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Hongkong Telegraph.

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16897. 四拜雞號四廿月七英港香 THURSDAY, JULY 24. 1919.

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

EUROPEAN'S DEATH AT HỒNAM,,

Shameen. July 24. The death occurred last evening of Mr. William Harbour, tide- waiter of the Chinese Maritime Customs, at the mess quarters at Honam The cause of death was cerebral apoplexy.

COUNT SAVINE SENTENCED.

Shanghai, July 23.

Count Savine has been sentenced to six weeks in gaol by the Mixed Court on a charge of insulting the Russian Consul, also for geturning to the Settlement after the Court order expelling him.

HOME-GOING" CZECHS.

Shanghai, July 23, full complement of wounded

The Liverpool Maru with s Czechs, leaves for Hongkong on Thursday.

LONGER LIFE FOR ALL.

ONE LESSON OF THE WAR. service, and many

began the physician and the

CHOLERA IN FOOCHOW.

EUROPEAN CUSTOMS OFFICER SUCCUMBS.

The cholera outbreak in Foo- ing proportions and today the chow has recently assumed alarm- local Government has found it [necessary to place the port under quarantine. Although we under- stand the outbreak is being got well in hand, owing to the splendid work being done by Chinese doctor who is reducing the mortality total to a few deaths a dying like flies, the rate being day, last week the natives ware something in the region of two to three hundred a day.

CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.

DEPUTATION. TO SEE:

NEW GOVERNOR

the

Constitutional Reform

The Fon Secretary tion of Hongkong, sends following copies of letters to the Association's movement for further representation

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong.

30th Juns, 1919. letter of 12th February, 1919, No. 2003/1915, I am directed to inform Sir,With reference to my

you that the Secretary of On Thursday last, Mr. Jed the copy of the Resolution State for the Colonies has receiv- F. Chubb, of the Foochow passed at Chinese Customs Service, and

a public meeting formerly attached to the Hong: the 9th January, and that he has convened by your Association on kong and Kongmoon Customs, requested Sir Reginald Stubbe to died of the disease and was give his careful consideration to buried the same day. The news the questions involved after he will come as a shock to the many has had some experience of the friends of the deceased in Hong- Colony. kong

conditions. About 38 per cent of break is being got in hand it is Although, as stated, the out- those called up were found to be [disqualified for active military by no means within the nature of an epidemic. It is stated that the. who were disease is not real Asiatic cholera accepted required treatment and but a milder form of the disease training to make them really fit; which causes an illness of from New York Before the war

which would indicate that at the three to four days prior to either most favourable ege few Ameri- death or recovery, and that it is sanitationist were of vast import

are actually at par being coped with by, and is much to society; during war they physically. became adjuncts to and part of It is high time, now, to take innoculation than real cholers. more amenable to, the use of war; now that war has ended careful thought of what exists There have also been some cases flet as hope for a long time), they and what might be. Briefly put, of plague but not in anything become far more important than

the facts about Americe like the same numbers as the ever they were before. Having nations show a better record) are

vitality (and few, if any, other cholera. curtailed many million lives, we now must save millions which

these Babies still die like normally would perish, or fail is; at twelve years old the completely to get back to where fittest only are survivors (speak-

we were when the war started. ing generally, of course), and Health Service; a pamphlet which

It consists of Infor

I am, Sir,

Your obedient servant,

(Sgd.) A.G.M. FLETCHER,

Colonial Secretary.

The Honorary Secretary, Association of Hongkong.

The Constitutional Reform

Constitutional Reform Associa-

tion of Hongkong. 1B Chster Road,

July 16th, 1919. The Hon. Mr. A.G.M. Fletcher, C.B.E. Colonial Secretary, Present

Sir,

I am directed by my Caminittee

"Photo: Tientsin Press.

BOLSHEVIK GOVERNMENT HEADS WHO WERE RECENTLY EXECUTED,

These are the captured ringleaders of the Tomsk Government. They are Bolshevik Government heads who were imprisoned by the Czechs at Ekaterinburg, Bumis. The four principals in the forground are, from left to right, the Secretarytaho promoted Bolshevik propaganda, the Town Commissaire, and the girl stenographer, while immediately above her to the right is the Chief Justice. The entire quartette were executed twenty-four hours after this picture was taken.

ALLIED ART.

REMARKABLE COLLECTION IN HONGKONG.

he is an artist to his finger tips, -- To-Day's Exchange throwing the whole force of his being into his work. The great The closing rate of the dallar Dutch cartoonist is now in his on demand to-day was A great organisation exists in health average is highest; be we offered generally for distrito acknowledge with thanks your

3-162 fiftieth year The Cologne tween twelve and forty disabili-bution. he United States which long ties increase, until at the latter mation for the guidance and letter of 30th June, 1919, No.

