1926-08-04 — Page 1

ABOUT OUR SERVICE AND PRICES.

Our oyoaight testing oquipment is "probably the finest in the Far East, our nativo staff have had years of training with us, and all work is done'under the supervision of Ralpli A. Coopor, Registored Optometriat. by Canadian Government Examina. tion. We invite comparison of our pricos

with any reputable optician in Great Britain or America.

N. LAZARUS

Hongkong's Only European Optician.

12, Queen's Road, Central,

TYPHOID FEVER.

14 CASES LAST WEEK.

HOW DISEASE SPREADS.

"The health return for last week

shows no fewer than 14 cases oz

typhoid fever, of which 12 were "Chinese (one being imported) and the other two British and Indian. Twelve of the

cases

were from Victoria,

one from Kowloon and the other from Shaukiwan. There were four

deaths from the disease.

Other notifiable diseases report-

ed' were two non-fatal Chinese

casés of paritypldid · fèver, one Chinese death from cerebro-spinal fever, and one, non-fatal ense each of cholern and diptheria, the first named imported.. There was also one Chinese death from influenza.

CAUSES OF DISEASE.

נ!

It is interesting to note, in con- nection with the typhoid (enterfe) cases, nuntioned above, that for last year there were 151 cnses notified, as well as nine of paratyphold. The Medical Officer of Health, «in his annual report, has some interest- ing remarks to make on the preval enec of these diseases." He says:-- "Although the incidente of enteriz and paratyphoid fevers during 1925 was slight, the distribution of the cases throughout the year is of interest and seems to support the theory that the prevalence of vese disenses is due chielly to domestic factors except when, as has rarely happened, some common cause of infection has caused the disease to assume, epidemie proportion."

A diagram is given in the report to show the incidence of enteric and paratyphoid fevers. The curves ahow the numbers of cases which

The

Hongkong Telegraph

POUNDED 1801.

三拜禮 號四月八英港香

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1926.

日六十月六

No. 21,928

CANTON HOSPITAL

INCIDENT.

THE HUNAN WAR. COBHAM'S ARRIVAL" AT OPIUM RESERVE.

PENANG.

CROWDS.

DR. TODD FORCED TO RESIGN.

ATTACK ON “REDS” EXPECTED.

TREMENDOUS OVATION BY

KUOMINTANG CONTROL.

According to a Canton corres-

pondent, Dr. Paul J. Todd, the American physician who has been with the Kung Yee Hospital and Medical College. in Canton for more than 15 years, has finally

mintang, who took over the in- been forced to resign by the Kuo-

stitutions, it will be remembered, a year ago. Dr. Todd is said to have completely handed over his chargo to the Kuomintang from the end of July,

Dr. Todd, with a number of the well-known Chinese physicians, founded the Hospital and College more than 16 years ago and has been at the head of these institu-

BANDIT OUTRAGE.

American Catholic Missionary Released.

Hankow, August 3. The local American Roman Catholic Mission reports that the release has been effected of Father Cunningham, who was captured by bandits in West Hanah on July, 15th.- Router.

A week ago it was roport- ed that a delayed telegram from the American Consul at Changsha, dated the 22nd July, brielly recorded that an - Anierican Catholic priest was captured by bandits in West Hunan on the 15th July, and that action hall been taken to secure his release.]},

CANTON LABOUR UNREST.·

Latest reports from

neutral

GRACEFUL LANDING.

Mr. Ålanobham, the British airman who is engaged, on a flight

REPORT OF MALAYA COMMITTEE.

sources do not confirm the Kuomini to Australia and back, arrived at for publication the report of a tang claim of July 19th that Yochew: an important city in Hunan, has fallen into the hands of the "Reds."

General Yang Sen, a militarist of

large army, has joined Marshal Wa Szechuan, who is commanding a

Pei-fu in his "anti-Red" campaign against the Kuomintang, according to a non-Kuomintang report. The anti-Reds" say that on July 30th some twenty heavy field picees left Hunkow for Yochow for defence purpose, and the cruiser Yung, Chien, of the Yangtze Squatre was going to Yochow to re-inforce the land forces there, so that an offensive against the "Reds" may be commenced within a week.

