1936-09-10 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1936.

HONGKONG TEXTILES RAMP EXPOSURE

"Telegraph" Articles Cause Big

Clean-Up

In

Philippine Islands: Textile Imports Crash

MANILA CUSTOMS HUSBAND

AUTHORITIES

WIFE DAUGHTER-

---TOTAL

CLOSE "OPEN DOOR" 170 YEARS

RE-EXPORT OF JAPANESE S GOODS THROUGH COLONY

CEASES FOLLOWING NEWSPAPER EXPOSE

"Telegraph” Spocial

Following the "Telegraph" exposure last June of the amazing textile ramp existing between Hongkong and the Philippines, the Manila Customs authorities have staged one of the biggest clean-ups in their history.

In a series of articles, which were reprinted in Manila news papers, the "Telegraph" disclosed how unscrupulous merchants in Hongkong were defeating the "Gentlemen's Agreement" between the United States and Japan.

IN EAST

HONGKONG FAMILY HAS UNIQUE RECORD

THIRTY-SIX continuous

MALARIA FEARS ALLAYED

FEVER INCIDENCE IS

ALMOST NORMAL: FEAR UNWARRANTED

As a result of investigations, the “Telegraph" is able to allay fears, recently expressed, regarding the incidence of malaria in this Colony.

Although recent official statistics are not available, the “Tele- graph" learns from a reliable source that the incidence of malaria is no greater than usual,

Latest available statistics conclu- į deaths from malarin was 391. In years in Hongkong is close that the whole of those days the entire Colony was Hongkong ja AL comparatively affected, and Europeans died fre- bad enough, but 69 years in malarle-free Colony when compared quently.

with. Malaya, Ceylon and other the Far East-it just isn't tropical centres. done.

to

What's the use of retired

damme,

This agreement limited the quantity of Japanese textiles imported into the Philippine Islands to 42,000,000 linear yards per annum.

Hongkong merchants for a' time defeated the agreement by importing Japanese textiles into this Colony, and re-exporting them in the country. No, sirf

to the Philippine Islands as "Hongkong Made" or "South China Made" goods.

An amazing series of Frauds were unearthed. The Japanese quota of 42,000,000 linear yards was filed in the first four months of the year, and direct exports from Japan to the Philippines were thereafter reduced to a minimum.

store

Oficial statistics to the end of 1834 show that the number of admissions to Government hospitals has de

past decade. In. 1025 there

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majors and taipans sipping creased by of per cent, during the whiskys and sodas in a West 1,112 admissions, in 1934 only 457. End Club and telling about the With the exception of 1932, the 1034 20 years they spent in there is the fowest in the history of

the Colony. damnedest climate in the world Statistics for 1035 ure no! yet

William J.available

the the Press, but when, Edwards naively admits to a "Telegraph" is Informed from residence that goes back to 1867. this year in approximately that for reliable source that the incidence for

Even when, ale and healthy at 1034. men's allotted span of three years and ten, he decides it's time retire, he won't do the thing decently by going Home to a little "Go Home and be miserable in climate," he says scornfully, that "Not" me! I'm going to retire to Shanghai!"

thal's Hongkoruj for you. few People get that way after a

Won't admit that the climate isn't fit for a man to live in, or that anyone who stays over fifteen years has one foot in the grave.

Countless letters to Editors have

tourist who visits us in the summer has something to say about it.

years.

But, until the "Telegraph" exposure, exports from Hongkong lashed at Hongkong's climate. Every

to the Philippines continued at a merry pare.

In the first six months of this year, Hongkong exported a total of 35,486,303, linear yards of textiles to the Philippines, more than in the whole of any provints yone.

That the greatest part of these Ilangkong exports were of JapaneKL origin was conclusively proved by official statistics, which showed that Itongkang Imports from Japan had increased in proportion to its exports to the Philippines.

linear yards, for ench of the

months. The figures previous March-duly were:

March 10.371.000 linear yards April 19,706,000 tinear yards May 0.802,857 linear yards June 8,819,316 linear yards July 5.326,478 near yards.

four And even the loyalist who

for

defends is against all traducers be comes silent when "climate" is the subject. "Climate" is always a sub- ject a Hongkong journalist can fall back upon when he's hard up for

copy.

