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HOPE FOR CHINA.

FUTURE OF BRITISH POLICY.

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DR. P. M. LOWELL,

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ferred to the San Lazaro hospital.

PUZZLE OF IMMUNITY.

· HEDGEHOG AND ADDER'S POISON.

Professor J. Arthur Thomson writes in "John O' London's Weekly":—

invasion of toxins. On the same principle, an injection of vaccine microbes will enable the organlam to withstand the Intrusion" of smallpox-microbes,

The other method is to inject

a serum preparation of the blood

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tish propaganda is continuous ́and determined outside the area of the international Concession, and by no means inactive within that area. It is to be feared that conditions, even within the Concession, gradually becoming more and more The Chinese bond market has difficult for the conduct of finan

Dr. Paul M. Lowell, an alumnus

One week's freedom in Moscow lately reflected stronger hopes of cial, commercial and industrial of the University of the Philippines,

of an animal that has been im was enough for Stanislas Bugaiski, a divembroilment, and the follow-operations. The importance of this has been appointed chief medical

munised by graduated direct 64, last of the Ciarist political pri-experts in Bobbing, ing article by Sir Hilton Young, to Sino-British trade is vital, adviser on drugs in the United It is a well-known fact of doses of the poison, or by non-soners who spent 42 years in Shingling and Wav- editor-in-chief of the "Financial without conditions that make trade States Department of Agriculture natural history that a hedgehog fatal attacks of the virulent Siberia.....

arming. News" and vice-chairman of the possible at Hankow it must lan- at the national capital, by G. W. may be bitten by an adder with microbes. Some animal, such as British China Committee, considere guish; without auch conditions at Hoover, chief of federal food, drug out suffering evil effects so far as a horse, is rendered immune, and bewildered by clanging, honking 19, Queen's Road C. Tel C. 181 Disillusioned by his new freedom, CAMPBELL MOORE the recent events and the shaping Shanghai It must immediately and insecticide division. He is one can see. This has been its serum, abounding in toxinstreet traffic, tired of being elbowed of British policy in accordance perish. It begins to appear that, the head of a staff of 700 men corroborated experimentally, and according to the theory, is inject-side by busy, unsympathetic pedes- Booner or later, in order to main whose duty is to enforce the Federal It appears that a hedgehog is not ed into another organism. This trians, the old man, once an enthus- Investors in Chinese bonds tain such conditions, the Powers have been fealing more

con- whose interest it is to maintain for Pure Foods and Draga Acta of affected by an injection of poison method is less drastic than the fastic young Nihilist, wearily board- ident about the Chinese situa-eign trade with China, or some or 1908.

many times stronger than the other, yet very effective. It is a Trans-Siberian railroad train least, that seems to one of them, will have to extend

Dr. Lowell received the degrees fatal dose for a rabbit.

The often used as a protection against for the 4,000 mile journey back to be the meaning of the fact that their sphere of influence at Shang- of doctor of tropical medicine in hedgehog has natural immunity a probable poisoning, whether by the island prison of Sakkanila to die there have been more buyers of hai.

1915 and that of dector of public to the venom of vipers,

snake-bite or by some virulent Chinese bonds lately. The causes What is required, probably, is health two years later from the col« But what does this, immunity microbe, as well as an antidote peacefully in voluntary exile.

Condemned in 1885 fór a political for their increased confidence ap- that the sphere of foreign influence lege of medicins of the University mean? The first step towards an after the introduction of the pear to have been two. The first should be extended over the whole of the Philippines. After his answer is not difficult, and has poison has taken place. It might crime, Bugaiski spent 32 years in Was the abandonment by the Nan- natural area of the City of Shang-graduation, he became first a reef been well worked out for the at- be thought that it would be better prison, seven of which he was king Government of its attempt to hai, and that anti-foreign propa- dent physician of the collect sur-taxes on the Customs, ganda should be suppressed and

Philippine tractive carnivores known as the still, in the case of snake-bite, to shackled to a wheel-barrow In a Tarying from 12 per cent, to 62% law and order maintained within General Hospital, then under the Ichneumon and the mongoose, utilise the serum of a naturally road gang or wielding a pick in the

both of which are inveterate immune animal, such per cent. in amount, which were in that extended area.

as the penal coal mines under the lash of bureau of health, and later, trans- enemies of snakes, and enjoy the hedgehog or the mongoose. But an overseer. contravention of the Treaty rights of other nations.

