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AN YOU HAD ANY EYE BEHIND (From Our Own Correspondent.) FOU, YOU MIGHT SEE MORE DETRACTION AT THAN TURTURE BEFORE YOU. — Allegations Against a Magistrate,
Canton, March 18.
merchants and prominent citizens Petitions signed by all the
of Ying Tak in the Ching Yuen District, state that the Sun Fong magistrate, one Wong Wai-fan, is committing many sets of tyranny
HONGKONG'S SANITARY
METHODS.
NEW POLICY TO BE FOLLOWED
Full Report of Yesterday's Meeting,
not passed on in the village the country when they get hoi Possibly what I have just may seem to conflict with part of the resolution, but the safeguards which are contams ed in part 1, also apply in pars
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chiefy contem.
plating if in part 2 any instances should sties, and I hope they wil such as blocks of European fiste where the Chinese latrine is a
We are not so fond of seeing! British Institutions held up to the ridicule of the Chinese thatĺ we can afford to express undilus- ed admiration of every sentence that is passed in our local police court. Among yesterday's court cases we find one in which a per-} sistent foreign losfer and beggar was let off with a fire-dollar fine or seven days, a sec ad wherein a Chinese contractor who was responsible for "a good deal of damage" to Government itrees was merely fined twenty!
there. They say he has taken of yesterday's discussion at the after a water closet, they might We now pablish a full repart where we expect Europeans to look dollars, and a third in which two American, Canadian and Siberian away by force large sums from a meeting of the Sanitary Board be expected to look after a similar Maile-Closed per s2 En-Mr. Ip, one of the preminent dealing with the principles which convenience in their servants' press of Russia at 10.30 am citizens of the place, and has ex-are to be followed by the Baard arters. I beg to move the
sismily, all of whom were guiltless closets and trough closets. As we
ecated thirteen members of that in deciding applications for water resolution:
men, for having false scales, were fined a dollar each. Nay, we find a fourth and a fifth see calculated to make the Chinese langh and the European stranger woader to wit: a sentence of six months, with four hours"
A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd. stocks, for returning from banish-
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
HONGKONG.
Telephone No. 616..
for.
At the Park Sam. Tamp. 33;
(1915, 69-Sne.) Lower level S am. Temp. 60; doll. (1915, 68 fine.)
The Malls.
to-day. Siberian Mail-Closes per
Sinking at 3 p.m.to-morrow.
The Dollar.
panishment.
| great sourea of nuisance contžan-- sily and it is to be hoped that
of wrong doing. The petitioner pointed out yesterday, the matter proposal. I should be vary pless- Dr.Paarse-beg to second the ask that the unjust megistrate be is one of great importance, deal-ed to see sewers to every house The rate of the dollar os for investigation, trial, and standing problem of sewage die-who could be supplied by these arrested and, brought to Canton ing is it does with the long occupied by the class of people ment, and a sixteen-hundred-demand to-day is 1-11 3/4. dollar fine or four months' geol for being in possession of opium.
To-morrow's Anniversary. The two last-named are the most i To-morrow is the 67th anni- ladicrous of all. At a time when versary of the defeat of the Sar Bougkong least wants the rifraf dinians by the Austrians at the of the neighbearing territory, a battle of Novara returned banishee who, in his own country, would probably be
The object of this paper is to publish correct information, serce to executed out of hand, is merely
the truth and print the nexs without fear or favouer,
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Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.
Telephone: No. 1 ABC, 5th edition. Western Union
Office address: 11, Ice House St.
The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1916.
SANITATION IN HONGKONG.
Tiffin Train.
We are asked to state that
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while for the (by comparison) P.. train as usual on Saturday. trivial fault of opium-running, another is fined one thousand six
Sir Robert Ho Trog.
hundred dollars. To the last- We learn tos: Sir Robert Ho
named sentence we should take Tang has joined the Consulting to exception it cur friend the Committee of the Canton Insur banishes had been punished pro-ance Office, Ltd, and the Box particnately. The only sentence kong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. that will fit the man who returna from deportation is imprisonment for life, and this our Government ought to know by this time. *
Fire.
at the root cause of the worst by the police and inmates. features of modern German
The Forthcoming Catholic militarism British lada who,
Mission.
Chan Kal-mel at Large.
Useless Soldiers. In front of the Man Siu
Worse than Robbers.
posal, the present arrangements water closets. Ishould like to make for which are far from satisfactory. the point of trying to persuade The matter was raised by s people to do away with the dry from the Chief of Police of Shang-sident, Mr.D. W. Tratman). His son being that a serious disesse A telegram dared the 15th inst. motion on the part of the Pre-system for their servants, the rea hai states that a prominent resolution was as follows volutionist, Chau Kai-mei, has
like cholers might break out be- escaped from prison and has gone following principles in dealing In Europesa houses the pantries (1) That the Board adopt the cause of contamination of food. to Kwangtong. Orders were as with applications for permission and kitchens can be visited by sent to prison for six months, tiffin will be served on the 128/Once sent to all police stations toto instal water closets, namely: flies from the Istrines and thems
keep stries watch for him.
