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NOTES & COMMENTS.

Allies Preparing.

The Allies are evidently giving careful attention to the further: measures to be taken if Germany continues to evade her respon-

announced that the Allies will require the Reichsbank's gold

be

THURSDAY,

DAY BY DAY.

ELOQUENCE MAY EXIST WITH OUT A PROPORTIONATE DEGREE or WISDOM.-Burke.

Art. 235, have a claim against bor. Germany for 20,000,000,000 gold

APRIL 21, 1921.

MEDICAL EDUCATION AMONG THE CHINESE.

southern un-

H. Mody, Esq...came forward, and | language has been adoplod as the by their public spirit founded and medium by which scientific built the University of Hongkong. medicine to tơ be taught, At Although a secular college, the once it is suggested that China The Work of Hongkong and Hongkong University owes its has no scientific terms in its establishment to the welcome and | terminology, and that the langu- Shantung Universities.

accommodation given to the age of the West, must be incor- A paper was recently read in original College of Medicine in porated with ́g the ancient Colonel Davy, the new C.R.E., London before the Royal Society the buildings, of the London language of a purely commerejal sibililies. It is semi-officially arrived here by the sa. Devanha of Medicine by Mr. Harold Missionary Society. Recently, and agricultural people. Was it Balme, F. R. C. 8., upon the and chiefly through the muni- different in Europe? Rome adopt- Sub-Inspector Robert Lanighan subject of medical institutions in scence of the Americans, especi-ed and incorporated the scien- reserves to be transferred to the returned from Home leave yester-China, Sir Donald Mao Alister ally through the Rockefeller Fund, tifo language of the Greeks, and Principal and Vice-Chancellor of a great university has been begun, Roman languages were adopted custody of the Reparations Com-day.

Glasgow University, presiding. equipped and founded in the as the basis of the nomenclature mission. According to the Echo de

Hongkong University was re- North of Chine, at Tainan, in the of solence in all countries of Paris, French experts propose Military families and reliefs also that additional military and for H.M.S. Hawkins and Alacrity, G. Earle, Dean of the Faculty

presented on the platform by Dr. Shantung Province.

Europe and America. The anato- In the case of Shantung the mical, physiological, clinical and economic penalties shall

arrived by the Devanha, which applied, including the occupation returns Home on the 27th instant, and Professor of Physiology, sud matter is quite opposite to that of pathological terms now in use in by Sir James Canilio, the founder Hongkong in its beginnings. In Northern and Western Europe of further territory in the Ruhr

of the College of Medicine for Hongkong the teachers of the were foreign to these countries, region; and a preliminary con-

We hear that the Police Re-Chinese, now marged in the College worked well-nigh twenty but, they have become incorporat- ference is to be hold this week- ford Hythe, which will be serve Medals, awarded for good University, whose views on the years without remuneration of ed and adopted as the medium of attended by the French Premier service during the war, have subject of medical education in any sort. When the University communication everywhere. In was founded the funds wore raised China in the course of time the and General Weygand. Com-arrived and that they will shortly China merit reproduction.

No one can say when or by locally from British, Indian and same thing will happen. The menting on the subject the other be distributed.

whom Westera medicine was Chinese merchants, with some Japanese have done so without day we remarked the that Allies, having notified Germany of the Mr. L.E. Ensign, managing dir-fintroduced into China. The help from the local government, dimoulty, and in China the mental and the Dutch, In Shantung that great benevol-powers of the Chinaman, with bis reparations decision, were at actor of the China Vegetable Oil Portuguese liborty to take further steps Company, Ltd., left to-day by the although they were in occupation ent fund-the Rockeville-came superlative brain-the largest of May 1. In China for San Francisco and New of parts of China over three to the assistance of Shantung, any race will surmount the A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. without waiting for for topara- York on business. He expects to centuries ago, did little, for in the and found thereby a cum sufficient apparent dificulty with case. In

