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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18TH, 1999.

LATEST CABLES NEAR EAST ADJUSTMENT. BOTH SIDES CARRYING OUT CONTRACT.

CONSTANTINOPLA, October 18th. General Sir Charles Harington, ad- dressing the pressmen, said that no time was being wasted in giving effect to the Mudania Convention. Both sides were acting in accordance with the con

LATEST CAULES, (MROUGH REUTER'S AGLECT.)

ON MR, ANGRY COMMENT

LLOYD GEORGES SPEECH. MR. GLADSTONE'S REPLY.

LONDON, October 16th Mr. (ladstone, in a letter to the Press, replying to Mr. Lloyd George's attack. mys that the world was waiting for tract and he bowd to carry out the diffenit and deligate rath without in- cident.

NATIONALISTS ALLEGE BURNING

OF VILLAGES,

LATEST CABLES.

**GLIDER* COMPETITION. DUTCH AVIATOR WINS FIRST DAY'S COMPETITION.

FRANCO "RUSSIAN

AGREEMENT.

BASIS FIXED.

AGREEMENT.

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MECHANISM OF THE BODF.

elements of the process we know, len of Each insight into the mechanism reveals more mechanism still to know.

THE GROWTH OF A NEBYE.

EXPRESSION OF, THE EMOTIONA ADDRESS BY THE FRESIDENT OF THE

Passing to the growth of nerre-fibres, BRITISH ASSOCIATION. -

Professor Sherrington pointed out that if PARIS, October 16th.

Association severed, say, by a wound, the nerves die for Members of the British According to the Echo de Paris, M.

assembled in Hull for their ninefieth their whole length between the point of LONDON, October 18th. The Dutch avator. Fokker, won the Herriot, mentioned in a message yestertal meeting, which, commenced on severance and the muscles, they serve. And from the point of severance, although for years they have giren no signs of growth. Daily Mail £1,000 Glider Competition, day, has fixed with the Soviets the basis September 6th, ander the presidency of then at once the cut ends start re-growing

** BAN ON POISON das

The fibre tries to grow out to reach ita far his biplane remaining in the air 57 of a Franco-Russian agreement with a Sir Charless Scott Sherrington

currency of sixty years awarding con-

The retiring president. Sir Edward distant muscle. There are difficulties in tracts to French firms, the Russians receiv Thorpe. F.K.S., recalled that in his president its way. A multitude of non-nervous re- minutes and 6 seconds.

COMPETITION EXTENDS OVER, À

ing ten to thirty per cent of the not ial address last year he protested agains-pair cells growing in the wound spin seare

the prostitation of science by the use of tissue across the new fibre's path. Be- WEEK.

He noted with tween these alien cells the nerve-fibre profits.

poison gas in warfare. LONDON, October 18th.

[M. Herriot, the Mayor of Lyons and satisfaction that, as the outcome of the threads a tortuous way, avoiding and never There are thirty-two competitors,

a prominent politician on his reture deliberations of the Washington Conference joining any of them. This obstruction it mostly British, with several French and from a visit to Russia, expressed the can- the use of lethal gas was definitely and may take many days to traverse. Thes two Dutch, in the" Daily Mail Gliding viction that evolution was taking place unanimously banned by the several nations it reaches a region where the sheath be to enable European States to resume effect of their decision was immense, and altered beyond ordinary recognition. But

could, hardly fail to exert a profound in the growing fibre recognises them Tun-... Competition, at Itford on the Sussex-at Moscow, the first result of which would there represented. (Cheers.) The moral cells of the did dead nerve-fibres he

The prize-winner' must remain their relations with the Sorists.).

fluence upon the opinion of the cirilised nelling through endless chains of them," Edward proceeded, had the good for the wasted muscle fibres which seem to have in the air for over half an hour and land REJECTION OF RUSSO ASIATIC world. That portion of his address, Sir it arrives finally after weeks or months, at tune to enlist the sympathy of the Grotius been its goal, for it connects with them at within eight hundred yards of the start.

