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CABLES.

LATEST CABLES, (THROUGH KROTER'S AGEVOY.]

SITUATION IN IRELAND,

ULSTER RAID ON THE L.R.A.

LONDON, May 2nd. The North-Irish authorities organised

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round up in six of the counties of Ulster between midnight and four in the muorn ing The arrangements were so secret and complete that fifteen hundred Irish Re- publiens Army officers and men were merested, many of them being in lvd. They were taken off in metor·lorries to Belfast and other centres.

ANGLO-FRENCH RELATIONS.

SLACKENING OF FRIENDSHIP A MENACE TO THE WORLD,

Lospos, May 22nd

A powerful testimony to the value of the Entente Cordiale was given by Mr. Bonar Law at a meeting of associated Franco- British Societies at Victoria.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 34TMH, (1972.

CREW. EGYPTS" THE THIRTY EUROPEANS MISSING,

LONDON, May 2nd. Thirty out of the eighty of the crew of the Egypt who are missing are Europenos, STORIES OF HEROISM AND GRIEF.

BURIAL SERVICE AT BREST.

Brass, May and. The Mayor and the British and Ameri- can Consuls were present at a solemn ser- vice at the burial of the bodies picked up after the sinking of the Egypt...

Details of the disaster as they unfoll make the story one of combined poignancy and inspiring examples of heroism

A FATHER'S UNAVAILING

SACRIFICE.

A man who placed his wife, ebild and baby in a boat, was appalled to see our rope break, precipitating the occupants into the sen, immediately afterwards the weand rope snapjad, nad the boat fell on. those who had been shaken out." The wife and children were lost and the man was saved.

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GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN." Mr. Bonat Law declared that any The ship's printer, who was unable to slackening in Anglo-French friendship swim surrendered his life-belt to would be a misfortune to Britain, a dis woman. He himself perished. aster to France and a standing menace to the future peace of the world.

WIRELESS OPERATOR DIES AT HIS POST. The senior wireless operator died send- ing out" 8.0.5," rignals,

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THE SEINE'S UNUSUAL STRENGTH.

Referring to the possibility of France acting separately against Germany, the apeaker said that he was surprised to learn from M. Poinenre that one ally is catitled to act alone. If that is so then another ally is entitled to say she would The mystery of a compartively small have nothing to do with such action. vessel inflicting damage capable of sink Such a condition of things would playing the Four in twenty minutes is ex plained by the fact that the Seine was specially constructed for service in the, ice-strewn northern seas.

directly into Germany's hands.

GERMAN INDUSTRIALISTS

MEET.

USINESS STAGNATION.

BERLIS, May 22nd. Twelve hundred of the most prominent German industrialists are holding a thres days' conference at Hamburg. Dr. Sorge, the President, in this inaugural speech, aid he was most pessimistic regarding Germany's industrial future. He fore casted early stagnation in business activi. ty both at home and abroad..

REVOLUTION IN NICARAGUA,

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JUST RETURNED FROM CHINA.

''DR. BREMNEX'S LAST WORDS,

LONDON, May 23rd. Dr. Bremner, the medical officer of the Eggs and who was drowned, returned Dr. from China only a fortnight agu. Bremner was one of those who remained aboard to the tast und clung chair near another officer, to whom he said. "Good-bye old chap, I am going under." He then let go and disappeared.

THE DEATH ROLL.

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EASTERN CABLE

NEWS,

GENOA." SEVEN OENTURIES OF SEA TRAFFIC,

Genoa is much in the public eye at pre-↑ sent. Some particulars of this interesting old Italia, city are therefore of general ¡interest. They arò taken from an article

in The Observer :

THE LATE SIR PATRICK MANSON.

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Mosquitoes which had been allowed to bite amalaris patient were sent to England. and Sie Patrick's son and Mr. Warren, senior laboratory assistant at the Lozden School of Tropical Medicine, beither of whom had had malaria or had been any. where where it was provalent, volunteered. to allow themseres to be bitten. A fort- night inter both were down with the diseas. The demonstration was conclusivel

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BENEFICENT RESULTS.

THE STORY OF HIS CAREER. [TAROCGY RENTER'S AGENCY.]

