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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1935

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The China Mail

| Hong Kong, Saturday, March 16, 1935.able, why are we told that it has

Diplomatic Candour

HERE, THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

MR. KNOX'S FUTURE

Mr. Geoffrey now Sir Geoffrey Knox's job as President of the Saar. Commission ended automati- cally with the handing over of the Saar territory to its new owners.

His future is now assured: Be fore returning to diplomacy he is [due for a long period of leave. After that he should be fairly cer tain of the first vacant Legation.

DEADLIEST ENEMY OF MAN

WORLD-WIDE SCOURGE

OF MALARIA

SOME

CARRIER

DESTRUCTION OF C

THE ONLY REMEDY

(By a Medical Man)

As he began in the Consular that is still ravaging Ceylou. Out service and is now only 50, he has of a population of 5,300,000, no made a good career.

DIPLOMATIC RECORD

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NOME 30,000 people have already I regret to say that It Is the

died in the epidemic of malaria female mosquito that does all thes biting.

No Specific Yet, Unfortunately the discovery of fewer than a million are suld to

Manson and Ross has not led to the have been infected,

discovery of a cure for malaria, any It is thought that the severe more than the discovery of the At various times Mr. Knox has drought of the admmer was respon-tubercle bacillus has led to a cure been described as a Scot, an Uls-sible for this calamity. The course for tuberculosis. Malaria is still us terman, and an Australian."

(rife as evar, it was. - of the rivers was slowed up. The He is an Australian and be-

The obvious thing to do is to ex- longs to one of the best-known pools remaining in the rocky and tinguish mosquitoes in malarious families in Sydney, where he was sandy beds formed ideal breeding areas, but this is not so easy as It His uncle, the late. Sir Ad-places for the mosquito. With, a sounds. Like all flies, mosquitoes: rinn Knox, was Chief Justice of swiftly flowing river many of the have a high birth rate. Fortunate- Australia and was left a fortunte fragile mosquito. larvæ are swept ly not all mosquitoes carry the By "Baron" John Brown, the mil

malarial parasite: the anopheline. lionaire coil-owner and racing

mosquito is the offender. And not The tragedy is that the present all anopheline mosquitoes convey, man.

epidemic was foreseen, but the malaria.

born.

away.

Mr. Knox, went to England as a boy and is to-day one of the five State Council of Ceylon relected a It was found, for example, in the Australians in the British Diple-special malaria ordinance. Precious Transvaal that out of the 25- matic Service.

time was lost, and now the epidemic, species of anopheline mosquitoes The other four are

Mr. Allen and the poverty and famine which resident there, only two were im-- Leeper, who is still gravely ill will follow, will cost Ceylon many portant sources of malaria. A con-- after his last operation, Mr. Rex thousands of pounds that might centrated attack on these two led to Leeper Mr. Arthur Yencken, once have been saved.

Ja heavy reduction in the Incidence-

of malaria,

famous 48 a lawn-tennis player,

and Mr. Peter Garran, who joined Ravages Of Malaria

this year.

If the new announcement of German preparedness- added nothing to the information avail- aroused indignation in France? The explanation is that France The successful development of avia makes a distinction between tion is

'a demonstration that two facts and officially recognised Wrights could not make a wrong.

The British policy has

A Fair Beginning

There is a well known story of facts.

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Attack The Carrier Malaria has caused more deaths Every conceivable method. of at- This record, is the more remark-and sickness than any other disease. tack has been tried on the mosquità.. able because no other Dominion is Even Great Britain has not been Aeroplanes have scattered a dust of represented in British diplomacy. free from it, and there exist to-day Paris green-a compound of arsenic:

in England three species of the and copper-over marahland. Pools Your Daily Smile!

mosquito which is known to carry have been sprayed with kerosene to the germ of the Illness.

choke the air tubes of the mosquito-- The downfall of the ancient larva. Back-waters have been (turn-· Greek civilisation has been laid atfed into swiftly flowing streams. the door of the malarial parasite. "Malaria.wag' wiped out. from

two islands, in the With yellow fever it held up work

Adriatic by Canal until the introducing an American fal a diplomatist who explained his been to take the line that the

