WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1926.
KARAKHAN EXPOSED DRINK REALITIES.
PATIENCE OF MUKDEN LOST.
The following Mukden mossago Todo April 1, sent by Reuter to Shanghal amplifies the very brief message sent to Hongkong.-
IRISH COMMISSION AND MORAL EVILS.
Thes
What particularly ke hn the report, (of the Intoxicating: Liquor. Commission of the Irish Free State), is, the abatement of prin ciples with which I openA
entities of the drink question have. never that I know of been more temperately ON more Muccinctly presented. "Temporanee legislu- ture. anys the Commissioner. "has succeeded in the part only so far as the willingness of the community,
The Government of the Three Eastern Provinces took a drastic step yesterday when, in reply to communication from the Consolate General of the U.S.S.R., It announced that its patience with Comrade Karakhan had become exhausted and consequently when the Mukden Army entered. Pekingvolved has permitted it to sue- he would no longer be regarded as the representative of the Moscow Government.
A Comrade's Faux Pus. On April D Comrade Podolsdy, Consul General ad interim of the USSR... adressach letter to Kao Ching-lo, Chlef of the Central! Diplomati Administration of "the Three Bastern Provinces, in which he stated that on the 8th of this month Chang Kuo-cheng, Council- for of the Central Diplomatic Administration, declared during a conversation, that the Government of the Three Eastern Provinces would repudiate responsibility for the personal security of the Am- Bassador of the USSR in China. Comrade Karakhan, whom Zeking was occupied by Mukden broop Such a declaration, though made unofficially, was so exceptiom! and BO contrary to butérnational usages that he. Comrade Podolsky, felt necessary to eat the attention of He the Administration thereto. felt certain--and he hastened to assure Mr. Kuo--that such a state- ment could not have been uttered with his know erge as he personally new the Chief of the Diplomatie Administration as a worthy repres sentative of China's, 1,006 year-old culture. Me: Kannast regret with him Comence Podolsky) that a "subofimate could forget in such degree the respect due to a repre sentative of Government Ro Friendly to the Chinese Repüblic as
cech" Thon America has not existed and experimented in vaẩm.
It has at least taught the world
THE
Mr. John Leslie, CPR comp- this fundamental lesson. Monstroller, who was recently appoint. evils, continues the Report, ed vice-president and comptroller
can most effectively be combated of the C.P.R. Company. by moral agencies.... The community enn only interfere with the individual when his con- duct interferes unpleasantly with, the community. The right to interfere with the drunkard is
BLOOD TESTS.
the right to interfere with a LOCATING CANCER IN EARLY
STAGES. public hulsance, but this right does not antitle the law to prohl
It is more-
14
ELECTRIC POWER
REMARKABLE RESULTS AT THE QUESTION OF RATES
BARTON
IN HARBIN
The Harbin correspondent the "Shanghai Mercury" on April 4:
of
COUNCIL DISBANDED. The total amount of rates re not one having been
colved by the towherby 1,800,000 and the members of dollars, of which one million la are in theft
same as the Russian paid by Russians and half million by Chinese, the remaining were doing. 800,000 being paid by other The Consuls of the Powera e will probably be remembered
ATTITUDE OF THE CONSUES, nationais. Of this amount 110 which signed the 1914 Agreement.
