for all we know-a stand- ing Parliamentary joke that the best way to shelve a ques- tion was to appoint a Royal Commission to examine it. It would be unfair to suggest that the commission, in Mr. R. R.

The funeral of Mrs. Tulia Tales Todd's words, "appointed to en- quire into the housing difficul-Ribeiro, whose death occurred at

MRS. T. T. RIBEIRO LAID TO REST

Forgive the Pun

the

near the boat, I chanced a shot and the water began to smack with the heavy hook and chain, and gurgle against the boat's slinging it well over the head side. The fight was a long one. lof the shark. There came a I felt my chances to be very mad swirl as the brute felt the poor of getting the shark near to weight of the line, and as enough to the boat to kill It

pulled, the hook sunk its barb refused to weaken.

Then it played me a dirty deep into the shark. At first I thought I had managed to trick. It ran foul of the an- make contact with the jaw, but chor chain, and stayed put later I found how wrong I was down below. I was stumped The shark swam madly over for the moment. I had 60 or the reef towards the open sea, more feet of anchor chain in the line running rapidly the water, and it meant that I through my fingers. I checked would have to haul both shark their that run as soon as I could, and anchor to the surface, if

finally slipping the line over a that was possible. cleat on the stern of the boat.

Started Hanking Where had I

Quickly I started hauling was puzzled. hooked the shark? I knew full aboard the chain. This drag- well that the hook barb had not ged the boat almost over the penetrated the tough hide of spot below where, were the the man-eater. Then where shark and the anchor.. And had it stuck?

"I understand that your husband's salary isn't so hot.'"

"Yes, but we both, bicw it”

ties in Victoria and Kowloon her residence at No. 23, Robinson A

EXPLANATION OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON

Adam's Rib

the pull started the man-eater Merry Taste

fighting afresh It tore the The shark and I were having anchor chain from my hands and lifted the 251b. anchor from manner he acquired a knowledge its ground hold. Now wind- of anatomy which was far in ad-driven, the boat drifted vance of his time. He incurred towards a bunch of jagged NDREAS Vesalius, a Belgian the enmity of the King and au-rocks.

anatomist of German de-thorities by maintaining that he This had to be stopped. Tuesday, took place at scent (1514-1564), was early at-could find no evidence of the lack Hand over hand I pulled line with special" reference to over-Road on

on the Roman Catholic Cemetery the tracted by the st-ly of anatomy, of a rib, which contradicted an old and chain in together. The tuberculosis," is cast in the same evening. A large gathering a dangerous subject in his time belief connected with the removal shark resented every movement the To overcome the prejudices of the of a rib in the first man. He was I made, and made frantic same old mould; and judgment of friends were present at

The of its labours must be deferred graveside, the chief mourners be-period, Vesalius would steal into condemned to death, but permitted efforts to go seawards. juntil it has reported. But we ing the deceased's two sons, Hugo cemeteries at night to pursue his to atone by a pilgrimage to the boat became a brake on those

studies in secret, on corpses dug Holy Land During the journey, efforts. recognise the familiar music-and Znleínia.

np from their

La this he died in a shipwreck at Zanto.

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from the neighbouring parts of Anyway, it seems to be about China" "any action possible on time that the theory were put the part of the Government to the practical test..

OT of charitable institutions That brings us to the final must, in the circumstances be extract quoted above (complete palliative and remedial." (The with our Italics). It is a frank Italics are ours). It is surely admission that the charitable not unfair to single out these institutions in Hong Kong are three extracts as bearing out actively engaged in social work our contention that the music-which is the responsibility of hall technique of evasion has the Government; and however been employed. What are the much of a good thing that may "peculiar conditions" existing be morally, there is no civic in Hong Kong which make it excuse for it. It is not the! impossible to prevent over-exclusive business of voluntary crowding? What is there, but charitable institutions to care the intransigence of vested in-for the aged, the sick, starved homeless out- terests, to prevent the Govern-children and ment of this Colony from at-casts, though all this may with tacking the overcrowding. evil complete propriety be included at its source, as has been done in their province. It is the with success elsewhere? Or is civic conscience and the civil the intransigence of the yested purse as a whole, not those of interests one of those "peculiar the individual, on which should conditions"?

rest "the" responsibility for the That old chestnut about the major part of this work; and hordes of South China is re-that can certainly not be said surrected in the second extract of conditions in Hong Kong. quoted above. It is a hoary What support of the work of excuse for inaction which has private charities is given by long outlived any válid signifi- the Government is niggardly cance it ever had, for very one totally inadequate and most simple reason: reform has been grudgingly bestowed. The continuously put off, so that excuse for inaction or but the alleged conditions have meagre support is the chimeri- never been seen in actual opera-cal fear of the invading hordes tion, and in these circumstances from South China a sort of one guess is as good as the Fat Boy's prognostication, other--the Government's, that designed to create exquisite Hong Kong, would be deluged shuddering of our avoirdupois with the rampaging Lordes if It really is time a stop was social services of the kind recalled to this music-hall method, quired were initiated, and that and the issues faced and ex- of the general community, that plained without any equivoca- it would not be, necessarily. tion whatsoever.

Andreas VESALIUS

Professor

of Anatomy

graves.

at PADDA ONLY, A

(154-1564)

WAS HOUNDED TO DEATH BY KING PHILIP I Å SPAIN

FOR MAINTAINING THAT THERE WAS AN EVEN NUMBER OF RIBS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE HUMAN BODY..

· It was famly believed that "Adam's Rap was missing in

human anatomy

(Continued on Page 6.)

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