FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1924.
WICKERSHAM CASE..
ANOTHER REMAND.
ROCKEFELLER GIFT.
FOUNDATION TO MAKE
DONATION TO JAPAN. --
withheld.
Before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy yesterday Tokyo, August, 15-The Rocke- afternoon, another remand was feller Foundation this autumn will granted (until August 25) In the announce the granting of a sum of case in which an American subject, $5,000,000 for the building of an named David Belknap Wicker Institute of Hygiene in Tokyo, and sham, President of the American an annual subsidy sufficient to keep Asiatic Company, was charged the Institute in working condition. This offer was made to the with publishing a false statement with intent to deceive the mem-Japanese Government late in June, bers and shareholders of the said and was accepted, but an announce ment was, by mutual consent, Company. Crown Solicitor, conducted the has not heretofore been known here Mr. 3. H. B. Nihill Assistant The nature of the American offer case. Mr. N. 1. Brewer appeared except to officials directly con on behalf of defendant..
cerned, and to the Ministry of Mr. Adolph Pan Shoffer, Secre- Home Affairs. Dr. Emest Carron tary and Treasurer of the Ameri-Faust, exchange professor of the can-Asiatic-Company, stated that Peking Union Medical College, who he had known defendant for 15 or arrived in Tokyo this morning, on Witness first started his way back to the Chinese Capital business in the Far East at Shang from the United States now states hai in 1921 under the name of A.that the plan of the foundation, an known to himself and other mem- Shoffer & Co., the firm consisting of the Rockefeller Institute, of defendant, Mr. Hooper and in for the building of un institute witness with a capital of G.$2,000 of liygiene in this city, with the each in cash. Business was not co-operation of the Japanese Gov- successful at Shanghal and wound up. He then came to Canton and opened a firm of the same name.
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A RAINFALL AFFECTING TRADE OF WORLD.
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ANGLO-SOVIET PACTS,
MODELS FOR FUTURE,
(Reuter' Servios.)
and decided start, followed by a definite pause to enable the cultiva tion of the land to be proceeded with, Throughout the greater part of the plains the May sun has baked the land, into a solid concrete, so An Indian correspondent has that the preparation of the seed contributed the following article to bed as well as actual sowings have..
MOSCOW, August-ai- In plenary session at Moscow the commercial supplement of the to be carried out in the short inter-
val between the first full of ruin and the Soviet government unanim« Manchester Guardian The fact that the prosperity of the tropical downpour of the mid-ously decided to thank the delega the year in India governed by monsoon period: Hence a favourfion to London for its efforts in the course of the monsoon is gen-able incal distribution during inte regard to the Anglo-Soviet agrees erally recognised.
The India July takes all the differencement, and instructing the goverzi Budget has been described as a between good and indifferent crops, ment that in future negotiations Throughout the Punjab, United never to agree to terms which will gamble in rain; monsoon reports affect exchange, and the prices of Provinces, Bihar, and the north of place a new burden of taxation on definite cold-weather season, during M. Rakovsky, in a speach con- the annual reports of the tute which tomparate climate crops are tended that the agreement did not wheat and other foodstuffs, and doe Lentral Provinces there is a the workers of Soviet Russia
frequently provinces elanges in the incidence of crime on, particularly wheat, barley, fringe the laws of the Soviet, in favourable or unfavourable and grain. The cold weather itself regard to nationalisation and the monsoon, as the case may be. The less, and these crops a nulment of debts, while Sovie Exibility of famine is constantly hailed by irrigation wher. Russia will only pay claime Soviet fore the eyes of the Administrar possible) are grown on moisture are recognised as advantage to tion, except in unusually favoured on the preceding mon-itself or for which social justice. areas, and it is not hurprising that root period by a system of dry demands compensation.co the weeks preceding the establish-rating elaborate fu its detail, dicted the ratification of the trea ment of the monsoon current, and ough simple in respect to the because otherwise
implemente employed. The land pers and bondholders would curtain critical stages during it is divided between fallows intended ret nothlag prevalence, are periods of watchful for October sowings and truly M. Chicherin who was greeted anxie to farmer, merchant, and tropicul crops, which mutare at the by the whole audience rising end of the monsoon, according to and shouting onlye' our, red. But famine and scarcity apart; the nature of the soil and local diplomacy describe the treaty it is literally true that the dature of climatic conditions. It follows as the basis of future relations With Discussing his present plans with the rainfall during a comparatively that the mid-monsoon period is other foreign countries. It would
few weeks determines largely not The Japan Tinies this morning only the degree of prosperity for surely equaily favourable for all Dr. Faust, who has just spent the ensuing twelve months, but the an August rainfall well below the affirming the principles of
purposceGoston-thrives-best-with- year as exchange professor at John volume and character of the import average: sunner food grains can Lawrence was given in br
Bolshevik revolution. Mrs. Sust Hopkins University, announces his and export trade of the country do with considerably more rain, and zucnted to Los intention of continuing his surveysing an important repercussion white rice and sugar cane can hardly Soviet In behalf of Balab long in China-and was unable to of China to determine the extent on: world. prices for wheat, receive too much during this period She said that the agreement was from Chinese, he realized thecans by which they are commií.otton, jute, silver and piece-goods. of high temperature and rapid welcomed enthusiastically Dr. Faust is weather phenomen is so world. growth. The fellows reserved for urged the two peoples to
16 years.
