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DOCTORS HEAD SUICIDE LIST.

LAMAS AT HOME.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

Russian the fañas broke into an

FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 192Z.

axcited barble of incomprehens- DAIRY FARM

|ible explanation. Than proudly they unfurled a scroll and dis- Sidelights on Central Asia.played a roll of garish plak Suspicious Accidents Recalled.

Disguised as a Siberian pesant, attio-bedroom wallpaper, bespat A recent thesting of the I walked down from Lake Baikal fared with pink roses as big as Society of Medical Jurisprudence to Oular Mongolia. Nearing the letturas. I had reached them, New York the increased frontier, in a country of tambled they explained, from a Russian suicidal tendency among Amermanntain and wild plas forest, the shop up at Verknie-Udinsk and ican physicians, as revealed, by home of the bear and the wolf, they were going to papar their 'Civilisation" has to the last published figures, was began to come into contact with home! discussed. Dr. Adolphus Kuopf the strange Buddhist lamasarais Answer for that.

On their altar was a gilt declared that overwork, physical which are slowly but surely and mental pain, the use of nar-creeping up into South-east Buddha in a glass case, and cotics, lack of spiritual belief, Siberis .writes Mr. Bassett cabinet photograph of the Dalai and financial failure are some of Digby. F.R.G.S, in the Manchester Lama a black-moustached man in early middle age. Before and the reasons for suicide among Guardian.

There came a morning when tawdry artificial flowers and

Around the photograph doctors. Medical man, he said,

were

are saky ́prey of Wall Street through a glade in a remota

crooks" because they have no wilderness of pines, I oaught oil in little bowls.

tineël ornaments, and food and business sense. When, as hip-ļs'ght; with a thrill, of my first pened last year, the doctors led |lamasersi-a high stockade, old A few years ago a sħabby littlə | the professione in the number of grey log buts, and beyond the Russian photographer CAMB with s total of 58 quaint rools and upflung gables jolting into Urga ina telyeza (against 32 the preceding year) of yellow and green of the tem-Two years later he left the be looked upon the situation as pies. I sat down and looked at capital of Outer Mongolis, alarming.

it. Here, then, were the Tibetans,Wealthy besond Dr. George D. Stewart, Pres. the people of the mysterious ident of the Academy of heart of Asia. Medicine, assorted that the figure Is not large when it is consifered that in the United States there 140,000

suicides

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his wildest dreams. Hə bad induced the clerical authorities to call in the images of gold and heavily gilded silver that existed all over the country and to substitute photographs. He is at wil, a famous character in East Sibaria.

I saw nobody as I drew neat. At one point the stockade r, ceded into a kind of funnel la such a mannar that in the event of an attack the monks could line the

THE CENTRAL TEMPLE Dr. S. Dann Hubbard, of the platforms behind it and attack

Presently my hosts fetched a New York Dapartment of Health, the invaders from two sides as considered that the public rec-

they ran Up toward the venerable verger in a dirty old ords of suicide are most inrrow spout that led into thefte-cotta robe, and we went out accurate. lavestigation by his settlement. I felt that I ought to to see the Central Temple. As ring the bell, at least, after having we passed through the temple of deaths reported as accidental have proved to become all these thousands of miles field the verger motioned to me suicides in

He to pay a call, but there was no that no smoking was allowed. He ground underfoot a cigarette further asserted that many of the bell, no lodge, no gate. summer drownings, if carefully Just inside lay the streets of I threw down some distance investigated, would swell the old weatherworn log buts, like. number of suicides. Also, many the hats of Siberian villagers, but so-called accidental deaths from gas poisoning when looked into by his office have in many cases been found to be deliberate.

office

many cases.

CASE OF A FRIEND,

First the doors at the top of with a striking difference. The flight of stone staps had to be un- Siberian lays washing out to dry locket, then the doors beyond the flat on the turf of the steppe. antechamber.

Mongolia.

