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ESTABLISHED 1857.

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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 3D, 1926 AR

CANTON-HANKOW

號叁月七年五十國民奉中

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

Kowloon...

Yeamati... Bouti KR

·Taipo~~

Taipo Market

Fanling Sherpati

Shumokuu

Säumchun

Sheungsha!

Fanling

TIME TABLE.

AM

WEEK DAYS,

AX. Noor

Dep 6.40 9.15 10.20 11.40 19.00 Dep. 8.50 921 10,39

Dap 7,09

9:38 10,51

Dep. 216 9.49 11.04

Dap. 7911 9.33 11.08

Dep. 7,52 10.03 111.18

Dan, 7.3810.07 11.02

..APT. 7.43 10,111.98 19.20 1959

Dop.

...Dep DAY

Taipo Market ...Dep.

Taipo

Statis

Kowloon...

#PATIONA,

..Dap.

بلاية

AM

AM

5.29 7.10 45.58 7.19 4,585.51 17,31

13.09

10.21

||5,09 (6,04|7,44

5.19 6.09 748

5,285,298,02

3.91 5,94 6.29 8.08

3,00

IX.

417

5.13

6,08

6.15 8-19

3.21458

5.34

8.29

4.12 5.39

8,33

9.38

6.51 4,56

6.46

-9,605,08

358 *2.37

5.16

6.03

8.38

6.11

7,06

PM

7.21 8,05 10, 11,40 1.56

58.13 10.6-11,47

2.30 8.16 10.49 11.ST

7.39.

7.42 8.28 10.89 12.52

7.46 8.80 11.04 12.07

Dep 2.32 8.43 11.7 12.1 ...Don 6,129,55 1139 12:33 ...Arri 8,20 8,03 11.7 12.41

SHA TAU KOK BRANCH.

A.MC. 7.X. P.M.

"WEEK DAYS. Fanling Dep. 7.45 11.30 220 Shatanko 8.40 12.25 9,15 755

BUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,

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AM- UM, I. P.M. Fanling Dep. 7.45 11.30 3.20 6. Ebatankok...A 8.40 19.25 415 7,2),

WEEK DAYS

Lik drill. 2,K. P.M. STATIONS, Shatanko...Dep 6.80 10.15 1.08 8.00 A 7.25 11.10 200 53 Faoling SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS, *** SIITIONS.

Shatarkok Dap. 6.30 10.15 2.05 5.00 Fanling Art. 235, 11.10 8.00 5.55.

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ment would entirely do away with the criticism regarding Great Britain's selfish ends, and nobody could say that Great Britain had any other motives except the beneût of China and indirectly of the

USE OF BRITISH BOXER INDEMNITY world at large.

FUND, MEMORANDUM BY SIR ROBERT

CANTON.

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To bring the telephone systent into "I will now touch on the benefits which higher efficiency the Municipal Telephone would result from the building of this Administration of Canton is negotiating with foreign manufacturers for the in- Fazmay, as against the advantages of constallation of a modern automatic system servancy or education--This xeilway, with

point of being closed with "h German As will be seen from the memorandum the Hackow-Peking Railway Wil form costing $2,000,000. The deal-was-ne-the- there is no doubt in Sir what I may call the main artery of therm, says the Canton Gazette, when more published below Robert He Tung's mind regarding the whole of China, and its urgency is favourable offers were received from two

rican Companies. The transaction is. best method of disposing of the British more. pressing than that of any other

pler negotiation, edds the journal Boxer Indemnity Fund. It was prepared projected live Directly or indirectly it. for the consideration of Lord Willingdon's runs through cr.serves practically all the Commission, and the members had it provinces of that country, and will con- before them when carrying out their nest the South of China with any part DUKE AND DUCHESS OF YORK. enquiries in China. How far they have of Europe and London in less than three acted upon it will not be known, of course, until the official report of the Commission is published.

In presenting his proposals, Sir Robert Ho Tung wrote:

Some time about the month of September 1993 I gave an interview the North China Daily News expressing my opinion that this money should be employed in the first instance to build the unfinished portion of the railway between Canton and Hankow, the profits

AUSTRALIA.