"I was only 22 when I was con same natural immunity as the there is only a small quantity of A second and

He joined the world war as cap hedgehog. If some cobra's poison the anti-toxin present in the victed," he told the correspondent. Perhaps the most anxious factor tain and doctor of the army with be mixed with mongoose's blood, blood of these naturally immune minor influence was the refreshing instance of firm action by the in the Chinese problem at the pre-station in Siberia. He returned to and if the fluid or serum be in animals; the counter-active effect group operating secretly under the "I was a member of a terrorist French at Tientsin. The local sent time is the situation at Tient- Fuch-untried to impose an export sin. If we are to judge by formal the lelands in 1921, and was pjected under a rabbit's skin, no- does not last long; and there are banner of Proletariat. Seven years tax of 12 per cent, on carpets (the pronouncements. 98 to British painted manitarian and director of a thing happens; but an injection positive disadvantages in the use of hard labour and perpetual banish- Chinese seem to have an affection policy in the House of Commons or hospital in the Binalbagan sugar of the same amount of poison of the serum ao obtained. ment, was my sentence for helping for 12 per cent. in their legal elsewhere it is the intention of the estate. While in Negros, he pub without mongoose's serum is im-

Immunisation by Disease.

to blow up a Czarist court," he con- exactions), and the French authori- British authorities to proceed with lished several clinical papers on mediately fatal.

tinued. tion suppressed him with decision. a re-settlement of the status of the colour. Dr. Lowell did some labora-

Another form of immunity. ja Counteracting Substance.

"There were very familiar namely, that Siberia in those days and to avoid no railroads in From these instances, great and Concession at Tientsin forthwith. tory work in the bureau of science; small, of success in firm action This is, naturally, very vehemently before he became representative of hog and adder's poison. Evident disease. The individual is more was sent by convict ship from The same is true for the hedge which follows recovery from a the long journey across country I against illegal impositions, the Bri- opposed by the British community the Rockefeller Foundation tish public, it would seem, has de-at Tientsin. It le, indeed, difficult Slam, which post he held for a or quality naturally present in the disease a second time.

inly, then, there is some substance or less protected against taking Odessa through the Suez canal. We duced that the situation in China to understand what is to be gained long time and where he was engag- the blood of mongoose and hedge-immunity may last for many when the journey was nearly over, is not absolutely beyond the possi- by any further surrender of Treaty ed in an exhaustive study

were three months on the sea. Just bility of ultimate redemption from rights made at the present time.

of hog which is able to counteract, years in the case of smallpox, but the chans into which at one time The other contracting party in the tropical diseases. He is

also a neutralise, or somehow take the there are records of two or even Perouse straits, south of Sakhalin. we ran into a storm in the Ln it seemed to be lapsing. It is to matter is the Government at Peking, graduate of Franklin and Marshall edge off snake-toxins.

three attacks; it may be strong be observed that in neither case It is by no means clear who exer- college and of Jefferson Medical

The hedgehog, the Ichneumon, as in the case of scarlet fever, and were wrecked. Only a few of was the action that resulted in the clues power at Peking to-day, and college,

and the mongoose can withstand measles, and mumps; it may be managed to reach the shore. Abandonment of the attempt at it is more than doubtful who will His new position will make him large infections of poisons; thus transient as in diphtheria. There There were hundreds of us locked illegality the action of the British exercise it to-morrow. There is, in-the deciding factor in the matter the Ichneumon can successfully are rare cases, such as pneu- in barred cells in the hold of the Government. At Tientsin, it was fact, no contracting party who can of drugs which

taken counteract six times the dose that monta: here the immunity is at ship." Bro the French. At Nanking, the make with an agreement about from state to state and also is fatal to a rabbit. But in all most very temporary; where, in- When the revolution of 1917 gave failure of the "try on" was pro- Tientsi the enforcement and ob- on

al} that are bably the result of a firmer attitude servance of which he can guaran- and

Imported cases there is, naturally enough, a deed, susceptibility to the disease him his liberty and his companions exported. He will on the part of the Japanese.

fur limit beyond which the poison is appears to be increased, not left for the mainland, Bugaisky tce. If then, our Government ther determine the formula of drugs fatal. A few other mammals are decreased.

stayed on. There is possibly something to be wishes to initiate a new status at

He hadn't the courage learned from this as to the future Tientsin, it must itself guarantee}

to be used in patent medicine which known to be immune to snake- There is evidence In some in- to attempt the long journey back to have national distribution.

