FALL OF FRANC.
VERY SERIOUS POSITION IN FRANCE.
RESTRICTIONS TO BE ENFORCED,
(THROTOK REUTER'Y ADENCY.]
PARIS. June 7th.. The renewed slump in the franc is likely to lead to something like a war- time rationing in France, according to
THE HONGKONG DAILY FEESS. TUESDAY, JUNE 8ra,
THE MOSÚL FRONTIER. FAR EASTERN CABLE
AGREEMENT BETWEEN BRITAIN
"AND": "TURKEY.
HISTORIC TREATY SIGNED. &
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.)
RUOBY, June 6th. Naws has been received that the Anglo- Turkish Treaty, which Sir Ronald Lind. say, British Ambassador to Constan-
NEWS.
(THROUGH RECTEE'S AGENCY.]
PEKING POLITICS.
CABINET APPOINTMENTS BEING TAKEN UP.
PEKING, June 7th.
took Tu Hai Kuci and Yang Wen Ka
EODY FOUND IN RIVER.
FEARED MURDER OF A.P.C. ASSISTANT.
CAPTURED BY BANDITS AT TAIPING.
It is feared that Mr. J. M. Phillips, Manager of the Asiatic Petroleum Com pany's depot at Nanning has been killed by pirates, by whom he had been pre viously captured.
the newspapers interpretation of the tinople, has negotiated in Angora with up Cabinet posta to-day. It is thought "A message from 'Canton a week ago,
the Turkish "Government, was signed yes probable that Dr. Wellington Koo and. Government's decision to restrict importsterday. The full text of the document Chang Ching Huai, will follow suit to- in order to improve France's balance of payment.
Le Journal'says bakers will be ordered to close their shops once weekly, and but
has not yet reached London.
Its main importance is that it ends the long-standing "dispute ever the Mosul frontier and terminates an unhappy
morrow.
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CHILD LABODE.
1926
DISEASE CURED BY DISEASE. MALARIAL INJECTION FOR PARALYSIS,
HEALTH MINISTRY'S
MOSQUITOES,
The treatment of paralysis by inoculat ing paralytic persons with malaria germe, mentioned by Dr. Wagner von Jauregg, the Viennese psychologist, st the Medical Congress at Wiesbaden, has licen practised in recent years with con- siderable success and is now being car ried out for the Board of Control in stated that Mr. Phillips was captured, public mental hospitals under the aur near Taiping, Kwangsi. The report add-pices of the Ministry of Health. ed that 200 troops had been sent out from Lungehow to effect his release,
On enquiry at the local offices of the
Mr. Phillips went on business to Lung chow; and then learnt that he could not
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thers twice weekly. Bread cards may period of hostile, strained or controversial TEXT OF THE NEW JAPANESE A.P.C. yesterday it was stated "that with the malaria parasite. The infected
even be instituted, while means will be relations which have continued "between, devised to provent the speculative pur-the two nations since the Turkish entry into the war in 1315. In restoring "an
chase of crops in France by countries with a high rate of exchange.
Le Matin says a plan to restrict een- sumption will probably affect wheat, flour, anthracise. coal, petrol and sugar, and certain public works may be sus pended.
The statement that the Government
contemplated using the gold reserver of the Banque de France to support the frane was promptly oficially denied, but the newspapers declare it is hoped to negotiate a loan with American banks, even if the gold reserve of the Banque de France is not employed as a security which was first considered.
LEAGUE COUNCIL.
DARDANELLES PROBLEM TO BE CONSIDERED.
GENEVA,June 6th, The British Delegation, headed by Sir Austin Chamberlain, has arrived to attend the League Council, which to-
ŁAW.
TOKYO, June 7th.
get a motor-boat back to Nanning for a week. Rather than wait this period he
The malaria injection is used in certain enses of general paralysis, the method adopted being to allow the patient to be bitten by mosquitoes, which are, infected. mosquitoes are taken by an officer of the Ministry of Health in cealed cases to the asylums where the treatment is to be given. They are starved for some time before being applied to the patient, who, if bitten and infected, develops in the
IN THE DOG DAYS.
KEEPING COOL BY KEEPING CALM.
