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CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN. & MORTGAGE

CO., LTD.

Notice is hereby given that Mr. Reginald Andrew Wickerson has this day been appointed Secretary and Manager of this Company, In the place of Mr. J. C. fruterres.

By Order,

S. M. CHURN,

CORRESPONDENCE

DOCTORS TRAINED IN JAPAN

[To the Editor. "The Hongkong Daily Press"}

SCIENCE'S AID

TO ARMY

Exhibition Opened By Minister

Sir-With due respect to all British and Hongkong trained The Important part played by doctors, I think certain statements science in the efficiency of the

YouL

correspondence modern Army was stressed by the in

Hore- columns directed against doctors Secretary for War. Mr. with Japanese diplomas are rather Belisha, recently. unfair.

It may

recent

be true

that their

not necessary

EDITORIAL

MR. CHURCHILL

ON SECRETS ACT ABUSES

Free Press Vital

To Nation

LET TRUTH BE TOLD'

Mr. Winston Churchill, at the reopening luncheon of the London Press Club recently, spoke of the necessity of a free and unhampered Press to maintain the traditions of British democracy. He said: || "On the whole I think that

He was opening a "Science in the Army" exhibition in the Science charges are cheaper perhaps be-Museum, South Kensington." Vis- cause of their clients being of the

count Nuffield presided. less well to do class or because the

While for reasons of secrecy. sald cost of their education Wis

Mr. Hore-Bellsha, it was not pos cheaper, but it is that they are inferior in their sible to display the best illustra- Hong Kong, 16th January, 1939. scientific training or ability. Theretions which the Army could give

are good as well as bad doctors of its interest in selence and ap- public men are treated with very plication of its researches, they great consideration and tolerance trusted that enough had been by the Press, shown to attract, in particular, the younger generation,

Chairman.

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CHINA "PROVIDENT

LOAN & MORTGAGE

CO., LTD.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Certificate No. 8768 dated Hongkong, 30th January, 1924 for--392-shares of this Company, numbered 181285 181676 inclusive, registered in the name of Ice Hysan (dec'd) has been Lost or Destroyed, and should this certificate not be pro- duced to the Company before the 30th January 1939, a new certi cate for the shares will be issued, and the aforesaid Certif cate No. 8768 will be thereafter

everywhere and among every race. Any doctor, who is legally admit- ted to practise and has paid for the regular. registration and cer- tificate to practise, does not deserve

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The modern soldier could not live a day, move a yard, or fire a shot without resort to the applied results of the work- shop and the laboratory.

"There is not in this country the kind of mood which would enable dead set to be made against

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anyone.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1939.

KING AND QUEEN WILL DO 300

MILES A DAY IN CANADA

Detalls of the visit of the King and Queen to Canada, a visit which will be the most strenuous any reigning monarch and his queen have ever undertaken, have just been revealed.

From the moment King George

and Queen Elizabeth arrive in Quebec on May 15 they will have only brief periods of respite.

They will be travelling almost day and night'in special regal rail- way coaches across the Dominion and back, so that the 10,000-miles trip schedules, including the jour- ney to the United States, will fit snugly into the four weeks allotted. The Canadian authorities are Itinerary that 19 preparing an planned to please.. every Canadian town of importance, but one that seems likely to mean a hectic rush for the King and Queen..

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A visit will be paid to the Jasper | The party will then return to Park, beauty spot of the Rockies. Canada. visiting St. John, New After a day at Vancouver on Brunswick, and Prince Edward Is- May 23 'the King and Queen will land.

On June 15 the King and Queen embark in a destroyer which will convey them to Victoria and later will sail from Halifax, bidding

Canada good-bye. back to Vancouver.

Their Majesties will begin the. That is the itinerary planned. eastward Journey from Vancouver It is still to be approved by the Here is the tentative Itinerary: wee bit of the denunciations

Arrive Quebec, May 15, where on May 30. visit Banff, then pro- Canadian Government Sub-Com- "You could not start a hue and the King and Queen wil be om-ceed to Calgary, where, on June 1mittee, but it is almost certain to that has been expressed in your

ery on any honourable public man clally welcomed by the Prime Minthey will witness the Indian Fes-be on those Bnes. esteemed paper. It is true that

without arousing in other quar-ister, Mr. Mackenzie King his tival. Hongkong has now become some-

