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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WHITE SLAVERY.
LEAGUE COUNCIL'S REPORT.
London, Dec. 8.“
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1927.
OUR DAILY TALK ON
· HEALTH.
USE OF ALCOHOL AS A FOOD.
WHEN IT IS BENEFICIAL.
MEXICO AND JAPAN,
SECRET TREATY 'DENIED.
New York, Nov. 29.
"On the proposal of Sir Auston
Continuing their series of copy- Chamberlain the Loague, Council
righted articles on the Mexican yesterday issued the second part
situation, the Hearst papers to- of the report on the White Slave,
morrow will say that Japanese Traffic, a document of 200,000
military aid for Mexico in the words, which amplifies the state- The great difficulty in arriving event of war with the United ment and conclusions of the at any estimate of the actual value. States is provided in the draft of a Lengue Committee and the in- of alcohol in the practice of secret treaty formally submitted vestigations made in part one. medicine is the fact that scientific to the Japanese Government by
Sir Austen Chamberlain, in in-pinions seem to be conditioned President Calles in 1926.
The article says that in response troducing the question, states that invariably by sociologic, economic
to an inquiry from Tokyo, Calles the situation had materially im or personal sidelights, proved in many countries since In 1925, Dr. Roger I. Lee at-proposed to Japan that a large dia- the Investigation was conducted tempted to evaluate alethol from triet in western and southern in 1924-25-26. The report in its the strictly pharmacologic and Alexleo should be colonized by broad conclusions demonstrates therapeutic points of view. In Japan and that the colonists the existence of an organised traf- other words, he was concerned should have "some military train- fie in girls for immoral purposes wholly with the effects of alcohol ing." He also stipulated that from certain European countries. on the various parts of the body these soldier-colonists should go mainly Poland, France and Ru and its use in the treatment of Mexico with the expectation "in mania. to Latin America and disease.
the unfortunate case" of a foreign war that Mexico might depend up- Egypt.
Before the advent of modern on their co-operation. Detailed summaries. are given scientific pharmacology, alcohol Calles informed Japan that of the result of inquiries in 28 was much used in the treatment Mexico had concluded 3 secret cities, together with the observa-of acute infectious disease. Many treaty with the Nicaraguan tions of the various governments practitionera of long experience Liberals whereby Mexico had ob on the situation disclosed in their insisted that the mederate use of tained colonization rights, but as respective countries.
alcohol was valuable in the troat-Mexico was unprepared for
The General belief is that the ment of acute infections. It was foreign colonization part of the publicity given to the facts about not claimed that the alcohol had Japanese immigrants should be the underground traffic has stimu-direct specific action on the germs diverted to Nicaragua, "after a inted the governments into streng-that cause these diseases. It had stay of one year on Mexico soll." thening legislation denling with it. been observed however, that in the A facsimile of the alleged Calles presence of an acute infection memorandum, including the text large amounts of alcohol might be of the treaty, accompanies the ar taken without producing the
ticle. alcoholic intoxication that ensues under ordinary conditions.
-British Wireless.
SOLOMAN ISLANDS..
FOURTEEN MORE TRIBESMEN ARRESTED.
:
Washington, Nov. 29. The Mexican Embassy formerly Food Value of Alcohol,
réiterated to-day that the Hearst Alcohol may be used as a food. series of articles were forgeries. Although it has long been consi-
Tokyo, Dec. 1 dered a stimulant by the public,
The Japanese Foreign Office to- and ex- the elinical laboratory Tulagi, Dec. 0.
perimental observations; accord-day declared that the story printed Fourteen more hill tribesmen ing to Dr. Lee, fail to disclose its the Hearst newspapers about a were captured on Saturday. All value as measured by any precise proposed Mexican-Japanese treaty the ringleaders in the recent dis-test or by any method capable of as 'untrue. turbance are
now in custody. Over
70-suspects are awaiting expressing actual measurement. trial in connexion with the Dr. Lee, is convinced that the murder of two British officers and single beneficial effect of alcohol fifteen native police last October. In acute infections is psychologic, -Reuter.
rather than a general effect on the body. It creates. a state of artificial euphoria. By this is meant a state of well being which brings about in the patient a sutisfaction with life and a desire to live that he might otherwise
OBITUARY.
DEATH OF FEŎDOR SOLOGUB. not have.
Leningrad, Dec. 6.
FREE STATE LOAN.
THE AMERICAN PORTION OVER-SUBSCRIBED.
New York, Dec. 6. The £3,000,000 American portion of the Irish Free State loan has been over-subscribed-Reuter's "I believe," said Dr. Lee, that American Service. Jalcohol properly administered in The death is announced of the selected cases in which a mild writer Feodor Sologuh. (Feodor artificial euphoria is desirable is
Ny
Kuzmich Teternikov),-Reuter.' a valuable therapeutic procedure disease make life appear drab, [Sologub was born in 1864, and in making the patient more com-and that the Judicious administer- was educated at Petrograd. His fortable." publications include "The Old iHouse"
(1915) and "The Sweet Scented Name" (1915).]
AUSTRALIAN STRIKE.
LASÇARS REMOVE LUGGAGE FROM LINER.
ing of alcohol in small amounts seems to alter the outlook on life and to mako.endurable the rigours of the necessary treatment.
Dr. Lee pictured the elderly patient convalescent from some mild respiratory infection, de- The patient.with chronic heart pressed and miserable in mind and disense, the person who is passing body, without appetite, with into senility with its inevitable sense of prostration and weakness discomforts is also benefited by "In such cases," he anys, "the use small doses of alcohol, since t of alcohol in some agreeable form apparently enables him to cases the miseries of the patient's eat more and to sleep better, as body and encourages him to take well as to give him freedom from nourishment and helps in the es-body miseries. tablishments of his recovery.
In his conclusion Dr. Lee says When Alcohol is Prescribed. that the benefit of alcohol is pro- bably never directly life saving,
Sydney, Dec. 6. The ship's insears removing passen- gers luggage from the steamship He points at that there are that it should not be employed as Maloja occasioned a complaint by the Joe Seerotary of The Waterside Occasional cases in the early a routine treatment, and should Workers Federation that the white stages of pulmonary tuberculosis be used only in individual enses Australia" policy is being 'violated when the fever, the distress of the in which the indications for Its Reuter
body and the consciousness of these are clear.
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