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1933.

atolon Supplement MILITARY QUARREL WITH

HONG KONG,March 24, 1833.

LUNACY

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the

CANTON RAILWAY

THREAT TO USE BRIDGES FOR TROOP TRANSPORTATION

Lunacy is the blight of the Rower of civilisation. Apparently no age has ever escaped it and the most The fate of the two railway called that many years ago, a cer unlikely people unexpectedly dove- I bridges, helonging to the Canton tain American engineer proposed to lop its symptoms. A man, dis- Kowloon Railway, Chinese- section, build a road from Shataukok to tinguished for his intelligence and which cross the East River at Shek Canton, it was suggested that the shrewd commonsense, will suddenly lung, appears to hang in the road should cross the railway brid- according to unveriges, but the British and Chinese turn into a madman. Why? Even balance,

reports. It BEETS that officials refused to consider it. It the psychologists cannot in every fied

Canton military authori had also been suggested that the case supply an answer. To-day in sanity is one of the accepted dis- ties want to utilise the bridges bridge at Shumchun, on the border. eases of society: where in bygone for lorry transportation in order should used for the public and a ages it was the subject of persecu to save the expense and time of toll charged, but as this would make tinn, now it is telerated. Instead, building new structures. In view the Railway responsible for acci of incarcerating our mental deli- of shat happened to Jehol, Shan-dents to pedestrians this suggestion cients in gyves and chaina, as we did hakwan and Chapel, the Kwang was rejected. Mr. Baker said that in the eighteenth century, we give tung military command seek in the site of the two bridges at Shek- them comfortable homes in.. 1

making extensive preparations to lung was the only logical one for a mental hospital... In fact, so

defond the province. Hence the highway to cross the river, but if collent is the care and treatment of important forts of Bocca Tigris the Military authoritica wanted a inental patients nowadays that one

must be connected to Canton, and bridge, they would have to build would expect that lunacy would elsewhere by a highway.

their own. The Railway would begin to show a dealine. Sad to relate, however, the recent report ton are reported to be much con-

Officials of the Railway in Can-ever consent to their bridges being of the Lunacy Commission in Eng-cerned over the proposal to use the

Bridges for Trains only. land shows that in Scotland along railway bridges ver the East River there are over a million people "out for ordinary traffic, because they of their minds." Does this suggest were constructed for trains only. that Junacy is Nature's revenge for The bridges are in Chinese ter the conquests of science?

tory, but if they are used for mili- According to Professor Forster, tary purposes there, ie the risk that we in this Colony are mentally they will be damaged, and officials deranged,' and we must admit of the British Section would be that there are several reasons for obliged to lodge a protest. thinking he is right. Not infre quently the Government do things in a manner which gives us the dis agreeable feeling that their actions have not been dictated by reason alone. In the near future we are

can

used.

It is reported from Canton that engineers of the Railway insist that the bridges cannot be used for any other purpose than that of railway communication and they view with alarm their utilisation for ordinary transportation. Such excessive use would mean alteration of the sur- face of the bridges and might en danger the passengers. Experts of the Provincial Department of Ro- construction recommend that in stood of using the railway bridges the East River should be crossed in time of peace by boate anul janks, whilst in time of emergency" pon. toon bridges could be easily erected."

Bocca. Tigria Foris, The Military authorities havo: given peremptory orders for the now highway to be constructed and

Bondholders World Protest. In an interview with a Daily Press representative yesterday, Mr. R. Baker, Manager of the Kowloon to have a nice new mental hospital Canton Railway, said that he had just come back from Canton, where -a kinder Le than lunatic asylum of our own in Kowloon, he had met the bew Managing It is to be built, not away in the Director of the Chinese Section, but the question of the bridges had not country where the inmates have fresh air and will do little been raised. In fact, this was the harm if they escape, but in the very first intimation he had received that centre of the residential area that the military authorities desired to claim that it is of strategic im- is being rapidly developed, in these the bridges to connect the new sortance, since it connects Bocca vicinity of Prince Edward Road. highway between Taiping and Can Tigris forts with the Southern The Government claims that it is. ton. He did not think the enmetropolis. In the event of war, urged purely by economic motives gineers would consent to the pro- communications between Bocra to build its asylum in what in time posal, and might appeal to the Tigris and other places in the Pro- will doubtless be a fairly well Ministry of Railways in Nanking vince are imperative and before the populated district. It is intended if the military insisted. In any completion of the new highway the to run it in conjunction with the case, it was likely that the British only route is by the Pearl River. Kowloon Hospital, and though a

