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MALAYAN CHINESE SOCCER TEAM.

MATCHES WITH LOCAL

TEAMS ARRANGED.

The Malayan Chinese Soccer Team is due to arrive here to-mor row on board the P. & O. Kashmir, and it is announced that the visitors will meet some local t teams, before leaving for Nanking to attend the National Athletic Moot. The fol lowing is a rough programme, which is subject to alteration

Friday p.m., tiffin (at Chinese Athletic), 3 p.m., sight-seeing round the island: 7 pm, dinner (given by South China A.A.),

Saturday Malayan Chinese

Colony.

Sunday-Malayau, Chinese". Services: 10 p.m., dinner at Tung Yat Hotel

Tucadny-Colony, Hong Kong Chinese, selected.

Wednesday, Malayan: Chinese. depart for Canton, team and local fans should witness The visitors are a fairly strong sone interesting and spectacular football in the forthcoming matches.""

LOCAL FOOTBALL.

'FARSITY

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 23, 1931.

POISONOUS SNAKES IN HONG KONG.

COBRAS, KRAITS, BAMBOO AND SEA SNAKES:

KRAITS! CHARACTERISTICS AND HABITS.

EMERGENCY TREATMENT WHEN

BITTEN.

The following is the texts of an extremely interesting and instructive address by Frof. G. 4. U. Herklots, which was brondenst last night from the Hong Kong Broadensting Studio

When a large cobra hissos there is always the possibility of a little venom being ejected and although our local cobra does not expectorate, it is, I imagine, unwise to encour age it to do such a thing unless one is wearing spectacles

September is as good a month as any in which, whilst walking on the hillsides of Hong Kong and the New Territories, to meet snakes, no perhaps a few remarks on some of local species may be of general

interest

This;

The Banded Kral

Sanke Bite and Treatment,

Viperine Venomas,

•The following - secount is hasou Possessed by the Banilipo snake In rgoly on an article whit appear. S. China: Theen vènoms destroy colour is composal of altáranteed in the Hong Kong Naturalist, the lining of the blood vessels black and yellow hands of even for last year. The venom of snakes ( making then very permeable and | width. The local Chinna say that varies from specica to species and resulting in interna: emorrhage,

if the tail ends in a black tip it consequently the antidote for one | Blood may escape from the wound menns that that particular snake snake venom differs from that for jand from mucous surfaces, Blood bas alreadly killed a mad! "Aa- |.nsoller one is bitten by a poisoning due to bacterial action other local krait, Bungarus con- snake it. advisable to identify the subsequent to the bite may not in didus, is smaller than B. fauciatur snake and kill-it if possible" and as an added complication, and has alternate broad yellow and take it to the doctor who is o Treatment with a specião an narrow black bands. A third treat the bite, Snake vonums are tivenene is the only really reliable spories, of which I have not yet complicated... proteins or rolated comedy, This is a sotum prepared see a specimen, la not banded but substances they are of two types from the blood of an animal which is apparently aprokled with various affecting the blood system and by repeated and gradually increas colours. Kraits ehter houses, this nerves respectively. The venom is ed injections of a particular venom long and well established fact, stored in a modified salivary gland has been induced to form an anti- but need not be fared except at and prasce along a duct to the fang foxin. Antivenenes are not, I be night. A sluggish visko, allied to which is grooved auteriorally in lieve, prepared in China, so other the onbre but without the cobra's the Calubridae. In Vipers the and less effective remedies must be characteristic hood and spectable.groove is closed-over, leaving a triedy h

The local name for the banded krait hollow channel. Two main types of Emergency Treatment. is Rum keurd which, literally anaks puinning are generally rei'(1) Apply in tourniquet imme ongnised, namely, Colubrine and diately above the wound, e, be translated, means gold leg-bolt.

tween wound and heart, but don't Viperine

leave on more than I bour for fear of gangrene A piece of string and

pencil would serve as a tour miquet.

The Sea Snakes.

