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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY, APRIL 30. 1906.

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On the 2nd April, to Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton, C. M. S., Tehyang, Szechuan, a daughter, ELEANOR FRANCES.

LOCAL AND GENERAL:

VISCOUNT Anki has arrived at Washington.

THE German mail of the 28th March was de- livered in London on the 26th inst

THE news is confirmed on good authority that the Japanese Government is preparing for an early opening of Tailien to foreign trade.

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DR. Griffith John, the veteran Hankow mission ary, sailed by the R. M. S. Empress of India on April zi on a visit to New York,

THE Chinese Engineering and Mining Com- pany's total output of the Company's three mines for the week ending 14th April amounted 10 20,954 41 tons and the sales during the period to 18,980.16 tons,

A NATIVE was fined 515, by Mr. C. A. D. On the gib April, at Huchow, born to the Rev. and Mrs. EDWARD PILLEY, à 200,- Melbourne, at the Police Court this morning, On the 17th April, at Port edward, Weihai-for injecting morphine into the arm of another wei, the wife of ROBERT WALTER, Colonial

man, on Sunday, without the drug being, duly Civil Service, of a daughter.

prescribed by a doctor.

On the 21st April, at Shanghai, the wife of L. CHALMERS, of a daughter. On the 26th April, at Shinghai, the wife of J. J. DUNNE, of a son.

MARRIAGE...

On the 11th April, at Tientsin, WILLIAM KEMP BRADOSTE, Liverpool, Lancashire, of the Imperial Railways of North China, to ELEANOR ("Elaine") LEES POXON, daughter of the late Rev. John Paxon, Hartington House, Breaston, Derbyshire.

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Ar the instance of P. C. 30, at the Police Court this morning, Alexandre Laizet, a petty officer, from the French cruiser Gueydan, was charged with assaulting a Chinese woman named Wong Lin Kwai in Ship Street, on Saturday night The defendant admitted the charge, and Mr Hazelan fined him $5.

A coox and a widow were charged at the

On the 22nd April, at Shanghai, JAMES Magistracy this morning, before Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne, with stealing from the counter of a pawnbroker's shop at No. 4, Lyndhurst Ter- race, two celion bed covers, valued at $y, on

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PLAGUE PREVENTION,

TOUCHING APPEAL TO THE SANITARY BOARD.

HARDSHIPS AND SUFFERINGS.

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SIR,In reference to the procedure hitherio adopted by the Sanitary Board in carrying out the bye-laws for the prevention of infections and contagious diseases, especially pingue, it may be interesting for members to know that many hardships and sufferings entailed thereby bave so alarmed the Chinese that they continue to conceal their sick and abandon their dead against the practice and custom of their own country, in spite of efforts to render them every The questions i asked at the last meeting re- assistance they may be in want of. late to those hardships and sufferings. Before proceeding further I should like to offer a few observations on the rep'ies thereto.

Bye-law 4 does not, in my opinion, empower the Medical Officer of Health to compel the contacts of plague patients to wear clothes provided by the Sanitary Board. It refers only to the removal of clothing, &c. I am inclined to think that the Board's officers have, oven in this matter, carried the law too far in semoving the clothing locked up in hoxes not in use at the time, nor soiled by discharges from infected persons. If the contacts wish to wear clean suits of their own, pending the disinfection, of the infected suits, why should the Sanitary Board, object to their so doing, thus not only causing them trouble and misery, but also sub- jecting them to indignity?

The reply to question 2 is rather evasive. If the contention is that, once clothing having it is liable to infection, why should the clothes of the Board's officers and coolies who handle

For the information of members, I may here enumerate a few of the details which have' driven the Chinese to this extreme and of which I have had personal knowledge. It may be argued that recently' a little leniency and consideration have been exercised in the carry- ing out of the bye-laws and soma small concer- signs have been granted. But all these are as nothing in comparison with the disturbance to domestic peace, the destruction of proparty, the separation of mothers from children, wives from husbands, and the numerous other hard. ships which the Chinese have to endure,

At ordinary times when a doath occurs in a Chinese house, excepting those cases attended by qualified doctors, an inspector is sent to view the body before a burial certificate is

issued. If in the opinion of the inspector the body looks suspicious, it is taken away to the mortuary to be examined. This is one of the objectionable features of the procedure which the Chinese regard as posthitmous punishment.

