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APP*1, 3, 2; 1985.

NOTES OF THE DAY TERROR OF RABIES

ABYSSINIA

At this time, when Europe Is In a muddle, Abyssinia has been crowded off the stage. But for the tension in the capitals of the Great Powers, however, we should hear more of thla dispute which continues to grow

STAMPED OUT

By CAPT. H. E. HOBBS (ounder and Organiser of the Tail Waggers Club?

THEN the cry of "Mad dog!" general massacre of doge would be mors hosted between Abyssinia W was heard in the streets in ordered.

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In the towns and eltles the cry of "Mad dog!" was raised. with disturbing frequency. It was one of the very reai terrors of life in olden time.

B

The Very Idea!

THE JOLLY OLD

HUNT

Not What It Was;

Eh, What?

I have been reading the speech which Lady Clunbury, M.F.H., made last week at the Hyssop dinner, says one of these bright young humorists who write for the Home papers.

and Italy, Wo know that for some the moventeenth and eighteenth time past Italy has been sending centuries there was a quick rush

In 1738 the Town Council of troops to her territories in North of the citizens to the nearest place Edinburgh was greatly concerned Africa, preparatory to waging war of refuge.

because "s mad bitch" had run

"The season's been a good one,” upon Abyssinia. If that proud Doors were shut and barred, amok at the butcher's market and | said her Ladyship, "axcept, of people do not "beg pardon" for the and the timid hardly dared oven bitten-many of the dogs there. An course, for the dearth of foxta, incidents on the frontier in which to peer through the windows lest order was issued that all butchers Dammit, I don't like that. When Italian colonial soldiors lost their the lurking horror outside should dogs were to be destroyed, and I was a gol, a fox was a sportsman lives. We know that the tribes see and pursue them. Even men that the dogs of all other citizens and a gentleman: he knew what have been rallied by the Abyasin of proved courage, horeca in many were to be removed from the town was expected of him and he saw inn chlofs, and that Abyssinia is, bout of fisticuffs, would: bo by noon of the following day, fall that you got it. Now I'm not so. at this moment, endeavouring

would ing which they would be destroyed sure. (Laughter.) It seems to me bring Italy to agree to arbitration stricken with torror and

that all this Bolshevism and funk of the differences between them, hurriedly get them to a place of by the town officers,

aafety.

Contemporary records show that is affecting our crafty little But we know very little of the

the Town Guard, "all armed with friends. Abyssinian people, and the fight

battleaxes and quarter staves," "And that" (she went on). they are waging for independence

scoured the town in search of dogs, that reminds me. Wo want more and the defence of their realm

even raiding the citizens' homes support for the Hysapp, oven from Sir T. Comyn-Platt tells us some

and carrying off their pets before thuse who dont hunt. (Heor, thing of the country "which

the outraged eyes of their ownora. hear) What's come over some of wishes to be left alone.”

Many an nold print has as its The officers wore more zealous the local farmers? I know that subject the pursuit of the wretched than discreet in the performanco times are hard-they ware hard "mad dog" by mon armed with of their duties, for oach was paid when I was a gel (laughter)-and I pitchforks and staves and axes, ono shilling for every dog he know that we can't all of us afford and the terror of the passive destroyed. And much the same our three or four days a week; but, citizens who have not been fortun- procedure was adopted in other stap mo, I do expect a little friend.. ate enough to gain access to come towns and cities throughout the Ilness. What with claims

country,

mangled poultry and snivelling building is strikingly depleted.

about broken fences, the place has It in clanr from the evidence of)

become more like Geneva. A neat contemporary writers and artists

politicians and cranks. that very often the cry-was raised

of by way of a hoax or through genuine misapprehension.

LAND OF ROMANCE

But, once it had been raised, woć betide any innocent and healthy dog that might cross the path of the armed avengers,

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Mr. Edward C. Ash, that in defatigable researcher into doggy ore, says "it was thought that bathing in salt water cured and prevented it (rables), and noble men would dispatch not only their dogs, but their entire staff, to the

nearest

sen to bathe; males,

HUMOUR IN THE CLASSROOM

(Cheers.)

for

"I'll wager that if more of these cads supported a show like the Hyssop we shuuldn't have thrown away india. (Prolonged cheering,)

"Just a word to the women. My father-the Old Squire' as they called him-(Cheers) my father usod to say: "Women and foxes, Mandy, they've both got their place in the scheme of things." so they have still. (Ficar, hear.) There's a thousand and one little Barvices that those of my sex can perform. We can't all be M.F.II.'s (a voice: 'Why not?' and laughter), but we can all turn out looking neat and workmanlike; we holp things on the social side- soil tickets for the Bail and what- not--we can any a cheery word to: those snivelling farmers.

can

"Above all-and this is my last word-we can teach our sons and aweethearts not to be Bolsheviks and ends,"

'rolonged applause, the report says, and the old girl probably deserved it. Sho'll be seventy- four to-day