000 is Japanese, but only about 25 paid a visit to the Civil Adminis that the coal consumption at
Wang. per cent of the Japanese amount trator, General Chang Barbon power station per unit
has been paid, therefore, if the hang and the Japanese Condul generated, as given in the statis-
writes Consuls of other nations told Mr Amau, as the Doyen of the their nationals not to pay rates, Corps, asked that the old council: tical abstract prepared by the
the loss would be small. But if members should be re-instated Electricity Commissioners for the
The action of the authorities in town rates are not paid, then pro- This request was refused, but the year ended March 31, 1025, waS
disbanding the counell and replacperty cannot be held by the Civil Administrator said the 1,51 lb and that this figure wasing it by a temporary committee foreigner, and then what is to would be pleased to discuss the considerably ower than that of has not caused so much excite happen to the huge works of the question of the new council and any other station in Britain.mont in the town as was expected. Produce-Export Company and the the formation of same, so that The corresponding Agure for the The late counell's time was up large building of the Hongkong foreigners who pay rates should some months ago, and was only and Shanghal Bank? These two have some voice in the control of over-all thermal efficiency Was
in power at the request of the companies would have to pay the the finances. The Consuls said 19.85 per cent. Both these figures Chinese authorities, who had not rates even if private people did that they must consider this point, have now been improved upon, yet worked out a new scheme of not, in the same manner as the and left the house. the coal consumption for Novem- management. There is no doubt International Banking Corpora ber having been 1.83 lb. per unit that the action was taken in con- tion pay for their building, though generated and the thermal nection with the general move all other Americans pay nothing, efficiency, calculated on the units ment against the so-called Red as they did not sign the 1914 generated, having reached 22.11 propaganda in China, the author agreement. for the same month. The station ities fearing that the next council is, of course, a largo one, repre-would be composed of Russians sentative of the latest British with strong communistic ideas. practice, and has the advantage
these
of a very high load factor, but even when due allowance is made bit or unduly restrict the satis- GERMAN SCIENTIST'S CLAIM. for these fortunate circumstances, it will be admitted by engineers, faction of a natural and legiti-
Dr. H. M. Mitchell, senfor In general, and by power-station mate appetite by reasonable and moderate men who do not abuse honorary surgeon of the Liverpool engineers in particular, that all their rights. The ident to be Hospital for Cancer and Skin concerned with the design, con- aimed at, therefore, seems to us Diseases, in appealing at the struction, and operation of the to be w system of law which will annual meeting of the Institution station must be congratulated on soeure good order and remove the for subscriptions towards the re- the results, especially as abuses connected with the con- construction of the hospital, said have been obtained under ordin- sumption of an article, the use that a leading German scientist, ary working conditions extend of which may be voluntarily whose name he was not at libertying over a considerable period.
The operating costs, as would bandoned, but cannot be foro "diselose, now claimed that by
means of a cleverly devised ap-be expected from the efficiency cibly suppressed, over, abundantly clout from aparatus he could examine a few and coal consumption figures, are
highly satisfactory, drops of a patient's blood and de- also human and legislative experience tect cancer in its early stages in average cost per unit sent out that there are limits to the com-
Having amounted to 01472 for In addition, the scientist, could, the last quarter of 1925. This pulsory suppression på drinking any organ of the body.. and hit when carriad, beyond shose imits it diblends its own he said by examining a patient's figure is made up of the following: Coal, including coali blood six months after an opera-items abject by tending to promote more
and ash... hauling," tion, tell whether the operation handling had been successful, in removing 0.111d; operating labour and all traces of cancer from the supervision, 0.019d; oll, water affected parts. This was a very and sundries, 0.008d; and re- important advance in medical pairs and maintenance, 0.009d. that of the U.S.S.R. Comrade find the essential and enduring science, and he believed that we The above, it will be noticed, are
Prohibition more were near Podolsky added that the immense frase aguinat
the dawn of a great works costs, and do not cover in- responsibility which, had been effectively or more quietly put discovery which would bring con- terest on capital expenditure or
words-Sydney these placed upon Him by the fact that than
Isolation and comfort to many depreciation of plant.
anxious hearts.
Dr. Mitchell added:--
injurious forms of excess as well As an evasion of the law by com- I do not know where you win
mon consent.
ho had heart such a declaration Brocks in "Saturday Review," obliged him to`nsk for an explana tion so that he might report it to his Government.
Patience Exhausted.
MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS
vi
The B. 1. s.. "Santhin" will leave Amoy for this post tri-morrow at pm and is dus here on April 30 at pm.
the
A suitable allowance for these two items would be 0.150d. per The discovery was made by a unit, bringing the total cost to German scientist under whom 30.297d. per unit. Et would thus have studied. He has been appear that the decision of the working for some four or five Manchester Corporation to con- years and has evolved an entire struct the Barton power station, ly novel method is appara in accordance with their policy of tus is quite original and off the ensuring an adequate supply of lines of any previous research cheap power to the industries of It consists of instruments for the city and its environs, has been
blood measuring
re-actions
amply justified, and there can be spectroscopically,
little doubt that its continúed Pre-Cancerous Condition.
operation will prove to be a by no
means negligible factor in maintaining and enhancing the bands of colour, and this seien-prosperity of the district-En- tist has discovered that in a gineering.
• Ordinary blood, examined in certain this manner, gives
pre-cancerou
condition the
blood gives quite different re- actions.
