THE `HÒNGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1932.
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to
malnutrition and a devitalising environment. Any one of these
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factors may prove sufficient, butDUCES A WRITER, IT IS INTENSITY.— in a very large proportion of canea all three are operative. This ex- plains why consumption is more prevalent in the town than in tho country; more prevalent among the poor than the well-to-do; and commonest of all
among those condemned to live in crowled, sunless tenements often shared with others already suffering from the disease.
Beginning from to-day- the postal all letters for Macao and rate on China, excluding Sinklang, Mongolia five cents per and Thibet wil bo ounce or fraction thereof.
END OF A GREAT
DELUSION
KREUGER'S FALLEN EMPIRE
BY PAUL HARRISON Riding between his Park Avonue house and his conferences In Wall Street, Ivar Kreuger used to pass
The President and Committee of the an unpretentious building in lower It has been shown that in Sailors' and Soldiers' Ilome grateful- Broadway where bankruptcy hour- ly acknowledgo the receipt of the ings are held. The "match king." Sheffield the incidence of tuber-following donations to the funds of more familiar with palaces than the Home, the stowards of the Heng-courtrooms, probably never gave it kong Jockey Club, $500; Mr. W. Shannon $20.
# glance.
culosis is 4.45 per thousand in than two households with more
per room, and 2.8 per thousand in households with Bess thao one
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The
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MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1932,
TUBERCULOSIS
the his
"TuberenlosİN IN one of penalties levied on nan for attainment of a bigh degree of civilisation." Thus writen Dr. A. S. Maenalty in a report on the disease recently issued by the Ministry of Health. The state-
But today the twisting Kreuger Owing to an electrical fault in the trail ends at this sepulelire of de- wiring system, a false alarm of fire station at 10.13 this morning, from the Bonham Strand West street alarm. Two engines were sent out in response to the call.
strangers
are
the
effects of malnutrition were pain fully illustrated in heleaguered countries during and after the Grent War, In the towns of Ger-
At to-morrow's meeting of the loen!! many, the mortality rate increased Rotary Club, Mr. C. W. Jetrics, will speak on "Those Weather Prophets from 157 per hundred thousand in and Storm Warnings." Mr. R. St. J. 1913 to 287 Int 1918, whilst in Braddell, President of the Singapore
Rotary Club, will be a guest at the funt. In one of its small rooms, liability. Another has followed his Warsaw the rate rose to 840 and meeting, and, it is hoped, will speakerowded and stifling, brusque example in committing suicide. in Belgrade during the Inst year
pawing over
In Sweten, as well as here in In the account of the subscriptions broken.dreams of the dead genius, New York. Americans are being of the war the figure was 1,400.
sa goneroualy contributed to the Girl
Financial experts, who only a few questioned. And almost certainly Seelag, however, how very large a Guide Headquarter Hut, it was innd.
ngo regarded the there are scores of indivklunts and vertently omitted to state that Mra short weka proportion of the populations of J. B. Newill, 12 Leighton Hill, in kinu. mighty Swede with something like concerna whose names are yet to all countries is, at some time orly acting as Treasurer, and that any reverence, now are helping to batter be brought under suspicion. other, infected, it is surely the should send contributions to her.
une desirous of assisting the Hut Fund down the rotten skeleton of his "in-
lustrial empire." more effective and truly econd- mical way of dealing with the problem to place within the reach of the opportunity for that wholesome living which stitutes the soundest insurance against this and so many other
diseases. It has well been said that
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centre of human activity. gases which have been specially considera- selected for intensive tion by the medical profession and by public authorities, the fact remains that in 1930 not far short ot 36,090 men, women and
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Before the Hon. Cadr. Hole, in the Marine Court this morning, Kwok Chaen, coxswain of the steam launch
No rulogistic phrases come from the tight-lipped lawyers.
Network of Investigations. After the first news of Kreuger's suicide-a shock that sent all
they might
Before the suicide of Kreuger securities tumbling, closed a stock called him exchange and cut short the holi- of internationalists" day of the King-Sweden grimly of unlawfully using a class steam foremost genius of businees or not to work to ferret out the mis- dazzling of deeds which everyone was sure
Fat, pleaded guilty to a charge
verliftente outside the local trade?
