1936-10-26 — Page 7

ACROSS THE

PACIFIC. IN A KETCH

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1936.

Tragedy of H.K's. Slum Dwellers

Aracataen H, the small Ketch in

which Mr. d. A. Herber: (LEFT)

retting out this week for Australia,

BRITONS

is

DEATH

VERSUS

DOLLARS

THE ETERNAL · STRUGGLE

FOR EXISTENCE

"Telegraph" Staff Reporter.

STATISTICS make

dull

reading. But a "Telc-

temporarily

graph" Staff Reporter has This photograph of a notice in delved into the welter of a shop window in Kowloon tells

its own story. figures contained in the last

Case Report issued by the

Society for the Protection of BACHELORS Children to write a story of

the most tragic phase in the GAY IN

life of Hongkong--the abject poverty and misery that con- stitute the social and econ omic conditions under which

FROM SPAIN fully three quarters of our

MUST SEE A DOCTOR

EVERY refugee, British

or alien, who lands in Britain from Spain in future will have to submit to a rigorous medical

entire population live.

SINGAPORE

THREE TO EVERY UNMARRIED GIRL

THE

MHERE ARE THREE MORE OR

LESS Because of lack of money, the BACHELORS IN SINGAPORE TO ELIGIBLE EUROPEAN

Society is impotent to deal with ¦ EVERY UNMARRIED WOMAN, AC- CORDING TO THE OFFICIAL AN- any bat the fringe of the ALYSIS OF THE CENSUS, TAKEN blanket of misery that is spread - RECENTLY,

over the slums of this Colony.

There are thousands and thousands

The area ander review covers

of cases of malnutrition in infants. Only the municipality, and if the The Society was able, fast month, toṛfigures were taken to include enough money to buy milk and Changi, and the Naval and Air other foods for 111 of these cases.

Bases they would reveal a still Disease is roonpant amongst par- ents whose only home for themselves greater discrepancy between the

TWO CURES examination on arrival, and end their entire family is one bed male and female ratios of the

FOR

INFLUENZA

CLAIMED BY SCIENTISTS

be medically examined daily afterwards, for fear that

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Z.E.K. PROGRAMME

From Z.D.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 kilocycles):

12,30-2.20 p... European Record- ed Programme,

12.30 p.m. Dance Music.

1 p.m. Time and Weather.

1,03 p.m. 1,20 p.m.

Ensemble Variety Items. "March Review Medley" by the London Palladium Orchestra.

1.30 p.m. Reuter Press, Weather, Time and Announcements.

1.10 p.m. Excerpts from Musteal Comedy,

2.10 p.m. Close Down.

5-7 p.m. A Reiny of Ten Dance Music from the Hongkong Roof-Garden.

Hotel

7 p.m. Operative Gents.

O Star of Eve-"Tannhauser" (Wagner); Even Bravest Hearts Peter

"Faust"-(Gouned) Dawson, (Bass-Baritone). Duets: (n) lutterfly is alone with the faithful Suzuki; (b) And with his heart so heavy; (e) One fine day... Rosina Buckman and Nellie Walker from "Madame Butterfly." (Puccini).

7.17 p.m. "From Foreign Lands" (Moszkownhl), pinyed by the Ber- lin State Opern Orchestra,

7.30

p.m. Closing Local Stocks Quotations, Hongkong Exchange

Tarket Report,

7.35 p.m.

A Relay from London. "The Policeman's Lot". A Tulk by an Assistant Commisaloner of Police in the British Mandated Territory of Cameroon.

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7.17 De

p.m. Four Light German Songs by Herbert Groh (Tenor).

(Werner); 1. Heidenroslein

2. Die Lorelei (Heine); 3. Only for you-Waltz Song (Doelle); 4. Water Lites (Dobrindt).

space that takes up no more room European population. in a tenement than n smal sofa in the comfortable living room of Even In Singapore itself, with its European that. But the treatment of present European population

liscases

The So- 8,338, the proportion of womeni

requires money.

poorest

The Eurasians are the only ruce in women than men. Singapore to have more unmarried The gures are 2.562 and 2,490,

they may bring infection Plety was able to provide medical mea has decreased in the lust ve years, in 1931 it was 572 to every due to the unsanitary condi-treatment for 41 cases last month.

