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ANTI-OHRISTIAN OUTBREAKS

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1902.

THE COSTER'S BARROW,

COUNTY COUNCIL'S SCHEME FOR ITS

ABOLITION.

THE PUZZLE OF THE PLAGUE, {・・ ALLEGED PIRACY ON THE

In many places plaque does not appear to take root, and has disappeared after introduc- tion, as for instance in Glasgow, Oporto, Jeddah, Constantinople and Egypt, yet in others, such There seems a charm to many people in the as Calcutta, it appears to become accustom- purchasing of articles from street markets. ed to what at first sight seemed unfavourable Not only do the poorer classes patronise theircumstances and to increase in virulence, with stalls in the streets, but many of the middleery succeeding season, defying all attempts at eradication. In fact, when once the disease gets beyond the original focality where it is first introduced, and disconnected sporadic cases begin to appear, it defies all 'attempts at extinction by disinfection, segregation, cordos ing or evacuation.

class also. The result is that the traffic in- certain streets, to wit, Exmouth-st., Essex-st., and Strutton-ground, Westminster, becomes. congested, and now the L.C.C step in and revive a scheme they put forward some ten years ago,

AND THEIR PREVENTION. Many people ascribe the anti-Christian out- break, which continue to occur in Ching, to the malice of the Chinese people, says the Sin Wan Pao. Many others hold, that all these troubles are caused by the missionaries. Both these statements, however, seem to us incorrect. We trace the cause of all these dis- turbances to the crass ignorance of the com mon peopleIt is a great mistake not to devise: means for removing the ignorance of our people, and to say that missionaries should not go into the interior, is absurd: If our people abandon the Confucian religion and embrace the Christian, there must be something in the In their investigations at that time, they Christian religion, which they find superior found that there were in all some 112 market to the Confucian religion, The only way to streets with about 5,000 atalls. These num prevent our people from going over from their,bers, however, have grown, considerably, and own faith to a foreign creed is to think, out the L.C.C. will present to Parliament next same method or other to improve our religion.session a bill to place the street markets under If our literati simply admire their own religion, the control of the borough councils, giving saying that it is an orthodox, religion, and re-

them power to remove such markets, if they gard all other religions as heretical, and tell prove obstructions, and to construct proper the common people to avoid them they will not covered markets in their places. only be unable to stop

THE PROPAGATION OF CHRISTIANITY in China but involve the country in endless troubles. In fact the farther the literati go to scandalise Christianity, the more calamities they will bring on themselves and on their fellow countrymen.

Some of our literati are even, so silly as to think that to instigate the ignorant people to rise against the missionaries and their converts, by means of false reports that the missionaries and their converts are scooping out the eyes of young children, or are distributing poisonous medicine, will prove effective in preventing the propagation of Christianty in China. Instead of arresting the progress of Christianity, such faise and wicked rumours will help Christianity to spread itself more easily. The latest case in which such reports are fabricated' against the Christian religion happened in Hunan, where a military official named Ho Chin-sheng distributed

INFLAMMATORY PLACARDS among the ignorant people in order to put the Christian Mission in trouble. All those who possess any common-sense will not suffer themselves to be deceived with such placards. But all our people are ignorant and credulous. They are, therefore, very easily excited and are disposed to believe all sorts of wild and unreasonable rumours. When once their minds are taken possession of by such rum- ours, the ignorant people will be ready to per- petrate any outrages against the Christians. Al though these poor fellows are deservedly made to suffer the consequences of their own wicked acts almost in every case, yet they can never be taught any wisdom by these bitter experiences. Why is this? Because the medicine applied is not suitable to the disease. Ignorance is the root of all these troubles, Punishments, however severe they may be, can only suppress temporarily the results of ignorance: they cannot remove ignorance. And so long as ignorance is not removed, these troubles will

recur.

In the case under discussion, we are told, the guilty military official, Ho Chin-sheng, has been arrested and will in nil probability ba

decapitated. But such a measure will produce

no lasting effect, as those who are evil disposed as Ho Chin-sheng was,, are still to be found

It was formerly proposed that certain streets should be acquired. land taken up at either side, and the whole covered by a flat roof, pedestrians passing through the centre, and vehicular traffic going round the outside of the building.

But with the "pros" come the cons."

COSTERS LIKE THE OPEN.

The scheme itself, could it only be developed in harmony with the coster, would be an admirable one, but the coster has a great pre- judice against being "covered in."

A leading costermonger of Exmouth-st. has expressed his views to a moming paper.

"It's nouse their trying," he said: "we won't have covered markets. They've tried it before. Folks don't like going into a covered-in place when they are on the look-out for something cheap--it's too much like a shop. Oh, yes, we shall oppose it."

It certainly seems true that the public prefer. to purchase in the streets; perhaps the nearer view, even the handling of the article they are about to purchase, has something to do with the matter; anyhow, the number of shop. keepers who expose a portion of their stock outside their shops, and sell from there, is on the increase, even in the better-class localities.

"It'd never pay us to go into these covered markets," said another coster. "We sell things cheap, which is what poor folks want. We pay no rent for our standing, but if the place was covered in, we should, and so would have to put up our prices. What's the good of shov- ing something down our throats what we don't

want."

The question of obstruction, should the bill go through Parliament, will be for the borough councils to decide, and this, no doubt, will be are point, between the casters and the

councillers.

