IRRESISTIBLE NATION
Abyssinian War As Japan's Chance
SHE NEVER LOSES
By HARRY W. FRANTZ United Preser Stall Correspondent
Washington, Aug. 20. Japan will be the ultimate, beneficiary of the European diplomatic imbroglio over Abyssinia, some internation- al authorities here believe.
"Japan always wins," has become almost an axiom | among diplomats who have! observed her remarkable ability to derive indirect advantage from all vexed international situations.
Through the world war. Japan made incredible gains in į territory and power and became supreme in the western Pacific: while the world was "opiated" by depression, Japan established i an unrefuted hegemony in i Manchuria and
diplomatie
volce in North China; a period¦ of chaos in International cur-
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AUGUST 26,
1935.
TO-DAY AT
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Considering Japan's strength
and her freedom from the League
FIRST
of Nations or other entanglements, EXPERIMENT
tiplomats consider it certain that Japan will automatically tend to
benefit politically from TENS
differences in Africa that weaken WHEN THERE WAS
ur divide other great powers.
lis-
If Italy undertakes aggressive NO CURE FOR RABIES operations in Abyssinin in regard at British diplomatic One of the luckiest men in views, it will mean to the Oriental)
the world will celebrate his world that Britain's supreme power in that part of the world sixtieth birthday this year.
He is Joseph Meister, a been effectively challenged. Frenchman living quietly at Simultaneously, inability of the Steige, in Alsace, where he League of Nations to avert war-still works every night as a fare would be regarded in many countries as perhaps
anal Watchman.
surrounding the Indian ocean has
Effect In East
the
FOURTEEN
CASES OF
Telephone Warnings
RABIES IN 1934 In Air Raids
Fourteen cases of Rabies were re- ported during the past year. Four Case occurred in humans, the re- 'mainder in dogs.
With the exception of one human CALD in the City of Victoria the disease was confined to Now Kow. loan and the New Territoriza. The reported in
ANTI-GAS GUIDES FOR PUBLIC IN BRITAIN Further steps are being taken by the Air Raid Precautions De- partment of the Home Office to None of the human car had been safeguard the public at Home treated with anti-rabic vaccine be against any possible aerial at-
of symptoms.tack. They include: fore the appearance All were fatal. No case which re- ceived anti-rabic treatment contract.
last case in 1934
Was
marrow of
ed the dite, though several had to be notice that Wilson's philosophy of¦ He was the first man to be been bitten by dogs proved national "self-determination" and inoculated with rabic virus by rabid, states the annual medical re juridical equality for amali na Pasteur, a modification of whose port on the Colony. Lions in no longer a tenable treatment is used at the present Kansakuntana CUSTOMISABE hypothesis for world diplomats. time in Hongkong and other;
rabbiti spinal cord To Asiatic opinion, the salient centres where rabies are pre-that had died of the rabies four- fnet of the world war was that
valent.
koon days before. The second Germany failed in her effort to
When Meister was inoculated, injection contained the marrow of establish diplomatically con-
rabbit that had died of the dis- trolled "corridor" through Central Pasteur's treatment was still in
stage. No use only thirteen days previously,j experimental Europe and Turkey to the Persian the
were increased Gudraigned as a route for the human had ever volunterred to These injections commercial penetration of the undergo the treatment, which in virulence until the serum "was;
meant, if it failed, that patient only three days old.
Pasteur carefully watched at his occupy would die a terrible death from sunnu Abyssinia. the immediate effect the disease which the experi-bed-side, night and day, for any might Te
symplons of acrophobia-the first i Japan, as Italy rather than the ments sought to prevent,
Pasteur's treatment, which age of hydrophobia-in which Asiatic country would undertake the cuntmercful "penetration." has only been modified, slightly the slightest breath of air causes Japanese traders recently have even Lo-day, consisted of in- the muscles of the face to con- been very active in the Red Sen!jected serum and western Indian ocean.
Indian ocean area. If Italy should
disadvantageous
to
logical consequences. to Japan:
of an Anglo-Italian rift. some diplomats believe, would he
follows:
as
1. The event would lead gra-
dually to international re-align- ments on the basis of a world-
tract. but they did not manifest from the spinal themselves. After eight days of
this nerve-racking vigil, Pasteur!
cord of rabic rabbits.
1919.
The publication of a series of handbooks for distribution among members of the public and of first-aid services; and
New Value For Islands In Pacific
TINY DOTS ON MAPS GAIN STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE
Honolulu, Aug. 22.
