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...The rank and file were on board:

an hour ago; and are hanging over the ships rail, looking at the sampans and the greasy water, and the golden pagoda far off in the hare, with lasy enjoyment of the thought that they will not see it again for some time to come. Cabin companions fight valiantly over the disposal of luggage, An ayah is weeping into her sari at the thought of the black water and the far country, says "Dorothy Black" in the Rangoon Times.

A NEW STAR,

VENEREAL DISEASE.

PREVENTION POSSIBLE.

GREAT DISCOVERY IGNORED.

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recalled from so impolite a FUZTES- tion: they recalled from it, although It was their formal and ixpress duty to investigate the matters to report i to the Government how ventual diseases could be alleviated or prevented.” And so three valuable years were wasted; the time of many distinguished men and women was wasted; thousands of pounds of public money were wasted:

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Everyone is familiar with the fact that the new truths in science, and ENGLAND WORLD'S CESSPOOL,

One good man, if he had had a free new departures in administration, have often to force their way against hand, could in a month, at * small the massive resistance of pre-establirection of the cost, have done more abed bias and the obstruction of to diminish venereal disease than the those in authority, says. The New Royal Commission did in three years. Statesman in reviewing "Prevention with all the pomp fod power of of Venereal Disease by Sir G. Government behind it. And all this Archdall Reid, K.BE, MB, CM, time, the spirochet of syphilis was Introductory in alliance with the German guns in F.R.SE, with Chapter by Sir H. Bryan Donkin, MD decimating the British Army. At a (Oxon.), FRCP. William Heinemann period when the safety of the country depended on getting more men for A band strikes up on shore, and (Medical Books), Ltd. 158. net. little knots of scarlet coated peons

Everyone is familiar with it is an the Army, when the requirements prostrate themselves with salaams, historical fact; but we are apt to of national defence entailed cruel Behind comes a mob bearing gifts consider that in these days we are hardship on countless individuals, and garlands. Respectful sightseers more enlightened, and that dis- there were in the venereal hospitals wo crowd around, to watch with eyes of coveries of high public importance great a number of fit and active swc, the embarking of the really are no longer in danger of suppres men as were sufficient to make up not an army corps only, but a great. For lo, the Gods are become sion from vested prejudice: some of as men, and travel amongst us, for us are innocent enough to imagine great army." In London alone, a were infected here we have Mr. and Mrs. Potifer, that such discoveries would ever thousand soldiers ICS Multitudes "tremble at his be encouraged.. To those so every week, according to an estimate

in the

of of the Army authorities themselves. frown. Districts prepare paper arch little versed ways for him to pass beneath the official world, the work of Sir Sir Archdall: Reid computes that Ladies have fought, yea almost unto Archdall Reid will come as a highly during the five years of war, some the death, for the honour of sitting salutary if rude awakening." The tale 20,000,000 British soldiers were in-

venereal at dinner. which he unfolds with a masterly fected with at his right hand,

The following is a summary of Our fags futter in the hot breeze, and incisive hand is suggestive rather Foreigners regarded England. As an important judgment of the Privy years in London, has retired from and the oily water moves past of medieval fanaticism than of a real the recognised cesspool of the Council in regard to bills of lading the post of French Ambassador to faster now. We are off, and the golden living fact of the twentieth century. world.” pagoda fades, and is last altogether. He tells the story of a great discovery. No one suggests that the War commencing with the words: The passengers pair off in twos and a discovery more potent for the Office was unconcerned, at this ceived in apparent good order and the Court of St. James', in an 'in- for ship-terview, revealed Interesting' secrets threes, and chairs are re-arranged in alleviation of human suffering than terrible state of affairs. In France condition from little groups. Only Mr. and Mrs. any other that can be readily incensed houses were placed out of pent" instead of the old form of the war crisis in 1914.

