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THE HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,

JANUARY

Septuagenarian Who Fought The Dreaded Bubonic Plague

FATHER OF THE SANITARY BOARD

SIR BOSHAN WEI-YUK WAS PUBLIC-SPIRITED

CHINESE LEADER

By T. Paul Gregory

DISTINGUISHING FEATURE OF HONGKONG'S "SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC LIFE IS THE SPLENDID SPIRIT OF CO-OPERATION AND MUTUAL INTERDEPENDENCE WHICH HAS BEEN DEVELOPED AMONGST ITS CITIZENS,

This laudable state of affairs, however, has been of slow and halting growth; for it has not been easy to foster such a truly democratic outlook amongst such a highly cosmopolitan populace.

The difficulty is more apparent when we consider that 96.7 per cent, of the total population is Chinese; whilst the remaining 3.3 per cent, is a minority composed of many races and religious beliefs.

The Chinese community, too,Indeed, be ranka As one of those whilst numerically the largest, uble-spirited citizens

of his race tras not always taken an interestpital and the Po Leung Kuk- who instituted the Tung Wah Hou- the development of the institutions which in their present Colony; for it was only due to form have become of exceed-

in

SIR BOSHAN WEI-YUK

VOLTS FROM THE BLUE

She Asked

· 1938.

RADIO BROADCAST

Too Much Beethoven Symphony No. 3

By PAUL HOLT

In E Flat Major

LONDON RELAYS

H.K.T.

12.0 upon

Relay of service

of

Radio Programme broadenst by Alexander Korda and zaw on Frequencies of 845 k.c's. Sam Goldwyn lost a £1,200,-0.52 m.e's per second. 000 film deal that would have given them absolute intercession from St. John's Cathedral. control of United Artists be- 12.30 p.m. Loudon cause they would not agree Ito the conditions laid down

by Mary Pickford.

They offered her money and shares In the new company, but the clash came when she asked, as part of the deal, a power in the new conduct of

+ the company.

Orchestra.

Palladium

Marche Symphonique (Savino); Japanese Carnival (de Basque); Kiss Me Again (Herbert); Live, Laugh and

Congress Love (from film Dances); Old Vienna Moon (Zadowski); Mald of the Mountains-

The Waltz (Fraser-Simson); Katja Dancer-Waltz (Gilbert).

12,51 Reginald Foort (Organ),

Rhythm"Medley; So ends u tome of financial poker "Transatlantic

for home at once; Korda salls he'll be here for Chelatinas.

the offorts of certain far-sighted tg value to the welfare of Hong- Power By Radio that has gone on now for two months. Palace Theatre Metiley.

tu

These

keng's Chinese masses.

до

Four nailons are to-day battling to be first in the field with the per- fection of the latest wonder of science-the transmission of power by wireless.

1.0 Time and Weather,

Future of United Artists is still undecided. Charle Chaplin may fake control. The company may Bink up with another great producing | (Grieg); organisation.

.

1.03 De Great and His Orchestra, "Gipsy Love" Selection (Lebar); When the Great Red Dawn i Shining (Sharpe); Kinetin (Geehl); Homance (Rubinstein); I Love You Bohemienne Chanson (Boldi); On a Dreamy Summer Night (Krome): In The Night (Tale).

1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press; Weather and Announcements.

1.40 Gracie Fields and London Plano Accuralcon Band.

Governors that the lenders of this important group were on-

Public Life couraged to co-operate with the

His public spirit was noteworthy, Government in the promotion and he served on practically every of their mutual interests. Con- committee organised during a period sequently, amongst those Chin-of well over fifty years. He was the

They are Brilain, the United ose who were thus encouraged Chairman of the Tung Wah Hospital States, Italy and Germany.

COMING HOME Committer, 1881-83, and again from to exert a volee in the local 1888-90, and, in addition, from the Professor A. M. Low, who has been Laat night I talked to Alexander administration are those prominent cominencement of his public career investigating this possibility for Korda on the Transatlantic tele-! figures of A generation since until his retirement, he served on all several years, has revealed the stage phone to tellywood. He took the the Hon.

