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MONDAY, MAY 5, 1919
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ITALY'S THREATENING ATTITUDE.
ITALIAN PREMIER COUNTER-PROCLAMATION..
London, April 24.
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ROBBER KEEPS UP A
RUNNING FIRE.
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"Mateorological
other factöre have, also no doubt cod- tributed to the severity of the pressnt epidemia. The unusual SIR J. CRICHTON BROWNE humidity of the atmosphere duran
ing the winter has probably favoured its propagation, "and ap mlah perhaps has the defective sanitation which has been caused. be the war and to men in the RNby state of our SizeRİN,”
FISWED.
“ MILESTONES.
There was quite
large andience at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night to withes “ Milo- stones", played by the Howitt Phillips Company. the play is a few hints from a ney, robit very happy one and cannot fall to of view about the presenterline DEATH OF A BOLD LUKONG. impress an audience, especially of influenza, and a statement of when it is acted so well as the members of the Howitt Phillips did it
Another toll has been exacted on the Hongkong Police Force, & lukong yesterday being shot through the body while he had had under arrest a Chinese desperado, who, after robbing & Chinese woman living on the
ran into the arms of the deceased lukong.
THE-BOLSHEVIST MALADY.
The closing, rate of thứ đolli
demand to-day was 38 -
The Weather.
Forecast-Fair. Barome 1996. Temperature £ jams Humidity 2
LEST WE FORGET.
The crew of the steam trawler
the captain and
Italians as if they were barbarians without a democratic Govern- first floor of 34. Western Street. events showed how conservative ever since has from time to time will certainly leave behind it al engineer of which, as stated in
A communique from Paris dated the 24th states:- A summary of Signor Orlando's counter-proclamation says President Wilson's attitude is an innovation in international affairs. This is not the complaint, but he says it has been applied hitherto only to enemy peoples. Moreover, the proclamation came while negotiations were proceeding. It was an attempt to place the Government in opposition to the people, in other words, treating the
ment Signor Orlando himself never denied that the Pact of London does not apply to Fiume. He based his claim on the principles of President Wilson's fourteen points. He discovered that the fourteen- points were elastic for every nation except the Italian, and he emphasises that his claims are based on the fourteen points. Then follows a statement of the Fiume case. He ends by expressing friendship for the American people.
THE SILVER MARKET.
THE WEEKLY REPORT.
London, May 1. Messrs. Samuel, Montagu and Co., in their weekly report
state :-
Fluctuations in the price have been wider this week, owing to the vacillation of the American exchange. Shanghai exchange has risen to 4s. 114d. per tael.
TO-DAY'S CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
{"Chinese Commercial News" Service.)
THE SHANGHAI CONFERENCE.
PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION NOT SETTLED.
Shanghai, May 3, Yesterday's conference still continped the discussion of the local administraion question, which under ordinary circumstances, would take several days to solve. Now that it is questioned whether the Peace Conference really has the right to decide this question it is impossible to say when it can be settled.
to solve
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Yesterday's plucky arrest by the Police of the culprit, after some thrilling vicissitudes, will rank as high as any other smart bit of work in the annals of the local Police Force. In Police Force we have splendid material-men who have a high sense of duty and are never afraid to risk their lives in the discharge of it. This spirit is not confined only to the European section but permeates the whole Force.
Throughout there is not a dull moment. The first act portrays a scene in a Kensington drawing room in 1860, and shows the part women played in those days, but more than all the course of
were many business men, how blind they were to possibilities in industry.
To-night the Howitt Phillips Company will produce Damaged Goods," the play which had such a sensational run in London. Booking has been very heavy,so that the Company will again no doubt play to a full house.
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some of the causes that are con tributing to it were given in an
"All these contributory condi- Observer interview by Sir James,
tions the epidemic of influenza is Crichton-Browne.
