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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1936.

FOREIGN HELP

'IN SPAIN

Whatever may be the precise truth regarding the nature and extent of outside intervention in Spain, there is littic room for doubt that not only are foreign vessels carrying arms into that country, but there are at the mo-

These Names Make News

Captured Hongkong Artist Who Sketched Bandits

Once captured by bandic, Wour Siu-ling is shown with His Excellency the Governor, who admired his pictures.

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

fried £30,000 for committing aw In December, 1910 came news of offence against atiquette. The oc- ension was when the Duke Imagined he caught an insulting Jook from a Colonel Colepepper in the presence chamber and prompt- ly challenged the Colonel to a duel. The challenge was not accepted und the Duke struck the man with a cane. The fine was Inter can- celled by King William after the Duke bad served a term of Im- prisonment in the King's Bench, World Expert Comes

the outbreak of pneumonic plague in Manchuria where the local officials and old-style physicians wère helpless in the presence of the rapidly growing number of vltima. Political complications". also threatened from, Japan and Russia and Dr. Wu was despatched to Harbin to deal with the out- break.

To Hongkong

When 00,000 lives were lost in the Manchurian Plague Epidemic of 1910-11, it was left to a Wess tern-trained Chinese, Dr. Wa Lien- teh, to stem the outbreak and establish facilities for fighting future outbreaks of the dreaded disease.

Last night Dr. Wu, M.A., M.B., LL.D., D. Litt., D.Sc., and holder of a number of high foreign de corations, actressed the Hous- kong University Medical Scclety on "The new medicine and its Impact on ancient Chinese medical practice."

the 65 years since he was born In

́. It was a unique experience and gave him the opportunity that 'coines' to 'few in a life time, ‹-Vir- tually commander-in-chief of the area he gave orders to military. and civilians alike, and finally de- manded Imperial permission to eremate over 3,000 plague-infected corpses Permisulon was granted. and four weeks afterwards the plague had died.

That epidemic was far-reaching in its benefits as hospitals; Insti tations of un advanced nature- were set up in China and Western medicine was officially recognised. Hammond Was Also

In China

W. R. Hammond, on whom, England relies in the Test Malches down under. He holds some records.

of alleged "Lourdes cure" no natural or ro- to verify that It is newa to me that W. I medial process was involved, the Hummond, now doing great things most sceptical must be convinced. Dr. Wu now pends his time "down under," apent much of his Now, Dr. Sherry is devoting making bi-annual inspections of boyhood in China. His father was himself to the welfare of the lapers the quarantine atations at Shang- a soldier and served in the Far at Sun Wu, Kongmoon, where over 150 unfortunates are at pre- hal, Amoy and Canton, but during East for some years.

When in 1933, Walter Reginald went being eared for by Fathers Penang, his life has been un Hammond, famous Gloucestershire of the Maryknoll Miesian,

and England cricketer, scored 336 Educated at Belvedere College usually full of international ex- perience. His father was a native not out against New Zealand at and St. Gall's Catholic University of Taishan and crossed the scas

Auckland, he established a record School, Dublin; elected Ocuncillor 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 Council Schools; Chairman of 'the of the Hakins. From Penang bats of a decade, Free School, Wu Lien-teh won the As England's greatest all Finsbury Children's Care Com Queen's Scholarship which took rounder he is now their main hope mittee; Justice of the Fence 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 scholarships and enabled him to forge to a premier gigantic scores that have come to Loos, served on many fronts; made position in the medical world. be associated with Bradman's visits to Lourdes followed by

name.

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 of four centures in successive, Cite Lourdes.

Dr. Sherry investigated the cure matches: M.C.C. v. West Austra lia, 141; v. Combined Australia, of Pierre de Brider of Stehille, 107; v. South Australia, 104 and Belgium, in 1902 and published pamphlet an one of the most amay- As a boy, Hammond played his ing phenomena seen ut Lourdes:

Cirencester Grammar School, of the cure was so reliable. Gloucester, sporting headmaster

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In the squalid clinical work of London he found much to open his eyes to the sufferings of the poor, and attacked his studies with re- towed energies In April, 1902 he was the only medica T}}-

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Wong gained special favour by the cleverness of his art for he would take a charcoal brand from the fire and draw portraits of his Incidentally, he drew a captors.

useful to the police later, for when ers, many of them bearing arms, the boys were eventually

ench, Wong's on Spanish soil. The Madrid somed for $500

sketch was suficient guide to re- Government has frankly admitted Russian armed, assistance in its ult in the capture of the bandits, period of five and a quarter years, frst games against a shed, but at more amazing because the evidence

Born ut Tunushun. Worr was battles with the insurgents, whilst educated at there are known to be large num-Ionekong, and is now

as an artist of calibre. Ancestor Was Fined

230,000

Wah Yan College.

recognised.

who entered in 1896, to quanly wa M.B. and B.Sc. within the short

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Dr. Wu Llen-teh is recognised world authority on pneumonic plague. He gained distipetlon, that few Western medical men can claim.

|bers of French and Germana, variously described as "volun- tcers" and "emigrants" on the scene. These facts graphically To a state just cclebrating ith illustrate the danger of a civil war first centenary, goes an English developing into a major conflagra-Marquis whose family traces itself

to the first. Duke of Devonshire... tion through the process of out-elevated to that rank in 1691. side. nations...taking sides-in-an-