Mr. Wong Shing. Str the commissions appointed by the to which experiments had already failure of his deal, which would have

Good Evening. Pretty Lady:-Buck Kai Ho-kat and Dr. Wu Ting loent administration to enquire into been carried,

made him key man in the inter-in Thear old Kentucky Days..... Lang.

men, -471 account matters affecting his community. In

national Alm game, with power to Accordeon Band; What Archibald their praiseworthy elforts particular, Sir Boshan devoted him- "Every time you use your wireless cute terms for his Aims on both Says, Goes (Castling); Falling in achieve understanding amongst self to the cause of law and order set power is broadcast," he explained, slice of the Atlantic, most philoso. Love Again (from him "The Blue An the cosmopolitan elements of our and rendered much useful service to "The great deully to be overcome

....Vocal; Rosalie; Our Days Rel")....** phically. Colony, have

Together: My Lucky Day... their terms Britain rendered

in connection with the is the volume of power which can be of service on the Legislative Council negotiations between the

....Accordeon Band; Holiday Hits Govern- transmitted. most glorious.

Medley; There'll Never be Another of Hongkong and that of

You; One Night in Monte Carlo..... There is, however, another eminent Kwangtung for the pacifying of the

Accordeon Band. Chinese, inhabitants of the New Chinese of this period, of whom Territories at the time of its cession

2.15 p.m. Close Down. can be justly said that "his inherent

-6.00 to 7.00 p.m. to the Crown upon a 00 years lease good qualities, his loyalty 10 the

in 1898. Government, his devotion to duty

"Recent tests made by Tesla, the and his whole-hearted. support of The interest which he displayed in Italian Inventor, have brought everything that was conducive to the the promotion of law and order was great leap forward. welfare of the Colony" won for such that be advocated the founding "Eventually the 'projection ut the esteem and sincere «respect of j

of the Hongkong District Watchmen's power by radio will be accomplished all.

Force. The importance of this law-through a network of transmission that well-known per-upholding body was fully realised by stations dotted over the country. This was

Sir Francis Henry May who stated sonality-Sir Boshan Wei-yuk-o man who was prominently identified that when he (Sir Francis) was thic

Captain-Superintendent with the business netivities of the Colony and took a great interest in public work, serving the Chinese community for many years on the Legislative Council, on which he did much useful and valued service.

Sir Boahan Wei-yuk was born at Hongkong in 1849 and died at his residence in Wungneichong. Happy Valley, on December 16, 1921.

The ancestrul teat of his family.

the was

district of Heungshau

ment

'GREAT LEAP FORWARD'

I said: What are you going to do now, Alex? Will you come home?

KORDA: a calling at once. "Not long ago. Marconi lold me he Is there a possibility that you will believed that radio power trans-link up with another company, now inläsion was a distluct possibility.

this that plan of yours has failed?

KORDA: Well, I don't know yet.gramme.

a

i

wood?

Chinese Pro

Ballroom

I have no plans at the moment.

7.0 Dance Records. Have you not been negotiating, Slow Foxtrot-You passed me By;

Only

George while you have been in California: Tango-Once

Quick- KORDA: Well, I am having dif- Boulanger and His Orch.

the Moon- step-A sailboat in ferent concertists, out in Holly light; Waliz-Moonlight Valley Hoers

And

When Are they very much scared Victor Silvester and his at the way things are going to-day? Orchestra. Foxtrol Smile "They will pick up power from

KORDA: There was a time token you Say Goodbye... Jay Wilbur

and his Band. one or more central stations of the theatre revenues dropped ten,

7.15 London Relay "Tako Your tremendous, power, By increasing fifteen per cent, and the cost of mak--

Choice." and voltages

frequencies to aning pictures was going up very rapid-

A weekly variety entertainment enormous extent it will be possible 1. The Chinese Government was also to overcome the problem of distance, 500,000 and £600,000, and every

They made pictures which cost feature presented by William Mac-

Lurg indebted to him on many occasions, "Ships at sea would be propelled picture cost more than a quarter of along AL radio 'Jane' of power, acroplanes would have their electric million. Now, the price has been motors fed by wireless in a similar cut down here and there, but still the

picture

companies out here' are spending more than they ever spent in their lives.

of Police Boshin rendered services which shall never forget and for which shall always be grateful.

for his efforts in securing the ex- tradition of Cantonese criminals who had attempted to find sanctuary in the Coleny.

Public Health Efforts

mtanker.

"Ilumes could be warmed, and -even-clothes-heated-fil winter, "by During the dreaded outbreak of radio power on tap from a central (Chungshan) contiguous 10 Macao, bubonic plague In Hongkong In station." and the first of the line to selile in 1004, Sir Boshan exerted every

the Colony was Sir Boshan's father, effort to gain the co-operation of the

Wel Kwong. This gentleman way Chinese masses by recommending the NEW THRILL

during the time

measures in the

Colony that he has been regarded as the "Father of the present Sani- tary Board.""

