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THIS PRIEST WON'T GO

Missioner

Will Remain

At His Post

WAR DRUMS DO NOT

SCARE VETERAN

FRENCH PRIEST

Paris, Aug. 20. -

War may reap a path of death, famine and pestilence across Abyssinia as Rome and Addis-Ababa fight for mastery over the Black Kingdom but the Living- stone of Ethiopia, eighty- year old French priest and missionary, Monsigneur An- dre Jarosseau, will refuse to quit his mission house in the path of the rival armies.

Under orders from their Governments,

of many

the several hundred white miR-

·sionaries have been rushed out of the Abyssinian capital and more dangerous distant

pro- vinces as the menace of war looms larger.

The reason for this is that if Armageddon swoops over the

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER

1935.

THEY TRAIN TO DIE.

TUBERCULOSIS IS

DISEASE HONGKONG DREADS MOST

65 PEOPLE DIE EVERY I DAY: MANY ARE T.B.. EFFORTS to combat pulmonary tuberculosis, the dread

discase that caused over 11 per cent, of the total deaths n Hongkong last year, are meeting with little success.

Although the number of deaths from pulmonary tu- berculosis were lower last year than in 1933, they were higher than any other year in the history of the Colony, with the exception of 1924, the terrible year when over 30, per cent. of the total deaths recorded were caused by the fatal disease:

Mortality figures compiled by the Medical Department show that, on An average. tuberculosis deaths have steadily increased in Hong- kong.

Steady Incrosso

Statisties for the past ten years) disclose the stendy increase of this

disease:

1925

1,890

1326

1,517

1927

1,595

1928

4,441

Members of the Ethiopian Emperior's body guard, the Euro. canised reclens of Abysinio's army, receiving treuck mortar train- ing near Addis Ababa.

1929

2,108

1930

1,994

1931

1,943

1032

2,012

I

1933

2,223

Over 100,000

1934

2,179

'THEY' LOVE. TOYS

high plateaus and sun-burned H.K. People

deserts of Abyssinin, the lives

of Europeans will be in gravej peril, notably on the confines of!

the Savage

Danakil country.

Live Afloat

where the taking of life is NEVER COME ASHORE

second-nature to the natives. OVER one hundred thou-

Recent trains which hove made sand of Hongkong's total the lone journey from the enpilat population of almost a mil- down the line to the French port lion people rarely if ever go of Djibouti, on the Red Sea constashore. carried missionațies and muns off

all`nationalities and denomina- They are the people who tions including many Italians, are born, live and die on the! but the veteran French priest has countless sampans and junks refused to quit a charge he has that belong to the Colony's kept for thirty-six years.

this

Mud Episcopal Palace

water,

There are

over 20,000 local: boats registered at the Harbour

Like an anchorite in the desert. Offee, the occupants of each of venerable priest who is which vary in number front four apostolic vlear of Abyssinia to 40.

wields spiritual power from an

The Harbour Authorities be-

Episcopal palace which is nothing lieve the total population of better than a mud hut in the wilds these bouts to be 150,000..

of Harar, where he tends lepers

and teaches 'the-euleghism For this reason-quarantine to the black-skinned sons of the restrictions Ethiopian wilds.

Are

almost im- possible in Hongkong. Any question of # barrier between Military tacticians believe that Chinese Territory and Hongkong Harar will be in direct line of ad- for dogs, in order to stamp out vance when the expected Italian, rables, would, for the same reason, nttack lakes place, with the Italian also be impracticable.

"Such is the amount of traffic, white and native forces descending both human and goods, which passes from Eritrea and pushing north-between Hongkong. Canton, Matno wards from Itallan Somaliland. and the River Ports, that up to date it has been found impossible Despite the danger, the octogento devise any system of quarantine arian missionary will not budge which would effectually safeguard from the charge he assumed at the one city against introduction of tail of the last century and which disense from the other and at the he has kept without a break, luying

same time preserve that freedom a trail of religious faith under the scorching traplent sun.