Society, a society of lawyers interested in ance. It pierces their covering membranes ing point. Fokker did both, yesterday,

international law, and concerning them and re-forms with their substance junctions with the only biplane competing, hat ha

selves with the formulation of the rules of characteristic pattern resembling the. and conventions which should regulata origianl that bad died weeks or months is not yet the winner as the composition:

the conduct of war. As a result of before. Then its growth ceased, abruptly, RIGA: October 16th. is being continued for a week. "

It is announced that M. Krassin has their action, the British Section of as it began, and the wasted muscle recovers resigned from the Soviet Trade Commia the International Law Society formed and the lost function is restored. Haw sarat. The renson is not statel, but ita committee, under the chairmanship of does the nerre-fibre find its lost muscle is apparently due to the rejection of the the late Mr. Justice Petersen, to consider microscopically miles away? What is the and report. That report, a most weighty mechanism that drives and guides it? Russo-Asiatic Agreement.

and thoughtful document, embodying a Marvellous though nerve regeneration be, mechanism seems blind, for its the conference of the International Law vehemence is just as great after amputation, Society at its recent meeting in Buenos ahen the parts lost can, of course, cerer be favourable and, there were thousands of ANOTHER RUSSIAN FAMINEound constructive policy, was presented to its spectators.

Ayres, and a resolution, moved by a British reached. Its blindness is sadly evident in delegate, in favour of prohibiting the mann- the suffering caused by the useless nerve- facture and use of asphyxiating gas in war-sprouts entangled in the scar of a healing,

or healed, limb stump. fare, was passed, and it was satisfactory to note that the German delegate voted for it. (Laughter and cheers.) This action of the conference at Buenos Ayres wars most significant and welcome step in advance, ny the nations there represented were greater in number than at Washington. (Cheers.) What remained to be done was to enlist the co-operation of the League of Natious, which

pronouncement on grave public events, yet he devotet som minutes to de- molishing Mr. Chadstone by a stale and familiar gibe. He declares that Mr.

The Nationalists alleged that forty Lloyal George cannot scape, the respon

village in East Thrace had been destroy.] Downs. sibility for the debrele in the Near Easted, but there had been daily Allied which was the inevitable result of the

aerial reconnaisances and no trace of Government's policy.

burnings had been observed, offered to allow, a Nationalist repre- sentative to make the daily Bight. in a British aeroplane, in order that he might! be convinced of the falsity of the idea. He added that, nebody could charge the British with not having done their best for peace with Turkey.

EARLIER CARLES.

FRENCH PRESS INDIGNANT.

Pants, October 16th

Mr. Lloyd George's speech is angrily commented upon by the French news paper, which all deny that the mainten ance of peace in the Near East is the re sult of British threats to the Turks and corneral French diplomacy as being solely

responsible herefor

The Figure says never was the truth more audaciously travestied, and never hax & Minister, for purposes of internal policy, more greatly slandered Allied

nations.

The Petit Parisien says it was Franco- Italian pacific action which brought pener,

but it is uselong to enter into polèmics!

The Malin says the testimony of General Haringson to French co-operation is as precious as Mr. Lloyd George's declara tions are valueless.

Te Journal says:-It is our duty to in- form Mr. Lloyd George that if he enters the Peace Conference in the frame of mind he showed at Manchester, he must bear the responsibility for inevitable con. fictt

The Matin's reference to the testimony of Generat Harington to French co-opera- tion relates to a letter by General Haring-

He had

M. BOUILLON URGES EARLY DATE

شور

FOR CONFERENCE.

Paris, Atober 18th.

M. Franklin Bouillon, in speaking to the newspaper correspondents, urged that no time should be lost in summoning the Near East Conferences which should be conducted in a spirit of peace and not!

A poisonous atmosphere of dis trust would be fatal. mentioned as the date for the opening of the Conference, but the venne has not yet been settled.

of war

November 6th 1s

EARLIER CABLES.

ton to General Pelle, expressing gratitude PLIGHT OF NEAR EASTERN

the loyal support of General Charpy

dering the Mudania Conference.

A POLITICAL RESHUFFLE!

Losnes, October 18th.

REFUGEES.

"CONDITION IS DISASTROUS."

GENEVA, October 15th.

