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COMPACT AS A WATCH

FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1923.

DAY BY DAY.

THE CHANCES ARE A HUNDRED | TO ONE THAT THE SCHOOL- MASTER KNOWS MUCH BETTER

RUGBY FOOTBALL.

Club v. Army,

The following will represent

HIGHWAYMAN CAUGHT.

AT

Arrested by Revenue Officers.

How a little drama staged by

|preventive medicine has always).

bann to convince administratore that most of the communicable diseases can be pravenied, being dus to remorabio causes, and that prevention paya in the end. THAN THE PARENT HOW TO GST the Club in their match against

A GIVEN the Army on Saturday next at a highwayman, with an amah It required the stimulus of an THE BEST OUT OF

Happy Valley, tisk-off at 4.15 as the victim, was interrupted by epidemic of cholera in England, CHILD—Mr. Arnold Bennett,

po.: MoorSKU, Littlejohn, the unexpected appearaños of Batlin. Prowse, Day; Clerk, other persons on the scene, WEL THE NEW REMINGTON about ninety years ago, with

Yesterday's health return Jordain; Ralston, Cooper, Andrewe. related at the Police Court this' over 40,000 deaths, partially to shows one non-fatal case each of Forsyth: Jones, Moncreif, Camer morning. PORTABLE TYPE-

awaken the public and the pateric fever and cerebro-spinal on, Turney. WRITER.

authorities there to a sense of fever. Both were Chiness. the danger attaching to the deplorable insanitary conditions under which most of the inhabit anis lived, and the necessity for introducing administrative and sanitary measures. The same applied to congested tropical

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The Telegraph.

HONGKONG, 19th Jan, 1923.

SANITATION IN RURAL DISTRICTS.

We referred briefly yesterday to the very poor success of Dr.

Koch's efforts to obtain improved sanitary conditions for the rural districts of the Colony. The

does not desire to undertake thei extensive measures needed for

The Chinese who was charged | with the unlawful possession of a at yesterday's Criminal Sessions

loaded revolver, at the offices of the Kowloon Tea House Guild, Yaumatì, was found “not guilty and discharged.

FOOTBALL.

Revenue Officers Grimmett and Knight ware returning home last aight to their quarters at Morri- son Hill. It was their custom to use the main road, but on this occasion they cut into a caITOW The following will represent|gost track On the billaïde the United Athletic Club Javior and as a result carus suddenly Shield against H.M.9. Hawkins: upon an interesting night. Á —Beach;' Jackson, Chilton, AB was holding a woman by Urquhart, Mackenzie, Leonard; the wrist and making theaten- cities. After referring to the ex- The following forthcomingi Chubb Payne, Brown, Derry.jing movements. Drawing out cellent results that have followed | weddings are announced:-Mr Botelho.

a revolver in anticipation of The following have been select-the man being armed, R. O. on the efforts of Manson, Bass, B. W. Bennett and Miss Daisy and others in the East, our Godfrey; Mr. C. Maltby and Missed to represent Kowloon in both Grimmelt pressed it against the

Daris Kathleen Staven; Mr. D. Divisions on Saturday-

man's band and in this way authority says that no one C. Miller and Miss E. Gins; Mr.

Against the Clubat Sookunpoo:secured bim without difficulty. familiar with the tropics and the F. E. Lane, chief engineer of the Woodman; Wheeler, Knight: In the prisoner's pocket were losanitary conditions existing 5. Fooksang and Miss Edna Morrison, King, McKelvie: Clems, five gold rings, identified to be

Normington.

Hall, Scully, A. Duncan Mason. property stolen from the woMED practically everywhere among

Reserves-Pasco and Millard. before the arrival of the Revenue the native population can be

Against South "Chias

B" at Officers. The familiar Morning Post Happy Valley-Young: Randle. satisfied that what has so far Directory and Blotter, which G. Duncan: Hawkins, Ollier larceny of the rings, but Mr. J.R. The original charge Was bean dana is enough to ensure finds a place on almost every Rasmussen: Hast, Ferguson, Wood, before whom the case was safety against either epidemics office desk in the Calong, again Spary, Blagden, Muir. Reservas: brought this morning, took

makes its appearance. It con- for endemice. Most Eastern

tains a wealth of information, localities, among the British besides the business, Peak and possessions, as in India, are de-other residential directories, and fenceless against the spread of is an invaluable office requisite. No home or business house should epidemic disesses. Moreover, be without a copy. until the insanitary conditions →→→

American manufacturers

Hooper and Johns.

RECORD OPIUM SEIZURE.

Eight Tons of Persian Drug.

more serious view, and amendad [it to one of highway robbary. Or this charge the prisoner was 76- manded, it being intimated that " committal of the prisoner for trial at the Sassions would follow if the evidence were satisfactory. A Teacher's Experience.