The Capucines founded their episcopacy in Abyssinia in 1846 and Monsigneur Jarosseau succeeded to it in 1899, although he had then been already twenty-five years in the country, working as a humble] priest in the mission schools and hospitals set up by Catholic funds in the domain of the Negus,

Ras Tafari, His Friend

The white-haired Bishop, a tiny figure grilled by the equatorial heat to which he has exposed himself for sixty years, feels that harm will never come to him, because the Ras Tafari is not only his friend but pupil, for the old Capucine had en- trusted to his care the Ras Tafari when still a boy.

Visitors to the monastle cell of the priest at. Harer are attracted by two portraits on the wall, the present Emperor and his father, the Ras Mekonnen, whose memory is bontified by the Abyssiniana be- 'cause he it was who trounced the Italians at Adown, a defont Italy now burns to wipe out.

Attempts to induce the aged man to leave Harar have failed, bocause he claims the country In his spiritual home and that the war rivalries of men do not interest nor frighten him.

A few other French, British and 1 American missionaries are reported -romaining in Abyssinin, but all the Italians have been moved out, bo- cause of fear of severe native enmity against them in the event of war.-United Press...

of commercial movements on which these cities depend for prosperity." says Dr. W. B. A. Moore, Acting Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, in his Annual Report to the Government.

Wooden horar-quite a new toy-made Fronne, one of the famous Dionne quintuplets,

gasp with pleasure. Cecile, m- other of the five, gazed round- children are now fourteen months eyed at a rubber girafe. The

old.

Two Girls On A Motor-Bike.

ADVENTURE ACROSS THE SAHARA

After riding a motor-cycle combination from London, two English girls, Miss Florence

Blenkíron and Miss Theresa E. Wallach, arrived at Cape Town last week.

They had been more than seven months on their way, having sat out from Aldwych, London, on December 11.

Despite breakdowns in the de-

According to the Annual Report of the Director of Medical Services, palmonary tuberculosis ranks see-sert and the dangerous adventures and to broncho-pneumonia as the principal cause of deaths in the Colony..

It is probable that the figure is even higher than that given in the official sintixties, ** CAHER of | broncho-pneumonia are frequently (of tubercular origin.

in the jungle, they are absolutely undaunted, and plan to ride nil the way back again.

Three months of their hazardous of the Sahara, when they crossed trip were spent in the wilderness

3,000 miles of dezert, often in peril.

Almost Frozen

Overcrowded tenements, the trip they said "It has been nothing During the early stages of their expectorating habits of the pen-bui push, push, push all the way." ple and poverty are assigned as For scores of miles at a time they the principal reasons for the had to out their shoulders to the prevalence of respiratory dis- machine and heaye... eases in Hongkong, ▲ .

54 Dic Each Day

A total of 19,786 deaths occurred

In the Colony last year, as compar-

ed with 18,161 in 1933,

On more than one occasion they were stranded for daya at a time hundreds of miles from anywhere, in country Inhabited by native tribes of uncertain disposition, and wild animals.

In the mountains of Algerin they

Thus, oglan average, over 54 | just missed a snowstorm and were people died each day. Of the almost frozen, and in Equatorial total number of deaths, only 250 day in a temperature of 110 de- Africa they sat in a native hut all

were non-Chinese.

grees in the shade,»

Saved By Tuarogs.

from Agadez their machine broke When the girls were 120 miles down.

They pushed the motor-eyele and side-car laden with food and water, petrol and oll from two o'clock that afternoon until eight o'clock the next evening, with an hour for sleep, and managed to cover 20 miles.

Broncho-pneumonia claimed the grèntest number-3.020-f lives. Next to this disease and tubercu- losis, the diseases against which Hongkong people have to guard themselves most are Bronchitis, from which 1,923 died, diarrhoea (870 deaths), nephritis (638 deaths) Alte Pricumonia (527 1 [deaths), Infantile diarrhoen killed 1,923 infants under one year of Pages Other causes of death were

Natives in the locality had been dysentery (189), heart

informed of their plight, and the disease (669), beri-beri (447), malaria Tuareg horsemen to meet them.

chief sent out I cavalcado

(366), diptheria (83), enteric (65) and cerebro-spinal meningitis (125).

There were no deaths from Plague or Cholera, the Colony be- ing free from the former now for over five yours.

of

On one occasion their front wheel gave way and left them stranded 100 miles from anywhere, and they were forced to camp on the apot for five days until a small lorry came along and helped them out of their difficulties.

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