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|don) says?—
RUSSIA AND JAPAN.
A STATEMENT BY THE ENVOY.
in an interview at Peking with, the re- presentative of a Japanese News Agency, Mr. A. A. Joffe, the Special Envy of the Soviet Government, made the following statement:-
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HOUSING CONDITIONS AND CHINESE CUSTOMS DUTIES.
DISEASE IN HONGKONG, OBSERVATIONS BY THE MEDICAL
OFFICER OF HEALTH Dr. W. W. Pearce, Medical Officer of Health, in his annual report for the year 1921, writes:--
The
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The following figures will bo of in terest in this respect.
COMMENT FROM THE LONDON ,"TIMES."
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We (2imex) understand that as present arraged. Sir Richard Pane formerly Associate. Chief Inspector of the Chiries Salt Revenus Administra tion. will leave England for China in take part as one of the the Special British repres-atatives, at
The forthcoming Russo-Japanese Con-
The urban population of the Colony Detaber to The Anglo-Chinese Trust and Merean- tife Corporation, Limited are about to ference to be held at Changchan early in make an issue of £300,000 Guarante September is for the purpose of discussing crowded into small ar For the last Mortgage Debenture Bonds of £100 ench the resumption of normal relations and twenty years it has become more and Conference of the Powers at Tekior 29, carrying interest at the rate of settlement of pending questions between mere difficult to find room for the ever the Chinese Customs Tariff. This C
the Bussian formerly occupied by Europeans and on the subject which was sigund at the per cent, per annum, the Bends to Japan on the one hand, and the Faricreasing Chinese population. Old houses ferenes will be the outcome of the Treaty secured by a Capital Redemption Policy Eastern Republic
small Chinese houses have been lemolish the United States, Great Britain, France. taken out with the Standard Life A-sur-Socialist Federative Soviet Republic on standing in their na gardens and old time of the Washington Conferethe replaced by many storeyed Belgium, Italy.. the Netherlands Porta- From particulars the other.
gul Japan and China. Its main duties. sure Company.
an authorised to negotiate in the aud plies to us, the Corporation, angst
result t that overcrowding, will be to prepare,, for the gly aboli name of the two Republics in just the Chinys tenement dwellings, other things, hay secured an option to welet tour eval mines out of the 302 mines fsame way as "Mr. Janson, the Fore15 | always serious in the Colony, has intion of likin and to arrange for the fulfil-
ment of the other cenditions laid dow fcntrolled by the Heng-Chow Company Minister of the China Government, is At
in the Treaties of 1g and 19ts between as the chairman of the
Great Britain, the United States, Japan. During the last few months Lieut. Cu the same time I am appointed by the two M. F. McTaggärt. D.S.O., went to China Governments
aml Chim, with a view to levying the to investigate the title deeds of these Russian delegation.
The negotiations can be conducted
surtases, provided for and arranging an mines. His report, which was received in London a few days ago, shows that he only on a basis of full equality and rights
an interin measure, to the levying of went into this question with the British of the parties concerned. The interests of
Chineseach side mist be safeguarded. Consala Representative the
The Ministry of Mines and the local ever parties must be willing to make mutual
encessions in case of revity, He expang hins as confident that no Bow "Pan I found in the" agredient Moscow Government dose ups consider already entered inte Though Colonel the agreements reached at the Daisen McTaggart is not a real export, photoConference as binding them, as they did nut take part at that Conference: but graphs and statements he sends are cen sidim to prove the value of these mines, I think the negotiations which were Emic working est, au laudant carried on for such a long time cannot
in considered as having no significance. fsubply of chrop inbour and river traps- port ti go with a big local demand at high prives. Summarising his report hi sintes
Both
"At this moment I can find no reason why the propfes of the two neighbouring States cannot get together to promote tha mutual interests and secute the peaceful development of the Fur East,...
It is sincerely hoped that a new era Will dawn.in the relations of Japan and Russia, as the result of the Chingohun Conference.";
Health Districts 4 to 8 inclusiv from the great central Chinese portion of
The Chinese Victoria. Their combinel acreage is 900 houses anil population therein is enume practically all built owr.
be chupared by the flew ung table. rated at the censuses of 1911 and 1941 eta
Ru
1911.
4.577
16.11
1021. 5,00% 10.
Popuintian ..............
Persons per hrase...
Per
..... יזוי:
na per acre ...
