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THE

MONDAY, HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

OCTOBER

31,

12

CENTRAL CHINA WAS SAVED FROM

GREAT CHOLERA

EPIDEMIC

Disclosure By

By League Expert

MALARIA SCOURGE SPREADS

"FEEL safe in saying that modern methods, though applied somewhat imperfectly, have undoubtedly saved Central China from a catastrophic cholera epidemic this summer," de- clared Dr. R. C. Robertson, English Commissioner of the League

At the request of the Hunan Provincial Government a compre- hensive survey of malaria in cer- Lain districts of north-castern Hunan was instituted a decade ago, These areas were once populous, but have been depopulated in re- cent years dering the trouble be

the tween the Communists and

As Central Government,

farme werd abandoned malaria spread unill the region became most un- healthy. Now this offers a great obstacle to attempts to repopulate the area with refugees,

LEAGUE MOBILE UNITS

The League mobile units have of Nations' Second Anti-Epidemic Unit, with headquarters at toured the districts most affected, Changsha, in an interview with Renter's correspondent discussing treating patients already collected by the League's work in co-operation with the Chinese Government the local authoriiles, and at the same Health organisation. He also outlined the campaign against time carrying out aclentine observa- tions intended to discover a method malaria.

of mosquito control within the means of the poorest former. and "The potentialities for disaster and chlorinating 8,000 wells

Thousands water.

have received the have been very great," Dr. Robert- 18,000 buckets of river son continued, "but at no time has Twenty anitary police ntd 32 sanit- quinine treatment, and at the end of the cholera epidemie got out of hand, hry coolies are constantly engaged in July, 1,007 patients were under care. For example, in Shanghal, where this work, Anti-cholera inoculations In one valley conditions were so bad resources are much greater and 600 in the elty numbered 80,009 In one that the Inhabitants declared that it the week during the early summer, and was haunted. One-sixth of the re- benith workers are available, outbreak has actually been more 24,074 in the month of August, the sidents there were treated, serious than in Hunan Province, doctor said.

The incidence of malaria has with D population of 30,000,000,

A typical ense of the League's markedly decreased in the areas where the League deinchments stemmed the epidemic and saw it work in smaller centres was in com- visited, and the average number of at patients has fallen by 75 per cent through the worst stages before It batting the cholera epidemic

Chienslen (Chengchow) in south- Research by the Unit has discovered had time to spread too rapidly.

eastern Ilunan, 90 miles south of that a cheap local fertilizer, namely, the most important Henyang. On July 22 the magistrate all cakes is deadly to mosquito for larvae, and the ground is being pre- city in Central China, passed telegraphed an urgent appeal

without the medical aid, as more than 100 out of pared for an extensive mosquito con- through the summer victims of disease being more than the town's population of 10,000 hand trol campaign. those from aerial bombardment died in ten days.

"Hankow,

an achievement new in the history A unil was sent there, arriving on

GIFTS OF MEDICINE

"It is gratifying to be able to say

the

of modern warfare," the Commis- July 30, and stayed until the middle sioner declared,

of August, when only two cholera that the population has implicit con- The Second Unit, which is under patients remained under treatment. Adence in the operation of the Dr. Ítobertson sold. British auspices, consists of barely By then half of Chienhsien's popu- League," 200 persons, of whom doctors and lation had been inaculated against "Everywhere we are welcomed and

to from the humblest coolle senior technlelans number 15. They cholera, continued work in areas near the The latest outbreak of the disease governor of the province the entire war zone, and in the Hankow Isola is at Tebank. well known upper public is united in showing gratitude tion hospital two of their nurses were Yangtze port, where many refugees for the gifts of quinine and the work killed in a mid-August air raid, are crammed in the old part of town, of the League staff.”

The League shelter at the Chang- A mobile unit has already been lur- sha East Station was destroyed dur- ried there.

