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AID TO HUMANITY

HAMBURG'S BIG. CONTRIBUTION

CURING TROPICAL

the sex.

DISEASES

TOULON BOMBARDED

"

BUT MERELY. IN IMAGINATION

CONVOY BATTLE Toulon.

ranean,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,

FATAL

BALCONYing he had been responsible for the

COLLAPSE

LOWERING OF STEEL BARS

MORE THAN A COINCIDENCE

completion of many houses in so far as overseeing was concerned.

Was the building of theso houses in Yuk Sau Street just like the | building in other places? I mean did

you follow the usual practice? Yes.

There was nothing abnormal or unusual in Mr. Kwok's houses? Yes, there were several unusual aspects.

JULY

1933.

WORLD CRISIS

(Continued from Page 6.)

you can use all the fancy graphs you've got into the bargain.

"I know you can mention a lot of objections, but it can be done.

"Beg Pardon"-Speak up a bit, lad!

"What should I do to control overgreediness".

"I have got one or two good ways' for dealing with that".

I don't mean to ask you about the features of the house itself. At the resumed Inquiry at the What I mean is was there any

"What is wrong with this-Allow relation between the all the very rich chape, a good Central Magistrucy yesterday into unusual the Intal balcony collapse at No. architect, the owner and the

con-amount of wealth-all that they can 15 Yuk Sau Street, Wongnelchong, tractor? After I had made the usefully do with but none for a witness was of the opinion that plans, I handed them over to the gambling on Industry. Then every- the collapse was due to the lower-owner and he himself chose the con-

the tractor. ing to a wrong position of floor of the structure. Ateul reinforcing frame for the

No Notice Taken. gested that the owner in ignorance Anything else?—And ‚ ‚I have may have minde this alteration never seen the owner's foremen without the knowledge of the taking any notice of the architect. urchitect.

He sug

*

You gave the owner the plans, you gave him the conditions, so there was no difference who chose the contractor, was there?-No,

Do you agree with me that in a contract signed by the architect, the contractor and the owner, the architect is in complete control over the building? Yes.

The bombardment of Toulon, the destruction of a wireless station and an attack on a convoy on its Hamburg's proud claim to be regarded as the gateway that con-way from France to Afrien have nesis Germany with the rest of the been the salient, if necessarily world is justified for two reasons.

imaginary, features of the French In the first place, she is the most va), manoeuvres in the Mediter important sciport on the European Continent and her merchant com the open sea douth of this base "The Battle of the Convoy" In munity possesses extensive business relations with overy country in the

was the climax of these operations, world. The outcome is thất. Hum-

A Cruiser squadron led by the burg is qualified to act as an ex-

Colbert-nicknamed "The Hare of tremely efficient Intermediary in the the Sena"-was ordered out of Interchange of commodities between Ajaccio (Corsien) to attack and It was disclosed thuit twenty- Germany and the countries beyond turn a convoy going from Toulon eight other balconies in that dis-

In the second place, she to Bizerta (Tunis), a distance of trict are, in almilar condition. has always been prominent in the 300 miles. The Colbert's cruiser Mr. Schofield is sitting ቢይ domalu of the Intellect and is squadron was accompanied by five | Coroner, and the special jury em- therefore able to communiente to destroyers; the convoy was power-panelled comprises Messrs. R. A. other countries the results of fully protested by three cruisers |Ítodgers

Colbourne (foremun), Germany's achievements in arts and seven destroyers.

Little, and Li Koon-chun. and science. The work done by her

Mr. F. C. Jenkin. K. C. (instruct- in this respect la of great value to At ten o'clock at night the in- |ed by Mr. F. E. Nash, of Messre. mankind as a whole and is on a tercepting squadron got under way Woo and Nash, appeared for the part with her activities as a sea- and steamed due west with all contractors, Moers.