The completion of far flung American-owned islands in the mid-Pacifle is changing to-day, hastened by two distinct in- fluences: transoceanic aviation and national defence.
Midway, Wake, Guam, French Frigate Shoals, and other tufts of land sprinkled between Hawaii and the Far East which once were of doubtful value have found now and Important use as emergency air bases for cam- mercial travel and as potential fortified outposts in event of
[war.
Association of transoceanic air travel and national defence is paradoxical. The first envisages more closely knit International relations through new aerial routes from nation to nation. The Carcand carries the reality of pre- paredness against international conflict.
New Settlements Thriving Both will work amazing changes on these desolated islands. Al- ready Pan-American Airways sex- tlements are thriving on Midway. Wake and Guam.
Midway, once B lonely enble station, now has the nucleus of a miniature city. Never before has Wake been inhabited for any per- ind of time. The Pan-American bane there will be permanent. Men are landscaping the dunes and nursing shrubs and trees to make the spot more picturesque Toy Clipper plane travellers en route to Manila and Hongkong.
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It is no secret that the Navy | msODELLBECKENZIESHEIKKINENSCIOUSNOBERSCHBUKSANOSNIKORDi has surveyed these islands in detail to measure their capacity for fortifications and emergency
landing areas for fighting planes.
Midway Lagoon Tested Facilities of the Midway lagoon were tested this spring when 43 Consultations with the Post anval seaplanes from Pearl Har- Office on the best means of lesuing bor landed there to deploy in warnings of attacks which are Paelle fleet manoeuvres, and the likely to take the form of mass Anal test was made last week with telephone calle.
the arrival of the glant Pan- The air raid precautionary American seaplane Oriental Clip- Both naval and Pan-Ameri- handbooks are in course of pre-per. paration by the Home Office. can officinis have attested to the natural fitness of French Frigate They are:
Air Raid Precautions in the Shoals, a strip of land about 500 Home":
miles northwest of Haiwali, for "Anti-Gas Precautions and landing-of-seuplares. ----- First Aid for Air Raid Casual-
Significantly one of the progi. ties":
alons in the agreement granting "Treatment of Gas Comualties"; ¦ Pan-American Airways the tise of "Decontamination of Mate-Midway, Wake and Guam calls for their reversion to the Navy in "Structural Precautions an emergency, against Bumbs and Guses"; and With Pan-American's Oriental "Air Raid Precautions in Fac-line virtually ready for service, tories and Business Premises."
observers are looking southward where another necklace of coral atolla stretches.out toward Samoa The discussions with the and the Antipodies, affording emer Post Office are likely to leadĮgency bases for the next projected
rial";
Special Committees
to a scheme for simultaneous trans-Pacific route-- from America
telephone warnings over the to Australia,
Sovereignty In Doubt
are
In the long term, however, thej It is said that Pasteur,before had a nervous breakdown and had
he had completed his Brst ex-to retire to the country. periment on Muister, complete- From then on. Pasteur took ‘a. iy brake down from nervous oral interest in Meister and i excitement. The death of Mels-belped him to find jobs in Paris. ter would have meant a murder (ince he employed himi RS
areas during raids. By link- charge against him.
Haboratory boy. For 41 while he
ing up circuits it would be
Among them are Baker, How- Meister was nine years old was a baker, but gave up this,
possible for a single operator land, and Jarvis Islands. Sover wide rather than strictly European when he was bitten by a rabid work to accept the past of janitor to broadenst a warning which eignty of these islands is in- "balance of power" and Japa dog on August 5, 1885, just over at the Pasteur Institute in
could be received by every definite. but it is believed the being at present relatively isolated
twenty-three years after the death
subscriber on any given Ex-United States euld claim them could only gain by the new situn half a century ago.
