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PREMIER'S
THE
SPEECH ON
RECONSTRUCTION.
NAVAL BATTLE IN THE GULF OF FINLAND.
COUNT KAROLYI'S MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.”
ALLIES RESTORE
NAVIGATION ON THE
DANUBE.
LATEST CABLES. THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.) .PREMIER ON RECONSTRUC-
TION PROBLEMS. WORKING HOURS REGULATED BY LAW.
LONDON, August 19th. In the Honor of Commons, the Bill mehkinned by Mr. Lloyd George, regulat ing hours (as weekly passed its first reading. It includes all occupations, extepy a few like domestic segrśatits, med vent and arvulturists.
ANINGER CABLES
STEPS TO HUMANISE INDUSTRY
Lesbos, August 14th
In the House of Carmens, the Premier,
AN INDICTMENT AGAINST EMPLOYERS.
The Fretsier admitted that before the way hundreds of thousands of able-bodied nun worked hard for wages which were a disgrace to the Flag, they, fought for, but labour's gains in the last two or The three years had een enormous,
more than aurage, wages had žuvis soubled. Hours had been diminished by fair weekly.
The war had taught the soldiers that positions were easier to capture than to relate. That was a lesson for Labour, who had enptured more advanced pesi. tions during wartime than weer before. į QUESTION OF HOURS AND WAGES. He amatured that the Joint, In- dealing with the country's trade and dustrial Council had enne to an are
unt un the question of hours and wages which would be embodied in the Bill to be introduced to-morrow. Sub Hstantially, the bil meant a 48-hours" weak, with a few exceptions, and a living wage for all industries.
industrial sition, said that it would take just as long to adapt the machinery and workshops of the country in peace as it took to turn them into war emphasise the fact that an adverse balance of trade ruust be faced, because we could not prosper without recovering our international tradet and indeed with Font increasing it. TINEY ALEERNATIVE TO INCREAS
ED PRODUCTION.. After referring to the production of cal, the Premier emphasised the exe change dithealties. The sovereign, to day, whs worth less that 178, ed. in Ames rica, which was due to the fact that we
not paying for imports with ex parts. The only alternative to increased production, was to quit the country.
SHELL-SHOCK ON A BIG SCALE
The Brenifer mentioned that ging the reasons for, derreased productfon
wure
the difficulties of transition from ward as well as lack of labour," also the" falt that yenylady's nerves were jaded and
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ja tärn after the strain of war. Everybody was complaining of everybody else, home complained of Providence, but these tendencies were. world-wide, and would pass
The world was suffering from shell-shock on a big reale
REDUCTION OF DUTENT.” One of the arguments in favour "ol reducing hours had been that it would not involve a reduction of "auiput. The fact was that there had been a re- duction of output in almost mathemati cal proportion to the diminution of hours. Delik-fate glowing down bad not been confined to the workers. There were evidences of it among the employers and
Janners.
A DANGEROUS FALLACY. He stigmatised as a dangerous fallacy the theory that the less you worked the
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY,
AUGUST 21ST 119.
LATEST CABLES.
SCOURGE OF BOLSHEVISM,
NAVAL BATTLE IN THE GULF OF FINLAND,
THE ANGLO-PERSIAN AGREEMENT,
STIR IN ALLIED DIPLOMATIC
CIRCLES,
HELSINGFORS. August 19th.
A nival battle betways the British and Bolshevik Beets was fought in the Gulf of Finland yesterday evening,
The Russian battlesuip donne pepeus sht, the Eussian battle emper Petro pastorik, one Russian transport, and our Russian guardship and reported sunnik.
The British lost tree motor boats, right
others and three wer
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LONDON, August 19th,
A Havus message says; - The Agreement etiated by Great Britain with Persia has caused a consid ferable tie in Allied diplomatic eines
in Paris.
Drago disappointuque is being felt among the advocation of the League of Nations, and many diplomats are wondering whether President Wilson will secognize the Agreement, 6, in every thing but mane, Persia is now at British Protectorate.
"A SUFFICIENT ANSWER TO SUCH INSINUATIONS."--
LONDON, August 19th.
in the House of Monmous, at questiona
THE INDEPENDENCE OF ESTHONIA. STOCKECIM, August 19th," The Sceash nghial confirms the port that the North West Russian Government has signed an Agreement, Mr. Cecil Barnsworth said that with Esthonia „for joint action against it was proposed to lend Persia £2,000,000 Petrogradi Such action is expected to begin shortly. The Agreetpent also res cognises The indeprudence of Esthonia.
