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MEMORIAL SERVICE.

The service in menimy of those who lost their lives in the Kwongsong disaster will now fake place at St. John's Cafbaden) on Friday, September 11, and not ILA pre viously "anpontzend.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1981,

A DEADLY SCOURGE.

comnients on the provalence of this drend disease. We are plainly told

that no real effort is made to

treat

majority of them must succumb,

the sufferers, that the

DAY BY DAY

MANY PERSONS, AFTER ONCE THEY- BECOME LEARNED, CEASE TU DE

GOOD; ALL OTHER INOWLEDGE IS

SCIENCE OF HONESTY AND NATURE-Montaigne,

GOOD.

and that under present conditions there in little hope for Improvement. Even the desirability of some better | HURTFUL TO HIM WHO HAS NOT THE

not approach to the problem is dwelt upon, so that we are left with an impression that nothing is-likely to be done, at least until the dim and distant future, to tackle what is one of the Colony's most serious problems of public health.

Aside from the overcrowding evil, there is the spitting habit, in reference to which it in officially observed that it is the custom of Chinese to-day, as it was with the English of yesterday, to turate anywhere and everywhere, and thus each case af tuberculosis

expec-

The B.I. sh. Toima left Shangha! for this Port on the 4th instant, and in due hero on the 7th.

It is announced that the Mercantile Bank of India Ltd., has declared a interim dividend of 7 per cent. p.a. less income tax.

The Reel Club advertises that thei

fifth annual general meeting will take place at the Helena May Inelituto on

ön 21st September, at 5.15 p.m.

Sinister Stranger.

AVENING Was

By S. L. BENSUSANŃ.

falling. The though it is fair to add that he alranger and Mr. Dummet promised to keep his oyes open. went down the main street of But P. C. Roughead, like Sir Maychester side by sida. Mr. Boyle Roche, could not be in two- I is advertised that the Exchange Dummet is a furriner and the new places at once, and in the dusk of Banka will be closed to the transaction Nuisance Man under the Market summer evening the poisoner, of public businesa on Monday, Septeo-Waldron District Council; the this time alone, was watched pass- ber 7th.

stranger none had neen. But Mrs. Ing along the main street slow- Martha Ram, whore hearing is ly. acute and whose sight is very Ile was seen to examine several keen any him looking in manner outhouses and two stretches of she could only describo as very hedge-row. He halted at the shop old-fashioned at several of the of Alr. Blades, the butcher, and picturesque cottages, and as the held its owner in brief, and ap

discourse, two

we passed the shed by the garden parently unplenannt, Kate, he heard the stranger as Mr. Mole, trailing the stranger, to the Nuisance Man-"If I had heard the end of the conversa. my will I'd pinen half them places, tion.

"What with ?" demandedl the *You git back where you belong. an' don't come Interferin' along Nuisance Man.

"Arsenic or strychnine," rep!{-{0* folk, me man," said Mr. Blades ed the stranger. If you think. It's with dignity. "We don't like it Safe."

in these here paris.” The memorial service at St. John's "It wouldn't do," said the Nui-

The stranger shrugged hin Cathedral to the officers of the i-sance Man, brielly, "too many chil. shoulders and passed on.

-Mr. Mole would have made in- fated, Kwongsang has now been dren hereabout." rustponed until Friday, the 11th

They passed out of hearing and quiry of Mr. Blades, but is not on out of sight.

speaking terma. Mr. Blades ob- The path from the shed by theject to poachers, their activities roadside to Mrs. Ram's cottage is being detrimental to his business. In further conclave at the not a long one, hardly more than the length of a cricket pitch, but "Wheatsheaf" Mr. Trout the That- Mrs. Rain declared afterwards, cher, Mr. Tod Mole, and Mr Prew, "How I done it, th' dear Lord on all being slightly the worse for knows."

beer, decided that, In the absence of prompt action by P. C. Rough- bend, they would "lay" for the

Two rafts with diving platforms fitted have been found by the police drifting, ona at Capsulman and the other off the Yaumati Breakwater.

Is an active focus for the aprend of the disease. Here we face an issue which we should like to see more actively taken up. There is great need of propaganda, by printed word and illustrations, by street lectures, and even by the means of cinema filmy, to combat this disgust-instant, ing habit. If it could be vividly brought home to the people that their own aral others' lives are be | g Jeopardised, wo night hope in coursef time to remove one of the causes of the disease. In the past. unhappily, the Chine have not taken kindly tu auggestions for tackling this evil. 201 we still

hope that it will one day be possible To wage war on along latensive lines.

One Man of Reason.

La Tam, a coolie employed at the Military Hospital, Bowen Road was working at the Whitfield Barracks yesterday when he suddenly collapsed and led. Itis lady was subsequently removed to the Publie Mortuary.

