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CABLES.

LATEST UABLES,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

UNSETTLED GERMANY

NDUSTIHAL IMPASSE IN THE

RUHA

LONDON, Oetobor) 18th. The Times Cologne correspondent ro- ports that the Huhr industrial leaders decided to inform the French Authorities that, they saw no possibility of, raising the indner to meet the huge wages hill Dad would The compelled to close flown the mines and works.

The Tones correspondent principally Anttributes this to the reported decision of the German Government that it will be

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER STER 023

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

heard

INTER-EMPIRE COME

DMUNICATIONS:

FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.] KIDNAPPED OIK LADIES STILL IN THE HANDS OF THEIR DANDIT CAPTORS

SDENGUE FEVER

STRONG CASE FOR WAR

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it is necessary to be ext

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RACIAL EQUALITY.

School Allerman:

of e. Poplar dealt with

view of Imper

LONDON, October 10th Br. P. Lloyd Greame presided at the Econom

Conference, which discussed the

rief period of just over one

ted to explain how the BN question of co-operation for technical

Empire should be run. ArScurr de research, also the matter of developing

of the Calcutta School of Tropical

in dengue patients

voted the greater part of his riddress in Pazo, October 17th, 2

Indian affairs and in this connection and making it mutually 'avali

Medicine of wide local enterred;

continuing his investi accustomed skill and enthusiasm and was rather goverely taken to task by two ablo between the Mother Counter and the Despite semi-oficial statements (and a

Calcutta is much exercised over the to be hoped that ho, will succeed in students, expert in Indian Government, Dominions

A discussion -on

fature message from Changulat, the Misses resent outbreak of dengue Some retablishing the ensunt aceiation of the Profesor Lindsay, who has died the gest that a new and mysterious malady parasite with the dinner. It is likely problem by coming,, in contact with ad- Imperial Institute concluded with a Darroch and Sharp have apparently not has made its appearanes and are even that some of the animals which are used ministrators who have a first-class know. prepared to bint that the disease is for experimental work in Calautin, have lodge of the facts, and by the Rev. Horace decision to submit the whole question to a yet been released.

farm et yellow fever.

rend suffered from the disease just as Rice, of West Ham, who has worked for Committee for investigation and report, ** A niesango from Kaifenglu, Jated Octo- It is only when people become a little most of the susceptible human beings six yours in India, and who, during tha The afternoon session of the Conference her 17th, reports that the Military cured that they take a practical interest in Culentta have done, and it will prob war was the only European officer in an a statement by the Postmaster Authorities are finding it difficult to disenso prevention, pas kablys be necessary to carry out animal fadian regiment As in all problems Dengue has been for many years one of experiments in a place where the disease tackled by Socialists, Mr. Scurr is out for General dealing with the unsatisfactory operate in the Lushan Alountains, but the the very coinmonica disaste of the does not occur u onler to secure the bookite freedom and self-government he aituutdom of the Imperial mul, cable and handits have renewed their offer to re-Calcutta was in 1424 when it was estimat misson of the infection Arrangxuents that all men white black brown,

tropica Its first recorded appearance in neccesary conditions for successful trans all parts of the British Empire, beli are communicatiqus and passed a

lease the captives conditional upon the ed that about 80 per cent, of the popu for this are being organised at the yellow are equal, and therefore solution, frstly, that representatives of

lation were affected in an outbreak very School of Tropical Medicine to have equal freedom Mr. Seu pens beste band being received into the army. The like the present one There have been But while it is important that more for the abolition of the diarchy the Dominions and India should be asso Authoritics are reluctant to concede this, several other epidemics, notably in 1844, light should be thrown on the parasite of in India, and ages no necessity for cinted with the Imperial Communications egen pay great

18% 1871-1873 and it is likely that others dengue it must be charly emphasised continuance of the office of Secretary anable to pay for reparations deliveries Committee, which hitherto has been ea and demand the release of Miss Darroch have occurred bf which there is no re that the discovery of the germ is not State for India. Therefore according to tirely British; secondly, that all possible and Miss Sharp before considering the cord. It is highly probable that the dis absolutely essential to the working out of him, Viscount Feel must go, and India ense has occurred in Calcutta every year scheme for preventing the disease Them become a self-governing Dominion.

