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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, MARCH 6TH, 1919,
(FROM OUR OWN COLBESPONDENT.) DID INFLUENZA ORIGINATE AT
HONGKONG!
LONDON, December 18th.
THE GENERAL ELECTION.
The General Election which has just concluded has been singularly lacking in interest.
BIG CO-OPERATIVE MOVÉ. TO ACQUIRE LARGE COAL FIELDS AND COTTON MILLS.
An important scheme of agricultural and industrial development will shortly be announced by the Manchester Co- operative Wholesale Society,
For a long time the leaders of the co
the interest of co-operative trading, and the directors sought power to get the law governing co-operative trading so amend- ed as to allow individual members of societies to increase their interest, beyond the limit of £200.
A MODERN CRUSOE. ADVENTURES AMONG PACIFIO SAVAGES.
Tanned and weatherbeaten by exposure to the tropical sun of the South Seas, Captain Richard Chugg, first officer of. the wrecked Commonwealth sailer John furray, returned home recently to re-
In a graphically-written log the modern Crusoe has depicted the daily life of the
marooned mariners in a manner whiel ut once recalls boyish associations with Maryatt and Kingston.
From best to last no excite-operative movement, have sought to widensume the prosaic life of a bookseller. ment was aroused, there has been very little house-to-house canvassing for votes, and party feeling has been confined to the great, wise and eminent persons who write heavy political articles in the party The truth is that the election papers. has followed so swiftly upon the close of the war that people have been unable to re-adjust themselves to the problems of Our minds and netivi- every day life. ties have been concentrated for over four years on the war, and nothing but the war. Our emotions are saturated with the tragerly of Armageddon-the sacri fice of the flower of our manhood, the poignant sorrow which has darkened countless homes. It is not in human nature to tarn from all this quite sud- denly and enter with zest into domestic controversy
THE 158UES
The Treasury has now sanctioned the proposal to lesue what will be called Development Bunde" in the nomination of £20, £50, £100, £500, and £1,000, up to a euro of £2,500,000. These funds will bear interest at the rate of bi per cent, payable half yearly, and they may be re deemed at par at the end of ten years.
APPEAL TO TRADE UNIONA,
The directors believe that their echeme will appeal not only to individuals, but also to trade unions, as a good security Already the trade for their Jands. anions have placed most of their banking Apart from the main issue at the cloe-business with the C.W.S., but they also invest their money in municipal, Govern. tion--the return of the Coalition to
The power in order to show the world that ment, and railway stock.
proposal the CW.S. now makes Britain is united and fully determined
the trade unions is that it will be to that peace shall be framed on lines of broad justice the electors have been their interest to invest their money in a WATER chiefly concerned about the Fate of the co-operative scheme for the development Kaiser and the question of indemaities of industrics. The new capital is to be from Germany. Hang the Kaiserbet apart for further development in the field of agriculture and industry. There has been the election cry everywhere, and, of course, if the arch criminal is turned seems to be no bounds to the development
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On July 27th, as the storehouse stock was getting low, and no word had been heard of Captain Vaughan's arrival Fanning Leland, Captain Chugg decided to set out on a relief expedition with three bands for the succour of the two atranded crews, In company with A. Cameron, carpenter, Bell, A. B., and Tauniya, a native, the hardy murines set A lifeboat for Penhryn sail in Island and Samoa. An extract from his log describes their last view of Frankston- on-Malden!-
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The breeding ground of the kitti- wakes at Frankston was a wonderful sight. Tens of thousands of these birds were sitting on their eggs without a break in their ranks for more than two miles On the first day out from square. Malden the relieving party met with broke down and rendered frequent misfortune, when the temporarily rigged Purbating necessary. After a rough passage, on a short diet, consisting of a small daily ration of rice and a kitti- wake's eggs and a small allowance of water, Penbryn Island, 380 miles to the south-westward of Malden, was sighted on August ist. Believing the invaders to be Germans, the more during of the natives massed in warlike array to give them an unfriendly reception, while the women and children, terrified by the talea They bought sive methods, cleared for miles into the FRIDAY, the textile manufacture.
MARCH 7TH, and are Dow running three weaving scrub out of the supposed tyrants' reach. The presence of Tauniya, who had been sheds-one at Bury with 900 looms, an other at Radcliffe with 500 looms, and a included in the party, on account of his BATURDAY,
MARCH TH third at Chorley with 600 looms. It is knowledge of the recfs and the outlying further to extend their interest island inhabitants, however, served to set
MONDAY, other parts of China, is no less propose facture of cotton textiles when the islanders at their case.'
in the
In the log the seaman saya:-"When I stepped ashore, the policeman (native) best.
scheme.
of his associates and tools are not By Not long ago the society entered into they had heard of the Germans' oppres
Lo escape seot free.
