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England was placed at a great dis- THE DOUBLE FIVE, advantage, when its affairs were

turned into a political issue The COMING DRAGON BOAT RACE. Socialist party, as such, is hostile

are.

STRUCK OFF. THE BROKEN R.A.F. OFFICERS.

REGISTER.

ACTION OF GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL.

CASE OF DR. STRICKLAND.

THE WOMAN'S STATEMENT.

BRIG.-GEN. GROVES'S

CHARGES.

"POVERTY AFTER FIVE- YEARS SERVICE."

P. R. C.

to the Church as a property holder To celebrate the fifth of the fifth and a stronghold of anti-moon, or the Dragon Boot Festival, Socialist doctrines. Other members Chinese in Shaukiwan, Yaumati were obviously alarmed at a pos- and Aberdeen have been for the last

Brigadier General sible cry of "No Popery" being few days busy training with their

Groves, a former Director of Flying raised in the constituencies, and paddles.

Operations at the Air Ministry and Several of these long and grotes- cannot therafore be blamed for

now secretary-general of the Air taking the safest line.

que looking dragon boats

There are indications that an at- League of the British Empire, con- in the Wanchai Harbour seen

tempt is being made to create a downs in the June issue of Air, tha every evening, paddled by about 20

wave of public sympathy for Dr.ongan of the league, the short ser "drum-major. who men and a

Harold Foster Strickland, who has vice commission system which is in stands in amidship boating a huge been struck off the medical register operation in the Royal Air Force

because he made passionate love to a married woman whom he had professionally attended in the most intimate of medical circumstances, says the Daily Express.

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It is unlikely that the matter will be allowed to rest where it is. No active and powerful institution, religious or otherwise, will tolerate

It is understood that Yaumati, a minority of its members enforcing tom-com. their will by an appeal to an

The Anglican Aberdeen, the Wanchai Sailing outside authority.

Boat Association and Messrs. A. Church is a world-wide organisa

tion, far bigger than the nominally King will each eater two boats for State governed-section of it in the race which will take place on. England. In purely religious Friday. matters it is as likely to be jealous of interference as would the Royal College of Surgeons in a! question of the correct way of ope- rating for appendicitis.

Sir Victor Sassoon is leaving the Colony for Bombay by the s Ranpura on Saturday.

A joki of a silversmith at No. 2, Woo On Lane is reported to have absconded with a quantity of silver

valued at 890.

4:

A Chinese woman, aged 31, of Kowloon City, and her seven-year old daughter have been reported missing, since Saturday afternoon.

The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the week ending June 2nd, amount ed to 111,971 tons, and the sales

during the period to 101,399 tona

A thief who entered No. 183, Hollywood Road in the early hours

"

PROMENADE CONCERTS

PROMISED.

TALENT.

1.

The aggrieved husband in the case is a prominent civil servant, Mr. Christopher S. Hurst, who lived until recently with his wife" at Albemarle-road, Beckenham. Ho holds an important position in the MILITARY BANDS" AND LOCAL. Mines Department under the Board of Trade. He is a barrister, who entered the Government service At a meeting held at Volunteer and achieved a distinguished re- Headquarters on Monday night, it cord. One of his chief appoint decided to revive the Pro-meate was that of secretary to the menade Concerts which have been Samuel Coal Commission before the so successful a feature of previous mining stoppage of 1928. He is also summers. "The idea of the organizera a noted cricketer who was in the is to stimulate incerest in the Corps Oxford University team and ha and it is hoped that members of all since played frequently for Rent. units will give hearty support and co-operation in making the series a success.

WAS

It is intended that the first con- certs shall be sustained by the hands of the 2nd Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers and the 1st Bat of the Queen's Royal Regiment, together with some of the Colony's best amateur vocal talent, and that

MRS. HURST'S VIEW,

Mrs. Dora Hurat declared in sa interview:"I could face the full- est inquiry.I have done nothing! whatever of which to be ashamed. I would willingly come forward and give my evidence on behalf of Dr. Strickland at any inquiry.

"It is only right that I should stand by him now in this terrible later in the season there shall be trouble. We did everything human- at least one concert given wholly byly possible to play the game. Why ehould a man be ruined simply for The first concert, to which His falling in love with a woman members of the Corps. Excellency the Officer Administer There has never been at any time more than that simple fact between ing the Government has kindly ex- tended his patronage and at which. Nothing has happened to dia- be and Mrs. Southor and party credit us. It is unfair and dis Capt. B. R. Forster, private will be present, has been arranged graceful that the Medical Council

The Officer to take place on Friday, July 20th,

of yesterday morning made away with two leather bags containing 870 in money and clothing to a total value of $185.

excited no popular interest. It secretary to HE was all as decorous as the House Administering the Government is at 9.15 p.m. The details are now of Commons when she wild men of leaving by the As Ranpura on being arranged and further an Glasgow are away being ehowa Saturday for a four months' holi-nouncements will be made in due round Russia. -

day which will be spent in Canada course. Beaten in this properly qualified and the United States.