tions, however, the Allies, under return to the Colony in Septem-parent countries of both medical to endow and provide for (to a Hongkong, the

knowledge was mostly empirical, great extent) a large staff in the iversity, the teaching is in and they had little to impart to neighbourhood of some two English; in Shantung, the on the subject. dozen. Locally amongst the mis-northern university, the teach- marks, for which Berlin formally The former pupil of Yaumati the Chinese gave bonds, in respect of the Government School who has been The first real introduction sionary population but few could ing is Chinese. To which will of a "healing art" was made be epared from their local Chris-the Chinese drift for their Correspon lonts are requested to observe the rule which requires/armios of occupation and the convicted of the theft of a type-be the East India Company initian teaching in far apart education? It would them to forwart their names and attresses with communications supply of materials; and the Treaty writer from the institution was, addressed to the Elitor, not necessarily for publicatio, but as an fixos May 1 as the latest date for with an accomplice, this morning 1801, when vaccine was brought churches, meeting houses, &c., seem as though theld naturally payment of this amount, Germany bound over in a personal surety to Canton and there used as a so that if missionaries were apgo northwards, but the languages protection against small-pos, portioned to permanent work in in the north and south are avidence of their bona filos.

The Chinese bad, of course, used the University others would have different. It is Mandarin in the All communications intended for publication should be address claims that she has discharged the of $100.

liability and more. The difference

the matter from dried small-pox to be sent out to supply their north and Cantoness in tho ad to the Editor.

arises over the valuation of the Yesterday's health return payments in kind. Evidently Ger-shows two fatal cases of small-scabs long before then, but boving places throughout the length and south, and the two ars as different vaccina. was with scientific breadth of the country. All the as English from French, so that many has placed a high estimate nox (one imported), two CR808 of upon the goods she has delivered, cerebro-spinal fever (one fatal). The good effect was soon undone, philanthropists who contribute to China, were he to go north, precision used only after 1801.more credit to the American the student from the Fouth of seeing that the Allies claim that one fatal occurrence of plague there is still a sum of £600,000,000 and one non-fatal case of enteric, for alter a time the continuance the Shantung University, for if would have to learn what for due, signifying that less than half The sufferer is the last-named of the use of this initial vaccine the missionaries are not so used, him is a foreign language, just as a foreign of this debt has been discharged. was an Indian; the rost Chineso. in the course of years lost its then still more are they to be admir- much as English is

power, although they went oned for importing at so great an ex-language to the Cantonese. It is L'Affaire Dreyfus.

transferring it from arm to arm penss fresh teachers from abroad. a question which he will take Following the report of the until thegood effects became ex- To the world outside China the||to. A factor in favour of The passing of the Paris jour-intended resumption of the haust ed. It was not until 1891, development of the Shantung the southerner going north is nalist, M. Joseph Reinach, recalls Siberian mail service a number of when the then Governor of Hong University was like bringing a that the written language of both the famous case which agitated enquiries have been addressed to kong (Sir Wm. Des Voeux) was foreign plantto a strange shore, an is the same; it is but the spoken all Franco in the closing decade the Hongkong General Post persuaded to grant permission to attempt to develop a new dectrine languages that are different. The of last century. Captain Dreyfus, Office from businessmen for a erect a vaccine institute in Hong in unprepared surroundings. Yet Cantonese are the commercial son of a wealthy Jewish mer confirmation of the statement, kong, that fresh vaccine could it has been accomplished with race of China, and English opene chant of Paris, was attached to but without the result sought for, be supplied on a wider scale in the success and the infant creation the door not only to the whole of the General Staff. Tried by the department having received Far East.

is already a prodigy. China the markets of the world, but court-martial for selling secret no advice from Home as to the, Medical knowledge to the has assimilated science as she also allows of a world free chan- from time immemorialnel of inter-communication in documents to Germany, he was likely resumption of the service. Chinese was for a considerable has condemned and hanished to

and time given by every British assimilated incorporated science with the English-spoak. Devil's Island. His relatives. with Colonel Picquart, the late path again, says the Canton as they always had one, two or many peoples and many tribes. factor not only to the Chinese Our suffragettes are on the war medical man in China, inasmuch within her amplo proportionsing races, an enormous beneficial

