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Telegrams.

THE HONGKONG TELECPAPH FRIDAY JULY 17-1908.

CANTON-BANKOW RAILWAY,

· HONGKONG TELEGRAPH!!

MR. MURRAY. STEWART CRITICISED

BY DA. MORRISON, E

SERVICE.

OHINA'S SORROWS.

YANGTZE' FLOODS.

[From Our Quen Correspondent.]

Londor, Tane tg.

ants

TODAY'S Abbertisements.

NOTICE

· Under date May, 28ıb; Dr, Morrison sands Jeady" Captain Pedro. d'Azevedo Coutinhocation of a pulicide to a room where, for examV Chazalon & Co.) bas the pleasure to

the following account of the Canton-Hankow Pay

At the annual meeting of the Hongkong branch of the China Association held in Hong keng on January 30th las", ons of the speakers provoked the merriment of bis hearers by his description of the progress on the Canion Floods are reported along the valley in the Harkow railway. He said:"A little more than a year ago. I wear the line which bas heen marted from Cinton wịth the idea of some

lower Yangtze River.

Iching are submerged.;

Shanghai, 17th July,

**3.20 p.m.

it

The districts opposite Chloklang around day reaching, Hankow. As far as I fearn here, Talas-maru contained 1,500 rifles and 40,000, which is capable of panetrating into the la- August, 19.8, or they will not be recognized.

U.S. COURT IN-CHINA.

JUDJE WILFLEY'S RETURN,

[From Our Own Correspondent.}

Shanghai, 17th July,

3.20 p.m.

about four miles have been faid since then. At this rate of progress it will take 200 years to reach Hankow." No one at the meeting was in a position to dispute this version of the pro. gress of a railway which lies within easy reach of Hongkong. Yet, as a matter of fact, the Canton-Hankow railway la'making s'eady pro,

gress northwards."

accessible places is the only one which offere much hope of success in combating the plague.

At present experiments are being carried co in this laboratory with a machina (Clayton ges machine) which can produce a large volume of

Hongkong. 17th July, 1908.

FRENCH STORE.

6, QUEEN's Road CentraÉM

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FRESH supply of Freach and English

preserves just to hand- TRUFFLED SAUSAGE, BREAKFAST BACON,

CALF'S HEAD & HAY,

PEAS & HAM,

MACAO AND THE “14790 to the application of the ordin

materially handicaps the use stances." Indeed, it may be, said that the oven-. PORTUGUESE GOVERNOR'S OPINION. 'sións when the common disinfectants may be used with advantage are sew and far between. Sad Francisco, Tune 147 According to the statement of His Excel- Some good may, perhaps, be done by the appli

AR. L GAMEAU (late Manager of A.

Portuguese Governor of Macao, who are lants of the room are compelled to live or work public generally that be has bought over the ple, a rat la found dead in it and the inhabis

inform his Numerous Customers and the ed yesterday from China on the steamer

in, it appears that Portugal, as well as in it. The palicide must, however, be applied busieces of Messrs A. CHAZALON & CO. hin 24 hours after the death of the rat, and from 1st July, 1908, and will carry on same Japan, has made a claim against the Chinese should be remembered that the room is under the name and style of "FRENCH Government for the seizure of the Japanese

patronage will be extended by his customera steamer Tatsu-wary, his assertion being that always liable to relofection by the advent of STORE. He trusts that the same kind the steamer, with her cargo of arms and am fresh plague-infected rate carrying fleas with and the public, sa

them into the room. From what has been said All accounts due to the firm of A. CHAZALON munition, was taken by the Chinese gun cost above, it is obvious that a gaseous disinfectant & Co. will be collected by him and all bills while she was in Foringcene waters near Macao which is alike poisonous to rats and fleas and against the firm must be sent la balore esth

Captain Coutinho says: "The cargo of the rounds of ammunition. This was consigned to a Portuguese merchant at Macas. Before the seizure 1. had directed that the arms and am. munition should be delivered on their arrival to the representatives of the Portuguese Gov erament, le bond, and that the owner should secure them only as they should be sold, and when he had shown that they were not to be From Canton to the frontier of the province used by rebels hostile to the Chinese Govern the distance is approximately 180 miles, Ofmt. In spite of this precautionary measure, Judge Withey re-opens the U.S. Court in this total a distance of 24 miles is already open a Chinese gunboat overhauled the Tainemaru China, at Shanghai, on the 28th inst.

