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Bassett, R.N., Elsing Officer Wellis, R.A.F., and Flying Officer Somer- | hough, B.A.F.
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HONG KONG, DECEMBER 20, 1929.
is re
Details of the failure of an anti- influesta vaccine in a test among Royal Air Force apprentices ap.
The dance was essentially a Services affair and the larger por- tion of the men present were in uniform. Dancing was in the Roof Garden, the room having been very effectively decorated with palms,
Royal Air Force "Wings."
The music was by the Peninsula Hotel orchestra, who gave a pro-
on the health of the service during 1928. An attempt was made to es timate the prophylactic value of the vaccine among apprentices aged 15 to 18 living under similar co-gramme of 94 numbers, which kept ditions in barracks at Halton. Re-things going till the "smal! hours.” cords were made during three win-
Supper was served at midnight in ter months, the period of the sup- posed protective action of the vac the Rose Room which had been cines used. Out of 969 apprentices appropriately decorated with red voluntarily innoculated 310 or 32.9 shaded lamps, and the scene was per cent were attacked by in- a very effective one, the colours Auenza, compared. with. 394 or 36.8
It seems that France is not going to send her delegation to the Naval Conference next month in a very hopeful or helpful frame of mind. maining points of difference be- pear in a report issued recently Rowers and floral designs of the According to Reuter, the attitude tween the two Republics is an in- the French Government proposes to dispensable condition for creating adopt is that, problems of naval a united Europe, which alone can disarmament cannot be settle with hold up its head against forthcom- out taking into consideration the ing Anglo-Saxon domination, which existence of other lines of defence. demination, he says, is neither That argument is not a new one, synonymous with durable prace nor and France has argued this way with the freest collaboration be before, but from the cabled sum tween people. It is interesting to mary of the statements, made to the note that the Volonté, in which this Committees on Foreign Affairs and article appeared, draws much of
oculated "From the above re- dress and the red, gold, and blue. clear why such anxiety should be CAILLAUX
With the coming of the New salts." adds the repart, "it cannot of the uniforms. expressed concerning reference of Year, however, let us hope n more
be claimed that anti-influenza vac
Besides the dancing room pros naval matters to the League of friendly atmosphere will develop in cine lessens the incidence of influ- Nations. We know, of course, that Loudon than has existed in Paris enza or acute naso-pharyngitis in vision was made for card players during the last few months. Mean any appreciabla degree." Sickness and there was also what is called the success which attended Mr.while, it is good to learn that the in the Royal Air Force by sandy, on St. Andrew's night an "auch- MACDONALD's recent visit to Wash-House of Lords is actively interest-malaria, and influenza showed a WATSON ington gave great annoyance to ing itself in naval, affairs. Earl decrease of about 50 per cent from
STANHOPE called attention to the fact the average of the years 1825-7, that Germany's naval architects have lately been showing the world
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The Regatta of 1879 was opened yesterday. The weather was all that could be desired for rowing, smooth water and not too cold, hut there was very little wind for the Mapping Boman Brilsin.
yachts and open sailing-boats, and The new edition of the Ordnance these evente were consequently Survey map of Roman Britain is rather alow affairs. The canoe-race a thing to marvel at, and one was also rather tame, the strong. which the Romans themselves, noted tide spoiling the start. The rowing- map-makers though they were, races were for the most part well would no doubt have been glad to contested, the Chairman's Cup and possess. Besides towns and roads, the German Cup both resulting in the new map shows over seven hangood races. The single pair seul- dred villages and nearly five han- ing-races were, however, as usual It will possibly be of the tamest possible description, news to many to learn that there the junior sculls 'being little better still survives a portion of a map sulle was ecratched altogether. than a walk-over, while the senior of Britain made by Roman hands, The races for gigs, house-boats and or rather a thirteenth-century copy men-of-war gigs and whalers were whose authenticity is universally of course warmly disputed, the accepted. It is in the Imperial coxswains contributing all they Library at Vienna, and is known as could to the success of the respec "Peutinger's Table," from the fam- tivo boats by than powers of voci ous Augsburg scholar who acquir-fication. In the race for men-of- ed it about 1507. The "Table" was war boats the Chinese won, as they a world map, and, unhappily, that generally do, their long, steady portion of it dealing with Britäin stroke giving them a good advan- has suffered badly at the hands of tage. The vicious, snatchy stroke time, but we have left an area of generally noticeable in Euro- roughly from Norwich to Exeter pean It shows only sixteen place-names been noticeable in over that large extent. The roads of the are drawn purely diagrammatical-crews, but The body of a Chinese was re- Iy, and, curiously enough, hearly to the Recreation.Club, Captain Mr. MACDONALD's explanation of covered from the harbour near the all the "Saxon Shore" forts, im Geary RA, a good practical men the process of discussion-first in Canton wharf yesterday, stated in portant as they were. are cmitted, introduce reformation in this on the water, has been trying to London, and then in Geneva. All a police report to be that of s so it would appear that either the respect, and it is but due to this that is hoped for next January is workman who was missing some cartographer was very careless or gentleman to say that the two crews. to bring tro Powers into complete days ago when he fell off. H.M.S.the map was drawn for a special to whom he had acted as coach in agreement; that being done, to Kent while at work. further. It seems, then, that the widen the arca, of agreement still
Four cases of small-pox, one of typhoid and one of diphtheria, all ments, not between ourselves, but we shall have widened out the area. between ourselves and others. Then Chinese, were reported on Wednes-
day, of agreement, and shall have limit- ed the area of competitive building. "The P. & O. steamer Khiva is We shall hand over the results to due to arrive from London to-day the Preparatory Commission at at 5 p.m. and will sail for Shanghai Geneva, which is preparing the on Saturday at noon. agreements and the agenda for the general conference on disarmamcat
at last that general conference on From the Siemens China Com- disarmament, which I hope will be pany we have received the familiar held with very fine prospects of and very useful pocket-diary issued Can, then, two by the head office in Germany of complete success.
that concern. nations engage in better and more Jaudable work than that !”
Nothing could be more clear than
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official statements just made in Our Chinese translator cells the Paris merely emphasise a demand following and story from a verna- which has been already met. Much cular, paper:-A coolic in Taipo more interesting would it be to picked up a lifeless body of a dog know whether France is still annoy and took it home and had it cooked ed at the Anglo-American converon Tuesday. He ate it and some sations which were a necessary pro- time later, he had a stomach-ache elimingrats the nonize and died in the evening
then-of-warsmen has
the past Club and Garrison recent acquisition
purpose. One other very interest their training came in with flying ing document, the "Notitia Digns-colours, namely Travers's crew for tatum," is known from fifteenth- the Chairman's Cup nad the gun. century copies, and is of greatners in the second race. The P. & value for the military geography. It 0. steamer Malacca was, an in is a kind of illustrated army list, former years the flagship, and the compiled in Rome about the year Dock Company's steam-tug Fame 426, and from it we learn the conveyed the guests on board and names of the provinces, various brought then back.-Hong Kong' -wall-fosta,-and-other details ------ Daily Poças, Desember 20,μ···1870 --