He received fourteen ugly of his eminent benefactor.
change.
without international difficulties. tion;
wounds, the scars of While working at the institute
There a over 10,000 men- Army and Navy experts 2. Great Britain, having a new teeth cause for preoccupation in the which he still bears.
one day. Meister was nipped by a Indian occan area, would tend to Frantic, his mother dashed | mad. Indo-lhin pig which had bers of the St, John Ambulance privately drawing parallels be emphasize her political concerns him to Paris the same day. In een injectal .th hydrophobia Association and the British Redtween these islands and Japanese These South Sea islands also there rather than in the Pacifican effort to find the man whose germs and had to be inoculated, Cross Society who are fully mandated islands. ocean; in, one area or another
experiments on animals against again. This time, be admitted, he qualified to render assistance in
was really afraid, despite the the event of air attack. Approxi- could be equipped as refueling Japan would continue an Moters :
stations, submarine outposts and hydrophobia were being disuccess of his fast injection yeara mately half of, these are in gelic commercial policy:
emergency landing points for sea- Abyssinin and
before and the development of London. Stam have eussed in the newspapers,
planes. The "Crazy" Chomist The marl-der-bite serum.
time these two Although the present survey is When she arrived in Paris,
A graphis statue, depeieting bodies have been working in co-essentially for commercial planes, doctors tried to dissuade her
Meister as a shabby little farm operation with the Ministry of the Navy would have access to all from getting in louch with the hand struggling with a huge "crazy" chemist, whose experi mud-dog, is one of the few monu Health and the Home Office. material gathered, and in fact the ments were still looked upon
decorating
the staid Major E. W. Puget, who is con- Navy already has explored with suspicion by the profes- grounds of the Pasteur Institute trolling their joint air raid pre-Islands' saibilities to some ex- siunul medical men.
in Paris to-day-United Press,parations, said recently that the tent.-United Preas Finally she found A young admirer of Pasteur who took har Converge On Siam
to him.
Pasteur refused to Atrategical experts At first
the delicate task of! where gossip is not possible of undertake proof, there is much conversation|inoculating a human being for the
heen the two non-European coun- tries in the neighbourhood of the Indian ocean able to maintain an; Independent existence, on suffer- ance of Europe. If Abyssinia falls as an independent nation, then the policies of several countries, including Japan, might converge upon the diplomatic control Sium.
Among
of
i
ments
THE QUEEN MARY
regarding Japan's desire to attain first time. Describing this dram- Ready For Sea Next
more forward diplomatic posi-ntic ineident, Meister says: tlon in Slam. Japanese traders. "I shall always see Pasteur's: financiers, and shippers are said good face focussed on us while)
His expert-
May
it is almost certain that the
For some
number of qualified members is increasing rapidly. He added:
the
Tasks which members of the WORLD TOUR ON
two bodies will carry out are the: Manning of first-aid and de- contamination posts;
Establishment
of first-aid
parties for dealing with casualties in the streets; and
Organisation of emergency per-1 Aunhel for supplementing the work of the hospitals in setting up clearing stations.
HORSEBACK
AUSTRIAN COUPLE IN CALCUTTA to have made steady gains thore my brother described the accident. ginnt Cunard-White Star liner) against the British-an importHe had scruples.
Calcutta, Aug. 10. Queen Mary will leave the Clyde- ant "invisible" item in Oriental ments had all been performed ex- bank fitting-out basin on May 29
Mrs. Betty Starok, of Vienna, "At present," said Major and her husband John Starck, who on animals. He had next year. diplomacy.
clusively
organisation in Japan ultimately, although per-confidence in his treatment, but
have been touring the world on This date has been chosen be-Paget, "our haps not immediately, to said to I could see he was undergoing cause, since the ship was launched London is considerably more ad- horseback since 1926 and whose want control of a trans-Siam terrible mental struggle. He in September, a careful watch has vanced than in the provinces. tour is expected to be completed canal, shortening the water route hesitated to inoculate me with the been kept on the tides, and it is With the publication of the in 1940, have arrived in Calcutta,
Office Order
It took the tourists six years to |drend virus, but before the tearful calculated that the highest summer Home Since the British fleet based inplendings of my mother, he finally tides will rise on May 29 and 30, Singapore
hoping that it will be possible ride from Vienna to Kolymak, would strategically consented."
As Clyde tides turn quickly the control such a canal, some nsval
Candy Anaesthetic ! vessel will go downstream to Bowl-to make it increasingly efficient Siberia, and three more years from experta believe that Japan ul- Ag д förm timately will seek rights in South
toured from Polping to Myitkyina, of anaesthetics, ing, where she will be berthed to elsewhere. It will be simpler Siberia to India across Manchuria, China which would facilitate air Pasteur fed young Meister a bag await the following days side, to expand our training now that Mongolla and Tibet. They last communications with the future of lollies as the first injection was which will carry the liner on her materials are going to be more a distance of 8,200 miles, with the
easily obtainable.
Joss of only five horses. being, made. It consisted of the 20-mlles voyage to the sea.
to the Far East..
canal.
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