Mr. Bruce, Australia's Prime Minister. announced in the House of Representa tives, Melbourne, that the Federal asia ment would be opened at Canberra, new capital, on lay sth next year, te 96th anniversary of the opening of the First Federal Parliament by the present King when Frince of Wales.

weeks. The benefits which would accrue EXPECTED VIST NEXT YEAR TO to the Chinese are indeed very consider. able. In the first place rapid communica tion between the North and South and between the Southern and Central Pro- vinces should tend to the pacification, of China, and to the stabilisation of the Central Government. Secondly, the pro- duce of the districts served by the railway could be barught to the termini in a much shorter time than can be done at present and many perishable goods, which cannot now be obtained by the people residing

in those districts would become available to them. Thirdly, coal mines, alongside, the Kwangtung end Hunan border could be developed, and many Chinese civil engineers at present unemployed could

would benefit the working classes in the districts traversed. As I said at my intet. me with the North China Daily News, if this railway is left in the hands of China it will be a very long time before anything.

can be done.

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HEALTH IN MALAY STATES. 1925 DEATH RATE LOWEST ON RECORD.

THE VILLAGES. •

The estimated population of the F.M.S. at the end of June, 1925, was 1,447,243. There were 41,818 births and 34,153 deaths: the rates being 29.89 and 2.60 per mille respectively. The death rate is the lowest, on record; and this is the fourth consecutive year in which records have been established. There were: 7,409, deaths of children under the age of one year, being an infantile mortality rate- of 172.11, against 150.53 in the preceding year.

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of the railway being subsequently applied to' educational, conservancy, or other pur- poses within the scope of the recently passed Indemnity Act. At that time this ides was warmly supported by the lead ing English newspapers in China, as well be employed in the building of the rail- as by many prominent British and Chi-way. Lastly, the educational value to the nese merchants, Later on it was also people living in the districts served by MOTOR DISPENSARIES' WORK IN HONORING HOTU; supported by the present Chief Executhe railway would be immense, and the tive, Tuan Chi Jui, as well as by the construction of the line by native labour

ate President Tano Kun, Marshal Wu Fei Fu, and all the then Cabinet Mini ters, including Wellington Koo who acted 8 Minister of Foreign Affairs at the time. Towards the latter part of 1924 there was a sudden change of public opinion against the building of the rail The objection may be raised that way, and in favour of education and/or owing to chronic conditions of unrest in conservancy. The arguments used by China the construction of this railway those who opposed the utilisation of the would only be playing into the hands of money for the building of the railway the Military leaders, and would be used were briefy as follows:-

by them for the conveyance of troops and (a) That Great Britain would be

supplies: i submit, however, that the existence of the railway would rather charged with selfish motives, that is to

that British manufacturers were tend to strengthen the Central Govern anxious for the building-of-the-railwayment, which has always had to contend in order that they might supply the with the physical obstacle of enormous distances in enforcing law and order in the provinces. No civilised country in the world except China, lacks overland communication by rail between the capital and all important outlying populous dis-

$37,

materials.

"(b) That British engineers would find employment.

To my mind these difficulties could be easily overcome if Great Britain were to adopt.my suggestions :-

tricts.

(1) Great Britain should band over

"The present state of unrest must not this money entirely and unconditionally, be expected to continue indefinitely, and with the only provision that the money the linking up of the country by internal

In spite of a year remarkable for heavy foods and increasing opportuni ties for mosquito breeding, the health of the country continues to improve. Fevera, mostly malarial, were the cause of 14,377 deaths, being 42.09 per cent. of the total deaths as against 49.63 per cent. for 1924. Bowel complaints-represented 5.6 per cent., tuberculosis 5.88 per cent., pneumonia 5:49 per cent, and convulsions 11.44 per cent. There has been a steady decline in the death-rate.

