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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1938,

FOREIGN HELP

These Names Make News

Captured Hongkong Artist Who Sketched Bandits

Oncr captured by bandits. Wong Slu-Hug is shown with His Excellency the Governor "who admired his pictures.

WHEN Wong Sia-ling, whose

exhibition of art at the Hotel Cecil ended yesterday was 14, he and 27 boys of Sun Wui City. Canton, were captured by bandits and held for ransom for [eight long months. During that time, the boys had a hard time, eat and suffered very little to such exposure and starvation that three of them died.

Wong guined special favour by of his art for he the cleverness would take a charcnal brand from the fire and draw portraits of his Incidentally, he drew a captors. sketch of the camp which proved useful to the police later, for when the

boys were eventually 1*11- for $5,000 each, Wong's somed sketch was sufcient guide to re-

IN SPAIN

Whatever may be the precise truth regarding the nature and extent of outside intervention in for Spain, there is little room doubt that not only are Toreign vessels carrying arms into that country, but there are at the mo- ment many thousands of foreign ers, many of them bearing arms, on Spanish soil. The Madrid Government has frankly admitted Russian armed assistance in its ult in the capture of the bandits. Rorn at Tungshin, Wong way battles with the-insurgents,whilst educated at Wah Yan-College.... there are known to be large num-as an artist of calibre..

Hongkong, and is now recognised

bers of French and Germans,

Ancestor Was Fined variously described as "volun- teers" and "emigrants" on the scene. These facts graphically

To

a state just celebrating its illustrate the danger of a civil war first centenary, goes an English developing into a major conflagra-to the first Duke of Devonshire. Marquis whose family traces itself tion through the process of out-elevatest to that rank in 1894. side nations taking sides in an

The state is South Australia, internal-dispute. It only-needs-a-founded-100-years ago, and the moment's reflection to perceive visitor is Lord Hartington, heir of the Duke of Devonshire, who that if the situation in this regards to consult with Antipodean in- continues to become aggravated, dustrialists in his capacity of there might be the prospect of ions.

Under-Secretary for the Demin-

urmed foreigners facing each I have an idea that Australians other on the field of battle. will like Lord Hartington whom

In

other words, an international con-

£30,000

I met frequently in Derbyshire

when reporting his Parliamentary

fined £30,000 for committlig an offence against etiquette. The oc- casion was when the Duke imagined he caught un insulting look from a Colonel Colepupper in the presence chamber and prompt ly challenged the Colonel to a duel. The challenge was not accepted and the Dile struck the man with a cane. The fine was later can- celled by King William after the Duke had served a term of im prisonment in the King's Bench, World Expert Comes

To Hongkong

When 60,000 lives were lost in the Manchurian Plague Epidemic of 1910-11. It was left to a weś tern-trained Chinese; Dr. Wu Lien- tch, to stem the outbreak and establish facilities for fighting future outbreaks of the dreaded

disease.

Last night Dr. Wo, M.A., M.B., LL.D., D. Lt.. D.Sc., and holder of a number of high foreign de corations, addressed the long- kong University Medical Society on "The new medicine and its impact on ancient Chinese medical practice."

Dr. W now spends his time making bl-annual Inspections of the quarantine stations at Shang-

In December. 1910 came nows of the entbreak of pueumonic plague in Manchuria where the local officials and old-style physicians were helpless in the presence of the capidly growing number ol. victims. Political complications also threatened from Japan and Russia and Dr. Wu waa despatched to Harbin to deal with the out- break.

It was a unique experience and gave him the opportunity that comes few in a life time. Vir- tually commander-in-chief of the aren he gave orders to military and civilians alike and finally de- munded Imporlal permission to cremate over 3,000 plague-infected corpses. Permission was granted and

four weeks afterwards the plague had died."

in its benefits as hospitals: insti- That epidemic was far-reaching tutions of an advanced nature. Avere set up in Chian and Western medicine was officially recognised.