AVIATION.
HAS THE GOLIATET (COMPLETED
ITS JOURNEY-
Paris, August 19th,
The Guluth belt Mogador on August 13th, and passed Port Etienne on August och She has since got been heard of. and in red to have landed in the
desert in the vicinity of Dakar.
THE PROFITEERING BILL. PASSED BY THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
Losnes. August 19th.
In the House of Laurds, the Profterring
HUNGARY.
He urged that steps should (4) takery | Bill passed its third reading. to humanise industry by serking the co operation of the workers regarding the enditions of work. GOVERNMENT AND THE SANKEY
* REPORT.
COUNT KAROLYI'S DISAPPEAR- ANCE.
COPENHAGEN, August bath.
A telegram from Vienna states that judicial proceedings have been begun të
The Premier denied, that he had com- anted the timvernment to accept every recommendation of the Sankey Report.investigate, the "circumstances of Count However, the Güvernment had accepted Karolyi's disappearance. the policy of State purchase of mineral rights and coal, and proposed that & fund be raised out of royalties to im- prove housing and general amenities of the miners.
LATEST CABLES. STATE WORKING NOT ALWAYS
SUCCESSFUL
mony between employers and workers, a beer falsified by the recent Yorkshire strike, which was against. the State. Moreover, the State ran the railways, yet the results had not been barmonious. NEED FOR NATIONALISATION OF
It is stated that after bis overthrow he crossed the frontier possessing 11,000,000 kronen,
NAVIGATION ON THE DANUBE RE-OPENED.
"BCDAPEST, August 17th. After a month's patient inbour, Admiral Troubridge's Danube Commission hay re- upened navigation Srem Ratisbon to the
EXPERIMENTS ON DUGS
INVALUABLE RESULTS.
RESEARCH COMMITTEES PERÄ
Comuniter, ha giren in a letter pub- Fished in the Times of April 7th, 1919, the reasons for saying that our know- ledge of the heart and blood direclation " in man has been grounded in the results experiments upon the dog. These re- In a memorandum presented to Parlia.sults have been and are now being applied ment, against the pawing of the Dogs" on behalf of the Committee by Br. Lewis Protection Bill, the National Health the assistanes of the Aring Medical Insurance, Modičat, Rešeæreft committer | Serviçwund of the Ministry of Pensions, pointed out that it is their duty su to and fresh experiments upon dogs have the Medical Reseach Fund a most
peently ben-mande. Bug new experimenta which alone can be secured the mainte effectively to increase the knowledge by must be expected to be nécessity from Line to time for the solution of accessory ance of health and the diminucion of dis," problems, and the Committee would view
aos julement that the pro case, and state that it is their considered with dismay any legislating blocking fur
ther advances in this subject, in which posals of this hifi would place ait instier. | such bating benefits to mankind have and permanent barrier across start bought already by experiments upon. of the hier paths of jongress in this dogs, work. The menorandini proceeds :---
'It should be nulled here thar much of the work which was done to aid the saving of life among the seriously wounded dang the war, by, the intusdiction of improved granthines of blud gransfusion and of other modes of creatment in the dangemus states of weand shock, was made easy or possible only by experiments upon dogs.""
It is hand dispute that the present day seiner and ant of the physicing and surgeon have been founded in' large part upon the experimental use of dogs in the past. It has been by the use of dogs that the chief foulations of our knowledge of the presses of digestion, the gireits hition of by mph, the work of the heart. and the essential parts of our knowledge for the wines of feating are based rasgos about enthird) suffer from a
the results of trials made in the fring of dogs. The work of the surgeon. whe
(Tetany in Children. Of all vicke ty children in mir great cities many čin
condition of localised muscular cramps known as tetany. These fixations of the at 7 per canty secured on Persian ether spot the brain and spinal cord, or
muscle are generally painless, but the verues, with a view to enabling Persiapoy the intestines or upon the chest, has
been made possible by experiments pouman subject distressing. By a surgical State of tethng is disfiguring and to at so initiate certain contemplated reforms, dogs. Methands of lifesaving.
as by the The tipvernment "was pledged to? assist transfusion of bisud or in the resuleitu- operation mare palaless by anesthetics a sion of the drowast, have been worked in small gland (the parathyroid) won Persia to re-establish, herself on a sound out, chists by trials with dogs. Import has been discovered that the alms of be revved from the neck of a dog. It There was not the slightestant puteof our knowledge of anesthetics this gland my produce later a condition Blaasis.
founitation for the suspicion that the and their safe administration, and of the of the muscles apparently identical with
actions of any kinds of drugs, have been Government proposed, or that the Per- gained by the Axperimental ise of dogs.