It means a tour of at least 10,000 The Army was a university inters people who would come for Cabinet, and Lord Tweedsmuir, what too crowded with doctors,

From Calgary they go to Regina miles, probably more, and will be but let it be so, for the better man more than one sense of the term ward with keen pens and powerful Governor-General of Canada. to inspect the Canadian Pacide's an amazing feat of travel organi- should win and the fittest survive. From the day when a recruit was authority to put their own point

King George will reply, making picturesque bungalow camp at sation if compressed into a month, What is really most difficult to taken he was offered instruction (of view.

his first speech of the tour at a Kenora, and continue on to Bud-as is the royal wish.. Hongkong, which was continuous, thorough "We still have free Press. Government luncheon in Chateau bury, where the International Nic- understand

The Canadian Pacific and · Na- medical registration and and many-sided.

There are some restraints on the Frontenac.

kel Company's huge plants are tional Railway systems are colla- where

There On education the Army spent full freedom of the pen.

Montreal, May 16.-A brief tour situated.

borating on the travel arrange- certificate to practise are required of every properly qualified medical more than £1,250,000 a year. On are those restraints which come

of eastern townships.

Visits are likely to be paid to ments, and have workmen already practitioner, is the infinite toler-scientiae research, development, from the responsibilities of the

Ottawa, May 18 to 20-The King Northbay, not far from the Callan-preparing a special train, a crack ance exercised with regard 20 testing. design and inspection It proprietors and, there are those the

'doctors." "whose was spending £3,000,000 this year, restraints of a more objectionable and Queen will stay three days at der home of the Dionne quin-express that will have spacious character which are embodied in Rideau Hall, and the King's birth- tuplets, whose guardians are hop-drawing, dining, and bed rooms, ing to induce the King and Queen and kitchens that might grace a the later abuse and misuse of the day will be observed. Omelal Secrets Act."

The King will unveil

to see the world's five most famous first-rate hotel. little girls.

The King and Queen and their memorial at Ottawa and attend a

The next official A motor trip through Southern entourage will travel in a palace state banquet.

here

numerous

names and claims are

so pro- minently advertised in the Chinese papers, in buses and trains and on huge sign boards. Now, if these people, have a legal right to pran tise, then they have no right to treated by this Company as Nullo advertise: on the other hand, if they have the right to advertise then they have no legal right to practise what they claim to do.

and Vold.

By Order of the Roard

of Directors, 1. C. GUTERRES,

Secretary

of the battlefield had been over- come.

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f.

Ontario, on May 21.

a

War

.

TRAINED TECHNICIANS Major-Gen. J. H Beith. Director of Public Relations at the War

But the British Press was still Office, referred to the revolution

1 vast healthy organ of public In Army science had effected

guide to the country.

Royal Military College, Kingston, royal party reaches Niagara Falls. It is planned that the King will - health, and the way the diseases opinion and at the same time act will be an inspection of the Ontario is being urged before the on wheels.

where President and Mrs Roone-make four speeches during the "It must "guide the country."

Next day the royal party will be velt will greet them on June 8. tour-one at Quebec, another at at Toronto, and leave for the West said Mr. Churchill. It must tell

After a brief stay in Washington Ottawa, the third at Victoria." and the country.

the same evening, reaching Win-the King and Queen will almost the final one. a farewell message. "Some people say how mucn better it would be if these totall-pes on May 24 and Edmonton, certainly go to New York's World at Hallfax just before embarka-

May 28. tarian States who conduct their foreign policy on the basis that the Press tells nothing but what it is told and immediately says what it is told. had a free Press.

The exhibition, which is ir ar room near the entrance to the museum, shows the extent to which the Army is dominated by the machine.

The soldier," he said, "still has It should be known that pro-his minor worries, of an entomo- perly qualified and registered logical kind. but even these are doctors are not permitted by the heing dealt with." Medical Council which has con- trol over them, to "advertise. So these are the doctors' the local medical authorities and medical associations, as well as the public. should be concerned about. "The DOERNER – On January 9, 1939, at | medical practitioners have, In this The Country Hospital. Shang- regard, by virtue of their having hal, to Mr. and Mrs. Doerner. pald registration and annual fees, the fight to get protection from unfair competition.

BIRTH

daughter.

DEATHS

KOZLOWSKI--On January 8. 1539.)