The vastness, of the Near Eastern re- Sioce Mr. Chamberlain's speech on, the

fuge pröblom is emphasised in a tele- 13th last., which has been adversely com mested on by the majority of the Con- gram from Dr. Nansen, who is at Con- sertine newspapers, which shots an in-stantinople, to the Secretariat-(eneral of It says that crewing, restlessness with Conservative the League of Nationa support of the Coalition, the political 750,000 refugees from Asia Minor are dis- aituation has been full of dramatic possi-tributed among Greece, Thrace, and the They are mostly women and bilities. This has become intensified since islands. M. Lloyd George's speech, and the talk children, and their condition is disastrous. today is that anything may happen in the next few days. -

Mr. Lloyd George returned to London yesterday and dined with Mr. Churchill, who speaks at Bristol to morrow, when be, may indicate the nest step in "Mir Lloyd George's plana,

Mr. Lloyd George, before going into the country to-day, conferred with Mr. Char- chill, Earl Balfour, Lord Birkenhead and Sir Robert Horne His next political apuch is fixed for the North of England on the 21st inst.

They have no money, clothing, abelter, or food. The Government and relief or ganisations are valiantly attempting to cope with their most urgent necessities, but the organisation of relief upon a much vaster sale is essential in order to avert a catastrophe, Dr. Nansen prgently appeals to the public for funds. AMERICAN REPRESENTATION AT

The next best performance was by a British competitor,laynham, with a monoplane. He remained in the air for mins. 3secs, The weather was most

CAUSES RESIGNATION OF M. KRASSIN

PREDICTED.

THE RUBBER RESTRICTION OWING TO FAILURE OF HARVEST.

RECOMMENDATIONS.

RUBBER GROWERS ASSOCIATION SUPPORTS COLONIAL OFFICE.

LONDON, October 18th. The Council of the Rubber Growers' Association, has passed a

GENEVA, October 18th.

Dr. Nansen's Belief Committee states that at it recent conference of delegates from the famine districty of Russia it way stated that, owing to the failure of the, harrest, there would be a famine in most of the provinces in two or thres

resolution months.

strongly supporting the recommendations FURTHER SLUMP IN MARKS.should undertake to formulate a mutually

of the Colonial Office Committee, at the same time urging the Governments of Ceylon and Malaya to introduce the legislation necessary to give effect to the recommendations as as possible. The Council pledges itself to give the Government every assistance in carrying out the scheme,

BOOD

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EARLJER CABLES.

RUMANIAN CORONATION

CEREMONY.

TAKES PLACE IN SPECIALLY BUILT CATHEDRAL

LONDON, October 16th.

In London, marks tonched a low cord of 13,200 and closed at 13,000. The selling was mainly from Germany and is attributed to the French repudiation of Sir John Bradbury's proposals.

RAT DESTRUCTION AND

PLAGUE.

binding scheme more stringent in its terms than those of The Hague Convention, the cynical disregard of which by our late chemies so shocked the conscience of the

world.

Addressing himself to the problems of mental actions, the President said that it was not his intention to stress ont inability at present to deal with mental actions in".

One of the points terms of nervous actions. of contact between the two is the fo-called expression of the emotions. The meatal reaction of an emotion is accompanied by a nervous discharge which is more or less characteristic for each several type of emotion, so that the emotion can be read from ila bodily expression. This nervous gans, such as the heart, which the will can- discharge is involuntary, and can affect or- not reach. Then there is the circumstance In the course of his address, Sir Charles that the peculiar ways and tricks of the Sherrington, who is also President of perrous machinery as revealed to us in the the Royal Society, deelt, in considerable study of pure reflex reactions repeat them- detail upon the relations between pervons selves obviously in the working of the ma and muscular functions, and showed that chinery to which mental actions are adjunct. as the lung is stretched by each inbreath The phenomenon of fatigue is common to the respiratory condition of the nervous both, and imposes similar disabilities on centre, already attuned to the respiratory both. Nervous exhaustion and mental ex- quality of the air in the lungs, sets the haustion mingle. Then, as offset against degree to which inspiration shall fill them this disability, there exists, both the ere there ensue the opposite movement of amenability to outbreath. All this regulation, although repetition within limits rendering a reaction

