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U.S. ELECTIONS.
POSITION OF REPUBLICANS MENACE
"DOPESTERS" AT WORK.
THE CHINA MAIL.
SOCIAL HYGIENE. JAPAN'S OVERFLOW. PRINCE'S BUILDING.
INCIDENT OF VENEREAL DISEASE. IN INDIA.
U.S. IMMIGRATION LAW RANKLES.
IMPERIAL CONGRESS.
London, Oct. 5. Washington, Oct. 16, One thing the political dopesters The Imperial Social Hygiene I don't seem to have made much Congress devoted to-day's afternoon allowance for is the possibility that session to the Indian aspect of the ultra conservatives, who have
veneral disease. run the Republican party for
Lord Lytton spoke of India's several years may lose control at the next convention, in the course special problems in this connection of the mix up incidental to the ex- and stressed the importance of the change of President Coolidge. as visit to India of the Delegation of standard bearer, for somebody else. the British Social Hygiene Council
The theory appears to have been during his term as Governor. right along that there'll continue
He said that the Delegation had even with Coolidge out of it, to be a "regular" group and an "insur-enlightened Government on many geat" group, just as at present, facts and drew attention to the de- This doesn't necessarily follow. fects and deficiencies in the local Perhaps they'll get together.
arrangements, which had proved of the utmost value.
To be sure, Senator Borah was suggested, as an off-chance Re- publican nominee, the minule Pre- sident Coolidge announced coming retirement.
Major Hussein Suhrawardy read his paper on the economic effects of venereal disease on the industries
This Ides, of course, is piffle. of India. ·
Republicans The old-line would accept Borah in a thouannd
AN UNFORGIVING ATTITUDE.
Tokyo, October 13. Sannosuke Endo 28, slashed his throat with a razor victim of hard times prevailing in Japan. He died rather than have his fiancee find him in poverty when she wired she intended to come from her coun- try home to visit him in Tokyo.
Suicides are increasing through. out Japan because of unemployment and the high cost of living.
The number of stowaways оп outbound
passengers also Increasing, many Уар- hoping to find their anese way to North and South America in an effort to carve a place for Police themselves in the world. found eight men stowed away on the "Shirotatsu Maru." They said they were from Hiroshima Prefec- ture and were to be smuggled into North America by members of the steamer's crew to whom they paid Yen 1,000 each.
ara
CHANGES HANDS FOR LARGE AMOUNT,
YESTERDAY'S BIG DEAL,
cerned.
VIRGIN'S IMAGE,
MIRACULOUS WATER. FROM À HILL
SCHOOL FROM CANDLES..
Ignorance is
bean cured.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1927.4
MALARIA RIFE.
AN EPIDEMIC IN BRITISH MALAYA,
INCREASED VIRULENCE.
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the Shingling and Way- led yesterday when Frince's Build-1 adage, but cashing in on ignorance F.M.S, and the Colony for 1926 Ing.
But a have been published and indicate ing, the large block bordered by Deal is rather a difficult feat. Voeux Road Central, Ice House councillor of Cagayan, Misamis, that the general health of the CAMPBELL MOORE Street, Chater Road and, Statue Cruz Taal by name, capitalised the country was not satisfactory dur-19, Queen's Road C. Tel. C. 161 Square, changed hands from the ignorance and credulity of his town ing that year. Prince's Building and Land Co., Ltd. folk and has raised a considerable The death-rate in the F.M.S. was! to the Hong Kong Land Investment sum with which to construct a 29.22 per mille as against 23.60 for Agency Co., Ltd. at a price of school house. This according to a the previous year. Dr. R. Dowden,
constabulary report.
the Principal Medical $8,000,000.
The block of buildings in ques--
Officer, UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITERS A few months back news of a F.MS, states that this was due to tlon stands on reclaimed ground and was originally built by Sir virgin's Image having been dis-n very great extent to the epidemic Paul Chater, and Mr. N. Mody in govered in a cave at sitio Moog, of malaria which swept over the the early years of this century. It Cagayan, Misamis, spread like wild country during the months be Hun-In some districts it was much more Misamis, says the report. attrasted some of the Colony's lead- Are throughout the province of April, May, June, July and August.
businesses for office purposes and was purchased on behalf of the dreds of people suffering from severe than in others. An in- Central Estates Ltd. In 1922 it was leprosy, tumors and other skin creased, virulence in the type of sold to Mesera, H. M. Nemazce diseases as well as other allmonts the disease was observed.