Tag
The census figuers of 1921'are wimittedly The Revolution of 1017 sounded the
too low and, if the figures for persons! death knell to any of Russia's Emperial per home and aer for 1921 be increased istic designs in the Far East, while by ten per ccur. n more accurate estimate This would The district is a perfect locality of Japan's rent declaration of the with will probably be obtained. about 200 square miles, giving bituminous drawal of her troops from Siberia is bring the number of persons per higany ta lumpy coil srcond only to the highest signalled, as a great victory of the Japan-53.1 and per sere to 861.6.. alorile value in China, of a quality sues Liberals over the Militarists. cient for a ord's supply." The markets te the coal are both Ben and foreign at rates that meet all competition. The pre- set users are all wealthy and intuen tial men, keenly desirous of co-operation. An adüetulia te.Sis report on the politiea! sination states that Investors in Europe buva" very "haturally been somewhat con cerned about the political affairs in China. The report goes on to say- As I writ it is generally supposed that the campaign between Chang Ts6-lin and Wu Pri-fu is at an end, in favour of the lalter, who is detertained to unify the to prosperity. comaty and to help it Porinitely for your shareholders, Mr. Archibald Grant (our administrator and general manager in China) is a personal friend of Wu Pei-fe: the latter is ready to help him as any time, and has already given him many proofs of his sincerity and friendship.
The Province of Aubni is one of those
surties that will raise the import duty to per conť, na vaturew, with an in eronse to 10 per cent. en articles of luxury. The decisions that may be reach. Fed by the Conferene are awnlod in this country with considerable interest, a's an inereased Chimse Customs revenne would mean thar finds would be available which might be applied, in phet, to payment - of the interest on various unsecured loaris.
PROPOSED AID TO CHINA. JAPANESE OPPOSITION.
Very many ground floors are used as
The Peking corresponden of the Times, shops anti stores occupied at night by Leahied on August 4th:--
The Powers, interested in the develop- Based in the above given figures the most of stable conditions in China hav the shops master and his fokis only.
to the Government totalling average number of persons per floor in endeavouring to arrange for ad these districts was in oil 7.1-persons,vances while for 1921, using the estimated figur 15,000,000 delhies (about £1,850,000] at the The money would be advanced only. for persons per house,, it was 10.17 on rate of two and a half millions monthly.
and Owing to the. fnet, that shops
under strict control, but the proposition about per cent, more, stores Are not occupied, to the same cannot be submit to Parliament owing that is are upper Hoors it follows that to the refusal of Japan to give her ap the number of persons per upper Roor proval. The grounds of this opposition
Cheer. must exceed the above Bures.
are dificult to understand, unless they vation indeed shows that this is the case are based on a desire not to stabilize the NOT DESIRED BY WEST AUSTRA-and that the upper floors of tenseat Peking Government until Chang Ts Lin is restored to his position in Manchuria. LIAN MERCHANTS,
or unless Jajan wishes to have a lever in hand to influence the Chinese delegates to the conference in regard to the resto
TRADING WITH GERMANY.
many.
plans.
Thonths. Bubonic plague, spread by the bites of financially assisted during the first few rat Heas seeking blood and driven by hunger to bite human beings because their natural hosts the rats have died, will naturally be more prevalent in: crowded than in uncrowded houses.
houses are greatly overcrowded.
Overcrowding has naturally an effect The Ferth (Western Australia) Chamber on the spread of infectious diseases,
Some diseases g. lafluenza and Cere The of Commerce held a special meeting re cently to discuss the anti-Dumping Actrospinal fever, are spread by what is ration of Shantarg to acquiesce in her In view of China's desperate financial infected person. whether sufferer or and the resumption of trade with Ger known as Droplet Infection."
Mr. Alexander, President of the Chara-carrier, discharges when he coughs or situation and the struggles which are now the specific infective parasite. In crowd-
any obstruction of the efforts of the in which there has been no serious politiber, who had been a war prisoner in tierezes minute droplets liable to ecatain being made to bring order out of chaos, many, said that personally he liked toed rounis, streets, places of amusement,
criminal. cal animosity or fighting for several
All efforts to select the best possible hundreds of years, and commercial import all the goods possible from Great etc., those who, being in close proximity Powers to render help is nothing short of are liable to Cabinet will be abortive unless China is activity in this Province has in no way Britain, but is would be a foolish policy to such a person, breathe air thus often
to debar ourselves from the markets of intensely contaminated bres checked during the whole of the Ferind in fact, "it is only the wor77,000,000 people: If Australians desired direct infection. enlightened. Chinese, who know that German markets for their, productions, such thing is or has been in progress they would have to buy some of their Investors can therefore rest assured that gods, Our wool was already going to there is little danger from this source, Germany through other channels, and and nothing at present is likely to rethus the profit was lost to the producers.