Inspector Bloor, scheming a looking weapons they bad in their clever but risky means of getting bands. It was risky being on the into the smugglers' lair, engag-road where they might be dis- ed an ordinary-looking sam-turbed, so in order to rob him at

the

SHANGHAI COURT

FUNDS.

on 3rd. January, 1923, Carlos are removed, very little impresi It was recently announced that Antonio, son of Mr. and Mrs.sion will be made on the malaria, British War Medals and Mer

A Chinere teacher's experience F. A. de Jesus, aged 26.

hookworm disease, Elariasis, osatile Marine War Medals had

The details disclosed by the with a gang of armed highway the Harbour saiture of & record opium dump robbers has just been related. Hệ dysentery, and so forth. which, been received at

Office for those officers on the on a solitary island in Capsoimunį was walking along the Laichikok when endemic la an ares, do a Chins Coast who bad qualified on Wednesday savour very much Raad on his way home, at a late vast amount of barm to the comfor them. Up to the present, of the romantic tales with which hour last night, when he was DYSF- munity, causing a high mortality, however, there are many who fiction writers are wont to regale taken by four men, two of whom bave not applied for them, and us when writing of the activities were careful to expisin to him the much sickness, and general they should make application to of bold and ingenious smugglers. asture and use of the two ugly. debility. Epidemic outbreaks the Assistant Harbour Master, only occur at intervals, but when Lieut. Conway Hake. they do appear, and there is no properly organised anitary in Great Britain and British pan, whose awnings were used to leisure they dragged him, in spite sarvice to combat them at once, possessions generally. Hongkong, give him the necessary cover to of his entreaties, to a dark spot and dependence has to be made it seems, is regarded in the States approach the spot anobserved about fifty yards from the high- on measures hastity improvised as being in China, and that ex- until the moment for action. On way. Here the teacher was glad plains why so many of the bis arrival it was seen that a bigh to find that the only things they to counteract and lessen the American cars here have the left-degree of organization had been intended to take away from him ravages, it is seldom there is any hand drive. If the facts are as attained by the band, who, as a were his long cost, his bat and a success. But oven then, it is not we have stated them, then is safeguard against danger, had purse containing 85.45. He was would appear an easy matter to provided a guard to patrol the duly grateful that his life was Government is cautious, and prevention.

overcome the local problem. All surrounding waters in a junk and spared and promised not to tell Dealing with the point of that would be necessary would to bead off inquisitive intruders. sayons of his experience. How- frs: Police that looking sampan with two men Station he Camo across he applying the sanitary laws to the expense, Professor Simpson points be for local agents to notify the The appearance of an innocent-ever,

complaint. New Territories unless sure that at that there is even to-day a right-hand driven cars are what calmly exerting themselves at the made such action is really required reluctance to spend money on is needed in Hongkong. I oars on the day in question did result of which the police in the sanitary measures in the tropics. Indis, we are informed, no laft- not srouse suspicions. The guard, mainland are keeping a sharp armed and with their look-out, all the stations having Seemingly the authorities are

baad driven cars are permitted well also disinclined to commit them. He emphasises that the preven-to be imported, reader telling revolvers dangling in picturesque been warned. selves to a policy that might tion of disease means a financial us of a case which recently came fashion from lanyards passed involve a considerable expendi. Bain. "Each life has a potential to his knowledge in which such a round their shoulders, allowed the car on arrival had to be shipped little craft to approzeb, doubtless value which reaches the ture of money. Somewhat the

back to the States. We do not thinking that it contained mem. same hesitation and lack of sp. maximum at the productive age. suggest such a measure of pro-bers of the main body who were preciation was discernible when, From this aspect the mortality hibition here, but if agents wore then absent on a secret expedi last November, the suggestion and sickness caused by either to intimate their preference for tion. It was not until it had right-hand driven cars, their come alongside that they realised

$40,000 Missing, for prophylactic treatment against

epidemic disease wishes would no dubt be respect they had been outwitted. Inspec-

Shanghai, January 19.-The malaria combined with prazen mean a monetary loss to the ed by the manufacturers, and in tor Bloor sprang from under the tive work, such as drainage, in community and to the individual. course of time the problem would swing, and, with the assistance

solve itself.

of the plain clothes men he had local District Court has discover- brought with him, the guard wased $40,000 to be missing, following the New Territories, was brought To combat an epidemic there is

secured even before they had re- the disappearance of Mei Yi-kuo, up, and turned down by the the large expenditure which has Back Again. powers-that-be. The defence put)

to be paid by the community on The Right Hon. Mr. Arthur Hen-covered from their surprise or the Chiel of the Court, last week. arrested and a warrent is being forward by the Government re

measures for the suppression of derson hay soon re-entered Parlia-thought of putting up any resist The Court Treasurer bas besa

issued for Mei's arrest.—Beuter, With the exception of a woman tion at Newcastle East. He first solves itself into two contentions the diseaseThere is also eat, as a result of the bye-elec-ance.