By taking polson, a young Chinese, "Sakes alive Martha, cried Lam Taishing, attempted to commit Mrs. Timm, on whose quiet over, suicide yesterday. After drinking the ing Mrs. Ram thrust herself stranger and, in pase of need, go contents of a bottle he was found violently. "you don't mean it?". to Market Waldron for him-in suffering from the effects of palaon

way then to the Government

Civil Hospital,

seed each o' th' both on 'em other words, that they would face meself." declared Mr. Timm a me- the law that panishes assault and ment inter. "That's true word, battery.

But day followed day and Martha, seemly. You better goo

peak to Master Roughend about brought no visit from the sinister it."

the stranger. Only

Nuisance "We don't wanter be pisened in Man was seen, and he went direct our beds," declared Mrs. Timm to the shop of Mr. Blades, nervously. "But there. I a't hardly h'leeve it." i

"What About Romsher?" "Arsenic an' strychnine."

Old Mrs. Parret caffed when the two men were coming in from the yard, and heard Mr. Blades re- mark bitterly that he had lived in de-Maychester man and boy these it was all

At the Sailors and Soldiers' Home on Monday, 14th instant, there will be farewell gathering to the Rev, J. and Mrs. Knight Anstry, at k p.m., to be followed by the opening and dedica It is possible, though not, wetion by the. Hon. Mr. W. T. Southern are affaid, very kely, that Mr.of a new inunge, Holford Knight's example will be followed by other Labner M.P.'s Ling Nam, the chief officer, Mt. F. G. On the arrival in, port of the s.. when Parliament reassembles next Cerf, reported to the police that it clared the Tempors Man, Pisens forty years, and that week. The Hon. Member for was discovered after the ship came to my thinkin.' each of th' both on nonsense. She had heard the Nottingham South has not decided inte barbour that a cargo of deer's 'em. Ile dassent do it.”

Man Nuisance tails and horns had been bronched.

something to support the National Govern-The loss is estimated at $10,000,

"Martha Ram should ha' heerd about a summons under the Act. ment, but he refuses to accept the

him with her own ears." replied

The next thrill came when Nui- dictation of the Party caucus,

In falling from the verandah of 11,

the Man from Mudford, rebuke in

sance Man and poisoner descended preferring to judge the new Gov-cheang Po-kan, received injuries to Kam Wah Street, a five-year-old boy.

every spitable.

together upon Mr. Blades, and Mr. "But folk don't do sech things," Prew, the only member of the ernment by its drests. The only his hend and right ankle but his interposed Elijah Wospottle. test he will ipply in how far the mother, refused to allow him to re-

"Happen they don't in sech the scene to be told abruptly by triumvirate within call, arrived on Cabinet's proposals sattery the Hospital, where he was first taken.

main

the Government Civil parts as this here," admitted Mr. Mr. Blades to clear out, Mr. the Pensioner. looking Prew, who is both pot-valiant and round the comfortable "Wheat-wise, did as he was told.

Mould

Hay

Cluce again in the annual nudieri | necessities if the country in the and sanitary report of the Colony money crisis, The Labour Party

We are given to understand that, in sheaf" tap room,, "but what about But late that evening Mr, Trout, is it revealed that tuberculosis-con- should be grateful. Mr. Holford connexion with the salving of and Roosher?"

the thatcher, being fully charged. times to rok as the chief cast Knight is illustrated that even saving life by the steam launch

There was a significant pause-since his business is both good Licorne on two sampana enught in tho the rank and file of the

silence encouraging to great typhoon, Messrs. II. Nish nod H. A.Mould.

Mr. and dry, encountered P. C. Rough- of mortality. Quite apart front

į“democratle" party are not entire-Kekwick. of the Official Mensurer's

heud, broncho-pawumonia there, were dur-

ly bereft of men of reason in times

Oflice, were out in the launch at the|

"What about them Bolshevita?" What about that bleaged pisen- ing last year close on ten thousand of emergency. The hero of one

time and were primarily responsible y continued. The silence water?" he inquired a little thickly, deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis, of the Party's famous victories at

for bringing both sampans and crews almost ominous.

but he did not say "blessed," to safely.

"Where ded the new Nuisance "You goo back to yours, Master hund although this is a slight de- the last election-he unscuted

Man come from?" demanded. Mr. Trout," advised P. C. Roughhead, Lerease on the previous year's tattd. | Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinek, The N. Y. K. Haruna Maru arrived] Mould. "Who see him afore last don't want any trouble along

equation Member of 36 years standing-Wednesday, the President of N. Y. K. shevit an' th' t'other man's nn-

on month.Ifo be he's one Bol-o'-you."