Therefore. Mr. Edwards had no right to tell me that he's lived in It is interesting to note that the the Far East for 60 years, in Hong

It was rubbing it figures for the months following the kong for 30 years. "Telegraph" disclosure are slightly in excess of the normal im- he can tot up 170 years residence in only. in to add that his wife, daughter, and ports for the genuine Hongkong Cathay. between them, and that It was estimated in one quarter market. The figures for July last neither of them are thinking of leav- that fully 80 per cent. of Hong-year were 4,700,000 linear yards,

ing for many years to come. kong's exports to the Philippines

were

the

Exports from Hongkong to Japanese origin. Yet the greatest part of the textiles enter-Philippines have dropped in an even ing Manila from Hongkong enterramore sensational manner. the Philippines as goods "Made in Hongkong" or "Made in South China"

In June, Hongkong exposted 91,040

During the first six months of the current year 280 entes were admitted to Government hospitals. This, on the surface, would lead one to belleve that the incidence for the whole year will be higher than usual. Such, is not the elise, as the however, meldence is much higher during the summer or "rainy months, thon during the winter.

No Europeons" have, fatally- con- tracted malarin, and the percentage of Chinese fatalities is comparatively

low.

URBAN AREas clear Elelent drainage methods have, ended malaria as far as the urban districts of Hongkong are concerned, and it persists only in certain parts of the New Territories and in some of the outer suburbs.

the

The ever-decreasing number of cases each your rellects the excellent work that has been done by Merties and Sanitary Departments in Hongkong to eradicate malaria.

the

In the early days malaria was the Victoria und, in 1844, coincident with chief cause of sickness and death in the breaking of the soil for formation of Queen's Road, which wa was then the chief arterial road of the elty, it became such a scourge that there were serious thoughts of abandoning the entire island.

The graveyard at Stanley, where the first settlement was made, is an indication of the terrible toll taken by malaria lost century. Nearly all of the inmates of this cemetery dled from malariu,

Ten years earlier, at the beginning of the century, health statistics show that more than 50 per cent. of the Colony's Police Force was admitted to hospital suffering from malaria.

591 DIED IN 1910

Of the '691 deaths in 1910, 282 oc- curred in the City of Victoria and 70 in Kowloon; both now free, 100 in the villages of Hongkong, 30 in the Harbour, and one at the Peak, Shaulsiwan and Aberdeen were well- advertised makrial centres.

It would seem also that here, as in Malaya, the danger areas are not the large swamps and paddy fields remote from the hills, but collections of water within half a mile of the latter,

Why is so is not known, but spring water which has not yet lost its sparkle does have an attraction Ano- for Anopheles minimus and pheles jeyportensia which, in this Colony, are the most potent carriers of malaria. Such wnier may be in seepages, springs, pools or streams or it may be from the

Irrigation

water for wet cultivation on the hill sides or in the valleys in the vicinity.

BEWARE OF NILLS

are.

The most malorious areas therefore, those in or near the hills. Unless carefully watered and care- fully controlled works in the vicinity of the hills which involve disturb- ance of the soil such rouds, rail- waterworks are nearly ways, or always attended by high sickness and death rates among the labour forces

In Malaya, this of granite formation and the same employed. especially the case when the soil, was

applies in Hongkong.

"RIPE" MOSSIES

was

An interesting point, which is not generally known, is that although a mosquito may bite a person suffering from malaria, it connot transfer the infection until it is "ripe", or sick of the disease itself.

It takes fourteen days for the mosquito to get "ripe", so that for Available statistics show that-ns fourteen days after biling an infected recently -ng 1010, the number

of

WIFE HOLDS RECORD

His wife, in fact, can claim exact- ly one month's longer residence in linear yards of Drills and dears. In the Far East than can. Mr. Edwards. July the exports were ! Exports month before i was bori. up the "She was born in Shanghal a of Miscellaneous Cottons amounted Investigations by the "Telegraph to 3,543,033 linear yards in June, and Yang.se River, in August. 1867," he disclosed that an amazing system of

told me with a chuckle. falsification was employed by severaly July had dropped to 1,394,969 merchants in Hongkong in order to yards, Trims dropped from famous inland waters of China In

Few Europeans ventured up the of the sen took him to the engine- rooms of several West River ships. secure entry for these textiles into 402,400 linear yards in June to 254.- those days, Therefore, it comes us He retired in 1034.

the Philippines without disclosing that they were of Japanese origin.

These methods included the cut- ting of Japanese brands and trade marks from the textiles when they were imported into Hongkong, und substituting Hongkong labels.