"Influenza," Sir James began, tiesare
itself aggravating, for its fatali- is an old and too familiar story. sorrow and depression of spirits, causing widespread It was known to Hypocrates four it is entailing privation by carry- hundred years before Christ, and ing off the breadwinnere, and it Barnsley. barassed and harried mankind legacy of nervous exhaustion. Entrenched either permanently,
the Times yesterday (February or for prolonged sojourns in "The toxin of influenza has a German submarine, have arrived 16), were made prisoners by a certain localities, it has neverthe-peculiarly pernicious affect upon at the homes at Fleetwood: less sallied forth and realised the the nerve centres. The disease They state that the commander Pan-German ideal of becoming leaves immediately behind it the submarine informed them pandemic and sweeping round extreme prostration and debility that he had strict orders to take the world.
disproportionste to its duration two of the crew of every boss he Our information about the and severity, and its aftermath aank? One of the officers of the is seen in many nervous diseases submarine took possession of the many recorded sutbreaks in modern times, is not sufficiently and loss of tone. The late Sir captain's gold watch, which was definite to enable us to trace their Thomas Clouston used to say hung up in his berth, and put it EXTRADITION CASE. geographical extension, but it is that the influenza epidemic of in his pocket, markin
alear that the pandemic of 1889 1889 and 1890 lowered the whole English. Tois is mine. The and 1890, starting from the 25 per cent.
nervous energy of the country by submarine's crew loated the Kirghis Steppes, radiated in all
whole ship, taking away the Before Mr. R. E Lindsell at directions and, in the course of a **Influenza is the most Bolshe.spare suite and oilskins of the the Magistracy this, afternoon, few years, swept over almost the vist" of maladies. Lawless, trawler men, oil, ropes, and all extradition proceedings were ine whole globe from Iceland to New treacherous. destructive, it is the provisions which were on tituted for the surrender of Zealand, following the lines of protean in its form, inscrutable board. The "Times," February 17, two Chinese fugitives to human communication and the in its movements, uncertain in the. Canton Authorities, on courses of rivers.
its incidence, and baffles predic- charge of armed robbery, piracy and kidnapping in the Tung Pin
tion. Bolshevism will exhaust Hang Village, in the Hok Sang
and so will influenza, and when itself shortly and set up reaction, the next pandemic of it occur assembly; the frequent washing we shall be better prepared for of the nose month, and throat with some simple antiseptic, and it than we have been hitherto.
Major Astor tells as we are to and nose during meesing and the covering of the mouth and- put through ̈ him. Althougn Mak Sin Wong, a native of the
have an Intelligence Department & recognition of this fact has village in question deposed that "It is possible that the virus, watching pubhe health in all coughing with the subsequent prevenied many Chinese robbers at about 12 midnight
on once imported into a district, mayBearch Committee is to be per-mediate resort to medical advice countries, and the Medical Re destruction or the disinfection of the handkerchief; and the in- from embarking on criminal July .5 ·lest he woke propagate itself outside the body enterprises, the more desperate up .to characters who arm themselves
manently organised under the contaminated with with revolvers still take the risk. The episodes surrounding the latest incident are, shortly, these. A Chinese woman Called round a 34, Western Street on the ancien. excuse of wanting to rent a room. The tenant of the first floor, aisu a woman, showed her
, round
Bad as crime has been of late, there is no doubt it has been kept down since the policemen on patrol have been allowed to carry arma during the day. The Chinese robber since then has realised how extremely dangerous it is for him to District. carry on his -nefarious tradé, for The Assistant Crown Solicitor the chances are that if he is spot-(Mr. Lea Longinotto) appeared ted by the Police he will have the for the Crown, while the fugitives pleasure of getting a bullet were undefended.
"There is no disease that has so frequently swept over the globe in. epidemic waves as infiuenza Some still believe in the aerial transit of the virus of infection, and think it may be conveyed for considerable distances by the wind.
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in his cubicle. Torches were ground
find armed robbers in such media as damp ground or Privy Council. If it be only liber- even on the occurrence of the fashed and the next instant he organic matter, but Dr. Parsons's ally supported and given & free lightest feverish cold. found himself struck on the back investigations established the hand, I have no doubt an efficient
USELESS QUINTNE. with the batt-end of revolvers fact that it is spread mainly, if means of curbing influenzs and and tied up. They stole his not entirely, by human inter- many other diseases will be dis-
"There is no infallible safeguard revolver, a gold watch
and course, It is certain that the
covered. several pieces of clothing
against infaenza. Whenever it breath of persons suffering from
appears there is a rush to same" influenza is highly infectious,
particular protective that has even from an early stage, and
"We must look to the chemist seemed plausible or has received
but that there is special risk of in-and bacteriologists as the sav-medical sanction,
éven
The hearing is proceeding.