"Trouble?" retorted Mr. Trout, his public announcement, should Mr. K. Kagami, being on board, ac other, they'd pisen us as soon as losing sight of his objective, for

The serionideas of the nerds 1101 erphasis. Well

over

From London vin Marseilles

Arur. It

over twelve per cent. of the tatas / rally many waverers to the side rompanied by Mrs. Kagaki, now re-look at us. I've read a plece in he is intolerant of Instructión or of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, ar at turning home from a round-the-work th' paper about seth. They keep rebuke; "I'd make a better police- death in the Colony are attribul-east induce a good number to a

will be revalled that all on killin' one another Kugami attended the World Economic

time man outer n turnup an' a broom able to this me disease. Without mood marked by willingness to Conference held at Washington, D. C. they're hame"

handle. Fr two pina," continued "You're all right long as you got Mr. Trout ferociously, "I'd lay out doubt, one of the principal factors give the Premier a hearing. Most May last, as chief deligate from Japan.

child'em seemly," remarked the two like ye." - is the overcrowding which in some of his immediate difficulties appear For the first time since Sir Cecil Man from Mudford uneasily. He

Furriners are Worse parts of the city is, nol for the first 10 have been overcome. The Clementi's return - from leave there is a bachelor, time, describes in the statement Cabinet is unanimous

was a garden party at King's House, "That's a colton-wool story to P. C. Roughead, tolerantly, Kuala Lumpur, on August 27th, when my thinkin'," said the Tempor'y

atl on

"Go home and sleep it off," said

Now tolerance and politeness

that people are packed together in points of the Government's pro- Miss Dione Clementi minde a charming Man, "I couni," he added cynical-are the two absurd factors in hu-

socks. has a forty-two inch chest and an outsize in hande.

houses like steerage passengers in mme, and the rapidity of desining hostess, to several hundred ly, "Martha Ram bin dreaming."

cision has already, given confid- guests. Tea was served on the lawn ence to investors on the London Cecil and Miss Clementi shook hands

man intercourse that Mr. Trout with the State band playing. Sir

The Poisonez,

cannot suffer, so he aimed an un- Stock Exchange. This favourable with all their guests as they arrived. was upheld by P. C. Roughend, who slunda six feet one in his This view, in a modified form, steady blow at P. C. Roughead, impression has not yet shown any marked tendency to spread into foreign Belds, however. The pound sterling has dropped to 4.88% in New York, about 7/16ths below par, a position which is rather unsettling. It serves, however, to

an emigrant ship. This, together with the low standard of living of so many of the people, who just keep above the subsistence level, easily explains the widespread in eidenre of the scourge.

No attempt is made in the official reports to gloss over the situation,

it is frankly admitted that there is emphasise the vital urgency of no manitorium and no special in the economy and revenue-produc- stitute for the care of people suffer- [Ing mensures to be submitted to ing from chronic diseases, so that the House of Commons

for up- The ninjarity of those who contract proval on Thursday next. Big tuberculosis must struggle against herfices are to be asked of the the ravages of the affliction under Donald's declaration that they will nation, but Mr. Ramsay Mac- conditions which leave little hope he spread as equitably as human for their recovery. Something is ingenuity can do it provides any attempted by the periodical cleans- reassurance that might have been ing of premises, by preventing the thought desirable. erection of unauthorised cubicles, and by steps to ensure the erection of houses having a proper supply of lighting and ventilation. The ques tion of hygienic housing, owing to

AND EAST RIVERS. the overcrowding in the city. Is The following table, fasued by the described as one of extreme diffi- Kwangtang River Conservancy Com- mission, shows in English foot the culty, it being added that the sunit-water levels on the West River, North ary staff (one Inspector to 30,000 River and East River on the dates

·peuple) are working against grent

Sept. Sept. odds and cannot hope to attain West River at Shiuking 10.1

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results such as those attained in North River nt Samshul 8.9 8.4 North River at Tsingyuen 0.0 0.2 other cities where the tank IA

East River at Sheklung 0.7 4,2 ansier and tho perssonel Ineger. The highest levels recorded ari: Whilst we should be the last

Shiching, 41 feet; Taingyuen, 29.8 feet; Samahui, 273 feet; Sheklung, under-catimato the dificulties, we 11.6 foot.

to

WATER LEVELS.

DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH

named:

cannot but deplore the fatalistic reinua & foot at Samshul and minus The lowest levels on record are

character of many of the official ₹2,7 foot at Sheklung,

"Dad, I'd like to go back to the oil fields and take a rest. This idle-rich life is wearing me down."

"Nansense," said the Chairman at Market Waldron. "The Sanit- ary Inspector merely took the new Rat Oficer with him. Apparently Maychester is over-run with rats. You must pay two pounds for as- sault, and if you come here again. the case will not be met by a fine.' "Minster Trout should ha' anid ko'ɗ lny f'r that furriner an' he done ." This is Baychester's verdiet. We are proud of Mr Trout, for if rats are bad, furrin- era ard worse."

YOU DON'T OWN THE EARTH

By A. P. GARLAND. : THE BBC., it is agreed, has

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takon over in large measure the education of the nation. Its scope is unlimited. With equal zcat 1 lectures us one day on Dainty Ways of Cooking Vegetable Marrow, and the next on Fiji Drama.

May I suggest, then, that oe-" casionally one of their gifted speakers should dovate a fow minuutes to the subject of decent citizenship in minor mattera?

For Inatance, not long since In respectable West End restaur- ant a man was soon to finger all the bread rolls in the basket on. the table until he found the one. he liked best..

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