that there is no proof of the

the financial loss dos to death went to the House of Commons and the two men thus arrested, and sickness.—~————

it 1903, and be sat continuously the island was, at the time, clear rural districts being in a very

for the same sent over a period of of the gang, and it was safe work unhealthy state, and that there is| We trust that these author fifteen years. Then in the Gen- to carry out the remainder of the no case made out for the allocation itative views on the visdom of a eral Election of 1918 he was programme. A long tunnel, the of large sums from the Colony's policy of "being prepared "will thrown out, but a bye-election presence of which could not be gave him his opportunity in the detected at a casual inspection, revenue towards an extended be noted by all who are inclined following year and he snatched save evidence of the laborious Kowloon Cricket Club Ist. XI. sanitary scheme. Or, reducing to oppose the sensible.sanitary Widnes from the Unionista. work which the smugglers had against the Indian R. O. at Sco- thess arguments to their simplest reforms that have been suggested However, the Unioniste turned given put in to make their head- kuapoo on Saturday at 2.15 p.m.: form, the authorities do not think for the outlying portions of the the tables on him at the recent quarters as secluded as possible. J.P. Robinson (Capt.), B.D. Evane General Election, and be was it led to a cabin some thirty feet Capt. E. C. Spinks, G. & V. Hall, the proposed measures are neces- Colony. We cannot believe that consequently without a seat until square, on entering which the B. J., H. H. Benson, R. E. Lind- sary. To prove the fallacy of the authorities are waiting for a couple of days ago, when he searchers found the epium, sell, L. J. Blackburn, E. F. Spinks, bricks and S. E, Green and B. Petharam,and ia Bour sacks, the the official standpoint, one merely the possible time when a serious managed to retain Newcastle Compressed

East for the Labourites. But, placed

Kowloon 2ad. XI. against the stuff Was Indians at Kowloon at 2.15 p.m. has to substantiate the old adage epidemic, sweeping practically like the late Mr. Bell who regla quantity of the that prevention is batter than unchecked across the rural area, tered the Labour gain in this enormous. The opium was io on Saturday will be represented three-ap less than eight tons of it, the W. B. Hislett, A, Leach, E. J. We do not claim to be will entrench itself in the very constituency, he has gone in on the raw state, but as there were by. O. Brawl, W. Frasers

* & minority vote in medical experts, so will quote heart of Hongkong. Some such cornered fight. At the General Find fall that has come to the Edwards, F. G. Harridge, W. the opinion of Professor W. 3. happening might prore a valu- Election, the Labour nominee Government as a result of the Weaser, H. Overy, W. J. Shenton,

amounts to half W. J. Woolley and J. M. Jack. Simpson on the matter. Pro-able lesson to dissenters, but it polled just over 10,000 whereas seizure fessor Simpson is an authority would be learned at a great his two Liberal opponents regis-million dollars, whilst that for tered over 13,200. This time, the the informer and those who took the expedition will on tropical sanitation, and is price.

seat has been held with 11,065 part in for the Labour candidate, as amount to some $50,000,

Farther developments in the against an aggregate of some 13,100 poiled for the Liberal case are expected, as it is believed The other day we had some and Conservative nominees from the nature of the opium, bas been identified in King's College, London, since comment in this column on the There is very little change in the which

cure.

entitled to write a dozen letters

He has been Professor of Hygiene

endemic OF

of the alphabet after his name A Motor Problem.

1893,

into

80

LEAGUE CRICKET.

The following will represent

HOCKEY

On Wednesday, at the U.S.R.C the H.K.E.C. deleated the Navy, His researches in the dangers of left-hand drive motore voting as compared with the Persian, that there is

io Colony where the rule of General Election, but the result extensively erganized syndicate after a very fine milch by S tropics brought him fame many the road is "keep to the left."once again illustrates one of the behlad the whole basiness Pre-Osis to 4.

The following will represent ra years ago, and he was appointed we pointed out that the majority worst anomalies of the British vious discoveries had been of

French or Chiness oplum. the Club next Wednesday. 24th Government Commissioner to of care in use hers are of electoral system. All the same, Transportation of the Buge damp Instant, at Sookunpoo, gelost-

American manufacture, and most we are glad to see Mr.Henderson enquire into the causes and con- of them have the left-hand drive. back gain in Parliament. Hal seized had to be done by tow the King's, bally-off at 5. p.m. tinuance of plague in Hongkong From what we have since is one of the best-informed and junk and from the landing stage E. W. Hamilton, O Murray, Bor. se far back as 1902. He points learned, it appears that the most level-headed men of the to the Government Opium Farm N. Evans, D. B. Pel, Hoy E4 W. out in a recent article, which is American manufacturers turn Labour Party, and during the by a steam truck.At 7 p.m. L. Martia, E. J. R. Mitoba, of war he did remarkably well. We the whole of the drug was safely B.D. Evans (Caps) F. C. Miller, W, Woodward, F. E.-Holdth wit, reprinted in the Journal of out quite large numbers

сата with -the

right are now wondering whether bis stored in the building

Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, band drive, these being es-election will cause any change in The prisoners are being held E. W. Major. The Club will play that one of the great difficulties in pecially designed for purchasery the leadership of the Opposition, pending further investigations. in colours.