Now that the public has ex at Shanghal, Kajetan Juilan pressed opinion, It is sincerely Kozlowski, in his 58th year. hoped that the local medleat ser- KATZ. On January 11, 1939, at vice and medical associations will

the Country Hospital, Shang- play their parts.

hal. Clara Katz, aged 74 years. ; mother of the late James Ben- jamin Katz, Mr. Llly Heimen-

dineer and Mrs. Dorothy Hertz.

Thomas Alfred (Hongkong).

FOR FAIRPLAY

"It means that, the whole news- The first stall pictures the train- ing of boys at the various technical Paper Press of a great country schools, where they are taught to can be turned "this way and that become fitters. electricians, tin-like a fire hose either pouring water or pouring smiths, surveyors, or artifeers. The on a conflagration demand for trained technicians is petroleum on flames which have increasing, and nearly 3,000 boys

already been ignited. are now being taught trades,

Another exhibit is of models used at the school at Feltham, where driving and maintenance is

taught.

·COOKED AND DOCTORED"

"It seems terrible to us. the Iden

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however violent it might be.

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K.C. CRITICISES CORONER

Protest Over Talks

In Assize Court

of

Eric

Fair for one day.

Commons Questions CROWN

SERVANTS'

ANONYMITY

-

Premier's Appeal

tion.

AIR MINISTER ON BOMBERS

Still Essential To Defence

SE-

recent

Speaking at a dinner at the Thomas Hugh Wilbraham, 43, of Ellesmiere-road, Altrincham, Che-

London Press Club recently, Sir (shire, was at Manchester Assizes

Kingsley Wood, the Air Minister, Mr. Mander (L, Wolverhampton, replied to suggestions which, he of living in a country where every recently found not guilty of the thing is cooked and doctored and manslaughter

Howlett E.) asked the Prime Minister if he said. had been made that the A fascina Ung section shows the everything pervaded according to Gabbott, 22, cf King's-drive. He ton would state precisely the present Government's proposals to wonders of wireless and the various rule and decision. and you can Moor, Stockport, whom he had functions of Sir Horace Wilson as crease the fighter strength of the RAF. meant a reversal of policy Hongkong. the officer concerned is means of Inter-communication never tell, except by getting hold treated. Wubraham was dischar- Government Adviser:

Mr. Chamberlain stated that Sir and a falling back on a purely dew- the Port Health Officer. As a re-that the Army uses. The varied of some foreign newspaper, what ged.

The proceeding were taken on a Horace Wilson had since 1935 been fensive strategy. TAYLOR-On January 11. 1939, at sult, special certificates are being activities of the Corps of Royal is happening in the great world

the Country Hospital, Shang- prepared in

"It is perhaps the case," he the Colony which Engineers and the apparatus em- cutside."

coroner's warrant," the prosecution seconded to the Treasury for ser- hal. Ethel Maud Taylor, aged when put into general use. will ployed are also illustrated.

Mr. Churchill said that great alleging that Wilbraham did not vice with the Prime Minister and said, "that there has been in the 45 years, wife of Mr. T. W.

First Lord. The function of Crown past a tendency to overstate the take the form of regular "official" The air defence section shows.o dangers could come from that, show the necessary skill or care. Taylor permanent staff. S.V.C. | documents and will bear the model 3.7 gun and a full-size and whole countries might be Gabbott's father. James Joseph servants, whether civil or military, argument. that the bomber will al- and late R.A.O.C.) and mother photograph of the person to whom predletor, a wonderful box-like in-roused to a state of fury without Gabbott, a schoolmaster, agreed was to carry out whatever duties ways get through, and also to lay Taylor they are issued--an Important dis-strument that does all the neces- ever hearing the other side be that Wilbraham had taken every might from time to time be allot- undue stress on the claim that the counter-offensive is the only tinguishing difference from the sary calculations, except finding cause their entire Press was order-care in the case. He also agreed ted to them.

"I should like to take this oppor-effective means of defence in the casual lips, or so-called certi-the height to lay the gun on the ed to write in a certain strain, that he himself had been advised ficates, the issuance of which by target.

by doctors on the use of insulin. tuhity" he said, of deprecating air.

