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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
FRENCH ELECTIONS.
Paris, Jan. 12.
France yesterday proceeded to elec: 240 Senators to replace two categories of members whose mandates have expired. The French Senate consists of 314 members, pue third of whom are renewable every third year. The classes to be renewed were those whose mandates normally expired in January 1915, but were exteaded owing to the war, and those whose mandates expired in 1918. Then there were a few vacancies by death. The Senators are not chosen by popular vote, but by electoral colleges in each department, composed of delegates chosen by the Municipal Council of each commune in proportion to the population and of De- puties. Councillora, General and District Councillors. No political changing results from the vote. The Socialist party has presented many candidates, but only two are elected. M. Clemenceau was not a candidate. Nearly all the bearers of well-known political names are retumed, among them is Antonin Duhost, President and Speaker of the Senate. A somewhat peculiar position is created by the unanimous election of M. Poincare as Senator for the Meuse Department for 3. Poincare is still Preddent of the Republic until 17th February M. Pichon. Minister for Foreign Affairs, was re- elected by a large majorby for the Jura Department, also M. Pams, Minister For the Interior, and M. Jeannenes, Under Secretary for State. The Ministers formerly not members of the Upper Chamber elected wege M. Claville (Minister for Transport) M. „Notlons. (Minister for Agriculture). and M. Henri Roy (Fyid Controller). Other notable elections were these of Canon Collin, the well known. Lorraine ccclesiastical dignitary, the directie of die pewspaper "Lorraine."" of "Metz, General Hirshner Jonnant, General Taunflich. M. Ribot, M. Charles Danny fortier Premier). Paul Dapay, son of the former "Petit Parisien" director, and M. de Serves, former Ministre for Foreign Affairs.
EARTHQUAKES NORTH OF VERACRUZ.
Mexico City, Jan. 9. Fresh earthquakes have occurred north west of Veracruz, eight villages have been overwhelmed and an immense lake ás now struteling over the devastated area. A new crater opened in a volcano at Orizaba where the hill split open and sulphur, Gre and laya are being thrown long distances. Panic regue at Cordoba and Onigaha. Experts believe thas the reactivity of the suppoed extinct volcano Savariguel, explains the new earthquake, In the state of Pueblo, which has bera devastated, it is officially estimated there are 3,000 dead and scores of injured,, who perished after the cart! quake from starvation.
WILSON-BRYAN SPLIT.
New York, Jan. 9.
The split between Mr. Bryan and Mr. Wilson on the question of whether the League should be made an issue for the elections is discussed with intense interest, especially 28 regards its bearing on the Presidential election. Wilson's message does not hint at his intentions thercanent. Bryan in opening his speech, said his hearers would not listen to him with the thought that they were listening to a candidate.
Washington, Jan. 9.
Senator Hitchcock bas advocated an honourable com- promise. Ex-Ambassador Getard, who is a probable candidate. for the United States Presidency has sent a message urging compromise.
LORD JELLICOE'S TRIP.
Key West, Jan. t.
Lord Jellicoe and Sir Arthur Borden have embarked on His Majesty's warship New Zealand for Havana,
WORLD'S RECORD BATTLESHIP.
London, Jan. 9.
H.M.S. Hood, the world's record warship, has left Clydebank for her trials.
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SLEEPING SICKNESS.
AN INTERESTING REVIEW.
By possession and by mandate, the British Empire has an ec. larged reponsibility for the future of Africa, says the Times. In the present and in the near future, Africa will have more need of the outer world to assist in the development of her resources, and the outer world will have more. need of her, products. These charges will multiply the avenues of traffic by road, rail and steamer, and, so will greatly increase the possible number of the victims of tropical diseases and the spread of these disease from the areas to which they have been confined. Of these plagues, sleeping sick- ness is one of the most dangerous. For over a century it had been recognized as a specific disease. but attacted little attention until 1901. The opening of Uganda led to its introduction, probably by human carriers. from the Congo, and the mortality from it assumed vast proportions. It was found in 1903 that the carrier was a tsetse fly which lived only near water, and in 1907 the epidemic was checked by the renioval of the natives from a two-mile zone bounding Lake Victoria. But although the attempt had been made to remove all the human reservoirs of the disease, some of the flies remained infective. Either many natives had broken the cordon, or there was a non- human reservoir.
Experiments made by Sir David Bruce in 1910 with captive ante- lopes showed that antelopes arti ficially infected by the fly could in turn give the trypanosomes, the protozoan parasites associated with the disease, to clean fly by which they were bitten. It had long ago been shown that the wild game of Zululand formed a
of permanent reservoir
the trypanosomes which. carried by tsetse to domestic ani- mals, infected them with the fatal fly sickness or a'gana disease. There was a strong case for the supposition that the wild animals of Africa were reservoirs of the trypanosome of sleeping sickness, and thus a menace to human life. Suddenly cases of sleeping sickness began to appear in Nyasaland and Rhodesia, and there was a natural alarm lest the fate of Uganda should be theirs. The great au- thority of Sir David Bruce sup- ported the opinion that wild game should be exterminated in all regions near human habitation or trade routes. Lord Harcourt, then Colonial Secretary, appoing- ed a strong Committee, under the chairmanship of Lord Desart, to sift the evidence and to make recommendations. The reporE, published in 1914, shortly before they were known, made specific the war, summed up the facts as
recommendations, and suggested further reserach. The Committee: held that Uganda sleeping sick- ness and Nyasland sleeping sick- ness were distinct discases, due to different trypanosomes, carried by different species of tsetse fly requiring different preventive measures.It appeared to be certair. that man himself was the per- manent reservoir of the Uganda disease whereas in the case of the Nyasaland form competent authorities were at variance. In the five years of war there must have been many changes in the distribution of the £y and of the diseases. It would be of great value were a competent authority now to traverse the whole region. from the West Coast, through Central Africa to Uganda and down by Nyasaland to Rhodesia. to collect the facts and arrange for the correlation of research of preventive measures.
It is understood that Sir David Bruce, no longer on the active list as a surgeon-general, would be ready for such a task. There could be no better man. He is the leading figure in the invest- igation of sleeping sickness, and although his belief that wild game were the chief reservoir of the types of human sleeping sick- ness was not accepted as proved by the Committee, there would be universal confidence in the in- tegrity and competence of his observation. It is urged the Colonial Office take the sary steps.
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