Medical science has lost a distinguished THE HONGKONG STRIKR.

investigator, and one whose researches were QUESTION IN THE COMMONS,

immediately fruitful in combating some of Losbos, May 2nd.

the dread diseases of the tropica; by the death on April 9th of Sir Patrick Blauson, In the House of Commons when reply.

Rising from the splendid harbour, tier G.C.M.G., F.R.S., M.D., formerly physician With the suppression of the breeding ing to Mr., G. Stewart in regard to the strike of launchmen at Hongkong. Mr. pentier, in an amphitheatre of tall palaces, and medical adviser to the Colonial Office, places of the mosquito by draining pool and stagnant water, and by servening terraced houses, marble churches und hang-Sir Patrick had been suffering from gout houses with wire gauze, much has been Winston Churchill said that he had ring gardens, Genon reaches the crest of her for many years, and it was indeed that done to diminish the scourge and to reader To the coived no information from the Governor, encircling hills, which separate her from in- malady which caused his retirement from vast tracts habitable by man

achievement of that end the work of Siz but he had asked the Governer to report land valleys, teeming with olive groves and the Colonial Office in 1912.

Born in 1844, the son of Mr. John Man-Patrick Manson contributed in no small - by Telegraph,.

vinerals. Her face is set towards the seo, Bou, of Firgusk, Aberdeen, he was educated degree. His name is also inseparably con- A STRIKE AT SHANGHAI, from which she drew her life, her power and | at Aberdeen and Edinburgh Universities, nected with the foundation of the London her wealth. No city shows its character where he took his M.D. degree in 1866 School of Tropical Medicine. The iden DISMISSAL OF JAPANESE FORE clearly a Genova la Superba." She The same year he went to the East, and of the school emanated from him, and it'

MEN DEMANDED.

fought Sameens, Pisang, Venetians, nud, in was medical officer to the British Con- was at once grasped by his far-secing chief, tură, got the better of them all. Crusaders sulates at Takao, "Formos, and later at Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, who had read a SHANGHAI, May 3rd. spread a wide network for her commerce; | Amoy and to the Imperial Maritime Cus-paper delivered by Manson at St. George's merchants married the glory of her name toms from 1866 till 1889. After leaving Hospital. The Seamen's Hospital Society The thousand employes of the Nikka fue and wide. As early as the thirteenth Amoy he went to Hongkong, where he was advanced the necessary funds, and a Catton Mills at Pooting bare struck wutury her thriving colonies were to be Dean and Lecturer on Medicine at the College October, 1899, the young school was They demand recognition of these fontil on the shores of the Black Sea sad of Medicine for Chinese. From Hongkong actually established under the aegis of Sir union, and payment of all workers on a

were | be moved to London, and became aPatrick Manson as an adjunct to the picework basis. The strikers also deen in Asia Minor. Her sailors

Society's branch hospital at the Albert and the dismissal of the Japanese fore intrepid and adventurous, her citizens specialist in Tropical diseases. men, alleging that they have ill-treated methodically successful and proverbially In the course of his work in the Far Dock. During the first year of the school's employes. This strike is the second good at a bargain. it must have been a East many cases in a variety of forms of existence" seventy-four students took the rival amarting under defest who invented the prevalent disease of elephantiasia came course, and now about 200 pass through the within a month.

"Tokyo, May 23rd.. the proverb that it takes fre dews to under his notics, and he tried to trace institution annually. As & tribute to the its cause, but for some years without dauntless spirit of the merchant seamen The Korean, Kin Yekiso, who attempt make a Benoese."

To-day as we wander through her streets, success. In 1874, however, while on a during the war, the British Red Cross ed to kill Baron Tanaka at Shangha. is reported to have stated that he deter

whether mediaval or renaissance, it is easy visit to London, he heard that a medical Society and the Society of St. Jabu togather mined to devote his fife to the anti- to read the character and ambition of that man in India bad found that in the blood gave to the Seamen's Hospital Society the Japanese movement on sering, when a great sea-faring people. Life in other citics of a proportion of the inhabitants of certain sum of £100,000 for the purchase of a boy his father cruelly treated by the of Italy centres round the cathedral, and districts there was to be found an organiam building in Endsleigh Gardens, and thither Japanese police.