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Last week I received no less than The Cantonese call the Cobra three venomous snakes, besides harm yeok sehr, which simply means black less specics These three were desh snake, while another name is large bamboo snake caught within Been t'au fung. The first two 25 yards of my lab, and two young characters mean-flat head, the third and from within house on the Wong fung; wong means yellow but cobras, from Stonecutter's Island, is the same as in the hame for whap, peak, respectively. This year my do not know a literal translation staff have collected and friends have for fung. A third name is Farm given me more than 100 snakes from charm t'ain This is the name for are reported from Tolo Harbour, teeth are grooved Ono.. or Hong Kong and the New Terri- the fint spoon used for stirring rice, turies. Half of thase, I have kept and obviously the cobra has been alive for days or weeks before so named because the head with chloroforming and preserving them, expanded hood is of somewhat so I have had the opportunity to similar shape. watch them closely.

SOUTH CHINA B.

The University will moet South China B. in a friendly football

maith to-day at 4.45 p.m.; at Caro Early in the year I sent 38 speci line Hill. The following will repre- a want the former tonm-Ow Yang unus to the British Natural His Hong Chien, N. Vargassof, Y. Etory Museum to be identified by the

: S.. Reed, S. L. Wong, E T. Bee: T. Y. Ong, C. Candah, K. M. Jo, P. P. Kho, and H. T. Woo.

HOME FOOTBALL. ENGLISH LEAGUE MATCH RESULTS.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOY.]

LONDON, Sept. 21.

The following were the results of football matches played to-day in the English League:-..

Blackburn Wedneedny West Ham

Port Vale

Division I.

5 Blackpool

2 Chelsea

1. Sheffeld

..

Division II.

◊ Swansea

Division III. (North).

2. Rotherham

Doncaster

EXHIBITION TENNIS IN

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CANTON.

Messrs. Dennis Hazell C. AL. Rumjahn, and J. A. E. Casaumb hoy, paid an unofficial visit to

Herpetologist, Dr. Malcolm Smith. These 30 specimens included" 14 species, and of these, 8 specimens of 4 species were venomous, potentiel ly deadly. Recently a friend sent men collection of 14 specimens, of

which 2 were venomous. One dead- ly snake out of sevon is possibly a fait representation of the propor

Vained as Medicine.

The gall bladder of the Chinese cobra in valued by the Cantonese for medicine but it must be taken out nt, the animal whilst it is alive. I have watched operation per terech do the one traits on more than one occasion. A local snake catcher told me that the gall made a man strong and fit. I ask vd him if he drank or ate it and he replied, "Yes," and certainly he was a most virile specimen of

These, the Hydrophiidae are all deadly. Several species occur in S. Chinese waters, but they are not common, although every year they

Repulse Bay, Shok O, eto, I have only one specimen in my collection, They are easily recognised by the fact that the tail is laterally com pressed; this flattened tail is em ployed in swimming. Sos suakes very rarely bite people, and al though cases of cobre bite and bamboo snake bite occur every year in Hong Kong, I have never board snake having bitten any one. There is practically no danger in bathing in Repulse Bay oven in July and August for if there is a sea snake about it will get so frightened at the presence of bathers that it will swim rapidly away, have been

two

Colubrine Venoms, In this group can be placed the Cobens, Kraits and Sea Suakes. In these snakes the anterior axillary

teeth on each side are function as poison fangs in the Cobra but small tenth further back are always present. If a main tong is broken off one of the smaller teeth grows and replices it. This holde for all) snakes and is a fact that is worth remembering, Colubrine poisons affect the central nervous system, they paralyse that portion of the respiration, and should death take

(9) Make a deep incision into wound with a sharp knife or razor blade,

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LADIES HOCKEY

CLUB

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD YESTERDAY,

NEW OFFICE BEARERS.

the Hong Kong Ladies' Hockey Club

The annual general meeting of. was held at 3iguars Lane, Craw furd's Restaurant yesterday, when, in the absence of their President, Mrs WT: Southorn, the chair was occupied by Mian E. Gray

There was considerable discussion regarding the question of a ground and it was intimated that the Navy Field at Happy Valley, the Y.M.C.A. ground and the Sookunpoo ground would be available again this year,

Election of Oncers.