Another system was to open bules or baxes of Japanese goods, take out

020 linear yards in July.

New Cure For 'Flu

the top layers, and substitute genuine. Announced

·Hongkong or Chinese textiles. Only #cursory examination of the top loyers was made by Philippines customs officials..

A third method that attained some popularity before the "Telegraph" disclosures was to enter goods with-

VIOLET RAYS

Cambridge, Mass., July 24. Two Harvard University scien- out a consular decinration, posting atists have announced discovery

no surprise to know that Mr. Ed- wards was the first European baby born up the Yangtse.

In fact, Mr. Edwards can lay several clalms to distinctions as equally newsworthy as the fact that he was the first white baby born up the Yangise.

He was one of the first boys to attend the St. Francis Xavier's Col- lege in Shanghai, which was opened six years after his parents took him to Shanghat in 1870.

FIRST TRAIN IN CHINA He rode in the first train ever to run on rails on Chinese soll. That

IN JAPANESE NAVY.

A half-century al sea in the Far East has included service with both the Chinese and Japanese navies and to-day Mr. Edwards' most vivid impressions the changes that have taken place during his life-time has been the decline of the Chinese navy, the

unpre- cedented rise of the modern Japan- све Пеев,

"I have watched the Chinese Navy, as fine a fleet as you could wish for when Admiral McClure was its chief, decline to nothing, and the Japanese Navy, which consisted of a few small vessels when I served in it, rise from nothing to a world power," he told

was in 1876, when the Chinese Em-me. inaugurated a railway service from Shanghal to Woosung.

bont

person it does not transmit the germ to another person.

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Dance Music from The Hongkong Hotel

Z.E.K. PROGRAMME

From Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 335 metres (845 kilocycles):

6-8 p.m. European Programme. 5-7 pm. A Relay of the Dance

of Garden.

Orchestra from the Hongkong Hotel 7 p.m. Half hour with Brahms.

Song The May

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Marla

100 pesos bond that the decturation of a means of killing influenza pire, with great pomp and ceremony,

Incidentally, Admirol McClure was would be delivered before a speelfled time. Non-delivery of the declarn- germs by violet ray and hope

at one time a "skipper" in the Indo- China Steam Navigation Company's tion meant only a forefeiture of the eventually to perfect a technique

deet. He succeeded in command of

Night, 100 pesos bond, which represented that will remove the diacase from on infinitesimal value of the goods among man's major scourges.

The rallway wasn't too success the Chinese Navy another old- Olszewska (Contralto); Pianoforte ful," Mr. Edwards told me, with a lime Hongkong resident, Admiral Solo-Capriccio in B Minor, Op. 70, that passed the customs before, the

reminiscent smile. "The

"Chinese" Long, whose son, Lt. Cdr. Arthur Rubinstein; Orchestral- 100 pesos become forfeited.

Dr. W. F. Wells, an instruc- people plying along the river did not Lang, only recently retired from this

Tragle Overture, Op. 81, The B.D.C. Following publleation of the tor in sanitary science at the like this new competition on land.

Colony. The decadence of the

Symphony Orchestra; Song-Felde-, "Telegraph" articles, the customs | Harvard School of

Chinese fleet starts from the date of insamkeit, Elenn Gerhardt" (Mezzo- bribed the country people to they Public le across the steel rails. Either the authorities in the Philippines have Health, and Dr. H. W. Brown of train-they had two engines,

Admiral Lang's, retirement.

Soprano); Violon Solo-Hungarian Dance No. 6 in B flat Major, Veludi vent Japanese textiles from enter-the. London School of Tropical "Celestial Empire" and the "Far

Menuhin. Medicine have been working a Cathay--had to stop or run over year on the experiments using was usually a thumping big clulm the protestants. In any case, there specially-constructed, hermeti- for damages from someone. cally-sealed tank.

taken stringent measures to pre-

ing via Hongkong.

CAREFULLY CHECKED

Each consignment is carefully checked to prevent substitution of Hongkong labels for Japanese, and Instead of, the cursory examination of an infected ferret were sprayed into influenza virus from the lungs of bales and boxes formerly made, a strict examination of the entire con- the tank, then drawn ulf in test

lubes, tents of packages of textiles Import- ed from Hongkong is made.

Ferrets that were given the treat-

refuse to accept a monetary bonds in ease, while those that breathed the tieu of consular declarations regard-leculed virus immediately ing the country of origin of textiles,veloped inßuenza. and instat that before delivery is made the consular declaration be forthcoming.

