Opium Found in Raid on Col. Hamada Will Succeed Quarter of Cases Repórted Hotel Room Past Year One of Worry, Col. Kimura Since July 1 In a raid on two rooms in the Financial Difficulty Colonel Hitoshi Hamada arrived One-fourth of {he diseases which Oriental Hotel, detectives of the "Storm" Now Weathered here on Tuesday afternoon aboard affected Japanese residents during Crime Branch, Settlement Police the Nagasaki Maru to. succeed Col. the six months and 15 days from Headquarters, arrested a Korean and "That we have weathered the storm Matsujiro Kimura as director: of the January 1 to July 15 made their apa Japanese and iwo Chinese, a man and now find ourselves in a position Press Bureau of the Japanese Expearance-in the first 15 days of July, jand a Ein and seized eighteen to more than double our services for peditionary Force here. the "Nippo" said yesterday. pounds of opium. the year before us is very largely Col Kimura is leaving for Japan "The raid was carried out at 1 anu. due to the generosity of our contri-According to figures compiled by on Friday to assume a new post. Col. yesterday, the police party being buters," writes Mr. J. M. Wilson, Japanese consular police during the Kimura was host at a cocktail party accompanied by the Japanese Con-Superintendant of St. Luke's Hospital past.six months and a half, typhoid at the Broadway Mansions yesterday sular Police. The Korean, Chang for China, in the annual report for fever led the list of diseases. Seventy evening when he introduced his suc-Chi-feng, and the Japanese, Takashi 1937, which has just been issued. The Japanese were stricken by typhoid. cessor to members of the local press.
Nozaka, were handed over to the demand for hospitalization is still on This was followed by dysentery, Japanese authorities, while the two the increase, he points out, and there from. which 22 Japanese suffered. Chinese, Chiang Vu-tien, 33-year old is a very great need for funds and Academia Sinica, the St. Luke's hos-Scarlet fever ranked third with 15 and the girl, Wong Ah 19-year supplies to keep going at the present cases. Paratyphus cases numbered 7; pital itself, for the sake of better or-old, were remanded by the First rate. ganization, being divided into two. cholera, 2; diphtheria, 2; cerebral Special District Court until next The report is an interesting and At present, both hospitals are operat-meningitis, 2; smallpox, 1, and erupweek. illuminating book-let of 70 pages or ing at what might be termed "full tive typhus, 1, making a total of 122. illustrated with photographs of The men were suspected to be pressure," and have been forced to Typhoid fever also'caused the most the damage done to the old hospital involved in the smuggling of opium turn away patients daily, because of deaths, 6. Dysentery claimed three north of the creek and of the various to Kiangsu-Anhwei border. The lack of space. The 1938 statistics, it lives. Two Japanese died from cere-buildings occupied since, including a Chinese was said to be vice-chair-is expected, will more than double bral meningitis, one from scarlet. novel photograph of a ward in the man of the Chuchow Citizens' _Asso-the number of patients served in any fever and one from eruptive typhus, Cathedral Girl's School. ciation in Anhwei, while the Korean one year previous. making the death toll 13. The first half of the year 1937 was and the Japanese were said to be normal, work being carried on in the connected with the Japanese military Hongkew building in the customary authorities in north Anhwei. manner. In August, however, the j Chinese Woman Shot local hostilities made a hurried eva-enation of patients and staff (numbering about 250 people in all) under conditions amounting to active war-
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