Mr. A. H. Malloch moved that the re- vent the peaceful and' prosperous proseda- tion of business, it seems that no revolu-samption of truding with Germany would tion or fighting affects foreign trades to be greatly to the advantage of Australia, any great extent, which always proceeds and that the Anti-Dumping Act would detrimentally affect the primary pro as if nothing were occurring.
"Before concluding. I shoult like to dncers, firstly in regard to selling, anil' give you an example of Mr. Grant's posi-serpadly in the buying requirements.
Mr. Pritchard said we did not want in this country. His Chinese manager is the phew of H.E. Tang cheap goods in Australia. The farmer He is today could pay the present prices for his Shao-yi, es-Premier of China. personally acquainted with the Governors requirements, because he was getting a of the various Provinces, and can only remendous price for his products, say that his influence among the Chines is most exceptional, as I think the perusd of my report will show.""
tion
In addition to this business, the Anglo- Chine Trust and Mercantile Corpore: tion, f.td., have provided for the acquisi- tion of Concession for razing the walls surrounding the city of Changsha; the reclamation of land facing the harbour,
Mr. Malloch's motion lapsel for want of a seconler, and no other motion was proposed.
SHORTS FROM THE LONDON COURTS.
Motorist summoned at Highgate':
Taberculosis is, par Perellence, a disease. whose spread is favoured by overcrowding combined with want of light and free ventilation.
A HEAVY CLAIM. FOR SALVAGING A JAPANESE STEAMER.
The Atlantic, Guli and Pacific Co., of The Tubercle Bacillus is killed by des Manila, watch did the work of salvaging the alention but the sputum of a Phthisical Japanese freighter #yokai Mura and her person can be dried to such a degree that cargo as she lay stranded on Panagetan a civil action in the Court of First In- it can be blown about in the form of Reef off the coast of Mindoro, has started dust without killing the baccilli,
Soutight and bright diffused daylight stance agnirist S. Mizuno, Shigeki Iwaki, T. Yamamoto and the Mitsui Bussan rapidly kill these parasites,
L'afortunately the Chinese houses of this Kaisha for the purpose of collecting the Colony are not cbstructed to permit the sum of 1.200,000 which the company detion of these antural disinfecting claims it is entitled to for the salvage
I work. agents.
The present Public Health and Built- ings Ordinance has effected a great im provement in the type of Chinese ten of four and builds thereon a cubicle uerit houses. With regard to plague prof an area of about 60 to 70 square feet, vention we Gud now better paved groumi surfaces. absence of hollow walls and ceil.
The law requires that no cubicle shall
approximately 600 feet in depth, and have a wife and seven children, yet you igs in breuses laurit since 1903. This means have a less uree than 64 square feet),
call me a danger to the public.
Rushand at Clerkenwell: I think that
tha rat infestation of houses is less likely than formerly,
from two to three miles in length, so that
The prevalence of this disease in the vessels up to 13,000 tons can load and untoad in any state of the tides; the re
1894 suggests that the new building laws planning of the city ca modern sanitary deserve the Victoria Cross for marrying Colony since its first discovery shers, in lines, and the installation and ebration of a woman with five children. I was at
have had some good result. The follow warehouses. JW waterworks. electric Lons, tog..
ing table shows the numbers of plagus Fighting, modern sanitation,
electric
traurways, telephones, etc., etc. The Ceu- Woman at Highgate: May I suing cases notified in the Colony since 1501.. tral Government of China, it is stated, a neighbour for incivility-Magistrate: will permit the issue of. Gold Bonds for Was she very incivil: Woman Yes. the capital required to complete this work. She hit me on the head with a clothes (computed at £15,000,000), bearing inter.prop.
est at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum.
221
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The security for the payment of interest. Reretter as Old-street: I was celebrat on the Bends issued, and for the principal ing my fiftieth birthday. Mr. Cairns: and the redemption of saune, at agreed What was there in that to celebrate! dates, is as follows:-
(2) A first charge on all the municipal SHARK IMPALED BY CALEDONIA.”
The cubicle partitions act as baffle plates preventing free circulation of air. They also darken the cubicles and herein lies their danger.
preventive agencies.. The natural against Tuberculosis are not given izir play.
