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RUSSIAN GOLD.
SIGNIFICANT BELGIAN
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LEPROSY.
“DEFINITELY EXTABLISHED AS INFECTIOUS."
BRIGHT HOPES.
FROM THE RUSSIAN VIEWPOINT.
THE CHINA MAIL
A PUZZLE.
IS HE THE FATHER OR SONT
FRENCH IN SIAM.
CELEBRATION OF JULY
· FOURTEENTH.
On the evening of July 14 at the Hotel Royal, "les Camarades fran- cas de la grande guerre residant.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1927.
MINT AT WORK.
MILLIONS OF COINS TURNED
OUT AT HANGCHOW. 、
Shanghai, Aug. 1. According to a Hangchow mess-
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The Paris police are trying to solve an identification puzzle, the central figure in which is a reput u Slam" gave a farewell dinner age dated July 28, received in ed centenarian.
to their President d'honneur, Mon- Shanghai to-day, the Nanking Jean Baptiste Tourenne, a re-stour Wilden, on the occasion of his Government in May last appoint- Practi-ed Mr. Chin Pai-shun, head of the tired railwayman who for more approaching departure.
catly all the members of the Bank of China at Hangchow, and than 40 years has drawn a pen-French Legion" were present with Mr. Shen Wel-chen, head of the 19, Queen's Road C. Tel, C. 181 sion from the State Railway, has, the exception of the ecclesiastics, Bank of Communications there, as according to his own account, and some 22 sat down. The dining Chief and Vice-Chief, respective-
building of trade union offices but not infected in Infancy, If retrë, created by the agents of entered upon his 100th year. He hall of the hotel was, prettily de-ly, of the Mint at Hangchow,
The letter is written by Dr. ment, are free of the disease, it is Moscow, as a result of the disin says he saw the first railway to corated under the direction of which had been suspending opera"}} UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS
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Researches by Dr. H. Windsor The following is a translation of A remarkable disclosure of the
entitled "Bright activities of the Russian tade Wade, chief pathologist of the an editorial, unions is just now agitating Bel- Cullon leper polony, and Dr. J. N. Hopes," "in "Shanghai Zarya"
Rodriguez, recently acting chief "The injurious policy of the gian Labour. A letter has been physician there, have definitely es- U.S.S.R. In China has been al- published showing the Russian tablished that leprosy is infectious, most completely suppressed by trade unions to have secretly and have exploded the theory once the efforts of the interested subscribed nearly £4,500. towards generally held that the disease was Powers and the co-operation of the building of the Maison des hereditary.
a Children born of leprous parents moderate Chinese groups. Tramwaymen In Brussels,
"The Hankow Government cen- moved from the leprous environ- with a public hall and cafe.
be built in France and worked on tegration of the Kuomintang, the line,
The Mint, at the request of] Marteaux and M. Frans Liebaers now definitely learned..
Results of the Culion researches found itself a stranger to the
He is still in the beat of health, cheerful, зауа the "Bangkok various banks in Shanghai and to Mr. Melnitchansky, of the
are embodied in a pamphlet just masses, and, is now feverishly
elsewhere, recommenced opera- "office for foreign relations of fasued by Drs, Wade and Rodriguez, struggling for the re-establish and though his moustache is Times."
white, his hair is only slightly After dinner, the President, M. tions in May last to turn out the Russian trade unions. It en-which contains many Important ment of its national prestige. closes two receipts, one for the contributions to medical science. "The only place where the de-grey and he looks no older than Baudart, in a few warda, touched coins. It has since been produc first instalment of $7,435 and 263 "It is now recognised," say the vice of the Soviet Unions can still 60. He was preparing to cele- with emotion, reminded them of the ing 160,000 to 300,000 dollars' sterling, the second for $7,000, authors, "that the maintenance of be applied is the district under the brate his centenary when the too short stay of M. Wilden in Siam, worth of coinage a day, and the
where by his directness, his kind- and asks for the third instalment leprosy in a family is not due to military control of Marshal Feng manager of the railway company ness and his spirit of devotion he coins so far turned out amount to (of about $7,625) towards the heredity, or even to congenial in Yu-hsiang, but even there signs received an anonymous letter has won all hearts, Mr. Baudart $80,000,000, of which $10,000,000 that Jean Baptiste went on to express the high honour is in the coinage of the old type total subscription of 800,000 fection, but to infection after birth
Mot cen- which is felt by the association of with the portrait of Yuan Shih- munistic orthodoxy are showing, Tourenne was francs to be sont as soon as favoured by the close association of the weakening of the com- stating
of family life. -
but Was the 60 the French comrades at being able kal, and $8,000,000 in the new possible.
"It should be borne in mind rendering it of less value to tenarian
years'-old aon of Jean to count Corporal Wilden among coinage with a portrait of Dr. Sun In order to avoid trouble (says that: First, the disease is
not Moscow.