Shipped on board," which was I reminded the Ambassador, writes interpreter had had but one previous Fotifer, LCS., walk apart, like the agined. He tells how this discovery bounds to British soldiers. And what interview in his life with the Kasha, really great, and are not spoken to, was met, first by official boycotting, was the result? The women came delivered on Dec. 16. It was given

on appeal from the Supreme Court The Times interviewer, of our con- namely, on his return from Rugby unless like Royalty they make the secondly by direct obstruction, and our into the streets, all sanitary of New South Wales to the Frity versations at critical moments before two years ago. The Kasha honoured first advance. One by one Mrs. lastly, when neither boycotting nor precautions were at an end, such Council. The case was: "Marthe war and during the war; of age me with an invitation to a 24-course Potifer lets out her startling toilettes obstruction could avail, by misrepresecurity as is afforded by a licensed borough Hill v. Alexander Cowan luncheon, and between the 15th and before the dazzled throng in the din-sentation end calumny. Here, briefy. house was abrogated, and the weekly Sons, Ltd, and others, and the appeal in particular, on the morning of Son-

average of venereal infection very 16th course the Shapes gave me an ing saloon, as she sails to her place are the fact opportunity of taking their phole of honour at the Most Important)

DERADED DISŻASE.

son depbled, and afterwards still was tried before Viscount Cave, day, Angust 2, 1914. The news had Table. graphs.

Among the various causes of further increased." But at length Lord Dunedin, Lord Moulton, and come in the night of the invasion of

Lord Phillimore.

the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg. And hot day follows hot day, and human suffering, by far the greatest the War Office made a discovery.

The judgment of their Lordships The crowning experience of Mr. the muddy coast of Burma fades like is disease. Of all diseases, there is Metchnikoff's preventive had been was delivered by Lord Phillimore, in whose neutrality was guaranteed,

announced in dence in Tibet, including a fortnight Fairley's residence in Lhasa was the the memory of a bad dream, and probably none which produces any first

which be said; "The first point on singly but not jointly, by five Great had subsequently - been in Lhasa, Mr. J. Fairley, Telegraph audience accorded him on October Mrs. Potifer taboos the red-haired thing like the misery accruing direct. It

behalf of the appellant is that this Powers. girl with the merry laugh and the ly from syphilis. It is not that adopted in the German and every purports to be a claim by the assignce Engineer to the Government of

had then asked him if he had Iedia, on special duty, has just re- 14 by the Dalai Lama.

This (said Mr. Fairley) took place top tilted nose, as a hopeless nobody-syphilis is the most deadly disease: other belligerent army except our turned to India. Mr. Fairley was in the new reception-room to the And lo, the sunny isle of Ceylon lies it is reckoned as only third or fourth own. Eleven years later, these facts of a bill of lading, and that the ship any news of what England would do. received in audience by the Dalal west of the Norbulinga Palace, about before us. And Mrs.. Potifer, I.C.S., among the killing diseases. Vile in became known to our War Office. ping instrument on which reliance The Luxemburg Treaty lay before Lams at his capital, and he is the three miles outside the city, where comes to an arrangement with the itself, it brings in its train every sort After the war had been in progress is placed is not a bill of lading him on his table. "Why ask me first Englishmanindeed, the first the Lams resides for the greater part Bath Steward that she shall have her of medical horror-Insanity, para more than three years, the War Office The old form starts with a state- he had cald, almost abruptly. There has fallen, since Manning in 1811 of the year. More than a hundred i bath before anyone else, as befits her | Iysis, diseases of the heart and blood-began to move. Its motions were iment or acknowledgment that the is the Treaty. I have just shown it' been forced shipped on board,' &c. But this do the same question, you have put to Mr. Fairley is also the first English-years have elapsed since Manning Seniority. And we anchor, perilously vessels, and countless others. But clumsy, expensive and inefficient, it Roods have been shipped. It runs to Sir Edward Grey and put to his

was sent to the Dalai Lama on a Dear the Artificial Manure Factors above all this, it is socially a shame is true. Their hands

