IRRESISTIBLE NATION
Abyssinian
War As
Japan's Chance
SHE NEVER LOSES
By HARRY W. FRANTZ United Press Staff Correspondent
Washington, Aug. 20. Japan will be the ultimato beneficiary of the European diplomatie 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 WELL, Japan made incredible gains in territory and power and became supreme in the western Pacific; while the world was "opiated" by depression, Japan established RA unrefuted hegemony Manchuria and a diplomatic voice in North China; a period |
in!
of chaos in international eur-
THE
HONGKONG
BABY SHOW BOTHER
TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1935.
Trans-Ocean Airways
These little entente in the baby shor, recently held at Essec, do ust arem to be very plensçil about
things,
DEATH TOOK BACK SEAT
rencies enabled Japan to invade PASTEUR'S
new commerical markets in altį parts of the workh
Considering Japan's trength FIRST
and her freedom from the League! of Nations or other entanglements,! diplomata consider it certain that Japan will automatically tend to benefit politlenlly from any differences in Africa that weaken
EXPERIMENT
FOURTEEN
CASES OF
RABIES IN 1934!
Fourteen chars of Rabies were renj ported during the past year. Four
or divide other great powers. WHEN THERE WAS chard occurred in humans, the 'rei
If Italy undertakes aggressive NO CURE FOR RABIES er in dogs.
operations in Abyssinia irs dis
regard
British diplomatie!
views, it will mean to the Oriental
L
Jast cour in 1934 waa August.
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New Value For Islands In Pacific
TINY DOTS ON MAPS GAIN STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE
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The completion of far flung American-owned Islands in the mid-Pacifle is changing to-day. hastened by two distinct in- tluences: transoceanic aviation and national defence.
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Midway, aftet # lonely enlile station, now has the nucleus of a miniature rity. Never before has Wake been inhabited for any per- ANTI-GAS GUIDES tod of time, The Pan-American base there will be permaneni. FOR PUBLIC IN
Men are landscaping the danes BRITAIN
and nursing shrobe and trees to math the pat more picturesque Further steps are being taken for Clipper plane travellers en reported in by 16 Air Raid Precautions Do-; route to Manila and Hongkong.
It is no erat that the Navy partment of the Home Bey tol
surveyed these islanda ANADANESSA INTAN PUTA, vojnuna aikaa RWANDA Hoteak, against any possible aerial at- safeguard the public at Horne
detail to measure their capacity for fortifications and emergency tack. They include:
With the exception of age human One of the inckiest men indsense was confined to
in the City of Victoria thei
New Kow world that Britain's suprem. the world will celebrate his toon and the New Territories. The power in that part of the world sixtieth birthday this year. surrounding the ludign orean has! been effectively challenged.
He is Joseph Meister, a Frenchman living quietly at League of Nations to avert were still works every night as a Simultaneously, inability of the Steige, in Alsace, where he fare would he regarded in many countries as perhaps The Anal Watchman.
Effect In East
heated with anti-rable vaccine be
None of the human cases had been fore the appearance of symptoms,
ceived anti-rabic treatment contract.
All were fatal. No cnam which res
ed the disease, though several had
notice that Wilson's philosophy of He was the first man to be, hern bitten by dags proved to be national "elf-determination" and inoculated with rabie virus by rabid, stator, the ammal medical re- juridical equality for small na-Panteur, a' maxlification of whose part on the Colony.
jspinal-cord
marrow o a rabbit
The sublleation of a series of
bandbooks for distribution among | members of the public and of first-aid services; and
Consultations with the Post Office on the best means of insuing warnings of attacks which aro likely to take the form of mass telephone calls,
tions Is no longer tenable treatment is used at the presente hypothesis for world diplomats.
time in Hongkong and other To Asiatic opinion, the salient fact of the world war was that Centres where rabies are that had died of the rabies four- Germany failed in her effort to valent,
"When Meister was inoculated, ten days before. The second establish a liplomatrails - trolled "curridor" through Central Pasteur's treatment was still injection contained the marrow of In rabbit that had died of the dis- Europe and Turkey to the Persianthe experimental stage. No
ease only thirfven days.previously,, Gult-designed as a route for the human had ever volunterred to: These injections were increased i commercial penetration of the undergo the treatment, which in virulence until the serum wasj indian ocean area.