PRESIDENTIAL ARDHÈSS,

habit formation, mere

We know that with structural

There is a very sound suggestion in a contribution by Mr. C. E. Hunkins to the Feld for the extermination of rats. It may be called the Rodier system, as practised by a settler of that name rid Australia of the rabbit plague. It the nervous system takes part in it, is easter and rendier. Then, and skin to this, consists of catching as many rats as mechanism outside our consciousness. Part is the oft-remarked trend in both for possible, then killing the females and of it is operated chemically; part of it reaction to leave behind itself a trace, an engram, n. memory, the reflex engram and PARIS; October 18th."

letting the males free again. Normally is reflex resation to a stimuins of mechani-

as such unperceived. the mental memory. The practical man According to a message from Albajulia, three female rats to two meals are pre-cal kind, though

and hence the extraordinay Muscles execute our movements; they also has to accept nervous function as a condi their Rumanian Majestics were "crowded duced, amid great pomp. The traditional care rapidity with which the species multi-maintain our postures, this postaral action tion for mental function without breaking monial service was held in a Cathedral plies. Destroy the females and you would of the muscles being produced by nerve-his heart over ignorance of their connec specially built for the occasion. The most fores the too numerous males to harry centres which from a system more or less tion. distinguished Rumanians and the repre- the females during the breeding season. their own. The erect posture, for instance, derangement or destruction of certain parts sentatives of the foreign missions attend That is Rodier's method, which has been involves due co-operation of many separate of the brain goes mental derangement or employed with some success in the Man muscles in many parts. Even in absence defect, while derangement or destruction of ed, including the Duke of York.

The proof those portions of the brain to which other parts of the nervous system is not so The coronation itself took place outside chester Zoological Gardens. the Cathedral, where an Altar had been possi contains the germ of possibility of consciousness is adjunct the lower nerve accompanied. Decade by dende the con- erected, surrounded with burning candles. dealing with plague in India and China centres successfully bring about and nection becomes more ascertained between Dead silence, succeeded the blare of trum. If those countries would employ this maintain all this co-operation of muscles

cerebral regions. pets, the clanging of bells and the boom of method instead of doing what is also which results in the érces posture. Thus certain mental performances and certain the guns as the Patriarch crowned their austansary here, that is simply killing the animal in this condition, if set on its The party returned to the indiscriminately any rat that is caught, feet, stands. It stands reflexly. More Majesties.

to required conditions. If the pose of one capital where the King and Princes a step may have been taken in the right than that, it adjusts its standing posture be that it is the male who is more fre travelled on horseback in an imposing pro-direction. The only difficulty appears to

quently abroad in search of food, and of the limbs be shifted that shift induces a

we attach meaning to that fact 2 that consequently any trapping opera compensatory shift in the other limbs, tions generally result in taking a large that stability is retained. Mere refer its localisation is in the nervous system

Still, the method action provides these harmonies of posture, The nervous system is that bodily system proportion of males. has proved effective with rabbits, and the nerve-ceatres rokang for this purpose whose specist office from its earliest in the required muscles a mild, steady appearance onward throughout evolutionary may be successful with rats-China

contraction, with tension largely independent Fipress (London).

CONFERENCE SUGGESTED.

CHICAGO, October 16th. Bishop Cannon, in a message, urges Mr. Chamberlain came to London to- day to meet his Conservative colleagues in that the United States should be repre- order to decide whether they will join scuted at the Near East conference to pro- Mr. Lloyd George in going to the country tect the rights of Americans, to secure a as & Coalition The decision of this meet-national home for the Armenians and to cession.

ng will settle the question whether the obtain protection of property and minori- elation will he fought as Coalition.rerasties in Turkey: Labour, or as a triangular contest between. Ckas, rvatives. Liberals and Labourites,

The fanchester Quirdinn says. Mr. Floyd George is. contemplating a period

of retirement from: office as the leader of

a new combination of parties or even of

New Party.

RETURN TO RADICAL POLICY

PREDICTED..

LONDON, October, 18th.

AMERICAN PROHIBITION

NAVY.

BRITAIN REJECTS RIGHT OF

SEARCH PROPOSAL.