Dr. ing an air raid on Aug. 20.

haa

Saying that their entire work is The cholera season is now ending part of the romance of medicine, the

will probably be Commissioner concluded: "It Robertson, himself, was twice re- and the disease

triumphs, its hard-fought 'cam- ported dead, but, as he remarked, spasmodic until the end of Noven-

and Itn unsung victorica. fortunately the reports were without ber, Dr. Robertson explained. Then palgns foundation.

REMARKABLE RESULTS

In Changsha they have been test in the city's water supply every day

it will be replaced in importance by Working for and with China in her malaria and dysentery. Next to time of great need, we at the same cholera, malaria in epidemic form, time are fighting mankind's unending is China's most serious medical pro- battle against disease, and it is to be blem at present, the Commissioner hoped that the world witi continue remarked.

To support our struggle."-Reuter.

THE TOYO WIFE

GERTRUDE GELBIN-

RESUME

Oliberte Moard, called Frou- frou, comes home from school in France with her sister Louise to their fathera plantation in pre- Civil Far Louletana, Andre Val man-about-town intre, young, falls madly in love with the delightful, frivolous Froufrou; Ro does Goorgra Bartoris, serious young lawyer. Loutes his loved Georges since childhood when ahe discovers his love for Frou- frow she urgon her stor to marry him Proufrou accopte floorger. Andre goòa to France. For five years Froufron in gally happy, Georges adores her de -spite the fact that her schima and capricës ruin his career, hin houerhold and the upbringing of their child. At Froufrou' re queat he sends for Louise to straighten matters out in their home. Within a short time, Frou- frow Tenilkes her alator ha eurped her place in her honso, with her child and in her hum Andre Val band's confidence. Intre velurke from France, stili deeply in love with her.

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Chapter Eight

FROUFROU SPEAKS HER MIND Froufrou ant by her window, her hands busy with her embroidery. Andre, in boots and riding cloak, hin all hat under his arm, his gloves in hand, towered over her. "Are you doing that right?" he naked after a brief pause.

"No," who answered with a short Jaugh.

He ralaed her face. "Louk at m he begged.

Their glances met for an Instant. coine "I've anked you not to here," she said abruptly.

"And I came to tell you I'll not

"I that was a tear for me" Andra cried, "Fd not leave without you?

1988.

that time, Louise answered, her volca low and strained, "I fandled that myself in love with him imTM

That time you urged ma to marry

40- George?" Froufrou manded. “You are certain you did fancy yourself in love with hien thon

"Wholber I was or not,” Loplea said evazively. "I'm quite cartain that I don't love him well enough lo marry him now."

"So am 11" was Froufrou's sting- ing retort.

""Well," " said Louleo, helplemly, "then-thon you have the real TOR- son for my refusal,"

"I did not love my husband when you decided I was to marry. him,”.... Froufrou replled moaningly.

That was different

"But I learned to love him after: wards-as you were sure I would." Louiso remained allent, her hou downcast Froufrou smiled. "Bo why should I not take

my hands," she cried fals in

as you Look mine? Don't you think you would love Monaleur de la chelle in me-as I love my husband?"

"No, Gilberto! No!"

"Not"

"Nu," Loulae repented nervously. "I am different from you. Ini older Ihould not be happy- know myself!"

"Not so well an♬ low you, my dear sister!" Froufrou placed her words with deadly nim.

"Gilberte!"

"You needn't O that tone, Louise. I'm not a child anyinore. And I'm not afraid to tell you what

think of you." "But I'm afraid-afraid you're She mised pain- not yourself." Alled oyes. "You may say some thing you'll be sorry for

Froufrou stared down at her with Imie. "You thief!"

Louine hair ross from her chair.

hoho cried.

Froufrou advanced towards her

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THE SCOTS SABBATH

WHEN I was last in Lewis, in the One form servant lass offered to wad hae us to be male particular, a western end of the isle, there milk the cows on the Sunday, but sleam engine's no' a moral being; was a pile of peat left lying by the she firmly refused to feed them, it's no' an accountable agent." side of the road. Even when it "The coos canna milk themsels," she meant an extra mile's walking to get explained "so to milk them is a creelful of peat this particular tot clear work of necessity and mercy was passed by with nverted eyes.