Emile Zola, and M. Reinach, were Times. They are out to canvass three students" attached to That it will thrive is undoubted, but also to the rest of the world, convinced of his innocence and for members and will not be satis their practice who, trained by and the energy, the money and For that the Chinese by their exorted themselves to obtain a re-fied until they enrol every woman their master, acquired a certain diligence of its promotion by ability will play an important and trial. Zola, in an open letter in this city as a member of their amount of clinical knowledge and Britain and America have been useful part in medicine and other addressed to the President of the

association. As an inducement the rudiments of anatomy and successfully planted and will sciences is undoubted; thereby Republic, assorted that Dreyfus they offer their poor hard working physiology, minor surgery, &o., bear "sweet and refreshing fruit." | advancing the world's knowledge had not received a fair deal. For sistere" the privilege of joining and they at times became In the Shantung University at by adding to its armamentarium HONGKONG, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1921. this the celebrated novelist was their association for the sum of extraordinarily well skilled in Tainan & further new develop a people capable of illimitable convicted of libel and fled the tan conts. No mention is made by several branches of surgery, meot has taken place, and is development in whatever work country for a while. Persevering the suffragette committee as to acting an assistants at operations none other than that the Chinese I they may devote their talents to. THE MISSING LINK" EXPEDITION.

in their efforts, the Dreyfus the membership fee for the girl and as dressers and even 89 champions-to whom must be Scientists the world over will no doubt follow with added a man destined to become deep interest the investigations and subsequent conclusions renowned in these late years, of what has been popularly termed the Missing Link" M. Clemenceau-charged

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Announcement.

The Roverend Mother Felicio profoundly regrets to inform all friends that Sister Macarie, aged 81 years, passed peacefully away in the French Convent at á o'clock on the morning of the

The funeral will pass the monument to-day at 5.30 p.m.

April. 1921.

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committed suicide.

two

studente/

clinical clerks.

Sir Patrick Manson in Formosa and Amoy, Dr. Kerr at Canton, and several others gave instruc-

witnesses, THE WARING COMPANY. tion to classes of learners, but it

Dr. was not until

.Kenneth MacKenzie, of the London

Between

Ourselves

By Robt. MacWhirter.

How did you act? Or how are you going lo act?

Expedition to Asia. One of its leaders has already arrived of the prosecution

Colonel Henry, head of the in China, in the person of Me, Roy Chapman Andrews, an Intelligence Department, and article from whose pen we published yesterday. As to Captain Esterhazy, with fabricat-The Merchant of Venice," Missionary Society, in Tientein, When? At the great montent of your life. English folk call when the expeditioners' task will begin in real earnest, this ing the much-debated Dreyfus

in 1881 unfolded his scheme for it the proposal. Novelists work up to it and think it the climax will depend to some extent upon the situation in China, dossier. Esterhazy was acquitted,

It was only natural that with more systematic instruction to when, if the truth were often told, anti-climax would be nearer lait it is hoped soon to get mider way and to secure the but the former confessed and such a high reputation behind the great Viceroy, Li Hung. the mark. Writers for the pictures term it the fade-out and it's co-operation of Chinese who can be of value to the party. was ordered, and the sentence

Aro trial them that the H. B. Waring Com-Chang, that a medical college was just after that that ye make a grab, for your hat and wish ye had The prime object of the expedition is to discover some was confirmed with reservations, pany ehould attract a very large actually established. It was kept your dollar to buy ice-cream wi'.