WU TO ATTACK.. Marshal Wa Pei-fu, the Yangtze War Lord, has ordered his men to launch anathor, attnek in order to recapture Changsha, the Hunun provincial capital.

The Kuomintang Army reports the capture of Shekman, a city in Hunan

Penang unexpectedly at 5.20 p.m. on July 28th, after everyone had given up watching.

Suddenly those in the clubs on the esplanade and on the sea front saw a speck on the horizon, and immediately surmised that it was the famous airman.

$15 PER ANNUM

INGLE COPY 10 CENTS

At the now low priece, can there bï any rival in" Talus to the ESREX1 Although its amazing low price i

an undoubted attraction in making ESSEX, with Hudson the world' largest solling "Bix." the lasting impression of owners is the quality, brilliant performance, reliability, fine appearance, and riding ease that remains when the price paid is forgotten. Leadership in sales gives advantages in constantly improving value to the buyer because of volumo recunny in purchase of matoriale, manufacturing savings and low cost of distribution. The new pries pleep places within reach of all qualities horetoforo exclusive to far cortlice cars.

Touring.............. 31005

Coach......$2145

Including completo special equipment,

SEQUEL TO LOCAL ROBBERIES.

'ARREST MADE AFTER TWO

YEARS.

EUROPEANS' LOSSES.

THE DRAGON MOTOR

CAR CO., LTD..

32, WONG NB) CHUNG 112. „HAPPY VALLEY

LIVING COSTS.

STEADY RISE IN MALAYA.

CAUSES ANALYSED.

To the average salaried Europ- ean dwelling in Malaya the pro-

of nearly blem of making ends meet and committed having a bit over is one of ever in- Resorvoir, creasing perplexity. There is no

OUTSPOKEN OPINIONS..

There has just been released

After a lapse memorandum, by the sub-com-

two years, a theft mittes of the Association oat Ty Tuni Tuk British Malay on the Straits when A. Thomson lost $350, doubt (writes, the Telegraph a Settlement Opium Reserve Fund: appears to have been

solved Singapore correspondent) that the by the nrrest of the alleg-coat of living, which went up with The conclusions arrived at in London, it is to be noted, are very ed thief, who appeared before a bound after the war, has been similar to those reached by the Mr. J. H. B. Nhill at the Kowloon mounting steadily ever since, and look-out at the flagatal to the committee stato:.

Word was sent by a man on Singapore committee. The sub-Magistracy this morning on three it is to be questioned whether a Resident Councillor and the Har We the sub-committee appointed separate charges of larceny. more expensive place than Staga- bour Master; who arrived at to consider the steps which have The defendant, a house coolic, pore could be found in the East. Victoria Pier, 'and, boarding the been taken by the s.s. Government who was arrested at No. 9, Albion Salaries have risen as well of Government · launch Albatross,to create a fund for the replace- Terrace, Kowloon Docks, was course, but hardly in proportion. proceded to mid-channel, opposite nest of opium revenue report as einged in respect of the theit, of The man who lived here, modestly $350 from Mr. Thomson's rest in pre-war days finds that his once or twice overhead, and grace of the Association can properly were also preferred against de-as far as the alender means of his The seaplane arrival, circled We consider that the committee dence' on October 1, 1924. There much increased salary does pot go fully alighted on the spot allocat-approve the allocation of the fendant charges of theft of

the esplanade bandstand.

red.

In the meantime another launch had come up, and the seaplane was between the Albatross and the Dolphin.

The Resident Councillor and the Harbour Master greeted Mr. Cal ham and shook hands. By this time a crowd had surged round

the pier.

Mr. Cobham, having boarded the Albatross, was taken ashore, where he received a tremendous ovation from the crowd.

He was immediately driven to the Residency, where he was met by others at gate and those from the Golf Club;

General Tang Sung-chi, the Field Commander of the Kuomintang Army in Hunan, has been made concurrently Chairman of the Kuo- mintang Political Commission in Changshn. He will be assisted in the administration by five Commis sioners, who are to head the Milita gry, Civil, Financial, Education, and Reconstruction Departments.

