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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MARCH 8г#, 1919.

INDUSTRIAL PARALYSIS IN

GERMANY:

COUNTRY DRIFTING TO BOLSHEVISM.

FAMINE IN RUMANIA.

FOOD RIOTS IN SPAIN.

ALATENT ('ABLES.

THROUGH RETER'S AGENCY. I

GERMANY.

INDUSTRI PARALYSIS

CHAOTIC CONDITIONS IN BERLIN. The condition of the poorer classes in Berlin is truly desperate. Apart from the scanty official rations, food is only abtainable from illicit traders at ester tionate prices.

Lhos, February 28th, The intestgrams from Germany The total number of unemployed is sbow that str are threatened or are estimated at 165,000, many of whom do Progressing

over the country, tho not desire to work, having been demora work demanding immediate socialisalised by long war service. Discontent is

tion of mines and Government mono- polies, and the recognition of Soviets. Over two-thirds of the miners in Central "many at prescut are on strike. The kers have already begun to occupy the ways and post-offices, but, in spite of threatening character of the move- t, the Government hope to reestab

order by means of large levies of

Oops.

A

In large towns like Ralle and Leipzig the officials, doctors, and chomists etriking, as a protest against the dictator. ship of workmen.

The Spartacists are agitating for n general strike in Berlin next week It is feared that they may succeed.

Communist activity is generally in creasing in East Prussia, where Rusinn Bolsheviks are urging the population to destroy the railways, "in order to hasten the victory of the Communists of Ger many."

A MORTAL STRUGGLE."

LONDON, March 1st.

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growing.

The Spartacist movemen) ik, by no means, dead. If the present situation last long, the psychology of the masses will, inevitably, lead to Bolshevism. The period, from April to June, will be a

critical one.

The Allies possess, in the control of the food supply, a means of strengthening the expense of occupation, or the odium the Party of Order, without incurring

of interfering in internal politics.

DISTRESS IN RUMANIA.

DEATHS FROM STARVATION.

PARIS, February 28th. Information has been received that 250 deaths, due to starvation, occur daily in Bokharest alone.

DISORDER IN SPAIN.

FOOD RIOTS IN MADRID.

MADRID, February 28th. Serious riots oecurred here, owing to food arcity.

Butokers' and bakery' shops were stormed. Order was restored after martial Inw was proclaimed.

AN INDEPENDENT" SOUTH AFRICA:

NATIONALISTS IN A DILEMMA.

THE TOLL OF WAR. ITALY'S LOSSES.

PARIS, February 28th. The Nationalists have reversed their A statement presented to the Repara- decision to mail on the British cruisertion Commission shows that Italy's war Minerva, owing, it is believed, to the outlosses are as follows:-- ery in the country districts against the Nationalists sailing on a British warship. THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC.

DISCOVERY OF THE CAUSATIVE QERM

ARMY.

Killed Wounded

402,301 953,880

NAVY.

NEWS.

FAR EASTERN CABLE LUNG TAKEN OUT, BEWED

AND PUT BACKTM

NEW CHLORINE ANTISEPTIC. "I have removed the human lung from the chest cavity with forceps, tied its

surface, and, while still holding it in my bleeding blood vessels, cleaned its puber

a handkerchief, I have run "thin pieces handa and manipulating it as you would

of gauze up its tracts. Feeling my way carefully along its wall have removed

THE SHANTUNG QUESTION. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

PEEING, March 6th. Peking is greatly exercised over a tele gram. from Lu-Tseng-haiang making in- quiries anent the report which is circulat ing in Paris that the British and Anæri ean Ministers advised that the Shantang question should not be brought before the Peace Conference ti actied

Killed

3,108 Wounded

5,252 Half the number of the wounded have Orient. been permanently disabled.

LONDON, March 1st. Tho Times states that, in connection with Army medical investigations of The total number hors de combat influenza, it is announced that, after pro-amounts to 4,388,487, including 2,100,000 longed research by Major Graeme Gibson sick. Italy's losses amount to 1.2 per cent, (British), Captain Connor (Australian) of the whole population of Italy, and her and Major Bowman (Canadian), these Colonies, and equal France's percent- ditors completed the discovery of what is' age of losses. fluenza epidemic. probably the causative germ of the in-

Italy lost 68,000 tons of merchant ship ping, equalling 571 per cent of her total

Major Gibson contracted influenza and tonnage. pneumonia and died. at Abbeville.