FOR AMERICAN SUICIDES

Boshan's strictest observation of matters of boyhood an influential figure in the sanitation. So successful was his business world of the Colony, being work in the advocacy of more! the compradore of the Chartered thorough Sunitary Mercantile Bank of India, London and China, which is now known as the Mercantile Bank of India, Ltd. His father's wealth enabled Sir Boshan to secure a well-rounded education, Ile was privately tutored in the Chinese Classics for ten years, and later was sent to the Gover alum sections in the Chinese quarter, six-shooter.

ment Central School in order to

obtain the fundamentals of a Western education.

After the subsidejce of the epidemic, the general public of the Colony, in token of his herole and

Logan, Utah,

"Are they going on spending all that money?

7.45 London Relay-A theme and Song.

This week "Food" Songs The Boy, The Girl, and the Trio, with Joe Marais and his Bond.

7.55 Foxtrol-Girls were made to love and kiss: Waltz-Love Live for Jack Ever and Rule my Heart Hylton and his Orchestra. KORDA: The earnings of the pic- 6.00 Local Time Signal and Wea- ture companies ure very good.ther Report. Metro-Goldwyn, they have a prosti

the 8.03 Studio-Doreen Ma at

of millions, so have For-Twentieth | Plano. Century.

1. Angel; 2. "Supposin" More

This deal falling through, will that Power to You (By special request);

make any difference to the pletures

will make in England?

you wi

KORDA: None. I shall go ahead.

All I wanted when i came out here,

a

3. Things are Locking Up: 4. If it

Isn't Love; 5. Night Over Shanghal.

8.18 Songs by Lucienne Boyer and Tino Rossi

Les Prenoms Effaces (Tranchant); as Sam Goldwyn seanted, was greater influence in the management Estampe Marocaine (Jeanne Bos.) Lucienne Boyer. Loin des and distribution of my picturesultad

hercalcan efforts in cleaning up the new diversion, called the one-in-play any big part. But by buying

Western youth has found a The ownership of the shares didn't | Guitarres (Scotto); Bella Ragazzina

the

..

these shares it would have meant that I had an absolute influence,

And the snog was that Mary Pick- ford wanted to continue, to have too big a say in the company?

KORDA: That's it,

+

'OTHER PLANS'

London opinion believes that Mr.

Korta will make other arrangements

(Scotto)

Tin Rossi. 8.30 London Relay-"Ethel and Her Engine."

A romance for Organ and voices by Jolin Pudney, with music com- posed by Jack Clarke, played by Reginald Foort on the B. B. C. Theatre Organ.

9.5 p.m. Barnabas von Geczy and His Orchestra.

Rixner); Monika--Tango

Pony (Rixner); Ragamuffin

(Kots

presented him with a gold medal and a letter of thanks.

You put one cartridge in # Sir Doshan was a man of great revolver, close your eyes, break open vision, and as far back in 1890, the cylinder and give it a spin, then Business Career

contemplated construction of a close it, put the muzzle to your head The headmaster at the time was railway from Kowloon to Canton and and pull the trigger. Frederick Stewart, LL. D., an English from thence to Pelping project|

There is one chance in six that gentleman and scholar who made a which has been partially materialised

rid impression on the mind of the in that rond of steel to the Cantonese the unter will hit the cartridge and

K.C.R. You'll die. metropolis-the youth, so that he became imbued provincial

There are five chances that you'll for the handing of his pictures incher); Cara Marl-Tango (Zalden); with the idea of going abroad for But despite the fact that Sir Boshan

In Merry Mood (Haringer); 'Fredi further study. In 1867, at the age and his supporters in the Colony have and have demonstrated to your America before he sails for home.

The real purpose of his vlalt was Breezes (Bonchert): Free and easy of eighteen years, this wish was sunk enormous sums in the project, friends the courage that it takes or gratified when his father sent him the Manchu oligarchy were still what a fool you are, according to the to negotiate, with the backing of the (Proschmann); Gipsy Wine (Rilter)..

| Prudential Assurance Company,

9.30 p.m. London Relay-Thc to England, where he was placed in unready to vouchsafe official aid and point of view. the Stoneygate School at Leicester. bring ile dream into reality, and Charles Steinback, Jr., 19, imposed control of the distribution of films News.

9.00 p.m. Songs by Gigli. Here he remained for a year, then consequently the plan ended in on his luck recently. He performed throughout America, which would

the trick three times.

enable him to continue 10 The third

make films

Parls Angelicus (Franck); Ro- proceeding to Scotlant where, he miserable, fallure. entered the Dollar Institution. After The valuable services which Sir time he blew his brains out-United in England at £200,000 which would manza di Federico (from "L'Arle

show a profit in the world market. siano): O Charming Hour (The rendered his graduation in 1972, Sir Boshan, Boshan

to the Colony Press.