•

In a certain Ayrshire manse there but, let them oot tac the felts, and was once trouble because the maid had forgotten to lift the usual pata- On a certain Sunday, they told me, they'll fend for themsels,"

Even more subtle was the distinc- toes on the Saturday night, an absent-minded crofter, equipped with the usual creel, had sauntered tion drawn by a party of old-time "Mistress," the maid suggested, out in the direction of his peat stack. Paisley weavers who wished to cross "I'll just tak' the graip and slip oot Relursing with his load, he met his from Gourock to Duneen one Sun- and howk a wheen. Nacbody will neighbours soberly wending their day morning. As a matter of con- ken, and if the minister should come way towards the kirk, and, with science, they decided they could not to ken o't, I'll tak' a' the wyte and crushing force, the renilsation came go in a boat which was rowed by the sin on my ain shouthers. that this was the Sabbath day which ours, so they naked the captain of the

"No, 110, Betty" the mistress Rothesay steamer "to cast oot a bit o' objected. "Sin' I

maun

hae the

he had just been profaning.

Thore and then, he penitently his tow and tak' them wi' him, as tailles for dinner this day, just gang emptied his creel by the wayside, he was gaun that way ony rate." awa oot and pouter a wee pickle and as no one would touch or handle "But." asked the caplain, "what's frae the roots of the shaws wi' your the accursed peats which had been the moral difference between being hands. Tak nae greip wi ye-sc gathered on the day of rest, the elods rowed over with oars and towed by nae warkloom made by the hand o man on the Lord's Day. And if the remained there as mule evidence of a steamer?" his "in" for many years after.

"There's a hantle difference," he minister sets on me about it, I'll just It was in the Isle of Lewis also was told. "between rowing by the tell him that there wasna a grap that a visitor from the South, a lass power of man, wha maun answer for shank in the hands o' anybody aboot of about fourteen, was sternly what he does, and twa water-wheels the hoose this day." Laught the serious consequences of pating us. In ither words, gin ye Sabbath-breaking.

She was spending a holiday with an aunt, and, on Sunday morning. she blithely sat down to brush her Sunday Bhoes. One aloe had been brilliantly polished when the horrl- ned face of her aunt appeared. A stern voice commanded her to stop. and among the church-goers that day the scurict-checked girl had to take? her humiliating place with one shoe' polished and the other dull and mud- begrimed. The figure that she cut mattered nothing to her elders. She had broken the Sabbath day, and this was her punishment.

Refugees At Kam Tin

Donors Of Food And Material

The following are the donors of necessities

Rather different in its oulcoine was food, clothing and other the story of the visit which was once to the refugee camp at Kam Tini pald to Iona by Russian Grand Women's Relief Society, Hongkong Duke on a Sunday. The captain of branch, Chung Wah School Wor the steamer which had brought the Relief

Sun Association,

Yat-sen arrival asked the custodian of the University War Service Corps, Sal ancient church open it for the dis-Wan Ho Man Wah Middle School, tinguished visitor's Inspection.

Gospel Union, Mong Kok Girls'

on the Sabbath Day."

slanting of Russia."

Kowloon Bet-fook-yee

"Not no, sir," he said sternly, "not] School, Mr. La, Mon Lee Co., Woo

Kin

Hung, "Bat it's for the Grand Duke Con-Club, Shing Cheeson, Mok

Sheung, Refugoo "Had it been the Queen hersel' I wadna gl'e up the keys of the kirk Mrs. Lung, Sun Hwal Chamber of

Commerec,

on the Lord's Day."

"Would you tnk' a glass of whisky Students of

School.

Children's School,

A. W.

ROYAL SCOTS BAND

Gives Concert in Lounge Of Peninsula Hotel

The Royal Scots band gave a concert before a large audience in the Peninsula Hotel lounge lastnight. The conductor was Bandmaster H. D. Jordan.

The programme was: Spanish

March-Amparita'

(Texidor).

A

Roca

Nautical Overture-Plymouth Hoe (Ansell),

Comet Solo-L/C. A. Weller,

Valse Moonlight on the Alster

(Straus).

