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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY OCTOBER 11, 1934.

MEDICAL CONGRESS

AT NANKING

President Wang's Address Of Welcome To Delegates

The ninth Congress of this Asso-of bubonic plague in Shanghai ciation was declared open by Mr. was unlikely owing to the rarity of Wang Ching Wei, President of the the responsible vector, (the Executive Yuan, on October 3. Xenopsylla cheopis-only 5 per cent. of all fease caught-and the fact that the cheopis season did not correspond with the plague season in the endemic areas in South China.

In the evening a dinner"in honour of the delegates and mem- hers of the Congress was given by President Wang Ching Wel in the spacious ball-room of the Examina- tion Yuan. Over 400 scientists and delegates, with their wives, from all countries interested in diseases of the Far East, were repre sented at this. notable gathering. The delegates appeared in formal dress with their decorations, which presented an impressive sight and lent colour to the occasion. Dur- ing the course of the dinner the Naval Band rendered appropriate, selections.

Drs. Pandit, Chun, Pollitzer and Yang contributed useful data on the subject of cholera, its sources and the means used in its sup pression.

PRESIDENT WANG In welcoming the delegates to

Congress, President Wang Ching-wei`said:--

the

Ladles and Gentlemen: It is a great pleasure for me to bid you once more a most hearty welcome. President Wang. In a felicitious I am fully aware that the work speech, welcomed the delegates to you are doing here this country on behalf of the Na-posed to be for the exclusive tional Government. Lt. Col. AJ benent of any particular country

H. Russell, Public Health Commis- aloner for the Government of India, replied on behalf of the delegates.

is" not sup-

LINKING UR LONDON

And The Highlands

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, Sept. 23, The linking up of London, and the Highlands by & *regular coastal air service which will overcome the "dimculties of winter Hying over the Grampians has been made a practical possibility by a week's tour of the principal

cities and towns on the East Coast which Captain Duncan Sinclair, of the British Aviation Corpora- tion, day.

The secure

concluded at Elgin yester-

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chain of municipal aerodromes. and in this connection Captain Sinclair has been in negotiation. on his way north during the last few days with the civic authorities at Hull. Newcastle, Edinburgh, and

Dundee.

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Assassin's Outrage At

Marseilles

[Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright).]

Marseilles, Oct. 9.

on the construction of an airport. and after a series of prospecting but for the welfare of all man- kind. But the mere fact that the lights over the district he finally Ninth Congress of your Associa-selected a site which is composed tion is taking place in the Capital chiefly of town land, and can be

FURTHER VICTIMS Th Congress held its first scienti-ot. this country cannot help extended at small cost.

King Alexander of Yugo-Slavia

Paris, Oct. 9. fc session on the morning of Octo- furnishing a new stimulus to our

With a view to securing the co-

Further victims of Tuesday's ber 4. For the sake of convenience; medical and health experts in operation of Highland Airways, was shot dead on Tuesday after-

are the Yugo-Slaviany. the 200 odd papers were classified their studies of medicine and, Ltd., who pioneered the air service noon shortly after landing on jatrocity

French soll The French Foreign | General, Dimitrimitsch, dead, and for presentation in the following what is more, cannot help creat now running between Inverness

Minister, M. Barthou, who was at † seriously wounded the French sections; Medicine, Surgery, Obing a deeper impression on the and the Orkneys, he dew

the King's ́ ́ side was also fatally General, stetrics, Pathology, Plague, Cholera, mind of the Chinese people re- Saturday to Inverness accom-

Georges, and Admiral. wounded. A short ceremonial wel- | Barthelot.-- Public Health, etc.

garding the great importance of panied by Mr. A. G. Among the papers read the ones medical science, particularly that the town clerk of Eigin. They come was extended to the Royal Transocean Kun Min.

guest On arrival at 4.05 p.m. on the mode of transmission of of tropical medicine. Thus your were met at Inverness airport by French time, after which King Kaia-azar aroused great interest presence in Nanking has brought Captain Fresson, the managing Alexander and M. Barthou went and provoked ilvely discussion. to Nanking a special boon-for director of Highland Airways, and on a motor car intending to call

which I feel very, grateful.

the whole question of completing on the Prefecture of Police before Now, in addition to my grati-the opening up of the Highlands continuing their voyage to tude, I think I owe you" also an to civilian flying was thoroughly where King Alexander was to pay apology. You will perhaps re-explored. member that it was only in 1928

Kala-azar

ern Manchuria.

Cockburn,

Paris

a State visit to President Lebrun.

Bourse about fifty yards from the quay at exactly 4.10, six to eigt shots were fired in quick succes ston from the midst of a dense throng of spectators. Three shots took effect. hitting the breast and head of the King who instantly

lost consciousness. Barthou who

seemed to be unaware of himself having been bit sprang

to the King's assistance, unbuttoning the

tunic and loosening the shirt when blood was seen spurting from the chest wound.