EARLIER CABLES.

support should be given the State-owned request Negotiations are proceeding.

for many years, but until 1906 when Sir knowledge which has already been obtain. There would be mistakes Mr. Scurr ad Leonard Rogers dragged the disease from el regarding the transmission of the nutted, but a people were entitled to Pacific cable; and thirdly, that preference

its lair in the course of his classical study virus is enough to enable us to formulate make mistakes Had not the late Bir UNEMPLOYED RIOTS IN BERLIN, should be accorded British companies in

of the ferers of Calcutta it had existed a rational plan of prevention It Henry Campbell-Bannerman truly said for a good many years without attract definitely known that the stegougin ean that self-government was better than connection with Empire wireless rou,

ing special attention. The docters had convey the disease, the culox is so good government cessions,

called it malaria, febricula, simple con- possibility, the sand fly is unlikely to be A Socalist Government would also deal tinued foyer, influenza or any other name a carrier in Calcutta though it is not with the question of migration. If South which appealed to their fancy.

being left out of consuleration by the Africa was entitled to refuse the entrance workers at the Calcutta School of Indians into that country th

then India Mosquito destruction is the obvious was equally entitled to refuse entrance means of preventing the disease and as to South Africans and Englishmen alike. almost all the mesquitoes of Calcutta With regard to the Dependencies. 1.The continued fever type, in which have been clearly implicated in connee Seurr favours the idea of declaring the mperature declines but does not reach tion with malaria, filariasis or dengue, land to be the property of the nativo normal during the first four or five days; it is quite unnecessary to discriminate communities. The self-governing Domin the fever shows a final exacerbation which between them. The words of a popular ions should, in the fullest sense, be self ease, before it comes to an abrupt ter- whole d-d lot !?ION is the last spasmodic effort of the dis-song are applicable Down, with the governing. A Socialist Government would

establish a minimum standard through out the Empire so far as labour wax com Survey of the mosquito breeding grounds or his colour hold very strongly -

or continue the Nuhr credits.

BEILIN, October 18th,

A demonstration of unemployed in front of the Town Hall collided with the police, and three demonstrators were wounded with revolvers, «Demonstrations elsewhere in the city were suppressed without blondahed..

The situation in the centre of the capi tal at noon was very menacing. Excited

AN ARMISTICE ENDED...

HOSTTLE PREPARATIONS - BY GENERÁLS NEAR CHANGSHA,

PERING, October 17th. Advices from Changsha state that the armistice between General Chao Heng Ti and General Tan Yen Kai has ended.

MAILS TO THE EAST. Sir Worthington Evans announced (6 that the Government had turned down the proposal to revert to Italian porta tran- shipment of Eastern mails on the ground that it was doubtful whether the would result in an accelertion, or alterna tively that any acceleration would be in

The Northerners, who have heen rein- forced, have advanced within a hundred I of Changsha

Chinese public bodies at Changaba

Fomia OF DENGUE

Like hifluenza, dengue saunes a great variety of forms These are:******

onset.

crowds in thousands, including women, sufficient to compensate the very heavy requested the Consular representatives mination within seven days from the The first essential is to make a detailed cerned, whatever might be the person to mediate but the latter decided that The interrupted fever type in of Calcutta and the next is to organise continued the speaker, that, anbouga

which after cue to four days' fever there a campaign for their abolition. This there are different civilisations they eauld not intervene.

additional cost. He tribute the improve went in the Eastern Extension Co. cables services, whereby pre-war efficiency

ANOTHER MORO OUTRAGE.

packed the streets surrounding the Town Hall. They plundered two bakeries, and held up motorcars near the Bourse and threatened to throw them into the Spree had now been restored and all important SCHOOL TEACHERS AND CONSTABU-sixth They refused to disperse, and the police destinations in India and Australia could used hayonets and swords and fired rebe reached in an average of three or four

vers. Finally a deputation waited on the Burgotanster antl demanded immedi ate relief of two milliard marks nad two loaves apicer, also coal and meals. They left upon the Burgonaster promising favourable consideration of the demands.

THE RENTENBANK.

BEBLIN, October 16th. Further particulars of the Rentenbank show a capital of three milliard renten marks, subscribed in equal parts by ogriculture on the one hand and industry pod trade and commerce on the other..

UNEMPLOYMENT AT HOME

GOVERMENT RELIEN MEASURES.

