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Dutch Shipplog.
All mailinge of Datch ships from Datoh porta hare been prohibited except saïling vessels and coastal Rohing craft. No explanation is
Patrograd Breadless. Distribution at bread in Pet- rad has ceased, bread having been replaced by potatoes. Flour i unobtainable, and a popular. outbreak is apprehended.
Dr. Saa-Yat-sen. Dr. Sun Yat-ren, with a party of thirty of his followers inclad- ing Hu Han-mis, bas departed
for Japan, from where he will Shinta : Amerios, says a contem
porary.
Lancashire Cotton Output. The Liverpool Post anticipatës s farther reduction of the Lan- Fashirs cotton output unless the A Government van provide more tonage for cotton from the United States,
« German Regiments' Mutiny,
There has been a mutiny among the Garman regiments at Wesen berg, in Esthonis, as the result of which several offers were killed. The German High Command pont trustworthy troops who arrested two hundred of the @mutineers, ton of whom were immediately shot. Becently en other mutiny occurred in the German Begiment No. 375 at Binak which prisoners of war, returning from the interior of Russia, supported.
New Source of Paper Supply.
South Africa has discovered a new source of paper supply. About 40,000 tons of bark of the wattle tree are exported annually from Bouth and Esat Africa for ase in our tanyerde, and ex- perimente conducted by the Imperial Instituta ehow that the bark, after the tanning properties have been removed, is capable of being converted into excellent brown paper or millboard. The
god of the wattle tree, from which the bark has been removed, ia also a source of paper.”,
President Wilson and France.
On the eve of the Germsa fensive President Wilson sent ঠmessage to the French nation in which he says:" For more than 100 years the American people have been waiting for a chance to give the French people proof of their gratitude. With this feeling in now mingled a deep and ardent admiration for the beroism and abnegation of which the French give proof in. this terrible conflict between liberty and brute foros. American harts are with the Armies on the blood-stained battlefields' of gallant France. The Americana are your brothers in this great, holy and common cause,”
HOOKWORM IN YANGTZE VALLEY.
The following notes on hook- worm infection (ankylostomiasis) sad soil pollation in the Yangtze
ley are taken from the report by the International Health Board, of the Rockefeller Foundation.
During the year 1916 the work! of the International Health Board continued to be directed oliefy toward the relief and control of hookworm disease. According to the third annual report published ́ ́în 1917 e partial infection survey in the Yangtzekiang valley was worried cut in 1916 by the Yale Medical School through a subven- tion by the laternational Health Board.
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