性 "Developments any departure from the well- people in no way qualified was the The latest methods of medioal

It might be very convenient ir but had not taken their advice. cause of the Filipino decision. science and research in relation to we could suppress public opinion

Wilbraham stated that he had recognised tradition which pre- CERTAIN PRACTITIONERS, not the Army are also represented.

here and everything could go on be a he:bilist for 28 years, and cludes public references-whether belonging to Hongkong, were

quite quietly without knowing that had treated 28,000 patients without in this House, in the Press, or else- where by name to individual off- known to be resprting to unethical

there were any troubles out-complaint.

cers of the Crown services practices. For instance, they would

side.

(Cheers) "vaccinate"" passen- CONDENSED gers-hot with vac- MILK

cine but with con-

The troopship Dilwara arrived VACCINE densed, milk! One

from the United Kingdom yester- man was known thus to have "vaccinated" scores day afternoon with military per- of people in a single day and to sonnel for Hongkong. Tientsin and have issued "certificates of vac- Shanghai, details of which were cination therefore. Not satisfied published last month She leaves with that, he would spend his for Home on January 23.

The only other trooper due this Saturday afternoons signing "cer- tificates" which he would leave to season is the Essex, naval troop- be filled in by his office boy and ship, which will arrive on March 29 given to any Tem, Dick or Harry and will leave on April 3. who applied for them and paid a

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HONGLONG, January 17, 1839.

CHARGES AGAINST

DOCTORS

IN ITS USUAL sensational style, dollar to obtain them without go-

Manila health

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H.M. TROOPSHIP ARRIVES

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Lots of soothing platitudes would

ADVISED INSULIN When Mr. Gabbott brought his

It insulin

years have undoubtedly tend- ad to reduce the supremacy of the offensive and add to the actual strength of the defen- sive in the air, and we have naturally adapted our tactical and strategical polley in the light of recent developmenta in the technique of modern

warfare.

"The responsibility for all actions be uttered, lots of reassuring state-son to him in January, 1936, there and decisions of Government rests ments made, and lots of sanguine was a possibility of putting the with Ministers of the Crown alone, forecasts unfolded from time to boy right, and he told the father not with their advisers or agents,

and it would be contrary to the "But that does not mean for time. But one day there would be it would help him

were administered from the out-public interest if the practice were one moment that the time haa ar- an uncomfortable awakening.

"I am for letting the truth be set. He was not allowed to pre- to grow up of seeking to identify rived when we can contemplate

Individual Crown servants with relying for air defence exclusively- He advised against overdoing particmar actions or particular de- on our fighter aircraft and walking, but in June found that velopments of policy. (Cheers.) ground defences. The counter- the patient had been walking

"Moreover It is of the essence of offensive remains and must re- eight to 11 miles a day, and be our constitution that officers of the main an essential component of Wilbraham, said that if it went on public service should both be im-jour defence." he would drop the case,

scribe or use insulin, ..

no!

known: Have it out-facts and news. put them forward, have fear" exclaimed Mr. Churchill.

FOR GOOD OR ILL

in view

OME

For good or 1, he said, we were

partial and be recognised to be so Speaking of the addition to our committed to the democratic sys- When he told Mr. Gabbott, serving as they do with equal aghter force, air Kingsley said tem of life and government, and senior, that his son must have loyalty and zeal their political the number of fighters we required an evening contemporary sawing to the trouble of being vacsible and they PASSENGERS by it we must sink or swim. insulin the boy said he did not chiefs of whatever party comple-was conditioned by the alse and At, during the week-end, tocinated. Is it any wonder that know that they publish another scare article under the

the shape of the area we had to In the great trials that lay be- want it and the father sald hexion. authorities, will not be imposed upon. Thus, fure the world we should have to buld not have it. He. Wilbraham. "I would, therefore, appeal most defend, and the scals of attack the heading. "Allegations Against learning of these facts, should im- there is no question of passengers fight with all the strength and told the father that he would have earnestly to all concerned to assist against which we might have to Hongkong Doctors." According to pose a ban?

being held up. unnecessarily.

in upholding this great and vital defend it. this, certificates for small-pox PRACTITIONERS who do not After all, the certificates are issued weakness of a great democracy. By to take the responsibility.

but we While Wilbraham was giving tradition of anonymity in respect |- vaccination or cholera infections

demean themselves by selling for the benefit of passengers and night he did not mean war,

100,000 MEN BY NEXT JUNE Issued by general medical practi-

certificates need not feel that the hot for the doctors. Imposition of should have to hold our own, by evidence. Mr. E. G. Hemmerde, of the performance by Crown ser-