The secret of the temparatura's, power to oppress lies in the fact that the heat is damp heat. This fact does not seem to be understood by many people, and yet the whole art of keeping cool demands" on a knowledge of it
Medical science has quite recently dis cavered that coolness depends on three separate factora:-
(1) The dampness of the air; (2) the temperature of the air: and (3) the movement of the air: The movement of the air is the most important factor of all. But the damptess plays a very.great
part.
The reason is that watir evaporites. in dry air, but does not evaporate when the air is wet. Wet air, indeed, is like wet blotting paper; it cannot "soak up" any more moisture
Now the human body keeps cool
amicable relationship the Treaty lays the of the Child Labour Law and Revised decided to make for Taiping by sampa course of a fortnight a very high tem by menas of evaporation. It has AD
An official frazette publishes the texts
Lay, to be effective from July tical co-operation and, while strengthen 1st. The former restricts the minimum ing Turkey's international position, pro-nge to sixteen after 1929. Meantime, vides additional assurances against the fines are being imposed on employers not reporting to the police children who have not completed their lower primary gradę of education.
reimposition of capitulations.
It is understood that the frontier laid down in the Treaty is. virtually, the Brussels line with a slight modifcation involving five square miles favourable to Turkey, this re-adjustment being, of course, subject to the consent of the Council of the Nations.
The Factory Law institutes a higher scale of pensions and allowances from factories sickness, injury, and death.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE). AMERICAN FEARS OF JAPAN. NEWSPAPER ALLEGATIONS.
NEW YORK, June 7th
glands. As soon na the skin becomes hat sweat breaks out, and this in evaporated into the air, provided that the air is try. The result is cooling, because the evaporating sweat uses up heat.
But if the air is wef this comfortable process cannot take place. The sweat re- mains on the skin, which becomes wet as well as warm.
journey in such a manner was pointed malaria. Whenever it is thought neces
with the doors and windows covered with out. It was whilst on his way to Tai-sary the patient is segregated in a room ping in a sampan that he was captured gaure to prevent bis being bitten by na
tive mosquitoes or fies, which might by pirates.
During the week-end news was received carry and spread the infection.
A Harley-street physician, discussing in the Colony that a body believed to the treatment explained that it must be be Mr. Phillips' had been found in the Lane particular kind of malaria that is The European Commissioner of used for the injection, namely, that river.
known as Benign Tertian. In certain Customs at Nanning accompanied by earlier experiments, the subtertian, o Chinese clerk in the employ of the much more virulent form, was occasion-
If a alight breeze is blowing the situa A.P.C.. went to the scene, but up to ally used, with results that proved fatal,
news had been received and this, he said, "has deterred peopletion is not so bad, because moving air On the yesterday no
has a high cooling power. from using what appears to be a very
"hottest day," however, the air WM wonderful discovery-e disease curing a concerning their investigations.
utterly stagnant. There disease."
air Grave fears are entertained, however,
movement, and there was no evaporation. In other words, we were robbed of our that the body is that of Mr. Phillips.
natural powers of getting cool on one of The district in which he was captured
the days when we were all in greatest * need of using these powers.
RECRUITED FROM ROMNEY MARSH,
Sensational headlines appear above, a is notorious as a bandit centre, but pre Britain was to infect paralytic patients
Turkey recognises Iraq and, in return for her abandonment of economic claims upon that country, receives a ten per cent. share in such royalties na may be payable to the Iraq Government from the Turkish Petroleum Company's concession."
The Treaty should undoubtedly allay page and a half article in the New York fears of frontier aggression and Clauses American purporting to be a translation of the secret plan of the Japanese are contained in it which lay down ar- rangements for mutual assistance in deal." General Staff in October last year for ing with brigandage and for the preven- rapid development in Manchuria and tion of propaganda ameng tribes in the Korea, raising the cutput of iron, oil and morrow for the first time, will consider territories of the contracting parties. A coal, constructing" the network of railway permanent Turco-Iraq Frontier Commis.lines terminating "in harbours, adding that Japan in war time will have a sion will meet periodically."
deficiency of basic war materials of twelve million tons yearly, whereas the possibi- ity of securing materials from China is remote, because China, "as a neutral, might refuse supplies, and it is diploma- sand troops to tically inexpedient to Chinese territory.
the report of the International Commis- sion the Dardanelles, cstablished under the Treaty of Lausanne.
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The new building of the International Labour Office was officially inaugurated in the presence of laternational" Labour delegates and a large public attendance, Twenty-two speeches were delivered..