Wang Tak port and a commercial emporium, lights dowaed in true pirate fa- and Co., Dr. H. J. Armstrong of It is very significant and, as it shion. The route of the convoy, Messrs, Deacons, for the architect, Under an agreement, do you were, symbolical of this twofold which was going due south, lay Mr. A. J. Lane, and Mr. M. K. Lo, Jagree that it is the duty of the con- function of the old Hanseatic city about 100 miles to the west of of Messrs. Lo and Lo, for Mr.tractor to build necording to your -that her University with its Corsica. The Colbert continued to Kwok Wal-aum, the owner of the plans?-Yes. numerous affiliated institutes for lead her squadron through the house. the promotion of science has moro darkness til dawn. At 7.30 am." and more come to the foreground visibility became clear enough to during the past few years.

get a distinct view of the horizon. Against the skyline showed n great medical institution,

Ittle feather of black smoke.

The "Hare of the Seas" surged forward and her cascading bow- waves rose steadily,

The Institute for Marino and Tropical Diseases occupies a lead- ing position among these institu- lions on account of its considerable effect upon the development of medicine in the tropical and sub- tropical countries of Central and South America, Africa, India and the Far East. It is, indeed, the best-equipped of its kind through- out the world. It ia devoted to teaching,

and healing work. It was founded in 1900 by Professor Bernhard Nocht, then chief of the harbour medical ser- vice, who is also chairman of the Malaria Committee appointed by the League of Nations. For three decades he presided over the great institution founded by him, but at few years ago he handed his work over to his trusted colleague, Pro- fessor Fulleborn.

research

Throughout the whole time of its existence all the departments” of the Institute have been in charge of eminent and highly-qualified perts who have placed their talents at the service of mankind. As

ex-

regards these, mention should be made, apart from the two gentle- men already named, of Professor Muhlens and Professor G. Glemia.

BATTLE STARTS.

Warned by her scouting aircraft, the convoy steamed off at fuli speed, but the attackers succeed ed in closing the range and forcing the convoy to run back for Toulon.

One lesson drawn from these manoeuvres appears to have been that a minimum of wireless trans- As it mission should be used, enables the enemy to locate posi- tions with embarrassing accuracy.

-Reuter,

EUROPE'S BEST POLICE DOG

TURNS OUT TO BE A WOLF

Belgrade.

The beat police dog in Europe, which has already won over 200 prizes, is not a dog at all. It is a wolf, which was caught as a cub

Do you agree that the plans and specifications form part of the agreement?—Yes.

one of them with more than this amount, if they are not prepared to spend the surplus put "em on Coun- try's Greedy List.

Then read this List over on the Wireless every night.

If they are so hard faced that they can stand that, and all the talk there will be about ‘om-tie a brick round their neck and drown 'em, they are no good.

"I do not propose hurting any- body or doing anybody any wrong. but we can't let any chap that Ilves in our world play a scitish game of "Dog in the Manger":

"And another thing! We can't allow these international financier chaps to upset all the world when they start aerapping amongst them- selves trying to pinch each other's bit of power. Kicking up a dust and causing a regular hullabaloo.

"I know these fights-I've been In 'em.

"Do as you have a mind,-when Mr. Tong Kwong-hing draftsman

Do you agree that without your they start you can't keep out. in the employ of the architect, was authority and consent, the con- They sort get you by the scruff tractor cannot deviate from the of the neck, and say "Come in called to continue his evidence.

Mr. Armstrong On what terms plans no matter what interferences lad". "It's going to be a right are you employed by Mr. Lane?he receives from outside?—I won't good rough and tumble-free for know if any deviations are made My duties are to

unless they tell me.

I don't want to know what your duties are. I want to know on what terms you are employed. mean your remunerations?I work on a commission basis.

When you were first introduced he anxious to to the owner, was

build property in another locality?

-YCA.

Yes, yes. But I am talking of a contractor's duties generally.

But I've always noticed that when the battle's over and everything hoa. Do subsided and peace and quietness you agree with me on this point? reigns again, that in addition to having been in the fight, I've been Is it usual or is it not usual for well plucked in the bargain. a Chinese owner to have his own

have one.

Yes.

foreman ?-Yes. It is usual to

Where was the land he wanted to buy?-Shan Kwong Road, Wong-seer nelchong.