the wealth and genius lavished by the which he called the filaria sanguinis l'early in 1920 the school was transferred. citizens upon their public buildings in past bominis. On his return to China Bir Sir Patrick, who retired from the Colonial centuries fill us with admiration. But look Patrick endeavoured to ascertain if these Office service and was created U.0.M. G. in at Gepoo: her dainty, "imall, cathedral, parasites occurred there. With the aid 1912, married in 1875 Henrietta Isabella, embedded with records of even classical, of two Chinese medical students he daughter of Capt. J. F. Thurburn, and bad times, stands in a sleepy corner of the town; examined the blood of over 1,000 people, a son and three daughters. A memorial and her public buildings, even the palace of and confirmed the presence of the service was held at St. Paul's Cathedral on her Dogus, are without much character or parasite. The next step was to ascertain | April 12th. architectural interest. When her citizens adorned palaces with marble columns and terraces swung on coloanades, pictures by Veronese, guarded a wide staircase is stupendous lions, or built chureles of black-and-white marble, it was all done for family glory. Individualism Bourished, and produced things of exquisite beauty. The small piazzi of San Matteo, PRING, May 23rd.

enclosed by slender bull palaces, with Events of a sinister nature towards decorations and arches, linking the Middle General Chang Tao Lin appear to be Ages with the Renaissance, and overlooked miniature Romanesque church, which shaping in Manchuria, where the Proby vincial-emblies-are-engaged-in-draft-Hanked by a courtyard of coupled ing a provincial constitution on southern colunas, all speaks of the D'Oria family In the street to the right stand the places The members of the Assembly intend to of their adherente; those of their mortal offer General Chang Tso Lia the post of foes, the Fieschi, Counts of Lavagna, have Commander-in-Chief of the three Eastern long since disappeared. provinces, under the provincial officials Appointed by the people; thus General Chang Tse Lin would occupy a military pust not entitling him to interfere, in politics.

JAPANESE PROPAGANDA SUPPORTING CHANG TSO-LIN ASSOCIATION ORGANISED IN TOKYO AND YOKOHAMA.

An Association has been organised in Tokyo nad Yokohama by Japanese inter ested in Chinese politics in support of Chang Tao Lia. Half-a-million bandbills announcing the organisation have been distributed in Tokyo and Yokohama. CHANG TSO-LIN EXCLUDED FROM POLITICS

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THE BANK OF CHINA.

LOSS ON YEAR'S OPERATIONS.

ST, GROEGE AND THE. DRAGON.

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PRKING, May 3rd. At the annual meeting of the share holders of the Bank of China, yesterday, A wireless query ant out broadcast the Governor Mr. Feng Kuo-kung pre-enter honour than to be given St. George

aided. In presenting the report ho said AMERICAN MARINES INTERVENE. yesterday, escking news of further, sur-that the year's operations had resulted

vivors did not yield any response. Then a net loss of $110,000. New Yoan, May 22nd.

death-roll is now officially given as 16 Advices from Nicaragua state that revolition bas broken out against Presi,

dent Chamorrü. The rebels seized the fortress, though they were eventually per- Bunded to hand over to American marines, There has been no bloodshed but high ten-

ion continuos.

„BRITISH [ENGINEERING

DISPUTE,

PROPOSALS BY A.E.U.

LONDON, May 2nd. The Amalgamated Engineers' Union has arranged to confer with the engineering employers on 24th inst when the union will submit counter-proposals,

BİG DECREASE IN. FRENCH

TRADE,

Paris, May 2nd.

how the filarta were carried from one person

to another. One of his assistants on one occasiou brought back some blood which as much more crowded with the parasite than any of the other specimens obtained. He found this specimen had been obtained at night, while the other specimenn had been obtained through, the day. The fact was disclosed that these worms move from the deeper blood vessels to the surface ones is evening comes on, returning to the deeper vessels in the morning. This was the case with day workers, and was reversed with night watchmen and night workers generally. It followed that the probability was that the carrying agency was most setive at night. \-

MALARIA PROBLEMS,

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PERSONAL REMINISCENCEN. Dr. P. Manson-Eabr, the late Sir