Equally firm has been the demand for the banishment of the Huns from Eng- land, and for guarantees that German goods will not be dumped here, as in pre-war
days. The feeling against race, expressed at Hongkong
IN
NEW AND UP TO THE MINUTE PLAYS
COMMENCING
MARCH 10TH,
the and in strong among the people of this country. Any candidate who attempted to evade they are in a position to consume the straight questions on these subjecte has output of yarn of a moderately-sized took me to bis house and offered me his TUESDAY,
mill. They intend to build a mill for the spinning of yarn.
been denied a hearing. At the outset, the Prime Minister dismissed a request for statement of policy as regards the Ger Dans in England by saying this was a "side issue, but even Mr. Lloyd George found it necessary to give specific assur auces before the election was a week old. INFLUENZA STILL RAGING.
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of
LANDS AND FACTORIzg.
Another big development foreshadowed is the acquisition of large coalfields in Yorkshire. Already the society own coal mine near Newcastle.
After a much-needed bath and shave, I was presented with olcan clothes and a meal of well-cooked meat. We were all treated alike. The native could not do enough for us. They washed our old clothes and sang bymns for our deliver- auce in the evening."
The Resident agent of the island then During the war the society has spent escorted the party to Omaka. Here they large sums on farmlands and factories. learned that Vaughan had successfully For land connected with factory exten- reached Fanning Island, and that relief BiQus they have paid £117,000; for now was already on the road to those maroon-
Maiden. factories and workshops they have paided on her for the day is entered --
In about £27,500; and the purchase of farma and lands have involved £080,000-a total of about 1,000,000 aberling.
The influenza epidemic is still very prevalent in all parts of the country. Numerous deaths continue to occur, the malady being of a particularly virulent type. In this connection it may
noted that the medical Press has beck discuss ing the origin of influenza, and it is alleged that it first appeared at Hong-
It is estimated that the society now kong in 1888. From thence it is said to
holds about 38,000 acres of farm lands, have spread. round the world by way o
mostly situate in Lancashire, Cheshire, Siberia and Russia
and fret appeared in Europe it The value of the trading done by the
Cambridgeshire. When it
Bri- was known as tish ships, it is averred, carried the C.W.B. in 1919 was £81,371,070, and for was approximately disease to the eastern seaports of Anue the year 1917 it
This new co-operative du rica, and after trevelling across that £68,000,GOO. Continent it appeared in Japan under velepment will directly interest the mil- the style and title of American in-lions who do their business at the 8,000 fluenza, Then it reached China again; co-operative stores which are established once more it started westwards, follow all over the country. ing the original route, and so it went round the world a second, third, and fourth time.
Russian influenza.!
The fact is mentioned that the medical services of Hongkong have always denied that influenza set out on its travels from there; indeed, so long ago as 1899, when there was some talk about the subject, a member of the Civil Medical Staff at Hongkong wrote to the British Medical Journal asserting that that place was the only part of the inhabited globe where the flu" was unknown. Perhaps acme of your readers may care to in- Meanwhile, the question, vestigate medical savants in England persist in thrusting upon the Colony the doubtful distinction of being the place of origin of influenza.
THE BRIPPING POSITION.
In view of the shipping situation the All the Eastern markets are very dull, same, merchants and others are looking forward with hope and confidence to the New Your. By then," a leading ship owner remarked to me this week, we shall have got rid of the General Elec tion, the Peace Conference will have started to work, food supply problems will have become clearer, and it will be up to the Shipping Controller to help the business world."
We decided to go no further on bearing the newa. Dar mission was at an end. We must now settle ourselves to a term of native life till the arrival of a pass- ing trading schooner." The information had been gathered from the ship Shan- which had hove to off the island the pre- don, bound from Australia to Frisco, vous d
LIVE ON THE ISLAND,
Relating to his life on the island the in- mariner describes the population of two hundred islanders as industrious, telligent, and religious. For sustenance they depend mainly on fish, coconuts, taro roots, pooraki, crabs, pandamus,
wild and occasionally the fesh of pig.
free A remark is made on leproey.
the
MARUR 11TH.
