Page
SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1918.
TELEGRAMS.
(Continued from Page 1)
EXPERIENCES ON THE
*" 100TZMENDI."
A FATEFUL VOYAGE
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 28. In an interview with passengers of the goizmendi, Mr. Rees, mate of the Wiring, said the Himna sailed on a voyage from Auckland to San Francisco and was stopped on March 31 by an aeroplane south of Kimaras Islands, behind which the Wolf was loving The Wayne's crew of forty-two were brought to the frolf, which continued ber cruise and sank nine ship
Having discovered that two officers of the 'ia had escaped at night when anchored near an island the -officers of the Wolf ordered, the whole of the 160 prisoners to be imprisoned for twenty sight days in the bolds, and other available rooms. The prisoners throughout were allowed on deck for only que hour daily and suffered tre- mendously in the tropical heal.
Colonel Strangmann and Major Slood, of the Australian Army Medical Corps, were captured south of New Guinea au August 24 aboard the fatungn bound from Sydney to London. The Matunga was blown up on August 27,
PRISONERS TREATED BADLY
BY GERMANS.
In interviews Mrs. Slood and Miar Mackenzie complain of ungentlemandr treatment by the Germans. When put aboard the Ïgatamendi on November 44 all were temporarily imprisoned, and guarded most closely and fed a little badly. The prisoners were most resont fat of the conduct of the German prizo Crew. After the Footmendi stranded they were all confined. Mr. Rees, Pro- feur Propers of Bangkok and Mr. Bensoo, a mining engineer from Sydney, my that the Germans told them a Danish gunboat had been summoned to take off the gamead which would be able to reach Kiel next morning the Germans having evidently misinformed the Danish authorities regarding the ship and its destination.
THE GERMAN CREW INTERNED.
A telegram from Skaw says the Ger man crew and Spanish officers of the Jootmendi have landed.
1.
Danish soldiers received the Germans and took them to Skagen where they were interned.
The Spanish flag was hoisted on the gulmeli.
•
"IGOTZMENDI" DECLARED SPANISH PROPERTY.
TEN WESTERN FRONT,
SUDETSKE RAIDS.
LONDON, Feb. 28. Field-Marshal. Sir Douglak. Haig
reporta
We successfully extrips ont a raid on enemy trenches on Greenland Hill, northward of the Scarpe River, and positions on the southern portion of Houthulst Forest. We took 24 prisoners and captured four machine guns.
GERMAN GENERAL RELIEVED OF COMMAND.
SHANGHAL
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE HEALTH OF threatening the Yantee Valley. In my Just report it was stated that should Faeumonic Plague, occur in Peking, Photingfo or Talyunafu there is the possibility of the Yangtse Valley being involved by onees carried during the incubation period. Suggestions were (then given så to precautions to be taken
RISKS FROM PNEUMONIC PLAQUE
CHINESE AFFAIRS.
[** Chinese Mail Servics.]
·Perino, Fah, y
Chung Chok Lum, whose troopa } Dr. Arthar Stanley, the Bealth Offi-by the milways, in whose hands alone have andenly landed at Chingwan- cor. in his report for January, says
the prevention of further spread of the During the month there was some im- disease to the Yangtan Valley seemed tap and are encamping at Lanchow, to lie. As was to be excepted Fuking states, in reply to enquiry by the provement in the Small-par position as up the ingeards. The number of free now be regarded as adequats to protect Government, that he intends to pro- the speeding up of vaccination touched appears to have taken stopa which may vaccinations done at the Branch Health itself and indirectly its railway conoce ceed to
the South to help the Offices again made a new record. Of tions southward. The other two danger the 4919 vaccinations done, 632 were points to which attention was drawn, | Government troops. Foreigners. A considerable number of Taiyuania and Pactinglu have been Since no explanation is forthcoming vaccinations were done of the Chinese seriously threatened. staff of business firns by special request The great Mongolian trade route from for this sidden nobilisation, ` great LONDON, Feb. 28. at the offices of these firm as an emer-Kweihna to Taiyuanfu offered special surprise has been caused.~~~~~ Reuter's Correspondent at British goney measure. This has now been dis-facilities for the slow and ant-like.
