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CANTON NOTES.

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CANTON, Eept. 10th.

THE NANKING AFFAIR.

UP RIVER NOTES.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12cm. 1918.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

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RAPID FALL OF THE RIVER.

SHIU-HING-FU, Sept. oth. During the past week the water has been falling rapidly at the rate of over two feet a day on this river and the gauge

SUPREME COURT.

Thursday, September 11th.

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION. BEFORE HIS. HONOUR MR. J. H. KEM

(Putsu Juu).

CLAIM OF AN INSURANCE POLICY.

His Lordship delivered a lengthy judg-

ANOTHER BANK NOTE CASE.

Mr. G. N. Orme was again engaged yesterday afternoon in hearing evidence in auether bank note case, in which Ma Kai Lap was charged with being in unlawful possession of Kwangtung bank ustes to the value of 88,000, at No. 13, Wing Sing Street, on the 27th ult.

Mr. F. B. L. Bowley prosecuted, and Mr. P. C. Jenkin (instructed by Mr. Leo

SANITATION IN THE TROPICS.-

BIR DONALD RUSS ON THE STATUS OF HYGIENE.

The Tropical Medicine and Hygiene action dressed jointly with the Naval Medicine Section the and Military question of sanitary organization in the Tropics.

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INTIMATIONS

AGRADECIMENTO.

impossibilidade de ir pessoalmente agradecer a cada um das pessoas que assistiram ao funeral do Rev. Pe Jono Goncalves que boutern teve logar,

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venho por este meio em meu no othe do todos

do mens companheiros missao tributar a todos e a enda um em particular as annis siuzaros e commovidos sentimentos de gratidao por osta homenagem prestada ao que foi superior amigo de d'uns, professor d'outros

Governor-General Tung, in accordance ith instructions received from the Board of Foreign Affairs, has ordered the Com District Magistratos, Military mandors and Tranquillization Bureau. to take special pains, in future, for the at Sanshui now registers only 8 feet, ment in the action brought by Ip Tsuk d'Almada) appeared for the defence. protection of all foreigners, missionaries showing a drop of about 19ft, since we and travellers, in the interior, in order to prevent a recurrence of the regrettable affair which recently occurred at Nanking piratical attempt near Wangshek on the Judge snid that three issues arose in the stated that the notes produced were niachinery is necessary for tho prevention modo especial ao Exmo. Revino, Ser.

KWANGTUNG NOTES.

The several seizures of forged Kwang tung rates made in Hongkong of late have given rise to many rumours, one of which is to the effect that the uotes referred to are reprints from the original

were there a week or so ngo.

Owing to

this rapid fall H.M.S. Sandpiper, which was despatched to the scene of the

North River, had to turn back some six miles beyond Ching Yuen.

PIRACY AND BRIGANDAGE, It appears that some 500,ur more troops were sent up from Ching Yuen, but from

Sir Ronald Ross used the word sanita tion in its widest sanec, including under the term everything which tends to reduce the sickness and mortality of human An effective administrative beings.

Evidence was given by Cheung Siu Wah Insurance Co., Ltd., to recover

Lau, senior clerk in the Audit and Pay

tudos, como era' notorio, Sam, & Chinese doctor, against the Po

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Department of the Canton Treasury, who

Não posso deixar de agradecer d'un 1,000 under a policy of insurance. the course of his remarks the Puisas

and treatment of disease, and this, in the Bispo-IX-Pozzoni-que-por um exccano da case, namely (1), existence of insurable Imperial and Republican issue.