The Moscow International, Tourenne. The son was supposed their active members. Few Minis- Yat-sen. According to the same DODWELL & CO. LTD.
ters of France can, like him, claim the letter); considering how Bel- highly contagious, particularly in
15,000,000 dollars' gian legislation stands at present, healthy people who lead hygienic however, evidently does not wish to have died in 1900. Father the designation of "simple poilu," message, it would be wise until Russia has lives, and even in more primitive to cede its position entirely in the and son, said the writer, had the and his departure will be an irre- worth of coins have already been regular diplomatic relations with peoples among whom it has long Far East, and is urgently looking same name, and since 1900, the parable loss for the association. sent to Shanghai, and the Mint
Second, what is usually for new ways and means.
son has been Impersonating the But in our expression of regret we la now turning out new coins to Belgium, which seems unlikely existed.
must associate also the name of the amount of $240,000 a day. Mme. Wilden. She has been in Bangkok the perfect type of the "femme francaise." Indeed Mme. Wilden will leave In Bangkok a memory as lasting as that of her husband.
names.
to be long now,"to nominate three though incorrectly called the in- or more comrades from the Bel-cubation period is very variable gian trade union movement to and usually long. Apparently au- represent the Russian trade union thentic instances of 10 to 20 years organisation: It woulld be neces- and longer are on record. Perhaps It is three or five years on an aver- sary for the time being to put the age, with, however, wide variation. allotment of shares in their A person may easily forget con- tact with a leper or other exposure The main structure is virtually happening several years before. Anished, but in order to enable On the other hand, he may have us to complete it we should be been entirely ignorant of such con- glad if you would arrange for the tact or exposure. third instalment ...
"Children and young people are to be sent As soon as possible. The general comparatively prone to acquire the disease, particularly those between view of the building is very 10 and 20 years. Among adults, effective--numbers of offices for males are for some unknown rea- trade union organisations, a son generally more prone to in- magnificent hall for meetings and fection than females; in the Philip- celebrations, with 1,500 seats, a pinea, as in many other places, the large cafe, etc. We shall send proportion is two to one." you photographs ás soon as The Philippine health service will soon inaugurate a new system possible.
in the antileprosy campaign, according to Dr. Jacobo Fajardo, The letter goes on to deal with director of health. Until recently, domestic matters and quarrels behe aaya, compulsory segregation of tween the various brands of bacteriologically positive cases was
the only Communista.
available anti-leprosy All work for unity (it declares) measure, Now, special emphasta needs for its development a clean, can be laid on treatment and, with healthy atmosphere, with tried education of the people concerning
"The 'Kommintern' recognises militants for its leadership. We its value, on the attraction of felt that with Comrade Vercruyce patients while yet favourable for mistakes committed by its agents
in China in neglecting revolution- The railway, company charged on the executive it was impossible
The "Tried Militants."
treatment.
Mias Lucille Miller has an odd model named "Pelican Pete," the pet of thousands of bathers at Ocean Park, pose for her while she carves a statuette of him.
father, whose pension he has been drawing.
The President then asked those present to raise their glasses In honour of M., and Mme. Wilden: and this was done with enthusiasm. M: Wildan's reply was marked by wit and humour, but one could feel the emotion under the pleasant words. After returning thanks, he recounted how, though by nature the most pacific of men, he had been, from the age of twenty, involved in waging war. Attached as Inter- preter to a railway company in China, he had. taken part in several expeditions and in the Boxer war. [M. Wilden did not say, but all the world knows, that at the age of 21 he was decorated with the Cross of
MEDICAL CONGRESS.
MANILA OFFICERS FOR INDIA.
Washington, August 2. The war department to-day directed Major General Fred W. Sladen, commander of the Philip pine Department, to assign one or two army medical officers from his command
as delegatea to the Seventh Congress of the Far East- ern Association of Tropical Medi- eine, to be held at Calcutta, India. The Congress will opan on August 12 and close on September 6--| Associated Press.
THE PRICE OF PEACE.
the Legion of Honour for feats in Mr. J. R. Clynes, M.P., addreas- that war. Thereafter M. Wilden ing a meeting at Buxton said: gave some account of his later cam-"At the end of the committee! paigns up to the great war. He stage of the Trades Union Bill the said that it is with great regret amazing offer was made to us to that he is leaving Siam; he leaves act with the Government in some only for reasons of health. In con- endeavour to improve machinery clusion he gave the toast of France, the little France of Bangkok and of the best in It, the ex-service men.
The new system, when develop-ary armies for the sake of attain- Jean Baptiste Tourenne with BEYOND THE GRAVE. to fulfil these conditions. Oed, according to him, will be three-ing agrarian revolution, which fraud: When arrested he pro- grounds of morality, for failure fold: First, early cases, detected circumstance has led to the grad-tested that he was the centen- WHY A STUDENT COMMITTED to keep his engagements, and for when only "clinically positive," ual loss of influence by Moscow arian. "Open my family grave, no other motives, as he may per-will be offered regular treatment and the strengthening of national he said, "and you will find there haps have falsely declared to you, locally, without segregation. When
we have called upon him to resign the treatment is efficiently given, centres.
"The new phase of Moscow | son." from the executive of the co. and regularly taken, it may be ex- operative. The result of these pected at least to prevent further policy in China will consist in a
SUICIDE.