DOUETS ABOUT MASKS.
the premises, when, immediately DEPORTATION OF GERMANS. fection in theatres, churches, iours of mankind. Deep as is our medical sanction is not infalible,
after, tive men, armed cup a pie, got to the woman's tenement du
the first floor. Prior to their entrance the tenant placed $3. on her bed, and not content with appropriating this sum, the armeu robbers snot the woman, the Tang Shan-yi telegraphe to Cbu Sai-chong saying if Peking but being aimed at her from close bullet going wide of the target, can complete its work by the middle of May. It is reported that men then hurriedly took to their can give way on the question of Parliament the Peace Conference range scorched her jacket. The Chu Sai-chong had decided, that if the Shanghai Conference fails heels, each one being careful to the question of Parliament within another week, take different routes, all branch- to issue a mandate dissolving the new Parliament and ing off into streets in the calling for the election of a new Legislature. Peking's plan vicinity of No. 7 Police is to vest temporarily the legislative rights with the Station. The sound of Police Shanghai Conference, pending the election of a new Parliament. whistles brought to the scene The Canton Parliament will of course, be ignored. He sent & two Indian constables. wac delegate to Hankow to inform Wong Jim-yuen of the proposal. pursued one of the robbers, keep Chu-Sai-chong requests Fan Yuen-lim to effect a compromise ing on his trail through a maz with the Military Government, Hung Hi-ling a compromise with of lanes and on to Les Vou the Southern delegates and Ting Nai-Yang & compromise with Luk Road. Here Chan Cai, lukong Wing-ting regarding the question of Parliament.
No. 252, who was off datz acticing the escapade, stopped the runaway near Centre Street whic is between Eastera Birǝet and Westera Street, and Closed o him. It looked as if the ma: bad been run to earth, but withi the twinkling of an eye the lukon dropped, the robber firing a sho through his chest. The valian Chinese constable, while bein. taken to the Government Civi Hospital, died.
CHINA AND KIAUCHAU:
Shanghai, May 3.
According to a Paris telegram, at the request of the Four Powers, Dr.. Wellington Koa attended the Conference to explain minutely China's grievances regarding Kiauchau.
SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
AN OFFICIAL DENIMAS
Singapore, May §. uarters issues an official denial by the Chief Kh
His to malicious reports which are being cizculated that
ople at Amritsar has been bombed.
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SOME ANOMALIES.
schools, and wherever numbers of debt to Foch, the time will come and during the recent epidemic people are congregated together. when another great Frenchman, the public has been leaning its
Pasteur, will stand on an even back upon what is anything but higher pedestal than he in the trusty tree. grateful rembrance of the world. Foch has saved modern civilisa-
PUBLIC HEALTH BELOW PAR.
"Quinine has been supposed to
One of the anomalies connected with the deportation of the Ger- "Influenza has caught us this mans in China is that some of time at a disadvantage, and is no have never seen the Fatherland which to plant itself. Notwith- the movement that will ultimate-sumed in enormous quantition. the Germans, being repatriated doubt fading a congenial soil in tion, and Pasteur inaugurated be an amulet and has been con-
A case in point is noted by the the health of the people generally enemise. and have no connection with is standing high wages and so on,ly rescue our race from its direct Careful observation, however, has shown that influenza is paid- Nagasaki Press. It appears that is probably below par. The nerves:
timidated by it. It was found at Mr. Ingo Jesselsen, one of the of the nations have been rattled, John Bose Bradford
"The recent researches of Sir the Royal Air Hospital at Hamp- and his stead that it had no effect on Germans who came under thede to use the words of the Prime colleagues open new vistas of influenza one way or the other. portation order, disappeared from Minister, and are still disconcert-hope in the prevention and treat- The patients who were given his house at Shanghai when heed. We see the effects in indus-ment of influenza and several quinine contracted influenza in received orders to report to the trial unrest aad in corporeal other diseases. They have shown as large proportions as those who authorities and evaded arrest for instability and susceptibility to that the specific organism of in- did not have it, and three patients sometime by disguising himself illness.