In cross-examination by Mr. Jenkin, view of the speaker, can best be secured bondade so diguou presidir pontifical- interest: (2), amount of loss, and (3), witness said that the Treasury would not by attention to the following points. The mente revestido ao acte, recebendo o

whole of the sanitary services of a country de cloze da missão e dos seminaristas.

cadaver a porta do Cemiterio precedido fraud. On the first issue no evidence had give silver on tentand in exesarigo for should be unified, and placed under a

Aos Rdos. Pes. francezes das micsoES been called on any of the points raised,

separate department of State. The anni- and he could not assume them against the notes. The Exchange Bank gave silver,

Mr. Jenkin-So the Exchange Banktary service should not be subordinated extrangeiras, as Rdas. Mes. Cariossianas

is suas alumnas foram On the second thero was no owes somebody in silver about $70,000 for to the Medical Eorvice or vice versa, the que com

time has gone by for the predominanca Cemiterio, as pessoas que depositaram plaintiff,

de flores na sepultura (com sanitary or preventive side has many-especialidade a linda immortelle offerecida sided duties to fulfil and is occupied with pelos antigos discipulos de finado) n

A6 Rdo. Chantre Po. Sarmento, ac expensive sanitary works, with munici- pal doinge, with epidemies and the dos. professores do Seminario Pes. public sanitary legislation, with large and devo deixar de especifica. detailed administration of the whole Alves da Silva e Joao la Lima e ao Rde. country. His work requires the training missionario Mathias Tang que de Macau of a medical man; but in addition he vieram para assistir ao funeral, o meu the abilities of a statesman. The sanitary em pablice por assim m'o pedir o must have the training, the mind, and profundo reconhecimento.

Aproveitando a necasino para o tornar engineering department of the province

plates, and as a consequence the discount all accounts they came back without evidence. particularly directed to the these notes ?--What do you mean exactly of the meciieal side, for the head of the coroas

once remitted so Canton.

The

a truism..

Mr. Jenkin agreed, and said he thought the witness would admit it without

If this Exchange Bank got these notes on these notes is becoming heavier every having accomplished more than a recon- points, and no grounds for rejecting the

embarrassing naisance, their number being insufficient plaintiff's story. With regard to the third back without paying for them they would day. To relieve this

has to cope with the growing number of point, it was impossible on the evidence problem, Governor-General Lung

got them back 1-Witness did not reply. telegraphed to the Hoard of Finance pirates and brigands with which this that the plaintiff's partnership in the She very much obliged to the person who His Worship chserved that was rather asking that $4,000,000 or $5,000,000 be at district is now infested. Several villages Wo Tong was proved sufficiently.

The General were searched, but there seems to be very whole case revolved itself into a conflict of evidence between the plaintiff and n witness for the defendants named Tai belief, he says, is that at present there little possibility of anything being accom-

The attempts to upset the are $511,000,000 worth of notes in circula-plished mless a much larger force is sent tivu. but, in fact, the real figure is up and a clean sweep made of all Chip Shan. $27,000,000, which composed of suspected villages--something similar to plaintiff's evidence on all other points $15,000,000 issued by the new Government that by the late Viceroy Shum, under the having failed, and the onus being on the the question of the Government during the old régime. The the West River in Kwangsi, when whole thought he was bound to find in favour only way to restore these notes to their villages being razed to the ground and of the plaintiff on face value is to re-establish the bureau men women and children put to the sword, interview, and that practically concluded

judgment. for plaintiff with costs.

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trouble, or delay,

and $12,000,000 issued by the Kwangtung old Mauchu régime,--somo years ago. undefendants to prove fraud, lis. Lordshin paid money to the Tutuh in order to pay the chief of that service and not indepen-particular os teus sentimentos de recon

the troops and various salaries.

Mr. Jenkin And the payment of troops in Canton recently has been a matter of some difficulty, through fina

for exchanging them for subsidiary There have been very few cases of piracy / the whole case. There would therefore becial embarrassment-The money markcipalities whereby almost unlimited con-

coins; hence this requisition.

Tutub Lung in a cornmunication to the Chinese Minister in Japan suggests that during their sile, abroad, it is quite possible that fugitive rebel leaders may try to smuggle forged Kwangtung notes into the interior, and thus seriously

in those parte since.