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WILLIAM JOYNBON HICKS, the Home Secretary of the Conservative Goy- ernment, and one of the minor leaders of the Low Church party, SOLD AT LITTLE OVER $1 PER

SQUARE FOOT. " declared that he would fight the

matter again in the House of

MAD DOCTOR AT AN OPERATION.

should have acted as they did against Dr. Strickland."

"It amounts to nothing less," he says, "than a cold-blooded ex. ploitation of youth, and remains to-day, what it has been for the past nine years, a standing disgrace to the nation." He writes:

About 73 per cent of the junio officers in the R.A.F. hold short "service commissions. Such officers

are recruited between the ages of 18 and 29 for five years' servic At the end of that period they are given a gratuity of £73 for sach year's service and turned adrift to and employment in civil life- if they can.

But a very large proportion of them fail to do so and many come down to abject poverty. Some wear out the doorsteps of the air- craft manufacturing firms, beg ging for jobs as mechanica or in any capacity, while others trudge the streets of great cities, finding if they are fortunate, employment the humblest capacities.

For Those Who "Squeal." Not 2 per cent of the officers holding short service commissions obtain permanent commissions, The remainder, no matter how excellent their records, are for doomed to bitter disappointment.

In order that they shall not "sques!" after their retirement a circular was issued last year reminding them that for four years they remain subject to mill- tary discipline na officers of the Reserve, and that disciplinary ac- tion will be taken if they ven- tilate their grievances in public. An alternative which General Groves suggests-is the formation of a reservoir of skilled pilota, available in case of emergency, by the development of commercial aviation throughout the Empire on a widespread scala

"I think there is no justice in the verdict, and that the Medical Council should not have the power to any that a doctor shall not fall in love, and that if he does he shalt be truck off the register. It in monstrous."

DR. STRICKLAND.

quite Dr. Strickland admite,

The first meeting between Dr. frankly, that he loves Mrs. Hurst, Strickland and Mrs. Hurst took- and that the affection is returned. Place before her marriage, when she "It was stated at the inquiry," he was & Hies Powell. He attended

her wedding in 1914 as a guest. a Daily Express nepre- said to sentative, that she was a patient **IN THE INTERESTS OF of mine. That is untrue. She was

THE PUBLIC.” patient of my partner, and, a

The Daily Express has obtained friend of mine only. Twice only in the following authentic statement A Hungarian song-writer, M. the course of fourteen years did I of the principles which guided the seriously damaged, and narrowly

ANÆSTHETIC POURED IN PATIENT'S EYES.

VIENNA, May 20th."

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Commons which has a veto over any A valuable piece of leasehold proposed ecclesiastical change sub-property was put up for auction Johann Varmagh, had his eyesight render her a profesional service. General Medical Council in their

mitted by the National Assembly. yesterday by Messrs.

Lammert

escaped losing it altogether, in The first time was in 1915, when I decision to strike Dr. Strickland's

reason during an operation.

Usually the House of Commons / Brothers and was sold for a little consequence of a doctor losing his performed a small operation än name off the register. It may be

readily adopta any measure passed over 81 per square foot,

The property auctioned is known by the National Assembly, thus: giving virtual self-government to as Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1572. the Church. On this occasion, how. It is situate at Mongkokisui and has born. Declared LOST, and 14 NILA THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND ever, the principle of showing the has an area of 25,960 square feet.

the

Expiration of One Mouth from the Date bereof the above Docement be not forthcoming the 8sid Certificate will be deemed Cancelled and of No Effect, and NEW Certificate for the mid 'Share will be issued in its stead by the Society

PAUL LAUDER.

General Manager. Hong Kong, 15th Jane, 1925. [6387

WAR DEPARTMENT CONTRACTS,

Received at the Office of the

AND PARLIAMENT.

Church to develop on its own lines It carries an annual Crown rent The House of of 8168 and is entitled to a Crown lease for 75 years from March 24th, 1923, with an option of renewal for

further term of 75 years.

very

admirable

was abandoned. THE second rejection of the Revised Commons is a Prayer Book of the Church of body, notable for good sense and England by the House of Commons toleration, but it is not in the least will probably not do the Establish representative of the Church of As Mr. WINSTON ed Church as much harm as is England, or, anticipated in some quarters. It CHURCHILL pointed out, at all com.

