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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1930.

MORE RIOTING IN PORT SAID.

MOB ATTEMPTS TO FIRE THE MUNICIPAL STABLES.

POLICE USE ARMS.

LIFE IN LEPER COLONY.

NOTED PATHOLOGIST INTERVIEWED.

DISEASE CURABLE BY EARLY TREATMENT,

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THE REAL DANGER.

KWANGTUNG'S NEW FREE PORT.

HONGKONG GOVERNOR TO SEND REPRESENTATIVE.

OPENING CEREMONY.

Canton, July 22.

} Port Said, July 22. Further rioting occurred hero

It is learned that His Excellency this afternoon when a mob at-

the Governor of Hongkong, Sir Wi- tempted to set fire to the municipal

liam Peel, has been unable to accept stables in the native quarter of

the invitation to the opening cere the town. The police opened. fire

mony of the free port of Tongka In view of the recent questions Wan on the 3rd August. His Ex- with the result that one rioter was asked at a Sanitary Board meet-cellency has, however, promised to killed and eight wounded.

Egyptian troop reinforcements ing regarding lepers in Hong-send a personal representative. No are now arriving at Port Said kong and the question of whe-reply has yet been received from where the trouble is entirely con- ther or not the disease is curable, His Excellency the Governor of fined to the native quarter.-

some details of life in the Culion Macao, Senhor Artur Tamagnini de Reuter..

Leper Colony in the Philippine Sousa Barbosa

The Committee has received Islands, given in an interview The Toll at Cairo.

to a representative of the 1.061 applications from official or- Cairo, July 22. Straits Times in Singapore by anisations in Canton, 1,860 ap- plications from the members of the The casualties in yesterday's Dr. H. Windon Wade, should be general pubiic in Canton, and 600 rioting here were six dead, and 41 read with interest locally.

applications from members of the wounded by rifle-fire, of whom Dr. Wade who is chief patholo-general public in Hongkong, besides seven are dangerously injured,, gist of the leper colony and field numerous applications from the while 27 others were wounded and secretary of the Leonard Wood public in Macao and other places, sent to hospital..

Memorial, has been staying in to be present at the ceremony. Over a thousand arrests have Singapore for a few days.

The Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow has occurred, and include four Wafd

Viewed from the sea, Dr. Wade been appointed official representa- Committee men.

said, Culion looked like the aver-tive of the Chung Shan Fort in age tropical city. Boate called Hongkong, and Mr. Liu Yuk-lia re- there and passengers were allow-ceives the same appointment in ed permits to land. It was only Macao.

All is quiet throughout the country to-day-Reuter.

Serious Port Said Casualties.

Port Said, July 22.

when one came ashore that the dis- State dress and uniforms are to tinctiveness in the lay-out of the be worn by all officers attending An official return of the town was noticed. The houses, the ceremony. The steamers char- casualties here in yesterday's shops and stores were nearly all tered to take visitors to Chung rioting gives two killed and 28 built of attap. There was the Shan from Canton will leave here wounded, of whom ten are usual complement of seriously, hurt. Forty-seven police were injured, one seriously,

The situation at present is quiet.-Reuter.

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Reinforcements Sent to Suez. Cairo, July 22, The authorities emphatically deny a report that Suez is in the hands of a mob.

Reinforcements of seventy men of the Camel Corps left for Suez last night.

Foreigners Safe,

stores, clothing shops, and even goldsmiths.

grocery at 5 a.m. on the day of the cere- bakeries mony. A number of gunboats of the 4th Naval Squadron (Kwang- tung Provincial Fleet) will be pre- sent at Chung Shan, and ample po- lice and military protection will Where the town straggled off be afforded to all the visitors.

Largest Leper Colony,

into the country there were large The Military, Police and Muni- plots of agricultural land. Lepers cipal Bands of Canton are being lived on this land, which was cul-sent to Chung Shan to entertain tivated, the surplus produce being the visitors on the opening day. given to the Government.

Our Own Correspondent.

Altogether there are 5,500 lepers in Culion, which is the largest

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leper colony in the world. They for many years after contact with Twenty-one rioters and 21 police at Suez were slightly in-much the same way as dwellers contact would be needed to cause go about their daily occupation in a leper. In most cases continued jared with sticks and stones, but in normal colonies. There is very infection, in fact one would have there were no

casualties from

little of the despair of seven or to live in the same house with a firearms. Forty-three arrests were eight years ago present now, Dr. leper. Children, of course, were effected.

All is quiet at Suez at present. Wade stated. People know that a more susceptible and could easily

cure is possible and accept their be infected. -Reuter.

restrictions as part of the treat- Discussing the difference of opin. ment.

ion between the non-segregation They eat much the same food as school and the pro-segregationists, London, July 22. other inhabitants of the Phillipi-Dr. Wade said that the gulf was No further disturbances are nes, work and reat with a calmness narrowing. The non-segregation reported from Egypt to-day. The that was unheard of among lepers school came about through the dif Foreign Secretary, Mr. Arthur a few years ago. The Government ficulties of collecting infected per- Henderson, said in the House of gives them food and clothing and sons together in such wide areas Commons that official information finds occupations in the town or as Africa and India. The theory went to show that the situation on the land for those who can the non-segregationists held waS was well in hand, and the Egyptian work.

that people would more readily re Government had themselves in-

port to a daily clinic than be en- dicated that there was no need for

tirely separated from their families special protective measures for

Turning to the question of in a leper colony or village, foreigners. His Majesty's Gov-

Danger to Community. ernment, he added, were fully treatment, Dr. Wade instanced the disease to similarity alive to the obligations of this tuberculosis. Tuberculosis, he The dread of this separation kept country under the declaration of said, attacked the lung tissues and many cases, concealed, and this was 1922 to ensure the protection of leprosy attacked the nerve tissues. a grave danger to the general com- foreign lives and Interests in The bacteria under the microscope munity. In its early stages leprosy Egypt.-British Wireless.

were very similar.

readily answered to treatment and A drug was being administered the danger of contagion was not at present. It was known as very great, but when the advanced "Chaulmoogra," an oil from Burma stages were reached, segregation which was modified chemically was desirable.

RAIN LATER.

The Royal Observatory reports that a shallow depression is central over North China. The typhoon is about 450 miles S. E. of Hongkong. moving W.N.W. The local forecast is:-Light variable winds, freshen- ing considerably from N.E,, fine at first, overcast with rain later.

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Question of Treatment.

of the

and. injected. The other part of Dr. Wade mentioned that a big the treatment with regard to re-meeting will be held in the Philip gulating the habits of the lepers pines in January, when all the was similar to the routine at. sanatorium.

Cause of Infection. Leprosy was contagious, he said, bat it sometimes did not break out

leading pathologists in the world will be present. They will discuss questions on leprosy which had arisen through reports from various centres and formulate theories for future treatment.

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