Selection of Sullivan Songs. Selection-Il Trovatore (Verdi).

Juann Solo-La Xylophone Bdam. R. Phillips. Fantasia-Apline Memories (Win-

tor) Violin Solo Souvenir-L/C. A.

Alscy. Sekction-The Thistle (Myd-

dleton)

come any more, I'm going away." "When?" her voles faltered as she naked the question,

"Tomorrow, First to the planta; tion to see my mother and put my affairs in order. Then-somewhere; far, As you asked."

"That's good," she said sadly. She That's what you should do." bont her head low over her em- broidery.

|

and jerked away the koys to her household which Louiso had kept suspended on a cord aver since the day of her arrival-over since the day Froufrou had given them to her with gay abondon of her duties, "I gave you thare keys," Froutrou sald with deadly calm. "I trusted you--and you've stolen everything In this house!"

"Gilberts!" ploaded Louise, “some- one will hear you."

Ho touched hot check lahily, "What's this?" he whispared. "Was "Let them!" cried Froufrou. "Why tint a lear, Froufrou?" She nodded, not? Even the servants knew it "For me?" She shook her head. before I dial. You've stolen my Ho seized her hands in his, "If that place,

was a tear for me," he said hoarzo- child husband-and now my We'd go "It's not true!" wopt Louiso, "It's

not truo

ly, "I'd not leave you. together.

"No," she answored. "I'm just "And that's why you what neither silly sometimes." Bho managed a homo nor husband nor children of smile, "I'm like that. I'm-I'm your own?" really glad!

Ho lared down at her. "Til sea you once more," he said Armly,

when I come to say goodbye."

Gilberto! You must Uslen--" Dy you love him!" cried Frou-

you can' trou.

Loulas lifted her face proudly. "I don't deny it!”

In another moment he was gone. She picked up her embroidery and; "Ah!" Froufron breathed desply. tried to pow; but her tears were "Well then," answered Louise, hör eyes Axod upon her sister's face. faster than the stitches,

Froufrou "I loved him first, But he loved With aching hoart, sought some solution to her prob: you; and it was for his sake that I Jem. The solution offered, liself made your marriage-and only to the following week when her father save that marriage did I come into returned from Franco with Mon- this house."

leur de la Richelle who had come That's a lle!" Froufrou snapped to ask Louise's hand in marclage, bacli. "We were happy when you

Froufrou was beside herself with came.".

Then

hope and exeltement. Louise toust "11o. wasn't" Louise replied short-

zolve ly. That would

"Ask him! Ask him what ho marry him! everything.

Loulko would sald to me the day you wont him Ask him what is called leave their home; Troufrou swore for me. to herself that she would undo nl you."

"What?" the harm her whims had wrought between Georges and herself. She "He said your marriage would thought hard, Georges must con-jend in diskator unicas I saved it. vinco Louise that the marriage was] He said your frivolity was destroy- perfect for her: for he knewing his peace of mind and his Loulso would listen to Georges, and career. flo said you were incap

able of caring for your home or Georges alone.

Without revealing ber true feel your child, as a woman should." Ings in the matter, who brought up "No!" Froufrou's voice rose in the subject with her husband, oven- | starp agony. "I don't believe it! tually inslating, despite his demur, I don't believe it!"

He and "It's true. And more. that he speak to Louise. With eat face she lead him to the nursery | you were only a toy wifo-and a where her sister was playing with real wife was needed in this house- Ittle Deorgis. Bho herself began hold." the talk, eventually throwing the reina of conversation to her hus band so that he was forced to openk,

She sat back with cold oyes and watched them, as, misarable and hentea, they discussed the matter. It was Louise who made the dect sion, despite them bath: "I cannot

do you came here to save this marry Monaleur de la Richello."

marriage?" Her voice was pitifully she eald with, Anailty,

Proufrou roso "Bince you havaj small and strange, falled Georges," she said evenly.

A toy wife?" whispered Loular. "Not a real one?"