LONDON, October 18th

Siz Montagne Barlow, Minister of Jabour, speaking at a luncheon in Lou don, repudiated the charge that the

•Government had broken faith as regards

POST OFFICE--MARCONUS

DEADLOCK

REFUTED,

LARE MASSACRED,

the A short period of complete freedom proposal is not by any means a simple world at the present time in the broad from fever followed by a final short or trivial one, it cannot be put into effect sense of the world every one of us what

day paroxysm which comes about the fifth of by a few foolies with kerosine nilever our race, creed, or colour, is equal, Doubtless mosquito brigade may do and we who have had certain advantages 3-The short fever type, in which there something to keep the nuisance under should use these for the purpose of help- is only one spell of fever lasting one to control and it is certainly a little signi- ing those in a less fortunate position:” four days,

ficant that the abolition of the mosquito

PROFESSOR LINDSAY'S CRITICISM Professor Lindsay promptly controvert

the suggestion that native races are

brigade should have been followed so promptly by a severe outbreak of dengue. To make Calcutta free from mosquitoes

MANTA, October 16th. Two school teachers, one superving 4-The evanescent type in which there is little or no fever and the patient merely teacher, oue lieutenant, one sergeant and suffers from headache and pains for a day eight privates of the Constabulary were or two.

it is necessary to organise a large force, ready for self-government. After all, ba killed by the Moros, on October 14th, at its partly in differences in the inter- hand if the yearly cost to Calcutta innud it must not be forgotten that,

of workers under skilled control and the aid, the fact must not be overlooked that The explanation of the variations con cost will be considerable. On the other the most appalling things were going on, Bugnon school house in the Lake Lanaosity of the virus but chiefly in differences sickness and loss of time due to mosquito slave trade was stopped by us

of those who get mild attacks have if we add to this the great discomfort Empire uniform min.mur standard eo in the susceptibility of the patients, most borne diseases be taken into account and ridiculed Mr. Scurr' ides of having suffered previously and are partly which results from mosquitoes apart far as labour was concerned. immune to the disease.

altogether from the part they play in standard, applied to peoples, a widely

region of Mindanno. Troops are being despatched to the scene of the outrage.

POREIGN LOANS TO CHINA.

CONSORTIUM CRITICISM OF

"GOVERNMENT POLICY.

Great epidemic occur from time to carrying dirase, it is undoubtedly well divergent in climate and customs, was time when the conditions are favourable, worthwhile to make preliminary ex- an absolute absurdity and would be one of thess conditions is the existence pert survey of the conditions which pre- absolute nonsense. What was wanted of a large number of susceptible, people sail and to determine whether it will not was not a supreme. Parliament, but a who have not recently suffered, another be real economy to exterminate the supreme principle of Imperial law, draw= is the presence of mumerous stegomyia | troublesome and dangerdas pesta ing a distinction as to what was a matte, mesquitoes, the third is the existence of If we were to estimate the economic for the commonwealth nga whole, and infection. The stegomyia like the poor is css to the city from lisenss carried by what was a rantter for the separite always with us in the hot and rainy mosquitoes as so conservative a figure as Dominions. We had not got that now. one day's lose work for mich person every The professor was very gloom about

Erst A can taken certain amount of com- yen the amount would be very consider the future of countries in the Ne fort from the expectation that after a able and there is little doubt that the because lie thought the peoples of thesen Brent outbreak there is not likely to be city could be freed from the pestilential lands were not going to learn the facts another epidemic for some years. The insect if a sum of money equal to this about government without trying it for usin! story of the sense is shown in the loss were available for mosquito destruc a long time, and without getting into the lustration the mosquito acquires the tion. The erst in each succeeding year most frightful meas. But much mor germ by biting a dengua, patient, within should become steadily less if a persistent might be done by letting people-mako n few days it becomes capable of trans effort were made to abolish permanently small messes than by letting them make mitting the disease to every susceptible as many breeding grounds as possible, an awful mess by the abolishment of the

whom it bileg and it continues to

diarchy be infective during the rest of its blood SOLVED PROBLEMA

Rov- Horace Rice said the big mir- thirsty life!!.

The problems remaining to be solved take Labour, generally made with regard In connection with dengue besides the to India was that they confused the de discovery of the parasite and its charneiro for nationalism with the desir for teristics are

Me democratic and social legislation. Indin 1. To discover the form in which the 'was enormously nationalist, which was

PECULARITIES

intensory anti-democratic

The deadlock between the Post Office and Marconis regarding the imue of a licence to the latter to erect stations in Britain for communicating with wireless stations being erected in the Dominions was explained by Sir. Le Worthington Evans as due to the question of divisiou of trafic between the Government and the Company's stations. An agreement had practically been reached on pooling the

SHANGHAI, October 18th." lines in July, but the Company changed its mind and and rejected the arrange