The Board will recommend all settle on the food in the house. spplications subject to the As a rule, the ground about the following provisos (8) there house is quite small and it is must be an independent and quite common to find the latrine insuls where the junk boat, the plans must be in conformity pantry and it is possible for the Hospital in Fateban is a per- adequate water supply, (bonly a few feet away from the Kong Moon, plying between is the provisions of the Fublic food to be contaminated by the Canicu and Faishan, is anchor Health and Building Ordinances flies settling on it. ed. Near by is a bridge over 103, (e) the storage tanks must which all passengers must pass be screened against the breeding believe that we shall get many Mr. Chan Kai-ming. I do not A small fire occurred early this soldiers for the purpose of safe must be occupied for in the case of ment homesa, but I should like to Bere is quartered a troop of of mosquitos, (d) the premise applications from Chinese tene- morning at s medicine shop at guarding travellers from thievesnew buildings shout to be occap-now how you are going to judge "Germany's Warped Philosophy."; 353, Queen's Road West. The On the 16th inst, Mr. Chaned) by persons who understand the the applicants. Supposing
In the article which we pub. fire is supposed to have originat Sheung, the owner of the Ta use and care of such things, and well-to-do and enlightened Chi- lished yesterday under the above ed from a spark from a fire-place. Fong stationery shop in Fatehan, moreover, the premises to be 20 nese applies for permission for s beading, the writer certainly gets The outbreak was extinguished passed by this place. He was constituted as to make it probable water closet, it will be for the suddenly set upon by thieves and that they will be so occupied for Board to grant permission if he robbed of his luggage and twenty some years to come, (e) there must conforms to the provisos of this dollars. He called Instily for help, be suitable sewer accommodation. resolution, but I should like no any time during the past ten We understand that the Rev. but not one soldier appeared. It Lu deciding on the suitability of distinctions made between Chi- years, have been sent to German Fr. Thompkins, the Jesuit priest is rumoured that the people of otherwise of the sewer to which nese and Europeans, if they know aniversities have found usually whom His Lor tehip Bishop Pos that place believe the soldiers any particular instalment is the use and care of these sicrets. The water carriage system has many times been discussed by the that either disgust or corruption zoni has appointed to conduct the themselves are the highwaymen to be connected, the Board Sanitary Board, but yesterday's deliberations on the subject helped swaited them as these seats of forthcoming Mission in Hong- very materially towards evolving definite policy for the future and learning. The twisted and insane kong, will strive in the Colony
will take into consideration tention of making any distinction The President--I have no in- at the same time marked a distinct step forward. The principle laid doctrines of Nietzsche, prior to the on March 26 from the Pailippines.
Mr. Lai To, the owner of the pair of the outfall of such sewer.
the position, size and stats of re-whatsoever and I have no doubt down some five or six years ago in regard to-the granting of applica- war, had gained such a hold on tions for the installation of water cinsels was that permission should young Germany that every little
Foul Play?
Tin Hau Lang shop in Ching The body of s Incisa, consider Yaen District, is a moderately to trough closets, should applicanese members to advise is on that (2) That these principles extend for Chinese Affairs and the Ubi- that we should ask the Secretary only be given in the case of large European business houses, hotels, whipper-sn-pper had come to ably decomposed was recovered wealthy man. Last Friday, Capt. tions be made to inatal such and similar buildings used to any considerable extent by the white fancy himself a superman and to from the Harbour off Stonecutters Li Whs, of the Major Guards population of the Ualony. If that line had been strictly followed, regard all who had no Lacy for Island yesterday. The man, who stationed in the Pak Tai temple, President said-I do not think understand they be expected to In moving his resolation the could reasonably be to
point as to whether a gentlemen. anch conveniences. The observance of this policy, as is well known, glorification sa being of the was dressed in khaki for the most to the home of Mr. Lai, ostensibly that does not appear from the worded so as to admit of the esse all private houses would have been debatred from the privilege of the Nietzschean gospel of self- was apparently & Mohammedan, with a house of the Talbotenment that there is much that I can add things. That proviso is specially was, in the interests of modern sanitation, constantly opposed by hard". The idea that the Germans part, was wearing & grey shirt, to search the premises. Once in, resolution, except to give the members of the Sanitary Board, and thus it has happened that the are by nature a warlike people is leather boots, no socks and a however,
they drew pistols reason for the safe-guarding pro-
you have quoted. Government, bowing to the consensus of opinion on the matter, has quite a mistaken one. Sarely the cavalry cost. A somewhat susand,
after binding is actual practice, within certain limits, permitted such a measure events of this war-the exploiting picious circumstance is that the the
all visions contained in proviso “D." Mr. Bowley-Whilst Igeneral- of latitude that numbers of applications in regard to private dwell of Austria, Turkey and Bulgaria man's legs were tied with what children
and The reason for that is that I do like to take exception to the ly support the resolation, I should ings have in fact been granted. The resolution passed by the Board-have proved that the German was apparently a piece of a tur- stole everything they could carry template si present a general the provian A. If the water supply hoose, they not think we can possibly con- words and independent "in yesterday really legalises and extende past policy in the matter. will not fight so long as he can bar. The police have received sway. Then they took Mr. Lai adoption of the water carriage is adequate, it does not matter if Briefly stated, the decision arrived at by the Board is a recog- get cibers to do his battling for no report of an Indian being with them to their camp on the systems in the average Chinese it is independent or not. Imkeit nition of the manifest advantages of the water carriage system as him. The Germans in general missing.