poison; of British policy on those aspects that there statua will be maintain-

the American; stances that an artificially im. Russia. But ten years later, with of the Chinese problem which mosted, for nobody else can guarantee

opossum is not affected by the munised rabbit or guinea-pig has age creeping on, he yielded to the Intimately concern 28.

it. Surely it would be much better

bite of a rattlesnake; and the cat young ones which are born urge to visit the new Soviet capitai. to leave things as they are until

has a high degree of immunity to immune. The same is asserted He came in a third class car Government emerges

the poison of vipers. A few in regard to smallpox, that the was two weeks on the way, but to mammals have a distinct but immunised human mother may him it was the last word in luxuri- alight insusceptibility to snake- confer Immunity on her offspring; ous travelling. He marvelled at poison; most have none at all, but it is difficult to prove this the speed that ate up the inter-

The cobra's poison has no effect satisfactorily. If it occurs, It may minable miles. is the nozzle of the hose through This is the chief question at issue

on other cobras of the same be due to specific anti-toxins pass- In Moscow, he was taken in hand which Sino-British trade is pumped about our Chinese policy at the

species, and this is a general rule. ing from the blood of the mother. by the Society of, Former Political into China and sucked out of it. present moment. We have express-

But when a venomous snake bites

When there is evidence of Convicts. He saw motor cars and In pursuance of the policy of seeked our willingness to readjust our

a relative that belongs to a differ- immunity as a racial character, as movies and aeroplanes for the first ing to improve the basis of Anglo-treaties with the Chinese in auch At the corner of the Strand and ent specias, the result may be in the case of negroes, who are time. He felt himself bewitched. Chinese relations by giving things a manner as to vindicate the right Essex.

immaculately fatal, as is generally the case relatively immune to yellow fever His friends took him to the away we have abandoned the Bri- of Chinese sovereignty as soon as dressed man paused at a ladder and with different kinds of vipera. A and malaria, or in the case of museums, the theatres and the fac tish Concession to Hankow in re-any Government or Governments then proceeded to walk around it, cobra is not much affected by Algerian sheep, which are rela- tories. For a week he endured the turn for undertakings on the part are established in China or such But a painter above upset a pot of viper's paison, while the viper tively immune to splenic fever or bustle and the wonders of the of the Southern Chinese as to the stability as to be able to make black paint. It knocked over a readily succumbs to administration of that area. Their effective agreements with us on the pot of white paint and the com- All this shows how specific the ably that a constitutional varia- the spot he loved In spite of the a cobra's! anthrax, the explanation is prob- modern city. Then he went back.to undertakings have not been fulfill-subject. That is a perfectly sound bination fell on the unfortunate immunity may be. There are tion, like the hedgehog's, arising sufferings he had endured.

There is now, indeed, no policy, from which nobody desires Government of the region which is to depart. But are we to go fur- pedestrian. Had he walked under many peculiarities of this sort spart from injection or other poi- capable of fulfilling them. At the ther? Are we to proceed to unila- the ladder he would have escaped. which do not readily find explanasoning, has become hereditary, present moment there is grave teral action in the matter, throwing Two days later a man stepped

tion at present.

whereas those members of the debt as to which of the Chinese gifts, as it were, of rights into the into the gutter. In order to walk Artificial Immunity.

MORO HUNGER STRIKE. stock who did not vary in the The immunity which is so well direction of immunity would, be Fanatice Expect to go to Heaven. Hankow, We shall have to keep a order to conciliate whatever public down by a motor car. cruiser there during the winter in opinion there may be in China,

the mongoose is natural immun- Fields For Research. order to guarantee the safety of the without any certainly of obtaining

ity; but the same quality of

An organisation of fanatic Moros For many lives of British subjects resident any advantage from our sacrifices?

years Ehrlich's has been discovered in Sayuwan, a susceptibility may be more or "side-chain" theory of immunity barrio of Impasugong, Bukidnon, by there. Is it not time to reconsider There is nobody to pick our gifts

less artificially acquired. our action in abandoning the Con-up. Six months ago there was a cause nobody knows what it is, or, method is to begin by injecting been provocative of useful investi- of Bukidnon. The discovery was One was greatly admired, and it has Antonio Robin, provincial governor cession? The supposed authority case to be made for unilateral can- Indeed, if there is any.