Business was pretty good there. On account of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's troops bombarding the city in the summer of 1922 he came down to Hongkong. As he had not been
ernment.
speak Chinese or to solicit orders of the
A SPECIALISTI
invasion of diseases, and
⚫ necessity of engaging a com-cated to man..
pradore. The firm them got one parasitologist, and will lie the only named Chan, security $5,000, professor on this subject at the
P.U.M.C.- which sum was invested in shares to be redeemed in four or fivé years.
.order.
of his business ability.
Trip To Slam. Between August and November, 1923, Mr. D. B. Wickersham went toSiam and the Straits Settlements to view the territory and sell shares. Witness was present, when defendant interviewed the shareholders, He did not pay particular attention to matters which did not
him.
concern
DBRADED BOOKWORM.
in countries, such as Japan and fertilization are similar. The only reason why the disease is not more widespread in this country, is because Japan is situated farther north than Central and Southern China."
official.
It is doubtful if any single group of wide in its effect as the course of
monsoon in India.
propert
help to consolidate the tional situation of the Sovler whilet
wheat and similar crops, particular closely together. ly-if a fortunate break" has It considering the effect of rain absorb and store large quantities of enabled them to be ploughed, will fall on crop production it is almost water. On the whole heavy rain in quick-growing hardy crope, and invariably the distribution, rather August is desired, though if un-why he grows such a great variety than the total precipitation, which accompanied by periods of sun on his small holding for this pane matters. It is possible for s mon shine it may give cause for anxiety. tically constitutes his only method soon of average total rainfall badly At any rate, a good fall in August of insurance
lend to results incans that tanks and shallow-water distributed to
To generalies about a country, the almost, if not quite as disastrous wells, which are used for the irrig-size of India is dangerous in the production despite a rainfall well during this period is that the men-missible to say that an early com as a marked deficiency while certion of cold-weather crops, will be extreme, but within the limite tain years stand out as years of high well supplied.
What is essential already mentioned it may be par below the average. The south soon shall be strong and well mencement of the monsoon is a A wenk monsoon in factor favourable, to high exporte; western monsoon period may be defined.
"In many respects; we are carry ing on work that has been going on in Japan," he says. Conditions He had an agent in Kong-we have discovered in researches moon, who invested $2,000 in made in the interior during the past shares. Mr. Lai Chau-tan, when few years are also very similar to he joined, said that he was an that found here.
The contracting expert in fertilizer, sulphur and of certain diseases through eating .antimony. secured an order for 1,000 tons of just as prevalent in Central China, Mr. Lai Chau-tan raw fish, for instance, seems to be
fertilizer valued at $2,000, which is in Japan. was not accepted because the cus- tomers did not agree to deposit "The Rockefeller Foundation is 25 per cent. of the price on the now focussing its attention to book divided into three phases, but in August means local excess in rain- und therefore to a high purchasing contract or give a letter of crédit worm disease which is so prevalent studying the effect of variations full near the const, and a lack of power, and to a large cotton crop, from the normal in the various penetrating power, so that inland but may be nullified by an early on a local bank. Mr. Lai Chau-tan in China. This disease in con-
withdrawal. Good rainfall during did not introduce any further tracted from the earth, and is found provinces it should be noted that districts receive insufficient..