The gorm belongs to the order of filter.

method. Monkeys infected with the gorm paseCrs and is grown by the Neguchi

developed haemorrhage of the lungs, pre- disposing the reception of the pneumocod cu18.

THE FINAL ARMISTICE,

SUME MILITARY TERMS.

PARIS, February 29th.

NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL

CONFERENCE

THREE SUB-COMMITTEES

APPOINTED.

LONDON, March 4tà. The Press Bureau states:- The provisional joint Committee of the National Industrial Conference has ap- pointed three Sub-Committees, the first, to make recommendations concerning the methods of the negotiations between the employers and Trade Unions, including

the establishment of

OF

re

It is stated that Marshal Foch hae completed the terms of the final armistice. They provide for the complete demobili-

a permanent In- sation of the German Army, fixing the dustrial Council to advise the Govern maximum military strength at twenty-fivement on industrial and economic quer- Divisions, demanding total disarmament tone, and also on methods of deal- and Allied inspection of war factories.

ing with war advances and methods for regulating wages by JAW ITALY AND JUGO-SLAVIA.

otherwise; the second, to make ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THE

commendations on the desirability of legislation in regard to maximum work ing hours and minimum wages; the third to consider unemployment, make recomm- mendations for its prevention and for the maintenance of unemployed, where not prevented during the present emergency period, and on a permanent basis.

SURRENDERED GERMAN

FORMER.

PARIS, February 28th. The Jugo-Slav delegates will shortly protest to the Peace Conference against the action of the Italians.

A telegram from Geneva states that Herr Muchlon, an ex-director of Krupps, returned from Berne. after a two-days' stay in Munich, where he declined the post of Foreign Minister, because he was convinced that a stable Government was impossible. He says that the Spartacists terrorise Munich. He is of opinion that Germany is confronted with a mortal struggle between Monarchism and Bol shevism. SOVIETS IN POWER IN BAVARIA,

BALE, March 1st. The Munich Congress of Soviets pro rogued the Diet and assumed the Execu tive and Legislative power, under the tion in Barcelona, and the threatened other Districts.

title of National Provisional Council, with a membership of 210.

SPARTACIST OUTRAGES.

LONDON, March 1st. Mr. Percival Phillips, the well-known

war correspondent, writing from Cologne, says that the Spartacists is Dusseldorf, beaded by a Kiel sailor, control the city, They terrorised Westphalia, arrested hostages, and confiscated food stocks" for the benefit of the workmen," who threaten to punish the pillagers with death.

The Spartacists raided three Essen bollieries and compelled the miners to cbase work. They destroyed the offices and machinery, and sacked the State bank at Muelheim.

GOVERNMENT TROOPS IN

DUSSELDORF:

COPENHAGEN, March 1st. A telegram from Muenster states that Government troops entered Dusseldorf on February 28th. The Spartacist leaders escaped. The town is quiet.

DEMORALISATION OF THE GERMAN NATION.

BERLIN, February 27th. The daily experience here only deepens the strong impression made by the present demoralisation of the German nation.

Troops are patrolling the streets.

SERIOUS INDUSTRIAL AND POLITICAL SITUATION.

LONDON, February 28th, A serious industrial and political situa tion has arisen in Spain. The sitting of the Cortes has been suspended inde finitely, in order to enable the Govern- ment to devote itself to questions of

public order, especially the serious situs

strikes in various Provinces, notably in Lerida,

No news has been received from Isi bach, owing to the closing of the frontier," but the Jugo-Slava assert that the Italians acted as though they were in enemy coun- try and interfored with internal affairs. A delegation of Mayors of thirty Com- munes of Dalmatia arrived in Paris bringing results of a plebiscite taken under Italian occupation. The results show a Jugo-Slav majority of 60 per cent. in the Zara District and 80 per cent. in

GERMANY MUST PAY. REPARATION COMMISSION'S

WARSHIPS.