Talk Wing Ting has again request- | continued as it is felt that free vaccina- communication of the epidemic south- Headquarters says that a certain Ger- tion should be limited to the Branch ward, which appears to have carried ed, by telegram, a peaceful settle man General who has been emulating Health Ofices Whera taipans or house ensen of Pneumonic Plague almost to the British rails has been relieved of holders wish to be certain that their em- the gates of Talysanta. The passage of ment command of his Division on the ground ployees have been vaccinated, if a chic stat-this trade route through the outer and of sending out too many patrols anding the number to be vaccinated is sent inner lines of the Great Wall and the with them it will be signed as done by mountain passes seemed to make it losing too many men.
the Inspector of the Branch Health comparatively easy to control the traffic Office; substitution can be defeated by once effective preventive measures were stamping the palm of the hand of each put into operation." employes with the office rabberstamp;or left arm live days after will reveal a an examination of the upper part of the
MESOPOTAMIA.
BRITISH IN CONTACT WITH ENEMY NEAR HIT,
says:-
"
.
LONDON, Feb. 25. An official message from Mesopotamia Our patrols came into Contacs with the Turks near-Hit and some prisoners were taken.
THE ITALIAN FRONT.
PATROL ACTIVITY..
LONDON, Feb. 28...
An Italian official message saya:— A strong patrol northward of Col- del-Rosso captured, two enemy eleven-
inch trench mortare..
Our aviators dropped six tons of bombs on several military objectives.
GERMAN ADYANCE IN RUSSIA.
ESTHUNIAN REGIMENT"
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SURRENDERS.
LONDON, Feb. 23,
A German official mesange says:- The Fourth Estonian Regiment has placed itself under our command to clear the country of marauding bands.
We captured 2,000 machine guns and 50,000 rifles at Minak.
RUSSIAN DELEGATION ARRIVES AT BRESTLITOYSK.
A Berlin message reports that Russian Delegation has arrived Bratlizovak.
JAPANESE INDUSTRIAL
definite proot ol vaccination.
That cases of Pneumonic Plague among on January 23 in the Finghan district in travellora from Kweihua were reported
Ghibli Province 20 miles. Wost of Chen-
Pesivo, Mar
Chang Chin Fong and Lui Chin Chun have been released and sent to fight with the troops in andor to atone for their misdemeanours.
have telegraphed urging the evacua- Wong Chim Yuan and Tano Kud
M
It is an essential part of the organizatingfa is a particularly threatening tion of Lanchow by Chang Chok tion of the Shanghai Health Ufice that feature These case do not appearita
the public should mainly look to the Branch Health Office for the practical sanitation. There are 16 of these offices which are organised meet more than the public demand of them. So that the more the public get into touch with the Branch Health Office near their aidence the better will it be equipped and the better will it be able to provide the benefits of modern sanitation.
It may be noted that the old practice of inoculating Smallpox is still done to a small extent in Shanghai. ae or more practitioners from Ningpo' come to place the seed of genuine Smallpox within the nose of babies. This sets up genuine Smallpox, usually of a mild type: but each case is as much a focus of infection as a case caught in the ordinary ay. With the facilities now provider for vaccination the practice of inoculation can only be regarded as pernicious, being calculated to create more Smallpox than it prevents.
STREET DESI
to
bave been carried by the Taiyuan henum and his retirement to Mukden. ting Railway but by cart through the Yung
ing Shi Chi has refused, the Yontsen Fass and Taichow. Cuse Premiership and Chin Nang Fun has also reparted February 5 at Tingchow on the Peking Hankow Railway. That been appointed to the post. further spread southward has not been reported may be shamed to be due to the proventive measures taken by the Peking Hankow Hailway, which is said to have closed all small stations from Changsintien to Shontela, a distance of about 250 miles, and to have establishe quarantine at nite lace stations.
Since February 8, no considerable.ox- tension of the infected area has been reported, while the epidemic in the place of origin in Mongolia, baring sun its natural course, is subsiding,
HAINAN NOTES.
(Fics Or HALNOW CORRESPONDENT.]
P
"WHERE IS GENKKAL LÚNG?
The question most frequently asked in Haihow is: Where is General It may again be emphasized that medical inspection and isolation of such Lung?" No one seems to know, but cased as arise does not suffice to prevent reports are that he is not in Hainan. the dissemination of Peeumonic Plague in this most agree, but after that because persons incubating the disease escape detention.
It is absolutely you may find all kinds of rumours. necessary to prevent person incubating the disease, during which period they Some say he is in Am-fou, near Pak- show no signs whatever, from moving hot, and it is even said that he was from place to piace until they have passed through a period of quarantine
of attacked there by an assassin. Others seven days under medical observation.