The third period, which culmine the nid-monsoon period is admitted into the firm on account | China, where the methods of field apply to Madras, the south of the utes in the withdrawal of the favourable sign as regards genoml
Mr. T. H. M. Rohn was
any conclusione arrived at do not Hyderabad State, and the extreme monsoon, is undoubtedly the most prosperity but it too persistent south of the Bombay Presidency, important to those provinces which cotton and some other crops may for the reason that they ure depen-grow large areas of food grains. It suffer. A very early withdrawal is dent on the north-east me up, is the monsoon, which ends early a disaster: cotton will suffer least and, secondly, that the effect of the and abruptly which causes real but the production, of both summer monsoon in the canal colonies of anxiety, for then the Kharif (or and winter food grains and oilseeds Dr. Faust sees much danger the Punjab and in Sind is largely summer) grain crops wither and will be adversely affected; prices modified by the great irrigation food and fadder are scarce, while will rise, and exports of wheat, should Japanese continue to use latrine waste as fertilizer without which their agriculture depends. is lacking in moisture for the pre-September 10. the effect of rainfall systeme, from snow-fed rivers, on the land reserved for winter cropsere, dimmish. After about sterilization.
Nor should Barmah or Assam be parution of a seed bed. The value is so local in importance that gains "THOUSAND, PREVENTABLE DEATHS, included, for there conditions differ in Northern India of three inches of losses are likely to balance, With regard to bloodfinke, first considerably from the rest of rain in September must amount to unless the preceding fortnight Ins Pink books might have been taken discovered around Katever Hill, Ind. This leaves no with an : millions of pounds. It is monsoons been-abnormal-Rain after this out of Mr. Lal Chau-tan's desk and in Japan, and thought to be most enormous tract of country includ- which have ended abruptly at the late. is a disadvantage to cotton in given to people who called at the widespread here. Dr. Faust states ing the head of the peninsula and end of August which have pro Northern India. office. He first suspected morphia that the Rockefeller Foundation' the greater part of the Indo-uced the most serious famines. On important panlification should. smuggling was going on in the researches in China have resulted Gangetic plain-comprising most But, again, it is the distribution he added. The Indian staple office about June 28. Mr. T. H. M. in the discovery that this disease of the Bombay Presidency, the which matters most. So far as cottons are produced largely ont Rohn returned from Bangkok and is infected the whole of the Yang: Centrul Provinces, Bihar and rice and sugar cane ure concerned side the tract described here in came to office about 10.30 a.m. on tze Valley. The disease is contracted Orissa, Bengal (and more parti September can hardly be too wet most detail. Punjab American Western Bengal), the and a good fall is wanted for the (250,000 balea), it is true, is pro July 1 and demanded to see the through the skin in infected water, cularly
United Provinces, and a large slice follows. In the north cotton and diced in the tract affected by the books. On Mr. Hooper's instruc-particularly in rice fields.
Bloodfuke is Tatul if not of the Punjab. Broadly speaking most food grains profit by bright south-west monsoon, but in canal tion, witness refused to show Mr.
medically treated,, Fortunately this is the most densely populated weather with occasional showers, colonies, where the rainfall is light Rohn the books. There was no row between them. He reported about ninety per cent. of the cases and the most closely cultivated part long-continued rain, being pred relatively unimportant; Surat
are carble by the use of antimony of Iulia.
judicial to flowering and fruiting Branch, and Dholleras cottons are drops. Still there are easily a The normal date for the estabFor cotton, indeed; & dry Septemail late types grown in the Gujamt hundred thousand deaths a yearlisliment of the monsoon varies ber is desimble, particularly if division from this disease alone in China, with the distance from the sea-August, has been a month of heavy conditions
of Bombay under and conservative estimates place board, but may be taken appro- rainfall. Tn the Punjab and pical,
more typically tro Witness then went
on to those exposed to the disease at fifty ximately as June 15 to July 6; it United Provinces particularly a wet three months after the close of the and rasture some describe the search made at his million, according to Dr. Fanst. may be stated that delay in com- September often means loss of bolls
He said that it was the house.