"Neither of these factors," he K.C., defending, objected to move vants of their duties." (Cheers). tlaners in Hongkong or Shanghai step taken is a slur against them the ban is no slight on private our present system. -

Mr. Mander: Will the Prime added, is in fact fixed.. are no longer acceptable to the

or their qualifications. The local medical practitioners of good

It was absolutely necessary that ments by expeit medical witnesses

"It was in the light of mch 01 the jury box, who Minister say whether in paying his port authorities at Manila because authorities are in a position to standing, who, as stated, need not the Press should have the power smiled at what might seem to be various visits to Germany he could considerations that we have of alleged malpractices.

know the qualifications and stand-feel hart or slighted because their as it had the duty, of explaining

ridiculous questions.

not find any official from the For-determined in my judgment THE FACT of the matter is that, ing of medical men but it is not certificates are not accepted."Pub-to the people about other systems,

"LITTLE EMBARRASSED"

eign Office competent to advise rightly-to increase "still further though Hongkong was in- easy for the authorities of another Hic health Is too important a mat- about totalitarian systems, whether

the Manila ban, the port to be acquainted with such ter to be treated lightly and we of a Right or the Left, to let the "I am a little embarrassed, too him? Why had he to rely upon a our fighter strength. I have also cluded in Colony is almost entirely innocent facts. The health authorities in are confident that it is the inten- average man in the street know by the attitude taken by the civil servant, however efficient, stated that we are taking steps of the alleged malpractices and other ports have no means of get-tion of private practitioners to lend the kind of things he might be up coroner," said Mr. Hemmerde, in who has spent his whole life in the further to strengthen considerably

| counter-offensive force.”||| there is no proof of any malprac- | ting into contact with private every assistance possible to the against and the kind of systems dicating Mr. J. A. H. Forns, the

Mr. Chamberlain : Mr. Mander Bir Kingsley said by next June tice on the part of Hongkong prac-practitioners in case of any ques- authorities in this direction.

under which he might find himself East, Cheshire coroner, on "whose titioners though an investigation tion arising, hence it is considered

IN THIS CONNECTION, it is greatly shorn and curtailed of his warrant Wilbraham was commit-may be mistaken in supposing that the Royal Air Force would have z I had no oficer of the Foreign strength of about 100,000′ men into the matter has been ordered desirable that, the work should be

ted and who was sitting in the understood that the Manila liberties

Once with me.

"ready and available for any de by the Director of Medical Ser- dealt with by the local authorities Port Health authorities may with-

solicitor's bench,

fence of the country that may be with whom the authorities at the draw the ban in the next few days. vices,

required," and the Estimates of THE BAN Imposed by the Philip-other end may deal, for, after all, Already, it has been removed in

hta Department' would reach pine authorities was directed the certificates are not issued for the case of first and second class The annual St. George's Eall win

£200,000,000 next year. local purposes, not solely against Hongkong: it

passengers because, happily, chol- be held in the Peninsula Hotel on concerned the ports of Shanghai, WHEN the local health authori-era is definitely subsiding so far as Friday evening. January 20. Amoy, Swatow, etc., and provided

ties issue the certificates, Hongkong is concerned, though

Mr.

Justice

Ministry of Labour?

Croom-Johnson; The coroner is the committing magistrate. I think it would bepapers and left the court.

did not The judge, summing-up, said it desirable If the coroner take any active part in the case had not been challenged that and sat away. I did not appreciate Wilbraham could not administer that he was in court.

Insulin, which, it was 'mid, he had to advise insulin of advised against Conse-its use. The members' of the R.AM.C. Mr. Hemmerde: He is in con- neglected to administer. Inoculation. For this satisfactory Mess will hold a Ball on Thursday stant communication with people quently the case only remained to The jury found Wilbraham not state of affairs, the D.M.8 and his evening in the Rose Room of the here.

be considered on the basis whether | guilty after a retirement of · 20 Peninsula Hotel.

Mr. Ferns then picked up his Wilbrahim had advised or failed minutes.

that passcrigers arriving in the new the authorities at the other end, third-class passengers are still re- Commonwealth from those ports in this case Manila, know the quired to produce certificates of should possess certificates of inocu- origin of such cer- lation against cholera issued by the tiacates to be FOR Government Health Officer. In sound and respon- BENEFIT OF staff are to be congratulated.

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