The junk traffic is still held up both al Shaochowfu and Yingtak. A cargo junk which arrived at Samshui whilst we were there reported that they left Vingtak with about a dozen others, but some miles beyond Wangshek they left them and

TENANT SUED BY LANDLORD.

B. M. Conception sued A. Foster to recover the sum of $68, being as to 830 due for rent of the top floor of No. 38, Morrison Hill Road, lately occupied by defendant, and as to the balance the value

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niczes que.

Witness further said that the Treasurer country must, if the sanitary service coracao cheio de gratidao, não posso is to be effective, be under the control of deixar de exprimir d'um modo muito -dent of it, as is often the case. Research hecimento tos Idos. Pes. Dominicanos laboratories under trained workers should Noval o Prat pelo mudo como tratavam- sua doença o chorada Pe. Joso- form a branch of the sanitary service; na The power granted to even small muni esteve na Procuracao do Hongkong, and a statistical department is a necessity. Goncalves durante os dois

PE SEBASTIAO M. A. DA SILVA. brol is bestowed on them to deal with the Hongkong, 10 de Setembro de 1913. lives of the people may be expedient from & political standpoint, but from w sanj- tary point of view it cannot be com- mended in the case of tropical villages, where neither highly expert knowledge an epidermic threatens, the head of the nor suficient funds are available. Wh

is not tight.

Has there been any difficulty in Canton recently in finding money

to pay the troops?No.

Do you know it has been reported in the papers of this Colony that there has troop?--What the papers said had n

jeopardize trade. He requests that the travelled during the night, passing this of certain partitions belonging to the been great difficulty in paying the sanitary service should be able immediate-

We

Chinese Consuls in the various ports in point in the early hours of the morning, Japan be instructed to make close investi- just before daylight, and get througli All the other junks passing in gations and, it the event of any dis-safely.

such counterfeit broad daylight were cleaned out. coveries being made notes, or plant for manufacturing them, passed about a hundred salt junks flying representations should be made to the various war flags, under the escort of hundred soldiers, bound for Japanese authorities for the arrest of the about forgers.

Shaochowfu. It would be interesting to know if they are successful in running the gauntlet, but I do not think they will proved beyond Ching Yuen, unless a much irger number of soldiers accom Jany them.

A PROHIBITION TO BE WITHDRAWK. It is reported that the Tatuh intends to shortly withdraw the prohibition enforced by ex-Tutuh Wa against more than 360 in subsidiary coins being carried by any one person out of Canton.

GAMBLING AND OPIÙM SMOKING AMONGST BOLDIERS.

The sernacular press has, ou more than

The General in command of troops at Ching Yuen informed the coromander of the Suadpiper that he would not advise

guarantee protection.

plaintiff and wrongfully removed by Mr. F. Mason (of Mr. F. X. d'Almada's defendant from the said premises. office) appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. C. A. &. Russ (of Messrs. Goldring & Russ) represented the defendant.

Mr. Mason, in opening, stated that a sum of 886 had been paid into Court.

the landlord of several Plaintiff was houses, and the tenants on the 26th June received notice from the Sanitary Board that the landlord had been ordered to remove all interior ceilings, ete. Defen- dant thereupon left the premises and refused to pay the rent: at the same time the removed a partition by the side of the stairs which plaintiff had put up.

foundation.

I think you will agree that if the Yamen could not swear that these notes helenged to them, but could get them back for nothing, they would be very Useful pay the troops ? --- Witness returned no answer.

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ly to send expert officers to the district to deal with the cutbrous; and is THE BREWER'S important that not only the officers of this department should be efficient, but the sanitary workmen must be trained, for without these it is not possible that the netual details of any measure can be carried out. A Minister of Pub. Health is an urgent necessity.