Initialitis

Ethiopia, or Abyssinia, the land of the Queen of Sheba, and of St. James, the first missionary, where Feudalism is a fetish and trade, Is unlike any other country' in the world. Travellers are fow and the country a backwater. And the Ethiopian would not object, in the least, If the gulf was widened still more. Happy and content in his mountain lands, hating all foreig ners, patriarchal in his manners and customs, he asks for nothing but to be loft alone. And there's the source of to-day's trouble. What seems certain in that only females, and dogs going into the Surrounded by European Pro a very small proportion of theasses together." tectorates French, Italian and scares was caused by genuinely We may smile at these quaint British-his daily struggle is to mad or rabid dogs at all.

superstitions and at the drastic keep them at arm's length. But

methods employed: it is easy to while the Emperor, an enlightened The law that requires ali imamille when we have known nothing RABIES 'DANGER

and far-sooing ruler and reported dogs to remain in quaran of the terror of rabies. former, is in favour of swimmingine for six months has rendered The continued prevalence of slowly with the Western tide, his ua practically immune from the subjecte, almost to a man, struggle discast. The only outbreak of rabies in the Colony, attested by against it. The truth is, the rabies that has occurred for the the Bad death of a young Ethioplan values more than any past two decades was traced to a European, na well as by the thing his freedom and independ dog that had been smuggled into presence of the disease amongst he looks round and sces the thus evaded the customary period ence. Proud, superior, disdainful, this country by aeroplane and had Army mules in Kowloon, is European Powers in wait for all of quarantine:

By CATHERINE MACDONALD sufficient reason for stringent whom they may devour; his turn However, it did not require any

Teaching to-day is not what it enforcement of the muzzling re-

may come next, but it will be in widespread number of cases of was a decade ago. It is approached exchange for his life. Fortunate- rabies to instil terror into gulations and the restrictionsly, Nature has played into his hearts of the people. Human much less chance of boredom either the from a different angle and there is recently placed on the move-hands. Surrounded by moun beings bitten by a rabid dog for the teacher or those being ments of equines, Rables is a

tains, deep valleys and ravines, developed hydrophobia and died in taught. Yet the unconscious hum from a strategic point of view circumstances of great distress our of to-day is very similar to disease which, once it gets Ethiopia is almost Impregnable. One did not even need to be bitten that of long ago. The old dominic footing in any locality,

As to communications, mule tracks by the mad dog to contract the will probably recognise all the extremely difficult to dispel. are the nearest approach to roads disease.

following examples, yet they aro The plague of initials in foreign and a vast desert encloses tha has now persisted in this Colony, East and Southern Frontiers. one could be infected by a glance and occurred in the Bible and proportions. A dictionary of 30,- It was generally believed that from the diary of a young teacher newspapers is renching fantastic intermittently coming to light, And the economic obstacles are as of the mad dog

or by its near poetry classes.

000 of them has just been publish- for very many months, despite formidable as the military ones. presence-for it was known that One youngster remarked after ed in Germany,

In this respect peaceful penetra- all that the authorities have is wasted effort, font people who had not been bitten the "Lord's Prayer," "God has an They may have time for tho

had become mad and died.

awfu quair namo." A little ques-native, but they are a curse to the done to suppress it and provent, Ethiopian has no wants that he

tioning showed that the child had foreigner. What English render its spread. There may not be himself is unable to supply. It That belief accounts for the been repeating "Harold be Thy knows the meaning of FAGA, any occasion at the moment for they are few--and his average ex-acute terror inspired by the ery of name." "Harold" as n name was FLPB, FERA, PWEHC, ECW.

penditure a little more than alarm, but should the situation penny a day-that is his affair, "Mad dog!" and explains why not known, but "hallowed" was cer- FCAT Yet every good American is familiar with these cabalistic LTD. fail-to-take-a-turn-for-the boy

even brave men ran to cover. To tainly beyond his comprehension in It is all very

the superstitious minds of the spito-of-explanations.

signs. They refer to the various- ter in the near future, the things as they are.

well for the European to tell him people then there seemed some "Give us each day or gravy bread."

Bay boards organised under the New Government might be well ad- uncanny and Satanic in the

Deal.

No American seems to have the vised to strengthen further the that would result in the opening powers of the rabid dog.

"dally bread." Of course, there was not; and a measures taken to suppress the up of the country as his fore: glance from the mad dog's eye was realm is also heard frequently-or, L.S.O. mean.