Buenza can ́pass through a por- in the wards who were suffering Finally, however, he was identi-
*During the war there was a celain filter and can then be from malaria and taking large. ied in the Chinese quarter by
cultivated. So perhape an doses of quinine succumbed to it, one of the Settlement police state of high tension, of suppress efficient protective vaccine may sergeants, who followed him until ed excitement, and of emotional
"The treatment of influenza 12 entered the International strain, and now that hostilities yet be prepared from it.
to-day consists of rest in bed, Settlement, when be inmediately are over the national fibre is
"Undoubtedly "a group of or skilled nursing, and antipyretics, irrested
relaxed and limp. We are only ganisms are concerned in the with liberal allowances of alcohol. him. Two attempts escape failing. Jesselsen now fully realising "car losse production of influenza and its I have no doubt many lives have ras lodged in the police-station, While the conflict lasted we did complications. It is certainly been lost owing to the inacces ind was to appears later at the not feel the poignancy of our Mixed Court charged with evad. wounds. But now the anguish ng the deportation: order and and the weakness they involve alling to notify the police of his come home to us, our power of
physiological resistance *hange of address.
dignished, and so we succumb readily to disease.
The absurdity of the whole hing, as the Nagasaki Press points out, is that while Jesselsen a officially German through his ather, who died many years ago,
EFFECT OF RATIONING.
18 has no knowledge of "The rationing which
.is
not Pfeiffer's bacillus, as we have sibility of brandy and whisky hitherto bleved, that is its sole under present regulations B cause. It is a mixed infection. critical moments when they havə
the
DON'T FORGET
"The fact that the influenza been urgently needed.-Sundry organism is so infinitely minute Observer. that it can make its way through porcelain throws doubt on the value of the mask. The mask At this stage the pursuit becam hotter, the blackguard negotiatin;
may be a protection to those the Praya, returning back t
nursing or in immediate contact. Eastern Street and Des Voeux Jerman and has never been to people have undergone during the little globules that are expelled our with the sick by arresting the Road West, taking refuge in the Germany. He was born at war, necessary and cheerfully from top Boor of house No. 133. He Nagasaki, his mother, an English borne, and comparatively moder through coughing and messing, nose and mouth slipped out by means of a rope to lady, dying at that port only last ate though it has been, has un but its use in the streets with the the backyard and once agair year. Born and brought up in the doubtedly reduced their stamina. regained the street. The Police Far East, to take such a man to The amount of food has been addition of goggles as has been would probably, if followed the scent and in Salt Germany, where he cannot speak enough; but its quality and the resorted to on
proposed
Theatre Royal Howitt Phil Fish Lane, a small lane of the language, and has small pro- balance of its constituents have produce panie, which has always Goods "--9.15 p.m.
a large scale, lips Co. present Damaged Eastern Street, the robber waspects of obtaining work is surely been seriously altered. The re- contributed to the spread of held at bay and at last run to the height of absurdity. His strictions on meat, sugar, butter, epidemic disease. Besides, the earth.
objection to deportation can beer, and the inaccessibility ow-mask in some degree musles the very well be understood and ing to their price of other foods, nose and month and hinders that The murderer who was this sympathised with The Nagasaki such as fresh fruits, have had free entrance of fresh air that is morning produced before Mr. Press says that this case, bad as some effect on bodily nutrition; sanitary and desirable. Orme, is a short-atatured man, thin it is, is not by any means the and it is to this I am inclined to
in features and he wore a look worst, and questions the faimonsaftribute the fact that the "The best precautions are those that would not stamp him as a of departing such men as Mr. mortality in the epidemic is recommended by the Loosl eziminäl. He pleaded not
dermans chiefy amongst the "oung and] Government Board the
nota vation of sound, handa Youn
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granted week s
avoidance of place
TO-DAY,
Victoria Theatre 9.15pm
Coronet Theatre -35.15 and 9.15.