General Tang Sang-chi is not now in Changsha, having gone to the field to suppress the "anti-Reds" attacking Line. Kuomintang.

NORTII DEFEAT. L

Had Mr. Cobham arrived earlier in the day he would have received still more rousing welcome. He looked in, splendid condition. He spoke in feeling terms of his late mechanic, Mr. Elliott, who was shot by an Arab near Basra. Large crowds wore on the esplanade this morning watching the seaplane.

follows:

L

ajunior years. If he married and has children in school at Home, he is thankful to be able to scrape through on a salary which would have been considered princely in the old days.

$30,000,000 voted at the meeting silver cigarette case, the property of the Legislative Council on August 24, 1926, to form the nucleus of the proposed "reserve fund...

We understand that under the terms of the resolution this fund remains under the direct control of the Legislative Council and we' consider that it is essential that this should be go...

COUNCIL AND COLONIAL, FUNDS.

We should be strongly opposed to any proposal to deprive the Council of its control over any of the funds of the Colony whether allocated to a specific purpose or not.

MIXED COURT RENDITION...

Proposed Boxer Indemnity Legislation.

Rugby, Aug. 3.

In the House of Comunong, answering questions, Mr. Locker-Lampson said that His Majesty's Government favour- ed the rendition of the Mixed Court at Shanghai.

Asked when it was intended to introduée legislation to amend the, China Indemnity Bill, Mr. Locker-Lampson. hoped that the necessary legis lation would be introduced next Session, when the report of the Willingdon Delegation would have been published.- Reuter-

On the general. question of the total amount to be provided for the Opium Reserve Fund we con- sider that the object in view should be the provision of a fund sufficient to tide the Colony over. the period between the cessation, or serious reduction, of its Oplum Revenue, and the time when new = forms of taxation, if then required, of Mr. G.., R. Haywood, a local the place of that revenue; in other words

RENT CHIEF CAUSE.

The chief cause of the high cost of living is the exorbitant house' rent. There has always been a shortage of houses for Europeans in Singapore, and although build- · ing is going on all the time, tho continual and large increase in the European population intensifios the scarcity,

For this the European popula tion as a whole is largely to blame. What building there is has always been done by Chinese, Arabs and Jewa-in other words the resident population. The European has! never cared to invest in so per- manent a thing as house property, his quite understandable desire being to make as much money as he can in as little time as possible and get out.

occurred in each, period of five days though the Chinese have always units under lo Laing and Fame ITALIAN DEBT TO US. are sufficiently developed to take solicitor, and a gold wristlet watch The natural consequence is that

throughout the year for Hongkong and Kowloon separately. It is seen from the curve for Hongkong that the time of greatest prevalence of these diseases was in August and September, but that if this rise he excluded the diseases would have been more prevalent at the early and late period of the year than at the middle of the year.

CONTAMINATED WATER.

During the early part of each year, says the report, the Colony is generally short of water and a con- stant supply of water is not maintained in houses, Rostriction

tions practically ever since, al assumed nominal presidency of the Board of Trustees and the Faculty, Chinese have contributed mostly to the finances, while to Dr. Todd is due the professional success of the institutions.

MR. ANDREW MELLON IN

ROME.

acarcity exists, and

for the

belonging to Mr. Hayward's we consider that the mother-in-law, as well as charge houses available the owners na- capital of the fund should be of receiving the two articles knowturally demand and get a high We do not approve of thing thein to have been stolen or mall European. house under a

rent. There is no such thing as

available as well as its income.

It is reported that the Kweighow

Han-cheong and the Szechuan unit under Yaan Tsu-ming, operating in the western part of Hunan, have decisively defeated the Northern Army at Tao Yuen under Ho-Yew- tail, who is reported to have mude

It is stated that: the defendant rental of $150 a month. Usually A year 20 the Kuomintang his light northward. A consider

able portion of his forces condition-tary of the U.S. Treasury, arrived with an income which will wholly during the time the theft occur think he was justified in expecting Mr. Andrew Mellon, the Seere permanently, endow the Colony was formerly employed by both they rent at $200 or $250, this Mr. Thomson and Mr. Haywood, being for a very modest kind of "nationallaod" the institutions and

dwelling such as any man might made them part of the Kwangtung ally surrendered and are re-enlist- here unexpectedly, and has been or party replace its opium revenus red, the losses in the second and

Rome, Aug. 8.