charge of his being revolution houses in the Colony. I do not that independent means apart sgainst the existing method of sewage collection, and its parport is are a studions, contemplative,
sry and while on the road, they refer, of course, to the houses of from the Goverment water that, where auitable means for disposal exist, and there is a due more or less artistic, very in
A scallywag was charged by robbed him of thirty-five dollars, the well-to-do Chinese on the system. It is the duty of the recognition of the use of the statem, applications will be granted, dustrious and very sentimental Sergt. Wills, before Mr. Hazeland, (Hongkong money) and forty upper levels, for they come within Government to make the water Where these safeguards are complied with, permission to instal will on the inventions of other nation umbrella from a woman hawker's jadestone bangle said to be worth how to use such conveniences, but and all other purposes and in the always awuming that an independent water supply is available, people, successful in improving this morning, with stealing an dollars, silver, together with distinction of persons who know system adequate for this purpose be automatic. At the present time, in cases where the water carriage alities, in producing cheap com- stall at Yamati It appeared a hundred dollars. When the from our experience of the trough fature, after the rodibles of the system is in use, the sewage is discharged into the harbour, and the modities and in the arts of wating? that the woman, a widow, went merchants of the place discovered closets which we have opened in present war are over, I hope the chief objection raised against any large extension of the system is at table and hair-cutting.
into a house out of the rain and the state of affairs they went to various parts of the town, I am Government will take the matter that pollation of the waters of the Colony will follow. That point Heroes All.
whilst she was inside packing up the camp and paid a large ransom quite satisfied that we cannot into consideration and improve the is based on an assumption, not on actual experience. Against it Their modern philosophers have her goods, the man stole her am for the unfortunate man's release allow such conveniences to be water supply and provide suffici- must be quoted the fact that, in spite of the enormously large flat come slong with what seemed to brella and ran away. She chased ing population of the Colony, and the further isot that numbers of them a magnificent gospel, easy him and he was caught by a con-
Chinese tenements.ent water to go round for this Gunboat for Kingchow. ocean-going vessels are more serious pollution is at present perceptible. The tides explain ver, at quite short notice, the that he had been convicted twice man-of-war, kwong Yuk, to King: inspection, and in the case of is unnecessary and the intention
or less constantly in port, no to follow and calculated to con-latable on the beach. It was proved
These trough closets, though they General Lang has sent the
are safeguarded by daily viste of to me that the word independent" and ell others. It seems purpose that, and it is open to question whether any reasonable extension of veriest worm into a full-blown previously for larceny. Mr. Blaza- chow to try to break up the band the one at the Western market, of the clanse is covered by the the system will materially alter the circumstances in this respect. To hero. All that the candidate land said he regarded it as a of rebela said to be harboured which was the remove all doubt on the point, the ideal plsa would, of course, be for these philosophical hero rather bad case and he would there.
first big one word adequate. I therefore pro- the laying down of a huge main to carry the sewage ontside the laurels had to do was to fill sentence the man to four months
upened, is looked after by the harbour, or the provision, of a eeptic tank scheme, but the heavy himself up with the morela of hard labour and four hours'
market overseer, we find matters on omitting the word independ pose an amendment to the resclu- Governor Cheang's Family. far from perfect, the places being ent. arpense which either of these plans would involve, take them, for "Beyond Good and Evil," "The docks.