and traits are running both ways daily. A while she was in Portuguese waters. They baut further distance of 21 miles will be open in al down the Japanese flag, raised that of China October. Work is well in hand for 35 miles in its place, and took the vessel to Canton for further to mile 80, From this point to the the confiscation of her cargo. As a result of frontier of the province the final surveys are this action, Japan protested, forced, China to now being made. The capital for railway is make an abject apology, and the boycott after- purely Chinose, the directore are Chinese, the wards resulted. engis cei-in-chief a Chinese, but à considerable Pek'ag, 16th July,

number of foreign engineers of different nation Their Excellencies Chang Chih-tong, Yuan alities are employed. So far as circumstances Shih-kai and others have held a conference on will permit, the work divided into ten-mile see the subject of compulsory education.

tions, the engineers for the first four sections be They bave decided to make a start with the ing in order a Chinese, a Japanese, a Norwegian, and a Japanese. Sections to 8 are in charge 'capital of Chili province.

of a Canadian engineer, who has under him, in the order of the sections, a Chinese, a Swiss, a Canadian, and ap English engineer. A Can- adian engineer who has been conducting the final surveys to the frontier has recently been appointed engineer in charge of sections 9. to 12, and is succeeded in the survey by an American engineer. An Americanis aliothechieftechnical,

The boycott which has follawed," he says,. superintendent. Much of the permanent way

serious difficulties, but the work is is being prosecuted with vigour by the presents being done. tiood ballast is being faid, and solid Chinese. Their determination, they asset, is concrete bridges are being constructed. Anto,cante Japan to lose in trade a sum equal to official report now before me describes the rail the war indemnity which China was forced to way as being much more carefully built than pay to Tokyo at the end of the Chino-Japanese war, and the merchants say that it will be are most American railways"

continued until that penalty has been inflicted on the commerce of Japan.

COMPULSORY EDUCATION.

A START TO BE MADE [By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."""

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RAILWAYS,

PROPOSED TAXATION.

By courtesy of the "Sheung Fo.")

Feking, 16th July.

It is proposed by the Board of Revenue 10 Jovy a tax on railways.

Instructions have accordingly been sent to various provinces to ascertain and report on the mileage of each railway.

} Renter's)

The Duty on Tea.

..

The president of the railway in Sir Chen tug Liang, formerly Chinese Minister to Washington, who was 'knighted in 1837 on the

· LONDON, 15th July, bccasion of the Queen's Diamond Jubileo. "He In the House of Commons, sitting in Com is a graduate of Yale, a man of wide learning The engineer-in-chiel, mittee on the Finance, Bill, Mr. Snowden, and broad sympathies Labour member for Blackburn, moved that Mr. Kwang, is also as American graduate. He was for many years engineer on the Im a reduction of two pence per pound be made perial Railways of North Chins under Mr. in the duty on tea. -

Kinder Under their chief control, despite Mr. C. E., H. Hobliouse," Parliamentary the many difficulties they have to contend Under-Secretary, replying, said that the rewith, especially from the meddlesome and duction named would convert an estimated budget surplus of £245,000 into a deficit of over two millions, and that although the Government were in sympathy with the pro- posal, they were, for the reasons 'slated, un. able to accept it. -

The motion was ultimately rejected by 230 voles to 91.

Mr. A. Fell, Conservative member for Yarmouth, then moved that one penny per pound be taken off tea produced in the em- pire, this being also rejected by 251 10 34.

A clause was finally adopted fixing the duty at five pence per pound.

Macedonia,

Later

The officers of the disaffected regiments

in the Monaster district are touring the vill ́ages inciting the people to rise.

Porala.

The British and Russian embassies con.

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China's claim was that the "vessel was in Chinese waters at the time. This was not so, and in my opinion Japan was in the right in the controversy.

"In behalf of the Portuguese Government the Portuguese Minister took the matter up with Bekent there has resulted a diplo matic correspondence between that capital and Lisbon which is not yet settled, Portugal claims that the act was committed within. Portuguese waters,"

Whatever the settlement which Chioa may be faced to make with Portugal, Captain Coutinho holds that Japan was within her rights in forcing the apology.