meant, if it failed, that patient only three days old, If Italy should soon opy would die a terrible death from Pasteur carefully watched at his Abyssinia. The immediate effect the disease which the experi-, bed-side, night and day, for any might be disadvantageous
symptons of aerophobia-the first Japan, as Haly rather than the, ments sought to prevent.
rial"; Pasteur's treatment, which stage of hydrophobia-in which Asiatic country would undertakey the commercial "posetration," has only been modified slightly the slightest breath of air caures Japanese traders recently have even today, consisted of in- the muscles of the free to eun. been very active in the Red Sea jected serum from the spinal-tract, but they did not manifest
Leord of rabie rabbits.
Office.
landing areas for fighting planes..
can officials have attested to the natural fitness of French Frigate Shoals, a strip of land about 500 miles northwest of Halwali, for landing of seaplures.
Midway Lagoon Testod Facilities of the Midway lagoon wire tested this spring when naval senplates from Pearl Har bor landed there
to deploy in Pacific fleet manoeuvres, and the final test was made last week with the arrival of the giant l'an- The air raid precautionary American seaplane Oriental Clip handbooks are in course of proper. Both naval and Pan-Ameri paration by the Home They are:
"Air Raid Precautions in the Hume"
"Anti-Gas Precautions and First Aid for Air Raid Casual-
Significantly one of the prov!- ties":
sions in the agreement ranting "Treatment of Gas Casualties":¦ Pan-American Airways the use of "Decontamination of. Mate Midway, Wake and Guam walls For their reverdon to the Navy in "Structural Precautionglas emergency, against Bombs and Guses"; and ¦
With Pan-American's Oriental "Air Raid Precautions in Fac-time virtually ready for service, tories and Business Premises."
jobrervers are looking southward where another :kla. of coral Special Committees
atollstretches on toward Samou The discussions with the and the Antipole- akording emer- Post Office are likely to lead geney bass for the next proireted! to a scheme for simultaneous trans-Pacile este from America telephone warnings over, the to Australíu. areas during raids. By link- ing up circuits it would bel Sovereignty In Doubt possible for a single operatorland and Jarvis Islands. Sever Among them are Baker, How- to broadcast a warning which feignty of these islands is in- could be received by every į definite, hut it is believed the subscriber on any given ex- United States could claim them 2. Great Britain, having a new teeth wounds, the scars
change.
without international dilleniijeg, cause for preoccupation in the which he still bears..
There are over 10,000 mem- Army and Navy experts Indian ocean area, woald tend to Frantic, his mother dashed, mual Indo-Phin pig which had hers of the St. John Ambulance privately drawing parallels b emphasize her political concerns him to Paris the same day, in been in a hydrophobia Association and the British Redtween these islarda and Japano there rather than in the Parife
another an effort to find the man whose pers at had to be inoculated Cross Society who are fully mandated islands.
rain. This time, he admitted, he qualified to render assistance in roudly attaid, despite the the event of air attack. Approxi- ruccess of his first injection years mately half of these are before and the development of London. the muded webit serum.
and western Indian ocean,
logical consequences
themselves. After eight days of this nerve-rucking vigil. Pasteur
In the long term, however, ther It is said that Pasteur,before had a nervous barakdown and bad
to Japan of an Anglo-italian rift, 80114 diplomats believe, would be Follows:
48
1. The ovent would Read gras dually to international re-align-
he had completed his first ex to retire to the rountry. periment on Moister, complete- From then on. Pasteur took ly broke down from nervous!
a
#
excitement. The death of Meisermal interest in Mester and. ter would have meant a murder, helped him to that job in Paris,
One
he employed him as a charge against him. ments on the basis of a world-
while he laboratory boy. For Meister was nine years olds a baker, but gave up this wide rather than strictly European "balance of power" and Japan When he was bitten by a rabid work to accept the past of janitor being at present relatively isolated dog on August 5, 1885, just over at the Pasteur Institute in 1999, could only gain by the new situas half a century ago; tion:
ocoon; in one areA 41 է՝
די
twenty-three years after the death
He received fourteen ugly for his eminent benefactor.