Patrick's son-in-law, records how he became Medical Officer to the Colonial Office. He states: Patrick Manson was very “ hard up, and as he walked down Regent Street he was wondering how to find bis rent.. A friend stopped him and naked him if be knew that a doctor was wanted at the

Colonial Office. The list closed at twelve o'clock that day, but Manson hurried there. Although an hour late, he sent up his card, and the next day he was appointed Medical Officer to the Colonial Office. Then the real story of his life began. Every man who was going to a Government post abroad had to go to Patrick Manson's room at -20, Queen Anne Street. He" bad his own In the early ninoties, after his return | standard of what health the tropics called from China, Manson interested himself for. On the average thirty such young Bitter rivals often shared one thing is in the blood parasite which produces pioneers of Empire were examined by him comman--the right to place the image of malaria, and, arguing on the analogy of every week. All of them that went from that St. George and the Dragon, either frescoed his earlier work, suggested that it had a little room to far parts had the benefit of or in sculpture."over the portal of their host outside the human body which carried his own experience in fever laden tropics. dwellings, and a great number are still to it from a sufferer from malaria to azather i Sir Patrick Manson's other work, and pós- be found. When the Genoese set cut on

person, who would then also contract the sibly the greatest, was accomplished in the 1. fighting expedition, the standard of the disease, and that that host and carrier was & Seamen's Hospital, between the Victoris protector of the Republic used to be particular kind of mosquito. Circumstances | and the Albert Docks. He used to go formally banded to the Admiral to hoist provented Sir Patrick from testing his there three afternoons a week-be went by on his ship. If victorious, he ought no theory, but fortunately his paper on the omnibus aud it took him an hour and a subject attracted the notice of Professor half each way--and he often used to spend as his household god When during the (now Sir) Bonald Ross, who, with the the night working and searching, Sailors sixteenth-century horses had practically hearty approbation of Sir Patrick Manson, coming in with tropical diseases gave him disappeared owing to heavy taxation under took up the inquiry on his return to India. the material to work with. Here he ained, French rule, it was mail that the only ones Step by step, with infinite patience, an early knowledge of sleeping sickness... left in Genos were St. George's chargers. Ross pursued his investigations, and in But most of his valuable research work wis passengers and 26-members of the crew GOVERNOR-GENERAL AND FAMILY merge into each other; there is the city of anopheline mosquito, while in the following queen Anne Street, and with characteristic Genga is made up of two cities, which 1897 discovered the malaria parasite in the carried out in a little room at the top of 20,

fine palaces, many of them built by Ales-year he traced its life cycle. The publis.. boyishness be called it the "muck-room.” sion, the pupil of Michelangelo, which the was, however, still unconvinced, and SirHe was one of the few men," said Dr. Manila, May. Brd.

Traveller firat sees as he drives through the Patrick, who had been appointed Medical Manson-Babr, "who saw that the future One of the earliest typhoons ever re-principal thoroughfares-m Garbaldi, Adviser to the Colonial Office in 1897, Laid of the British Empire depended "on the ported in the Philippines swept over Balbi, Cairoli; and then there is the old the acts as they had been ascertained health of her men." Manila last night and to dry. All shipping town climbing the slopes, where staircase before Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, the Colonial is delayed, the telegraphs of the islands streets dive between tall houses and bridges Secretary. Mr. Chamberlain recognised to paralysed,

and trams are temporarily

span the deeper valleys in bewildering the fall the importance of the discovery Buspended.

There are no reports yet of loss of life picturesqueness, creeping down hill towards and the necessity for bringing it home to

the harbour round the Palazzo di Saa people at large. and damage to crops.

Governor-General Wood with his wife Giorgio. The life of the people quickens' in and daughter were aboard the yacht Apo the Piazza Ranchi, where even in 1213 the off Miadero. No word has been received money-changers had their country-houses, from the Governor-General who was due and in the sixteenth century Alessio built to arrive ten hours ago.

the fine Loggia dei Hanchi. In the early autumn a crowd of vendors gather on the steps of the church of S. Petro dei Bauchu, quaintly surmounted by the priest's house, and offer cages full of call-lárds to the enger "sportsmen."

EARLIER CABLES.

IRISH AGREEMENT MAY.

INFRINGE TREATY,

CONFERENCE IN LONDON.

LONDON, May 2nd.