"What did he answer?" man to enter Lhasa since the return mission from the Governor-General And the coal, and the dust, drift into fol disease. The victim cannot as a by individuals. Early in 1917 Sirent runs, received in apparent

"Nothing. I do not know whether ... shipping this evening we shall have to of the Younghusband expedition in

for shipment." of India; and if he could reappear in the cabin windows, on rich and poor rule fortify himself with the sym- Bryan Donkin inaugurated by a letter good order and condition from The most astonishing feature of Lhasa now, I doubt if he would find alike, and nestles, without bias, into įpathy and care of his family. He to the Times a campaign which was struments which are called bills of strike the word 'honour"out of Eng Mr. Fairley's visit was the fact that much change. The new reception the luggage of Senior and Junior.is more likely to receive from to gather such weight as to over-

them expressions merely of come the inertia even of the War lading, and known in the commercial Fish vocabulary.") it was from frst to last an entirely ball is gorgeously decorated in red For coal is no respecter of persons.

He Office, Sir Archdall Reid himself world as such, are sometimes framed peaceful expedition. He went as and gold, with a magnificent silk

But what is this? Upon the shore must bear his load in secrecy and developed a new system of prophy. in the alternative form received for bon quickly. It was a very silf canopy over the throne, on which Mr. Bell, a Political Agent of the the Lama was seated. "About are bands, and little knots of brilliant trembling: an object of disgust to laxis, which was more simple and easy shipment instead of shipped on thing to say."

It is contended, however,

Yes, M. l'Ambassadeur, you said Government of India, has gone since dozen officials were present through coated peans who prostrate them himself, and a source of deep and to apply than that of Metchoikoff. -at the suggestion of the Tibetan Government in conversation, with out the interview, after which I met selves with salaams, and multitudes hidden danger to all with whom he He claimed for it a security as high that such shipping instruments, what

by or

are no offence at it, for it was a very stiff business. not bits of situation and your responsibility was your Correspondent, Mr. Fairley ex-several officers of the Tibetan Army. bearing gifts and a strip of red comes in contact. Often, through as the older method, and be produced ever they may be called in commerce it, and I, though an Englishman, took pressed his surprise, however, that These officers' uniforms are closely carpet is laid along the quay. For ignorance and folly, he infects his statistics, showing in the most com

Lading within the Bills of terrife. modelled on the lines of those of once again the Gods are become as wife, and produces children physically clusive manner that by iti aid the nevertheless

"Ah!" he continued. *Those nowhere was there, a visible trace of British officers; but it looks rather men, and travel among us. Here we degraded, utterly incapable in the venereal problem of the Army could the old notion that Tibet is a "for quaint to see the hair done in a top- have a Mighty One, who grew a battle of life, doomed to a misery that be solved within a few weeks. He Lading Act of 1835, and it is said bidden" land.

"When

I received orders to knot and a large gold and turquoise special-sort of coffee bean in his is hopeless and almost obscene. It is applied his method among soldiers therefore not bills of lading within were the only three days. of-real Their Lordships are in London the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of earring in the left ear of a soldier. extreme youth, and was made as scarcely possible to paint the picture in the Portsmouth area where he the meaning of the Admiralty Court difficulty in all the years I have spent proceed to Lhasa," he said,

His Holiness was seated European Earl A greater one than Potifer is too black. Nor is it a rare disease. worked. He could not have done so Act, 1861... first thoughts were that I should fashion on the dais and was clothed arisen. Mrs. Potifer moves down | According to the report of the Royal had he been a regular Army doctor: not disposed to take so narow 2) August, 1914. have to produce my passport at every turn, and that an armed guard in a yellow-brown silk robe of the place, and the Seat of Honour is Commission on Venereal Disease, it ) but as a civilian he was prepared to The two forms of bill of lading may] August 1, there had been another would be necessary in order to get familiar Oriental type, and wore his taken by another, and Mrs. Potifersmites not less than 10 per cent, of face the consequences. Just as Nel- through at all. However, from the hair in the familiar plaited fashion keeps her cabin, indisposed by the sea, the whole population of our large son, when signalled to retreat, applied well stand, as their Lordships under-Cabinet meeting. Afterwards I saw day I left Chumb--the first place of of the lamas. His salutation took for three days. By that time the wife cities, men, women, and children; the telescope to his blind eye, so Sir stand that they stand, together. Grey, who told me that the Govern priate language, for whole cargoes upon intervention in the war, He any importance over the border the form of placing over my arms of the Really Magnificent person and this estimate is among the lowest Archdall took upon bimself the re- The older is still in the more appro- ment had not been able to decide yone has come to an arrangement with of the many that have been made, sponsibility which his superiors delivered and taken on board in spoke very gravely. I replied that had no trouble whateve: my pas extended in front of me