Well neted in the leading role by
Esenpe
One heard murder committed uni
nudiences. The story
WAR
bave
Truth Gradually Appears.
In cam-
$800,000,000 Gone,
↓
of
limits, contrary to the order set forth ganization"-"most
must be revealed by Kreuger's books. This, however, is being default, one month's imprisonment. But today they are describing on his licence. He was fined $60, in financiers."
him in terms of swindled millions made difficult by the fact that the During last week, the Wachow civil as nothing but an uncommon crook."match king" carried most of his
euning plans in his mind. ment may be allowed to stand the tuberculosis problem is, in short, feials held a lottery at the Sun Yat-
Immediately there was set up a en Memorial Building, when several AL
large tracts of land in the city were drawn for. For several
The hearing represents an at-apecial "Krenger department the years land has not been used except
for tempt to straighten out the tangled police." composed of lawyers and of the bankrupt Inter-detectives. Scon it became evident moldiers mutated barracks. It is ex- affairs pected that the new owners af the national Match Corporation and to that separate investigations also and will build homes and stores In trace its connexions through the would have to be conducted in al- this section.
complicated, world-wide structure most a score of other countries. of the vast Kreuger interests.
In addition, independent inves-
Sir Gerald de Maurier, popular player dishonesty is uncovered.
The deeper they dig, the more tigations have sprung up in these countries, Holders of Kreuger Delictionizing Biography,
of the English stage,
Becurities are anxiously trying to Biography that thrives tempor shown yesterday at the Star Theatre prison to Kruger, Ponzi da determine how much they can sal-
de- and we warmly appreciated by the piker: beside Kreuger's schemes,
age from the wreck. arily on muckraking seems
the South Sea Bubble was a mero finitely on the wane.
in shell game. It is evident that not comparatively little about it in Hyde Park lends to the
and for several months more ean there
Not even an estimate can be children died from it in England 1931 and even less up to the pre-stubborn light offered by an escaped be gathered and correlated the full
the long arm and Wales. Here in Hongkong. sent in 1932. During businessThe plight of the convict was well les. But here are a few estab-cerned admit that still more sen- of the law facts regarding his amazing activi-made of total losses, for those con-
the mortality
Rational cases of juggling and for- depressions, many 19 propor
unessentials depicted. The majority of the scenes lished facts:
of were taken in the English country- have to be eliminated, and, timately much higher, #ince,
Ivar Kreuger forged, with his gery may yet be brought to light. In Kreuger tocks and bonds alone, with a population of some 200,000, one of them. Such material is at fairly good.
course, muckraking biography is side and in some well known centres
in London. The supporting cast is own hand, securitics to the amount which have tumbled almost to the
fur $100,000,000. the yearly death-toll is fully 2,500,best a speculation for the pub
He sold, for hundreds of mil-vanishing point in price, the col- even this figure taking no account fisher, who must depend upon its The Health Bulletin of Eastern tons of dollars, stocks and bonds lapse is expected to wipe out $800,-
000,000. of the hundreds of others who immediate sale for profit. Mean-shows the following cases of infectious companies with imaginary assets. the blow delivered. by its dazzling
Ports for the week ending June 4 partially backed by non-existent Sweden is still staggering under. contract the disense and leave the while, writers who qualify merely disenses 'and death therefrom.
Through well-known banking industrialist. The government, Colony before they succumb to its as smart-niecks have witnessed Plague, Alexandrial houses he borrowed huge sums on which was forced off the gold stan
their own debunking at the hands Bombay 1 case 1 death, Colombo G
match monopolies he never owned. dard by Cases & deatha Cholera, Calcutta
the loans it granted To conceal some of the evidences Kreuger, is striving desperately to of able book reviewers. Evidence deaths, Saigon 2 cen of a brighter outlook for biogra- Canton 2 cases 1 death, Shanghai 70 of his swindling he juggled phan-holster its credit. There is a pos- CASOS 2 deatha. Small-pox, Baghdad tom fortunes between dummy cor-pect of more idle factories and men. phy is sketched by Claude M.