The price of one in of cigarettes 1,400 males. To-day it is only 527. tions in parts of Spain

the total average, entire income of the 222 persons in the following the civil war.

western district of Victoria, who

of were maintained by the Society last month. Bare figures, buried in mass of statisties, cannot convey the The fact that the European com- horrible misery this means wage earners and their dependants cent. in the five years under review to the munity has increased by 27.02 per unless the Soelety comes to their is attributable almost wholly to the recent strengthening of the Defence addition of a second infantry baita-

ben Strict instructions have issued by the Ministry of Health been INFLUENZA has

to port medical offers at all the Britain conquered, claim scien-eating passenger ports' in

I ordering them to enforce this rule.

tists working in Hampstead Watched Three Weeks and in New York.

The ometal circular states that The National Institute of Medi-such passengers must be individually cal Research, Hampstead, has examined, give their

names, and been working on a new vaccine their

addresses in Britain to the and experiments have shown that

authorities, and repuri ni unee to the It gives immunity from influenza

mediral officer of health in which to animals used in tests. The ever district they intend to siny. vaccine is now ready to be used on human beings.

It is prepared in the same way as smallpox vaccine. Animals are first inoculated with influenza virus, "and"the" vaccine then prepared" from their blood.

A specialist, said:

"This is the first real advance

in the battle agabal influenza. It

has been one of the greatest pro-

blems facing medical science. In US.A. the Rockefeller Insti- tute has solved the problem in a dif- ferent way. Their vaccine

They must be kept under strict surveillance during a period of quarantine, usually three weeks.

The ordry affects people arriving not only from Spanish ports direct, but also those who have come via

1:3).

liun,

CIGArettes Equal childREN Forrex in Singapore, including the

The money an average European pays for cigarettes to last him one day, for one thirst-quencher at the hotels, or for a taxi to the Peak is the money that, Fate decrees, must sustain a human life in Hongkong for 21 days,

The average of $1.10 income per head per month of the cases deal with by the Svelety in the western part of the island does not niean that this is the lowest ilgive upon which i He is sustained in Hongkong.

races were much smalter:-Eurasiams Percentage increases among other 18.58; Indiana 14.82; Chinese 9.84; Malaysians 3.93; Others, 4.48

These increases are due to im- migration as much as to the high birth rate among the Asiatic races.

Only 40.9 of Singapore's popula tion arc natives of the city. A large proportion come from over-

kean.

Last month, the Sariery dealt with

The netual-Census-Agure obtained 27 Cases in which the recipients of

was 490,155. compared with an atd were absolutely destitute.

Their alternative to all from the estimated figure of 500,353. Tangier, Lisbon, Gibraltar and the Society was theft

Distribution of population by na- or the garbage tionalities is Frenet: frontier. The ports affected cans. No wonder that Hongkong's 347,117; Indians 47,402; Malaysians. as follows: Chinese here include Landon, Southampton, prisons are overcrowded with cases 45,077; Europeans 8,338;. Eurasions Plymouth, Harwich, Newcastle, of petty crines. Dover, Folkestone, Bristol, Cardiff,

and Newhaven. A

culture taken directly from an in-

fluenza patient.

of

It is proved a protection for ani- mus liable to the human type influenza.

Epidemler are expected to break out in Spain at any moment. The Ministry of Health most fears typhus and smallpox.

Changing India

MASS MOVE TO CHRISTIANITY

London, Oct. 10.

THE challenge of India to the churches at home is to be considered at a grent meeting in the Central Hall, Westminster, on October

8, when the Archbishop of Canterbury will preside.

Facts concerning the phenomena of the Indian muss movements to Christianity were Intely published in the "Telegraph." Yesterilay at the headquarters of the Church Missionary Society, the following figures were given:

- Some 15,000 village people, castej dispensaries, nurses, welfare work- and out-caste, are becoming Chris-¦ ers, ele. tfans every month.