The election.

at

follows follicers resulted as

President Mrs. W. T. Southern Captain Misa, E. Gray Vice-captains Miss M. Wallace Hon Scoretary Mr. P. M

Harrop

Assistant Hon. Secretary: Misa E. O'Hagan.

Whyte and J. Coppin,

Committee Minos J. Smalley, J Selection Committee Mrs. PM. Harrop, Misses E. Gray, M. Wallace, and K. Ferguson.ee, g

Those · prosons" were 2-krJ Harrop, Mrs. O. WE Bishop, Mrs. E, M. Donelan, Mrs. G. E. Little,

(a) Rub in crystals of Potassium Mrs. A... Moodie and the Misses permanganate this is a strong E. M. Gray, E. O'Hagan, E 8. oxidising agent and if it comes in Laing, M. Bird E. Bonnar, I contact with the venam will destroy Butler, F. D. Carter, J. Dalziel, it. These "actions must be carried B Franklin, A. Nicol, J. Smalley, out promptly.

M. Wallace N. Cooper, E. Black-

burn, 8. Browning, P. Carter, J (4) Hurry, to the nearest hospital

J. Coppin, C. Ferguson, B. M. or doctar, A

Alcohol should not be taken: sx Fope, M. Riggs, M. Russell, M. copt in very small quantities. Smalley, F. Stevenson, E Sucking of the wound is dangerous Tasartes, J. Whyte, and J. Barris

treatment by the doctor consists in iti v and is to be condemned. Later Walker giving injectives of adrenalin or EAT A HEARTY MEAL-AND

ENJOY ITI water which will induce clothing of place, it is caused by asphyxia. the blood and generally counteract certain amount of internal the decalcifying properties of the haemorrhage and constriction of venom. blood vessels tony take place

of a single ense of a krait or sen medulla of the brain which controls

son-snakes in the sea near Java and. once

Symptoms of cobra bite:-(1) Weakness accompanied, by severe and persistent pain; (2) Gradual

Conclusions,

tion of venomous to harmless snakes Chinese manhood and had a way isited "an island near Singaralysis progressing upwards from chance of a European being bitten janca by taking a little Bisurated

ac

in Hong Kong. When I have enmulated larger collections it will he ponnible to give more accurata, Agures

with snakes which made me both lowered

nervous and opvious. He had him pore noted for its sea-snakes but self once been bitten by cografound not a single specimen, See-

***Why not? "All that pain and flatulence you get after eating, a good meal is simply the result of harmful acid at work in the stomach. It creates a state of fere This account of our local vano mentation which will continue to mous snakes, their poison and the exist only as long na yeu allow it emergency treatment of anake bite you can get rid of the acid, is all very alarming. Actually the fermentation and discomfort at is so small as to be almost negli Magnesia in either powder legs to head; (3) Relaxation of thegible; one or two children have been tablet form. Theusands who suf lower lip and omission of saliva; bitten in the past, in Hong Kong, fered for years with such troubles as indigestion, dyspepsia, gastritis perhaps it is just as well that these and acidity and could and nd re- facts should be known in case of have taken Bisurated Mag snake did bite some one. During nesis on medical advics, and have the summer months I nearly always found their troubles go instantly, have several snakes, alive it the Biology Department of the Univer to return no more, Such casOT are not isolated or unusual ones,

out of 100 to 180 snakes that have 50 also was one of my collectors this makes love: basking in the sun on Gradual loss of the power of and have died in consequence, so

they

year but he squeezed out the poisonWarm rocks near the sea; if alarm- passed through my hands during and applied native remedies and take to the water rapidly. the Tast year, some & species are

The Pit Vipers. venomous; two of these are very

These anakes are so called because. raro: I have had only one specimen

of cath. There are three other, if

was none the worse, My collector waz bitten at the extreme tip of

his anger; he promptly squeezed

speech; (4) Asphyxiation..............

