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AMERICAN NAVAL CADET TRAINING.
COMPARISONS WITH THE "BRITANNIA" AND DARTMOUTH COLLEGE.
[BY SIR HERBERT · RUSSELL.]
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5th, 1927.
Still, in 1979 the maximum age of entry, was advanced to 18, the minimum limit remaining at 14
MALARIA CONTROL.
THE “CO-OPTIMISTS."
"HUMAN · RIGHTS" IN NORTH CHINA.
SIR RONALD ROSS ON VISIT TO MALAYA,
"WILD SWAN'S '
"CAPITAL FANS CONCERT PARTY:""
SINGAPORE'S EXAMPLE.
In his report on Malaria Control
PERFORMANCES: TO-NIGHT
AND TOMORROW.
that the British Navy can always There is a saying to the effect be relied upon to give of its best and to come out on top. That they
DESCRIBED IN MANDATE BY CHANG TSO LIN.
REGULATIONS FOR EXECU TIVE ORGANS.
PERINO, July 91at.
BREACH OF QUARANTINE REGULATIONS.
NORWEGIAN SKIPPER
FINED.
UNINTENTIONAL OFFENCE.
Capt. 6. Eliassen, master of the Norwegian steamer Hiram, was Executive organs of the Cloverned yesterday morning at the Marine Court by Lieut. Comdr. G. F. Hole for failing to go into Quarantine Anchorage when arriv- ing here on July 7th from Bangkok, which was then considered an in- fected port
The case, it will be remembered,
can do so in other fields than fight-ment are forbidden to arrest a per-
· 600 or enter his home and con- ing and seamanship has often been proved, and they generally do pretty
fiscate his property-without-due- well at sport and on the entertain-process of the law, according to a mandate issued by Dictator
time that they possess some excel mulgates the series of regulations The Navy has shown time after Chang Tao Lin. The mandate pro-
ment platform.
"
in Malaya and Assam Sir Ronald What we call the Britannia Bys- tem of entry and training came
Ross states: "Malarial fever is into being in 1884, when Capt.
perhaps the most important of dis Robert. Harris commissioned the The effect of such a wide marginenses from the economic point of Illustrious as an instructional ship on professional seniority does not view, because it haunts almost all for cadets. What may be called appear to have been taken into warm countries, especially the most
by the Beard to Annapolis system in the account
of fertile rural areas, where it affects United States dates from 1851, In Examiners, who seemed to derido millions of people including children both cases the systems were largely this matter. The undesirability travellers, planters, traders, officials, based upon methods already in of such a wide margin in boys of and troops; causes probably one or existence. and changes introduced were sued itself later, although even if sides an immense amount of per-
But the modifications? the same entry probably manifest-two million deaths every year be-lent concert artistes, and they did recently drafted by the Ministre was brought before Lient.-Comdr..
this were so it apparently had no ciently extensive to date eras la influence upon the Board, since by sistent sickness, and is almost con- view of the active discussion which 1984 the age of entrance had stantly present at certain seasons broadened to between 15 and 20, of the year. Efforts to control it has been going on for some years past as to the merits and defects the average age of the entering of the Dartmonth system, it may midshipmen to be between 16 and are therefore of the utmost import be of interest to consider the 17 years. At the same time, how-ance to the human race," methods followed at the United ever, the academy course was ex- States Naval Academy. It is not tended to six years, of which two my purpose to attempt anything wore to be spent at sea. in the nature of a comparison.
*Their ways, are not our ways;} our ways are not their ways," and
Mosquitoes and Patients.
PIRATES ATTACK
JUNK.
CREW "HELD" PRISONERS FOR 41 DAYS.
RANSOM FROM MACAO.
For 41 days the master and the. whole crew of a trading junk were held prisoners by a gang of pirates. Finally they were released when a ransom of 2000 was paid:
The story of this piratical cut-. rages was brought to the Colony by when the craft came into harbour the master of trading junk T.3149
on Wednesday and made a report to the Police.
