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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY APRIL 2. 1931.

MEASLES OCCUR IN GAOL.

PIRACY DEFENDANTS NOT

IN COURT.

A dock, which should have con- tained twelve men, hear the formal decision of the judge regarded the conviction recorded against them for piracy, wa empty when the Acting Chief Justice (Mr. Justice J. R. Wood) took his place at the Criminal Sessions yesterday afternoon.

anked for an ex- Lordship

planation. Mr. Somerset Fitzroy (Crown Solicitor) said he could not give one, but Mr. J. W. Franks, the Superintendent of Prisons, gave the necessary ren Bons. One, or more, he could not bo certain, of the men, had con- tracted measles in ratios.

and the remainder were in 1901

Chis

sald Mr. morning." Franks, "the Crown Solicitor rang up and said the prisoners would be required to attend the Criminal Court at 11 o'clock. told him one of them had been certified as having measles: now I am not quite certain how many have it, but the rest have been isolated. Later Your Lordship rang up to say that the prisoners would not be required, but that I should."

me

LATE DR, ANDERSON.

MEMORIAL MEETING HELD AT UNIVERSITY.

..

Sir William Hornell, Vico Chan- cellor of the Hongkong Univerally. presiding at the memorial meeting

NEW FLIGHT TO THE ANTIPODES.

| ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO BEAT RECORD.

London, Apr. 1. Another long distance fight from at the Great Hall, for the lato Dr.England has been started. The John Anderson. late Professor of six-footer Londoner, Mr. Charles Medicine at the University, whose William Scott, an ex-R.A.F. avia- leath occurred recently in Shang-tor, left Lympne at 4.56 p.m. in an hat, paid an eloquent tribute to the attempt to break Kingsford Smith's Into Professor.

237 hour record to Australla.

Scott's longest projected hop. The meeting was attended by the From Singapore to Bimn la 1,529 friends and students of the late miles. He is using a Gypsy 120 Professor as well as by the profes-horse-power engine capable of sors of the various faculties. Also making a hundred and ton miles

resent were Hon. Mr. and Mrs. an hour-Reuter, Kotewall, Mr. Ho Kom-tong, Mr.

Paul Lauder, Mr. M. R. Lo, Dr. W. The R. A. Monre. Dr. J. Hontgomery, Australia Dr. J. C. McDonald and many other who had known the deceased.

London, Apr. 1. experimental England- flight follows the existing route to Delhi, thence to Allahabad, Calcutta, Rangoon, Tavoy, Victoria Point, Alor Star and Singapore, where it is due to

on the 16th, thence arrive

to

At the conclusion of the meeting a resolution of condolence propos- by the Chairman was passed in the customary manner, and is to be Batavia, Bima and Port Darwin.-

to the deceased's Reuter, forwarded mother and family in Scotland.

Addressing the gathering Sir stated William said:

[A message dated the 30th ult that arrangements had been completed between the Post Offico, the Air · Ministry and Im- perial Altways for the immediate operation of two experimental re- turn airmail land and Austrate between Eng-

"Dr. John Anderson is dead. Hic was so vital, so untiring that those who enjoyed the intimacy of his

via India and Mr. Justice Wood said that friendship can not believe that we

that the pri- shall not see him again. the position was

frat pore. The

outward soners had appeared in

"He was taken in the fulness of that

Is due to leave Croydon on Court on an indictment of piracy of an operation; that is all, we the 11,194 miles between London his vigour. We hear that he died April 4, and is scheduled to cover nud the conviction had been

know. Of one thing, however, we and Port Darwin in fifteen days. quashed. He would now place

can be certain and that is that he At Port Darwin, on April 19, an on record the fact that the con- viction stood quashed and that not his end with the patience and Australian aeroplane will connect there were no convictions against serenity which never falled him.

He would ask the Crown

were Solicitor to arrange for their dis-poor and he had to make his own way in the world. After a success- ful career in Glasgow he went down to Wallasey, then a growing suburb of Liverpool. He refused to go in for a panel practice, but in

aplie

them.

charge.

"Dr. Anderson's parents

with the Imperial, Airways Hiner, conveying the mails to Sydney and Melbourne.]

a more one could ever. hope for genial and obliging colleague,

"As the years roll by and the

Mr. Hin-shing Lo, who made the successful appent on behalf of the twelve men, said he had been instructed to apply for the

of the gloomy prognostications of University which has weathered gi return of the two junka which his friends he hande good as a gen- many stormis grows into manhood. were now held by the police.

eral practitioner. When the war it may be that many more eminent His Lordship said he did not came, he gave up his practice and Professors than John Anderson will think any order was required.inined the Royal Army Medical occupy Its Chair of Medicine.---I .As there was* 110 conviction Corps. He passed unscathed. hope no. But I doubt whether any

standing against them he thought Comarl's ellents could claim the hosts on their release, and there could be no answer to their claim,

MURDER AT SEA.