Many reasons have male it necessary, Man Government would have consented
and will always make it necessary, to use to the creation of anything in the na-dogs bistead of other animals for ne
fut this experimental Work. Considera ture of a British Protectorate.
tions of size are importart, and in this respect the only animals giving a practic, able alternative are the sheep... the pig. the goat, or the sape The dog, unlike
f
The attitude of the Persian Cabinet in negotiating the present Agreement, and
the impending visit of the Shub to Bri- tain, worr
a sufficient answer to such insinuations.
ALSACE LORRAINE,
PRESIDENT POINUARE'S TOUR,
Parks, Angust kath.
A Havas message says:
that is Letany. Ferther experiments in") Klugs and otnes munnels gave the in liveinNA- tion that this gland controls the health of the muscle not by nervous influences dinetly, but timmagh contro" by way of the blood of their chemical changes,
Knowledge of this kind plainly could not he gained except by such xperi this disorder our treatment of innumer ments, and without new knowledge F
pust remain
these animals, can be kept "completely able afflicted cefective a healthy and comfortable in the laboratory
and in bear association with man
It might indeed be urged that oa ing to these reasons in favour of the use of dogs, and on the general humane grounds of avoiding discomfort to animals when"in captivity, or when rewiving an as- thetic for painless experiment, or when under observation, the dog's special labi tantion to pun makes it more, rather than President Poincare ft Paris today, desirable to prefer the use of the dog , chas of wild or less "domesticated for an days Visit to Alsace-Lorraine. animals when the nature of the experi He will unveil a monument at Barzvillsi Pent respires or alows it. Experimental work with animals qui, however, in must to the memory of the hostages shot by instances attain its aims in the acquisition s new knowledge by the use of smaller the Germans.
animals, and actindly the dog is used in a very small minority among other and wals."
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He will also conder the treks of thee Legion of Honour on Strasbourg, Phuls bourg and
"Bitche
DEVASTATED FRANCE.
A BIG AMERICAN CONTRACTE
PARIA, Apgust 18th.
RECENT DISCOVERIES.
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imperfect and hitherto been.
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Closely similar experi- ments upon another gland in the neck (the thyroid) of dogs, and other animals long ago, gave us for the first time the
ens which are now successfully for curing the idingy and d-formities
cretin children in: hom the thyroid gland is congenitally absent or deficient. Further progress along
this he greatly hampered and migh
Fath hatred, by the provisions of the bill.
The Committee add that they are able to speak with knowledge, and, in the case of most of their members, with intimat knowledge of the actual conditions in which experiments upon dogs are per- formed is this
Country. They are able to fassent, confidently that. in the Vist majority of experiments, out of the few ser logs altogether ased annually for
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is inflicted. In the amall minority of cases, when for
no pain at all is special reasons and under a
a special certi- Reate recovery after operation is allow- ed, there is rarely any condition of pain. as distinguished from discomfort.
The Committee explain the nature as the experiments upon dogs which are now (being or have recently been supported on their recommendation, by grants from the Medical Research Fund, and assert that
The Committee are able also to parak this work-outlined below-would...,ncces- with arst-hand and intimate knowledge sarily be abandoned if the proposals of
of the great mass of suffering among men, A Havas snage says:-
and children the bill should be adopted by Parliament, women, and
Among The French Goverminent has contracted and would pass to workers in other tun
animals, from present disease, which is the aim of medical science by research. with a big firm in New York for the s
They cannot do otherwise f) RICKETS. This is
to relieve. disorder of it erection of 2,000 dwellings in the degrowth in infants leading to deformation than raise their protest against what they must deem the inhumanity of placing vastated regions of France.
of the bones (see, for instance, in-hindrances in the way of those work **bandy-legs (*), and to other grave ston-
ing for the diminution of this total- dary results. It is very common in our volum of human and animal pain. large cities. Its causation has never been Satisfactorily determined, but has been hitherto attributed uncertainly to envers uf diet ar to improper envirurament
FRENCH WATERWAYS.
A FRANCO-AMERICAN CONGRESS.