PROFOUND REGRET

Berlin, Oct. 9. The news of the assassination of King Alexander of Yugo-Slavia- filled all Germany with consterna- tion. Profound « réglet AL the

death reached Berlin somewhat case of Barthou, newa of whose later in the evening after special editions of newspapers" were al ready on the streets.

This atrocity is described as an "attack on the peace of Europe." All papers so far appeared to em- phasise in short leading articles that the murdered King not only made extraordinary efforts to pre-

serve order and peace in his own country but also worked un- ceasingly abroad to promote un- derstanding among nations,—* Transocean Kuo Min

Kala-azar is an infective and very fatal disease, endemic in the Mediterrnean basin, in certain belts. in the eastern provinces of

Captain. Sinclair left Elgin by Just as the car was passing the dastardly crime is also felt in the India and in China north of the that Nanking was again chosen as aeroplane yesterday for Carlisie. Fangtsze Kiang, including South- the Capital of China. Since then where he begins to-day another Like all diseases roads have been built, buildings series of consultations with civic of this nature it flares up periodi-erected, parks brought into authorities along the route from cally in epidemics which take toll existance in short. thousand and that city to London.

have been 01 lives among the rural popula- one improvements tion. In China the deadly spread-made in the development of this

But In WE ENGLISHMEN ing edge is at present along the city. All this is true northern bank of the Yangtaze spite of it all so much is still left Klang wir the plague cross the undone and we cannot boast with mighty river barrier? That is the any sense of justice that Nanking And Those Scotsmen question and, with the answer, the is already a modern metropolis." question of the modes of trans- This being the case, "many must Curiously be the discomforts and incon- mission is involved. enough, though the aetiology of venterices which you will have to the disease has been known since suffer during your brief sojourn in 1903, through the discovery of two this country-for which I as Bailshers-Leishman and Dono-Patron of this Congress of your van, how the disease is spread is Association and as host this even- not known with certainty. Two ing, offer you my apology. I hope views have been advanced that in the future when members-scotamen. one, by direct contact, and the of the Congress meet here again. "He was discussing Foland's re other, through the intermediary discomforts and neon-fusal to have any more League of a biting insect. Most of the venlences will have disappeared. control over her minority popula- investigators favour the latter In conclusion, I wish to repeat, ton unless all other nations with view, which was represented at if I may, what I said this after-minorities were put on the same this congress by the famous In-noon on the opening of the pre-footing.

May your de- dlan worker Dr. Napier of Cal-sent Corgress:

It was difficult to do that, sald cutta. The former received fur-liberations be crowned with suc- Mr. Eden: and he quoted the case the support through the discovery ceas! And In spite of all incon- of Britain. of the two researchers, Drs. Fork-ventences that you may suffer, I

"It would be hard to say which ner and Zia of Peiping Union sincerely hope that your sojourn

was the minority and which the Medical College, that the agent is this country will be a fairly majority in Britain. present in the secretions of the happy one nose, and throat of those infected. Evidence on both aldea is strong.

such

LT.-COL. RUSSELL

(Special Air Mall Service)

Edinburgh, Sept. 22. Mr. Anthony Eden, Britain's en- voy, to the League of Nations, had something to say to his foreign colleagues to-day about the diner ence between Englishmen and

"

I suppose that the Engilsh are more numerous than the Bcota In response to the speech of But. I pity the Englishman who but only further researches will welcome by HE. President Wang would dare to suggest to a Scots- solve the question because it is Ching-wei, Lieut-Colonel A. J. H.

man that he is one of a slighted only with its solution that the Russell, C.B.E, LMS. **- Public

or neglected minority." disease could be effectively con-Health Commissioner and official

"As for the Jews: "One of the trolled..

delegate of the Government of criterions by which every country The notable contribution on the India repiled on behalf of the must expect to be judged is the study of this disease was the dis-foreign guests including those treatment it metes out to every covery in this country of a suscep- from British India and Malaya, race, and religion." tible animal, the Chinese feld Hong Kong. Indo-China, Japan, mouse, which has been shipped to all parts of the world for use in experimental study of this disease. Plague and Cholera

Panle seized the crowd but the cavalry drove the frenzied masses. asunder making the roadway clear for the car to proceed to the Pre- fecture where the King was at once attended to by physicians. All efforts to save the Royal patient proved unavailing the King pass

State-Becretary, Dr. Meizzner, the ing away shortly after.

Chler of the Presidential Chancel" Meanwhile it has been dialery, to call on the Tugo-Biavian covered that, Barthou's wounds Minister, His Excellency Balugdzic, which at first were thought to be to convey his profound grter and only casual were serious. Despite sincerest sympathy for the ITA- the united endeavours of the parable Ioss Yugo-Slavia has medical attendants, the Foreign suffered through the death of its Minister also passed away at 5.40 King.--- p.m.