A regards Pneumonic Plages spreading
say that he is near Kwang-chow-wan,
in Shanghai if introduced, no guarantee and it is hinted that his troops have can be given that such is improbable generally been defested and that he having in view the incredible amount of has lost Lui-chow, and will probably overcrowding which is general in the occupied by two or three families. The and be interned there. It is also Settlement. Most Chinese houses are attempt to enter the French Colony
houses are divided up by partitions and lefts, open yards are covered over and reported that his son has returned used a living rooms, the kitchen is often here wounded. a bedroom; so that scarcely & corner
No soldiers, are
is unoccupied at sight by sleepers coming here from the North of the whether ventilated or not-all this is Simit, though some are going in done to raise enough money to pay the
thut direction.
rent.
THE HARTHQUAKE,, ---
Under such conditions an important group of communicable disenses is given the fullest opportunity of spreading.
Some of our foreign residents felt entirely unaffected by such public benth measures as are possible. This the earthquake which, visited Hong- Erference of the material from the
of diseases is that spread by the kong and did. so much damage in Here it was little more respiratory passages, such as Tuber Stow. calceis, Scarlet fever, Diphtheria, than a slight tremble and was not influenza and. the Pneumoniae
As regards the question of street dust and dirt, which has recently been before the public; from a health point of view it must be held that the cleaner the streets and slaps the better. But disease is not synonymous with diet. The nineteenth century Axed iden of the direct relation of dirt to health has now been exploded. It used to be held well as the carrier. It is now possiblote that filth was the source of disease as distinguish between what is dangerous to health and what is merely unpleasantly or mildly detrimental. The undisinfected excreta of typhoid fever is deadly dirt while street dust may be regarded as good honest dirt. The former AMSTERDAM, Fab. 28. is a matter for the health
officer deal with while the latter long the
with such matters as plumbing ana at drainage may be safely left to the anainent. The deadly effect of sewer gas' 18 « cause of, Diphtheria, etc., another nineteenth century idea which dies hard. False ideas as to dirt curse a tention to be distracted from more important matters. Dry dust is com paratively innocuous. The microbes of disease are mostly rapidly killed by drying. The danger of spitting in the street and its relation to the spread easily spread of this group of respite-THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN MISSION. bacillus of Tuberculosis when dried is thould Pramonic Plaque come to
The American Presbyterian Mission soon killed. so that the probability of THE GLENART CASTLE."
contracting the disease from dust blow-haughai reliance would have to be bas held its annual gathering bere ing about in the open street is remote. mainly placed on the use of the mask for Anyone who is apprehensive as to the prevention. That the use of a simple during the last week. All the in- TORPEDOED IN FREE ZONE..
danger of dust should hire for a little face mask of cotton wool and gauze, cost- while in one of the Feking ut'ungs during a few centa: lightly tied around the terior members of the Mission, except LONDON, Feb. 78. ·
The Japanese Ambassador has posting dry weather, where the dust can only mouth and pose, is about as effectual stone lady and her children, came out The hospital ship Glenart Custle was poned his departure from Petrograd as be described as 'the limit and where ex-preventive of the spread of this respirato Haihow. The weather was very
toes I group as vaccination is of Smallpox, torpedoed within the area which it is believed the Russian Government pectoration by all and sundry is no less and is so easy of application, places in good for their journey, as the mercury
common than in other parts of China, and the hands of all those intelligent, enough hardly went below 60 F.. Germany declared a free zone, constitut. has made a new propean
he probably would be convinced of the ing, apart from the outrage itself, a
relative innocuousness of dry dust, In to make use of it a-valuable means farther breach of the German pledge
making these remarks I am by no means
personal protection. defending dirt or recommending any not to sink a hospital ship outside
diminution in the effort to make the sartsiz clearly defined limits.
the object is rather to direct attention to streets and alleys as clean as possible; but matters of greater importance in the work of actually preventing disease
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 24. After discussion between the Danish, German and Spanish authorities the Igotzmendi has been declared Spanish.
Her captain has taken possession of
MOBILISATION.
the hip and contrasted with a salvage scheme of industrial mobilization for Tuberculosis bas been overdone.earmonic Plague is perhaps the most noticed by many of the people.
ompany to attempt to refloat ber,
TOKIO, March 1. The Government is considering a
submission to the Diet.
.
RUSSIA MAKES NEW PROPOSAL."
TOXTO, March 1..
THE UKRANIAN PEACE.