During the plague season stricter vigil

The Hongkong Gelegraph Saturday. Mr. Otto Kong Sing defended, and been exposed and handled in a plague house, tion with those outside by the inmates, until the

HONGKONG, MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1906,

FORBIGN INTERESTS.

pleaded not guilty for the defendants. The

case was remanded.

An aged coolie was prosecuted at the Police Cour, at the instance of Inspector Gourlay, this morning, for stealing off a door at No. 3 Some time ago our Singapore correspond. Police Station, on Saturday night, hinges, etc to the extent of $1. Defendant, in admitting ent telegraphed to the effect that certain

the charge, sad that he thought the hinges shipping firms were considering the possi- were not required at the station as he proposed bility of effecting foreshore rights into appropriate them. Wong's reckoning was Singapore, the object' being to evade the

wrong on this occasion and Mr. F. A. Hazeland charges, if any, which might be imposed sentenced him to three weeks' hard labour and under the scheme for harbour improve. six hours' stocks.. ments sanctioned by the Government of the Straits Settlements. Although that rumour has not been confirmed, it appears in the Penang journals. Reference is made to the subject by the junior paper in the Straits in the following terms:

A. §. WATSON & CO., "It has been persistently rumoured both

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A YOUNG Chinese woman was put into the witness-link at the Police Court this morning, by ergt. Cashman, and to all intents and pur- poses thought it a good joke. On taking the bath," the woman roared with laughter and was ordered out of Court by Mr. F. A. Hazeland After a minute or two this wily young lady was called into the box, and it was at first feared

here, and in Singapore that a number of that there would be a repetition of her be foreign firms in the Southern Settlement-liaviour, but a few words from his Worship soon have resolved, in view of the expropriation put her straight and her evidence was heard. of Tanjong Pagar, to combine to build AsOFT-HEARTED Coolie, hearing that his chum wharves and jetty-sheds which shall not be was out of work and without shelter, asked 1:4 under direct Government control. How him to share his room. "The friend occupied

much truth there may be in this rumour we

the same bed with him last that night. This

guest gone, and with him about $10 worth of and when the scamp was arrested, pawn-tickets for the goods he stole were found in his pockets He admitted the charge at the Magistracy, this morning and Mr. F. A. Haieland sentenced him to three weeks' hard labour.

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the infected clothing of the contacts and work for hours in a plaque house, be not submitted to the same process of disinfection before they are allowed to go elsewhere? If the theory holds good, these men having worked in a plague house are bound to carry, if not more, as much infection as the contacts themselves.

Reply 3 says that special precautions are taken by practitioners and officers of the Board to protect their clothing from defilement. 1 may say for certain that they do not immediate- ly after attending a plague case take off their infected clothes and send them in a covered basket to the disinfection station, and when they change their defiled clothing, they do not wear special clothing supplied by the Sanitary Board but their own. I should say the clothing of those living in the same house as a plague patient runs no more risk of infection than theirs

Reply 4 bears out the fact that, in addition to their misfortune, the inmates of a plague house bave, during all these years, been subjected to suffering from cold for want of sufficient clothing. Had it not been auticed and reported by influential witnesses, the, only complaint mentioned in the reply would not have reached the cars of the proper authorities. When the

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JAPANESE REVIEW.

TREMENDOUS ENTHUSIASM.

REQUIEM FOR THE DEAD. [From Our Own Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 30th April, 3.5 p.m.

A grand review of the Japanese troops was held at Tokio to-day.

Thousands of spectators attended the spectacle, and many tourists watched the unusual sight.