EGYPTIAN POLITICS.
ZAGHLUL NOT INCLUDED IN NEW CABINET.
CAIRO, June 8th. Zaghlul Pasha is not included in the new Cabinet, which is as follows:
Adly Pasta, Premier and Minister for
Interior.
Abdel Khalik Pasha, Foreign Affairs. Morcos Pasha Hanna, Finance. Zaki Pasha Abdel Sroud, Justice.".. Aly Bey Shemsi, Education.
Writing in anticipation of the Treaty's signature, the Quarter's diplomatic car respondent says: The importance of the settlement is that it will afford a mndus vivendi between Turkey and Iraq, will allay, fears of aggression on both sides of the frontier, will open the way to diplomatic and economic collaboration between Great Britain, Turkey and Iraq,
A newspaper alleges in a supplement ary report that Chang Tse Lin at present
viously no European has been molested.
Although Mr. Phillips was not attached
The original method employed in Great in asylums with malaria, and then to take some of their blood, dilete it slight- certain difficulties in this form of the to the Hongkong office, he was well, and inject it into others. There were known to the Company's employees here, treatment. It was found, for example, directly it becomes cold, and cannot and was exceedingly popular. He joined that the parasite dies out in the blood the Company two years ago. He was 24 therefore be transmitted to any distance. There is also a strong prejudice against allowing a patient to be injected with the "blood of another whose antecedents he
does not know.
years of
age,
and a native, of London.
"PRESIDENT GARFIELD,"
EIGHTH VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD.
The sa. President Garfield arrived in port yesterday morning from New York, San Francisco, Honolulu, Kobe and Shanghai on her eighth voyage around the world.
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AVOID EXCITEMENT.
WLA
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This may, happen gain in the present season, because the air tends to be dam- per from June and July, on. What are we to do help. ourselves?
We can do this in two ways, about" which most of us are strangely ignorant. In the first place, we can fast until the cool of evening comes to our rescue; in the second we can avoid excitement of all and every kind.
Excitement is far more heating to the blood and body than exertion.
"Therefore," the physician went on to The Ministry of Health have un- dertaken to keep the mosquitoes on the SELF-CONTROL THE SECRET. premises. This they do by artificially
Most of the people who suffer from breeding them and hatching them in captivity. The stock, which is recruited heat stroke, for example, become ill after from Romney Marsh, are allowed to feedments while they are talking or dieput- some of the "paralytic patients in ing Heat collapse frequently takes on lunatic asylums, and are kept in special-place at public meetings or in places of ly constructed cages, until they become entertainment-where feelings are apt to infected, for others. During this period run high. It occurs also, fairly often, they have to be kept at the correct degree during quarrels or arguments. She had seven passengers for Hong-of warmth and moisture.
The most refined method of applying and will remove one of the unsettling acutely feels the need for building a kong, all from Shanghai, and 63 passen the treatment is thus to allow the patient mental work of all kinds cut down to
gers for other ports. She also brought to be bitten by one of the Ministry of $72 bags of mail and 800 tons of cargo Health mosquitoes. The experiment is rendered difficult sometimes by the mos- quits refusing to bite. It has been found Among the passengers in transit were:necessary for this reason to kill the mos- for Hongkong.
Mrs. T. G. Donaldson, wife of Brigadier-quito, dissect the head, and remove the General Donaldson of Manila en route salivary glands in order to inject them to Manila from Shanghai; and Mr. A. into the patient to be treated. Dryver, the Oriental Managing Director of the Nestles Milk Company, Shanghai, for Singapore.
factors which has had its effect not only on Egyptian and Indian affairs but on many important aspects of Western Euro- pean diplomacy."
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
DEMILITARIBED ZONE.
CONSTANTINOPLE, 'June 8th. The Mosul. Convention, which was signed at Angora at midnight, upholds the Brussels line with a slight modifica-
Kamel Bey Khashaba, War and tion.
Marine.
Mohamed Pasha Mahmoud, Communi.
cations.
Negaib Pasha Gharabli, Pious Founda-
tics..
Fathaliah Pasha Barakat, Agriculture. Osmar By Muharrem, Public Works.
POLISH FINANCES.
AMERICAN ECONOMIST TO CON- TINUE INVESTIGATIONS.
WARSAW, June 6th.
