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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 25, 1938.

The China Mail

Ninety-Third Year of Publication 3A Wyndham Street, Hong Kong.

Telephone 20022

London Office:

Notice To Contributors.

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tion to technical research in con- nection with substitutes for quin- ine. Though there still remains much to be done, it will be seen that the results have been dis- tinctly encouraging.

By Bus, on the Thames

London's first water-bus, "The

17, Garrick Street, London, W.C.2. Pride of Westminster," was re- cently launched! and through- All communications intended for out the summer it will maintain publication should be addressed to Westminster to Southend. Thus, a service on the Thames from the Editor, and be accompanied by perhaps, has begun a revival of the Writer's Name and Address, the ancient glory of London's not necessarily for insertion but as fashionable and busy highway river, which it once enjoyed as a

a guarantee of good faith.

Subscription Rates.

3 Months

6 Months

One Year

H.K.$ 9.00 H.K.$18.00 H.K.$36.00

Postage Abroad Extra

for passenger traffic. It is a long time since the "jolly young water- man," who boasted proudly,

I'll stick to the river, the

jolly old river,

So long as she'll stick to me, ceased to ply his trade; since the gilded barges of the nobles gave place to tugs and lighters; and

Hong Kong, Wednesday, May 25, 1938. the sea gulls came to roost undis-

turbed on the riverside stairs.

There are, of course, summer

MALARIA AND THE pleasure boats and excursion steamers on the Thames, but this is the first attempt to inaugurate a river taxi; and when one con-

LEAGUE

on

Good news regarding the treat-siders the traffic congestion ment of malaria has been receiv- the streets, the advantages that ed by the Health Organisation of the river has to offer as a thor- the League of Nations from the oughfare across the heart of the authorities in the Federated city, and the unique amenities Malay States. At the request of that pertain to travel upon the the League, experiments with water, it seems curious that the substitutes for quinine have been

attempt has not been made be going on in a number of countries the success or failure of "The fore. A great deal hangs upon in Europe, Africa and Asia since Pride of Westminster"-she may 1935. From Malaya it is now well become the lasting pride of reported that the synthetic drugs London, the first used have proved to be as effec-flotilla, and add something more of a grand tive as quinine, and they can be than a bubble reputation to Lon- produced at a fraction of the cost.don's stream of "liquid history.”

The importance of this dis-

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covery can be gathered from the The Arch Problem fact that, according to Dr. Rajch- man, Director of the League's Health Section, "some 250 million venient form of architecture, at It seems that the most incon- people in the world to-day are be- least in London, is the arch. At ing slowly disabled by this dis- the present moment the L.C.C. ease". Malaria is rife in the seems likely to have two arches tropical forests of Africa and on it hands, so to speak, at any Latin America, the great plains moment. There is 'talk of the of Europe and Asia, the swamps necessity of returning Temple of the Mississipi, and in many Bar to London, though no one other places. White, yellow, seems to know where exactly it black and brown races fall vic-can be placed without being tims to various forms of the rather absurd or in the way; and scourge.

the House of Commons has been told that London can keep the

There are two aspects of the

to find another site and re-erect

malaria question to which the Doric Arch at Euston if it likes League has been devoting special lit. attention. First comes the pre- vention of the disease, by such arches have meant trouble. There This is not the first time that measures as the destruction of was the Marble Arch, which was the carrier mosquito and the to be the state entrance to Buc- draining of swamps. Secondly kingham Palace, there is the matter of cure.

was erected there at enormous cost, and then Quinine, of course, is the best removed to the north end of Hyde known drug for the treatment of Park, where it has no apparent malaria, but "the views of pro-purpose and looks both forlorn ducers and consumers are often and ridiculous. On the other side. considerably at variance." A of the park the present Consti-

wealth of meaning can be read tution Hill Arch has found quite into this bald statement in one of a good position, but not that for the League of Nations' reports which it was originally intended. on malaria. The simple fact is Other archways or gateways that quinine production has got in Whitehall, for instance have into the hands of certain business vanished altogether. interests (in the Dutch Indies) Hardwick's Euston Arch unsuit- Ruskin may have thought which purposely restrict supply in order to force up the price. To able for an entrance to a railway cure such cases of malaria as acclaimed it as "the grandest station, but other contemporaries present themselves for treatment specimen of Grecian architectu at recognised institutions in the perhaps existing in - England, tons of quinine would be need words, that it is the grandest of course of a year, roughly 1.400 which is almost saying, in other tion is only half this amount not much use being grand in a ed. But the total world produc-all English gateways. But it is Many Governments have told the utilitarian age if You also look League that they find the price silly. And if it be erected some prohibitive.

where else, what use is likely to That explains why the Geneva be made of it? An arch through Health Organisation has been de which nothing voting so much time and atten- pathetic.

passes