So

recollectionS

the

HELPED FOUND K.C.C.

He

it is interesting to note that Mr.

7.30 p.m.

Closing Local Stock T. W. Selby and Mr. J. P. Robinson, Edwards was, with Dr, Swann, Capt. Quotations.

7.33 p.m.

A Variety Concert. one of the original founders of the Instrumental --- AU my Kowloon Cricket Club, which started ("Laughing Irish Eyes"), George MET PRESIDENT GRANT in 1902 with a "few second hand bats Elliott's Hawallan Novelty Quartet; One of Mr. Edwards' carllest, borrowed from the island club."

Organ Solo Second Serenade was also one of the founders of the is that of meeling Kowloon Junior Golf Club.

(Heykens). Reginald Foort, Song General-afterwards U.S. Pro

Scene Changes, Hildegarde; ldent Grant when he

The Far Eastern history of Mr. | 25 visited Edwards family actually dates back

Song--It ain't nobody's Biz'ness what China in 1876. General Grant was introduced' to to the end of the Fifties, when his do, Len Bermon; Clarinet Solo- The Philippines authorlies nowed virus falled to contract the dis Edwards Senlor, who in turn in-1s mother arrived in 1865, the tripes April

father went to Shanghai from India.

Wrong, Ern Pettifer; Comes Again troduced his nine year old son. One from London to Shanghai occupying de.

Hollywood Revels of 1030"), of young Edwardis proudest re- six months!

Cli

Connolly: Plano Solo The collections was that General Grant

Mrs. Edwards, who was also born Student Prince Serenade, Tony "In view of the proven possibility gravely shook hands, called him a in Shanghai, is the eldest daughter Lowry: Song-With all my heart of infected matter being carried by "And_fad"!

of the Inte Alfred Silverthome, who ("Her Master's Voice"), Etsic air," Dr. Welis said, "reasonable Mr. Edwards first vialted Hong- spent many years in the Far East. Carlisle, As a result of the more stringent efforts to free air supplies from kong in 1901, and came to live here Mrs. Edwards, like her husband, has 8 p.m. Local: Time Signol, Wea- measures adopted in the Philip-living micro-organisms are justified in 1000.

spent all but two years in Shanghai ther Report and announcements. pines to prevent fraud, Hongkong in the light of general sanitary From 1892 to 1910 he served with and Hongkong, Imporia of textiles from Japan, and | principles. The

8.03 p.m. Chinese Studio Concert, effectiveness of Jardine, Matheson's floating staff in in'only daughter is the wife of 11 pm. Close Down. export of textiles to the Philippines ultra-violet light for such purposes various Indo China Navigation Com- Mr. Claude Glover, well known in 8.03-11 p.m., European, Pro- dropped in remarkable fashion in would also seem to be demonstrated pany sleamers, and was a pletures- Hongkong as the skip of the Shang-gramme From Z.E.K. on a Fre July and Augush.

by our experiments."

que figure along the China const. hal Interport Bowls Team which has The great reduction of intestinal During the Great War he served taken Interport honours to the north-quency of 040 kilocycles. disease through water purification

Itlchard Crooke in the Transport Horotau, and wastern city on three occasions. Mrs, 8.05 p.m. demobbed in Hongkong six months Glover left Hongkong 14 years ago; (Tenor) with Orchestre Mascotte. Exnet figures for August are not since the turn of the century might

before the ship foundered with all and is resided in Shanghai since." 1 Song-Killarney (Felconer--- but official statistics Prompt us to hope that some of the yet available,

which

bank off the Paraocis in 1020. are transmitted

Mr. Edwards, on retirement this Halle); Good bye (Tosti), 3, Or- the month of July were only 3,320,- through the respiratory tract may be Bailey & Co. after the Great War, son-in-law in Shanghai, and will (Ziehrer) Evening on the Rhine- show that imports from Japan during diseases

Mr. Edwards Joined Messra, W. B. | month, will join his daughter and cliestra-In Dreamy Night-Waltz 478 linear yards, as compared with checked by methods of purifying air served on the well-known ahip reside in the northern clly for some Wallz

(Richartz), 3. Song-Love an average of more than 10,000,000 supplies."United Press,

| yard's staff until 1927, when the cull years before going Home,

Everlasting (Frimi),, 4. . Orchestra

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