of While working at the institute;
one day, Meister was nipped by a
Japan would continue an eners experiments on animals against
relle commercial policy:
·
hydrophobia were being dis-i B. Abyssinia and Siam havefcussed in the newspapers, been the two non-European coun- tries in the neighbourhood of the Indian been 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 Siam.
of
The "Crazy" Chemist When she arrived in Paris, doctors tried to dissuade her from getting in touch with the "crazy" chemist, whose experi- ments were still looked upon with suspicion by the profes sional médical men.
young
Finally she found admirer of Pasteur who took berj to him.
-
in
For some time these two
1:
These South Sea islands also could be equipped as refueling stations, submarine outposts and emergency landing points for sea- planes.
Although the present survey is
A graphis statue, depeleting bodies have been working in co-essentially for commercial planes, Meister as shubby Httle farm- hand struggling with a huge operation with the Ministry of the Navy would have access to all mad-dog, is one of the few monu-Health and the Home Office.torial gathered, and in fact the ments decorating the stald Major E. W. Paget, who is con- Navy already has explored the rounds of the Pasteur Institute trolling their joint nir raid pre-islands possibilities to some ex- in Paris to-day-United Press,turations, said recently that the tent. -Eaited Press
Al first Pasteur refused to
THE QUEEN MARY
Converge On Siam Among strategical experts where gossip is not possible of undertake the delicate task of proof, there is much conversation inaculating a human being for thei
regarding Japan's desire to attain first time. Describing this dram Ready For Sea ́· Next amoro forward diplomatic posiatic incident. Melster says: tion in Slam. Japanese trailers, "I shall always see Pasteur's financiers, and shippers are said good free focussed
on us while
May
number of qualified members is increasing rapidly. He added:
Tasks which members of the WORLD TOUR ON
two hudles 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- sonnel for supplementing the work of the hospitals in setting up clearing stations.
HORSEBACK
AUSTRIAN COUPLE to have made steady gains there my brother described the accident. 11 18 almost certain that the
IN CALCUTTA against the British-an import re had scruples. His expert giant Cunard-White Star liner ant "Invisible item in Oriental ment had all been performed ex-bank fitting-out basin on May 29 Queen Mary will leave the Clyde-
Calcutta, Aug. 10. diplomney.
Mrs. Belly Starck, of Vienna, Japan ultimately, although per- confidence in his treatment, but next year.
jclusively on animals. He had
"At present," said Major and her husband Joha Starek, who haps not immediately, is said to could see he was undergoing a
This date has been chosen be- Paget, "our organisation I have been touring the world on want control of a trans-Siam
terrible rental
cause, since the ship was launched London is considerably more ad- horseback since 1926 and whose struggle. canal, shortening the water route hesitated to inoculate me with the in September, a careful watch has vanced than in the provinces. tour is expected to be completed to the Far East.
Since the British fleet based in dread virus, but before the tearful been kept on the tides, and it is With the publication of the in 1940, have arrived in Calcutta.
arc It took the tourlats six years to would strategically pleadings of my mother, he finally calculated that the highest summer Home Office Order
tides will rise on May 29 and 30. hoping that it will be possible ride from Vienna to Kolymsk, As Clyde tides turn quickly the to make it increasingly efficient Siberia, and three more years from Candy Anaesthetic!
vessel will go downstream to Bowl- timately will seek rights in South
form
of anaesthetics, Ing, where she will be berthed to elsewhere. It will be simpler Siberia to India across Manchuria, toured from Polping to Myitkyina, 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 8,290 miles, with the China which would facilitate air Pasteur fod young Meister a bag await the following day's tide, to expand our training now that Mongolia and Tibet. They last
being made. It consisted of the 20-miles voyage to the sen
easily obtainable.'
Singaporo control such a canal, some naval
experts bellove that Japan ul-
canat
consented."
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