In the pause that followed, she fooked about wildly, like a trapped and hurt creature with no chance She backed away and for escape. leaned against the door as if for support, staring helplessly, mlaar- ably at her sister,

"You To save the marriage for

"I shall talk to Louise myself. But which I was responsible. And I not in the nursery, Come, Louise, have-If you'll let wall enough

alone we will go to your siliing room."

First Free School, Chung Walt School, Primary en the Sabbath?" the captain asked Class BA, Chung Wa

Chan Yuk-king, Chan slyly,

Sin Wal-fook, Ah "That's a different thing catirely," Sheung-ying,

Rellef Service Corps, the keeper replied. Under the Man Hing Cheung, Luit Yung-lok Youth's

chooi, Chinese National Government Rellet mellowing influence of a glass of Chan Tang-chee Kwan Ming whisky his views became less strict, Dr. Li Sung, Chan Family, Chan Committee, Yuen Long War Relief

Froufrou laughed shortly. "You As they spod down the corridor. and the Grand Duke was allowed to Wal-hung. Madame Wu Teck-seng, Association, Ying Fat Loong. K. E.

Ling Tung inspect the church.

Pick darted out, "Missy," she whi think sot Bhe paused and smiled. Middle School, Yuen Van Marke, Lau King Tsing, Mrs. Long War Relief Assn. Wai Yeung Kain Tek-choy, Mrs. Wong Wal-sze, pered, "eleur Valiaire is goin' "You haven't very good sys, my

away tonight-to New York. Ah wino sister," Chamber of Commerce, Heung Hol Mrs. Thomas Tam Queen's College

"What do you mean?” promised to carry him word when Girls Middle students, Students of the French Sin Club, Sung Lan

Her hand found the doorknob. ho kin tell you goodbye" Canton See See

Her wyes grow did and bright. Middle Convent, Causeway Bay, Mrs. D. M.

Tell me later, Froufrou murYou'll see, she whispered "you'll Con-Richards. Miss M. W. Nowsheime, Hongkong, Longevity

mured. Thomas densed

BOO Chuck

Yip the Great Star Motor Co., Mrs. M. K

"Now," she said when they were She turned and ran out of the Guthrie ance went to preach for a Building Co., Cheung Y CÓ Kitch

Miss Wise, International Medical Lo,

alone, let us have the real reason room. friend in Ross-shire he created Hongkong and Kowloon Educational Relief Committee, Shing Chu Sow, why you refuse this ideal mer want to tell ma ong Employees mloor sensation by asking for bot

Yat Cheung,

of China Emporium, Miss Hongkong

rlag. Do you water for shaving on Sunday morn Workers' Union, Mr. and Mrs.

what that reason is --- or shait I Tung Plu-yin, Mrs. RJ.D.C. Grieve,

tell you!" "Speak of shaving on the Lord's San-fing. Tung Wah Hospital, Yuan Students of Ricci Hall, Chinese Y.M. Day in Ross-shire," De was told, Lung War Relle! Assn., Dr. Selwyn- CA, National Reller Commission, Mrs. White, "and

Sunday shaving has often been productive of much heart-burning in the North. When Dr.

ing.

Milk

Clarke, Hongkong Chinese Women's Miss Dillon, Mr.Xac ・more nood naver preach here. Rallof - Association, Leung Yo Mrs Taylor, Mr

Mrs. Chee Ping, Wal Young Chamber of Ni, Mr. Trever In some quarters there has been a

The following monetary donations tendency to show a nice distinction Commerce, Miss Ou, Mr. Ou Yeung, between the jobs which can and Ling Nam Middle School, Hongkong, have also been received Tani Toh- which can not be done on the Sab. Mr. Lee, Mr. Cheung, Tai Tuan fun $100; W. H. Lack $150; Bank of

Restaurant, Kow, Kowloon Auchiwan East Asia, $1,000,

bath.

"I suppose you think I led to you about Monsieur de la Richelle:

What Froufrou do sasa. that's như's toarned the truth. about Georgos feeling toward her! Ile aura to read tomor rowa stirring chiptar.

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