Gazette, in

The Weat a leading article on. Holland during the war, It is headed by no less a per-age the death-rate almost trebles assistance of registrants disquali-2003/1915, advising that the Secre- of Allied artists has never before

A fizer collection of the work threatened that country that 29.73. Temperature 2.

Forecast Fair. Barometer sonage than William Howard

"after the war Germany will Humidity 2 pm:70, Taft, ex-President of the United think about the average American tells them what course to follow give his careful consideration today. Such variety, such remart.cartoon of Raemaekers, she will} fied for active military service tary of State for the Colonies has That is a startling thing to because of physical defects, and requested Sir Reginald Stubbs to graces the St. Andrew's Hall to and for each calumny, for each States, and is professionally led by who survives til twenty, between if they really wish to make them. the question of farther Represen-able studies, such perfection in/demand payment with the in-One of his picturas entitled

been displayed than that which settle accounts with Holland,

such men as Prof. Irving Fisher.then and forty, during the years seives healthy citizens. It gives lation after he has had some works executed under. adverse terest that is due to her." chief of Yale's political economy which we regard as and call his instructions to all" not available/experience of the Colony.

has worked to meet this end.

that at twenty.

faculty, and Eugene Lyman Fisk, M.D., the well-known author. Dr. Prime, actually loses ground. Fisk, who voiced to me the other So the American, to-day, is not day the fascinating views which at his physical prime at forty, follow, is its medical director, when he is at his mental_prime, and increasing thousands

but is at bis physical prime at Americans are banding together twelve, long before he has achiev for their own good and society's ed maturity of knowledge or of in its membership. Presently I knowledge or of judgment. Dur- was amazed by his extraordinarying the twenty years between the optimism, which could say:

of

for military service for physical reasons, with suggestions for im- proving their physical condition

CONDITIONS IN ENGLAND,

to request Sir Reginald Stubbs to It is proposed by my Committee receive a deputation shortly after his arrival in order that this Association may more fully place other questions. before him its views on this and

I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, (Sgd) H.B.L. DOWBIGGIN; Hon. Secretary.

J

There is a fine collection of

Alsace," which we are told was conditions at the Front-that is The French artists are grouped painted before the war was over, prise as he meanders through the sketches the sum total of the visitor's sur-together. Beme's and Bellecourt's shows the dream of the French are full of life and and their, conviction in the Hall, where all round on panels depict the different types of ultimate restoration of Alsace to hang exquisite works of art.

soldiers. Dauphin is very happy France. The Hall was not sufficient to in his treatment as well There accommodate all the pictures, is a good collection of water old Italian painting, given by a with the result that the passage colours by Col. Requin, while number of charitable people in from the steps to the door had Bronquet's pencil drawing struck Italy to be sold for the benefit of to be requisitioned.

Lonis us as being very good. Poulbat, the blind soldiers, Raemaekers cartoons, no doubt, child's artist of France, is seen predominate. The cartoons of at his best in his satirical sketches

A real gem of an oil painting Rasmaekers.need no introduction in pencil and water colour and he is that by an American artist, since they explain themselves in fully, maintaine bis reputation as Charler Peters, one of the best every picture. He will stand one of the most popular among painters in the Stater, who offered out at all time as one of the the French humourous sketchers. this picture to the touting mis supreme figures which the Great Abel Pann's work is so impressive sion when it was thers. War has called into being. His that its mission is immediately "If we actually learn the necessity that every citizen whose

We must not forget to mention genius has been enlisted in the burat into the memory. There that the collection boasts of a lessons which war has laid before life is worth preserving should generation of the English speak-ed some excellent photographs of being entirely sincere

"Why should generation after From Ah Fong we have receiv-service of mankind, and his work, are A few works of his number of Raemakers' originals, us, we shall gain, not lose, have an overhauling, learn what ing races carry an increasing the Peace Celebrations decorat convincing, will endure; indeed, from the Russian front at the before, Raemisker's originals are and on view, both depicting scenes which have never been seen hers through it.

threatens or already harm's him, load of physical unfitness? It ions and illuminations.

"The conditions which were revealed in England by her draft were quite as bad as those reveal- twentieth and fortieth birthdays ed in the United States by ours, the average American is re- and Mr. Lloyd George said that trograding.

never again must the great British people be caught in such deplorable physical state. It is end, within ten years replace it.The draft bere, as in Great impalse has been started in Great believed among us here that an in so far as the mere matter of Britain restoring the world's vital force, dominions, if I read the signs mirable results. and her wonderful Britain which that is, man-power is concerned.aright, revealed the abeolute

"No matter what the war's vast loss life of eventually may be, found to total we can, if intelli- gently we work together to that

WAR'S BENEFICENT BY-PRODUCTS.

will have ad-

DAY BY DAY.