COMBATING PLAGUE,

USE OF DISINFECTANTS.

EXPERIMENTS IN BỎMBAY,

PORC, MUTTON & VEALCUTLETS,

CHICKEN & HAM,

VEAL & GAME PATES,

poisonous alike to rats and fleas. The advantage of this machine is found in a mech- apical device which forces the gas into the room to be disinfected and so brings about a greater concentration and diffusion of the disinfected then has ever before beau accomplished. Apart, however, from thuscexperiments, which havenos yet been completed, certain experiments have been carried out with liquid disinfectants. These latter experiments prove that the ordinary disinfectants used for destroying the bacill are of little use to destroying plague bacilli. which are protected from the action of the disinfectants within the bodies of the fleas. Fleas are capable of withstanding immersion. without harm in the majority of the most powerful bacteria-killing disinfecting fluids. Thus, for example, Capisie Gloster has shown that fleas will emerge unscathed from an exposure of 10 minutes in a solution of 10 powerful bactericide. as 50 dilution of acid perchloride of mercury. On the other hand he has shown that fleas exposed to the action of an emulsion of kerosine THE Undersigned have received instructions. oil in a dilution of t in 1,000 for two minutes- rolmost always killed while this substance often fails to kill bacteria even in a dilution of

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been able to prova that plague-infected rooms can be readily disinfected by the application of emulsion of kerosine oil,

UTILITY OF EMULSION OF KEROSINE OIL.

The experiments detailed above were carried out in test tubes, the disinfectants being this brought intimately in contact with the fleas. li was necessary, therefore, to test the efficiency of these disinfectants in actual pingue-infected rooms. On the one hand, the Plague Research Comm'ssion have shown that infected rooms still retained their infection after thorough di infection with so powerful a germicide ass in 750 acid perchloride of mercury; of 31 obser- vations infection remained in the houses after this form of disinfection in 13 cases or.29 par cent of the houses ixamined, a percentage which was almost exactly the same as that found in houses which had not been disinfected The following are the main portions of a feat all. On the other hand Captain Gloster bas port on the use of disinfectants in connection with plague, addressed on the 25th May by Caplain Glen Liston, Acting Director, Bombay

The following, fürthor experiments, were Bacteriological Laboratory, in Colone) Bamber officiating Sanitary Commissioner with the Go carried out. A small room or godown was-in- vernment of India, and now published by the feeted with plague. A guinea pig, which had fatter:-The experiments on the pulicidal been placed in it, was found dead of plague on powers of the disinfectants énumerated below the 24th February. The dead guinea pig was have been carried out by Captain T. H. Glor removed and replaced by a healthy one. This ter, TM,S, with much labour and care,

guinea pig dies of plague on the 27th February 11-will be well at the outset to properly ap Another healthy guinea pig was placed in the prise the value of disinfection in connection godown. It died of plague on, the 6th March. Level and storage of water in reservoirs with the plague. It is an axiom to state that a fourth guinea pig was placed in the godown; disinfectant can only be useful when applied it. died of plague on the 9th March. A fifth on the rat July.

directly to the micro-organism it is required (ouisea pig was then introduced and being "Kill, to order, theo, bir a disinfectant may sick of plague on the tith, it was chloroform

be usefully employed to combat the spread of ed to death. The godown was thus; proved 1908. 0′13′′ above) 18" 51" below plague, it is necessary to know where and to

to be roughly infected. On the 11th the overflow what extent plague germs may exist in mature, nor of the godown was washed out with,

26' 8" below

It has recently bien conclusively proved kerosine oil emulsion, £ in 20, and OD The overflow

that the plague is communicated to man from following day' a healthy guinea pig was

ignorant interference of a multiplicity of Chinese directors, there seems no reason to doubt that the work as far as the frontier of the without unreasonable delay. province will be s ccessfully accomplished

WATEY RETURN.

21

CITY AND HILI. DISTRICT WATER WORKS LEVEL.

overflow

1907

Tytam... TytamBye- wash Tytam In termediate.