Tremendous enthusiasm was ma- nifested by the people.

At the conclusion an. Imperial re-

[N. C. D.. News.] The San Francisco Calamity.

Tokio, 26th April, The danger of pestilence breaking out at Son Francisco has passed.

Three hundred bodies have been recovered and there are a thousand yet unrecovered. The authorities insist upon the burials taking place in the public squares.

ance is exercised. Where qualified medical assistance is not employed, against which the prejudice has not yet been entirely overtime, almost every dead body is caried away and oven in, souse cases the patient" in a moribund state, not actually suffer.quiem, by command of the Emperor, ing from plague but with suspicious symp was given for those who fell in the toms, is not allowed to die in peace in his own house. Under such circumstances, hard-late war. ship and suffering are unavoidably inflicted on the patient and his family, and fright and anxiety caused to his fellow-lodgers and neigh- boues. It an examination by the Government Bacteriologist.a patient or corpse is found to be plague-stricken, a constable is detailed to mount gaard at his house to prevent removal of any article, and the holding of communica. cleansing gang under a coloured foreman and an inspector arrive a few hours thereafter, or sometimes on the following day. Then the. contacts are compelled to 'strip off their own clothes and put on those supplied by the Sani. tary Board. Not only the clothes which the contacts are at the time wearing but also those locked up in boxes must be shuffled into large baskets and carried away for disinfection. The scebe created by, the demolition of partitions and ceilings coupled with the washing of lur-

General Funston has placed tents at the dis niture and bed-boards is anything but pleasant. To see the cleansing coolics (whom the people posal of the Japanese and Chinese who are call "Rat Kings" because of their arrogant also organising relief for themselves and others, attitude) throwing the debris about and dash-The Washington Government is sending ing in and out with what they have destroyed, 2,000 teats to San Francisco. / while the people themselves in the convict-like garments provided by the Sanitary Board are watching on with sad faces, is very touching. Why some of those engaged in the work sull have the heart to be rough and bullying i fail

to understand

The primary intention of such a procedure is to prevent the spread of infection, but I should say it rather helps it to spread inas. much as it has struck awe into the hearts of Chinese to such an extent, as compelling them to devise means, at great risk and against the practice of their own race, lo evade the law by concealing their sick and abandoning their

As I have on various occasions pointed out, very few Chinese can afford to rent a whole house or even a whole floor. Usually two or more than three-families, and in the case of single men, ten or fifteen, share a floor toge- ther. The occurrence of a plague case would consequently affect all alike. It is, I think, only human nature for the rest to do their utmost to avoid the miseries inevitably result-

do not know, but it is distinctly against the morning when the host awoke he found his disinfection and destruction of their property dead.. policy of the Colonial Office to allow foreclothing. Information was given to the Police were being canied on, no sympathy has being igners to acquire foreshore right in British colonies, and this policy, which has been strictly enforced in Hongkong and Ceylan, should certainly be adhered to in the Straits, if Singapore is to really become a great naval base and "the Gibraltar of the East,' On the other hand, it is well known that several prominent foreign firms in the Straits have recently been registered as

WINE AND SPIRIT British companies and, in consequence

MERCHANTS,

19, Queen's Road Central,

From to-day until the

30th we are giving 15 per cent. all Cash Sales,

in order that, all may

of this, a

SAM Thompson, a seaman, s.1. Monteagle, with a previous conviction, was charged this mom. ing before Mr. F. A. Hazeland with being drunk and incapable in Queen's Road Central on Saturday. Defendant; "I plead guilty,

your Worshy. As my ship will lease in a day

or two, I would like to be given a chance as don't want to miss the vessel," Inspector Smith: "The captain of the Monteagle was notified of defendant's arrest, your Worship, and he said that he is tired of paying defen- dant's fines and he would be glad if he could be kept in gaal until the ship's departure on Wednesday." His Worship: "You pay a fine of $5, or two days' hard labour.