J. B. Nowill, D.5.Q, R.N., about so again last night at the Royal of Justice at the instance of the
a month ago when the defendant Naval Cantera Theatre, where the Cabinet governing the protection failed to put in an appearance. Hoihow on June 19th with a crew
It appears that the junk left. Wild Swan troupe of entertainers of "human rigths." opened a three night's season.
It was then remanded for a day of seven men, thres women and six The following is a free traŽN-
when the Court was informed that children. They had no cargo and -The Wild Swan party style them. lation of the edict: Since the cothe 3.5 Hiram had sailed. A war when the junk was a few hours out.
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mencement of civil war politics has
raat for the arrest of Capt. Elias- sen was issued, and when the vessel
a dinghy cams alongside with three men on board. These three men
selves the Co-optimists, and a
Of the methods for controlling appearing by permission of Comdr. people has become more difficult returned to port on Wednesday asked to be taken as passengers
very apt name it is. They are lost its proper track; the lot of the Malaria, Sir Ronald writes:-
L. H. K. Hamilton, D.S.O., R.N.. and the discipline of the land has afternoon, police officers boarded her to Hong Kong. The master of the " The number of new cases of and Officers, and are presenting a been swept aside. The powerful and served the warrant on the de-junk had to occasion to suspect malaria must depend not only on
ter, while lawlessness goes unpuned bail in the sum of 82,000 and had been a passenger on his graft. but on the number of cld cases of malaria from which the Anopheles carry the parasites to the now cases, and not only on these, but on the accessibility bath of the old and new cases to the insects. Hence we
which is better of the two systems: páriod from sail to steam, from the number of carrying Anopheles really first-class musical pot-pourri regard the law as a more dead let-tandant. Capt.. Eliassen was allow anything was wrong, as one of trio
The Era of Transition from Sails to Staam. Throughout the final transition broadsides to turrets, and the like, the-governing body of Annapolis appear to have been very much Let me confess, my indebtedness more indéfinite in their views upon for a clear insight into the. An-professional training than was the
is a question which defies arbitrary Very Early, Age,
Answer
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They,
show.
appeared yesterday morning at the
Marine Court.
napolis system to an admirable case in the Britannia throughout can employ these methods for con- .article by Lieut.-Com W. G. the corresponding period. -number of the United States in technical methods rather thanquito reduction, (9) cure of the old ¦ gramme wis well balanced with considered it my bounden duty to hour from an infectious port and
Greenman, U.S.N., in the June tried to keep pace with changes trolling malaria, namely: (1) mas
sex pommitable principles cases of malaria with quinine, and of mosquitoes by throughout the eighties and the (3) exclusion
means of nets and screens."
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Naval Institute Proceedings," titled "Entrance Requirements, United States Naval Academy." It is rather instructive to find this writer laying down virtually the saune preceps which forms one of the most criticized principles in the Selborne scheme, namely, the It is very early age of entry,
a generally accepted fact," be
'nineties we find stendy stream
They certainly deserved a larger audience than was present last night ished. The safeguards of human at the RNC Theatre, those pro liberty have been shattered. How can the people bear this state of sent being mostly Servicemen, with a sprinkling of officers. Those pre-affairs any longers: sent, however, were really enthus
I, the Dictator, have already fastic, and deservedly so. The pro- sentiment, humour and comedy, and tranquilize the country and pro- the "Co-optimista are certainly one of the best amateur parties of tect the people. I hereby ordain entertainers seen in Hong Kong for that no one shall be arrested with some time. Every artist is talented, out due process of the law nor, and the voices are good, the words being clearly heard. Humour in the shell his or her property bo "con- Defendant pleaded not guilty strong point of the programme, and äscated. This is the only way to
and evidence was then taken from there are essentially 4
Dr. Tsoi Ting Ming, Assistant merry insure the protection of life and Port Health Officer, who said that
If any one property.
violates ha boarded the 1. Hiram at 3
זיי
It would be ad excellent idea of
-on-a- previous occasion.