· Paris, August 18th.
The reason for Mr. Justinu. Sankey's || Black Sea.... The last great difficulty was recommendation of the nationalisation of the clearing of a mire-field sown by M. mines mariely, that it would produce bar-Bela Kun between Pressburg and Baja.
The Commission now control's the Danube shipping and has forced the Rumanians The Danube to keep their hands off steambuaz service between Budapest and Pressburg may be reopened, and 300 tons of sugar are now going to Belgrade, Trafic" is now normal on the Danube, and this is bound to promote better relaaf navigation power and the possibilities tions among the seven countries bordering of improved irrigation. the Danube.
MINES.
However, the Government had accepted in principle that there was need for the unification and re-organisation of the wines in order to reduce working manage ment large. This could be done by dividing the country into areas, in each of which labour should be amalgamated for a Hunited period. The workers should be represented on a body controlling the policy in each aren.
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EARLIER CABLES. RUMANIAN MILITARY COMMAND GIVES IN.
FARIS, August 18th.'
A. Havas message says:— The Council of Five has received "a French General, Graziani, eblef of the Inter-Allied Mili-
The Government was preparing a telegram from the more work there was for everybody scheme on these times. Deliberately to reduce output meant all-
.
EARLIER CABLES,
DUMPING
A Havas message saydrea A Franco-American L'ougress will open at Tours on September 21st for the purs pose of discussing the utilization of French water-ways from the view point
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TSING CHEUNG'S MOVE-
MENTS.
·INTERNAL PEACE,
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AXENDMENTS FRUSTRATE
ANTI-VIVISECTIONISTS.
Science has won the day in the fight over the Dogs' Protection Bill, writes the Parliamentary correspondent of the Badly Telegraph. When the measure emerged from the Report stage in the House of Commons it was but a pale shadow of the legislative project which the anti-sivi tors had hoped would prove acceptable to Parliament, One sentence suffices describe what it was that the promoters sought to enact
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During the past three years a large number of experiments upon young dogs have been made with the support of the Committee. The dogs, though receiving abundant food, have berr deprived of one or other particular constituent of die. It has beer discovered by this work for the first time that, in the absence of a certain type of constituent hardly appreciable in amount, and with food otherwise und ant, typical rickets may be produced
It shall be unlawful to perform day in a pappy, corresponding exactly with that found in thousands of our infant, expercent of a nature calculated to give
or disease to The disorder when pronounced can, more
pain or
to any dog for any par pose whatever, either with or without over, be cured completely by the restora tion of the missing constituent of the diet, anastirties, and no person or place shall
liensed for the
of perform- add a discovery of this kind must be offe
suco experiments the utmost value in preventing rickets
was aimed
at, therefore, was pras among human infants. The supporterstically total rohibition of experiments of the bill would forbid" any farther pro- on dogs for research purposes. The menj gress in this work.
cal profession roused itself and mobilized its friends. Sir Frederick Banburg Ga charge of the bill) was reported to have
from secured promises of
support nearly 200 members. Be that as it may t
the bi 200
the
(b) DISORDERS OF THE Teera. A wholly unexpected outcome of the experiments SHANGHAI, August 20th.
just described has been to show that the Luk Tsing-tseung has telegraphed to absence of a particular and minute factor tury Mission at Budapest, announcing
the Peking Government that he intends from the diet may prevent the formation appeared to have enough sympathizers to
of the hard enamel covering of the teeth justily a certain amount of
part of those who had rayon them- round unemployment on a gigantic scale. EFFECTIVE MEASURES AGAINST that perfect necord exists between the to return to China after the signing of them are being developed, and thus de relves against it. But when the mailer
the Austrian Treaty. The Governmenri ficiency of this factor at the time of tooth "(Cheers.) The, aimlate necessity of
to be came
decided the
"Ente Mission and the Rumanian Military telegraphed back, asking him to remain formation fas during weaning) cause the ment's attit to the test the Govern
of the he everybody pulling augether must
enamel to be thin and imperfect. There can measure. The Home Office was on the at his post. brought home to the while country, in
be no doubt that this a piece of know-side of the doctors. Colonel Sir
Sir Hamar ledge fundamental in its importance for Gricawood, Under-Secretary to the De order to enable the people to shake off
the prevention of that undue subsequent partment, moved an amendment which, that fatal lethargy and sickness which
decay of the teeth which is one of the Sir F. Banbury at once pointed out gravest and commonest physical defecte struck at the root of the bill, and world was depressing production and imperil
among people of the United Kingdom and practically frustrate its object ling the most vital interests of the cation
one of the most fertile causes of condary amendment was carried by 147 votes are being actively followed up, but they illness. These studies are quite new and rigiääliv it
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to a bill prevent the of dogs As it stands now must be abandoned if the bill becomes
it merely
further restrictions on imposes enacted.