und Chinese bondholders, through New guns were recently mounted certain o operation between staffs the Trustees, would lodge a vigor on the forts, na General Chen Chi becomes possible the inmate of an

ous protest against any such mis- Tang does not wish to be "caught use of the bridges. Mr. Baker re-napping." asylum and the patient in a hos pital. havo little in common, unless the Government, taking "mené sana in corpore, sano" as their cae, feel that the doctor who can cure. Hong Kong foot can also oure Hong Kong brain. We do not imagine that the Hospital patients will feel very Battered by this waiving of dis

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4th Sunday in Lent. Mothering Sunday.... Ek_zm. Holy Communion............... 10.00a.m. Young People's Ser- vice and Primary Sunday School, [11.00 a.m: Morning Prayer and

Formon,

Preacher The Vicar. Subject The Kingdom

of Evil" 300 p.m. Confirmation Class

Sunday School. 6.00 p.m. Musical Service and

Sermon.

Preacher Rev. A.D. Stewart Immediately after the Evening Service there will be a social hour in the Church. Hall, when all will. be welcome.

present and future residents whose honses will adjoin the asylum, In the best regulated-prisons, asylum

Before Mr. Butters at Kowloon and similar institutions, the in mates occasionally got out of hand, Magistracy yesterday, s contrac and it is easy to imagine the mentor's toki was charged with wound- tal and moral effect on the women ing another foki in Nathan Road and children whose houses are wear on the evening of March 21. by. In England no County Coun According to Inspector Rozask- cilor Lunacy Commission would way, the complainant and the de even dream of erecting an asylum fendant were fokis, and a quarrel in the outre of a town or residen- which culminated in the wounding tial quarter, and the idea of run started in a tea house in Shanghai ning & general hospital and an Street at noon on the day in ques asylum together, to save expense. tion. They went for ten together, would be regarded as sheer lunacy, but after they had finished they. The site has been prepared but found they had no money to settle buildings operations have not yet the bill. It was alleged that the been started. There is still time for complainant should have obtained the Government to reconsider its money from their master for the scheme and, if only to create a pre- cedent, be

Mothering Sunday is the day in courteous enough. to As a result a quarrel started be the year when we think of those acknowledge the existence of Kow. tween the two men and continued at home, and especially of Mother, loon's residents and not ignore their for the rest of the day. The dis. We mark the day, by making it a grievancos.

puts came to head when all the

Family Festival, on which Father fokis were, having the evening meal and Mothers, Sons and Daughter

contractor's. matshed sin

www.Family he to Church together tics aherong and enduring

idnt them, olower by unit-

Conday, 97th inst, Church Coun

esting an e em Mémbers of Chi velt." Council are invited, to 44 posible at Holy union at 9.15 am, on Sun

8th, to unite in necking blessing upon their work. Wednesday, 30th March Lenten Service at 6 p.m. Litany, Prayers. and Meditation,

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Nathan Road It was alleged that complainant struck-defendant with

A large and enthusiastic audience his fist, whereupon the latter httended the concert prganised by ed a chopper end the European X.M.C.A., Kowlood hitting the and held in the Soldiers' and Sai fora Home, Wanchai, on Wedne

Detective Inspector Dorling, who prosecuted, stated that the defen day evening. One of the most dants were arrested by the police joyable items on on information received. The was the alu police waited in ambush at Publicata. Vaig Street, Shamshiupe, and surround.

For being in unlawful possessioned the defendants when of daggers, wires and cotton gags, Peared: The articles likely to be used for an unlawful were found on

purpose, three Chinese were och All Of MelEED sentenood to bus year's-hard labour, to posses by Mr Butters at Kowloon Ma

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