company to the Theatre Royal again the London Missionary I was reading about Capt. Evans-our Capt. Evans I mean-in fossil of man at the place of origin that will enable the penalty being reduced. Short laat evening when they gave the Society that was approached when the Home papers just the other day. Ye see the cables had got scientists to link him up with his successive stages of ly afterwards Dreyfus was set at first of their Shakespearian plays the scheme for the establishment busy just after the Hong Moh disaster and it being a somewhat development, for the need is felt of definite data on the liberty, and eventually he was "The Merchant of Venice," of a medical college in Hongkong dull season in between strikes, the newspapers wrote him up to beat not only accorded a full pardon Many of the artists have been was prepared (by Sir James the band. No' that he didna' deserve it, mind yo, but some of you point, since most of the present conclusions are, according but his commission in the Army closely associated with the Ben- Cantlie) in 1887; the Society wel screaming journals fairly overdo it when they start. Talk about to Mr. Andrews, theories based on deductive reasoning. was restored to him with the ranksonian school of Shakespearian art comed and supported the ides making straw without bricks. And talking about bricks, by the The expedition party sels ont under the auspices of of major. A feature of the re-trial and the high praise that has been warmly, and gave the use of their Hokey Fly, give some of you newspapers the mare shadow of ous to the American Museum of Natural History, in co-operation was the eloquent speech for the meted out to them has (judging promises, the Alice Memorial play wi' overnight and ye get an Eiffel Tower served up to break- with the American Asiatic Society and the Ann Magazine delivered at short notice on ac- bear more than justified. Not to hold classes and teach their story about the wreck and the part he was supposed to play. defence by M. Paul Demange, by last night's production) Hospital in Hongkong, in which fast next morning. No content wi' telling folks a straight simple Holding the theory that man is descended from none but count of the sudden illness of only in forceful characterisation students. Hongkong was favour- some of them needs must break out into special articles and go into man," but at the same time admitting his relationship to leading counsel.

but in the staging and setting, the ably situated for the purpose, for his history from the time his grandmother first took to wearing the ape,

this group

of scientists will seek to find fossil

The Big Clash.

Waring Company achieved an here resided a number of local glasses and elastic-sided boots. remains of the first creature to leave the Anthropoid, or

unqualified success. It is no easy practitioners, of medical men of But what I was going to say was this. Half way through four-legged, stage and stand erect on the legs. Their The ether has been stirred matter to play Shakespeare these the Civil Government, of the one of the screeds, right in the middle of having Evans fall into search turns in this particular direction because a generally again to tell us a little more about days, but there was scarcely Army and of the Navy, in all Antartic crevasses and eating dog harness as a change of diet, the even the most{aomė forty British qualified writer so far forgets himself as to tell us the way ho get about pro- accepted belief is that in the Miocene period, some 2,000,000 the Dempsey-Carpentier arrange-fault that

medical men, willing to take up posing marriage to his wife. This is the bit years ago, great geological disturbances occurred. The ments, which have been under hypercritical could have found,

discussion for some fifteen The leading parts of Portia and the work of teachers and

He met her in Christiania, the acknowledged beauty of her Central Asia platean was elevated. Himalaya Mountains months. A fow weeks ago aShylock were in the hands of examiners. The Government

social circle. were thrown up. Land connection existed between Siberia roport got around the Miss Jeanette Sherwin and Mr. botanist, Mr. C. Ford, and bis

"I mean to marry a man of action," she said. Rickard, had Chas. Quartermaine and we assistant superintended the

"Why don't you?" he asked. and Alaska, across what is now the Bohring Strait. There promotor, Tex