***

o' 1", above overflow

Pokfutum

Loverflow.

• 10° | 41′′ below | rate by means of rat fleas. The disease in sal; | introduced. This guinea pig remained

"overflow

vool" above] oo Level Nong-nai below of Level

I'

STORAGE GALLONS

1907:

tinue their repeated representations to the

Tytam 4 182,800,000 Porte concerning the encroachments of Turk-Tytam Byewash... 22,365,000 ish troops on the Persian frontier.

Tytm latermediate

dom, if ever, except by accident, transmitted from sick persons to healthy individuals; in other words contact with the of animals or man is rarely the means by whick

the disease is acquired. Excreta, if they con tain plague bacilli, are as harmless. The 1968.

pia ue bacilli, when present in excreta, rapidly 240,375,000

disappear from them, The excreta become 28,000 disinfected by natural processes, a few hours 147,165,000 sudicing in, this climate to bring about the 66,000,000 destruction of any plague bacilli in the

This natural disinfection is accomplished either by exposure of the plague bacilli to desicca- tins or in moist conditions brought ab ut

Tite Porte so far has only sent evasive and Pokfutum ... 66,000,000 'dilatory replies.

Wang-ni-chung- 27,920,000 10,337,000 Total... 501,086,000 415,61,000 THE PM. S. S. CO. AND THET. EK Consumption af water in the City and Hill

District during the month of June.

*****,

11907.. · 1908. Consumption...37,931,000 145,079,000 gallons Estimated)

**205;11p 106,910 population Consumption)

The Tokio Aa i reports that Mr. Asano, President of the Toyo Xisen Kaisha, and his party, who have been saying in New York, are to-morrow (July 11) leaving for London. Me Asano left Japin ostensibly on a pleasure trip, but it is stated, according to a translation in the Japan Herald, that he has had some im- poriant business demanding hisattention during the tour. The first point was a to the can cellation of the contract proposed by the Call- fornian Petroleum Company regarding the sopply of crude oil, to the Asano. Petroleum Compiny. This matter, it is stated, has been amicably seifted. The second matter refers to objections raised by the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. against tho.T, KiK, placing large liners of the Tenyo Maru typs on the San Francisco route. This affair is also reported ag belag

per head per 20.5 23.3 gallons Constant supply in all districts during Jobs

1907.

Constant supply in all districts during June 1998.

The return of consumption is subject to error owing to the difficulty of accurate mea surement whilst the extension works at Albany Filter Beds are in progress,

KOWLOON WATER WORKS..

LEVEL.

1908, abs below Overflow

1307,

#early settled. The third item refers to Kowloon Gravita-[

tion Reservoir...

STORAGE GALLONE..

1907.

Kowloon Cravitá-】

135,175,000 gallons tion Reservoir... Consumption of water in Kowloon during the

business relating to the nil tank steamer now being buiḥ in England, while the last, and most important queștina 'refers to the raising of a forel. n loan amounting inʼabout twenty million yen for the purpose of capitalising three now enterprisen angineered by Mr. Asaor month of June:-

Consumption 1,849, 00:24,495,000 gallons

178,505 81,300

over and abiva the various concerns he is now interested in." 15 ‘is stated that before. his departure, abrońd. Mr. Așino-intimated his desire to float the loan in London if he fails in the United States. The departure of Mr. Asino for London may thereftre de taken as that Mr. Asano has not received any from Harriman and other Amer.

Estimated

population Consumption) per head per day, zvier

1907.

B

1908.

9.75 gallons

The Government Analyst reports that the be will meet with water is of excellent

ent, lime

healthy and lived in the godown fill the oth April. This experiment was repasted in the case of another godown, Three successive gui-

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CHOLERA,

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in Cantou and the surrounding district, WING to the prevalence of CHOLERA be public are hereby warned of the danger of Eating Uncooked Fruit and Vegetables.

Under-rips or over-ripe fruit tends to cause diarrhoea which predisposes to cholers.

The public are further informed that the Boiling of Milk or Water prevents any risk of

infection from these sonicas,

C. MCL MESSER, (lead of the Sanitary Department. Hongkong, 14th July, 1968.

OPIUM SEIZURE,

:

BIG HAUL AT MANILA:

₤670

The opium is said to have been brought over on the Loengrang and the Chinaman, fearing to take the risk himseli, bited Filipinos to go out in bancas to secure the valuable drug.