For further details of this extraor-bulk; whereas received for ship-I could not and would not tell sport was never looked at, and the silk shawl, the which courtesy com- the Bath Steward, by which she Even kings and popes have died of evaded.

dinary controversy readers must be ment is the proper phrase for the my Government that. welcome extended at every village pleted I repaid it by placing a silk shall be entitled to walk into any t

POLITE SOCIETY EOSTILE.

referred to Sir Archdall's book itself, practical businesslike way of treating that has passed between our two exceeded anything experienced dur shawl over the arms of his Holiness, bath she pleases, irrespective of

Fourteen years ago Metchnikoff The founding of the National parcels of cargo to be placed in a countries, I exclaimed, after the ing my eighteen years in India. From The Dalai Lama's first question con- waiting queues, as befits her rank first to last the Tibetans showed erned my age, and his second the and Seniority. She takes Mrs. themselves the kindliest and most in-ege of my wife. He showed a kindly Potller's bath the very next morn- discovered at the Pasteur Institute Council for Combating Venereal general ship which will be lying withdrawal of our forces: 10 kilo- offensive people. I have ever come concern in my comfort, my eying, leaving Mrs. Potifer with zo very simple and quite certain Diseases, their evasion of the main alongside the whart taking in cargo metres within our frontier, after the across. The only foreign race of Periences on my journey, the manner one but the red haired girl with the method by which syphilis could be issue, the passing of the Venereal for several days, and whose proper agreement between your

prevented. He and Professor Rowe, Diseases Act, 1917, and the various stowage will require that certain authorities and ours by which all our whom they ever spoke with the in which I was being entertained, and frequent laugh, to confide in.

Director of the Pasteur Institute, other obstacles placed in the way of bulkier or beavier parcels shall be naval strength has been concentrated In all the conversation so forth. smallest degree of rancour were the

But what is this? On the landing announced to the world a method by reform, are there recounted in full, placed on board first, while others, in the Mediterranean so as to release Gurkhas, on their southern border mainly concerned with these little

is a Military Escort. In which the greatest single. cause of The old story is repeated, how oficial though they have arrived earlier your Fleet far concentration in the and for that there seems to be a domesticities lasted some twenty stage

time of stowage. Opa Both parties Fleet sweeps down the Channel' and minutes. His Holiness gave me the numerable bands play innumerable misery could be wholly abolished. resistance was at length broken down wait for the convenient place and North Sea, so that if the German

are But fourteen years ago it was not by the patriotism and energy cf E satisfactory historical explanation."

same impression of gentle kindliness tunes. Nose-gays of fowers MEDIAEVAL LHASA

which I derived from all my contact cast about as if they were nothing, the fashion in England to talk about few private individuals, and how have agreed to call this a bill of destroys Calais, Boulogne, and Cher Sufferers were knowledge of the new discoveries lading. Their Lordships con bourg there can be no-resistance, air is

trumpets venereal disease. with the Tibetans.

and Turkish Delight. A Note unknown to one another they were was finally spread among the people. clade that it is a bill of lading within you tell me that your Government worthy Representative of the not the kind of people who read the Sir Bryan Dorkin was the acknow the meaning of the Admiralty Court cannot decide upon Intervention Of the Jo Kang or metropolitan Crest Empire is going on leave, scientific literature of France; it was ledged leader, and organiser of the Act, 1861.". cathedral of Buddham, Mr. Fairley where, Oh where, is the star that nobody's business to salighten the campaign, which by means," of A visit to Lhasa transports one said:

shone sa brightly as we set our faces A few paragraphs appeared in the courage, tact and determination, he in the inoculation of a virulent straight back to the Middle Ages.