curious situation might arise, should the rumour alluded to prove correct." The matter is one of more than purely academic interest, and merits the 'careful attention of the authorities." The | Singapore Free Press declares that' such a scheme is impossible in Singapore, be: cause the Government will graat no portion of the foreshore of the Colony to any fore-On Saturday morning the police at West igner, or even it is believed to any British subject. It will be observed that both the journals in question fall into error when they assert that it is against the policy of the Colonial Office to allow foreigners to acquire foreshore rights in British Colonies,

Patut prosecuted a few truck-owners for care less driving along Queen's Road West, and one and all were convicted. This morning, U Fuk Kam, a butcher," 6, 20, Enst Street, was charged with carelessly driving his truck along water grating, the property of the Crown, to Queen's Road Central and damaging a storm-

tended to the sufferers except that they were prevented from going out of sight, while they themselves were too scared to do anything.

During the last three years at the initiation of our late Governor, Bir Henry Blake, kaifong committees have been formed and every endea vour to relieve the alarmed Chinese by showing them sympathy and going amongst the poor to explain to them the requirements of the lawing from a voluntary report to the authorities. and how they should comply with them, and since inst year the Hun. Þegistrar General and

the Chinese members of the Sanitary Board with the co-operative assistance of those in- terested in philanthrophic work have obtained the consent of the Government to embark in n

It should be borne in mind that in almost every case the sick abandoned or the corpse

dumped belongs to the labouring class. When

ose of this class contracts the disease, too poor to pay for his necessaries and without friends sufficiently well off to look after him, scheme to raise funds annually amongst Chi-his employers or fellow-lodgers fully knowing pese merchants and householders to establish what would ensue, naturally take steps to pro- district Hospitals called the Turg Wa Branch tect theirown welfare and interest. Should he Hospitals, under the charge of licentiates of be a married man having a family with him, the Hongkong Medical College and English the other families living on the same four wilt speaking clerks, in different parts of the City, feel too much alarmed not to persuade, or that with a view to inculcating the more ignorant failing to threaten him into doing anything and pupier Chinese with a better knowledge of save reporting his case, and, should bath al- the Public Health and Building Ordinance, ex-

tempts prove in vain,to desert the house, leaving tending to them any help they may requite his wife and children alone. If he cannot pull and thereby suppressing the 'concealment of through, his own kith and kin in turn desert cases and the dumping of dead bodies. This him. work has now been carried on for more than a year at a cost of about $15,000 per annum, but I regret having to say that, on account of the fear which has so deeply taken

of the measures enforced during the last twelve years since plague made its first appearance, and owing to the difficulty in raising sufficient funds to extend their operations, the founders' efforts have not met with such appreciable success as desired.

a policy which it is further alleged has the extent of $3, on Funday * be defendant- been in operation in Hongkong and a youth of about fourteen years of age-admit-root in the Chinese mind through the stringency Ceylon. We can scarcely speak, in ted the charge. The master of the truck was definite terms regarding Ceylon, but with re- brought into Court and was informed that the buy was too young to pull a truck. The Chi- nese constable said they were racing along the that no discrimination is made between road. His Worship ordered the master to re-

gard to Hongkong, it may be stated at once

Britishers and foreigners, either as to fore, fund the cost of the damage,

shore or inland lots. The latest issue of the

At other times these people have better chances of getting their dead passed by the sanitary officers and can, without molestation, apply to the Tung Wa Hospital for assistance

or go out to beg for subscriptions to pay for

the burial, but when plague is rampant, as that institution must report every suspicious case, they shun it too for fear of the detection of their address, and hang on till the last moment, when they have no alternative but to commit the heinous offence, As regards the well-to-do. they secretly remove their sick out of the Colony before death takes place. I say se treatment and they equally want to avoid it:

Judge the quality of our fact that marine lots are still being put upgistracy this morning, for being in the servant's ed the attention of the Government and the cretly, because they have to undergo the same

wines.