THE QUESTION OF THEIR DISPOSAL

As regards the fate of the German warships, Reuter is officially informed

Firstly, that their-breaking up would take three years, and then would only fetch £500,000.

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bullet or shell fragment. Then, after beauturing the aperture. I have placed the respiratory orgau back into the cavity of the chest. In two-thirds of the cases upon which have so operated tha patients lived,”

Inquiries have clicted that there has boen no change of instructions to the Peaco delegates at Paris.

THE WAR PARTICIPATION

LOAN..

Roport states that Tuan Chi-jui has informed the Premier that he could not understand why the Japanese informed the Government concerning the suspen- sion of the War Participation Loan that the contract was between Japanese Mili tarists and the War Participation

Bureau.

BY COURTESY OF THE "CHINA MAIL.''| LADY TUDOR LEAVES FOR

HONGKONG.

This was one of many amazing state ments made to 1,200 medical officers of the American Army at Camp Greenleaf by Colonel Pierre Duval, of the French Reserve Medical Corps.

NEW CHLORINE ANTIBETIC. That American surgerins could contri- bute valuable information to the science.

medicine was indicated in papers pre- pared for the Inter Allied

Conference of Cargo by Captain W. F. Furness and Waiter Lee, formerly of the Medical College of the University of Pennsylvanie, now on the staff of the commanding officer at Camp Greenleaf. Captain Tec explained the use of a newly- discovered chlorine antiseptic, said to be two hundred times as bolic, which he perfected in

and

naylvania Hospital.

This

antiseptie is known as

ginal solution. discovered

Lady Tudor left for Hongkong on the mine-T, by-product of Dak Vellore yesterday.

REQUISITIONING OF NORE

AND NOVARA."

There is reason to hope that arrange passages for invalids unable to travel ments will shortly be made to provide

by the Nore and Novara, on account of the requisitioning of these vessels.

HONGKONG'S NEW GOVERNOR.

LEAVING FOR HOME ON MARCH 26TH. A message from Ceylon states that Mr. R. E. Stubbs leaves for England on March 23th. He will spend a few weeks there before proceeding to Hongkong,

months ago. Dichloramine T is ded already to have proved a more efficient substitute for iodine, carbolic and other standard antiseptics used in the practica of medicine.

Among the new wonders of surgery demonstrated to the assembled doctors was the use of a rubber balloon employed

major operation. As a stoppage to the chest cavity after

Professor Raffaella Bastianelli, pro- fessor of surgery at the University of Rome, showed how this bag might be inserted into the chest cavity and then Inflated, to prevent infected air from en tering the chest walls. According to Professer Bastianelli, this new device

much as an atomobilist uses à rubber be used to paten up & wounded man, plug to patch up a leaking tire.

Colona Daval said pieces of a torn lung may be excised and sutured with perfect safety to the patient in the hands of a skilled surgeon. The method,"

is. to esaid,

to 52W out a six-inch section of the fourth rib and lay bare the entire chest cavity. Then, with thoroughly sterilised forceps, the lung is lifted from its normal posi- tion. Great care should be taken not to cut into large vessels of the lung. Finger tips serve for eyes. The surgeon can manipulate the soft tissues of the respiratory organ as though it were a handkerchief.

collaps

Of course, the lung istothe walls

THE FRAWLEY COMEDY COMPANY.

"BOUGHT AND PAID FOR." The Frawley Company,

whose return to the Colony is welcomed, opened their season at the Theatre Royal last evening when they presented "Bought, and Paid For." As anticipated, there was a large attendance.

The

plot ak this particular "comedy-drama 33 is, of course, well known hote. The Frawley Company have given the play on several occasions pre-swept it the best in their repertoire. There is medically. viously, and there are many who consider

Secondly, that any Power taking them this is relieved by touches of humour so plenty of scope for emotional acting and over would be faced with insuperable that all tastes are catered for. Naturally, -obstacles as regards spare parts.

a very great deal depends upon the man- Thirdly, that the ships are now obsolete.ner in which the characters of Robert Fourthly, that their use as merchant Stafford and his wife are portrayed vessels is impossible owing to their enor-

When things reach a climax in the second mous coal consumption and the difficul

act, and the man brutally informs the woman that she has been "bought and

her husband's wealth has brought in paid for" and the wife, stung by the taunt, decides to forego the luxury which

re-

ed while this is being done. are then opened and thoroughly cleansed. When large blood vessels interfere, a piece of gauze is inserted in the tracts and run over the surface until they are thoroughly cleansed. It is not an exag- goration to say that the lung is literally

put. After the battle of the corde were kept of 300 lung cases treated

Somme, Twenty-eight por cent. of the men died Of a similar number

ting into the chest cavity and perform treated surgically, only 8 per cent, died. Doctors need no longer have fear ofacut- ing the most delicate operation.