The upset price was 830,000 with bids of 8500 acceptable. Bidding, however, was not brisk, and it was

"The General Medical Council exists primarily and almost entirely in the intercets of the

in their questo che public, se

Mrs. Hurst for my partner, who taken as the official view of the M. Varagh underwent an opera- tion yesterday in a Budapest aura- gave the anathetic. The second General Medical Council:-

was in 1924, when I attended, dur- gastric ulcer, and during the ad- ing. home for the removal of a ministration of the anesthetic then my partner's absence, at her no sarathetist deems suddenly to service was an isolated one, and brain of the doctor who was acting confinement. On each occasion the have snapped, for after the patient my partner took on the case direct had become unconscious, he de- Hiberately poured the contents of ly afterwards. the ether bottle in both his eyes.

"The decision of the Medical The surgeon, noticing nothing. Council means only one thing to proceeded with the gastric opera- me-ruin-and not only for myself, tion, and it was not until the pati- but for my family as well. It is an eat, still only semi-conscious, had been taken back to his ward that infamous decision.

it was noticed what had happened. "It was not untit 1927, when I

practitioner whose names are on the register have a certain degree of professional skill and maintain & high standard of honourable con- duct.

merely menas a continuance, for petent to deal with religious affairs, knocked down to Mr. Mok Hing by this time was seriously damaged and other troubles of a private advisers

the time being, of the use of the

certain clergyman of the Church

Kui for $30,500.

of England divided his flock into

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aa asylum &

raving

"A doctor is trusted as no other person is. He obtains access to a house because of the close per- sonal relationship between doctor and patient, and it is of vital public importance that a doctor should do nothing to shake the confidence. The optic nerve of the left eye had an estrangement with my wife which husbands repose in medical by the ether. The unfortunate M.

When a practitioner is accused Varsagh was immediately taken nature, that I found that I was back to the theatre, replaced on food of the lady in another way General Medical Council must of professional misconduct, the the operating table, and again than as an ordinary friend. This ethor strike his name off the regis

There is no EALED TENDEES will be present Prayer Book which has three classes "C" Communicant: HEALTH OF THE COLONY asthetized, and a delicate opera

tion was carried out on both eyes was three years or more after I ter or leave it on. 0.0., RAB.O., HEADQUARTZEA, SOUTH stood the test of a good many of E."-people who came occa

by a specialist, who succeeded in had attended her professionally. middle course open..

"Even after finding that I wai "It does not affect the main ORINA CORKAST, Hong Kong, until 12 centuries, though it has been sionally, and C.I.A."-Church if Returns for notifiable disease in saving his eight.

The original anesthetist was in love with her, and that she was issue in this case that Dr. Strick.. Noor on TUESDAY, 30 JULY 1923, LOT BARRACK SERVICES for modified where necessary by general anything, which explains itself. the Colony last week stated:

taken to

in love with me, there was nothing land was not treating Mrs. Hurst PERIOD of EIGHT MONTHS, custom. The Revised. Prayer Book While the National Assembly con-

more in the friendship than there as a patient. The main point is Small-por 2 fresh cases and 3 lunatic.

had been before,

that he want to the house as a Commencing 1er AUGUST, 1928.

"Certainly nothing took place medical man, and was received in Tender Forms and any necessary In did little more than regularise

under the roof of her husband's that capacity by the husband. formation may be had at ibo above these customs. It also gave legat BBts of the first type, most members deaths, all Chinese.

Diphtheria: 2 fresh cases, 1

WEATHER REPORT. house that ought not to have taken.

**"* If a doctor uses these opportu- place. Chinese, 1 American: I desth.

plat never made love to her in nities to make love to a por Enteric: a fresh cases, 1 British,

Yesterday's weather report, fore that house once. I always behaved, mother, and writes her violent lot 2 Chinese: 1 death.

Paratyphoid: 1 death.

cast and remarks, issued by the oven though we knew we loved ters, he must not be surprised if each other, as a friend and nothing the General Medical Council take a Puerperal Fever: 2 fresh cases, Royal Observatory at 6.25 p.m.else. Her husband was unable to very serious view of his conduct.

"The General Medical Council lay any charge against ur other both

stated:-

than that we were very great have taken drsetio action against There was also one fatal case ofure is still highest to the friends. He had no remedy against Dr. Strickland entirely in the

Chinese: 1 death."

kartof Tokyo, while a depression me in an ordinary court of law, public interest. They would be influenza.

Fremains over North China and over and he knew St Mfalme to the trust which family men On Monday one. British ease of

There was never any question repose in the medical profession if Tongling.

and take disciplinary action in a cass of thir gravity.

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common

of the House of Commons either status to several practices in

belong to other churches altogether use among the Anglo- Catholics, the largest, and intelor, owing to pressure of political and professional activities, to one Tectually most active, section of the

or other of the two Intter classi Church. In the Church's own

fications. It is, therefore, easy to ISS N. BUHRIS qualified parliament, the National Assembly,

the book was passed by overwhelm- see that appeals to prejudice and ing majorities in the three houses inaccurate interpretations of his Laity, Clergy and Bishops. More tory that cut no ice in the

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