It seemed then as to whom we abandoned it has prae- Cepalons.

wiadom would appear to be to continue with gradual increase in favour, and

Simple minute doses of the poison, and gation. But is no longer in immediately reported to the director tiently ceased to exist. Those who China were settling down under a make it clear that the status quo quantity. The blood gets into a would not at present go further tribes.

many authorities of the bureau of non-Christian represented it-Eugene Chen and new rule, dictated from the South, will be continued by us until some condition of resistance or insus- than say Chiang Kai-shek-have both dis. and that it would be worth while order emerges out of chaos,

that immunity in ceptibility,

The fanatica are under the leader- Justice to ourselves and orderly which would otherwise have been acquired, appeared from the scene? We have could we conciliate the goodwill of

neutralising doses animals, whether natural or ship of Lumahod. The organisa- gained none of the advantages of that rule in anticipation of the new Chinese demands that Treaty rights fatal. Thus a man may be in- peculiarity

implies A At the present time shall be maintained, and that we

subtle tion is named Baylan. Upon in a good understanding with a strong settlement; Southern power that we hope to that la no longer so. The dim light shall do our utmost to maintain, theory is that the blood is able to serum of the blood, such that it ing against the government, nor]

in the munised to snake-bite. The colloidal mixture that we call the that the organisation is not conspir complex vestigation, it was found, however, gain by the concession, and we that seemed to have appeared on at the vital centres of trade, those have lost something vital to

the problem of the future of China's conditions which are essential in prepare a garrison of "anti- looks as if anti-toxins counter-committing any trouble in the China trade, and that is conditions Government has been quenched order that the operations of foreign toxins" or "anti-bodies"-what's acted toxins. But, all theory locality. Under the preachings of as to safety of life and property, again, and all is once more utter trade and commerce may be con- In a name when we do not know apart, immunisation has already the leader, the followers believe and as regards reasonable regu- confusion. It is impossible to con- ducted, which are equally beneficial what they are, if they are?-auf- done much for the relief of man's that after a reasonable period of larity in the matter of currency, of ciliate China's public opinion be to the Chinese and ourselves.

Hankow.

some

in

Of all those aspects, that of Han-Northern China which is capable of kow is the most important. It is making and carrying out an effec- the advanced base for our Chinese tive agreement on the subject. trade, of which the principal bases are Shanghai and Hong Kong. It

Unilateral Action.

ed,

WALKING AROUND LADDERS.

There's something "dead wrong" with the old superstition against walking under a

ladder. Two events in London in the three days have proved that it is "all the bunk.”

Street an

thus

factions is in netual occupation of turmoil of Chinese civil strife, in around a ladder and was knocked illustrated by the hedgehog and gradually eliminated.

our

a sort that make business possible. Our attempt to create a better un- derstanding appears to have had only this result, that it has en- couraged Chinese leaders to sup- pose that they can treat other. Treaty rights as lightly as we treat- ed our own rights at Hankow. The most important of those other rights Dre those based on the Customs treaties. It is difficult for us directly to support those treaties. Nobody could advocate that should take over the administration of the Chinese Customs by force of arms, That would. Involve an Army of Occupation impossibly scattered. But would, it not have a good effect upon those rights which we cannot directly· defend were we firmer in defence of rights the protection of which is within our direct control? In a word, re-

we

cent events suggest that the time has come when there is averything to be gained by a re-occupation of the British possession at Hankow. The authority, to which we acceded it has failed to keep ita bargain, and is itself apparently in dissola: tion. The consideration, for our agreement has failed, and British trade at Hankow will fail, too, un- less wo shortly re-establish there the conditions which make it pos- sible.

Shanghal

There is a danger leat public opinion may go to sleep over Shanghai. Because there is a large British force there It may be sup posed that the situation no longer needs any safeguarding.That is, “unfortunately, not the case. The

situation at Shanghal is by no „moana stable. The area over, which some control is exercised in a sutall part of the total area of the City of Shanghuil, and the control exer- cised over it is by no means com plete Anti-foreign and anti-Bri

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**Only four American lepers are confined in the islanda and it was thought that they would be more contented If sent to colonies where more Americans are kept. The chamber took the matter up with colonies in the United States and fa Hawaif and arrangements were made in both places for the trans- fer of the lepers. However, ar- rangements, cannot be made with any steamship line to accept the sufferers for transpo

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