In the House of Commons, Mr. Chur- chill said that the agreement signed at Dublin on Saturday appeared to raise the most wrious issues, affecting not merely the character and validity of the forthcoming clectica but also the treats itself. The Government had therefore invited the "Irish co-signatories to the treaty to come to London to discuss the

matter.

The British signatories expected that a conference would be held at the week-end it is officially announced that for the as regards the Nerth of Ireland Govern first four months of the present seat. im-ment, and were confident that the North porte amounted to 7,010,000,000 francs cru Parliament would continue to grapple and export to 7,331,000,000 francs. Those with, the gorious task of restoring and figure show, a decrease of 618,000,000 maintaining order.

Four additional battalions were oppor-- Francs in importe and 215,000,000 francs in exports, compared with the corres ponding period in 1921,

TYPHOON AT MANILA.

IN A YACHT. “

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THE WASHINGTON, TRKAXIES RELATING TO CHINA.

TO BE RATIFIED BY GREAT BRITAIN.

He therefore placed a sum of money at the disposal of the scientist, and Dis. Low and Bambon went to Italy, and with Bignor Terzi and some friends lived in a screened mosquito-proof house in the Campagns There they stayed for four months without contracting malaria, while people all round them unprotected from the bites of the mosquito were suffering and dying from

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matter was clinch ed by a complementary experiment

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the disease.

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FAMOUS STATUART.

MEMORIAL SERVICE IN ST. PAUL'S

A considerable congregation, including many eminent medical men were present in St. Paul's Cathedral on April 12th to pay a last tribute to the memory of Sir Patrick Manson. The Memorial Service was held at noon, and was taken by the Archdeacon of London, Bishop Montgomery, Prelate of the Order of St. Michael and 8. Goorge, of which Sir Patrick Manson was a Knight Grand Cross, and Canon, Alexander. The hymns choses were * Abide with me" and "Now the labourer's task is o'er," and after the Tenson Wesley's anthem, Close by, beneath the bill of Sarzano,

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace. crowned by a tower built by a victorious

was sung. The principal_mowners were LONDON, May 22nd. crusader, lies the old Harbour, skirtod by a

Lady Manson, Mr. Forbes Manson, Dr. and Replying to a question by Lieut. Col. low, irregular colonnade which shelters a

Mr. Philip Manson Barr-and family, Mra. Hossack, Mr. and Mrs. Alan McLean, Mrk. Lestrange Malone, in the House of nest of quaint shope and eating-houses. On Commons, Mr. Chamberlain said the nine-the edge of the Harbour, and towering abore,

E. L. McLean, Mrs. Richardson, Colonel power treaty, in regard to China, the humbler abodes, rises the Lombard.Gothis In 1571 ä great Council Hall was added, Evan Gibb, and Mr. and Mrs. Therbert China customs treaty, and the Quadruple palace of St. George, its swallow-tailed and the thirty-five statues of those who had Others present included Lord Wodehous Pacific treaty would be ratified as soon battlements clearly defined against the sky been benefactors of the State through the representing the Colonial Sedetary, Mit. as possible. The British Constitution did Bailt in 1260 by Fra Oliviero, for the medium of the bank were placed round the Winston Churchill, Major-General Sir no require that they be submits to Captain of the People, it was shortly after walls. They range from 1870 to 1670 and William B. Leishman, on behalf of the the House of Commons before ratificawards taken over by the Government as sa include all the famous families-Oria. Director-General, Army Medical Service; "If business permitted there would be office for the registration of the public lomas Spinola, Grimaldi, Someiligi. The figures Br Humphrey Bolleston, President of the an opportunity to discuss the treaties on or compere," which the State contracted are sculptured seated or standing, according Royal College of Physicians; Sir Charles the introduction of the bill enabling the in times of need, with its wealthy citizens. to the amount of their donations The Lacas, Sir Ronald Roma (Royal Society), Government to carry out its obligations Known then a Palazzo delle Compere, honour of a seat was only awarded to those Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Jackson. thereunder.