These people seemed to be hang- The temple was an eerie night ing out a week's washing on poles.—a grest dim solitude of square Everywhers I looked were poles red wooden pillars and elusive Dr. Hubbard mentioned the like fishing-rods, from which fut glimpses of the ritualistic appur. case of an intimate friend of his tered what appeared to be band- tenances of this remote, ancient whose death was recorded as kerchiefs. But there are no faith of the Asiatic womb of-man- "accidental." It was clearly handkerchiefs in Tibet or Outer kind. Among the rows and rows apparent that death could not

They were merely of raised, cushioned dais were have been accidental, be said, scraps of linen rag on which were strange prayer wheels and iossmuch as the window in the painted prayers--"Om mane fantastic drums. In one corner, man's room from which he fell padme hum!" Thus was Bud-beyond an altar, was a library of was so high that to get to it he dis's injunction observed, and sacred works, one hundred and had to stand on a chair. Of three every breeze waited heavenward twelve of there, bound, some in friends who had taken their own the lama's prayer. lives in the last year, Dr. Hob bard said two were recorded as "accidents."

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Another instance where the about this strange little "city" of was that their dogs and the birds

nearly half an hour I wandered while I stayed with the lama word of a physician was taken Tibetan mooke, hidden away in of their remote settlement showed was cited by Dr. Hubbard. A the forest. I wandered round the no fear. The dogs of the Mongol friend called blm by telephone.sacred field, in the heart of the and Siberian layman are always He had been fleeced by seillement, among the bizarre either bullying or cringing t› "bucket-shop broker," and asked temples that reminded me gro-void the fang stone. for $1,600. Dr. Habbard said tesquels of group of cricket monks' dogs took life tranquilly he did not have it, and with pavilions. On the left were five and with dignity. in an hour the man was found temples in a row, decorated in dead with a ballet in his body.various schemes of yellow and old to the taking of animal life that Lamas are so strongly opposed The family physician whom Dr. golt, with crimson, dismonded, they even, on occasion, sit down Hubbard said he knew well, lattice windows. There were little by fellow countrymen who are diagnosed the death as acute-balustraded verandats on the top. Eshing and, basing back the life stration to show that there was no pneumonis," and nothing was with wooden turrets behind them. of each fish as it is hooked out of such things as rights of property. made public about the actual Dogs and birds here showed the water, cast it back into the

cause.

no fear, an unusual sight in a country where dogs for ever lick from the fear of the cast stone. I entered a little templa

In conclusion, Dr. Koopf made an urgent plea that well-to-do physicians and the public abould contribute towards the building and found an altar, in which were of a home for aged and destitute eruses and howls of food and physicians where they could end their lives in peace and happiness, An institution of this kind would prevent many from becoming despondent,

LATE MR. J. D. OSMUND.

irink, a baccb, a prayer-wheel, and two mattresses on the floor.

stream.

These

SEIZURE OF A HOUSE.

Charge Under old Statutes.

Charged under statutes

ALEXANDRA BUILDING.

Nay said he had written to various people, including the Home Secretary and the King. aaking them to find bim a house, and be bad also seen Mr. Lloyd George on the subject.

The Recorder raid he was glad to Bad that the men were not acting with those who were en- deavouring to undermine the con- of stitution by direct action, or be

Coming out I walked nearly into the arms of the first lama Il had ever seen. He turned and Richard II. and Henry VI. with should have passed a heavy ran off to the huts. In a few forcibly making entry into car-sentence. The accused were inoments & pretty bullabaloo tain lands and tenements other-liable to three years" hard labour, arose. I cocked my tiny Calibri wise than where entry is given but he abould merely keep them revolver and wished myself, back by law, four men appeared before in custody until the next Sessions. at home among respectable busi-the Recorder at the Old Bailey He felt that they had a sense of ness men who do their exploring recently.

real grievance, and he would

DEVOTION TO SPORT.