by the Government if not now in the island, yet in the New Territories, and there appears no 'condition which would preclude for Above does not in-cigners from entering into competition with British subjects. It is true that Downing Street has issued instructions with regard to clude Beer, Stout, Cigar the use of Crown properties, but nothing has their quarters, and when he was inquiring free medicine nad free medical attendance from been said as to any differentiation between about the cloak, defendant was found in the the Tung Wa Hospital which also undertakes those born under the British Crown, and fendant stole the cloak. Mr. A. Hareland

to bury, at its own expense, the dead of the seryant's quarters. It was suspected that ce-

poor. and Cigarettes.

others. Indeed, it would be a retrograde fined him $15, or one month's hard fabour.

The allegation of the Chinese members ap. step to adopt such a measure and entirely On Saturday night "the Amateur Dramatic | pears to have now been verified, as, in addition opposed to the interests and the develop Company gave the first performance of to the district hospitals offering free medicine, ment of the Colony,

Country Moure, by Arthur Law, a so-called coffins, &c., Mr. Ho Kom Tong, as a test of satirical comedy. It can scarcely be said of this piny that there was no "plot," for it team the allegation, has widely advertised on his own A REMARKABLE list, collected for the first ed with plots and intrigues from start to finish, account to give free coffins and pay the cost of time, shows that American women have, within and is of that class of piece that should certain burial fix the poor, and yet in a very few case a few years, gained twenty-three titles by mar

ly strike home if performed in some of the kill has his generosity been availed of, and riages into English families, twenty-six German stations of India, of which we wot. It was dumping, I understand, still continues,

Ivery well staged and went without a hitch and Considering the existing circomstances, Miles, fourteen French, seventeen Italian, and if there was a fault, it was that the part of the six Russian. It is further estimated that 160 Country Blouse was, perhaps, just a wee bit venture to remark that short of modifica American heiresses have brought to Europe in overdone, and put the heroine nearer nine tion of the procedure so persistently' fol-

than nineteen, as she informs the audience is lowed from your to year, and, so long downies no less than 30,000,000, or an average

her age. The performance will be repeated the terrible fear in consequence thereof is not of £187,500 each. In Great Britain the to-night and to-morrow night, and will na American wives of British husbands help to doubt attract full audiences; for now is our abated, the evil will ever remain ́a, difficult

problem, [36 control about 2,000,000 acres of land.

silly season,

The concealment of plague cases and the Government Gatetic bears evidence to the MRS. F. J, V. Jorge, of “ Villa d'Alva," Kennedy

Road, prosecuted i Tze, a barber, at the Ma. Camping of dead bodies have oftentimes engag. quarters of her house, on the 29th instant, Sanitary Board. At a previous discussion of

In conclusion, I beg to suggest that a sub without permission. Defendant, who pleaded these matters the Medical Officer of Health guilty, said he went to visit his cousin, who (Dr. Clark) gave it as his opinion that the Chicommittee consisting of the President, the Re- was employed by the complainant. The de nese did it in order to save expense, while the gistrar General, the Senior Chinese member tective, who arrested defendant, said that some Chinese members contended that it was not so, and another European unofficial member be days ago Ms. Jorge lost a cloak, but could not but due to the drastic measures enforced, the appointed to thoroughly investigate- find the thief. Instructions were given to the Chinese poor being always able to obtain both other servants sot to allow any strangers in.

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(a) The methods hitherto adopted and the manner in which they have been carried out, and,

(b.) The causes of dumping, and consider what modifications are necessary to enlist the Co-operation of the Chiness community and reduce the existing hardships to a

a minimam, A little tact mingled with sympathy and con: sideration as shown them during the. Third Street experiment will, I am sure, induce the Chinese to come forward to give assistance.

As the majority of the population of the their second nature, as it has apparently been Colosy is Chinese, it is undesirable to make it done, to continue the evil practice. Why should the Sanitary Board bave recourse to drastic measures, if its object can be equally success. fully attained by milder means?

