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A CHRISTMAS APPEAL

Help For Hungry Babies

Here There

and

Everywhere.

With all its time-hallowed joy, Christmas” brings for all of us st some time s breath of sadness MYSTERIOUS COL LINDBERGH in all homes there will be sooner or later, the empty chair.

rest.

The American Press, accustom

was about to start

BUBONIC PLAGUE VACCINE

JAPANESE DOCTOR'S

FIND

100,000 TREATED AGAINST ANCIENT CURSE

(By Milton Silverman)

San Francisco, Nov. 15. „Inner Mongolia and spreads to UT of a gleaming, spotless Manchuria.In August and Sep-

to

:

But it is a gentle grief when led by years of experience to Col the missing face is of one who has Lindbergh's reluctance to keep lived a life, has seen his or her them informed of his whereabouts children grow to ripe years and when engaged on flights, were not has shared the Christmas joy with (surprised at the excitement crest- [ those children's children Sached in England last month by his have won through to an earned temporary disappearance Se All the papers carry stories, but

brief. are

The The empty chair, yes! But what most of them

Oboratory Manchuria ember the epidemic becomes mor Hong Kong Saturday, Dec. 26, 1936. of the empty cradle! Some of ourDaily News," New York's best

readers will have known. friends informed morning "picture tab has come a new and powerful severe Many thousands ber stricken with

combat bubonic) come infected the bewildering loid," has the headline. "All Brit-vaccine

"And when people become in- National Standards. Of grief of a dead child, medical skill ish Isles Hunt Linly." It com- plague the terrible scourge of

Asia and the tropics.

|fected with plague,” the scientist powerless, the end not preventible.ments somewhat sarcastically:

There is no sweater

women emphasized, "they die from plague. sadness

While the British Air Ministry Already 100,000 men, than the loss of a child's life

... widespread and children have been vaccinated They do not recover. The mortality Diet, the modern doctors are when all that can be done to save it

search, the fier was apparently"}

and, is very close to 100 per cent." never tired of preaching to us has been done. There is no sterner

spending a comfortable evening in against this ancient curse

Year after year for countless deadly epidemic raging some home or inn oblivious to thei

with is the secret of health. States tragedy than when this happens fears of the world.

about them, not one has been in centuries this appalling situation men all the world over have without need. There is no fercer

has existed. Dozens of preventive During the years he spent infected. had to recognise that nutrition indictment of a community than America after his famous Atian- Manchuria officials plan to vac-and curative methods have been has become a problem of poli-that this may happen not rarely, tie flight, Col. Lindberg was fre cinate 300,000 people a year. [tried, but not "one has met ́both- tics. For sche time past a

in the flesh 'of

Promising results have already popular and medical approval, committee of experts appointed pot as a sudden visitation, but as quently, a thorn

course and without American Press Associations and been achieved in using this new

Better Vaccine by the League of Nations has a matter of

need.

vaccine as the basis of manufac ¡been investigating the relation

On numerous occasions these turing a curative agent.

Year after year, rats and ground of food consumption to the The social charity of Eastern physical and economic welfare lands is known. We are told that were compelled to spend agonised This brilliant record was reveal squirrels carrying plague-infected of mankind. Its latest report, one who have struggled through hours telephoning and telegraphed yesterday by Dr. Kikuo Karas-feas, which have crawled into though by no means wholly infancy need starve, where others ing in desperate efforts to ascer chi, number ene plague fighter of homes, spreading the disease to

the Orient, the, Japanese scientist whole villages. satisfactory, gives welcome have food Usage will find rice tain his whereabouts after he had

foods departed on a fight to an unknown who developed the vaccine. jevidence that the peoples under for them. But the solid

Almost a decade ago when Dr. In San Francisco to discuss his the British flag are among the within the reach of the poverty-destination.

Karauchi first got his idea of a results with outstanding Ameri best fed in the world. Empire stricken, unemployed or beggar

new and better vaccine, the entire can 'scientists, and to investigate countries have far more meat parents are for the infant equiva- WESTMINSTER SCHOOL'S NEW

the

resources of the Manchurian Rail- California's own plague. situa- on their tables than any others lent to a death sentence or

In Mr. J. T. Christie, headmas-tion, Dr. Karanchi has been work way were placed at his disposal. The southern Dominions, New servitude of a maimed life.