All went well until the next day, The charges against him were (a) when two of the passengers"went that he failed to fly and keep flying the yellow tag with the let aft and covered the master with a ter Q"when he entered the har- pistol. The steersman was also held that (D) he failed to go into up simultaneously. This happened Quarantine Anchorage his vessel off Tong Kan Island, near Deep being a healthy one, when coming Bay and in British waters. into the harbour from an infec- three men had the junk completely tious port.
under their control with a very short space of time. The master and crew, including the women and children, were driven into the hold and there kept prisoners,
of recommendations and adverse. Prevention Costa Less Than The
The standing trouble
Disease. comments. appeared to lie in the big proper-
Dealing with the question of cost, ton of failures. In 1900 it was Sir Ronald continues:—
"the sense of the reported that
"All three methods cost money, Board is that something should be added to the entrance requirements But before considering them at ali" bunch." W ITLOS, that the naval service re- with a view to diminishing the We must remember what is frequent quires that those who shall become great disproportion between nur forgotten, what is, in fact, the the Services YMCA Entertain these regulations after their pre- fundamental economic consideration, ment Committee could "bag" the mulgations he shall be severely is officers shall be selected at the ber admitted and the meagre num-
that malarial fever itself costs a Co-optimists" for a turn or two punished. carliest practicable age in carlyber graduated." A retrospect over
It cripples at the weekly concerts. They, would youth, while the mind is still im sistien years at this period dis great deal of money. pr ssionable and plastic before the elbeed that an average of less than thousands or millions of people for take well. trusting and receptive period of 50 per cent. of those who took the the whole labour force of a planta thoroughly enjoyable and up-to-date
months or years; it often impairs
To sum up, the programme is childhood has wholly passed, and entrance examination were admit
town just lected to the studies, discipline, valy about 37 per cent. graduated. when the crops require the closest from beginning to end and the party that they shall be immediately sub-ted, and of these an average of tion or of a village
attention; it fills the bospitals really deserve a "capacity (which are expensive institutions): to-night and to-morrow night, The ed. As regards the apprehension day in question. Witness at once
entertainment begings at 9.30 p.m.
traditions, and associations of the service, so as to develop in them such complete taste and preference for a life at sea, as well as skill in their professions, as all secure
Democracy's Fallure?
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house
The ministries of Lilitary
ordered to see to it that these re- affairs, interior and justice are gulations be enforced and obsers
The
After the trio had become masters
Junk Looted and $600 Ransom Paid, requesting 3600 as ransom.
The pirates sent a letter to Macao While waiting for the money, the master and his crew were kept prisoners printes cruised around and only au- chured at night.
the best result of well-trained ask this question when he writes: death rate in localities in which it THE M. Y. SAN CO.. LTD. cerned should continus to exercise Eliassen said that when he entered for 41 days. During the day, the
zatural endowments,
Lad
The following year (1898) the that the standards Board found
827 SHARES TO BE SOLD
FOR $5.
ordinary resolution: That the
sale of the Company's assets to s arrangement between the Company and its creditors and the proposed new Company in consideration of the allotment of one 85 ordinary share in the new Company for each
or
arms
pm on July 7th. The master was of the junk, another dingay came health reports to the second officer well armed who also boarded the ashore and he handed the part alongside her with seven men, all of the vessel to fill in. After this junk. The master was then taken. had been done, he notified that the out of the hold and was told to steamer came from Bangkok vid | write a letter to his cousin in Macao Swalow. The Quarantine restric- for 8600. The unfortunate mar tion against Bangkok was imposed could not write, so he on April 6th and was still in force cousin's address to the pi- gave his when the Hiram bestned here on the
asked the second officer why the steamer was not in the Quarantine Anchorage.
Giving evidence on path, Capt Hong Kong on July 7th, he did not know that it was necessary to go into the Quarantine Anchorage, He was also ignorant of the fact that Bangkok was under quara- tine restriction. His last port was days. His contention was that as Swatow was not an infected port, he was free to proceed to his usual
evidence had been given in support His Worship remarked that no of the first charge and on that count he found the defendant not guilty. On the second charge, he considered that the offence was an found the defendant guilty, but he
unintentional one. "He fined the
On July 31st the priate chief told liberty to return to Hong Kong the junk master that he was eat
from Macao. When the junk master went on deck he found that the junk was again anchored off Tungku Island.
dinghy which they stole from the The pirates rowed away in a junk, going in the general direction of Lintin, in Chinese waters. The two junk fokis who were not im- wept away with the pirates, show- prisoned in the bold with the others
ing that they had been in league with the outlawa..