Exceptionally heavy rains at the and J.. E. Joseph who formed the flocked to the cave and bathed in Prince's Building and Land Co.nearby and after a few end of 1926 followed by a pro Ltd, to supervise the management ablutions many claimed to have longed drought, and the increased amount of clearing jungle land, Councillor Cruz Taal, hearing of which followed the rise in of the various business offices con-
the The price now paid for the build the miraculous in water coming price of rubber may have been DODWELL & CO. LTD. Police are watching all outbounding is the highest for which it has equally miraculous water coming important contributing factors. steamers carefully following re-
ever changed hands,
from the spring, hit on an idea. The Incidence of Malaria, ports that crews of the vessels
He sold candles, and with the pro- Various theories have been ad- fits be garnered the plans to con- vanced by Government and pri have been offering to smuggle
struct a school house which his vately employed medical men Japanese emigrants Into North
town needs.
account for this. American countries at prices rang- Ing from Yen 500 to Yen 1,000 each.
At present, according to the re-
One group holda that waves of Meantime hard timea and a re-
port, many people still pay homage virulent malaria are to be expect He urgently advocated the crea-sulting increase in the desire to But there are a few compromises
to the miraculous image, and
ed every ten years or so; but this thriving business is going on in the is also more or less true of excep- inen who are almost advanced tion of a Ministry of Health, on the emigrate has brought new discus- enough for the Progressives and lines obtaining in England and aion of the exclusion clause against.
In the course of an unusually small barrio where the cave is tional rains. Others consider that not quite too radical for the Old Australia, and the establishment of Asiatics in the imigration laws of candid address at the Annual Con- located. The town's transportation the great increase in the number Guard-which might be made, a General Medical Council, almllar the United States.
ference of the Railway Association, business has,. Likewise prospered, of imported Tamil labourers from Dr. F. Fujisawa, member of the held at Simla, Mr. Biggs, Agent of authorities of Misamis, in order to and a more virulent type of para. Senator Robert B. Howell of to that existing in Great Britain
The municipal India Introduced a great number of says the report. N. braka, now-he's conceivable. and the Irish Free State, in order Imperial Academy and a member of the Madras-Southern Mahratta!
Semtor Arthur Capper of Kan-to place medical education on a
the House of Peera, told a meeting railway, dealt with some of the pro- protact the health of the people, sites. The majority of the cases of the Pan-Pacific Club at Tokyo blems associated with the develop recently ruled that no more ablu were P. falcparum and P. vivax sas would almost do.
sounder and more efficient basis. Howell
tions in the spring will be allowed. Infections, and no differences certainly ix liberal
and the Japanese "neither will for- ment of railways in India. get nor forgivo” America for the He drew attention to the difficulty To enforce the council's edict the forms seen under the micro- eugh for the insurgents. He'd made the conservatives grit their
scope are reported. tooth pretty hard, but they pro-
emigrants from the United States. Geneva Conventions to Indian con- said that this has seriously inter-
It seems probable that the main bably would put up with him. He system of treatment which would
"If any one says that the immi-ditions, and added that the expendi- fered with the "miracle" business. factors were the floods and heavy always has preserved his party re-succeed in India would be by means gration issue is a close incident it ture involved in giving effect to Manila Times."
|rains, the silting of the water gularity.
of the establishment of free, secret is merely an instance of wish being these Conventions might be more
courses throughout the country Capper certainly would go down treatment centres, similar to those father to the thought." Fujisawa profitably employed. for the benefit
which prevents flood water flowing) with the conservatives and he has in Great Britain, while # bald auld, "I wish to state emphatically of the Indian public generally.
off, and causes a rise in the sub- hi Hiberal spells--has been notably policy in the healthy teaching of that our keeping silent and not
soil water level which lasts for a holding humiliation days should sympathetic toward insurgenes the young should also be instituted, not be interpreted to mean we have
long period. matter."United Attention should be given to the dropped provision of many outdoor games.
Major Suhrawardy advocated the
never He stated that the, incidence of years. He couldn't imaginably be the disease was rising: India was, named as anything but a third perhaps, the only country in the party candidate-not much more Empire where the questions of than Senator Norris or. Senator medical education and public health Frazier or young Senator La Fol were scandalously neglected, bath by lette enuld be nominated on the the people and by Government. ; "regular" Republican ticket..
several times.