COLONIAL AND FOREIGN VIEWS. Dr. von Hintze, of the Geroian Colonial Service, explained the organization of the East Africa, Kamerun, Togo, New sanitary and medical service in German Guinea, and Samoa. In these countries. the military system prevails at present, but as these colonies progress it would Seem probable that a separate civil sani. tary and medical service would be Colonel P. Hehir, I. M.S., described in the sanitary aid inedical services in His Worship In these troablous times India. He drew attention to the fact that whereas in the early period of the British it is not at all surprising

occupation of India. the death-rate among Eurepoan troops amounted to 80 per 1.000 per annumi, in 1010 the death-rate was only 4-6; a proof that the present-day precautionary measures are bearing fruit. Among Indian troops also a similar im- provement has taken place. Teaching simple practical hygienie measures to native soldiers in India did great good, as when these men left the Army they remote villages. curried the knowledge they acquired to

Witness said that the Treasury paid these notes to a number of different Of departments and to a number of different people as well as to the Yamen, course he could not swear that these notes were actually paid to the Yamen, as there was no distinguishing feature.

M. Jenkin-How do you keep your

or silver established. private money--in notes (Laughter.)

Que occasion, reported that gambling and any mere attempts being made to reach A dispute had arisen as to the ownership I spend all that I get in the month. detail the most recent organization of opium smoking are being indulgel in by Yingtak at present, as he would not certain soldiers in the old city, who defy the efforts of the police. It certainly sters strange that this state of lawlessness amongst the soldiery is entirely overlocked by the proper authorities.

UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG. MATRICULATION EKAMINATION. September, 1913.

The following gentlemen have been successful in the above examination:-

7.--Fok Wing Kan. 8.-Âu Kim Kwong 9.-Cancio J. Jerge.

10. Lee Lu Choring.

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Ma Chin Ki

13.Yip Fok Sang, 15. Chau Cheung Kiu 16. Châu Yat Krong. 17.-Chau Sua Foug. 19. Yung Hin Lun. 30.--So Wen Ki. 21 Chau Sia Tim. 22. Yan Yek Chiong 23.-Yon Yu Cheun. 24.-Ho Wing Yoea. 28. S. T. M. Barma. 29. J. L. Goldonberg. 31.-Wong Fing Chun 32.-Chiu Chu San. 36. Iu Tak Chung. 38-Paul San Wing Chung.

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WEST ELVER WELL PATROLLED.

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After hearing evidence his Lordship entered judgment for plaintiff for 836, and as there was no termination of the tenancy by the landlord, he also entered judgment for plaintiff on the counter.

Mr. Jenkin-Have you heard that lot of rich Chinese merchants and so on

of it.

Would it surprise you to learn that the defendant came down from Hoi Fung with $71,000 in rotes, and title deeds to landed property in the Hoi Fung District

a counterclaim for the cost of removal. There seemed to be various items in the of the partition, and defendant had filed

counterclaim, and before going into The Sandpiper, has just returned particulars it would be better definitely

to decide whether any clair could arise-came down to Hongkong with their Shamshui from trip up

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in the circumstances. The right of the property for safety owing to the disturb ΠΟΥ En route for Wuchow, and

defendant to clain anything was ances in Canton -No, I have not heard Canton. They report that everything is

disputed. this river. Some months quiet on age they were fired on at Coscomb Point some miles beyond Yuet Sing. This seems to be the only part on this river that might be at all dangerous, and where any attempt at piracy would be made. How ever, the river is now well patrolled by: the smaller type of Chinese gunboat. The a two-funnelled gunboat King Kno, of the sloup type, fitted with wireless, patrols the river between Shiu Hing and Do Sing. The commander, who speaks English very well, informed me that there are now very few pirates between Samshui and Wnchow, they having all cleared out

SNIPE-SHOOTING PROSPECTS, Snipe are beginning to make their

elaion.

-** HOW HAVE THE MIGHTY FALLEN."

You do not suppose that title deeds for $100,000 would be kept in the Canten Treasury I do not know. The case was remanded.

BREW

GUINNESS'S

'WHEEL" BRAND

STOUT.

