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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1937.

RADIO MUEZZIN

APPEARS

Continued from Page 1)

repeated for the first time with the assistance of the amplifers and microphones of radio aclence. Two loudspeakers and microphones are also being installed inside the mosque, in order to make services lectures and addresses audible to tpe..whole of the congregation.

THE ROCKS

TOWBOAT HITS

SHENSI

PREPARATIONS

FOR WAR

(Continued from Page 1)

Kongmoon service-capsized with

(Continued from Fare 1)

full load or passengers on board. Out of 340 passengers on board The missionaries admitted that her, mostly young' girl and hor} comp’eta order prevailed in the students returning to their homes city, but otherwise the conditions. in Kanginoon or vacation from were very bad as commodities were Canton schools, the overturning of scarce, while price were soaring the Man Chuk claimed 227 vic-sky-high and business was crip- tims.

pled

› MANY EXPERIMENTS Several experiments were made

TOOK "SHORT CUT-` fixing loudspeakers Inside the

According to the reports pour- mosque owing to acoustic diffing into Hong Kong, the Man quities resulting from excessive Chuk left Canton at 8 pm on with the mosque Tuesday, towed by the steam reverberation reasonably full, however, it was launch Mo Fan. In order to save. found that scoustic conditions some 90 minutes on the journey to Improved, and solution was found Kongmoon, the Man Chuk took in the use of special directional- the Kamchuk Channel instead of type speakers, which throw the proceeding down the West River. sound to the back of the mosque

For about 200 yards near the 180 feet away.

city of Kam Chuk dangerous rapida block the channel and dur- ring low-water periods the current runs fairly strongly through towering banks.

Sound reflections have been re- duced to a minimum creating the illusion that the voice comes from the Individual talking into the microphone. In future it will be possible to address congregations of between 4,000 or 5,000 people with a good margin of power still in hand.

Loudspeakers are also installed ou two of the four Blender minarets, 90 feet above the ground. During the day when trafic in the surrounding streets is considerable, tuese minaret speakers can be heard a quarter of a mile away. in the early morning the summons to prayer will carry more than a mile.

Dr. Li Shu Fan

Condaued from Page 13

Chinese Government Echolarship and enrolled at the University of Edinburgh, where in 1910 he ob tained the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and surgery, and in the following year a Diploma in Tro- pical Medicine and Hygiene. After several years of medical practice

in Hong Kong he returned to Edin burgh in 1822 where, after a course of post-graduate work

and examination, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Sur-

geons.

་་་ ༢

Upon his return to China in 1911, the year of the foundation of the Chinese Republic, when Canton was the Capital of China, he was appointed Minister of Health, and later when the seat of the Gover ment was removed to Nanking, be continued to serve in Canton as Commissioner of Health for the Province of Kwangtung)

Beins the first. Minister of Health in the history of China, he had under- taken planeering legislative and organisation work.

Returning to the Colony in 1913, he commenced the practice of his profession which he is still carry- ing on.

...

The Mo Fan endeavoured to tow the heavily laden ferry through the rapids, with only one or two feet to spare on each side, but the current was too swift and caught

broadside the Man Chuk crashing. It against the ragged rocks of the rapids.

PANICKED BUSH FOR DOOR

.on.

The passengers, the majority of whom were asleep when the yessel struck the rocks, immediate- v. became panic-stricken sand there was a mad scramble for the door. Some of the crew, "en- deavoured to shut the bulkheada separating the fore and aft parts of the ship.

Beveral missionarles paidà tribute to the discipline and order inesa of the Communist troops..

*FOREIGNERS ACTIVE Three foreigners are playing a the Slantu prominent part in drama according to the mis- ionaries. In addition to Agnes. Smedley, American radical ay- tharess, James Bertram, Zen ander, who recently arrived in China from Oxford with a travel- ling scholarship, is frequently broadcasting rebel· propaganda. Similar activities are being pur sued by Mrs. Wang.

married Chinese.- Reuter.