The patient must not be allowed to get depressed as death often occurs as a result of venom affects

or

out the venom and was likewise between the eye and the nostril intensified by fear. It may besity and if any one would like to for Bisurated Magnesia succeeds. not more, species which probably none the worse in spite of the faor there is a deep pit The Crotalidaecessary to administer artificial face them so as to be able to recognise in practically every instance. Try occur in the Territories, which are that he had no native herbs. This

also deadly but they are not likely

large family of snakes, accus man went collecting on the follow both in the New and Old Worlds, to be met with. Local species of

jing day and I only heard of his ho rattle snake, mocessin anake and bush-master are familiar anakes therefore include:-Dendly

experience by chance. I have quite species certainly 5, probably 8 and

a collection of local herbs, a mix American species. The Russell's possibly 10. Of harmless species ture of which, with Chinese sugar, also is the very largo Chi- viper of India is very much fearol there are probably between 30 and 50 spesies. The luen venomous is supposed to be efficacious if a noso viper (up to 8 feet) Ankiairo- Canton oror the week ond wher snakes can be divided into four plied externally and some internal dan centus, which I bolieva occurs they engaged Canton's bost in ex groups, namely, the cobras, kraits, swallowed with a little wine. hibition singles and doubles ten-pit vipers and sea snakes.

at Caston and ought to be in the New Territories, but I have as yet nis matches, which resulted in ench nort winning threo matches

not received a specimen. The local pit vipers are the bamboa makes.

The Bamboo Snake,

to share the honours, gam

The Cobras.

The Chinese black cobra is prob

Personally I would prefer to use Potassium permanganate crystals' but every man to his own cure.

The King Cobra or Hamadryad. This anako certainly occurs quite

А The commonest local species is

C. A. L. Rumjahn avenged his ably the commonest venomous snake singles defeat at the hands of in S. China. It inhabits Victoria Bodiker by overcoming Loung. TaPeak, High West, Stanley Penin-

wong by three seis to one. Rum-silar, Kowloon and Kowloon Foot frequently in Kwangtung but I jahn indulged in a driving cam Hills,Tai Po, Stonecutter Island have no definite evidence of paign, but as he did not find his and elsewhere to my certain know specimen having been caught in Trieresurna gramineus, which length till the secand stanzo, he ledge, Naja naja atra as it is call British territory, although I have rarely exceeds 2 feet. This species lost the first set 6-1. There-after ed, varies in colour from fawn (just heard several rumours to this effect.

her was definitely superior, and he

6-1.

· The Kraits:"", Whenever I rend about Kraits I always notice that it stated that this is a genus of small snakes re

head is covered with very small scales quite unlike the head scales of any other local species. The head is a very characteristic, shape, triangular with a very well-defined neck, Damboo snakes do not sit up vertically like cobras but eit, up with the body bent roughly into an 8 shaped curves held horizontally; the cobra sits up like an inverted L. The bambino, make is a very vicious, snake, and is more feared locally than any other snake. It is very

after casting its skin, sometimes) This is the only Asiatio species of is bright grand green above and took the next three sets 6-3, 6-2, to black usually it possessed half snake which is credited with chas yellow-green ventrally, on its tail a dozen very narrow white bands & ing, and attacking man and 65 20-ig a brown or red stripe while the The postponed doubles match be- few inches apart encircling the dividuals grow to a prodigious tween Rumjahn and Harell and body. Young local cobras some length-there is one to feet 3 inches nass is frequently tinged blue. The Bodikor partnered by Loung was times have faint white reticulated long in the Raffles Museum, Singa nn-excellent ous though the Tong markings Cobras locally rarely pore-I hope they do not make their Kong representatives wore very de-exceed 4 feet in length (1 spenk residence near where I live or finitely superior as the scoru in-from, my limited knowledge of the shall have to practise sprinting sligates Hazell and Rumjaha paisubject) but I have heard of specimen of this species, whether it ed very well together and on their specimen of over 5 feet being killed be alive or dead, if caught locally form showed that they can hold in Kowloon. All true cobras possess would be very much appreciated by their own against any other crin some kind of spectacle on the back the speaker. bination in China. They won in of the neck but this spectacle, which straight, rets, 6-3, 6-153 varios considerably in form, is not In another doubles match, obvians unless the hood is expand. Hazel and Cassumbhoy fell vic- cd. The cobra always site up, tims to Bediker and Ma Chihuen, expands its hood, and usually hisses the scores being 04, 10-8, and the before striking. The hiss is high lated to the cobra And yet nearly venomous no death may easily teams finally finished up with pitched and of short duration and every trait that I have possussed follow a bite if precautions are not three" wins each,