Within the last Ave nears 30,000 custe people from 51 different castes have become Christians,

"It needs to be realised," said Pre-

bendary Wilson Cash, "that this is

Is

appeal for propaganda or prose- lytising purposes. Christianity now the third largest religion, in India, and the indigenous Christian

In the diocese of Doruakat alone Church in Indin is calling on us to

about 1,000,000 people are inquir-help."

ing about the Christian faith,

EARNINGS-—50,, A. YEAR

"The situation is unparalleled in Perhaps ought also to be ex- history," said Sir Cusack Walton, the plained why Indian Christians cannot society's honorary secretary. for of themselves provide all the funds India. "Caste people are coming in needed to meet the situation. because they are so convinced by

The Income of many cases for 7,151; Japanese 3,605; Others 1,375. the month of September totalled

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IN EVERY HOUSE

now

tew

cents sufficient to buy enough rice for a week.

One of the most serious deductions The poor of Kowloon and the Enst-made from the Census figures in the ern portion of the island are rich in aggravation of Singapore's housing with their unfortunate; problem in the last Ave years.. An comparison brethren in the western part of the average uf 14 persons Bre island. In Kowloon, the average crowded into each dwelling house, monthly Income of the cases dealt compared with 11,4 in 1931.

Although there has been a 44,436 with by the Society was $1.04, while in the Eastern portion of the island, population increase since 1931, the they averaged $2.43.

number of occupied houses has de- Two dollars, it is computed, will clined from 33,403 to 33, 321. buy enough husked rice to sustain In his comments on these figures, life for a month. But the rive must the Superintendent of Census, Dr. W. be the cheapest obtainable, so that Dawson, states: "The comparison to eat it is to court the dreaded beris may not be strictly accurate owing her and other discoses,

to the variation in the classification of a dwelling, but the fact remains there is now a smaller number of

STARVE TO DEATH

To an agonised Chinese mother such food means death to her babe. She can keep her own body and soul together with the daily diet, of vit minless husked rice, but she cannolį build the reserves of food in heri poor, collapsed breasts to feed her infants.

There are no birth control clinics

occupied houses."

In the

area between the Chinese Protectorate and Pulau Salgon an average of as many as 26 men, women, and children are herded together in squalid houses, many of which have only two or three rooms.

At the other end of the scale is the in Hongkong to show her the way to prevent those unwanted babies from Thomson Road area, embracing the MeRitchle Reservoir and Mount coining with such terrifying regu- larity. But where man declines to Pleasant, where there is an average teach, Nature itself takes a hand, so of only seven residents to a dwell- that more than third of the Hong-ing. kong babies born to Woman are destined to die before they reach the outside the control of the parents, age of twelve months.

but are. within the control of the With its scant supply of money, general public of Hongkong the Suclely for the Protection of alleviate. Children has, doring its years of

The Society for the Protection of service to humanity, saved count-Children is undoubtedly the most less thousands of Infant lives.

worthy charitable organisation

to

in

afford a

p.m. Time. Weather and Au- nouncements.

8.05 p.m. A Relay from the Ko Shing Theatre (Chinese). 11 p.tn. Close Down. 8.03-11

Pro- p.m. European gramme from Z. E. K. on R frequency of 640 kilocycles.

8.05 p.m. Popular Melodies by the Keyboarders.

Waltz Medley-The King Steps Out"; Fox-Trot Medley-"It's Love Again": Spanish Quick-Step Medley; Military Fox-Trot Medley,

8.18 p.m. The Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra.

Raindrops-Pizzicat} for Strings (De La Riviere); Oriental Dance- Novelty Duet (White); Carlsbad Doll Dance (Plier); Intermezzo Pizzicato -Strings (Montague-Birch).

8.32 p.m. A Recital by Norman Allin (Bass) and Jascha Heifetz (Violin).

1. Violin Soto-La plus Que Lent -Waltz (Debussy): 2 Songs-The Midnight Review (Glinka): Edward, (Loewe); 3. Violin Solo Caprice Op. 1, No, 24. (Paganini); 4. Sengs True till Death (Scott Gnity);. The King's Own (Bonteur),

p.m. News and Announcements from London.

920 p.m. Greta Keller (Vocal) Val Rosing (Vocal), Guitar Duets -Ferers and Paaluhi.