The state a South Australin, 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 regard is to consult with Antipodean in- continues to become aggravated,dustrialists in his capacity of Under-Secretary for the Diming there might be the prospect of ions. armed foreigners facing each I have an idea that Australians other on the field of battle. In will like Lord Hartington whom I met frequently in Derbyshire other words, an interrational con- when reporting his Parliamentary flict might be started on neutral campaigns and "county" occasions, Tall, quiet and modest, he is at yoil. Such a turn of events is the age of 41 shaping to follow Ilustrious administrative terrible to contemplate, but, unless the

career of his father. The family stringent measures are taken to are owners of rast interests in the prevent it, the fear may easily Midlands in which is situated the become a reality. As the outside to cl-ewhere as having been de lovely Chatsworth estate referred

Returning to the Straits in 1903 he acquired a healthy bank balance observer watches developments, signed by Sir Joseph Paxton. Lord and found time to work for anil the thought which immediately Hartington is souled In Industrial opium cauges. His first visit to data and can bring a ready sym- China resulted in a happy meeting suggests itself is that all the appre-pathy to Colonial problems in with Viceroy Yuan Shih-kai and hension is caused as a consequence that connection..

the offer of a job but illness inter of other nations taking sides in have enabled Lord Hartington to in

His experiences in the Midlands veaed and when Dr. Wu returned Spain's internal upheaval. If the take the "haw out-of haughty banished.

1908 the Viceroy had been Spaniards were left to fight out with a grace which makes one more aware of the man than ef their own troubles, there would be the Peer. far less cause for international an-

He was educated at Eton and Cambridge, served in Egypt, the xiety than there is at present. Dardaneles and France (men- Not that the civil war would | tioned twice in despatches); went necessarily be curtailed-for there into the Intelligence, War Office, British Mission to Paris, and was seems the prospect of many years a Member of the British Peaco of strife and turmoil in Spain-Delegation to Paris in 1919. but the danger of a big European tington is an M.B.E., Chevalier, of Amongst other things, Lord Har-

war would certainly be averted. the Legion of Honour. Britain is placing the strictest ban of the 4th. Marquis of Salisbury married to the daughter

on the shipment of arms to the and has two sona and two

daughters. trouble centre, and is most anxious The first Duke of Devonshire that the Non-Intervention Com-iwas a Privy Councillor to Charles mittee shall take up the question II; opposed the arbitrary govern of prohibiting foreign volunteers ment of James II and was orice from taking an 'activé part in the 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 corned to reduce this "volunteer which calls for serious notice. evil to a minimum.

Ho

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saw hle capabilities and put his Crystal Palace

name down for the County. After

his one appearance, Kent County,

where Hammond was born, raised

Burnt Down

an objection and he had to prac- The disappearance of Crystal tice cricket and play football for Palace on Tuesday In a gigantic Bristol Rovers while acquiring re- bonfire that lighted up the world's sidential unification.

Kreatest City for miles arcund,

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

position of eminence in his fickt,

He has scored two double cen- are appropriate here. turies in Buccession.

Doctor Testifies

To Miracles

Born at Milton Bryant, Bedford- shira, 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 man of the Duke's Chatsworth catatd. Kelence testify to a miracle? Having had the pleasure of going On Wednesday I eat with several round the mugnificent park and hundreds of Intensely interested gardens there myself,

I can say men and women of all degrees and that to this day the grounds give nationalities and listened to John pleasure to thousands of people Joseph Aloysius Sherry, holding a who take advantage of the Duke's degree of the Royal College of kindness in, throwing them open Surgeons and many distinguished frequently during the year. medical diplomas, nasert with In 1836. Paxton began the eree- plous carnestness that he had seen tion of the 300-feet long conser- cases of supernatural healing at vatory which served as a model for Lourdes.

the Great Exhibition building. years Inter Crystal whose Threa a man word carries conviction and when Palace was begun. Encyclopaedias I add that for five years he served say, that Paxton's most interesting on the Bureau des Constatationes design was that for the mansion Medicales, a cosmopolitan body of of Baron James de Rothschild at

Ferrieres in-France but he laid the- doctors who examine every case

plans of many wonderful buildings and showed his versatility by or ganising the Army Works Corps of the Crimea, becoming, a very able railway manager and an en- terprising floriculturist. He presented the Liberal Interests for Sydenham, where Crystal Palace atanda, from 1854 till his death 11 years later. A fellow of the Lin- nean Society, he was made a knight of the order of St. Vladimir by the Czar of Russia,

Dr. Sherry is

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According to a local speaker,! And so they've been night-firing rifo 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.

Crystal Palace was remarkable even in this contury for the fact that it was built of Iron and glass almost exclusively. Rising to a hoight of 175 feet it dominated" Sydenham and much of south Lon-

0 D It's gratifying to know that the

"The latest thing in ladies' Government is determined to save shorts", says an advertisement.

don. It measured 1,608 in length something, even if it's only day. Legs, we presume.

by 384 foot across the transepts :: So the streets are to be flushed and cost nearly £1,500,000 to build. light.

week Isle of Fragrant As a palace for permanent, exhi Who says English cricketers once a

bitione, It attracted annually many aren't well treated in Australia? Streams! They had two ducks beore lunch "Fascist Claws Over Madrid," staged concerts and pantomimes. thousands of visitors and also .O yesterday.

says headline. Once again you're England's premier sporting attrac From 1894 till 1914, the-final-of talon ust"

tion, Association football, waż mine hasnan liva in stirring times, as the fought, in its extensiva grounds.

!! Parker "Pop"

Hongkong's new Naturally, when there's aliver in chef ald as he got on with the exceedingly bright: prospects. |

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