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MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1931.

PROBLEM

THE

CHINA

TERROR IN MEXICO.

MAIL.

DROPPED PILOT.

OF UNWANTED DOGS Anti-American Feeling Premier's Audience of IN THE TROPICS

ان

Pasteur Institutes Only A Palliative. NO OWNERLESS AND UNWANTED ANIMAL SHOULD EXIST.

Dr. L. Nicholls, Director of the Pasteur Institute, Colombo, recently gave an interesting broadcast talk on the subject' of "Dogs in the Tropics."

The bones of dogs have been fcand in caves and rock shelters in Europe mingled with the bones of meno livad in the stone ages at least 10,000 years ago, said the speaker. At that time mun was a hunter, and he tamed the wild ancestors of dogs and used them as watch dogs in his caves at night, and for hunting in the field by day, It was not until the arts of agricul ture had been discovered that other animals were tamed and used for Thus 4 food or as beast of burden.

the dog was the first animal to be domesticated and has been the con- atani and faithful companion of man through long ages. Many curi- ous tasks have been imposed upon the dog, such as the working tread mills to draw water, the turn- ing of spits for cooking meat. He is used in some parts of the world for transport, thus in ecrtain Euro- pean countries he is haracased to small-carts; and in the Northern parts of the American Continent he draws heavily laden sleighs for long But journeys over the snow fields.

of

he has been used principally as a the watch dog, for hunting, for berding of sheep and cattle, and

diagnosis of death from rabies van be made.

"

In Evidence.

TROOPS DESIATCHED.

the King.

"HOUR'S INTERVIEW,

Mexico City, Sept. 26.

London, Saturday, A long list of charges were made Mr. Ramsay MacDonald was to-day in the chamber of deputies back in London at G.65 this of the Mexican congress against morning from Senham. He did Governor Carlos Tejada of Lover not emerge from the railway California, including the accusa-compartment until 7.30, when he tion that he was sponsoring false left to go to breakfast, after and troublesome agrarian policies. which he proceeded to. Bucking It was charged that he encour-ham Palace where he had an audi- aged groups of armed terrorists in ence of His Majesty at 9.15, their purpose of Prizing small pro- which lasted an hour. perties of foreigners in Ta Juana: The Premier later left for the and other border centres, instead country for the week-end, of proceeding against large-scale It is officially announced that exploitation in legal fashion. in response to an invitation from

Anti-American feeling was re-Mm. Laval, Briand, and Flandin { The discuse is almost always con ported high in Lower Califorain as (Finance Minister), who desire veyed by the bite of a rabid dog bands of trouble-makers sought to to discuss the general position but very rarely it may be caused by rubbing infected saliva into an in-improve a reign of terror and with him, Lord Reading will!

force Americans to evacuate.

leave for Puris on Monday. as small 39 a elight jury even

Troops were sent to the region Renter. search.

to maintain order. Two forms of the disease occur jan One is furious rables in dogs.

San Diego, Sept. 25, which the higher parts of the brain j

A datachment of Mexican troops; are affected. After an incubationi period (which may be as long as 6 Was sent to Ensenada, Mexico, at months or more) the first signs of the request of American ranchers in the to-day. furious rabies are, changes

The latter said that Mexican dog's character. away from its owner, the whites agrarians were threatening to

eringe It may

Sunday.

Aid Americans,

•

ex-

the

RESCUED FLIERS.

State They Will Try Hop Again.

New York, Sept. 25. The would-be trans-Atlantic avia-

of the eyes show an unusual glint, pel them, much as the Chinese were tors Will Rody, Christian Johansen there is a curious change in the driven out of Sonora and Cinuing and Fernando Costa-Viega arrived here to-day still suffering from bound of its whine

or bark; and gently.