I have seen this method des nionstrated in Liverpool; quite privately. Not only can the of scientist tell the presence
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BOOK 1925.
which are looked upon as the forerunners of vancer, but he has also demonstrated frequent- ly that he can actually tell the precise organ of the body in
The "Chiel of the Central Diplo matie Administration of the Three Erstern Provinces replied under date April 12 to the Consulate General of the U.S.S.R. Be point-
The CPS. R.M.S. "Empress of edous that on March 24, Consul Comrade Krakovetsky was informed Asia," Capt. 1. D. Douglas, R.N.R.. by the winen DIE
behalf of the Commander, will leave here for Victoria and Vancouver, BC, via of
and Marial and in the presence Chang Koo-cheng, that since the Shanghai, Nagasak Kobe
Comrade Yokchama at noon on Apr 30. of China arriva in
The P. & O. s.s. "Khyber, lett Karakban the latter had employed Bribery to cause sindent riots ant Singapore for this port on April 26. had assisted Marshat, Feng Yu-at p.m. with the outward English heiang with arms in order to createMails, and is due here on May 1 internal strife in China. which at about 6 nm:
The CP.S.. E.M.S. "Empress of actions constituted a misuse of his ambassadorial position, a violation Australia" Teft Yokohama ou April and 24, and is due at Vancouver on of international usages, breack of the Mukden Agreement. May 5. The Mukden Government had been. The CP.S., R.M.S. "Empress of
those Canada" left Vancouver for Hong- patient, but now their patience wha exhausted. Reifig convinced. how-kong, via Japan. ports and Shang ever, that Comrade Karakhan's hai on April 17 aud. le due here- actions were exclusively his own on May 5. and not those of the Government' which he represents, and in view of the consolidation of the friendly relations which exist between the twą Governments, the Government of the Three Eastern Provinces officially requested the Consul General in Mukden to warn in due. time his Government of the neces- aity of replacing Comrade Karakhan by another person. It was also pointed out that according to the
Consignees of cargo. declaration made by Marshal Chang
·Tao-lin ras January 28 hè no longer "Langton Hal are reminded that recognised Comrade Karakhag goods remaining in the Godowns the ambassador of the U.S.S.R. in undelivered after May 3 will be China and therefore, as soon as subject to rent. Peking was accupied by the Allied Consignees of cargo exs.s. tropps Comrade Karakhan wolt"City of Lyons" are reminded no longer be considered as being that all goods remaining in the entitled to the protection of inter Godowns undelivered after May 8, national law as he had postponed will be subject to rent. beyond measure his departure from the country.
Moscow Informed..
The s... "Ceylon" (Swedish East: Asiatic Co., Ltd.), left Antwerp on April 4 and is due here on or about May 12:"
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which the cancer is located or EDITED BY: H. G. W. WOODHEAD may develop.
His findings were supported
Than Ever
at the demonstrations in Liver Large And More Comprehensive pool, and at the demonstrations he has given elsewhere, by the work of the surgeon and the pathologist.
Prevention.
The present. (1925-6) issue u the CHINA YEAR BOOK in again onaiderably larger than any o The method is all in keeping is predecessors. The Chapter: with the best tendencies of
n "Mines and Minerals," "Educa modern medical research; that
don," "Products," "Labour. is, it is designed to prevent,
"Ship Opium," "Commerce," rather than cure. Its dinical application will undoubtedly being." "Currency," etc., have bec ewritten and brought up to dati
to enable doctors to detect can- the Report of the Shanghai Chil cerous conditions before they have
methods of clinical treatment-
developed into actual abour Commission is reprinted. growths, and then
other full in the Chapter in "Labour
"The Political Summary" describer such for instance, as the onevents up to the end of March which is being followed in 1925. The Chapter on "Defence Liverpool, that of introducing Ppears at the end of the Book certain colloids of heavy metal New Chapters include a Summary in the bloodstream will be adopted.
On April 1 during the audience which was given by the Marshal -to Consul-General, Comrade Krako, vetsky, the Marshal inquired per- Bonally if the above mentioned re-tinue the letter from the Central quest had been telegraphed to Diplomatic Administration of the Moscow and the Consul-General ra- Three Eastern Provinces, that the plied that he had sen; a telegram words of Councillor Chang were scientist relating the facts of the situation.
Scepticism...
A leading authority on cancer told a "Daily Mail" reporter.com- cerning this claim of the German
merely a repetition of the declara- Although it cannot be denied
that such a discovery is pos It appes from the above, ton-tion made previously on March 24
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