SOLE AGENTS FOR CHINA:

Colonel W. G. King, CIE., insisted to the value of $100,000?—It is quite upon the necessity for a sanitary service

in India auder the control of a director H. common thing.

who is independent of the disciplinary control of the medical service, and is responsible directly to the Government of the province. The prevention of dis ease is one thing, the treatment of disease. quite another; and the two departments should be prevented clashing as regards predominane by making each separately responsible to the central authority.

AN ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY. In connection with the recent Medical Congress in London, the demonstration which excited the interest at

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14, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

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Professor Wassilewsky (Heidelberg) drew attention to the fact that rabbits might be used as producers of vaccine lymph in plause of calves Dr. Agra. MAPPIN&WEBB, University College was without doubt monte (Cuba) said that in Caba the chief of the sanitary and medical service was that of Professur Abel, of Baltimore,

Cabinet Minister. Dr. W. Black (W. Professor Abel presented a new and Australia) stated that in Weat Australia

appearance on the river, hut no great bass I post anywhere in which he will have a living ingenious method of removing substances tlu: ideal service as described by Sir R.

will be made until next month, when they should be quite plentiful everywhere. This list does not include the result of the The sun is very hot during the day, but examination at Penang-

MARRIAGE PROBLEM.

Should a man keep his promise to marry a woman who has accidentally lost.

ere

The typhoon of about two weeks ago an arm? This question is raised by a played have with the water front of this Flintshire inry's award of £25 damages for breach of promise to a girl, whose city, which at the same time was under sweetheart contended that as she had lost an arm in a railway accident, she was incapacitated from becoming the wife of

hardly fail to be of benefit in the studs

LIMITED.

NEW CONSIGNMENTS

SILVER WARE.

PRINCE'S

PLATE

(GUARANTEED FOR 20 YEARS).

Queer advertisements appear in The Timex occasionally, but the Malay Mait thinks the following, apart from its loenl associations, "takes the biscuit":--

Englishman 23, well educated, strong. healthy, good family, travelled, has a to the North River and the northern partsuatted for ordinary employment by becoming first a schoolmaster and afterwards of Kwaugsi.

o rubber planter; is at present in the Federated Malay States. Will any, philan- thropically disposed magnate offer him a wage and good prospects? Apply to "Nil from the circulating blood, which can Ross already existed. Dr. F. Sandwith ardui," 0.961. The Times Office, E.C.

The F.M.S our Malay contemporary of some of the most complex probleens,(London) described the medical and hard knock of By means of a glass tube tied into a main sanitary measures in force in Egypt, Dr. C. Harford (Livingstone College) late, but to think that an ex-schoolmaster artery of an anesthetized animal the adds, have had many the nights are cool on the water, and one and rubber-planter who was once, a blood is conducted through Titaerous referred to the amount of good from a needs at least one blanket even in the worker within our borders has to make celloidin tabea before being returned to hygienic point of view the missionaries STERLING no troublesome mos-such an appeal as that which appears the veins through a second glass tube. had done, especially those who had taken cabin; there

above! Truly, as an Old Hand" The celloidin tubes are immersed in saline a nine months' course in elementary All diffusible substances cir- medicine and hygiene at Livingstone quitoes, and there are no signs of rain.

remarks, in calling our attention to the solution. advertisement How have the mighty culating in the blood pass through the College, Leyton, E. Dr. Olpp also testified intervening layer of celloidin, and can be to the excellent effect the teaching of the DAMAGE BY FLOODS.

fallen

found in the saline solution, where they missionaries had had in German West- can be subjected to fractional analysis. Africa. Dr. D. E. Anderson (London) In this way Professor Abel has co- dwell upon the importance of having structed what is praetically an artificial efficient officers in charge of the medical kidney. In many instances the working departments of our Crown colonies and Dr. Andrew Balfour of the added excretory organ is more Protectorates. rapid than that of the actual kidney (Kharium) referred to the importance of the animal; per cent. per hour of salicylic acid can be removed from the having all sanitary inspectors and sub-

inspectors sent from Britain to an, of the Chapel Royal, Savoy, took level, as they generally do in time of

The attempt on August 9th of a band blood. Although primarily the appare tropics trained in elementary tropical

tus is of use in the estimation and

hygiene, the man's view. Of what use," he asked, food, and consequently many thousands

of militants to horse whip Dr. Pearson, analysis of the diffusible contents of the "would a crippled woman he in a

He has to work of dollars worth of merchandise was working-man's home

Most of the houses along the medical officer of the Holloway Gaol, in blood, it is possible that the principle for bie living, and he naturally wants a ruined.