Of all the temples the Jo Kang is West? Mrs. Patifer occupies an Times and in technical journals; hot at last hrought to a successful issue and highly contagious microbe? There is no sanitation or drainage in the most important. It is the obscure corner of the table, and is polite society turned its head away The Society for the Prevention of Are we, in these days of alleged Lhasa to-day; and if it were not for Cathedral of Tibet and the most very chatty with the red headed girl from the unsavoury topic, and the Venereal Disease has now been form- civilisation, to control men by the August 2, could he give me the assu the low temperature which the place sacred temple in the country with a sense of humour. Mr. Potifer whole thing was quickly forgottened, to bear the burden of propagandist agency of fear? Is terror then to rance that the Bettiah Fleet would be invoked as a means of improving protect our unguarded northern enjoys, thanks to the fact that it is Suspended over the doorway leading is lost in a throng of ordinary men But even polite society is some work.

morals? Modern statistics as to the coast. I felt that he was with us at built on a plateau 11,000 feet high to the second courtyard is the bell around the smoking-room door. A times compelled to recognise the exist its 20,000 inhabitants would die of which was left behind by the blast of Democracy from the West, ence of facts which are not polite.

prevalence of vice are a final proof heart." typhoid fever. The town is built on Capuchin Fathers in 1745 when they has wilted their glory and it is of In 1913 a Royal Commission was What was the root cause of the of the failure of such methods, for

A TREMENDOUS SITUATION.” “ a flat plain, and the river which abandoned their attempt to found a yesterday. Mrs. Potiler, looks some-appointed to report upon the means obstruction experienced by so im the position could scarcely be wore

**You will remember the King's comes from the north is kept out by mission in Lhasa. Upon it are times, sadly towards the East, as by which venereal diseases could be mensely important and salutary a than it actually is. Syphilation, of raised banks. The bed, however, engraved the words: Te deam jostled with a dressing gown throng

alleviated or preverited." It worked movement? Various pretexts for the community is not the way to reply to President Poincare's letter of has risen as well as the banks, and a laudamus te dominum." In front of she awaits her turn for the bath, hard for three years; it put opposition have at one time or an-promote morals. Those who think July 31, M. l'Ambassadeur 1 Inter- good deal of percolation takes place the main altar stand twenty-seven The gangways are up, and the more that 20,000 questions other been put forward, but there is otherwise are the descendants of the rupted, with its correct but discou through the gravel, of which the butter lamps, made of solid gold, of crazy omnibuses drive off with their to the many eminent witnesses no question that the foundation of men who a few centuries ago applied raging assurance that my Govern plain is composed.

Fairley's guide, philosopher, and an average height of 10 inches. The loads of battered luggage. Down who came before it. And yet," in the whole was the fear lest safety the horrors of the Inquisition to meat will continue to discuss freely figure of the Buddha is finely gilded the Boulevards under the poplars all these questions and answers should tend to the encouragement of attain their "religious ends. Here and frankly any point which might our midst the arise of interest to our two nations. friend, was one of the Tibetan youths and ornamented with gold and they go and are lost to sight. And writes Sir Archdall Reid, only once vice. Virtually, the argument of we have in educated a few years ago at Rugby: turquoise. Countless thousandi Mr. and Mrs. Potiler, ICS, disem was Metchnikoff's, name mentioned, opponents amounts to this: that the awful tragedy of venereal disease with M.-Cambon. I have heard it One of them is now supposed to be of pilgrims have made their bark also, he, an insignificant little and then the witness was asked not extinction of syphilis is undesirable, grinding Into the souls of its whispered that the King, afterwards "a qualified mining engineer and an obeisance before the emblem man in a faded Burberry, and she, a whether: syphilis could be prevented since the fear of syphilis is an aid to victins, who from very shame called it my wretched letter He other an electrical engineer. A third, of divine wisdom, and evidence of stout, ordinary woman, in an unor aborted in man, but whether it virtue. The reply of the reformers remain silent and nebeard. And stil must have felt it hard to write so who was given a temporary commis their passage can be seen in the fashionable hat. How are thecould be produced in anthropoid is crushing and unanswerable, there are men and women who can guardedly at such a moment.”