When the junk master took stock of his property, he found that the
places of amusement JUNK BLAZE IN TYPHOON Pirates had stolen all the junk's without the express authorization of Lis superior.-Kue Wen
BUILT IN SUNG DYNASTY,
*^ PROJECTED " IMPROVE. “
MENTS.
SHELTER.
MAGISTRATE'S STERN.
COMMENT.
ENDANGERING LIVES AND
PROPERTY
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arths and ammunition, two canvas awnings and money, and clothing and jewellery worth $1,380.
PREFERRED PRISON TO A FINE.
When Chinese hawker · was charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell day with obstruction by placing at the Central Magistracy yeater- his stall on the footpath in Queen's Road East, he asked the Magistrate.
of robbers and other offenders who Was it that democracy failed to it often demands treatment and
plot against the peace of the yield an adequate "officer class maintenance, allowances; and "it
locality, the competent organs con- Lieut. Com. Greenman leads us to generally doubles (at least) the abounds. A planter in Ceylon told
their usual vigilance, and bring me that it cost him a thousand This will delight the advocates of the Dartmouth system. As of admission must be raised, but rupees a mouth during the malaria
them down to earth so that pesce principle it is excellent, but in our people seem determined that season on one of his plantations
and order may be maintained and It is often one of the most seers to me to rest upon taking every boy shall have a chance to alone.
the mind of the public pacified." the Military or Naval expensive items in the cost of certain very indefinite factors for enter
There will be an extraordinaryions in the now law which is granted. The ambryo cadet is to Academy, and as only the common military campaigns; and it has ev:n
There are altogether twelve pro- Swatow where he had stayed two as the ransom money had been paid be caught whilst bis mind is still schools are within the reach of a caused the abandonment of whole general meeting at the M. Y: San
We must plastic
"-in other words, before large majority of our sons, the villages and stations. he can really know his mind at all entrance requirements must never always remember these facts when 92-99, Queens huid ten to-day at hailed in certain Chinese papers as the bill of rights. Among them career. be raised beyond the limits of the we talk of malaria prevention. Both, Queen's Road Central, at 2.30 upon the subject of a
p.m., when the following resolution
berth here. the most important are that no Complete tastes and preference average high school course. This malaria and malaria control cost will be proposed as
8.0 extra- "Colette is then to be report seems to put in concrete money; but the former costs health
one shall be arrested, imprisoned, developed in him. But suppose form what previous Boards had and even life itself in addition." tbe bent is not theref Suppo, But it also seems to indicate the cuss each of these three methods,
tried or fined without due process eca endeavouring to prescribe.
The report then proceeds to dis-
of the law, that unless by a de with the slow ripening of indepen teat thought
cision of the competent court no perception, source of the constant difficulties laging great emphasis on the import- turn of which the Examining Board ance of bed-nets and screens for
injure the property of mother; one can seal, confiscate, seize or natural aptitude takes
wero complaining, and possibly to wholly averse from a lid at seal That this doubt has materially in suggest the explanation for such a keeping out the mosquito.
that a man shall be handed over Malaria In Malaya.
2 share in the old Company, the to the proper judicial for trial defendant 825. fluenced the evolution of the An- large proportion of failures.
In 1920 the certificate method of
terms of which arrangement and within three days of his arrest Describing his visit to Malaya, sale are embodied in the Agreeme uolis system is clearly revealed
and that soldiers shall be forbid in Lieut. Coan. Crpenman's article. admission was inaugurated at As. Sir Ronald states that anticolari submitted to this meeting and den to careg
on" steamers, The original idea of the Naval napolis. This provided two forms work there has constantly increased initialed by the Chairman for iden- trains, Academy embraced no prevision of entrance first by the regalar in extent and eficiency during the tification, be sanctioned pursuant to for comprehensive and progressive examination open to all; secondly last 25 years.