The number of cases of pulmonary tuberculosis treated in hospitals during the Fear under review was 2,571 cases. with 1,051 deaths, and a deafb-rate of 40.35 per mille, as compared with 2,375 CLBER, 1,037 deaths, and a-death-rate-ot. 43.66 per mille for 1024. The tuberculosir incidence is reported not to vary from year to rear to any appreciable degree, and while the disease needs carefully watching there appears to be no occasion

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fa to be used to build the unfinished lines of communication should have a con-for-slurm portion of the said railway. Emphasis solidating and unifying effect.

The influx of in fected Chinese im- should be laid on the points that the

Tam not opposed-to-the-money being migrants ie a possibility which requires contracts-for-construction and supply of used for the conservancy of the Fuang consideration. The amount of tuber- material should be open to competition Ho. I think it should be the next matter culosis is far less than in most tropical

The question of and should be, together with the selec- for consideration after that of the railway. countries however,

sanatoria-for consumptives-has-been-care. tion of engineers, under the unfettered My main objection to the money being fully considered, but experience in other control of a Railway Board to be con used for the conservancy is that it would countries does not hold out much hope stituted for the purpose.

notification of the disease has signally Should this, however, not be con-ly benefit certain provinces, and that it of advantage from them; and statutor

is not a concers that has any immediate failed. It is hoped to concentrate cases TIL: Kowicon No. a. Tel, Ad: “PALACE, sidered suficient proof of unselfish

productive value, whereas the building of of advanced tuberculosis in one establish- motives, the British Government might

the railway will not only tend to the ment. All that can be done in the form of propaganda and education is being pacification and development of the whole done by the Public Health Education undertake that no British firm should tender for the construction of, or supply country, but will also produce a surplus Committee, but there seems to be no of materials to the railway, and that no revenue which can be employed for con hope of finding and detaining early

servancy and/or other educational pur cases, British engineer should be employed.

poses when the time comes.g

If the British Government wishes to

have some security for the due expendi-

ture of the fund, the following suggestion might be adopted:

나.

EFFECTS OF 'PROSPERITY.

The number of cases of beri-bari treat- If the Committee should decide thated in hospitals was 000, with 53 deaths, the honey must be employed for educa with a death-rate of 10.81, as compared tonal purposes, in spite of my recom with 991 cases, and a death-rate of 12.10.

for 1924 -mendations and arguments, I would cer taisly, deprecate using the money for A Board consisting partly of Chinese higher education for the simplereABOR

that China has at present no employment The prosperity of the country probably officials or merchants, and partly of Euro- for these high class students, who would accounts for the lowered incidence, and peans, could be nominated by the Chinese feel more or less discontented In my death-rate by reason of the additional Government in yonjunction with the opinion the money should be applied to ritamines in vegetable, fish and ment d provide elementary education amongst ditions to the daily meal, but, in spite British Consuls-General or their nominees the masses, in schools which have abso- of all that can be done by educative pro- residing in Canton and Hankow, the hitely nothing to do with religion, and paganda to the contrary, more and more. Commissioners of Customs for the time in order to accomplish the best results people cat polished rice, which is more I would propose that in every city where attractive as a food, if less bealthy as being in these two places, as well as the there is a British Consul and Commis diet. Commissioners, 97 Agents for the Postal sioner of Customs these two gentlemen A, total number of 30,650 injections of and Telegraphic Services. The Board should be nominated to work cither con arsenical compounds were given at Gov- jointly with or as advisers to a Board oferament hospitals and dispensaries opr should consist of seven members, of Commisioners elected by the Chinese ing the year. The first venereal disease whom four should be Chinese and three Chamber of Commerce or some recognised clinic was started in Kuala Lumpur in should be Europeans, and should have local public body, such as the Education 1923. The attendances in 1025 were entire control over the construction" of the railway

"Another condition might be imposed to the effect that the accounts should be checked by British chartered account

Board.

If desired. I shall be glad to amplify or explain any details with regard to my proposal for applying, the Boxer In demnity Fund, to the completion of the Canton-Hankow Hailway.

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