Hammond Was Also

In China

R.Hammond...ou._whom.. England relies in tho Teat Matches down under, He holds some recorda.

of alleged "Lourdes cure". to verify that no natural or re It is news to me that W. R. mattal process

was involved, the Hammond, now doing great things most sceptical must be convinged. "down under," spent much of his

Now, Dr. Sherry is devoting "boyhood in China. His father was himself to the welfare of the lepers a soldier and served in the Par at Sun Wu, Kongmoon, where East for some years.

over 150 unfortunates are at pre-

bai, Amos and Canton, bat during

When in 1933, Walter Reginald sent being cared for by Fathers the 55 years since he was born in

un Hammond, famous Gloucestershire of the Maryknoll Miralon, Penang. his life has been

full of International ex- and England cricketer, scored 336

Educated at Belvedere College sually perience. His father was a native not out against New Zealand at and St. Gall's Catholic University of Taishan and crossed the seas Auckland, he established a record School, Dublin; elected Councillor to find his fortune. Typically, his Test Match score which marked of Finsbury in 1904; Manager of mother belonged to the sturdy race

him as one of the outstanding the London County. Contiell of the Hakkas. From Penny bata of a decade.

Schools; Chairman of the Free School, Wa Lien-teh won the As England's greatest

all Finsbury Children's Care Com- rounder he is now their main hope mittee; Justice of the Pence Queen's Scholarship which took him to Cambridge and from then In the Tests with Australia and of the County of London, 1909; hard work, is their only hope of offsetting the wounded at Salonica, gassed at on scholarships and enabled him to forge to a premier gigantic scores that have come to Loos, served on many fronts; made

be associated position in the medical world.

Bradman's visits to Lourdes followed by lectures the proceeds of which In pre-Test matches Hammond enabled the building of a church- loosened his shoulders to the tune at L'Orphelinat de Sante Marie in successive Cito' Lourdes, of four ventures matches: M.C.C-v-West-Austra---Dr Sherry-investigated the cure. lin, 141; v. Combined Australia, of Pierre de Rudder of Stahllle. 107; v. South Australia, 104 and Belgium, in 1902 and published pamphlet où one of the most aniaz- As a boy, Hammond played his Ing phenomena seen at Lourdes: first games against a shed, but at more amazing because the evidence Cirencester Grammar School, of the eure was so reliable, Gloucester, a sporting headmaster

In the squalid clinical work of London he found much to open his eyes to the suferings of the poor, and attacked his studies with re newed energies. In April, 1902 he was the only medical student of Cambridge, out of a class of 136, who entered in 1898, to qualify us M.B. and B.St. within the short

period of five and a quarter years.

Dr. Wu Lien-leh

recognised World authority on pneumonic plague. He gained distinction that few Western

flet might be started on neutral campaigns and "county" occasions,

联想 Tall, quiet and modest, he is at soil. Such a turn of events is the age of 41 shaping to follow terrible to contemplate, but, unless the Illustrious administrative stringent measures are taken to are owners of vast interests in the

medical men can claim. career of his father: The family

prevent it, the fear may easily Midlands in which is situated the lovely Chatsworth estate referred

name.

106.

with

saw his capabilities and put his Crystal Palace

name down for the County. After

his one appearance, Kent County,

where Hammond was born, raised

Burnt Down

'on objection and he had to prac- The disappearance of Crystal tice cricket and play football for Palace on Tuesday in a gigantie Bristol Rovers while, acquiring.re bonfire that lighted up the world's aldential qualification.

greatest City for miles around, At his next appearance in 1923, was a fitting finale to a wonderful he made 110. Fine bowler and structure. fielder, catching-10 batamen out in The calamity recalls to mind the one match against Surrey at Chel- designer, famous Sir Joseph Pax- tenham in 1928, Hammond has ton (1801-1865) and a fow details played against Australia. South of the humble architect-and-orna- Africa, New Zealand, West Indies mental gardner who rose to a und India.

position of eminenco in his field,

He has scored two double cen- are appropriate hore. turies in succession.

Doctor Testifies

To Miracles

Born at Milton Bryant, Bedford- shire, he early displayed a genius for garden artistry which found him employment in the arboretum at the Duke of Devonshire's real- dence at Chiswick, and later at Have you ever heard a mum of the Duke's Chatsworth estate. selence testify to a miraclo? Having had the pleasure of going On Wednesday I sat with several round the magnificent park and hundreds of intensely interested gardens there myself, I can say ' men and women of all degrees and that to this day the grounda give nationalties and listened to John pleasure to thousands of people Joseph Aloysius Sherry, holding a who take advantago of the Duke's degree of the Royal College of kindness in throwing them open Surgeons and many distinguished frequently during the year. become a reality. As the outside to elsewhere as having been de he acquired a healthy bank balance plous earnestness that he had seen'tion of the 300-feet long conner-

with assert Returning to the Straits in 1903 medical diplomas,

In 1836, Paxton began the erec observer watches developments, signed by Sir Joseph Paxton. Lord and found time to work for anti-

cases of supernatural healing at vatory which served as a model for the thought which immediately Hartington is soaked in industrial opium causes.

the His first visit to

Lourdes.