in an armchair, with a library The defendants were Robert suspend the order to give up An Impressive Funeral.

subscription. A mob of lamas Nay (32), a stoker, Arthur William Possession of the house until came reading into the sacred Sommerfield (35), * dustman. January 1. The funeral of Mr. J.D,Osmund, field, doubtless suspecting excri Arthur Ernest Noun (33), a cellar. which took place at the lege. But they were unarmed, I mao. and Henry Keeling (44), a ROMED Catholic

noticed, and I promptly opened toolmaker, cemetery,

and they pleaded Happy Valley, fat evening my pack and passed round two guilty to the charge. WAB very largely attended by handfuls of cigarettes. By the Outlining the case for the pro- the members of the Portuguese time we had all passed round the secution, Mr. Long said that the Bishop of Chesters Criticism. community and numerous other matches and lit up we were on case related to a house in Pack. friends. The cortega was met friendly terme, and my smiles ham, part of an estate in chancery. Presiding at the Chester Dioca- Dear the Naval Hospital and gestures of wonderment, and of which possession bed been san Conference, the Bishop of Che- by the band of the Portuguese the gift of a three-rouble note to taken amongst others by the de-ster said he believed they were Philharmonic Society, of which the temple treasury, had placed fendants, their wives and fam-extraordinarily cear to some the deceased gentleman was for us on genial terms.,

ilies, and although they had pre-thing like idolatry of sport and many years a president and

A LAMA'S HUT.

mised to give up possession they amusement. When one read of also by the members of the A lama beckoned me back to bad not done SO.

reception given in London to a Apostleship of Prayer bearing the his hut. Across the threshold I "I may add," comosel said "that kinema artist, which would hard- ilver cross and many floral found myself in a large, low- this is 'ndeed a hard case. These ly be secured by such as General tributes. On the way to the ceilinged room, half chapel, half man quite obviously took posses Foch, one could not.help but cemetery the band played a well-living and sleeping room. Hesion of the premises because think that the country had gone known funeral march, "Regret," told his room-mate, who was they were homeless, and they extraordinarily wild and wrong.

the mourners.

were

in such a matter. It was one form of national insanity.

numbering squatting there, about me, and were unemployed." from two to three hundred, motioned me to be seated. Uo- A police officer gave the men's following the hearse. The chief locking a cupboard for caps and good characters, and Mr. Myles

One could not say anything for mourners were the four sone, and spoons that

engraved Elliott, for the defendants, said the wholesale encouragement of supporting them жете the A.N." in Russian, he soon made his clionts at first thought they organised sport on a Sunday. The octogenarian father and four tea. Instead of milk there was were entitled tod what they did.o resi question was not what they brothers of the deceased. At the shuddersome lump of raw mutton- The Recorder: I dareesy they should not do on Sunday bat graveside Rev. Father Banchi fat which was passed from cap bave never heard of Richard II. what they ought to do on a conducted an impressive service, to cup, and allowed to remains add Henry VL. I do not want to Sunday. Church-people ought to after which the

company until a scum of grease had arisen. think of these people having to work together for the recovery of present paid their last respecte It was like a hot jelly-fihugbi go out into the world with the Lord's day.1. The character Fat their fiervices-should-- again-

to the departed. We omitted to I can feel it now. There were nowhere to go.

mention in our report of the carven screens of red and gold Mr. Elliott: That is absolutely and again:be reconsidered; and, death of Mr. Osmond, which and black in the room, contrast what it is. I cannot find out that if necessary, alterations made. appeared in yesterday's issue, ing with the severe simplicity of these people have anywhere to go that there are four sisters sur-the rough-hewn besme. In if they are turned out of this viving the deceased in addition corner stood a cluster of what I house. to the four brothers. Two of the took to be scrolls of holy

The Recorder was sasured that) former are in Shanghai and the writings. When I pointed to the men salad quite independent- other two in Hongkong..

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