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MAURICE EGAN DEAD.
New York, Jan. 16. Maurice Egan, of the U. S. Diplomatic Service, is dead.
ELIHU ROOT IN HOSPITAL ·
New York, Jan. 16. Hon. Elihu Root has been under operation for the removal of. kidney stone. He is resting easily.
THE EXCHANGE ~MARKET.
New York, Jan. 167 Financiers attribute the fail to freign currency values to the failure of France to support the franç without cutting the Budget. The currencies are still falling, Italian lira alone remaining stable.
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THE U. S. PRESIDENCY.
Washington, Jan. 16. President Coolidge's friends expect his nomination in the first and see:nd ballots at the Cleveland Convention.
THE MEXICAN TROUBLE.
Washington, Jan. 16.
It is reported that the Government plans to warn the rebels, who blockaded Tampico, on Wednesday. that the United States will att tolerate interference with oil companies, and protests against interference with commerce.
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A LABOUR GOVERNMENT.
London, Jan. 16. The moderation and essentially liberal complexion of the have done nothing to modify the tacit speech from the Throne Liberal-Labour agreement to eject the Government. A number of back-bench Liberals have fodged a separate amendment, mentioning
unemployment and protection and the Government's international
and domestic policy. This amendment, however, is very unlikely to be reached.
Conservative commentators are now resigned to the inevitable, and even the forlorn campaign in favour of Liberal-Conservative The Labour organ expresses co-operation has now flickered ou impatience at the large number of Liberals who insist on talking on the amendment, thus delaying Mr. Ramsay Macdonald's advent;' the Labour amend- but the Liberal papers unanimously embrace ment as a suitable instrument for inflicting the quietus on Mr.
WE RECOMMEND Baldwin. They dwell on the potentialities of long life for a Labour.
CALDER'S IMPERIAL STOUT
WHOLESOME
AND
INVIGORATING
Government, provided the national welfare is not subordinated to tactical niceties.""
There is a suggestion of mutiny in the ranks of Labour is a separate amendmeat moved by five Clyde Labourites, referring to "the millions of workers on the verge of starvation."
unanimously forecast a Governmen Lobby correspondents defeat on Monday and the announcement of a Labour ministry on Tuesday, followed by an adjournment for several weeks to enable the Cabinet to pick up the threads of office-Reuter.
THREATENED RAILWAY · STRIKE.
London, Jas. 16.
Mr. J. H. Thomas in a statement yesterday. emphasized the obligation of the members of the National Union of Railwaymen to remain at work in the event of a strike. He said he stood by his signature to the award of the National Wages Board, which the union endorsed. He expected the union to honour the endorse- ment, regardless of the consequences; but the Society of Locomotive Engineers' manifesto of last night says that the official date and time for cessation of work was sent to all the branches in rder to secure a simultaneous stoppage throughout the Cuntry. It
TELEPHONE K. 626 exhorts the members to strike at the appointed hout.-Reuter.
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DOINGS OF THE DUFFS .
ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS.
New York, Jan. 15.
The Pilgrims Club gave a farewell banquet to Sir Auckland Geddes, who made a speech pleading far better Anglo-American understanding. Loud applause greeted his remark that he returns to England as A kind of deputy assistant American Ambassador." to help to increase the knowledge of the United States in Great Britain. Anglo-American co-operation he said, would come, not through governmental agencies, but through the people themselves. -Reuter's American Service.
TOKYO UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.
London, Jan, 16, Aberdeen University has given Tokyo University over two hundred valuable works of reference to replace books destroyed by the earthquake-Reuter,
THE MOROCCAN QUESTION,
Paris, Jun. 16. France has declined the Spanish request to modify the Tangier
concessions vise- Convention but is willing to consider granting where in Morceco-Reuter."
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A LUCKY FIND IN THE STREET.
The $3,000 picked up at Des Vaux Road West by a Chinese boy on New Year's Day and handed over to the police by the boy's master has been claimed.