At the close of the wife who would be an asset not a burden.

river tumbled down, but now that the revenge for the forcible feeding of ay ultimately be adopted in the treat- There is not room for sentiment and

waters have fallen the owners are busy suffragette prisoners, had a humorous ment of disease.

The attack on Dr. Pearson had demonstration, which excited the liveliest delicate romance in the homes of the poor. They cannot afford to love. A case like rebuilding them. They say that it was | zide.

prisoners, who had just served their was accorded round after rand of this upsets the ideals of the poet, highest and most sudden rise in their Just begun, when a rescue party of female interest and discussion, Professor Abel Marriage on a low-wage is more of a practical fact than a pleasant dream, remembrance, for which, no doubt, the sentences for ordinary offences, rushed applause. and. in my opinion, it is nonsense to say typhoon that accompanied it was partly up. There was a sharp fight, in which Indeed, it would have gone hard with that a man should be expected to marry a woman who would probably be a burden responsible. There is great distress in the suffragettes were signally routed to him." Lady Troubridge, the authe Kwangsi, the usual aftermath of a heavy them had not the police come ap in time reas, was equally emphatic, but she was flood, and we have passed several gunboats to protect them from the fury of the

long un the side of the woman.

to hold her soul towing junks laden with rice to relieve Amazonian rescuers. It appears that in very strongest antipathy is felt by ordin the girl had body ever," she contended. | the misery in the many towns and-villages-ary female prisoners in Holloway against have struck most people, From Messrs. and Dr. van Loghem suggested that there i the suffragette prisoners, because the H.M. torpedo-boat 57 passed here this latter obtain release by hunger strikking The former, having to serve their full morning returning from a trip to sentences, were delighted to have an

opportunity of practically avenging their of grievance.

a working-man. The Rev. Hugh Chap.

ten feet of water. The rise of the water

was so sudden that the inhabitants were unable to remove their goods to a higher

he ought to marry "Love counts everywhere, and surely, if which have been swept away: a man loved woman truly, the fact that she lost an arm, or suffered any other sad affliction,,

would make him love her still tenderly.'

Wachow

SUFFRAGETTES ATTEMPT TO HORSE-WHIP A PRISON DOCTOR.

-XESCUED BY OTHER FEMALE PRISONERS.

of

the

MALARIA AND YELLOW FEVER. Colonel Hehir read a paper on the "Prevention of Malaria in Troops in The destruction of mosquito India

CUTLERY.

From the

SOLE AGENTS:

(Amsterdam) brought prominently for CHS. J. GAUPP

ing from malaria are the two directly essential steps in any attempt at checking farve and the isolation of persons sutter-

the inroad of malaria. Dr. yau Loghem The remarkable originality show in ward "The Yellow Fever Danger for Asia This subject has been frequently dealt Co.'s well-known Black and White advertising Messrs. James Buchanan & after the opening of the Panama Canal." and "Red Seal Seetch whiskies zaust with by Sir Patrick Manson and others, Garner, Quelch & Co. Ltd., the Hong-should be a co-ordination of all countries a specimen of a new advertisement which danger to Australia and to the countrie kong agents of the firm, we bave received likely to be concerned to prevent the serious characters from Dickens. being laxity of inspection or control infected admirable reproductions in colours of slips be allowed to pass the canal into. takes the form of handsome portfolio burdering on the China Seas, should by

the Pacific. nine paintings by Frank. Reynolds.

& CO.,

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

CHATER ROAD,