Transocean Kuo Min,

YUGOSLAVIA'S LOSS

Berlin, Oct. 9. Immediately after the receipt. of news of the outrage at Mar- seilles, the Fuehrer deputed the

The police declare that ten per- sons must have co-operated in. organising and carrying out the atrocity Transocean Kuo Min.

ARM AMPUTATED

Paris, Oct. 9. When he was first sent to be

HITLER'S. TELEGRAM

Berlin, Oct. 9. Hitler has sent the following. telegram... of sympathy to the President of the French Republic. "the news that the French Foreign Minister, M. Barthou, has also succumbed to his injuries pital it was thought that Barthou's received in the crime in Marselljes, injuries were not serious but the has just reached me. I desire to lower part of the left sim had convey to your Excellency my own be amputated because it was sincere sympathy and that of the the Dutch East Indies, the Philip-skill of Dr. Ting-an Lee, Health shattered by the assassin's bullets whole of the German people." pine Islands, and the United Commissioner of Greater Shang uring the operation, violent Transocean. Kuq Min.-- States. He said in part

hal, as well as the great work haemmerhage set in and blood

SYMPATHY. WITH QUEEN The story of medicine in China, being done in Nanking itself, both transfusion was undertaken im- The papers presented at this as in India, began in the hoary at the Field Station and by the mediately but Barthou's heart beat

Berlin, Oct. 9. ́session were very luminating, and past and her medical art was Central Government Hospital.rew continually weaker, death.

Chancellor Hitler has telegraph- showed the enormous strides that apparently well founded an early King Solomon, reputed to be the ensuing

ed to the Queen of Yugo-Blavin have been made in efforts to supas 208 BC. The founders were wisest of men, many centuries ago Transsern, Kuo Min.

the following telegram. “I am press these scourges, both in India rulers and statesmen, whilst both uttered a stern warning in the

profoundly shaken by the news of and China, during the past 10-12 philosophers and priests" added words "Where there is no vision,

the outrage to which His Majesty their quota, Ancient Chinese the people perish. I can only

the King has fallen a victim. I Col. Russell of India dealt with medical literature is large and of say that the modern Chinese both plague and cholera in that great historical importance, whilst medical and public health services death of M. Barthou was received. cxpression of my most sincere As soon as the news of the ask your Majesty to accept an country and emphasised the value much of it is certain to be of have vision, and if they have the Chief of the Presidential sympathy and that of the whole of anti-plague and anti-cholera interest and value to scientific their way, the people will no chancellery, State-Secretary Metge of the German people. vaccines, stating that they found research workers.

longer perish. On behalf of my er called on the French Ambas Transocean Kuo Hing the use of 8 thousand million or- Apparently, however in ancient fellow delegates I would convey sador, His Excellency Francois ganisms per c.c. the most effective days medicine was not considered to you, air, our hearty congratu- Poncet to convey an expression in producing a high degree of im- a profession of very high stand-lations on the progress already of profound sympathy on behalf ing for I find an old Chinese made and our best wishes for the Dr. Wu Lien Teh, dealing with proverb which states that medi- siccessful completion of the plans of the Fuehrer and Reichschon plague, said that plague had usual-cine is one of the nine low trades" made for the future. ly followed the maritime routes in would like to know what the lis passage through China, there= |other eight were! by emphasising the fact that the ordinary domestic rat was the

years.

munity from cholera..

Modern Station

desire to assure your Excel. lency that we are all delighted to be present at this Congress, thas

I cannot refrain from making we are all looking forward to a

most frequent carrier of plague., special mention of the National profitable and pleasurable week's

cellor

BERLIN SYMPATHY

Berlin, Oct. 9.

Transocean. Kun: Mini

THE ASSASSIN'?

Parlo, Ocf. 9.

Alexander in Petrus

It has been ascertained that the Dr. C. Y, Wu, in his discourse, Quaranting Service, at the head work--and play and that we perpetrator of the fatal atrocity showed that rat-fles survey of which is my old friend, Dr shall all take away with us many on throughout China was being car- Wu Lien-teh - His new quarantine ant memories of our stay in Kalenien who was born ried out on an extensive scale in station now nearly finished at Nanking, not the least pleasant on December 20, an endeavour to anticipate any | Woosung is one of the best plán- |being the Impending qutbreak of plague and ned and most complete stations of- you have displayed several excellent charts its kind I have seen anywhere In the name of the to implify his points. He showed. would also like to¬mention the of foreign from his figures that the spread"" energy, organising capacity and thank you most

come which shopkeeper by this evening passport was body 30, 1934 and have to France on Be

Transbocca Lun

THE NEW KING

Belgrade Oct. 9. The late King Alexander's suc- cessar is Prince Peter, 11 years of age, who is at present in college in England Transocean Kun, Min.

„PRESIDENT LEBBUN

Paris

President Lebrun lef on Tuesd

pratio