& New

а German

EVACUATION - FROM SIANFU

American Missionaries Reach Safety

Shanghai, Jan. 21. It is learned that three American missionaries from Pinghang, Kan- su, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Peterson During the paste the door was and Miss A. Nelson, who were pre- and viously reported to have arrived jammed with struggling screaming passer gars. Those who in Blanfu safely, have reached managed to get on deck were Hangyang in south-west Shenat greeted with forbidding sight. As a result of this development On one side the towering bank, the British and American officials. with the lights of Kam Chukat present in Sianfu have been told glimmering above, offered

that it is unnecessary to wait for venue, for escape. On the other side was the dark and swiftly run- ning water,

mo

Meanwhile the Mo Fan and an

them any longer.

BRITONS REFUSE TO LEAVE Four Britons attached to the other Yerry, the Tal Hing, which Baptist Missionary Society Insist had been following the Man Chur, on remaining at their posts in cautiously approached the doomedianfu despite the persuasions of vessel. As soon as they came Mr. Lovat Fraser and Capt. Scott, alongside there was a mad rush by who accordingly left by air with- the half-crazed passengers, who out them. fought and screamed in their. efforts to reach safety.

LISTED. ALARMINGLY The sudden rush of the passen gers to one side of the Man Chuk caused it to list alarmingly, but the panic increased and, with a sickening lurch; it capsized.

Some 100 of its passengers, who were inside the vessel and unable to get on deck, were trapped with out a chance. Both the Mo Fan and Tai Hing shove to rescue the Man Chux passengers, but of the 340 aboard her only 113 were res- cued by them,

The British officials were accom- panied from' Stanfu by the Barrett party and eight Italian missionaries who recently new to Slanfu from other station in north-west China.

lesser,

THIRTY TWO LEAVE

Shanghai, Jan. 21. Two Eurasia planes left Sianfu

this morning with a total of thirty- two passengers, one machine going.

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Letters for "Imperial Alewaya Diract Service''--die London. 1st February.

Letters for "Australia by Im- perial Airways Servica"-das Darwin, 26th January, Amoy Shaughai Ama Bangkok vis Swatow

wstow, Amy wari Fooobow Manila, Australia and New Zealand vi

Thursday Island-ine Thurwisy Iland at February... Straits, Ceylon, India, East and South Africa, Aden. Egypt and EUROPE i Marselilas due Mar will, 19th Febrary

SATURDAY

to Loyang and the other to Cheng-Letters for "K.L.M. Service”—-—-

dae Amsterdam, 1st Feb. chow

The identity of the passengers is not known, although presumably they include Mr. Lovat Fraser. NO EUROPEANS ABOARD Right of the rescued died from Capt. Scott and Mr Barrett exposure before they could be Reuter landed. The majority of the pas- sengers were stated to belong to

there were no Europeans

He was entrusted with the task of reorganising the Yeung Wo Hospital at Happy Valley, now the saloon class and it is believed known as the Hong Kong Sanstor- | that ium and Hospital. He has now aboard. ` served the Hospital continuously Chairman of Directors for eleven yeara. +

38.

One of the largest passenger boat trading on the West River, the Man Chik, almost a new ship.

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Air Mail for Canton and Dis.

tricts.

Haibor, Pathol and Haiphong Letters för Guam, Honolulu, and“ U.S.A., by "Pan-American Airways Service" ---- dus. SAD Francisco, 2nd February,

Manila Balgon

(Continued from Faze 1.3

as Vice- was launched in Canton in 1982 taken out the Westcott, transfe-- Air Mail for Swatow,

He had been elected President of the Far Eastern Asso- ciation of Tropical Medicine, Vice-

She was regularly employed an

the ferry service between Canton red to the Bruce for the retura

and Kongmcon.

and Commander B, M.

to the Westcott.

may, Foochow and North China (via Shanghai).'