They were sitting in the parlour on the Panania reputation for a more than Mac- restrictions of Versailles were of after a very excellent meal,

herole work of General Gorges and which feeds on mosquito larvæ hiavellian finesse. by saying that only femporary validity, even "Am I the only girl," murmured the the expenditure of twenty million The mosquito net and screening what he had done was to tell the though there no expresa limita-maiden, "whose mother knows how to dollars on: sanitation cleared the houses with wire gauze have been.

effective measures against the:: exact truth about his intentions, tion; that no country could be cook?" leaving it to his diplomatic con-expected to remain defenceless freres to invent all the ingenious for ever; and that the best way variations suggested by their to promote resettlement was to own imaginations. It is to be waive the restrictions voluntar-have feared that any modern ily and retain Germany in the imitator of the same policy League, where any grievance

Bill: "Guppy used to call his house Russia It spread up to the shores of Against the malarial parasite it- would have a similar experience, could be discussed on terms of over there The Nutshel Wonder the Arctic, and in 1923 some six self drugs are In the long run of“ -witness the sensational explan-equality. France was not pre-why he changed the name?" million persons were registered as little avail. Quinine, which was in-

Bertina: "He got tired having funny infected.. ations of Herr Hitler's cold, said pared to prevent re-armament by

troduced in the seventeenth century,: to have been caught during a force, but wanted to use recogni-people calling to ask if the kernel was visit to the Saarland. After all tion of re-armament as a barn. the Fuehrer is a human being, zaining counter, The re-arming and any man who drives about was only to go to a certain point, without a hat in the middle of which would of course be fixed winter may quite easily catch a considerably short of the French cold. Even if it was a "diplom-military resources. Sir John Si- atic indisposition" which is mon felt the force of the argu-passengers who returned to the recognised form of polite post-ment that this would be to con- Colony by the R.M.S. Empress of ponement, it would appear sign the German Army to

to

Japan yesterday.

have had for its motive merely position of permanent inferior-

And Then Rejected reli "Your poems are widely read 7. : "Certainly.

blore than 30 editors read this one.”

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Reason Enough

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

Mr. L. Kadoorie was among the

way for the engineers....

At the end of the war, as a resuit adult mosquito, for it chooses Its [of the disorganisation of the health victims. when they are indoors. services and of lack of funds and The mosquito is the enemy which of quinine, the incidence of malaria has to be fought with renewed Increased throughout the world. In vigour.

In this year the Health Commit-is still the main standby. It is in- tee of the League of Nations ap-valuable in an attack of fever. As: pointed a Malaria Commission, for a prophylactic its efficiency is in: it was realised that the problem was dispute.

an international one and could be] Great hopes were raised when a tackled only on a world-wide scale, drug called plasmochin' was' dig.. Experts were dispatched to all covered a few years ago. It was: parts of the globe. They found the perfect prophylactic, out to be: that in one year more than seven of any use it had to be given ini teen million people were being doses which were dangerous to the treated for malaria. ››

patient. About 1932, a new drug,

To meet the needs of patients in atebrin, proved itself a valuable ally

the publication of the fact that ity; and that the way to avoid Mr. M. T. Johnsen, Non-official everybody knows, and that has that was for France to reduce Justice of the Peace, returned to the the 88 malarious countries it was of quinine. been the subject of discussion her own forces to the same level. Colony yesterday morning by the estimated that 1887 metric tons of New drugs may yet be discovered, between the British and This the French Government R.M.S. Empress of Japan:

the

has strenuously refused to do, for

short of 600 tons, t

French Foreign Offices

quinine were required. But the but the last word will always be months, that in disregard of the and has gone so far as to regard The R.M.S. Empress of Britain, these countries was found to fall we learn to control it.

total consumption of quinine in with the anopheline mosquito, until! Versailles Treaty Germany has the suggestion as a kind of trea-continuing on her round-the-world: course of the cruise, arrived at Padang Bay yes- built and trained an air-force chery. In the which is capable of doing a great

discussion the existence of the terday. She is due at Zamboanga Life-Cycle Of Parasite deal of damage by way of re

Locarno guarantee dropped into on Tuesday, and in Hong Kong prisal for any attack or invasion, the background and disappeared next Saturday. If the announcement is inaccur from view. The present nego-l

The discovery of the malarial| parasite and of the method of in fection in human beings is one of

ate in any respect, the War De-tiations are really a kind of re-i Convicted on a charge of keep the most fascinating chapters in partments of the two countries affirmation of a pledge which has ing an unregistered mui taai, Limedical history. have all the information requiralways been regarded as binding Kel-chun, married woman, residing This little one-celled" animal; "the ed to check the figures. Why then by the British Government with at No. 574 Queen's Road West, most primitive of all forms of life,

statement?

mosquito.