The Peking Union Medical mencement restricts the sowing of by shedding and an increase in as already stated, depend on the Thonsoon.. The Madras cottons most improper search that could College is beginning an extensive many important crops, and has a insect damage, and so stained and course of the north-east monsoon be made in a white man's house. cumpaign of cure and prevention definitely prejudicial effect both on wasty cotton. In the Central Pro which also affects the production of Three policemen carried out the in the central and southern dis area and vield. This, is well illus vinces, Barar and Khandesh, where the Southerns type of cotton in search and they looked at every-triets, and though the advance trated by the cotton crop of the crop is later, more rain can be Bomba
Mrs. made thus far is small, the discuse 1923-24. thing they found even
Under the stimulus of tolerated. In the Gujarat division
The indications for the current high prices there was a marked ten- of Bombay, where types of long monsoon are that it is somewhat Shoffer's private letters. After is being gradually checked.
dency to increased sowings, but growth period are produced inte in starting, but is expected to The Kala Azar, another, disease the relatively late, establishment of (Broach, Surat, Dhallerna), a good he satisfactory in strength and not much heard of in the Occiden- the monsoon in important tracte rainfall in September is needed. Volumes that there is overs tal countries, but which is wide-not only limited the ren sown but The final withdrawal of the mon spread in China, in being steadily led to definitely smaller crops than soon normally takes place at the reason to hope for a year of normal wiped out. The disease is be-might have been expected. It is end of September or early October, peperity. The facts set out lieved to have been inuported from not too much to say that given varying in different tracts. For briefly here may render more intel- police left. A similar search took ing of minute organic bodies into the Indian crop would have been the whole is well adapted to the maries of Indian rainfall conditions, Arab, and is caused by the enter more favourable rainfall conditions tunately, the system of cropping on ligible the weekly telegraphic sum the spleen. It is particularly rapid carer to six million bales than to average beluviour of the weather. among children. The erea from the five-million bales eventually Late rainfall benefits-rice-and-sugar-
morphine smuggling to Chief Detective Inspector J. Grant before Mr. Rohn's return to Hong- kong.
the search the house was as if it had been struck by a cyclone. The police after the search went to the office. Lai who was present at the search took an active part, and he suspected that Lai had stolen the $66 which was missing after the
place at the office.
After cross examination by Mr. Nihill the case was adjourned till Monday,
MR. BAU ESCAPES,
was
KIDNAPPERS FOILED.
(Renter's Service.)
SHANGHAI, August,21. An attempt
made to 'kidnap Mr. Y. C. Biu, managing director of the Commercial Press, -to-day. · As Mg." Bad was leaving his house for his office he was, ap- proached by two men who, re questing a three thousand dollar loan, bundled him into a motor -car.......... In the "resuiting struggle, Mr. Bau waS shot in the arm slightly but managed to jump ou the car. "The kidnappers. Kot out Tofile" car: to secure the vicum. "Meanwhile, the police arrived on the spot, whereupon the kidnap pers ran off. The police got in the car and gave chase.” One man escaped and the other.com- mitted suicide after killing ond of the pursuing Chinese police-
mon."
WIPING ONE OUT.
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Tientsin, west, to Peking, Shenzi and Shansi, right across to Chinese Turkestan and other Mohammedan countries, is infected.
This disease is also curable. by the use of antimony drape.
Dr. Faust will remain in Tokyo. for about a week, visiting the various hospitals and medical universities, before leaving for Peking.
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harvested. The growing period for most crops in India is short, and any delay in sowing may have far reaching consequences.
cane, and also the coming winter crops, if not so late or so heavy as to delay sowing, and a late fall of 'rain has often averted scarcity by What has been said of cotton is permitting an enhanced area to be true of the summer food sown with winter crops. For co gmins which constitute 60 ton in the Punjab, Central Pro important a factor in village vinces and Berar, and the Khandesh prosperity, as they are the main division of Bombay it is. an un- sources of human food and fodder mitigated nuisance, causing loss of for cattle: These are sown some crop and depreciation in grade. It what later than cotton, and there will be seen that, broadly speaking, is little anxiety in this respect until cotton does best in years of light well on in July, but further delay rainfall, but one important quali means a change in crop as well as fication must be made : dry seasons a reduction in area. To give one men good production and good example: that exceedingly import-"'class," but are opt to be associated ant food grain the great millet with short or harsh staple.. (Forghum aulgare) can rarely be There is as immense field of work shown in the United Province all in the study of the effect of with any hope of success much after climatic conditions on crop produc the end of July. A seriously fion. The vagaries of the monsoon delayed monsoon means the partial explain why the Indian cultivator replacement of this cereal by the has so strong a predilection for smaller, millets of lower yield and Jean valle Land a corresponding increase in the consumption of wheat and barley."
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