WASHINGTON, October 18th

The Manchester Guardion declares that Mr. Lloyd George's direction is at pre-can ent apparently towards Radical-Labour, outside the three mile limit and if the election results give him eni opening he will turn that way.

A meeting of Unionist M.P.'s has been nycked at the Carlton Club for the 19th inst. It is similar gathering to that which elected Mr. Chamberlain as Unionist leader of the House of Coinmons.

AMSTERDAM DOCK STRIKE, WORKERS STILL "OUT

AMSTERDAY, "October 18th.

A small number of strikers at the port returned to work this morning, but most of them are still out, DOCK STRIKE SETTLED CIGAR FACTORIES LOCKOUT,

morrow.

LATER.

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U.S. SAILOR ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED AT SHANGHAI,

Huron....

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Could we look quite naively at the body we might perhaps suppose it diffused there, not localised in any one particular, question of a seat for the mud within the

part at all That it is. localised and that

of the muscle length and little susceptible story has been more and more to weld together the body's component parts to fatigue. Nerve-fibres run from muscle into one consolidated mechanism reacting to nerve-centre. By these each change in as a maity to the changefal world; tension or length of the muscle is reported about it. It more than any other system to the activating nerve-centre.

bas constructed out of a collection of organs There also a part is played by organs an individual, of unified act and experience. It is understood that the British Note

It represents the acme, of accomplishment declined to agree to Mr. Hughes' sugges

A coroner's inquest was held at Shang-whose stimulation changes with change of tion of a reciprocal extension of the right

The strike at the port has been finally hai, last week, by Mr. N. E. Lurton, U.S. their relation to the line of gravity, "Thus, of the integration of the animal organismo. of search of vessels, which gives the Ameri-

prohibition Navy jurisdiction called off, and work it to be resumed to Commissioner and a jury, on the body of pair of tiny water-filled bags are set one in That it is in this system that mind, as we spatch of cells endowed with a special the progressive development of the system The Note states that Canadian: and. A lockout of the cigar-factories as the C. A. Deckman, coxswain on the U.S.S.ench side of the skull. In each of these is now it, liss had its beginning, and with: Testimony was given by Dr. Thomas nerve. Attached to hairlets of these cells has step for step developed, is surely

Clarence L. Smith, is's tiny crystalline stone whose pressure

the portion to which mind transcendently Dunn and Dr. that deceased had met his death by ac nerve. The nerve of each grarity-bag attaches is exactly that where are carried to Medical Officer of the Navy, to the effect acts as a stimulus through them to the significant. So is it that in this system cidental drowning, and that the body connects, through chains of nerve-centres, their highest pitch the nerve-actions which had been in the water six or seven days. with the muscles of all the limbs and of manage the indivdual as a whole, especially one side of the peck. In the ordinary in bis reactions to the externai world. Dr. Smith also testifal that from the liberty card found on the body he as- erect posture of the head the fimula sumed that the deceased was the Ameri-tion of the two bags right and left is There, in the brain, the integrating nervous inter-connected, and re-combined for can sailor: C. A. Deckman described in notices as missing from the U.S.S. Huron eqnal, because the two gravity stones then centres are themselves further compounded, lie symmetrically. The result, then, is a since October 9th WASHINGTON, October 16th.

The Jury retained a verdice that the symmetrical muscular effect on the two sides anitary functions. The cortex of the fore

drowning.

other British port officials have been in resalt of the meir's refusal to accept the structed to do their utmost to prevent the employers terms was enforced to-day- issuing fraudulent clearance papers About eight thousand workers are in and other practices which have been the volved, subject of complaint.

An important bearing on the gaforce FLEXIBILITY OF THE NEW ment of prohibition and the drug laws has

U.S. TARIFF IMPORTANT UNIONIST MEETING been furnished by the Supreme Court,

PRESIDENT HARDING'S

ARRANGED.