"With the railway,” he explain- Zealand and Australia, are first You who read these lines mayter of Repton, who has been aping mofficially at the University of

pointed to succeed by a long way, with Canada wonder that such things can be.

Dr. Costley-California's Hooper Foundationed. "plague is both a health and a financial problem. When the epi- third. But Great Britain comes Cannot something be done? Yes, White as head of Westminster, the with Dr. Karl F. Meyer, leading

damic comes, the trains do not hun.. next, faring even more richly easily, and you can do it. When London school will have its first American authority on bubonic

There are no passengers, në ship- than the United States. Her the mothers, through lack of ayman headmaster since Williams plague

ments of freight. The epidemic 140 pounds per head may be nourishing food, cannot feed their Camden, the great historian, who compared with the 110 of Ger babies naturally there is help was appointed in 1595. many, the 72 of France, the 35 waiting for them."

below Canada and

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costs the company perhaps $100,-

Given every assistance he re-

At Repton, Mr. Christie actual- Ee will leave to-day for a tour 000 a day." of Italy. Though she stands Nothing heroic, nothing wonder-

the United ful, only milk foods, cod liver oil, created a precedent. He was which will take him to Harvard States and Belgium Great Bri-Lactogen and such things, and it the first layman headmaster of University and other scientific inquired money, trained assistants, Repton since its foundation. institutions in America and Europe. hundreds of experimental animals: tain eats more eggs than any is for this simple help that the

1657. At 37 Mr. Christie must Ten years ago, Dr. Karauchi-Dr. Karauchi set about develop Women's Auxiliary- of the Hong other European country. So

still be one of the youngest public said yesterday, he left Keio Uni-ing his vaccine. After years of far as comparison is possible, Kong Society for the

that provided protection, she has a fair share of fruit. of Children is making this Christ-school headmaster. He was only versity in Japan to begin his reeffort, he finally produced & sub-

32.when he went to Repton. search career in Manchuria, Sta-stance. Only the Dominions now eat mas Appeal to the Women

There he succeeded the present tioned at Dairea, he became one not against the plague microbe, more butter. The British take Hong Kong.

They are not pleading for the Bishop of Chester, who had been of the directors of the famous but against one of its component more sugar than any people ex-

Argenic Institute supported by parts tcept the Danes.

a hopeless appointed when he was 27. mere alleviation" of

the South Manchurian Railway. "We grow these bacteria in the To such a national diet, state of affairs The Society now

Then we kill them, so they cannot- with the possible exception of receives enough support from the

And there he came face to face laboratory in very great numbers. the abundant sugar, the medi- public to deal with the hungry

cause infection, and break them cal experts would give their ap babies whose parents seek its sid

The Countess of Weagh opened said, "the greatest problem Man. apart. We select a certain fraction proval According to modem It is a big step towards the day science. what the

British when it can go and look for the new high school for girls at Sud-churia must face is the control of of these bacteria, and use it to pro-

albubonic plague. In June of every duce immunity." asually lack is not the rest. They ask the Women of bury. Suffolk, recently with

year, the epidemic sweeps out of

(Continued on Page 7) substances producing energy Hong Kong to bring that day solden key. but the protective sub nearer. ...

stances, minerals and vita- They appeal specially to women mins. Butter and egys, fresh to help so that other women shall fruit, and vegetables, fat meat cot see their children die. and fish are of primary import- Contributions may be sent to:

ance to health. But there is an- other food of which the British let themselves go short. As milk

The Hon. Treasurer, Women's Auxiliary, P. O. Box No. 80. The Women's Auxiliary.

drinkers Britain stands, com- Hong Kong Society for the Pro- paratively low among the na-tection of Children.

tions. The Swiss drink fær

Imore than twice as much, the EXPLANATION.

Danes and the Americans hal

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and Germany and

far above Italy with her seven. But no one can think such an javerage adequate, to the needs

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