,

"Nearly always after one of those doos the Bank comes and puts an other Monkey on our Mill”

Is the object of having an over- "Well done," essays a solltary to see the quality of the sympathiser "Give it to them. materials to see that he is not being You've got the iden. Don't let Is that the property which Mr.swindled?--There are other objects. them drag you into orthodox econ- Gockchin eventually hought7-No. He must also see that the work is omic argumente, because a lot of Mr. Gockchin also failed, to

carried buy

out satisfactorily. The there are part and parcel of pro- this land.

foreman employed must be a com- sent system-for every logical, and Well, Mr. Gockchin eventually petont man and must have some reasoned argument you put before built a house in this neighbour knowledge of building.

them, they will polish an Illogical hood?--No.

one, and make it look logical.

They stew in their own juice.

Responsibility.

And if the owner employs a foreman who is hot compotent (he

They have something to lose, they.

In connexion with No. 16 Yuk Sau Street, what were your duties actually when the house was being built? I had to look after andle defeating his own "objett) dooa think But what they do not inspect everything.

that, relieve yours or the contrac-realise is that they have more to Had you any duties in connexion tors' responsibility at all?—It does gain, than they have to lose. with the steel bars?-I had to pay not lessen it. N

The method of Joo Thorpe is particular attention to the bars. I put it to you that you wordprobably right-ridicule-who-

the What had you to do exactly?-paid five per cent, on con-wants to listen to Economics--who had to see that the bars were tractors' price and that this five wants to talk Economics-who secured in position in accordance per cent. Includes your fee for wants to read Economics-pro- with the plany.

superintending the erection of verbially known as the most de- these houses?

pressing, subject a student can pos- Witness replied that it was a re-sibly face-who wants to write And of the proper quality ? Yes. muneration for drawing the plans economica? And was it part of your duties and for previous work in connex-. to take measurements with n foot-lon with land. It was also for rule to see that they were of the supervision of work. right distance apart?-YOR.

What else?--I had also to see

Every one of them enjoys a world, in the Bosula woods six years that they were of the proper size,

and

ago.

wide reputation. Professor Fulie born and Professor Muhlens, more

Last year in Germany It won the particularly, have again and again first prize-in-an-International

Police Dog Show. not making boen Invited by the governments single mistake in all the tests for

university authorities of foreign countries to give lectures skill. training and accuracy. and to undertake research work for

The wolf is in constant demand them. A few weeks ago, for to clear up mysteries for the example, Professor Muhlens gave a Austrian police and is taken to large number of lectures on the all parts of the country to track work done by the Institute and on down criminals. It is shown as a the results achieved to numerous model in training schools for nudiences In British India, the police dogs. Netherlands Indics and the Far Eastern countries.

TROPICAL DISEASES.

The wolf was captured by a police clerk from Vienna when he was out hunting. He took it back to Vienna and brought it up with his own police dogs. Reuter,

EXCHANGE RATES

The work done by the Institute consists--as alrendy · indicated by its name in the investigation of the conditions tending to produce tropical diseases and of the posal- bilities of curing them. Some of the means used for this purpose Paris are: annual courses for students Geneva and medical practitioners from Berlin every part of the globe; the large Helsingfors hospital afiliated to the Institute;

ORIO

Athens

the comprehensive collection of Milan teaching requisites; one of the best-Buenos Aires stocked library in the world in so Shanghai

fur

:

17.34

Important Operation. Cross-examined by Mr. Jenkin, witness agreed that the pouring in of concrete was a very important operation in the building of a

house.

Mr. Jenkin: And you were sent as special repre- from the office sentative to oversee that?--No.

Was a representative from the

office sent?-No.

Did nobody from your office over- see the pouring in of the concrete?. -No.

In answer to further questions, witness said that when the concrete July 4 July 5. was first laid, he did go down to .85.3/10 85./2 the site and waited for about 30 .17.40

then found that 14.14%

14.32 minutes. Ile

207 everything was satisfactory.