The 8.8. "Dilwara" Shang-

26th instant at about 3 p.

it promises to gain strength time when Russia was in the fast becoming rare. There are

A concerted action toward this and take measures to prevent or would be an absurdity. We are end would be easiest among the correct the evil. The draft, to my neglecting vast potentialities of

as the years advance when frey. In one of these pastel about a dozen in the gallery English-speaking peoples, and, mind, showed the vast necessity achievement and of enjoyment.

the intense passions which have works we are confronted with the and their marked prices range: for deed, is quite within the realms for a general physical examinu- Vast sensibilities, vast powers bat. fq this Part on the 23rd struggle have faded away. Civilisa-is horror and horror, and the while the reprints are valued at been awakened by this world abominable. Nevertheless, there between $700 and $1,200 each, of possibility it is possible at this tion, and something in the nature are locked up among us which instant and is due here on the through the wonderful drawings aggeration and artistic empliasis Revolution" is quite an excelent moment as it never was before of almost compulsory corrective we might release.

tion will regard the war largely distinction between brute er-between $3 and $15.The Trish and never again may be.

"The tall of war is always even imperfections are revealed.

measures for those

in whom heavier than upon the surface it! This thought has been dis up to

"We human beings are not

of the type of those which is brought out in the thing. The others are The Bomb. the animal

are at present temporarily picture, showing Jewish Throwers," average. appears to be, for those killed or cussed extensively in Washing- alk about five times the length in Laertes, recently built and com- the methods of German warfare his house while before him are

The Hindenburg Most other organisms live, of dying of disease in warfare ton. A

housed in the St. Andrew's father tied with The new Blue Fannel steamer Hall.

his hands Line," "The German Prisomers" By them general reclamation

not only behind his back to the door of ste. particularly when (as in this war movement was suggested and its me which they require for plated at Taikoo Dock, went to will be judged, but the resolution his two daughters, violated by in

The most remarkable pictures was the case with the United possibility was fully admitted, reaching maturity. Man becomes her moorings, last evening, and will surely be begotten and the Germans in Galicia. On the by

the gallery zrey tho States) most of the deaths are of the the thought of putting it into mature (or ought to) between the is now loading cargo.

My Chainlan men from the first enlistments, full operation was deprecated as of twenty-five and thirty chosen from the fittest in the during the period while we were period would give him an age of

aurtured that never again, so far floor is the scroll with a portion lost his right arm in the nation, of men who would have still under the grim necessity of

years. Five times the lesser

as it is humanly possible, shall of the Ten Commandments, in in still working with 8 recurrence of Teutonic Hebrew. All his sketches are De Groux, lived long and on the average helping to lick Germany. Since 125 years; five times the latter School will hold their peace permitted. These sketches gives Steinlin, a French painter of

The pupils of Ellis Kadoorie inhumanity and barbarism, bet masterfully treated. usefully.

tragic in his trea "But great good was acom-seemed to suffer from the general

the war came to an end it has period would give him an age of celebration in their School Hall form

150 years! plished in America through relaxation, Participation in the war a good

**In order to make our soldiers

were created get about one-half the "span to

and colour to the the to-morrow. There will be a menace which the Allies averted Chinese play (lsating four hours), for the liberty, the civilisatio

cruelty and the senseless" of war overwhelms they sont sinking helplessly bene feels inclined to assume

} LONGEVITY POSSIBILITIES. not so nearly over-balanced here fit the army worked out develop

s dinner (lasting two hours) and and the humanity of the futu as in the countries of the Euro-ment battalions"; so that we ed cattle live proportionately Chu-pak. Mea Cheong will take the fall weight of the

Horses, dogs, and unbatchez-an address by the Hon. Mr. Lau, As the spectator gaz bean Allies by such a death-rate might utilise all reasonably fit long lives. But human beings flashlight photographs. s nothing could atone for. The citizens there. Far has taught the value of high special classes, thus utilising for which, properly, they are entitled. physical fitness. Especially to ordinary work, but still for war Why should actuarial tables American youth it has carried purposes, the men thrown into end at ninety-five?. Men sver Chinese were charged with fres-sttitude of deep.

At the Police Court to-day, two he lesson which could not have them by their physical examine age sixty years of life (medium passing in the house of "s Euro- een presented as convincingly tions, and thereby preserving age at death) women average a pean at Quarry Bay. They said any other process, that high much material which otherwise Hittle better, dying thus pre- that they were told to khenatch hysical standards are a requisite would have gone to waste maturely because of injury, not on the clothes etc, left, fy the

high success, and that strong in order that the public might because of inevitable illness or house by their friends whe

mean clear minds.

get full advantage of the unavoidable wer Opportunity which was

that It

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