тоувде,

Last year a similar disaster oc- Loly will exchange from the Bruce curred when a ferry suddenly capsized, some 100 lives being

President of the National Chinese Medical Association, President of the Hong Kong University Medical Society, He is also member of the Court of the University of Hong lost. Kong.

i

He is an Honorary Adviser to

the Chinese Chamber of Com- POPE'S HEALTH

merce, a permanent member of the Tung Wah Hospital Advisory Board, and member of the Medical. Board. In May 1932 he was re- turned by a large majority" as member of the Sanitary Board. In 1935 he was re-elected to serve a second term as member of the Banitary Board which is now

Foochow

SUNDAY

Command Changes Commander A. O'Leary, Inte Train ing Commander at Devonport Sato, Ama, and Formose Naval Barracks, assumed command

of the cruiser Caradoc in the Re serve Fleet, Devonport: Comman-

Shanghai

MONDAY

GIVES ANXIETY der T. A. Hussey, Late Maintenance Bhanghai Japan. Honolulu, Canada,

Continued from Paza.1)

TURN FOR WORSE

Rome, Jan. 21. As the condition of Pope Pius

U.S.A. Central and South America *n* **EUROPE: via VancoRVEK, B.O., (Paroels for Osnada caly)-- due Vanmuver, 80: 14th February and EUROPE viz Biberia ...

TURDAY

Commander at Hong Kong, suc ceeded-Commander C. L. Howe In command of the Fury. In the 8th Destroyer Flotilla, Home Fleet, and Lieutenant-Commander W.-J. Clowes, from the destroyer Comet, assumed command of the Veteran, Batavia

at the Nore.

known as the Urban Council, and has again taken a turn for the one of the emergency destroyers Air Mall for "France Orient

on which he is still serving.

Among the public officer Dr. TA worse, his physicians have given hag held may be mentioned that strict orders that His Holiness is to of member of the Sanitary Legiala stay in bed until the special invalid tion Committee, in connection with chair, which is at present under the Scheme for the Reorganisation construction, is ready,

HMLB Protector Completed The new netlayer Protector was commissioned on

Service”—due"" Marseliles, 7th February.

Decem-Saigon, Ceylon, India, Gast, and

Bouth Africa, Egypt and EUROPE: ber 28, at the Scotstoun works

via | Marjail?sw=dson Marseilles Kath February

of the Medical and Sanitary Ser- It is stated that the determina-of Messrs. Yarrow and Co. by vices of the Colony. At present hetion of the Pope to get up during of the the last week has turned his ill ness into a chronic state. Transocean News Nervice.

Is serving as a member Hong Kong Housing Commission of 1935.

MORE CARGO FOR

BRITISH SHIPS.

Bydney, Jan. 20.) A plan" to give British ships a larger share of the cargoes be tween Australia and China and Japan, has been drawn up by the Assistant Minister of Commerce, Mr. H. VThorby, and will shortly be discussed by the Cabinet Heuter,

TEDNESDAY Foochow via Svätow Straits, and "KUBOPE vía Marseillon Palmerino "Marseilles, 34th February -- and London Parools dus London 3rd March

Captain DJR Simson Other. officers appointed to her are Clou tenant-Commander J. Peterson, late of the cruiser Neptuno, who FARLIER REPORT ·2. was awarded the DBC, for gal- Vatican City, Jah 20.- lantry in leading a boarding party "After a night of pain. His Ho- from RMS. Klawo during opera- liness was not allowed up again to, tions at Wanhalen, Yangtze River. Straits and Caloutts day, fun. Ma e Made in September, 1928; Lieutenant E. Hollow

One of the official reasons for 8. Back (navigator), who gain- Fort Bayard and Haiphon keeping him abed is that bleed the Beaufort and Wharton Amoy specially designed wheel armchair is not comfortable and a new one is being built

Pope Plus was well enough to re- ceive the Eshop of Breslau for three-quarters of an hour, how

ever

Heuter's Bulletin Service.

Testimonials in 1933 and has specialized, this year; Engineer Lieutenant Commander HA Arbury, late of the destroyer Bourdicea in the Mediterranean; and Paymaster Beutenant-Com- mander G. H. Courtier, from the F.N. Barracks: Chatham.

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