WORLD CONGRESS OF PHYSIOLOGISTS

To Be Held In Russia In August

tional committee hended by the This suggestion was taken up by Academician M.I.P. Pavlov to about Sir Ronald Ross, and the theory 12,000 authorities on physiology, bio-

all this to-do about the official cut any new declaration what first floor, was fined $100 by Mr. was first recognised in 1880 by the Letters containing information on: ever. It is necessary to conal-w. Schofield at the Central Magis-Frenchman Laveran. The famous the World Congress of Physiologists. There is something so artif der the Continental point of view tracy yesterday afternoon. cial about these negotiations for a well as the Insular, and it in

English expert on tropical medicine, to be held in Leningrad this August,.. the course of years a Treaty one more defensive pact that one drops out of memory there is no the Un Long School was held yes-man beings by the bite of a have been mailed to the organisa Sir Patrick Manson, conjectured according to the decision of the last can only conclude that the real harm in underlining ft.

The annual prize distribution of that the parasite was conveyed to convention held in Rome in 1982, subject of the discussions that

terday morning, Mrs. A. O. Brawn, are to take place when the Fue-

The signature of a new pact wife of the Inspector of English hrer's cold is better on the 24th will by no means get rid of the School, presenting the prizes. current is the resumption of unreality of the whole business; membership of the League. It for the fact is that no limitation His Majesty the King has not War established as fact. It was chemistry and pharmacology, resid is very difficult to see anything of military airplanes is of any been advised to exercise his power proved that the malarial parasite ing in 50 countries. It is reported solid about the proposed addition value whatever. A plane which of disallowance with respect to must live in the mosquito and in that 22 physiologists of various to the Locarno Treaty, by which can carry civilian passengers canjan Ordinance to amend further the human blood in order to complete countries of Western Europe, the we are already pledged to carry soldiers just as easily A Dangerous Good Ordinance, 1873.ts life cycle. protect the Franco-German plane which can carry mail bags boundary against- agresion can carry bombs up to the same NEW HOSPITAL FOR SHANGHAI lived for three months in a mos- by the armed forces of weight. Attack is merely a posed that such an attack would where they will do damage. And tal of the National Quarantine was rife The Italian peasants elther country. Nobody sup-question of dropping the bombs The Woosung station and hospi- quito-proof but at Ostia, In the MAN SENTENCED ON be made before both were pro-polite desire to avoid giving of early next month.

its rather interesting that in a Service will be officially opened were heavily infected, but the in vided with an air-force, or that fence the practice required for either would forbear to use that effective bombing is called "drop-sue one way or the other, for

habitants of the hut protected with force out of sympathy with the

fine wire-gauze went scot frees s enemy. The mischief was that ping mail bags,”? although "Locarno”: pledged. Sometimes "one-- cannot but the others have been built soosquitoes on the blood of malaria "A goal sentence on the instalment

the German planes and most ofNot content with this, they fed Great Britain to more than pu- wonder who is supposed to be do that they can be converted to mi patients in Rome and then sent the plan was imposed when, Judge, Vest blic opinion was ready to welceived by such very flimby delitary uses, in an hour or so just mosquitoes to London. come, it come too late to produce vices. It does certainly sound as the Dye-works can be con- On arrival, the mosquitoes a negro clergyman, to thir

spirit. Only a few weeks ago hrer to advocate, the total aboli gas Education is too

the much taked of

pacifle and liberal for the Fueverted to be factories

the French Government

tions a military airplanes. Dowadays

for an official assura

were prepared to

provisionsS

that we Not only

out any other Min- sy; devices out ita ister could agree to that prono blic to hav

sition without

the is the oppo

*JU.S.A., Syria, Palestine and Indla To prove the matter up to the have already signified their desire hilt, a party of scientists in 1900 to attend the congress,"

Roman, Campagna, where malaria;

poison

spread elum-

were allow Mans who ther

than ended.

INSTALMENTS Week-Ends In Prison For Ten Weeks

of St. Louis sentenced Gullin Hi

to bite Dr.FT. for atriking a negro

Mr. George Warren,

veloped, malarini

ofther"

igland. The Batı