Dream Song from "Manon" now a young man of twenty-three, through so many years

Massenet). embarked on a short tour of the cognised and deeply appreciated by Continent, and then returned to the the Crown, and in 1010 he was Colony. It may be mentioned that knighted by King Edward VII. he was one of the first Chinese to go was also the recipient of the Com- abroad for the purpose of advanced panionship of the most distinguished study.

Order of St. Michael and St. George, his retum, Sir Boshan The quiet, unobtrusive manner of Joined the Mercantile. Bank as on the man endeared him to all, and assistant to his father. Upon the his death at the pge of 72 years was death of his father in 1879, in ac-recorded with deep regret. The cordance with the Inudable precepts then Governor, Sir Reginald Edward

HERE is a Chaplin comedy in real life-like a scene from one of old-style Chinese Tradition, Sir Stubbs, at a meeting of the Legis his a couplin Doshan reilred from duty for three Intive Council on December 20, years. At the completion of this 1921 uttered the following tribute to prescribed period of mourning, he his memory: "Gentlemen.

After

were re-

Hu

befor

THE SHERIFF CAN'T CATCH CHARLIE

Now York.

Despite ingenious disguises' and ruses, Deputy Marshal J. P. pradore, and retained it for many to mention the great loss which the failure to serve on him a subpoena for a deposition in a New York took up his father's post of com- proceeding with the business, I with Lavelle former "two-gun" sheriff-has wearily admitted years. Indeed, is stated that he Colony and the Chinese community and his father spent some afty-three have suffered owing to the death law suit brought by Sonores years in the bank's employ-a unique since our last meeling of Sir Boshan Tobis Societo Anonymo against record of devoted ser

service.

Wei Yuk. I have not path Sir,

myself. Chaplin and others. He was appointed a Justice of the the pleasure of serving with

Resplendent in his sombrero, but his name has been

Realty in 1883, and, in December.iliar to me for years and on the the typical, sheriff of the films.

of the

the Legislative

1

Next, In a messenger's uniform, hẹ delivered a letter and requested Mr. Chaplin's signature, but was told the comedian was not at home,

Then, decked out in a physician's

10.03 Chopin Nocturnes played by Rubinstein.“

Nocturne in. D Flat Major, Op.27 No. 2; Noctume in C Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 1.

10.16 Beethoven-Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major.

Played by the Symphony Orchestra, |conducted by Albert Coates,

11 p.m. Close down.

MADAME LUPESCU Has No Intention Of Leaving Rumania

London; Jan. 13.

The Dally Herald's Bucharest cor- became 1213 Unomcial Member

few occasions when I have found it Lavelle sought unsuccessfully bulter, but was informed that Charlie view with Madame Lupescu "some- kit, he attempted to dash past the respondent states that in an Inter- Council, the interesis of his Community | dealreblo to consult him I have found for a week to servo the subpoena by was perfectly well, playing golf.

where in Bucharest"' sha - declared:- hiz advanced. AKC forced this his advice. of great value. His ser- ordinary methods. The time limit. retirement on October, 23, 1917. Six vices to the Colony are well known was expiring and Lavelle became. Finally, in a dress sült, and osten- "I authorise you to state that I have Boshan was, as Bir Francis Henry to

the excellent service May onco said. "ever a man of

of action, which he sendered on this Couneltesperate, so he obtained some diz-tatiously carrying an ebony cane, he not the least intention of leaving

une gulses and "properties," got into the "gale-crashed" a party. He found it Humania. I shalt never do who liked always to get things done, The most fiting encomium of all stables of the Chaplin mansion, and in full swing and naked to be intro Should the occasion to travel abroad rather than to talk about them."!" was that voiced by his colleague, tiressed in various costumes..

1 was as an altruist that Sir the Hon. Mr. Lau Chu-pak who said: Roshan Was able to accomplish the By the death of Sir Boshan the

to you and

** most good for the advancement of Colony has lost son who gave it the interests of the Chinese com- of his best for the unprecedented munity and of the Colony as a whole period of over halt-a-century.

EO,

In the uniform of ‚a-lund,duced to Mr. Chapila; whereupon ho at any time present itself it will only:

,man," with a borrowed van, he attempted to enter by a back

was told, "Oh, Charlie is at Palm bo temporary and for purely per Springs. 1o was unable to be here, sonal reasons. But you may rest as- return. but the party is going on, anyway sured that I shall always * Coers; carrying a bundle but he Dally bfall Correspondent and British There can be no doubt about mat

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