14 caser 0 deaths, Basrah 2 cases 1porations. to prevent the disease than to Fuess, writing on "The Biogra- death, Bombay 7 cases 4 deaths, Cal-
Mr. cure sufferers from it. High as pher and His Victims." the mortality rate is in England, Fuess considers biography a fine there has none the leas been aart, "one of the leisurely arts, re- marked decline is both the inquiring investigation, meditation revision." Although he recognizes cidence and fatality of tubercu-that there are charlatans and sen- losis. Some part of this improve-antionalists of biography, he finds ment must be credited to the it consoling to know there organised. mensures directed many honest craftsmen endeavour- against It-clinics, sanatoria, ing to uphold the highest stand- ards of this field of Hterature. and consumption hospitals
Numerous cammentators
have forth. But it seems clear that
stressed, as he does, the helpless these have not been the most.
ness of biographical subjects at important contributing factors,the hands of those who write There is evidence to show that "ives." It seems appropriate to there is a much more intimate reverse the picture and show how connexion between the diminu the biographers themselves are de- tion of tuberculosis and the pendent. It is true they may level pens at both public and private general improvement of public sanitation and in the material persons, and gange the fores of their thrusts. But they, in turn, status of the working classes than will be judged by the skill and the decline and the fairness with which the literary between
Criticism of direct anti-tuberculosis campaign. tilting la done. To say so much is not to minimise biography begins with the choice the value of that campaign, of of a subject; it ends with a long-
insidious attack.
Speaking generally, it may be said that more is known of how
AO
are
which a striking example is forth-pending appraisal of the work both ns history and ne literature.
coming in one town where, an
数 One who selecta a subject to por-
result of the intensive application tray should assume the obligation
of every form. of public health to depict it adequately. Some so-
the
activity, the tuberculosis death called biographien, written in rate has been reduced by over 65 Inst decade, have been more like "pot-bellera" in fletion; they pre- per cent. In a little over five years. gented news teel "lives" of the It is well to remember that prae- subjects, with scenen sometimes tically everybody has been, at one chosen more for sensation than time or another, infected by the substance. Obviously, the value tubercle germ, so much so that it -If any of such sketches is ephemeral, Biography seems to is supposed that, as a result of be approaching a more construc- Asepanta/Lmild Infections, most of the perinda ganti kartono narys
us develop a degree of immunity. writers are attempting full-length Thon to what is to be attributed portraits, painstakingly done.
death,
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cutta 16 cases 17 deathe, Karachi subsidized the consciences of asso- to have lost their fortunes in the With many of his millions he Some 250 of the most prominent families of Stockholm are reported сався 1 death, Madras 3 cases - Ran-j goon 6 cases 4 deaths, Saigon I cases ciates and officials of governments. crash.
France, which had been moat 3 deaths, Canton 1 case Shanghal 3 Six of his former aides already
have been arrested for criminal friendly to the Swedish Napoleon of cases 1 death, Nagasakl 1 case.
"You gotta know human natur o Since I made thoao Bull's- oyen so big that you can't miss them, my business has doubl-
Finance, apparently will suffer lenat. Kreuger's borrowings there seem to have been secured to about 96 per cent of the amounts involved. Germany and fome of its banka are hard hit. English investors bad large sums in various Kreuger companies. Italy is shaken by the discovery of forged Italian bonds to the extent of norrly $100,000,- 30. Other forgeries and miere- presentations have affected Poland, Spain and Portugal.
America, from which Kreuger in said to have taken at least $400,- 000,000, will be one of the heaviest losers.
Americans "Hooked". Kreuger traded regularly in six of the world's largest stock ox- changes, and brokers, many of them Americans, appear to have lost. large sums he owed them for trans- acting his orders.
The independent protective com- mittee formed in New York by holders of Kreuger and Toll se curities is headed by Samuel Un- termyer, prominent corporation; lawyer, and Bainbridge Colby, for- mer U. S. Secretary of State. The committee believe that about 850,- 100 American investors have lost $250,000,000 on Kreuger and Toll debentures alone.
Banks Involved in the market- ing of the debentures in the United Statca also have formed com- mittees, avowedly to protect their investors. But now a court fight looms, and Untermyer promises the airing of "a public scandal of grave magaftude" in connexion with his attack on the bankers
Sinco Kreuger is Bhown to HAVE" boen guilty of draining about
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