Sections 154 and 185 of the Com- the Certificate system of study. It was designed to facili- by
"In 1011," the report continued, panies Consolidation Ordinance No. eredita 71
to those who had com-in consequence of an able report 69 of 1911 and that the Liquidators tate preparation for examinations
Thepleted the high school course. In by Dr. W. R. C. Middleton, the be authorized to seal the said of & professional character. inadequacy of this conception soon 1925 this method was medied out fleah Officer Watson was invited Agreement.". Should the above - NANKING WALLS TO GO. manifested itself, and in 1851 a 1ng to the fact that it had not to visit and advise regarding Singa- solution be passed by the requisite four years' course was laid down. proved satisfactory in consequence port, the capital of the Straits majority it will be submitted for Age limits for entry were broadly of a lack of provision to check the Settlements, situated at the south-confirmation as a special resolution fixed as between 14 and 16, and the value saaimed for certificates suborn extremity of the Peninsula. His to a further extraordinary general At the end of the advice was taken and was followed meeting to be held on Monday, qualifications of eligibility for admitted.
ission were that the candidate academic year 19.5-26, 3 per cent by a rapid and permanent fall in August end, at the same time and
The junk blaze on July 30th abould be of good moral charac- of the certificate men stood in the the spleen-rate of children and also place for the purpose of considering
Yaumati Typhoon Shelter bad its and the ter, able to read and write well, first half of the class,
by one of the general death-rate, and (if thought fit) confirming such
sequal at the Marine Court reater and to perform with accuracy the statistics obtained so far this year which declined from an average resolution as a special resolution
day morning. The mistress of the various operations of the primary indicate that of the two case rate of 49.23 in 1802-1011 to one of accordingly.
burnt out boat was summoned for to send him to prison as he stated. rules of arithmetic, and that he that have entered since, the sub 34.78 in 1912-1919. Moreover, the
With Nanking the capital of the unlawfully anchoring her craft in that in the event of a fine being stantiating examination was estab
South, remarkable developments, must be physically sound."
a place other than the dangerous imposed he did-act want to pay regard to the very lished, somewhere between 56 and Sreat rises of generál death-rates which occur (as well known) during rary character of the educa 60 per cent of the certificate men annual malaria seasons in malarious occur among the large labour force been planned for the betterment of Fick Cost Yard, Mongkok, whilst bail, he explained,
both actual and on paper, have goods anchorage, namely off Sam it out of his had money.
the borrowing 83 from tional requirements, the age of in each class will stand in the first countries began to diminish rapidly, required. On the 7th we examined the entire city, according to the she had 196 tins of kerosens of and 81 from a Chinese con-. entry-between 14 and 16 seems half of their respective classes" From 1919 to 1023 inclusive, the an- the suburban rural anti-malaria Tientsin Tih Shia Pao. The zauni-
And yet three During the past seven years an anal death-rates have been 25.01, measures with Dr, Hoops and Dr.ripal authorities recently decreed boarder ressonably high.
In pleading guilty, the defendant stable who had taken pity on him. years after the establishment of the average of 63 per cent of the dam. 33.20, 33.30, 31.90, 96.58, 98.49, 27.61. T. W. Scharf, and I lectured on that the city walls must fall and aid that her junk was outside of in debt all his life, so he would long course, that is to say in 1854 ber admitted succorded in graduat. In some years epidemies of other malaria to about 500 people at the racks for the towns on be page the shaitez, but owing to the strong rather go to jail! Having ascar- the Board of Examiners reported ing, and the average age of en-diseases, especially influenza, have Medical College in the evening. On od where thene walls once were. that many admitted are too trance is slightly over 18 years
And how does Annapolis reflect sent up the death rates; but one the Sth we inspected the site of the Only a portion, the Taipingmen
His Worship: Nonsense, I don't tained that that was the man's firs young to master the course of
new Naval Base, where Surgeon (Gate of Peace) will be left as an know what to do with people like offence, the Magistrate discharged study." The fact is that the first upon the service! I ask this be cannot examine details here.
"My ship arrived at Penang at s Commander Given is already anti- example of ancient architecture, year, at least, had to be devoted Case Midshipman (First Class)
"People who visit Nanking who you. You went into the shelter in him with a caution.
the middle of other junks, and then overtaking
in Robert D. Conrad, writing upon pm on Thursday, December 2nd, cipating malaria among the work- elementary education.