LONDON, Feb. 98
A Russian official message says that M. Zatonsky, President of the Peace Delegation of the People's Republic of
H
infections
BRITISH OR GERMAN?
of
THE WEATHER,
It has been very dry with no rain since Christmas. At times it was so cold that the new coffee plantation near Nodog in the interior
NO TRACE OF MISSING PEOPLE.
There is no trace of the missing people from the Glenart Castle and it isUkrania, bas sent a message to the And in this connection it may be noted HOME OFFICE SETS THE COURT suffered from the front. These trees
feared they have perished.
AMERICA'S SHIFBUILDING
EFFORTS.
STRANGE DANGERS IN STORE
FOR U-BOATS.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.
וי
A KNOTTY PROBLEM.
Central Powers and the President of that the careful storage in rat and fly. the Russian Peace Delegation at Bresti-proof receptacles of house refuse and its tovek asking them to facilitate the fundamental measure against plague by careful collection and. removal is a by journey of the delegation from Kiefdepriving rata of food and against The following case reported in recent to Brestlitovsk to sign the peace con certain intestinal diseases by preventing London paper is evidently the coo cluded with the Central Powers and the the multiplication of fies. To clear t Preferred to in a recent cable Kieff Radi
another point it may be stated that the very small result obtainable by the use
What is the nationality of a man bora of disinfectants for street watering in in Berlin of German parents and natur
Allied and neutral correspondents GERMAN SOCIALIST REBUKES THE bot considered to be commensurate with alised in Melbourne?, That is the ques
have visited engineering worka and shipyards where they saw destroy 678, equipped with all kinds of new devices, being turned out faster than Germany is able to build submarines. They also saw hundred-ton submarine chseors not even built as abipe, but manufactured alongside the railway and lowered into the water by a travelling crane.
KAISER.
MORE RESERVE REQUIRED.
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 28.
the cost.
.
FLACOX Since my last report the outbreak of Faeumonic Plague in the North is shown
tion the Westminster magistrate was asked recently to answer.
HARMSTON'S CIRCUS
AND
ROYAL MENAGERIE AGAIN TO-NIGHTU
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Propristor
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THE SOCIETY OF ST. GEORGE,
HONGKONG.
WAR BONDS DRAWING
(IN AID OF WAR CHARITIES).
have had a small crop for harvest this year. The coffee is of a Fery good quality..
TICKETS $5
each HONGKONG: CURRENOT.
COMMERCIAL,
HONGKONG SHARE MARKET.
Messrs. Moxon and Tayler's Report It concerned Heinrich H. Markwald, for the week ending March 1st is as by the reports available to have spread who bad repeatedly refused to register, follows:-
The week under review has been re- from the important trading centre of and had referred the authorities to the Kweibus in the extreme north of 3banse fiancial support he had given to British duce to two business days, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday being bondays In the Reichstag, Herr Scheidemann province some 200 miles East and about rebuked the Kaiser for saying that the the same distance South, rusching the war charities, his friendship with Mowing to the Race Meeting.
The tragic end of the Hace Meeting victory of German arms must first be hien (near then ingo) and Tingchow. He claimed to be a British subject, but has cast a gloom over the Colcuy sad neighbourhood of Taiyuanfu, Pingsan and his loyalty to the British Crown. recognised He recalled previous re- (on the Peking, Bankow Railway.) These Mr. Muskelt, who prosecuted, said the very little business has resulted in com- The great construction of warships is commendations from all partics, includ-jars points which may be regarded as Home Office contention was that natural sequence. It is to be hoped that next not interfering with the building ofing Conservatives, for somewhat mora chantmen which are well ahead of reserve in that quarter" and declared
isation in as British possession or Dominion was binding. only in that teritory,
week will see a return to normal business conditions once more,
In view of the above facts it is un necessant to go over in detail the various stocks, last week's quotations still bolding fendant, who was said to have importent good, with the exception of Indo Chica businesses in London, but the Home shares which have risen from $155 to Secretary wanted his position settled by $150.
EXORANGE-The demand rate on Lon the Court NEMA
Shanghai is 6ồi
the programme. Shipbuilding has been that the great mass of Socialists anerget SWEDISH SOCIALIST AND THE WAR. No impuscious were made aguinas de revolutionized by the application of ically repudiated the Kaiser's views. atandardisation of ships. In one yard Herr Erzberger aid that i they are built-in a row like ateel houses. Germany had ever deviated from last The time taken in the construction of a year's Reichstag peace resolation it was destroyer is only twenty-two weeks.“ ***
only as a temporary political measure y
When the Inst American destroyer now being built reaches European wators, Great Britain and the United States combined will have ten des- troyers against every working U-boat There will also be a large addition of chasers and patrol boats and new and strange dangers will beset the U-bosta from the sky and under water.