One point in favour of Turkey maintains a demilitarised zone of 75 kilo- metres on either side of the Turco-Iraq
number, of railways, thereby offering Japan an excellent pretext which is aimed against America. The report, asserts the State with which a conflict for Empire in Far East is possible, has a navy superior to ours."
[8XITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.] THE LIBERAL SPLIT.
FIGHTING SPEECH BY MR.
"LLOYD GEORGE.
RUGBY, June 6th Mr. Lloyd George, in a vigorous speech' on the party controversy, yesterday, de- Turkey gets one-tenth share of royalties .clared that he had no intention of accept due to the Iraq Government from all oiling his dismissal from the Liberal party. So long as his constituency returned bin, he would remain its Überal member for Parliament.
frontier.
in Iraq,
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SEQUEL TO THE TREATY.
FALSE TEETH FROM AMERICA. 20,000,000. IMPORTED EVERY YEAR.
MOTOR DRIVER FINED.
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FAILURE TO STOP. AFTER AN ACCIDENT.
At the Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon, before Major C. Willson, the driver of a public motor-car, No 1959, Wes prosecuted by the Trafic Depart ment with failing to stop after an accident, and also for having inefficient brakes on his car.
Defendant pleaded guilty.
"The best results are those that have been obtained by certain observers in Liverpool, where observations have now been conducted over a period of four years. They report that, although 'a cer- tain number of patients have died- patients suffering from general paralysis, who might have been expected to die in any case about 35 per cent. of those treated in this manner have regained their powers and are able once more to resume civil life. In my own personal experience I know of two cases, both of which have returned to civil employ ment, and all the signs of the disease from which they suffered have so far as can be ascertained disapprared.
In hot weather, subjects which irritate should be banished from the mind, and the lowest ebb. Indeed, it is a good
from the office and consider them after thing to take difficult problems home sundown.
Smoking, too, should be indulged in very moderately during a heat wave. All tobacco tends to heat the skin, but cigarettes are the worst offenders in this respect.
The cool of the evening is the time for eating ned smoking, and even for working, while the "dog days" last.
Most of us cannot avoid work even on the hottest and muggiest afternoons But we can all take our coats off and roll up our sleeves, and we can all deny our- selves the foolish cooling drink which make those who swallow them hotter. We can refuse to be hurried or Barried. We can put our pipes and cigarettes away, and refrain from both luncheon and afternoon tea.
If we exercise that self-control, we are. most unlikely to take any hurt from the hottest weather which the climate is like- ly to inflict on us.-Weekly Dispatch.- By a Harley Street Doctor.
THE WORSE THE BETTER. "It is too much to hope that results. so satisfactory as this can be obtained in advanced cases of general paralysis. It is in the early stages of the disease, as Dr. von Jauregg has found, that the most is to be hoped from the treatment. BOOT LEATHER FROM SHARKS, And, taking the world generally, 20 per cent. represents the proportion of NOVEL INDUSTRY IN WEST,
AUSTRALIA.,
LONDON, June 7th, At the conclusion of the Anglo-Turkish Convention, the surrender of Abd el new Krim and the formation of a Egyptian Government, as interacting developments; are likely to give the Professor E. W. Kemmerer, the well-Chancellors of the Mediterranean Powers known American economist who inves delicate problems in the near future. tigated Polish finances at the beginning According to diplomatic correspon.. of the year has accepted the Govern-dents of Paris and London the latter art ment's invitation to return and continue most satisfed at the new convention and
opine that Mussolini's recent speeches af employment and killing a new in- to stop his car. The cocatable, accom lucid intervals, which sometimes lasted Zeulander, describes a new industry for his work
BOWLING TOURNAMENT.
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WON BY SWEDE.
STOCKHOLM, June 6th.
The international bowling tournament for the World's Championship (In- dividual Play)" was won by Lillier (Sweden) 59 points; Gerdes (American) with 814 points, and second
WAS
Blechinger (America) was third with 804
points.
REICHSBANK'S RATES.
BERLIN, June 7th. The Reichsbank has reduced the discount rate to of per cent and deposit rate to 70
the
have discouraged, Turkish chauvinista seeking aggressive adventure.