LONDON, October 18th. The political position late to-night is capable of being more clearly defined. In

which, in, consequence of equal division (four to four), was unable to reverse the decision of the Lower Court- that ship masters touching at American poris reed not include in the manifest cargo which

DECLARATION.

the first place, it is understood that the is not importable lawfully into the United in a letter to Mr Mondell, the Con-deceased came to his death by accidental of the body, namely the normal erect brain is the main seat of maid. That

meeting of Unionist members of the States. The case was against a master gre leader, President Harding has Cabinet to-day afforded "conarmation of trading off the Pacific Coast, who had not declared the flexibility of the new Torili

the impression that there is no serious division of opinion among them." The real quarter whence trouble springs is outside the Cabinet, and it is the Unionist Cabinet members' recognition of the reces ity, of dealing with this trouble prompt ly, which has led to the crucial meeting at the Carlton Club fixed for the 10th inst. Mr. Chamberlain will then adhere to the policy declared at Birmingham on the 12th inst, and demand a vote of confidence. If that is accorded, the necessity for an election this year will considerably diminish and Parliament will be likely to meet on November 14th

On the contrary, if a vote of confidence is refused, Mr. Chamberlain will have no alternative but to resign office and his Unionist colleagues, without exception, would most likely follow suit The Pro miez, thereupon would not attempt to carry on, but would advice a Dissolution.

reported a quantity of opium aboard.

The British Note contends that to acquiesce in the American desire to extend the three-mile limit would set a precedent which might infringe the doctrine of the freedom of the seas.

accorded with expectations.

posture. But the right and left bags are cortex with its twin halves corresponding mirror pictures of each other. If the head to the two side-halves of the body is really incline to one side the resulting slip, mic. single organ knitting those halves to gether by a still further knitting together of to enable the Administration to adjust

roscopic though it be, of the two stone on the nervous system itself. Not without duties to shifting economic relations and

The Association for the Promotion of their nerve-patches makes the stimulation the Education of the Macanese, atqnequal. And from that slip there resulta significance, perhaps, is that in man this unmistakable asymmetry. Man is a tool- enabling the United States to encourage foreign trade.

The President denied the aloofness of Macad, whose President is Mr. Luiz exactly the right unsymmetrical action of organ, the brain cortex, bild as it is, shows the United States from the rest of the Nolasco, is making an appeal to the the muscles to give the unsymmetrical pose using animal, and tools demand asym-- world. He says: "We wish to be generosity of the public in general, but of limbs and neck required for stability.

unified, acts, Anervous focus unifying such It is stated that the nature of the reply helpful, neighbourly, and useful. To especially to the ex-students of the Com- That is the mechanism dealing with metrical, though attentive and therefore protees ourselves first, and then to use mercial School for donations towards a limbs and trunk and neck. An admotor function will, in regard to a late

postures the head it:

erally bipartite organ, tend more to one Our atre accruing through that fund to enable it to provide comme ditional one BRITAIN PAYS INTEREST ON pey general welfare of man fast, accessory equipment, including self on the neck. These same gravity half or the other. In man's cerebram the that of a commercial office, a physical kind. to yanajpcere purpose.”

and chemical laboratory for the practical bags manage the posturing of the eyes. preponderance of one half, namely, the THE RUSSIAN STATE BANK. teaching of these subjects, and also for Whichever way the head turns, slopes, or left, over the other may be a sign of

technical and is tilted, these adjust the eyeball's posture unifying function. the formation of FAMOUS SWEDISH ECONOMIST library, and wormanent compensatingly, so that the retina still

According to statistics compiled by the APPOINTED ADVISER. exhibition of metropolitan and Colonial looks out upon ita world from an Portuguese products. The school has approximately normal posture, retaining STOCKHOLM, October 18th. been in existence fifty years, but the its old verticals and horisontals. In auch United States Post Offcs: Departam The famous economist, Prol. Cassel, finds of the Association are not sufficient glimpse of mechanism what we see mainly 11,335,000,000 letters were dealt wird die

finally comes out of it, the intermediato per citizen of the United States adviser to the Russian State Bank Iments has accepted an invitation to act as to defray the cont of all these improve is how the machinery starts and what ing Inat year. This represents 115.

WAR DEBTS.

FORTY MILLION DOLLARS TO AMERICA

WASHINGTON, October 16th. Britain has paid the United States forty million dollars. This is the first interest any of the Allica have paid to the United States on account of War Debts since May, 1919.

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