SOCIAL DISEASE.
SHANGHAI COMMITTEE'S
REPORT.
(Vur Chen Correspolent.)
Shanghai, Jan. 16.
Canton.
COLD EPIDEMIC ARRIVES
Take PEPS and keep away- -- Chest & Lung Dangers.
These "co
The present widespread epi-7 demic of coughs and colds is being caused by certain mischevious A Committee of the Shanghai living germs entering the throat Medical Society, following an in, and bronchial tubes through the
month. nase and As reported in these columns atvestigation conducted at the re
and, as yet, there is no means. the time the boy, after finding the quest of the Shanghai Municipal germs" are practically, invisib money, which was in $500 notes, Council, reported opposing the keeping them out altogethe returned to the shop where he was closing of brothels. They declar- Bnt by promptly taking Peps
offi- you can kill them off before they jempi:yed and consulted his mastered that when brothels were
as to its disposal. The latter took cially closed, the inmates merely have time to provoke mischief.
When a Peps tablet i- taken the boy to the Central Police moved to residential districts, or
apper Station and handed
the the women solicited on the streets, from its preserving silver moner t: the Inspector in the thas spreading the foci of venereal and dissolved in the mouth, it charge room with an explanation disease. They declared that ven gives ff powerful medicinal and was increasing in germicidal fumes which, as they as to how it was come by. One ereal disease
reirculate with the breath through or two weeks later a Chinese shop Shanghai, and advocated the keeper attended the Statin and opening of houses of prostitution. the air-passages, quickly destroy claimed the money on behalf of his They opposed licensing, but urged any harmful germs lodged in nostrils or throat. At the same They also
time the sore, inflamed membrane nephew who, he said, had dropped police supervision.
over
a large sum of money in the advocated widespread publicity for liding of the air tubes is soothed. rizinity where the $8,000 were an educational campaign to check healed and protected by the Paps found and who had since returned the inroads of venereal diseases. to his village. The shop keeper was informed by the police that they would not recognize a claim by proxy and was instructed to write, to his nephew.
medicine: phlegm is softened and and released. breathing is mad“ RE COULDN'T PAWN HIMSELF. [easy, and that distressing coug An Irish preacher, wishing to and throat soreness disappears. By their direct breatheal show his congregation the depth to which a prodigal son sinks.acion, Peps, so strengthen Un Tuesday, the nephew himself gave the following illustration.fortify. throat, chest and lungs of the col called on Mr. T. H. King. Deputy "A lad left home with good in-that the worst Superintendent :f Police, and gave tentions but evidently got into weather can be faced without a satisfactory account of what bad company. He eventually had fear of evil consequences. It is to pawn his overcoat in order to a safe precaution to always happened.
According to his story he had raised money to keep himself carry a few Peps loose in the However, his coat and waistcoat pocket. Peps occasionally dis just returned from Canada and had to go the same way Again solved in the mouth quickly Iwas passing through Hongkong he needed money, and he was arrest and sudden cold or chill jf.r Canton. On the 30th Decem-forced to pawn his trousers, and linfineoza or throat sorenes
ber, he drew $14,000 from a Dutch likewise bis shirt and rest. Then they keep the breathing organ. bank with the intention of setting he came to himself."
up a business. Next day he lost
the whole amount in the street!
thoroughly heairby and prevent tae onset of bronchitis, asthma, or other chronic chest weakness: whilst he was shopping at Des the $3.000 to him. Impressed by
Peps, the great breatheable? Vaux Road West. He reported their honesty the happy man remedy in tablet form, "are now the misfortune to his uncle and voluntarily handed over $800 to obtainable of chemists and dis
the police as a reward for the pensaries everywhere direct from subsequently left for Canton.
After verifying the man's state- boy and his master. We under-agents-Messrs. Wakefield & ment that he drew the money from stand the boy received 3500 and 0 (China) Ltd, 60, Kiangse
Road, Shanghai the Dutch bank Mr. King returned, his master got the balance.
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