Captain Lawley, of the Customs secret service,

however, now has it in his possession.

Sixty seven kilos of opiam, the largest seizure bea pigs having died of plague in it, the go-ever made in the Philippines and valued at down was then dininfected with ; in so dilution about P11,000 were taken this morning from a of kerosine oil emulsion. On the following day. Chinuman resident in Manila, says the local a healthy guides pig was placed in the godown Timer of 11th inst, This guinea pig lived for days in the godown and remained well. In both the above instances a very badly infected godown was rendered safe by the floor being washed out with a 1 in zo dilation of kerosine oil emulsion. plen

The majority of the substances, tested were patent products and the tests were made by the development and multiplication of with the samples seat for trial “in view saprophytic bacteria, which are fuimical to the of the fact that the composition of existence of plague bacilli. As has been stated these substances are not definitely stated. shove, plague is communicated" from "rals to It is always, possible to: vary the quality of rate and from rats to man by means of the patent disinfectants without greatly altering rat flea, lo the body of this insect the plague their physical properties. An example of this becilli are protected from the above mentioned practice came to bur notice. For the above natural disinfectants, here they are protected reason and in view of the fact that kerosine oil from desiccation and from the action of the can always readily be obtained in any village, saprophytic bacteria in the stomach of the fles I wou'd strongly recommend the use of kero till they find a suitable food supply in the sine oil emulsion, for disisfaction of this sort blood which is sacked by the insect from its can with advantage be carried out. host The digestive processes going on in the stomach of the appear to cause litle injury to the plague bacilli as long as the fes

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"A Tokyo dispatch states that on the 20th May last the Engirah steamer Courtfeld, when Cross over once, and about to leave Moji, struck the Chiyo-maru, Japanese steamer lying in the part, and caused serious damages, to repair which lo estimated to cost about Y15,00. Regardless of the infary effected to the other vessel, it is stat

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The kerosine oil emulsion can be readily fed, the Brilish steamer proceeded on her prepared if three parts of sunlight soap are course Owing to defects in the existing dissalved by boiling in fifteen parts of water law of Japan, it is very difficult to obtain warmed, and kerosine oll is added to this damages from steamer in such circumstances, DESTRUCTION OF I'LAOUK BACİLLİ. son solution, gradually up to to`s parts. The The only course. now available is to obtain The bacilli are protected and preserved or oil and soap water should be mixed toge Judgment in default and demand componia- the death of the fics. The patural disinfection ther, shaking or stirring the walls. Hydro- tion upon the arrival in Japin again of the GUEST NIGHT processes seferred to above quickly destroy carbon emulsion is prepared in a similar foreign steamer. Bot the steamer will pro, any plague bacilii which may have been pre-way in kerosine oil emulsion, but in this case 'bably not retum to Japas. The representative sent in its body. We are thus in a position the hydro-carbon need not be warmed. This of the Japanese vessel's owners, with the sup to know that plague bacilli in nature being substance makes a better emulsion in water port of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, is taking wither in the body of plague-sick animal than kerosine oil does, and it has a bactericidal steps to address memorials to the Ministers for SATURDAY AND SUNDAY (chiefly the rat) or in the stomach of a rat fes power slightly greater than that of carbolic. Foreign Affairs, Justice, and Communications, which has fed on such an animal, any dain acid, the carbolic acid co-efficient being about praying that this defect be remedied in the fectant to be useful must be directed against It has, however, the disadvantages that it is new. Treaties with foreign Powen, and that the plague baciti. In these situations the more inflammable and has to many a rather measures be taken in order to avoid a repetition destruction of infected ras and fisas will bring diengrenable odour. It can generally be of such an occurrence as that under notice about the destruc.ion of the plague bicilh Becpred from those railway companies who without means of redress, within their bodies. The bacilli only maintain | manufacture their, illuminating gas for their Of course, as to the alleged damage done by the Courtfeld, the above is an es parfe states & successful existence in the living bodies of railway carriages from kerosine oil,

As to submitting such a dispate theso Creasures.jp

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