They're the general type that unite the Republican factions, irre- concilable as they look now,
Free Secret Treatment.
INDIAN RAILWAY PROBLEM.
2,100,000 TICKETLESS TRAVEL-
LERS IN ONE YEAR.
He expressed the opinion that, the/ aot of Congress barring Japanese of adapting the Washington and policeman is daily on guard. It is
It would mean the complete introduction of legislation to stop everthrow of the element which commercialised vice, and added President Coolidge has represented that the problem of the slave traffic
The eastern "big business" ele-in India, as
ment.
But this may not be so difficult. The "big business" element isn't the whole Républican party. isn't even the whole of it minus the insurgents.
On the contrary, it's quité small element, which has held the Whip hand
envisaged by the League of Nations, was one of the greatest urgency and should re- ceive attention.
Mrs. Neville Rolfe, General Secretary of the Congress, referred' to the influence of films in India, and asked the Indian delegates, because President when they reached home. to draw Coolidge has been its white alley.attention to the harmful effect on and Coolidge has been personally moral standards and sccial customa so popular that the Old Guard has by the type of film largely shown had to make the best of him and
in India to-day. his crowd-and dead sore about it all the time, too,
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States.
the
SMALL WORRIES.
NEURESTHENIA INCREASING AMONG EUROPEANS.
The annual report on the health of the Straits and F.M.S. for 1926 states:
JOAN OF ARC.
to
in
Mr. Biggs referred also to the fact that during the year ended June 30 last nearly 2,100,000 people had been detected travelling with- out tickets. He invited the help of COUNT'S STORIES OF MODERN many new seepage areas and breed- passengers to check unauthorised travelling.
AN AGED ZULU.
CURES.
The sub-soil water forming
ing places, while the increase in the Indian labouring population. may have increased the supply of Referring to the Indianisation of
Relica, principally letters, said to gametocytes. However the in- the railways, the Agent stressed the point that many Indian officers, have been written by Joan of Arc, cidence of malaria was universal are claimed by a descendant of her throughout the F.M.S. and occurred after the confirmation of their ap-brother, now in London, to possess in many places where there had mointments, were too prone to think
been no influx of new labourers. that they had nothing more to learn. miraculous healing powera.
None of these theories are cap-: The man who claims to have wit nessed two cases of miraculous cure able of absolute proof but many is the Count de Maleissy, of Chateau new breeding places were found in d'Hauville, near Chartres. He is a Kuala Lumpur by the Health On- descendant of "The Maid's" brother, cer, Dr. Black and his staff, after A South African native, Stophen and is visiting London for the first the rains, and it is not unreason- Zandoola, who has been removed to time. It is necessary to remark upon the Johannesburg Hospital suffering
able to suppose that there were the increasing number of cases of
One of the letters was written similar happenings elsewhere. neurasthenia, Europeans of both
from senile decay, has lived under to the citizens of Rheims telling Anti-Malarial Measures. five British. Sovereigns. sexes being affected. There is no
Now in them the course the war would
During the year the anti-malarial his 118th year, he is only four take. The other consists of orders measures were in no way relaxed doubt that in the case of many men the cause is the increase in the South Africa,
years younger than British rule into the army.
and the distribution of quinine was amount of work to be done, the
Relating the story of the miracles, carried out as usual. monotony of the climate and of in Kimberley seventy
Born at Fort Beaufort, he settled the Count de Maleissy said:- Tablets of quinine to the num the life, in spite of recreations un-thirteen years before diamonds were very sick with a kind of peritonitis. various Health Officers for ultimate years ago, "By father's first cousin was ber of 1,043,200 were lasued to the known in the past, and perhaps discovered, and Kimberley, as it is Famous doctors had given her up, free distribution to the public the tendency to burn the candle at now known, was begun. He makes when she begged for Joan of Arc's through the Police, the Education both ends, stay up half the night the interesting claim, the African letters. My father took the letters Department and the District Off and work all day. In most stations World states, that the Kosa were to her, and the moment he approach cers, also to the Senior Medical the daily routine is the same and
no called because he with the members of the clubs do not Zulus stole Chaka's dog "Xosa"
othered the girl she began to feel better. Officers for distribution through "Next day the doctors came think the various travelling dispensaries. change. Failing Hoover, there are Frank
New York. Sept. 15.