vivisetion. That is to say, under în Provisions research work can still be pre Becuted if it is shown that, "the object of the experiment would necessarily be frust rated unless it is performed on a dog, atl that no
animal is available for such
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BRITAIN'S FOOD PROBLEM.
COMMISSION FIXES PRICES OF IMPORTED WHEAT.
The Premier, anunted that the Gov-Command. ernment would take effective measures against dumping. The Board of Trade would be given power to shield unstable industries by prohibiting importa (except By means of a licence) of the products SPIRIT CREATED BY THE WAR. But labour said: We realise the need of these industries, and by preventing ex-
imports such product Where import prices were lower than here, import duty would be charged for
cessive
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LONDON, August 18th.
The Wheat Commission, today, fixed the following prices for imported wheat er 401-Canadian, 528 d. to 60%.; American 54s. to CCR.; Australian, sound
believe in of production and we do not
direct action." (Lheers.) But we arg human and cannot work with a will unlicences. Care would be taken that countreated. 81s; trented, 60s.; Argentine, leas the conditions are fairer and more! satisfaptory. We must," said the Prendue profit was made at the expense of 59%
"mier, examine that actitude honestly
and squarely, not in a spirit of resent- ment, but in the spirit of justice and comradeship created by the war,"
OUR INNATE SPIRIT OF FAIR PLAY.
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the community.
UNSTABLE INDUSTRIES. The tests whether any industry was un- stable would be whether it had been essen-
tial for the war, whether the wär revealed
NATIONALISATION-
A PROTEST TO THE PREMIER.
Lostor, August 18th. A memorial, signed by representative
Wong Yap-tong, the newly appointed chief delegate for the North, states that both the North and the South car share equally the responsibility of abolishing the new and old parliamenta"
THE ALLIED "LOAN ASSOCIA- TION."
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studied, as well as the rate of disappearches were made both for
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(c) THE EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL-For the assistance of the Liquor Control Board tbe Committee have supported some It is stated, from a foreign source, that experimente upon dogs in which the with reference to the new loan consor- intoxicating actions of alcohol have been tium, Great Britain and America want ance from the blood of alcohol taken into that each Power should enjoy equal the system under different conditions, us
Bir Auckland. and against the bill.
quali interest to lend money to China. Japan, when different dilutions are used, or Geddes, who numbers amongst his
different forms of beverage, or various fications that of a medical man, made however, wants that special arrangement foods taken, and so on. These experi. strong appeal that science should be given
ments have not been painful to the dogs fair play. The bill, be considered, should be made, in lending money
founded on
bysteria and sentiment Friends of the measure attibuted their garded by the Liquor Control Board as used. The results obtained have been re-
two-lo-one defeat in the division lobby ta useful to them in their work, and they the fact that the Government were against have incidentally given much new and so dratie a
proposal as total prohibition. valuable knowledge to guide the medicinal That, according to the opinion they es
bressed in the lobby decided the issue. uses of alcohol in man.
It is improbable that any attempt will be made to proceed with the bill in its amended form. "Its purpose has ke nu completely destroyed," was Biz Frederick Banbury'a comment.
to
an inadequate supply of such goods, whe bakers, merchants and traders in the China, with reference to Manchuria sad'
Mongolia
ther the Government had to foster it, in City of London, has been forwarded to He appealed to employers and workers
THE SHANTUNG SETTLEMENT: It protests against the to press their claims in that spirit. We wartime, and whether, if Government the Premier. must demonstrate to the world the Bri- support were withdrawn, the industry nationalisation of mines and other in-
Japan now wants special interests and tish traditional power of solving difficul ties, without remort to anarchy, merely would maintain itself at that level of dustries until the people of the country privileges in Manchuria and Mongolia by an appeal to coramon-sent and our production which the war had shown to have expressed their opinion on the ques in return for handing Kinochau back to innate spirit of fair play.
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BAVING THE WOUNDED. (d)-The Study of Diseases of the Hand Circulation, Des
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