* How could, his Majesty. "go'ber kin in the Indian Army and actually corner of the room close to the door, mighty fallen, and the glories of apes. In one single obscure Syphilis, they point out, attack witness this tragedy, remain mug

inquired M. well as the and self-satisfied as before, comforted Fond his Government?" aw fighting on the NW. frontier where there is a large butter lamp office withered. And the soft winds sentence, which is not even indexed, the lanccent as last winter, has recently been killed of solid silver, about two feet in of France blow, impartially, on Senior the Report meations casually that gulity. It is transmitted from a in the belief that it is the punishment Cambon. It was not until Grey his innocent of God. Happily there are others, spake in the House of Commons on under mysterious circumstances. The diameter and three feet in height, and Junior. alike. For winds are not Metchnikoff prevented syphilis in men husband to fourth, Mr. Fairley's cicerone, had This lamp is literally, plastered to respecters of persons,

and monkeys. As it stands, the wife, whose health and happiness are whose hearts are not of stone. But the afternoon of Monday, August 32 almost forgotten his English, but the wall by the filth left by millions

fact is almost incredible. But there to be totally ruined as compensation for others for most of us let us hope that we could breathe, th slowly recovered it as the result of of pilgrims, who have been in the

were clergymen and there were for her husband's error. It is passed it is sufficient that here we have "The Times correspondent many weeks' practice. His first duty habit for centuries of touching it in

ladies on the Commission down to the offspring the sins of an: nicerating." multiplying misery, for the first time that whi was to take Mr. Fairley to call on the course of their devotions, progress, will throw a brighter light Ecclesiastical influence predominated the fathers are visited upon the chil among us, and that that misery can Edward Grey was speaking The Tibetan Government is ap-on these aspects of Tibetan ambitions. Polite society is determined to drent chastises the samoceat with be prevented. To all who are in House the late Belgian Amb The Shapes (of whom there are parently anxious for the country to Mr. Fairley left these by pony on remain poller They could survey scorpions, and often it does not even terested in the devious methods of Count de Lalaing. four in the Kasba) inquired anxiously, be linked up by telegraph with October 19, and was at the Indian with calm the destruction and awful panish the guilty, for no one knows officis obstructionism, to all sald Mr. Fairley, if the war were India, and doubles security is a tailhead without incident to the fast my fortry but they rose up better than the hardened singer bow care a jót for Dow over and Europe at peace, and predominant motive in the lica week of November a fact which with ripoison indignation when he may protect himself. And in any human happinem or, for the *my interpreter was so overcome with Tacre are also sight, though rather suggests the slenderness of thet proposal was made to them for the case, the punkanjent is pier out of fof their country, the wo

Is there Archdall Reid, with its Dervousness (or fright) that he split faint ones, of a desire for industrial which separates, Western civilisation saving of life, for, the alleviation of proportion to the offenc the tea in the lap of one of the advance on European lines. Possibly from the alleged exclusiveness of the misery, on's scale fully comparable any crime existing for which a suita, troduction, by Sir Bryan

"Forbidden Land Shapes as he poured it out. The Mr. Bell's diplomatic mission, now in

with that of the war shelf. They bla punishment would be found most cordially to be recommended, -1 hem

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Mr. Fairley's narrative became most interesting when it dealt with the period after his arrival at Lhasa. Mr. Fairley said: "

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