War with old-time, potions. We have entered time surgery has completely done upon a new era of medical science.

Other reasons for the suspension of the Cortes are the obstructionist attitude of

RECOMMENDATION. certain Deputies, apparently in connec tion with the agitation for Catalonian

PARIS, February 28th. autonomy, and the Government's desire Commission recommends that Germanytics of adapting their interiora.

It is understood that the Reparation that certain very important questions, should be compelled to pay by her 'gold especially Morocco, should not be disresarves, by outstanding debts in her for breakwater purposes has proved im- cussed in the Cortes while the subject is favour abroad, and by coal, potash and practicable by experiments made at Scaps order that she may retain her self-respected their paper, read at the congress, with

being negotiated with Foreign Powers,

SUPREME WAR COUNCIL

RELIEF IN AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

The Press Bureau states:-

A communiqué from Paris states that the Supreme War Council discussed re- lief in Austrin and Hungary.

THE FUTURE OF MONTENEGRO.

Subsequently, M. Crosdonovitch, the Montenegrin Minister at Washington, presented his views on behalf of Tear Nicholas, on the situation of the future of Montenegro.

THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

PROBLEMS YET AWAITING SOLUTION.

PARIS, February 28th,

timber.

Fifthly, that the idea of sinking them

Flow.

Sixthly, that if the ships are to be divided some basis of division must be found.

BRITAIN'S MARITIME LOSSES. LONDON, March 5th. Replying to the deputation of the Mercantile Marine, on March 4th, re-

In regard to their division, two alter garding reparation for the relatives of natives are suggested:-Either accord the number of whom the spokesmanesti-pont naval strength. the sailors murdered during war time,ing to war losses, or on the basis of pre- mated at 20,000, the Premier paid. &'tri- bute to the heroism of the Mercantile Marine in saving Great Britain from starvation and the Allies from collapse

Ho denounced German 'submarinism sa the most, cruel and most infamous hibition of piracy ever seen.

Ho announced that the British dele gutes at the Peace Conference bad boon instructed to submit, as their first de mand, full compensation for the losses

Py

SURGERY MIRACLES SPARROW'S BREAST BONE USED

GERMAN SURGEON FAR BEHIND, That the Germans are far behind sur- geons of England, France, and Italy, Colonel Doval. was indicated by figures supplied by

died. that in fifty-nine operations upon the These figures showed lung performed by a renowned man surgeon, forty-nine of the patients Ger-

Captains Furness and Lee supplement-

papermen concerning the properties of a more detailed explanation to news- dichloramine-T Their statements were they completed under direction of form based

a study of 19,040 cases which, Bargoon General Gorges of the United whilst antes.

They have so perfected the use of dichloramine T,

a most and amy:

a situation is brought about which needs exceedingly delicate manipulation for the full effect to be secured.

Mr. Frank Wilcox as Robert Stafford Miss Molly Malim created however, was admirable, favourable impression not only by they said, that its germicidal activities reason of ber ability

will continue for eighteen hours, in con- actress, which is beyond question, but which the original Dakin solution was trast to the thirty to bixty minutes for also owing to her winsomeness and pleas effective. ing personality. Miss Florence Chap- man as Fanny Blaine and Mr. Wm.

A remarkable phenomenon of this ible for the comedy. Howard as Jimmy Gilley were respons of chlorine, & deadly poison. Left ex

septic is

is that it contains a large amount anti Mr. Howard's Hote wonderful ideas

posed to

d to light, air, or water the antiseptie ablo subject

from

acor decomposes within three minutes and not réconcilia tione

only loses its effectiveness a germicide

in

En

Conceiv

performed at the Edmonton General house business," kept the it may only be used by specialists and

upon every domestie circle

to but becomes an irritant. For this reason amused. The small.

a glass container.