Through-
his impressions of life in the and Sir Malcolm Watson kindly men, is being done at Gonong have always desired to gaze upon a big fire broke out on your boat. Lieut. Com. Navy, says Until well into my came on board in order to conduct Pulai; and we took ship the same her walls, will no longer have the She was burnt to the water's edge. this period,"
pleasure of doing so."
You endangered hundreds of lives, Greenman tells us, the ides pre-second year at the academy, the me through the whole of my tour in evening for Port Swettenham, Singapore's Lesson,”
The Nanking walls were first and had there been any loss of built in the Sung Dynasty when lives in other junks through you vails that early selection for the actual employment of the Navy Malaya. We arrived at Singapore
"We received the kindest bos- the place was a small city. Later, you would have been charged with service is essential, and this early other than that it must be coa on December 4th at 9 p.m. and were selection precludes that maturity tinually prepared for war' was met by the Hon. Dr. A. L. Hoops, pitality from everyone during our when the first emperor of the manslaughter. The penalty for an. Gradual Principal Medical Officer, by Dr. four days stay at this great city Mings, Cheng Tzu, was picking out offence of this nature is a fine of Jy however, the horizon broadested. PH. Hunter, the Medical Oficer of 400,000 inhabitanta: and I was his capital, Nanking was enlarged. 8950 for each day while you were as a closed book." I began to understand, in a vague of Health, and many other officials, much impressed with the vigour and The circumference of the city was in the shelter in contravention of way, that the Navy is more than and went to stay at Government the extent of the malaria control instrument of war; that chips House with HE. Sir Laurence being exercised there. Dr. Hunter So the basic ideal presented the and guns are but the outward Guillemard, the Governor, and in told me that he was employing over young Naval Academy with two manifestations of an organization spected the fine new General Hos 400 men on the work within the
are thirteen city-gates in all. ment, but unfortunately I distinct defects. It produced can which quietly exerts a tremendous pital the same evening, and dined
At the time when the city was bound by law to impose a fine. It compared with that which malaria didates too plastic, to have any influence in nearly every phase of with the Malayan Branch of the-arca-and the cost was shall sort of vocational ideas and too the life of the nation. This British Medical Association Next would have otherwise inflicted on constructed, the Emperor issued a is no use to fine you heavily, you backward in elementary education was an unexpected discovery day we inspected the anti-malaria the city. Nanother city in the mandate ordering the provinces to can't pay. In view of the fact that to begin professional training. The course at the academy did not work done within municipal tits, British Empire has, I be eve, pro- contribute bricks, Heaps of the you have lost your all, I will give The result was a succession of pro-point this out to me; rather, dur and on the following day the similar gressed so far in malaria-control-as finest, bricks were laid at the feet you a nominal fine of $20 or two"
weeks. posals to increase age limits, anding the first two years especially, work being carried on at Gunong Singapore; and everyone. I met was of the Emperor," among them the presently we find a minitaum of it was much more narrowing than Pulai in anticipation of the large full of enthusiasm for it. Each step excellent comes from Kiangsi which His Worship also gave & warning AT THE EASTERN EXTENSION, 15 and a maximum of 17 fixed. A broadening. Perhaps We were new water supply for Singapore, of taken has been preceded by careful are enameled Hundreds of thou to the public that in future if an strong body of opinion favoured kept too close to the proverbial which the former spot among the entomological as well as engineer sand also of the purple and sand offence of similar nature is brought going further, but was defeated on grindstone to be able to see beyond hills is to be the storage arening surveys, and the problems have bricks were brought to Nanking before him he would impose such the grounds that a lad of 18 the walle However, the grind very wise precaution in order to often presented considerable diffent from Thing Each one has the heavy fine that it would be im- years was entirely too old to comstone would have been less irksome forestall the outbreak of malaria tien. The improvement is rapid and name of the district and province possible for the boat people to pay mence a scholastic discipline of had we seen the are that we were which would otherwise certainly will be greater still in the future where they were pufactured and as an alternative they would
have to go to gaole (Continued on sext Column.)
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