when they rebelled against Chaka ing to find a dead girl, and found. Small worries become great ones
Lectures, lantern demonstra- 0. Lowden and Charles G. Dawes
and went to the Cape.
her absolutely well. Mgr. Juan Navarette, Bishop of only too easily, often with the most
tions, notices in all languages, and okeh on the farm proposition and Sonora in Mexico, surrendered him- disastrous results. In the case of
He has clear recollections of the
The other case was that of anti-malaria propaganda was vigor sufficiently "big business" to sult self last night to the United States European women, lack of definite Retief and the Zulus, and of Cecll been given up by the doctors. Her Health Education Committee.
Great Trek, the fight between Piet Mlle. d'Humeleres, who also had ously carried out by the Public all practical purposes. ·
Federal Court in Tucson, Arizona, occupation and the straining after Rhodes at Kimberley in his early father, having beard of the former The trouble is that the Progres-and was released on $2,600 (£500) amusement and
excitement are days.
Much remains to be done. As sires won't stand for "big busi bail.
During the Boer War he case, asked for the letters. It was an example of this one may quote often to blame, but the climate was à transport driver with the midnight, but my father started at the case where after a lecture, the ne28."
He was one of several persona does not suit a good many ladies. British Army and did good work. ence for Paris with the letters. He lecturer having displayed various "Big Business" policy is to tell
It is possible that were the four-
placed them on the patient's breast the Progressives to go to heck.amed in indictments brought in Eing in control, that's what "big by the Grand Jury last week for teen days casual leave now avail- He is now being well looked after.
and the next day she was cured, forms of quinine, one of his au-
dience a Malay said to him: business" has been doing for the conspiracy to organise a military able yearly extended to a month
expedition against Mexico.
things might improve. It is to be According to the vernacular sums for the letters, but we will not well but we know that the quinine "What you say, may be all very The Bishop went voluntarily to hoped that when the Cameron's press, the Japanese landing force, part with them. They have been in you have shown us is made from The Old Guard's for compromise Tucson from Nogales, on the Highlands Hill Station is an ac-
which has been for the past few our family since the time of Charles the ground up bone and livers of -not for nominating a communist, frontier, to appear to his indict-complished fact conditions will be months stationed in Shanghai, will | VII. They are kept in a secret dead men." but not for insisting on an
soon be transferred to Hankow, place at the Castle.” peror, either.
With Coolidge retiring, "biz business" will try to hang onto the supreme party authority through a substitute for him-but can it offer a substitute with the same popular, apneal?
Herbert Hoover is its first bid. He's "big business" all through, but his farm record's bad,
Inst few years.
A BISHOP ON BAIL.
MILITARY EXPEDITION TO MEXICO ALLEGATIONS.
emment.
It's liable to be anybody's fight)
in 1928-Central Press.
POPE'S SPEECH.
CONSIDERABLE CATHOLIC
COMMENT.
London, Oct. 2. The "Observer's" Paris corres- pordent says there is considerable comment in Roman Catholic circles: on the Pop's speech to the Amer-
ican Legionaries, which, according to the Gauloin" is a distinct de- parture from the neutral attitude hitherto taken.
war
is noted that no official reporti
of the speech has been published, but Action Francaise asserts that the Pope blessed those who saved! Europe with their blood.
e paper points out that neither Canal Mercler nor the French Cardinals ever obtained so remark- able an approval of the Allied cause and congratulates the Americans for obtaining from the Pope ›Buch an implicit condemnation of Gor- man, aggression, marking a definite change in Papal policy.
ASHES OF SACCO AND VANZETTI.
Paris, Oct. 5.. Stringent regulations were ins posed with regard to the ashes of Sacco and Vanzetti, upon their ar- rival at Cherbourg, in the possça- alor of Signorina Vanzetti, who is On her way to Italy.
She was not permitted to land until she had signed an undertaking that the urn immediately would, be placed in a car and transportad directly to the frontier,
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London, Sept, 28, Air Commodore Samson, who led] the Air Force flight to Cape Town last April, and who has been nick- named the Captain Hettie of the Air Force owing to his dapperneas: and short rakish beart, will shortly be retiring.
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