A COSTER'S PROPHECY.

A busy coster, serving out 'taters and beans to a crowd of customers, hurriedly remarked that the scheme would never come to pass.

But already the police have taken up the matter, for a costermonger was charged the other day at Southwark for abstraction at Lon- don-bridge station. The magistrate, in this cair, however, took a lenient view, and dis- charged the accused, with a warning to go

elsewhere.

The Coaters' Federation, which is a flourish- everywhere in China and are too numerousing society, will determine shortly the attitude. to be decapitated. The only effective preven tive to future outbreaks is the enlightenment for them to take with regard to the L.C.C. of the ignorant people by education.

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A remarkable paper has just been issued by the Government of the Punjab, in which

A HISTORY OF PLAGUE.

in that Province is sketched, and the adoption of wholesale inoculation with Haffkine's prophy lactic is proposed. In the year 1899-1890, plague affected two Districts in the Punjab and one village in a Native State, and the number of cases and deaths were 850 and 530 respectively. Next year seven Districts and two Native States were stricken, the number of cases and deaths heing 11,078 and 6,399. Since the 1st October, 1901, 23 Districts and 9 Native States have suffered and not short of 300,000 cases with 200 000 deaths have been recorded in the Province. A truly lamentable record. Short of compulsion the Punjab Government appears to have done all that human power could do to prevent

THE SPREAD OF THE DISEASE

within the affected towns and villages, and its extension to the unaffected regions surrounding

them

Last season's epidemic, however, was so widely spread that the resources of th Punjab Government were "severely strained to supply the officers required, particularly in the Medical Department, and the expenditure incurred has been very considerable. But the advice given to the people has never been acted upon in an adequate manner, and the disease has continued to spread until the usual seasonal abatement set in last month." So, as the Government remarks, unless something can be done to eradicate the infection during the hot weather, "the prospect is one of the gravest apprehension not only for the Punjab but also for the whole of India."

In reviewing the situation, Sir Charles Rivaz discusses the measures that can be adopted compatible with the resources of Gov. ernment and the attitude of the people, Segregation of patients and contacts he con. siders entirely out, of the question." The people will not abstain from contact with the sick, nor will they prevent visitors from infected places from entering their villages, though carefully warned of the consequences.

There remains then only inoculation, and the experience of the Punjab has confirmed the conclusions of the Indian Plague commis. sinn, that innculation not only wards off at- tacks, but also diminishes the chances of a

fatal termination in those who may be stricken by plague in spite of previous operation.

The Punjab Government is to undertake a scheme under which 6,500,000 persons will be innoculated at a cost of Rs. 8,64.000.

THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT is much perturbed by a report of the Governor of Catalonia that nationalist agitation in that province is rapidly increasing. Clubs and newspapers opposed to Spanish rule are being started everywhere. in many places the Spanish flag has been destroyed and the Catalonian flag hoisted in its stead.

BORNEO COAST.

According to the Manila Critic a communi. detailing the troubles of seamen with the pirates cation has been received from British Borneo of the coast, whose continued depredations have

been a source of much anxiety to the law-abid- ing. From the account it would appear that the buccaneers have been so successful in the springing up in surprisingly large numbers, to pursuit of their unlawful traffic that they are the consternation of those interested in trade on the coast, and the authorities are apparent. ly unable to thwart the designs of the intrepid highwaymen of the seas, who consequently ply their nefarious profession with supreme con tempt for law.

BLOOD THIRSTY ROVERS. appealed to with no visible improvement in The Governor at Sandakan has been repeatedly conditions, and it will probably fall to the lot of the craftsmen, to take the law into their own bands and organize a vigilance committee for. the purpose of apprehending and bringing to justice the notorious and blood-thirsty sea tovers, who have used force on occasions to consummate their plans. A mouth and half ago a trading vessel and its contents were seized half a mile from the coast, and the pirates assassinated two of the crew who were at supper. The merchantmen are now organizing a committee for the pursuit and capture of the Malvan, a More Daito, of Sulu, and it is not pirates. The vessel was owned by Ishwarl

unlikely that he will ask the United States government to assist him in collecting damag s.

RUSSIA AND THE AMUR TERRITORY.

EMIGRATION RETURNS IN 1got. The following details have just been pub- lished concerning the movement of emigration from European Russin to the Amur Territory during 1901. The number of emigrants was 15,968, and 7,875 preferred to make the journey to the Far East on shipboard. However, for some months an end has been put to the conveyance of emigrants by ship to the Far East. That the conditions of life are by-ne led to believe is seen in the fact that many of means so agreeable as the emigrant have been them returned to their homes in European Russia in 1901, and, in fact, the. homeward movement was stronger than it had been in 1900 In 1901 the number of those emigrants who returned to Russia was 2,379. or 15 per cent, of the whole body of emigrants; this year the tide will be still greater, in proportion as the Chinese drive the Russian settlers and colonists gradually backwards. It is estimated that during the present year 20,000 Russian settlers will have passed through Blagovest. chensk en route for the Amur Territory and the Ussuri region, and of this number about 14,000 colonists will settle in Southem Ussuri.

BATTLESHIP'S ESCAPE.

STORY OF A THRILLING EXPERIENCE

IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. Writing to a friend in Wiltshire on zo Aug., correspondent on one of H.M.'s ships in the Mediterranean says:. "We are congratulating

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