differs from that of most other Hong from Hong Kong has been bigger taken. One of my collectors, not Large crowds watched with Kong snakes of my scquaintance than the average cobra Between the one bitten by a corn but his keen interest the excellent dis the majority are silent. Young four and five feet in no uncommon brother, was bitten by bamboo plays, the Governor of Canton, obras may occasionally enter site for the local common krait, anake whilst I was in Peiping this together with Admiral Chan and houses, an example of which I have Bungarus fasciatus. Almost the summer and was so ill that he had the British Consul General (already mentioned, but it is rare first anake I met in the Colony, onto ha sent to hospital where he re Herbert Phillips) being among the for adults to do so. Adults, how, Lan Tau, was a krait, over 4 feet mained a few days. I have had co 'spectatora; : *

ever, have the annoying habit of long. It was dead so I could osti, specimens this year, varying in inhabiting old rat holes and the mate its length fairlyKraits length from I foot 8 inches to 2 like near houses, and usually it can be distinguished from all other feet. The smallest of these one of one adult cobra is present so also snakes (I believe) by this one fact. my collectors caught for mo, et ignity mater

|All ́annker except kraits have one Amoy and I brought it back alive!! Cobras lay ogga but I know noth row of sales, on the ventral sur-to Hong Kong. Whilst at Amoy ing of the habit of our local cotra i face, up to the vent and then two botanising I was warned by Chiness in this respect · Young sobras.carry or more rows. Kraita have a single friends to keep clear of a certain a respectable does of venom in their row from head to tip of tail. Un- spot as it was notorious for bamboo senom sacs so they are best avoided fortunately it is necessary to turn snakes. This year one was killed Cobra, in Hong Kong at any rate, over a krait in order to be certain quite close to Peak Mansions, and hate any shadow from above falling of this feature and fow would care brought to me whilst still moving-- on them 4 This, may be due to the to do this with living specimen. much to the discomfort of some mine. Another was fret that, our oral black-cared There would, however, be very little friends

The gate receipts for the Flood Relief Fund totalled over 8500 for the two days,

PANAMA MAIL SHIP

MAGROUND.

PASSENGERS SAVED AFTER 3

HOURS ADRIFT IN BOATSH San Pedro, Sept. 13. After hav ing floated about the son in open hoats for three hours 144 passenger Atid 120 members of the crew of the Panaman Pacific Mail liner Colum biare rescued by the steamship "San Mateo to-day

The Columbia had rume Teround: off Point Posen, here were no

ly this last week.

Kite ilane lineditna, 38 a great risk of its biting, for Dr. Mell (who caught within os virde of my snake catcher and probably dis collected 4,000 snakes in South poses of many cobras anch year China 1) zintes definitely that o have kept cobras caught in Hong sexually mature, krait in China boo Kong, in enges and noticed that if cannot under any circumstance be species.

I plnord-ang-hand shove seagoingtood to hide is abo day timen grown-

anake is not a bam- there is a very commo green grass make which

hard when the cobra within was sitting However, I myself would not care which is gulte þarm

up with clovated hood it immediate to handle a living and very deadly

The local name for

ni, ly bowered down at the bottom, and, Krait though" ray snake-catcher does is Laeng.

did not for bore time sit up again.: so fearlessly...

respiration.

the deadly species I should be do

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