1. Song Would You? ("San Francisco").. Greta Keller; 2. Instrumental Chiquita Waltz; 3. Songs-A little Door, a little Lock. a little Key; A Penny in my Pocket Val Rosing: 4. Instrumental- Jonolulu March; 5. Songs-Light Out: These Foolish Things.....

... Greta Keller: 6 Song-Ask your heart

Val Rosing; 7. Instrumental- o Sole mlo.

9.50 p.m. Fifty Years of Song played on the Organ by Terance Casey.

10 p.m. London. Big Ben, Daner Music.

11 p.m. Close Down.

DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES

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Frequency

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Wavelength 49.5 metres 31.5 metres matres

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LINH

9.810 h...

GSC

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11,845 ..

G&P

11,140 ..

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$1,100.

GAN

22,470 k.ee

GAI

15,144 k..

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21,640 k.. 6,110 ..

métres

metres 19.42 TOTTEN 16. maires

13.97 metres metres 19,40 JAPË THE 4.10 mei

Transmission. I

(0.8.D., G.8.B.)

3.18 p.m. Ben. The Music of Mozart. 1.69 p.es, Talke "Relentls!s at Work." 4.10 p.m. World for Bele."

445 pm The News and Announcements,

Greenwich Time Signal at 3 p.m.

Transmission 2

(0.8.0., 0.9.11.) 7 p.m. Hen, "To the West! To the

We' 131 p.m. "The Policeman's Lot," 7.47 p.m. Hayds. Heard And bia and

Cinema, Ignin, 'the West. End Birmingham.

Withers

3.39 pm. A Iteeltal by Spencer Thomas (Tenor) Anderbert (Violoncella). Greenwich Tima Bignal at 9 p.m.

1.

The News and Announcementa. 9.10 p.m. The BILC, Danco' Orchent.

It has given to the thousands of Hongkong. That it must lock funds hables of our poorest people the in its struggle against our greatest opportunity to attain adulthood social crime is a sad commentary on and start off on an equal fooling the people of the Colony as a whole. in the eternal struggle for exis-

8.16 p.m. Variety. The Society has many benevolent supporters and many regular con- Charges of cruelty have often been tributors The village Christian is supposed

Jevelled against the Chinese. But, But there are thousands of people compared with the cases dealt with in Hongkong who could to be able to keep himself and his the change in the out-castes which family, to procure wives for his sons, in England, the people who come in minute part of their earnings to help results from the acceptance of the to build his own hause, to pay his contact with the S.P.C, are paragons, it in its fight against poverty and Christian mesango. In fact, this debts (borrowing money is almost

In the average" of almost 400 children disease. change is bringing more easie people inevitable in Indian life), to help dealt with each month by the Society, Into the Christian community. thinn support his teacher and pastor, and

there have rarely been enges of 111- any other agency,"

build his house of worship, and to

Treatment and, in fact, it is many months now since the Snelety, ling contribute towards the missionary netivities of his church.

hnd cause to take netion in this re- spect.

Because its ordinary grants are wholly inadequate to

meet

the emergency, the C.M.S. is, seeking to

And the average annual income of

rolse un additional '£25,000 to pro- the said vilinge Christian is roughlý vide teachers, travelling duelors und 508.1

POVERTY AND DISEASE

Nearly all of the eases are of poverty or disease, causes which arc)

The sum at one dollar could

conceivably mean sufficient susten- ance for an infant to lie it over the dangerous first twelve months of its existence. A contribution of one dollar a month would assured- ly mean the saving of at least one Infant otherwise doomed by the `inexorable law of Nature to death.

Transmission 3

((1,8.G.. 0.8.F., G.B.H.)

10 p.m.. Big lien. Arthur Ballsbury and

his Orchestra.

10.15 p.m.

Variety

10.35 pm. The D.1.C. Midland Orchestra. 11.15 p.m. Tilght Pianoforte Musle, 11,45 p.m. "Binilight.""*"

Greenwich Time Blená) at 11 am,

12 m. Harry Farmer, at the Organ of

The Granada, Trolina.

17.30 m. The News and Announcers esta. 11.50 a.m. The Hotel Victoria Orchestra.

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