received a proposition was probably a broad connection with Africa by way of the Canada, bringing the purse up to terpretations. Both these classic ment chemist taught chemistry; from bave never seen more masterly in teaching of botany; the Govern. Mediterranean and Red Sens, It is in this environment $750,000 (does Tom Sayere turn characters have been staged- Dr. Ho-Kai (after Sir KaiHo-Kai), that the origin of man is conceived to have taken place. in his grave these days?-we played times without number but a student in medicine and a Janet eays that sort of thing should be made actionable. I For, it is believed, the apes no longer could retreat south-shall be hearing of a seven-figure in the hands of Mies Sherwin and barrister-at-law, taught forensic didna' quite grasp whether she meant the bit in the paper or the ward because of the liuge mountain barrier, and man, purae soon). But the contest, so Mr. Quartermaine they were medicine and larger subjects. proposal itself. What's more to the point, though, Janet says she probably an insignificant creature living on nuts and roots we are told, is to be staged in given a very real freshness. Mr. This was in 1887. Dr. Patrick doesna' believe one word of it. And she ought to know for shee New Jersey on July 2, It is H. B.. Waring, as Bassanio, Manson taught medicine; Dr. gone through a long and special course of reading on subjects of in the thick forests and rumuing to trees for shelter, was stated that Carpentier, with greatly contributed to the success Wm. Hartigan, gynaecology: Dr. the kind. Let me give you a simple proposal from ber latest in suddenly threatened by new perils with the old sanctuary Descamps, his manager, will sail of the production, whilst the part Paul Jordan, pathology; and Mr. heart throbs" The Malefactor" by E. Phillips Oppenheim : gone. Losing the shelter of the forest he had to acquire for America on the seventh of of Antonio was sustained with (now Sir) James Canthie, anatomy some means of self-preservation on the open plain. So he next month, which looks a little dignity by Mr. Wordley Hules, and surgery. Soon Dr. J.G. Thom- tried standing erect as a means of better looking about, more promising, though not by Miss May Hallett as Nerissa and son, of the London Missionary any means conclusive. The laws Mias Edith Smith as Jessica well Society, joined the staff of acquired hands with opposed thumbs so that he might of the State named do not allow fulfilled their important roles, teachers, and chiefly through his grip sticks and stones, and feet that he might stand the of conteste going beyond twelve whilst a word should be said enthusiasm and capability as a strain of swift and sustained running.

rounds. This means a hefty sum in praise of Mr. Frederick teacher, demonstrator, tutor, and These are some of the views at present held regarding per round, assuming that the Annerley, who as the Duke of his wisdom as an administrator, clash lasts the distance; but as Venice and the Prince of Morocco, wae the routine and high the origin of man, and if the fossil remains of this first likely as not the limit will be gave clever interpretations. All standard of discipline of the man can be found, a riddle of the ages will be solved and more than sufficient. The the other characters were in very College maintained and advanced, positive proof take the place of theory. The subject of the Frenchman, by the way, appear-capable bands, and the excellence As ploneers (during the long search of this group of scientista is one that makes a ed at Knowsley Hall last month of the dressing, staging and music period of twenty years whilst the universal appeal to the imagination. The expeditioners before his Majesty and other (supplied by the Wiltshire's Band) College was maintained) nieces- will seek to trace the causes that led to man's evolution; gueste of Lord Derby, a novel combined to give Hongkong one sarily dropped off other willing characteristic of the displary of the best evenings. it has ever teachers Came forward and how that evolution was first accomplished; what the given with his sparring partner had with England's great writer, through their example and good primitive man looked like; how he lived-in short, the key being a reconstruction of the! This evening is being produced work at last the British residents, the two but I suppose a lot depends on the sex and age of the reader. to the missing chapters in human history.

Levinsky contest.

A Butterfly on the Wheel." especially J. D. Scott, Eaq., and

that

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"No one has asked→→→→

"Righto," said Evans, and they married.

What d'ye know about that? I'll say it's a bit too swift for me.

“I am loo old for you, dear,"

he said presently, as they wander- ed about the garden, much too old."

"Age,” she answered softly. "what is that? What have we to do with the years that are past? It is the years to come only which we must consider, and to think of. them makes me almost tremble with happiness. You are much too rich and too wonderful u parsonije for

a homeless orphan like me but," she added, tucking her arm through his with a contented little sigh, "I have you, and I shall not let you go !!

I don't doubt but that the truth's to be found somewhere between

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