From the abstracts of the annual süm-' i mary prepared by the Registrar of Births and Deaths the following figures; are taken, and show (1) the number of deaths recorded, as due to general Tuber- culosis, Pathisis and Pulmonary Tuber culosis, and a) the pereratage of deaths. due to Tubercular infection of the total deaths registered during each year froin. 1912 to 1921 inclusive.
General Tuberculosis Year.
Percenta of deaths frum Pulmonary Tuberculosis of Tuberculosis and Totul deaths.
Phthisis.
Year
1695..
Cases. Yrar. 5,000**
41
Cases.
1905..... 1909......
1,07:
1:13
1590.
1,204
1910.
25
1807.
21
1011...
200
1505.
1,020
1012..
1,807
吧
1,456
1913.
.... 408
100
J.OST
1014
2.146
:
Men: It comes only once in fifty years.
101.
(1,051
1915.
4. 144
(a) A first charge on the net revenues,
from the harlour. t
1902.
572
1910..
100%
1,413
1917.
35
"
1904.
310
1918
266,
1903.
272
1019
464
1506.
80%
1920.
138
2007
240
1921
130
1912
1,096
12.1
1913
1,402
16.0
*This is an estimate and is probably
1914
1,013
11.2.
much too low. The Public Health and Buildings Ordi. 103, but its effect was not immediate, age became law on the gist February, indeed there was a marked tendency to have plans approved and buildings begun under the old Ordinance during 1902 to avoid the restrictions about to be intro duced by the new law.
1913
1,003
14:4
1016
1,52
14.8
1917
1,271,-
14.
1918 1919
1,304'
12.4
1.009
14,05
1920
1,770
18.7
1921
1,637
13.0
The total death in the Colony from
taxes.
(e) A guarantee as to principal and The P.&O. steamer Caledonia after interest by the city of Changsha, leaving Aden recently on the homeward voyage, impaled on her bow a large shark.
and
(d) A covering guarantee to the city of which was apparently hasking on the sur- It remained there for Changsha by the Chinese Covera face of the sea. ment.
forty minutes and when the Caldonia The city of Changsha bus an approxi- stopped it fell off. mate population of 1,250,000, and the Directors of the Anglo-Chinese Trust and Mercantile Corporation, Limited, by sub- contracting with various contractors,
FIT-U PINCE-NEZ
It is therefore fair to include the plague Tubercular Disease during 1921 amounted
sive there were 0,067 cases.
estimate substantial profits will be ramie is the latest of the finger operated eye- for the Corporation. Tentulive arrange | glaas mounting and has been designed to figures of 1903 as being conditioned by to 1894, while total deaths from all the pre-existing regulations and if this be principal Notifiable Infectious Diseases. ments have already been made with a number of the important contracting firms avoid all the objectionable features of done it will appear that during the tea and including those from Malaria, In in this country, to undertake the different this type of mounting. The long coil years of the old regime there were refluenza, Meusies and Dysentery which branches of this work. Subscribers to this springs, of the Fit-U prevent spring corded 13,800 cases of plague while dur- are not notifiable amounted to 1,280, Bond Issue have the right over a period of 5 years, of converting the Boods into breakage, and can be instantly adjusteding the eight years 1904 to 1921 incl shares of the Corporation, thus acquiring to give more or less pressure on the nose." a free option should profits warrant such The nose clips are of special shape to an exchange.
prevent slipping. Fit-U Pince-ner of any metal are obtainable from The Hong kong Optical Ca., successors to Olack Co., Manufacturing and Refracting Opticians, the most competent optics
Opening the campaign in the Senate in support of Prezident Harding's Ship Sub sidy Bill. Somater Ranadell, president of the National Merchant Marine Associa tion, urged that le vote against it would. be to vote for British supremacy on the
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This group of diseases includes, from those which are notifiable, Typhoid and The new law, however, has failed to pro paratyphoid Fevers, Plague, Small-por, The difference between these two totaly. duce a satisfactory type of Chinese houses, Chofera and Diphtheria. Certainly the new houses are better pro-shows 614 more deaths from Tuberculosis vided with open spaces at their backs, they
tious Diseases from which the Colony have better lighting and ventilation chiefly than from all the other dangerous Infec manifest when they are empty, but they suffers in Epidemic form either contin- are still narrow long tunnels. The ously as in the case of Malaria or from poor to rent a whole floor of an area of Cholera and Small-pox giving a ratio of Chinese family of the artisan class is too time to time as in the case of Plague, 500 to 600 square feet. He will have
100 to 479. Tuberculosis takes its steady privacy and so he repta a small portion toll in deaths year by year and attracts
no great notice. (Continued at foot of next column.)
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