TWO CHINESE CHARGED AT

CENTRAL MAGISTRACY.

An alleged murder of a Chin-

est on board a

don

through the danger and discaso of of his successors will ever be more the Gallipoli and Palestine Cam- universally beloved in Hongkong, paigns. It was during the war am not using the language either that he got his direct bent To of convention or extravagance, Tropical medicine. So when the when I say that many a home lo war was over he gave up his prae- this Colony to-day is the sadder tice at Wallasey to his brother and for John Anderson's death. His joined the London Tropical School memory will lỏng abide in this of Medicine. No less man than University and in Hongkong gen- Dr. T. R. Elliott, Physician to erally as the memory of one who, University College Hospital, Lon- wherever he went, left the comfort

Professor of Medicine London don.

and encouragement of his unesten- University Medical Research Member of the tatious but effective medical skill Committee and experience, tho understanding sampan about cently established by the Privy of his kindly sympathy, his cour seven miles from the British bor-Council testified to the excellent teous good humour and his all for der, off Single Point, In thework done by him on a special mis-bearing tolerance and patience. vicinity of Bins Bay, had a sequel alon to British Guiana to Investf- "His mother, a wonderful before Mr. Schofield at the Cen-gate the hook-worm scourge. It Scottish woman is still living. She tral Police Court yesterday after-as Dr. Elliott who recommended was very proud of John and his noon, when Chan Ching appeared Dr. Anderson to this University death must have been a great alek on the capital charge.

and iri so doing he quoted Profes-to her. I now ask the meeting to The prisoner, a fisherman, was sor R. T. Leiper F.R.S.. as being pass the following resolution and charged with the murder of Livery confident of Dr. Anderson's to authorize me to send it on your Lo, the alleged crime, being compromise of ability. Dr. Leiper is. behalf to his mother and his mitted with another man not in as many of you know, Professor of brothers and sistors. I would also custody on December 31, 1930. Helminthology in the University of ask you to authorize me to send # Chan Koon-po, another fisherman. London.. Director of the Division toessage of condolence to the Direc- was charged with being an ac- Medical Zoology of the Tandon tor of the Henry Lester Medical cessory, after the fact, by housing School of Hygiene and Tropical Research Institute, Shanghal. the first defendant.

Medicine and of the Imperial Bureau of Agricultural Parasito Jogy, St. Albans.

Chlef Detective Inspector A. N. Reynolds appeared for the Police

and made an application for a "Of Dr. Anderson's life and week's formal remand. Tho de- work here I will not speak. He fendants were accordingly manded to next Wednesday.

SHANGHAI RATING.

AN APPEAL COMMITTEE BEING SET UP.

A

re-resigned in 1928 to go to the Henry Lester Medical Research Institute in Shanghai. He did not live to see the Institute completed, but he worked away zealously for about a year in a temporary hospitni. He bad looked forward to years of re search work in Shanghal, but Fate has decided otherwise.

Rate Assessment Appeal Committee whose duty it will be

War Reminiscences, "Dr. Anderson's war reminja. cences were wonderful. He was in tp hear and decide appeals against fact one of the best raconteurs that the assessinent of houses and I have ever met. The year before buildings for the levying of the last he took me to the Highlands general municipal rate has been of Scotland. No motor trip. how. appointed by the Shanghai Muni-ever long. was ever tiring: 'no Council. The five members tramp however extended neomed cipal of this

committed are Messrs. long, for they were all enlivened by S. Mizuta, Kwei Yon Fong, A.hts unfalling supply of wit and Nazer, H. F. Lewis, and P. Comery anecdote. In the honesty Any ratepayer who is dissatisfied reallem which though it unerring- with any assessment declared by ly detected sham or humbug, was the Counell may appeal to this ever relieved by a kindly tolerance. committee provided the appeal is he was a typical Scotsman. His inade within 30 days after receipt | never falling patience and humouri of the notice of assessment. smoothed many a stony path, No

of his

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"That the members of the | |................. University and friends gathered In the Great Hall of the Univer sity this afternoon have heard with profound regret of the un- timely death of Dr. John Ander- son, the University's first whole- time Professor of Medicine: that the meeting desires to place on record the services which Dr. Anderson ordered not only to the University, but also to the whole Colony and to testify to the general grief which his death i has evoked in Hongkong, and to the loss to medical science which thia premature closing of a pro- mising career has entalled; that the meeting directs the Vice Chancellor to convey to Dr. An- derson's mother and to his brothers and sister the deep sympathy which ail John Ander- son's many friends in Hongkong feel for them in their bereaver ment; that the Vice Chancellor is also requested to convey in the Director of the Henry Lester In- stitute of Medical Research, Shanghai, the condolence of the University and Medical Profes-! sion of Hongkong in the In- stituto's losa."

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