University but still retained the

ed into the Kweichow forces which interviewing Signor Mussolini and will hereafter. bo known as the 9th Court Volpi regarding Italy's services of Dr. Todd, who, with Army Corps of the Revolutionary economic financial

situation. Mrs. Todd, has been engaged in the work ever since its inaugura-Army The Szechuan unit, it is Reuter. tion.

stated, will probably be formed into

the 10th Army Corps, and these two Army Corps, after pacifying the

western part of Hunan, will be ANOTHER TYPHOON?

of water supply to houses is gen. RELIGION IN MEXICO. diverted to operate in that part of erally put into force before the end

of one year and not abolished before the beginning of the rainy season of the next year. When the Chin-,, ese are unable to obtain 'water from

their house taps at any time of the

day they bring into use for the col- lection and storage of water and vessels for the purpose. Under these circumstars there is op- 'portunity for the contamination of water after it has been drawn from house taps and hydrants.

'A STRANGE INCIDENT.

Mexico, City, Aug. 3.

The economic, boycott which is

fected the capital, "but people, in many small towns and villages, besides wearing mourning and draping their houses, with black, are only eating suffelent food to keep body and soul together, are The absence of enteric and avoiding amusement and purchase paratyphoid fevers from Kowlooning only essentials. for one hundred days during the rainy season; that is the season of full water supply, of 1996 is ro- markcable.

Szechuan which is under the juris- 'diction of Yeung Sum, a protege of Wu Pei-fu.

IN KIANGSI.

LOW PRESSURE NEAR PARACELS.

extension of this principle to the provision of a fund which will

PROPOSAL WITHOUT PRECEDENT.

unlawfully obtained.

third charges being sometime in We have many reasons for hold- Ferbruary of 1925. ing this view. In the first place The case was adjourned until such a proposal on the part of any next Tuesday, Government is without precedent

so far as we are aware, and we

A

in a tropical country.

Anything the least bit pretent-. lous rents at very much more. There are two blocks of fats in the town. These are usually all. occupied, and the rent of a flat is

do not consider that the 3.5. Gov- BALKAN DIFFERENCES. about $150. It used to be said

THE POSSIBILITY OF TROUBLE.

that a man's rent should not be

more than a tenth of his income," but there are not so many incomes which make this work out right. With other exponses in propor- tion servants; for instance, get very much higher wages than they do in China--a senior married man on a salary of less than a thousand,

does not have

ernment is justified in embarking|| on such experimental finance.

Again, we think the proposal would impose far too great a strain To-day's weather report states on the present generation for the that a trough of low pressure lies benefit of the future and in this

London, Amgust 3. over the western portion of the connection we would point out that

The possibility of trouble in the China Sea. A typhoon may be if the abolition of opium smoking Balkans was indicated by ques- The weather forecast up to noon material advantages on the com- asking whether steps would be to-morrow is:-East

munity In the future, as winds,

taken to prevent Yugo-Slav troops much left when he has paid all his moderate; generally cloudy, advocates promise us future from entering Bulgaria.

expenses. But a thousand dollars showery.

generations will be the better able Mr. Locker Lampson, in reply, month represente considerably to bear their own financial bursaid there was no reason to sup more than a thousand pounds a

THE RUPEE.

dents,

its

the outcome. of the Government's states that although no actual con- A Chinese news agency report

heterogeneous assortment of nail anit-clerical policy, has not yet afflict has taken place between the forming in it near the Paracels," is to confer such moral and tions in the House of Commons dollars a month

two opposing forces in Kiangsi, since the occupation of Ping Slang. the Revolutionary Armies are in vading Kiangsi from Che Ping, under General Ching Chim, com- manding the 6th Army Corps, and from Nam Hung by the 3rd Army Corps under the command of Gen- A strange incident occurred in erui Chu Pui-tek. They are sald to be taking up important strategic the city of Cordoba, during a

points, apparently without oppasi parade of workmen in support of the Government's policy.