New York The chaotic philosophy which is unsettling the minds of medica!
for conciliation and industrial peace. They can get peace and co-operation without this Bill, but not with it. If this Bill is set aside, Ministers might with some effect invite responsible · leaders to come together to ensure the margin of overseas trade of which we are in need, and to create greater contenment and conf- dence in the pursuit of our in- tereats.
"We could," he added, "trade
vagaries of conduct has been development of the disease, and period of cessation of activities, centenarian," said the police students in the United States has with Russia and be friends with}
the creation within this trade usually to effect eure
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ex-
resulted in a new tragedytheher people without approving any third of its kind since Christmas of the revolting acts of violence -when Cassels W. Noe, aged 20, committeed by Russian leaders. while his parents were at church, It may be that these acts only shot himself with his father's continue the conditions which revolver to learn what is beyond were common in Russia under the the grave."
rule of tyrants and Czara. But Like his chura, Joseph Moore, no working-class clause can be a fellow-student of medicine, and advanced by acts of barbarity or Rigby. Wile, who killed themselves on New Year's Day, after writingbour must-hold-in-abharronce."- vengeance, which organised la- latters giving "convincing but faulty reasons for their suicide," obsessed with psy- Noe was chological problems..
With a group of students' he entered into a weird pact, having for its purpose inter-communica-
WILL RELIEVE MOTHER'S FEARS.
the remains of my wife and my
"You look very young for a during which time fresh groups of commissary. Second, cases that are bacterio-Chinese communists will be train-
"I am a bit groggy on my pins," union movement of two clans, logically positive will first be treated in Moscow, whilst the attention was the reply in effect. which are rending one another. ed in regional stations. Here the of the Powers will be diverted by
Jean Baptiste is being detained In the tumultuous general meet patients may be visited freely by means of the economic boycott in custody, while the grave is to ings the tactlessness of Vercruyce their friends. So far as permitted carried out under the pretext of be opened and the remains are to provokes particularly unfortun- by the apacity of those institu nationalist movement.
be submitted to a medical patients who respond "Leaders of the Far Eastern ate incidents, which jeopardise tions,
amination. the future of the trade union, favourably to treatment will re-policy of the Kommintern con- within which a strong minority main there until they become nege sider that two years of cessation is forming for demanding his tive and can be sent home.
Third, cases that prove not satis-of activities in China will be suf- withdrawal from the organisa-factorily responsive to treatment ficient for them to re-establish
Afghanistan, writes the "Shang tion,
will be removed to the Culion leper their lost position. This purification would have colony. It is important, Dr. "To these bright hopes it is hai Zarya," informed the military been secured already if Jacque- Fajardo states, that such patients necessary to add the following authorities of the U.S.S.R. of the in the remark:They can be realised if, intention of the Afghanistan motte had not been continually should not accumulate
A paule of fear seizes mother when dis on the one side, the Soviet Union Government to request the form
sudden and severe cramps, agenizing manoeuvring in the lobbies, where stations, for they tend
Further, Culion in the meantime does not undergo er to recall from Kabul repre- tion between the living and the intestinal pains and weakening diar he accomplished, a dirty piece of courage others. work which may compromise the is more suitable for them, for it serious changes, and on the other, sentatives of Soviet Aviation dead. To his father, a well-to-do rhoes prostrate some one of the family. Keep Chamberlain's Colle very existence, of the trade is comfortable, attractive town in Chinese Nationalism does not] Squadron and radio station opera dentist, before firing the fatal and Diarrhoea Remedy in the home 1 large reservation, and the con succeed in expelling the remnants tors, who are engaged in revolu shot, he addressed a note asking and such emergencies need cause ditions of life are much freer and
tionary propaganda under the pre-him to tell Norton, another student, neither fear nor alarm.. It casas pain We want to work for trade more normal than in the restrict of communistic influence."
The Soviet Military Attache in text of giving instructions." to watch for a message."
almost instantly. Bold everywhere, union unity. We do not want to ed area of a treatment station. emphasise the political discords
Dr. Fajardo states "this system which are splitting the prole will offer to persons afflicted with
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leprosy important inducements for This letter was sent, not by the early recognition of their condi Maison des Tramwaymen, but on tion. Non-segregation and prob- behalf of the group calling itself ability of care in the case of those not yet bacteriologically positive, "Unity" working for "unity" be- and regional segregation and a fair tween the Communists and non-chance of cure for the earlier post- Communists, but, as the latter tive cases, should induce those in allege, merely pursuing a policy the earlier stages of the disease to of internal disruption. The off-report voluntarily. When this at cials of the Maison des Tramway- titude becomes general the eradica- men itself announce that they tion of leprosy from the Philip- only applied to the Russians when pines will, unquestionably, be the bank of the Belgian Labour greatly accelerated." "Manila
Bulletin." party had refused a loan, and deny that they are Communist. On this the "Peuple," which publishes the correspondence, de- clares that all the same the hall is where the Communists meet regularly, and where the offices
union....
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