it was called Banca di S. Giorgio in who gave over 100,000 livres. It is Dr. A. G. Bagabawn, representing the 1346, when all the branches of the Na-here, among these ominous-looking expi. Tropical Diseases Bureau, and repré-- tional Debt were united under one ad- taliata of ancient Genoa, that the madgural | sentatives of learned Societies, hopitals and ministration, which included general meeting and all general meetings of the institutions, pagh banking. An institution of world-wide Conference will take place, The daily The funeral took place on April 18th ot renown, it was managed with great ability bounces will be carried on in the Palazzo | the Alleovale Copietery), Aberdeen, where and integrity. Charitable and public in Reale, the largest palace in Genoa, but by the merrice was conducted by Canon London, May 2nd.--. | stitutions, bizides private families, placed no mesas the most interesting,

Cruickshank, Abendment. The chief In the House of Commons, when reply. their funds here at interest, which was Even outside the realms of commerce, mouhem were Lady Maggon, Dr. and Mrs. The Uleterite Parliamentarian, Mr. ing to Mr. Clynes in regard to the reconsidered a secure investment. It has Gends has her share of celebrated men Philip Manzon Fare (soin-law and IA cable montage from Ottawa dated Twndell, whilst walking in the street stored statement of at Chicherinat been described as a combination of the Paganini, Mazzini, Garibaldi, Nimo Bini, dangther), Mrs. Home (daugther), Mr. taon Borders on dhct and Briously unded. Genoa, that a Japanese attack on the Far Bank of England and the East India and Mameli were All Genoese. Her greatest Forbes Manson (brother), Hr. Alan Mclean

Eastern Republic "would automatically cause a state of war with Russia; Mr Company, for the Genoeso colonies of Bou, Christopher Columbus, was born on (De), and Mr. James Manson, of Chamberlain said the Government did nos Galsts, on the Bosphorus, Caffs in the the Ligurian coast in 1446. It is the one kub Old men (consin). Among mala

ske friendly representations to Japan Crimea, several porta in Asia Minor and blot on the otherwise blameless career of other presenter De V. Clark Bouter, to evacuate the Russian territory without also Carrica, were under its administration. the Banca di San Giorgio that the Council Aberdeen, Major Bell Cantle, R.AM.C.; delay. The Government relied on the All through the turbulent days of the refused to help their fellow citizen to fit Mr.Keith Cantho Dr. A. Rennis, fulsiment of the Japanese Government's Republic, the great Hank held its credit out his expedition of discovery.

Torrybarn; and Dr. Hutton, Aberdeen. undertakings in duo course.

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tunely landed in Ulster on the 29th inst, raising the strength of the Imperial forces to nineteen battalions. Any further reinforcements demanded by the Northern CHARGE AGAINST CANADIAN | Government will be mnt.

BANKER.

MURDER OF ULSTER M.P. SHOT IN THE STREET.

MONTREAL. May 22nd.

The charge against Mr. Macarrow his lopen dismissed,

tioner-manager, and Bir Hugh Montague Allan, President, of the Merchant's Bank; were charged by the Minister of Financs, with omitting to mention a great impair ment in stocks, when submitting their adicial return for October, 1922-Ex.] ·

COUNTY CRICKET.

LONDON, May 2nd Playing at Bath, Sussex beat Somerset by five wickets

LONDON, May 22nd.

Mr. Twadell in dend. “

LATER...

THE SALE OF "TEA. BILL TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC.

–Losvos, May 22nd.

In the House of Commons, "Mr. Bald- win (President of the Board of Trade), formally introduced a Bill providing for the better protection of the public is connection with the sale of bea

tion.

THE FÅR EASTERN REPUBLIQ

BRITAIN RELIES ON JAPAN'S UNDERTAKINGS.

"BIE X. GUILLEMAED IN LONDON.

London, May 1920. Bir L N. Chillemsed, has serived in

London

high and it lasted, though with waning It seema almost a personal slight to the Wreaths were sent from many members of power, until the close of the eighteenth memory of Columbus that the United the medical, profession in London, among century. Ita doom was sealed when the gates should, decline to take part in the them being one from Bir James Canilie and French established the Ligurian Republic | Genon "Conference, which, if it cannot family.. Others were sent by the Erazsen'a and expelled the last Doge.

discover a new world, may at loxat secure | Hospital Society and the Royal Society Cloud Surves, all fint uf, next colum.) for us a New Europe.

Tropical Medicine and Hygiene,

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