FOR HUMAN NOSE.

Military Hospital, which has been s

Many wonderful operations have been condusting

soldiers requiring prolonged treatment. special surgical centre for wounded parts of a Japanese servant and a Indy's must be kept at an oven temperature la maid were well taken by Mr. Garry that 42,000 patients, drawn from all the they will do even better this evening if

Lieut. Col. Spencer Mort said recently

McGarry and Miss A. Lloyd.

The Company certainly opened well and Expeditionary Forces, have been treated last year's success may be taken Og & Poor-law infirmary, and with its ring of advertise" which is an amusing extra- since the hospital was converted from a criterion. They are staging "It pays to tion for 3,500 patients,

night presentation Business men, after

FOCH PROFESSORSHIP AT OXFORD.

Bir Badil Zaharoff, K.B.E., has recent ly intimated, to the Vice-Chancellor t

at sea, including compensation for the 20 auxiliary hospitals it has accommodavogaoza ominently fitted for a Saturday Oxford his desire to offer to the Univer

relatives of the dead.

the evidences of corruption and indivi- settled aro Germany's western frontier,War expenses, Bual greed which alternate with those of the Adriatlo, and Russia.

A stranger arriving here quickly passes from surprise to disgust upon witnessing

ECONOMIC COUNCIL URGES IMMEDIATE PEACE.

Three of the remaining questions to bo pay this first, before more indemnity for He concluded by urging that claims be immediately submitted to the Foreign Offley.

dull apathy and threatening social revolt.

The West End of Berlin still presents a relatively normal appearance, although, even here, a second glance reveals the

PARIS, February 98th. superficiality-of things. Much that

The Economic Council reported, at its appeare gon wine turn out, upon investiga opening, that the Allies must make peasc tion, to be a substitute. For example, immediately or raise the blockade. This paper table-cloths are used even in the report explains the Supremo Council's leading hotels owing to linen ones being pressure on the various Commisions to

complete their work without delay.

commandeered as bed-sheeta

Germany must A speciality of the hospital's work in a stronupus weck's inbour, should apprenity to dum 225,000 for the establish-

the treatment of fractured femur by a cinto being shown how easily they may ment of Chair of French, to be galle new method, in which bandages are not reduce their toil and increase their re- French Literature, and for other par required. Skin grafting and blood trans ward, and they have an opportunity the

the Marahal Foch Professorship /of fusion have been common operations, and following day of bondering upon the French stadios RA.M.C. orderlice frequently volunteer-moral which the author's genius brings

poses connected with the promotion of nd to give blood to patients. An experi homo inny which should be convincing birth, presented to Franopy the country thont is now being, tried to replace a even to the least enterprising among of his adoption,

Bir Basil Zaharo,

Greek by broken bridge of the human noes with a them, *parrow's breast bone..

la 1916, 100,000frs A patient, who had a piece of bone THE BILLIARD CHAMPIONSHIP.

B4.000) for a 8 Chair of Aviation in the protruding into the surfaed of his brain,

Univerity.

Afterwards became so morose and ill-tompared that W. It. Wolghbour and Sergt. Drum announced that he had placed at the dir founded a similar Chair in the Univer jve the nursing a avoided him

sity of Petrograd, and Inst July it wam much as possible. The bone was removed

EARLIER CABLES. THE LATE SIR GUT CALTHROP'S SUCCESSOR

MR. EVAN JONES.

Jones, M.P., has both appointed Coal To Press Bureau statos:-Mr. Even

Controller.

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be the most obeerful patient in the was making 929. The inter's best breaks nity of London, attached to the Imperlik by an operation, and afterwards the man ally, woring his 400 whilst Neighbour and that a Professorship of the Univer mind met last night, at the VH.O., in posal of the British Government. £95.000 the above competition Drummond woh to endlow a Professorship of Aviation, hospital, singing and whistling all day Werg 34 and 30. Tong

Neighbour's highest Collern of Science and Technology, woulik. single effort was 96.

msccordingly ko established..