tion, as Lai Shi-wong, who has al

declared himself ready

and passing procession was

his command 'Cathedral, when at noon the

Bidr Early in July there was a strike angelus rang. The demonstrators ing and conservancy work. Al- their heads and bowed and then of the coolies employed in scaveng-unconsciously stopped and bared though temporary mensures were prayed, even while cheers for Pre- devised to cope with this occurrence sident Calles were reverberating. the work could not be done as well Reuter's American Service. as usual. In many enaes people frequently threw their refuse into streets and lanes. As it was im- possible to carry out more than one sweeping of streets dally and 'un refuse accumulated in houses there was more opportunity for the breed- of files than is usual: In Kowloon,

THE FLY EVIL.

The the

BALLOON DISASTER.

FOUR PEOPLE KILLED.

London, Aug. 3. less difficulty in this respect was A terrible disaster took place at found than in Victoria As was ex-Kempston, Bedfordshire, when a pected a rise in the incidence of en captiva balloon parted from the teric fever occurred a few weeks netting, the basket falling to earth. after the beginning of the strike. Four people were killed-Reuter.

of the

the

frontier.

Further we consider that the pose that troops had yet entered Year, and even in the well-paid provision of a large capital fund, Bulgaria as the result of the re- East, firme cannot afford to give with the intention to use the in-cent Comitadila incident. He salaries like this wholesale.

that added

the Government come alone, and that only in the

ONE REMEDY. PROPOSED STABILISATION.

was closely 'watching the of some future necessity. situation, but had no reveon to case

The remedy is, not increasing may create a grave temptation to London, Aug. 3.

suppose that Yugo-Slay forces salaries and so continuing the divert the fund to purposes other would be ordered to pursue any vicious cirele, but in reducing tĥej In accordance with the recor- than the needs of the Colony as Macedonian bands crossing the cost of living, but when a certain mendations of the Royal Commis determined by it. It must not be on Indian Currency and overlooked that the s.s. is a Crown

standard has been created nothing Finance the Indian Government Colony and not the sole master in Slay Government proposed to sion

It is understood that the Yugo is more dimeult than this. Que intends to proceed forthwith with its own house.

bring the stabilisation" of the rupec at

the matter to the blem would surely be for more eighteenpuhee gold-Router.

HIGHER TAXATION THAN NECESSARY,netice of the League of Nations. firms to built houses for their en

-Reuter.

ployees and let them at reasonable Finally we would point out that

rontals. any attempt to increase consider- are finding the work of transports circular in Perais forbids appeals higher rate of taxation than is COMMERCIAL PLANES, a small minority. Government

The latest Education Department ably the existing fund involves a by schools to the public for sportements of the Colony, and as 20 per necessary for the current require-

Revoutionary Army,

watch the movements of Yeung is said to have been detailed off to Hip-yu and Yeung Che-sang.

THE COOLIES!

Many of the coolies who have been impressed for service in the Kuomintang Army going to Hunan

tion for the troops very hard and are trying to escape, not knowing that, once having enlisted, such action would amount to desertion, punishable by death. Word has renched Canton' that more than 40 desertors from the coolie division have been shot at Lokchong since (Continued on Page 12).

meetinga,

The P. and O. liner Dello, which left Shanghai at 8.80 p.m. yester- day, is duo here at 6 am. on the 6th

Instant.

cent, of all taxation goes to the Imperial Government in the form of Military Contribution this gon- ration would suffer under a very special handicap in endeavouring to false such a fund.

(Continued on Page 12).

U.S. EMBARGO AGAINST MEXICO.

important contribution to the pro

A few firms do this, but they are

and Municipal, employees always score in this respect-as they do in so many othors. Either houses" are provided for them, or they pay Aamall percentage of salary as ja the exportation of commercial acr- mercantile employment or the pro-

An embargo has been placed on rent. The average man

oplanes to Mexico-Router's fessional man in practice, haa to Anierican Service.

(Continued on Page 18.)

Washington, Aug. E.