Bert Cobine, manager of the their experience of floating for a usually there is an increased low

It will 100,000 acre Circle Bar Ranch, re-week in the chilly Atlantic off of saliva from its mouth,

Cape Race. preying snap at any animal or object that ported that an armed band of 350

The fliers were forced down in impedes it, and will devour earth, grariste were

Its mental die various ranch settlements and or their plane, which drifted about, leaves and sticks.

lered all Americans to leave by riding low in. the water. tress is obvious, and it will run

Their feet were constantly in salt away, and mad dogs have been

The organisation was assembled water, and as a result were badly known to travel 50 miles in a day

In Los Angeles and entered Lower: swollen. snapping at other dogs and animals California, gaining strength an It

However, they insisted they in- that they meet and spreading rabies

moved from one ranch to another tended to make the flight again. far and wide. The other form of

Local authorities feared the! is the paralytic form, in

They departed from Lisbon for rabies

were lost after being reported from a position 376 miles from Halifax,

After riding the waves in their 'plane for six days they were rescued on Sep- tember 21, and brought here by steamer.-United Press.

ahove all as the most affectionate which the spinal cord is affected movement would grow into a revoTM New York on September 15, and

companion of man.

Paralytk rabies is much maner in Ceylon than

lution United Press.

LILIUS AGAIN!

for P.50,000.

Letters:-

AUSTRIAN BUDGET.

Tax on Bachelors and Spinsters

CRISE TAXES.

Vienna, Saturday. After a night long sitting the Finance and Budget Committee of the National Assembly agreed on provisions

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Budget Involving special "crisis taxes" on bachelors and spinsters equivalent to twenty per cent. of the persons

income tax; also a

general increase of income tax and a Afty per cent. Increase of capital tax.

PRINCE JAIME DEAD.

Paris, Saturday. The death occurred suddenly,

following a heart attack, of Prince Jaime de Bourbon, the Spanish pretender, who recently renounced his claim to the throne and became, reconciled with ex- King Alfonso. Jaime's branch

of the Bourbon family is now ex- tinct-Reuter.

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and often an early sign of the hind disease is paralysis of the Temperate Zone Dogs Best, The finest breeds of dogs have legs. Sometimes there are spasms, been evolved for the most part in or. paralysis of the throat, which is temperate climates and this is be little suggestive of the presence Sues Railroad Company by the freighter Belmora

or other object being cause the dog does not thrive so well of a bone in the tropics, and those who would stuck in the dog's throat and many maintain a breed of dogs in hot patients have been treated at the

Manila, Sept. 29. climates must continually import Pasteur Institute because they have

Hearings on the P50,000 damage] fresh stock. The reason of this tried to remove this hypothetical'

local correspondent of several is to a great extent economic; a bone from the throats of their pets, suit instituted by Aleko E. Lilius,

been suffering with large part of the population in the who have

American and British publications,] tropies have a low standard of liv- rabies.

against the Manila Railroad Com- Rabies. ing in that they are scantily clad, dwellings

company, will begin on October 27 in and occupy primitive

the fourth branch of the court of furious wherein they eke out a bare subsis-

Arst instance, presided by Judge) Many of them keep watch rabies; this is fortunate, because Mariano Albert. This case assumed tence. doge and it

not astonishing that the former is much less dangercun interest owing to the fact that this

the intter. Babies ΟΥ their owners can afford to give them than

is the largest dumuge sult ever in- very little attention and very little hydrophobia in human beings is stituted against the railway firm. suitable food; consequently they be one of the most appalling diseases. The suit was filed by Mr. Lilius

It starts with restlessness and

in his behalf and that of his wife, come mangy and verminous after birth and this ill-fed condition increasing

apprehension. and also his child. The case arose renders them lile to many dis- The patient has great mental dis-

out of a railroad accident which cases. They wander half-starved tress, and terror of impending occurred at Dayap Inst May 10, ae searching for food about the towns and villages by day and night and spread broadeait the CLUBE of mange, their intestinal worms, and other parasites and germs.

acon

But there is a medical side to this matter; the uncleanly habits of dogs are familiar to everyone; they readily seek filth and the bad senita- tion in many parts of the tropics is such that dogs may often foul theft noses or bodies with the germa of such diseases as dysentery. Affer- tionate owners of dogs fondle them, and worse still allow their children to do so, and thus intestinal diseases

may be conveyed.