This misrendering of the 23rd relatively simple L.C.C. or B.I.F. ghost of an idea what the British disease. In Great Britain, thanks fathers, and intends to do in the saliva that dropped from alum child the wee bit drying green grand exception. We all know but he prefers to live as fore-harmless. But there was danger "In past oor green" To many s largely to the fact that it That being the case, the con

und the dog's jaws. If by chance that is all he knows of pastures. Hap what that means, though we might is an island, and also because a cession-hunter, prospector happened to touch an abrasion or plly, with the extension of "Fresh not recognise it as Obiedinionnoje

are on stony lengthy period of quarantine is general trader

might result.

things is being remedied slowly,

Gosudarstoennoje. Politicheskoje A rabid dog will bite any and but it is unfortunate that green

Upravlenie.' every animal that gets in its path, hills with flocks of sheep are as and every dog bitten will contract remote to many of our children as And the explanation of all this the disease. Drastic measures are the setting of the myths and is that Ethiopia is still in the were therefore adopted whenever legends to others. all sides, quito apart from the was difficult or impossible to trace ed to choose a hymn, I am sure Feudal state. One sees this on a rabid dog ran amok. Since it mental outlook. For instance, the dogs it might have bitten, a there are fortifiad dwellings, powerful chieftains, hosts of arm- from which infection has ed retainers, slaves, and in the dlatant provinces semi-independ- originated. The mischief is ant tribos. Scotland In the time that the disease is spread not of Macbeth is a close analogy. only by actual dog-bites, but That there is so little trouble any. may-bo-picked up from the where and that content is so general are mainly due-to-the saliva dropped from a rabid | Emperor, who is not only a born dog's mouth. In view of the ruler but the most enlightened ever-present danger created by person in the land. There is a the large number of dogs in the nominal Government, it is true, Colony, it is essential that the with a House of Nobles and a Second Chamber. But as all are muzzling regulations be strictly selected by the Emperor he is in obeyed: a circumstance which reality a constitutional autocrat, has led the Kowloon Magistrate and as such shoulders, like Atias, to issue a serious warning to the weight of the entire country. dog-owners to take every of course, there ATO the usual advertisera-students possible precaution in this dir- political ection. The plain fact of the from some Western University- matter is that there are far too who change hats, shirts, and salates in the cause of Progress many dogs in this Colony. Dog- and Reform, but they are merely lovers naturally like to have regarded as aping their European their pets, but when, ne is inferiors! But even Feudalism obvious, every dog is a potential | is not wholly static, for, despite source of danger, the question, all objections to change, the does arise whether personal pro- Ethiopian mills do grind, though dilections should not give way to slowly.

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Another child was heard to

imposed on ali dogs brought into ground and will remain so unt cut on tho human skin, infection Air Fortnights," this state of

the country, rabies has been completely wiped out. Here in Hongkong, with its hinterland and free access to the port by small native boats, it is extreme- ly difficult to keep a check on dogs coming in from outside; these are no doubt the sources

the common good. In the open

backed by force,

FEUDAL RULE

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country, or even in houses which either by attempting more rigid have their own gardens or grounds, it may be quite safe to control of dogs coming in from keep dogs, but here in Hongkong more severe restrictions on doga outside, or by imposing even conditions are by ne manner of owned in the Colony, is at the means ideal for dog-keeping moment an open question. But Flats are certainly not suitable unless conditions show a mater homes for dogs of the type most fal improvement very shortly, it seen in this Colony. Whether it may be wise to bring the whole is possible, or necessary, for the situation under fresh review, in authorities to still further the interests of the community tighten up the present measures, generally

Each morning one child is allow-

(Continued on next column

“I'm really reducing. I've lo ́st three pounds on one wenle and night on another."

The O.G.P.U seems to be the

Lithuanicambe Fair [The names of the Lithuanian Corps de Ballet are causing a certain amount of difioulty.] Tom Pearce, Tom Pearce, have

you seen Les Sylphides

Pompely pom, that's the ballet

for me

Yes, I'm told that it's very, good

dancing indeed.

With Joviachete, Maleinaite, Jo- zapaitite, Koublízkalte, Adams- vitchote, Babouchkinaite, Ka- lichskione, Zateplinskaite, Sa- ranauskaite and all-

Saranauskaite and all:

the teacher looked astonished when tho

little

girl chose

"When Mother's a Sallor"-hor version of the Carey Bonner hymn, "When Mothers of Salem."

A

The poetry class, too, has its gema. The following examples are from the same diary. The clase being very young, the poetry con- sisted of the well-known nursery rhymes. The examples" are, per haps, pathetic rather than amusing, for they show clearly that the lan- guage of the, schoolroom in 'n very different thing from that of the," home or street. Indeed, very young children can generally bo found changing the teacher's ver sion into that of their own lan gunge.

From "Sing a Song of Sixpence *** "Sing a Song of Sixpence, a pocket- ful of “rage. / Rye meant nothing, but raga were untold treasure, and the teacher was deluged with all the lovely things which could be exchanged for

beads, ban coloured bal- 100ry had a little lamb, Ita flens even toilée, si were white as snow" is slao popu. lar. 1

wonder

If the question of

colour worried the childrens at all. Even "lamb" is at times, atstum- bling block. Having translated "it" "lamp," their looks of astonishment are only natural when they and that: It has arrived at school