WEDNESDAY,
MARCH 12TH,
THURSDAY,
MARCH 13TH,
There are some of to the old ways. course, who declare that the old ways unfortunate lepers, two young men and a girl, are to be sent to the leper station will never return; and perhaps they are
Be that as it may, street lamps to morrow. Most of the people have We right- are now aglow, vehicles can carry lights assembled and are singing hymns, that are better than the dull flicker of can hear their women relatives weeping, an oil 1 lamp, the shop windows are illa-wailing, and screaming their lamenta
For more than two months the minated, public clacke chime the pastions. ing bour, and--but it is impossible to stranded mariners resided at Penrhyn districts of enamorate the removal of restrictions and Taland between the two
Dora
under Tabuka and Omaka waiting for deliver regulations decrced by
In addition to helping the Re- the plea of war-time necessity, and ance. which made life very dull
indeed
sident in his To the day-time, the Town looks like beguiled the pursuits, the with daylight
the evenings were what it used to be, except that there are cal observatione, while fewer buses and taxis (hundreds of the passed pleasantly among natives, former were commandeered by the mili: who entertained them with a nightly tary, and petrol is short for the latter); hula-hula (a performance in which three but, all the same, there is the usual block large drums are used), native dance, and The Resident also took a in the traffic at the Mansion House and sing-song in Piccadilly, the kerbstone merchants keen delight in producing novel palate Such have come out again on
Hill, ticklers for their consumption. Ludgate the flower sellers are back in the old choice dishes as coconut salud, crab and places, many other familiar scenes and copra pasties, taro soup, stewed octopus sounds greet one, and the tide of life in with coconut sauce, turtle steaks and the great City flows en now, as always, soup, and variety of wild sea birds wonderful and alluring. If it were not eggs were frequently on the menu. for the hosts of men in khaki overywhere one might be tempted to forget now and then that there has been a war. For the moment, however, everything BIG PRICES AT CHRISTIE'S. hinges upon ships. An official at the
War taxation and other financial calls ofboes of the P. & O. Company tells me that they do not know when they will upon one's puree which worry most folk be able to resume regular sailings, Gov-appear to have no effect upon the on thusiasm of collectors. At Christie's crnment requirements must come first, he
This week 2,440 said, especially with regard to demobilisa- there is always a big crowd, and large
sums pass freely. tion. It is interesting to learn at the guineas were paid for a small collection 10 lots in all of Chinese egg shell porce lain of the Kien-Lung period A little bottle, enamelled with dowers and birds on a white ground, sin. high, realised 500 guineas, and two pairs of plates, sin. in diameter, made 620 guineas.
Calling at Rakabang on October 11th, the hardy salt found favour in the chief PEOPLE IN THE NEWA. In the flight of a Handley-Page aero-
Included in recent military appoint-tain's eyes, with the result that he was plane from Cairo to Karachi one can in
ments is the name of Lieut. Gen. E. presented with a neatly-carved canoe and perosive the opening of a new era travel. Within a very few years people Barnardiston, Royal Engineers, who has paddle Inlaid with mother-of-pearl. will think no more about dying the been gazetted Brigadier General. A few grand native dance followed. Atlantic from here, or setting out for years ago he was on the Stail at Hong
kong.
His brother, Mojor-Gen. N. W. the East, than they now do of jumping on a bus in the Strand. This week Barnardiston, was in North China, 1014- another H-P" started from Ipswich 16, commanded the British at the bap en route for Delhi, 5,700 miles, with two ture of Teingtao, and for his services was officers and three mechanics aboard. It promoted to his present rank is one of a type which was built special. Barnardistons are an old Suffolk family,
offices of Grme whose vessels sail to India and the Far East that a very large num ber of inquiries are being made for passenger sailings, particularly from the Midlands and Scotland. FLYING TO THE EAST,
The
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On September geth, the schooner Averta, from Malden laland, with Mr. Grice and his native boys on board, put into Omnks.
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After witnessing a great native feast in honour of the boys who had enlisted to leave the island, at which the hula- hula again came into prominence, and a graver ceremony, in which the natives grouped to sing and pray for the over- Bea voyagers, they cast off and left Omaka on October 8th. As the ship made out- ward the natives held the customary. tangia doremony which consists chiefly of a series of wild screams and weird
moverments.
LADIES OF MANIHIKI.
A
But it was, at Manihiki that Captain Chuge came into his own. There he not only found himself in good favour with the king, but also with the ladies of the locality.
In the log of October 12th the worthy tur states 138, capable of dandler-Fago planes
700 or 800 miles in the Eusex border.
Mr. Gersham Steward, who WE GO Wont ashore, and was introduced to anon-stop light. with four engines measiara 127 foot from gaged in business as Hongkong from King Apolu, & fine old man of four scaro wing-tip to wing tip, can travel 80 miles 1888 till 1000, has been re-elected, an years. He wanted to bear all about tho Bo An hour in calm wenther, and carry 19 opposed, M., for the Wirral Division wreck, and was greatly interestd in our tons quite auaily. The flying experts of Cheshire as a Coalition Conservativa boat journey to Penrhyn Island.
was so pleased with our adventures that
his are already planning, an nerial mail He has sat for Wirral since 1010.
It is announced that a marriage will he presented me with one of
Frand daughters, a uno, plump, lusky fass of servior to the Middle-East occupying shortly take place between Captain A four days, and are even projecting jay FBlust, Chinese Labour Corps, and 18 to be my daughter.
Owing to the rides by easy stages to China!
1. M. Consular Borvicu, China, mond White Australia polley, I fear I will have THE LIGHTS D' LONDON.
of
to love her behind, not without regret the late Major Clen. Grini Blunt, London by night has begun to resume aad of Mrn, Grant Blunt, of Princess Omata Tuckhia, this royal its pre-war appearance, but it will be Bournemouth, and Winifred Graon grand-daughter, has also presented mo some time yet before we got book again (Fred), only daughter of Dr. W. H. with sleeping mat, a hat, sad papu
(Continued at f001 of next column.) Fawcalty of Bournemouth...
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