Great Exhibition building. suggests itself is that all the appre-pathy to

data and can bring a ready sym- China resulted in a happy meeting Dr. Sherry is

whose Three успев later a man

Crystal Colonial problemen with Viceroy Yuan Shih-kai and word carries conviction, and when Palace was begun. Encyclopaedias Insion is caused as a consequence that connection.

the offer of a job bit illness inter I add that for five years he surveday-that-Paxton's most interestini of other nations taking aides in have enabled Lord Hartington to

His experiences in the Midlands vened and when Dr. Wu returned on the Bureau des Constatationes design was that for the mansion Spain's internal upheaval. If the take

of Baron James de Rothschild at been Medicafes, a cosmopolitan body uf Forrieres in France but he laid the the "haw" out of haughty, banished.

In 1908 the Viceroy had

doctors who examine every case plans of many wonderful buildings Spaniards were left to fight aut with a grace which makes one more aware of the man than of their own troubles, there would be the Peer. far less cause for international an- xiety than there is at present. Not that the civil war would necessarily be curtailed--for there seems the prospect of many years of strife and turmoil in Spain- but the danger of a big European war would certainly be averted, Britain is placing the strictest ban of the 4th Marquis of Salisbury He is married to the daughter

on the shipment of arms to the and has two sons and two trouble centre, and is most anxious daughters.

The first Duke of Devonshire that the Non-Intervention Com- was a Privy Councillor to Charles mittee shall take up the question II; opposed the arbitrary govern- of prohibiting foreign volunteersment of James II and was once from taking an active part in the

He was educated at Eton and Cambridge, served in Egypt, the Dardanelles and France (men- tloned twice in despatches); went into the Intelligence, War Offee, British Mission to Paris, and was Member of the British Peace Delegation Paria in 1919. Amongst other things, Lord Har- tington is an M.B.E., Chevalier of the Legion of Honour,

to

civil war. It is conceded that Given the will strictly to observe this question falls outside the non-intervention in all its aspects, scope of the non-intervention there can be no questioning the agreement, as at present defined, powers of the Governments con- but the matter is obviously one cerned to reduce this "volunteer which calls for serious notice. evil to a minimum.

BULLS AND INNERS

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From the Office Butts

According to a local speaker,| And so they've been night-firing rile shooting is "a form of re at Stanley. That must be another liable to wreck creation. creation.". Some people think it's risk of being a Legislative Council-

lor,

once

and showed his versatility by or ganising the Army Works Corps of the Crimen, becoming a very able railway manager and an en- terprising floriculturist. He re- presented the Liberal interests for Sydenham, where Crystal Palace stands, from 1854 till his death 11 years lator. A fellow of the Lin- nean Sobiety, he was made a knight of the order of St. Vladimir by the Czar of Russia.

Crystal Palace was remarkable even in this century for the fact that It was built of fron und glass ☐ ៦.

almost exclusively. Rising to a "The Intest thing in ladies height of 175 feet it dominated It's gratifying to know that the Government is determined to save shorts" says an advertisement, Sydenham and much of south Lon- don. It measured 1,608 in length something, even if it's only day. Legs, wa presume.

by 384 feet across the transepta light."

So the streets are to be flushed and cost nearly £1,500,000′to build. week, Isle of Fragrant As a palace for permanent exbi- Streams!

bitlong, it attracted annually many thousands of visitors. and also "Fascist Claws Over Madrid," staged concerts and pantomimes. says headline. Once again you're From 1894 till 1914, the final of ជ

talon ust

England's premier sporting attrac- Hongkong's now mine ha8

tion, Association- football, was turally when there's sliver in chef said as he got on with the excoedingly bright prospects. We live in stirring times, as the fought in Its extensive grounds.

Christmas puddings.

"Pop" Parker

Who says English cricketers They had two ducks beore lunch aren't well treated in Australia? yesterday.

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