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ANTI-PASTEURISATION

CAMPAIGN

Six-Year Plan For

Abyssinia

Rome, To-day.

A six-year plan for the development of Abyssinia, to cost 12,000,000,000 lire, was approved by the Cabinet yes- terday.

The plan, which was drafted by Signor Mussolini, provides, inter alia, for new roads and the development of cotton produc- tion-Reuter.

ITALY RATIFIES COMMERCIAL PACT WITH GERMANY

Rome, To-day.

The Italo-German commercial treaty which was signed in Munich in the middle of May, was accept- ed by the Council of Ministers on Monday.

At the same time the Council passed regulations giving the treaty effect. Trans-Ocean.

NANKING GOVT. MOVES TO KULING

China's

Kuling, To-day. unofficial Summer activity

capital is humming with

as officials arrive to confer

General Chiang Kai-shek.

with

the

to-

commanders

Mr. Lin Sen, Chairman of National Government, is due morrow and military from the different provinces are en route for instructions from the Generalissimo.

:

Meanwhile the personnel of vari- ous Government departments in Nanking are completing the exodus to Kuling, leaving only a skeleton staff behind. Reuter.

Local Weather

Forecast

The Royal Observatory reports that pressure is now highest in the Pacific to the East of Japan, and is relatively low in the stationary trough extending from Tongking across Formosa to the Loochoos. Forecast. E. and S.E. winds, moder- ate; cloudy generally, showery.

Another two Norwegian seal-hunting ships are now fast in the ice at the outlet of the White Sea, making a total of 22.

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 22, 1937.

Mr.M.K.Lo's Council Challenge

An attempt to delay action on the Government's announced policy of en- forcing pasteurisation of the Colony's milk supplies as from July 1, 1938, is 3. being made.

In Legislative Council to-morrow, the Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo is to ask the following questions:

recent amendment of the bye-law made by the Urban Council în re- gard to compulsory pasteurization? Will Government postpone taking any further steps in regard to com- pulsory pasteurization of milk pending the decision of Home Government on this question?

Alternatively will Government refer to the Committee recently ap- pointed to report on the question of nutrition in this Colony etc., by the way of further reference, the whole question of compulsory pas- teurization of milk in the light of local circumstances, and await the report of the Committee before taking any further steps in regard to compulsory pasteurization?

With reference to the question of compulsory pasteurization of milk:-- 1. Has Government's attention been drawn to a debate which took place in the House of Lords on April 27th, as reported by "The Times" of April 28th, 1937, on the Poole Cor- poration Bill, which originally con- tained a clause relating to pasteu- rization of milk, and in particular » to the following observations:- (Lord Cranworth) "It was admitted that the real reason for including this clause in the Bill was the recent outbreak of typhoid fever at Bournemouth. This ap- peared to be panic legislation There might be a case for prohi- biting the sale of unclean milk un- less it has been pasteurized, but Lagainst there was an equally good case for saying that if clean milk was avail- slaughter, for which he was sen- able it should not be pasteurized tenced to six months' imprison- at all. It was nowadays easier to ment, was dismissed by the Ap-

pasteurized milk."

Manslaughter

Appeal Fails

The

appeal of Ahmed Din conviction for man-

get pasteurized milk than non-peal Court this morning.

(Viscount Halifax) "He agreed that

ation and that the

The appeal was on the ground

the health of the people must be of misdirection of the jury by the first and the last consider the Trial Judge, and the Court

of question vested interests did not arise. But while agreeing that the words "certainly in matters of this sort they must complained of were be none the less concerned to see open to criticism," held that they that measures designed to pro- formed but a relatively unim- mote health were wisely devised. portant part of what could be In 1934 the Economic Advisory

a summing-up Cattle characterised as оп Council's Committee Diseases. presided over by Sir Fre- which was essentially fair if not, derick Hopkins, referred to this indeed, unduly generous to the subject of pasteurization in its reaccused man.

The Government had port reviewed the whole matter, and he

The Court was satisfied that

was authorised to announce that the jury could not have failed to it was their intention to bring for- come to the conclusion to which ward long-term legislation dealing

with milk policy generally in the they did come. "It follows there- near future. In this connection fore that no substantial miscar- the Government would examine the riage of justice was occasioned question of pasteurization in the and the appeal, therefore, fails." light of all the evidence that was

The sentence is to run from the available with a view to deciding

whether or not it would be in the first day of the Sessions at which public interest, with due regard to Ahmed Din was convicted,

the interests of the milk industry, to include provisions in regard to it in their legislative proposals."

(Viscount Dawson of Penn)

2.

A

WEDDING THIS

MORNING

Chinese Families

United

"He saw no other way of dealing with this vital health question than by having a properly organ- ised and controlled system of pas- teurizing milk.

He agreed that it would be a change of prac tice if producer-retailers had to

at pasteurize their milk, but they quiet wedding took place

morning when could imitate Denmark and go in the Registry this for co-operation. Or, if necessary, Mr. Clement Leslie Chan, son of they could be compensated in some Mr. Charles Chung Lun, retired Australia, Will the Government obtain copies and Mrs. Chung Lun, was married of the report of the Committee reto Miss "May" Lai Ying Chong, 21- ferred to by Viscount Halifax in the above quotations for the con-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. sideration of members of this Chong Chu, of London, Mr. T. S. Council before this Council is call- Whyte-Smith, Registrar of Marri- ed upon to pass and confirm the

ages, officiating.

"way.

WAIT FOR REPORT?

DREAMLAND DANCE HALL

Gloucester Road, Wanchai.

OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT

We beg to announce to our numerous patrons that we will open the “DREAMLAND”:Dance Hall on 23rd June at 8 p.m. All our patrons are heartily invited to be with us on this occa- sion. We have engaged a special Orchestra and we trust that we will provide the Entertainment that you have enjoyed in the past.

Dancing--8 p.m. to 1 a.m.

Tickets until 10 p.m.-6 for $1.00.

Tickets after 10 p.m

for $1.00.

merchant from Sydney,

The bride returned to the Colony a few months ago from London, where she spent 12 months' vaca- tion with her father, having form- erly studied at St. Stephen's Girls' College.

Mr. Chan was formerly on the editorial staff of the South China Morning Post.

STOP PRESS

TEL. 20022 or 33993¦

SURPRISE SOONG DECISION

For reasons not explained,

Mr. T. V. Soong's plans for the

immediate future have under-

gone considerable change. He

is coming to Hong Kong in a

day or two from Canton and

will fly from here to Kuling to

see Chiang Kai-shek.

Origin-

ally, he planned to stay in Can-

ten a month and then to go to

Hainan Island. -Our Own Cor-

respondent.

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