The greatest progress has been made with now aerial and electrical devices for detecting submarines.
KING'É TRIBUTE TO THE LATE GENERAL BIR 5. HAUDE.
SUGGESTS GIFT OF £25,000 TO LADY MAUDE
* LONDON, Fetz 28,
SOUTH AFRICA..
PREMIER'S CHALLENGE TO
NATIONALISTS:::
CAPETOWN, Feb 28,
AIMS MEMORANDUM.
LONDON, Feb. 28.
is arranging for the distribution of the his decision for a week
The Swediah Socialist M. Branting Mr. Francis (the majstrate) reserved don in 2/117 and the T.Tselling rate e
Entente Socialista War Aims Memoran dùm to the enemy Bozialista..
(The High Court's decision endorsed, verand the Home Office contention,
THE FRANCHISE KON
LONDON, Feb. 28.. The newspapers interpret a statement by the Rt. Hent W. Hayes Fisher, 1 President of the Local Government
UPIRITS AT 101. A GLASS“.
Newcastle licensed vicfgallers recently
The Assembly bas adopted "General Botha's metion, by 18 to 22 votes, granting General Smuts leave of Board, in the House of Commons last decided to increase the price of spirits night, that the firas Register under the to 100. per glasa minimam for ordinary Franchise Act would come into force on and 14, 24. fór proprietary spirite." the lat October as indicating that an election is impossible before then wall
absence. The minority consisted of Nationsliate.
The Premier defended General Smate against criticisms of acquiesing in de cisions on minor war questions affecting South Africa The Premier empharf. cally declared that South Africa se in integral part of the British Empire had to do things which ordinarily might
A LIFE SATER.
A FAMILY NECESSITY. TVERY family shamid bo providert A with Chamberlain's Pain Palm st
The Hon. Mr. Claud Severn, Colonial Secretary, informs us that a telegram has been received from the. Governor-General of the Australian Commonwealth to the effect, that Eles- trolytic Zine Refining Works have been established within the Commonwealth under. Government supervision. The Company is now producing Electrolytje Zigo in quantity and the Zinc Procurers Association of Australia, which controls the marketing of the rietal are prepared to enter into contracts for Government requireinénte,
is safe to say that Chamberlain's all times Sprains may be erred in Colic Obolers and Diarrhoea nich less time when momptly.trexte In 4236
PAVSZTEDIGR
SECOND PRIZE
THIRD PRIZE
PRIZES:
Ir $600,000 is available for distribution
WAR CHARITIES will receive
FIRST PRIZE
$125,000
$187,500
56,250
37,500
100. PRIZES of $1,000 to
$93,750
Total
$500,000
YOUR $5 TICKET
MAY WIN YOU
ANY ONE OF ABOVE PRIZES.
KETS obtainable at Banks, Clubs and Leading Ston,
TÄH BORD PRIZES IN LONDON:
London newspapers by the latest
must be checked at nue or schemes run by Mears Harrods and
OVERLAND CHINA
Contains FULL REPORTS OF THE
RACE COURSE TRAGEDY
"Aluitration: Scene of the Ingody
In the House of Commons the Speaker not be dreamt of He challenged the rand a mounge from His Majesty paying Nationalists to any they were not a Demedy has enved the lives of more Lame hack lame shmlder pains for the atribute to the late General Stanley part of the British Empire. They must perple and relieved more suffering thun side and chest and rhegmatic mins are HAT little cold, and gore throat of mails show that the War Bonds Prize and all the other Nowy of the Weak Mande's services in Mesopotaans and either do their duty or establish any other remerly in existence. Is is of the disasses for which it is you recommending the House of Commons republic. He intended to stand by the known all over the civilized world for especially valahle Try this linimest it by develop into
its speedy cures of cramps in the and bosoma zoquiated. fits qualiter Take few dise recognition thereof to grant Lady Empire because he realised that South stomach, diarrhoea and all intestinal and you
without it Cough mudy and you Sernists and Store Boot vand 3audo £20,000 (Loud applante). Africa's future prosperity dependod paiz For sale by all Choonists and Forale
The vote will be moved on Mouday, Loud cheere) *****
Etoriskbesere
sver wish,
Megors Belfridge in London are drawing. will a lot of money and great interest is Chezaista naturally erinced in the drawings for
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