Unclean Animal.

In some countries in the Near East the dog is considered an un- clean animal and is never allowed in houses OX in cloge 18. soociation with human beings. This casts two reflections upon the Inhabitants of these countries; the first is their treatment of animals and the second is their lack of

sanitation.

An idea exists that parish dogs, crown, rats and other vermin are scavengers and thus assist man by

nervous

Да

ful spasms or even violent convul-i

death. The nerves are attuned to

a result of which the Lilius fam- receive the slightest stimulus, and ly had to remain in St. Paul's wind blowing upon the patient or loud sounds will send him into pain Hospital for about four months, Mrs. Lilius and the child in a pro- curious condition for soverai days. sions. However great his thirst in filing the suit for damages, Mr. he cannot drink because the water Lillus blamed the railroad for the produces spasms of his throat and accident in which his car the drink will flow into his lungs tally wrecked.-Manila Bulletin. and not into his stomach. He dles after two or three days' agony from convulsions or paralysis of a vital organ.

COMMUNISM IN U.S.

was to-

Salt Lake City, Utah, Sept. 25. Fortunately human beings are Senator Roed Smoot, of Utah, not highly susceptible to the dis-! case, and less than 10 per cent. of addressing the chamber of com merce, declared to-day that Com- persons bitten. by rabid dogs ac munism is increasing rapidly in the quire rabies whether they receive

United States. treatment not.

or

Once the disease has actually developed death is inevitable.

Something should be done about it, he said. He declared the sub-t ject cannot be dismissed lightly by A Rare Condition. There is a rare condition called thinking Americans.-United Press. "false rabies," which occurs in nervous people, who, after being

The

bitten by a dog, have brooded an was occupied for more than an their fears, and have discussed the hour in persuading those concerned symptoms of rabies and have pon that all would be for the best dered upon them until they exhibit continued employment of the ser- these symptoms as hysterical mani-vant in that bungalow is not re- festations. Needless to state thees

cleaning up his surroundings patients recover more or less corded,

r

Pastour's Genlus,

It occurred to the great French

This is an error; the refuse that quickly, and if they receive treat- untidy communitles allow to acment another wonderful cures may gentus Pasteur that people who cumulate in their compounds and be bruited abroad. The diagnosis had been bitten might be immunis- streets does not cause disease; it is of false rabies is usually easilyed during the incubation period so the vermin auch as pariah dogs, made, because the patients ex that they would not develop the rats, and flies which live upon or aggerate symptoms which are more discase. Jis treatment was suc- breed in the refuse that carry in accord with popular beliefs than cuessful and modifications of his diseases.

with truth. This is an example: methods have now, been used in Apart from the conveyance of bungalow servant was bitten hundreds of thousands of cases; human diseases from filth to human by a stray dog, he was not a strong and Pasteur Insttutes have been e beings, dogs harbour parasites and character, and his companions con-tablished in all parts of the world suffer from certain diseases which | aldered it an occasion for drollery, where rabies exista. We have can infect man, The best known when they met him they copled the treated more than 10,000 patients of these diseases of dogs is rables, bark of a dog and other canine in the small Pasteur Institute in which when it occurs In man is actions. Brooding upon this, one Colombo. usually called "hydrophobla.". morning he believed he had become The esablishment of Pasteur In- The disease is due to a germ no rabid and entered the bedroom stitutes is only a mitigation of the small that it will pass through a where his mistress was dressing evil, The slogan for countries in filter and it cannot be seen, even and crawling quickly up behind her, which rabies exists should be:- through the most powerful micro- he hit her on the heel, I need not "Only dogs that are owned and scope. But the changes produced describe the other doggy acts he well cared for shall exist, all owner- in the brain and epinal cord can be performed in the Blubsequent less pariah dogs shall be painlessly scan through a microscope, and it turmoil. But, when the supposed destroyed." If this were carried Is by searching for these changes in rabid patient with arms and lege out it would benefit both the human the brain of a dead dog that the ascurely tied was brought to me and the canine worlds.

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