Mr. Jenkin: Is a man 600 | Chan In in your office?--Yes.

He was present at these 11% Lions all the time?-No.

19.90

Shown two bills for a total of $7,100 witness acknowledged them. and said the sum represented five percent. for supervision.

To your knowledge, Mr. Tong, how many times did Mr. Lane ko to the site?-Forty or fifty timea.

Referring to the cantilever balcony methed, witness agreed that the cement concrete must never be subjected to tension, The mass must be confined to the lower edge.

Cause of Collapse.

.

Witness further agreed that the steel bars were always at the top

of the balcony floor. If at the boltum, the balcony was rendered absolutely unsafe.

The Crisis we are facing to-day.. is worse than we faced. In 1914, except there are no Gune-yet.

· (Mr. Cope's articles on the World Crisis, embodying his Spending Money thesis will shortly be pub- lished in pamphlet form.)

COTTON, WHEAT AND SILVER

LATEST NEW YORK

QUOTATIONS

Mesure. Swan, Culbertson and Fritz have, received the following quota- tions on the New York cotton and whent and silver exchange for yester day..

In reply to other questions, wit- neas stated that he had seen the bars when they were supported by fact called 41⁄2 in. wooden chocks. The

that they were afterwards found to July, opern-bu only half an inch above the October

bottom suggested that the chocks December 1/3 Did he go down there at all?- were removed and the bara lowered January

March 4.52% Yes, he had to water the concrete to a position which rendered the 8.321

as Boun as it was laid. · Ho und fatructure unsafe and caused the 31% instructions to do that

collapse.

22014

10.801 500 63.7/16

62

4.49%

8.34

113%

140

Bucharest

as tropical medicine is con- New

cerned; an excellent museum; the

publication of carefully

medical

York

Amsterdam

edited Vienna

periodicals, occasional Prague

brochures, and textbooks on medi- Madrid

cine. Apart from the general de Hongkong partment, the Institute has also a Brussels helminthological, a,clinical, a chemi-

cal, a bacteriological, logical,

Stockholmi

a protozoo-Lisbon

pathological-anatomical department,

an entomological and a

And what is the outcome of all Montevideo

is over- Montreal

this scientific work? It

whelming in its completeness and Silver (not)

572 .1/4.27/32

21.02 .19.4236

110

1/8.1/16

.34

113

.4.8027 .18%

Silver (forward) 10

thoroughly justifies us in saying war Loan that the Ilamburg Institute for Marino and Tropical haensos is n

112

He was detailed specially to look 39,13/16 after concrete?-His duties were

505 1/4 to water the concrete as soon as it 23.91 was laid. 19.45

His duties included supervising 110 the concrete as it was poured in?--- 1/0.1/10 No.

19

1/3 The pouring in of the concrete 3 in the balcony area was of prime 4.8214

importance, wasn't it?-Concrete in 18.15/16

every part, of the building is of importance.

Come, come. It is obvious that the pouring in of the concrete in the balcony area is more important than any other area?—Yes.

-British Wireless.

valuable aid to suffering mankind, medicine throughout the world for It is solely due to the selentista as- sociated with its Inbours that main the purpose of exchanging mutual of celo- experience. Thousands

:

He suggested that the owner and his fokis who usually visited the

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works after 6 p.m. had made the July alteration in the belief that the bars September were in the wrong position.

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Mr. Lo: And this very interest. ng theory of yours, when did you form It? Did you tell the Police about it?

Witness replied that he did not,

July September December ................. as it was only a recent theory over Total sales for the day: which he was still puzzling.

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He had inspected adjacent balconies opened up sinco the mishap, and agreed that in all these other cases the bars had been No Supervision.

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He agreed that the uniformity of this arrangement plasmoching, whilst it was formerly positions everywhere have received

Are you suggesting that nobody precluded an accident theory, only possible to give some relief to their training on the Institute pre- from the oflica came to supervise Mr. · Lo commented that 28 palionts suffering from it, by nd-mises. The number of its on-the pouring in of the concrete? similar "accidonta” would have to ministering quinine, Other

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