It is stated in all the local conticnally blocked no by all the present, outside the realm of practical consideration. There cap, Transvaluation of All Values,"
papers that Governor Cheung has sorts of rubbish and foreign subs however, be no two opinions as to the evils and dangers of the and so forth, and he became at
sent his family to Shanghai tances. It may be contended that existing method, especially in regard to the contamination of food onca both scholar and soldier-
though why he should do so, is owing to the generally close proximity of latrines in servants' for the same "philosophy" that quarters of Earopean houses to kitchens and pantries.
tsaght him to pratile "Evil, be
a
Well Punished.
LANGKAT OUTPUT.
March 1
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به الا الله
A very wise proviso lays it down that applications will not be then my good" also filled him advise us that the Langkat output Messra. Wright and Hornby. granted to persons unless there is evidence that they understand the with the idea that bravery merely for the current month is a nse and care of the modern water carriage system. In dealing with consists in the banishment of follows:- cartsin classes of Chinese, this is a very necessary limitation, as human pity. Thus the man who experience has shown. It will throw no extra work on the outdoor would run away from a bayonet sanitary staff; all that it means is that care and discrimination will or a fist could perform miracles. have to be exercised by the authorities before permission to instal is of valour when only opposed to gated The President of the Board threw out a happy saggeation women or children or wounded on this point, to the effect that the applications might be scrutinised prisoners. With the writer by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and the Chinese members of the of the article we agree Board. Hr. Hallifax, however, definitely declined to accept the that there is no room in the British reaponsibility. notwithstanding the fact that the Chinese Empire for teaching of this sort, members did
not raise their voices against it. Thus it though we do not follow him ail was that he voted against a scheme which must be taken to the way when he talks of valaing represent the considered opinion of the Government on the problem. national honour" above the petty The point which the Hon. the Secretary for Chinese Affairs appears to advantages of worldly success" lose sight of is that his Department, like every other Government etc. We hope that all good| Department, exists to serve the public, and if the members of the Britishers do this alreedy; bat] Sanitary Board, and the Government, consider that the experience ought we to sacrifice our women of any particular Department is of value in helping forward a mea and children at Home on that sure conceived in the public int rest, then their wishes must be azine altar ? Most of our men ars obeyed. The duty of a Government Department is to assist, and ready to give their own lives for nct to obstract, advancement and progress. Reviewing the whole their principles, but if nothing question, there are grounds for estisfaction at yesterday's decisions, less than vigorous reprisals will They do not go all the way, it is true; but they constitute an official stop the murdering of women and sdmission of the shortcomings of the present methods of sanitation children by Zeppelin bombs, and they take na part the way on the read towards the adoption of then let us by all means take -a more modern and scientific system.
those reprisala.
unt eridant.
in the
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Dr. Ozario seconded. The Hos. Mr. Chatham :-I we can educate the poorer classes was not my intention to make any of Chinese up to these con- remarks in fally supporting the Shun Tak, the rice merchants in If any member of the Board holds ment which has been suggested Increase in Price of Rice. veniences, hat I regret resolution as it stands before, the Fatahan raised their prices, and to the contrary I shall be pleased by Mr. Bowley I fear that it is Following the disturbances in say that I cannot take that view, Board. With regard to the amend
there was considerable tumult in to take him round to any of the rather difficult to entertain such a the rice market. As soon as the poorer districts and show him the proposal. After all, the sources matter came to the attention of way in which the inhabitants of supply within the boundaries the Canton officials, they sent a there live and then bring him of the
Colony is rather peremptory telegram to the mer back and show him the sheats and limited, and whilst efforts are chante to restore the original shesis of actices we have served being made to have an adequate price. If this order in disobeyed, in such districts and be can then supply for present purposes and they will be brought to Canton compare notes and judge about for, probably, a number of years
and fined.
A New Kind of Rifle.
the education. Cubicles parties to come, I fear that in the course olarly, are the besetting sin of the of time this will be fally absorbed poorer population and whateve-in supplying the ordinary domes-- Mr. Fong Yim, oniel workman we do in the way of getting them is requirements without bean- in the Canton armoury, has re- removed, it seems to have little ching off into the supplying of cently invented a new kind ofFect on the tenants of the
such conveniences as water
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rife, with a smaller b.re, but with misse. If we get one done away Bate. If the water clanet-beca a greater penetrating power than with, one week, it is brought back in any degree universal, the rifles regularly supplied to and placed there again the next might very well wil soldiers. It is said that the ballet week. I think that we may find and if these restriction will pierce an inch of iron at three hundred feet. General Lung test the Chinese of Hongkong, bar the withdrawn, then
one cause of that in the fact that independent wate
ed the new gun and pronounced
better classes, are continually the consumptio its success. He rewarded the in- circalating. People come and go be a serious DIRE ventor and has ordered the mann-from the country and what Intis propose to vote for facture of a large number for the education we data: žino
ants them daring their residence here, it is
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