I have the bonour to be,

Sir,

Your obedioni šervant, (Sd), LAU CHU PAK,

Secretary, Sanitary Board, Hongkong, 23rd April, 1905,

G. A. WOODCOCE, ESQ.,

The banks will re-open after thirty days. There will be no failures.

Thousands are leaving the city, but all the able-bodied men are being restrained from so doing.

Food is pouring in, and by President Roose- vell's instructions provision is being amply maile for the Japanese and Chinese, equally with the Americans.

FAMINE AVEKTED,

THE FINANCIAL CRISIS.

Tokio, 25th April.

It is now estimated that the deaths at Sap Francisco will exceed 1,700. The bodies already recovered include those of a few Japanese victime.

The survivors are

Presidio Park.

now camped in the

Many insurance companies are likely to fail. The United States Mint is to advance

deposits to the banka.

Martial law continues. Communications have been re-opened and famine has been averted by prompt aid from the surrounding cities,

Later.

The Japan Red Cross Society is inviting subscriptions for relief work at San Francisco, The Society has decided to equip the former Russian hospital ship Orel and dispatch her to San Francisco with a medical staff and supplies, Seismological experts and architects have also been ordered to San Francisco.

A Possible Menace.

Peking, 24th April. The French Minister has lodged a protest

against a certain religious service (apparently

in connection with the late magistrate Chiang) which it had been intended by officials and other sympathisers to celebrate here.

The Russo-Chinese Negotiations,

Peki ́ġ, 24th April, Although the Russian Minister agreed to re- ceive the secret treaty concluded between the Russian authorities and ex-Tantai Chou Mien, he has now demanded almost identical condi- tions with the terms of that treaty. In const- quencs the Russo Chinese negotiations are again it a standstill.

Peking, 25th April. Mr. Pokaliloff tas asked that H.E. Chu Hong- chih, a member of the Waiwupu, shall be in structed to continue the Mafchuria negotia tions on behalf of China, and stated that he (the Russian Minister) will resume them short- ly. The Waiwapu has 'refused the demand and intimated that H.E. Tang Shao-yi will continue to aci as plenipotentiary as before,

The Anglo-Tibetan Convention.

Peking, 15th April. The Russian Minister having learned that the Anglo-Tibetan Treaty has been concluded has made searching inquiry of the Waiwupu,

SHIPPING AND MAILS,

MAILS DUR Canadian (Tarlar) fit prox. Canadian (Empress of Japan) 131 prox. English (Dongola) 3rd prox., 6 a.m. Indian (Gregery Afcar) 4th prox. German (Willehad) 7th prox. American (Siberia) 7ih prox. German (Roon) 9th prox. Indian (Lutsang) toth prox,

The C, P. R. Co.'s 1.s. Empress of India left Yokohama on Friday p.m., for Victoria and Vancouver.

The Imperial German Mail s.s. Prinx Hein- rich which left here on 24th inst.; arrived at 'Shanghai on 28th inst., at 7 pm.

The Apcar Co's 8.s. Gregory Apcar, ftom Calcutta left Singapore yesterday afternoon, and may be expected here ou 4th prox.

The 1.&O. S. N. Co's 1.1. Dongola left Singapore for this port on 28th inst,, at 5 p.m., with the outward English Mails, and is dua here on 3rd prox. at 6 am.

The C. P. R. Co's 1.5. Tartar arrived at

Nagasaki at 7 am, on 18th inst., and lo't again at 3 p.m., same day, for Shanghal, where sho is due to arrive at 8 am, on 30th inst.

The Imperial German Mail. Room cairy, ing the German Mails with dates from Berlia of the roth inst., left Colembo on 28th inst., p.m., and may be expected here on 9th prox

The C. P. R. Co.'s 1.1. Empress of Japan arrived at Shanghai at 2 am, on 28th inst, and left again at 10 pm, same day, for Hongkong, where she is dus to arrive at 9 aus, on est prox.-