On the contrary the Echo de Paris describes the convention as a triumph for Britain and mys everything shows that the Anglo-Italian Governments have
pursued a joint plan, and anys Italy's interest at present centres in the Western Afediterranean. France has no reason to avoid negotiating, with her on Colonial questions, but no sacrifices must be de- manded from France or North Africa
The Daily Telegraph foreshadows a meeting at which the respective view points may be ventilated, namely, an international conference of affairs in Morocco, in which France and Spain are joined, and Britain, Italy, United States, Belgium, Helland and For gal as signatories to the act of Algerna, especially to deal with the administra tion of the international zone of Tangier, where matters are drifting from bad to worse under a "non-descript regime " established at the Convention in 1923.
No fewer than 20,000,000 false teeth, mostly from America, are imported into England every year.
It was stated by Inspector Alexander (Trafic Department) the defendant's car had knocked a little girl down in Belcher This is one of the somewhat staggering Street, but the car did not stop after the facts adduced in support of a protective accident. A police constable blew his tariff on dental supplies, the absence of whistle, but this did not cause defendant which is said to be robbing 10,000 people.
dustry.
When
Most of the dental instruments and panied by a coolie, gave chase to the car. In response to further whistle machinery used in England are American and German-made, the greater part of blasts the defendant pulled up, the fillings used to come from America, the car was examined by police and there is even cne frm of American mechanic, the hand and foot brakes ware manufacturers advertising in England that dentists have only to give them an found to be inefficient. order to fit up a surgery and it will be done to the minutest detail.
Defendant
fined $25 on WILE
each
If anyone asks his dentist for a plate charge, was ordered by His Worship to with false teeth the chances are that the pay the mother of the little girl, who was teeth will be American-made and fitted not seriously injured when knocked down, into Americanised rubber.
So thoroughly have the foreign manu-$30 as compensation, facturers seized the opportunity present- ed by the open-door policy that nearly all the local dental supply companies are tied to them under contract or are actually owned by them. This prevents the British manufacturer from making use of the existing distribution organisa tious for his own products.
WEATHER REPORT.
Last night's weather report, forecast and remarks by the Royal Observatory
said:
Dentists can buy English goods at lower prices than those charged fox for weakened. A shallow depression covers The anti-cyclone over 8.W. Japan has eign ones
America has imposed a tariff of eo Indo-China. cent to prevent the importation of Local forecast:
winda, moderate, fair. British dental supplies.
per
most favourable results.
"It is difficult at present to say whe ther the cure will be permanent, because even under the old conditions, perrons suffering from general paralysis had for several years. It may be, therefore, another five or six years before we can say whether or not patients can be treat ed successfully with malarial injections, "From the experience that has been gained so far, it seems that the more malarial attacks the patients suffers from the better it is for him. It is gen- erally found that after inoculation a
the fever starts. The patient then suf-
period of ten or 18 days elapsen before fers daily from periodic attacks of fever and the higher the temperature rises the better. is the therapeutic result. If he cap stand it, he should be allowed to go through 10 or 12 of these attacks before they are checked by quinine. A much smaller dose of the quinine will cure this artificially acquired malaria than that which will be efficacious for treating the disease in its natural form. This has given rise to a great deal of speculation by those interested in the subject.”.
This malarial treatment, it was added, since the date of Dr. van Jauregg' first has made great strides on the Continent experiments in 1887, but in Great Britain it is still, despite the interest of the Ministry of Health, rather spasmodic,
Mr. H. J. Shepstone, F.R.G.S., writ- ing in the British Australian and New Western Australia which may in future affect for good the British and other settlers in that region. It appears that sharks, those dreaded denizens of the Ocean, infest those coasts in great num- bere, and according to Dr. Alfred. Ehren- reich, this fact may have great commer cial importance. This research worker has found that. the hides of sharks can
be
is
square feet being generally obtainable successfully taubed, an average of ten from this part of a shark. The leather durable and suitable for soles of boots: material from which soft leather for boot uppers is obtainable can also be pro- duced from the shark's stomach. Besides. this, from the shark's liver and intestines. medical and other oils can be expressed; glue can be made from its head; its, teeth can be utilized by jewellers; from its secretion of pancreatic said, insulin, a cure for diabetes, can be manufactured, and its flesh and fine are, adible. The shark is, in fact, now declared to be more valuable to man than a pig. The new venture in catching these monsters of the deep is to be launched, states this writer, at Shark's Bey, about 300 miles from Fremantle.