Poking message says the Memo

A ment The Fost Office now proposed a randum from the Consortium Ministers division of traffic on a regional basis, for example, services to South Africa and to the Waichiaopu of October 12th has Canada to be conducted by the Goverheen published today. It refers the ment station, while Marconis handle the Indian and Autralian traffic. In the Waichispa to the Consortium Momo meantime the Government is hurrying the completion of its station, which will randum of December 23rd in which atten be ready to operate before the end of tion was drawn to the fact that while 1024.

unsecured foreign debts and obligations PACIFIC MANDATES.

of the Chinesey Government had been left unemployment relief. On the contrary, CHANGES AGAINST AUSTRALASIA unprotected. China's internal loans had -the new expenditure initiated by the

been temporarily consolidated on the p Government, comprised fourteen millions

MELBOURNE, October 18th

separity of the surplus Customs revenues. Of the peculiarities of dengue the most for the construction of roads and bridges administration of Pacific mandated terri

The Canning report on the Australasian and requested that in future such surplus striking is its variability. Sometimes the pains are slight and fleeting, some- Bad au additional ten millions to assist the tories entirely and emphatically refutes Customs revenues no longer be applici tip excruciating and lasting, sometimes infection is cover from one season rather against Socialism, and she was also local authorities in the relief works. Au- the charges, and expresses the opinion exclusively to the service of internal loans, the vask does not appear, sometimes it is to the Moore

** that the local administration is, doing ita

so pronounced that it makes the doctor 2-T discover whether any animal continued Me Rice face the other twelve millions was to be spent on best to uphold the highest ideals with but also to liquidation of foreign debts think of measles or scarlatinn. The harbour the infection,

nese of what might happen if India to muddle through. There wou trade development, and ten millione on regard to the natives

and obligations guaranteed by the Chinese fever too, may last anything from one 3 The investigation of other possibbe no proper development for the good ay to seven days or even longer in rure insect cases the stegomyin of the whole cimmunity Gandhi is not reconstruction programmes of the railway CZECH PRESIDENT IN PARIS. Government.

cases. A MA

mosquito. companies It was impossible greatly to

The only constant feature, are the 4-The discovery of other means of PARIS, October 18th. The attention of the undersigned extend the housing policy until the nents Cordial speeches, were exchanged at a lins been called to the Memorial of the sudden onset of the fever and the restric-senting the disease besides anti-mosquito to see India go back to the old way I

tion of its total duration in 99 per cent.incasures and the discovery of specific shortage of skillet men in the building of President Masaryk of Czecho-Slovakia,

dinner given by M. Millerand in honour Ministry of Finance recommending the of the enses to a maximum period of a remedies As the disease is one in which we get out of India we shall see trade be eased.

who is visiting Paris and then going to permanent continuance of the aforemen week Another feature which happily is a natural care occurs with great rapidity Labour party prepared to face that t London President Masaryk declared tioned Scheme, and its extension to the almost universal ig its failure to kill and with no appreciable risk to the The Government expected much help that France could rely on them in evil service of the Chinese portion of the The distribution of the discass corres. Patient, one should besitate to advise the from the Imperiat Ecoumic Conference days as well as good. He agreed with ninety-six million dollars long of 1922, pond closely with that of the tiger by the mouth, have their value in reliev MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL SITE

use of powerful remedies Drugs given

in the redistribution of manpower and Treaty obligations must be completely internal laang Lie whole surplus accruing is the only insect which has been clearly ng symptom, but none as yet have been 1 Poincare that reparations and other thus marking for service of these mosquito (Stegomyin fasciata) and this

"TO" BE DEVELOPED. fulfilled. A brilliant reception followed.

from the present Chinese Customs tariff, proved to be capable of conveying dengue found to have a curative action, lazi and precluding the use of the latter as though strong suspicion has fallen on the measures is obviously the proper method A new industrial area is to be develoj- security for any general debts consolida common culez mosquito. The sister is of controlling the tigen. The fesults ed on the outskirts of Manchester which tion scheme. The undersigned Minis case, Saud Fly Fever which often achieved by Sir Ronald Rosein in Jamalia, will rival Trafford, Par ters are compelled to record formal cannot be distinguished from dengue has those obtained in the 'anninn zon by

4,300 acres of what WASHINGTON, Getober 10th. Trotest against this action of the Chinese been preved to be carried by a sand those tid by workers in many other agricultural find in the Flixton The Shipping Board has decided to Government in disregarding their com consolidate the five active North Atlantic munication of December 23rd, and making The parasite of the disease has not been parts of the world has provel that in Tayyrilma listricts butting on

suitable Cases: properly yorganised (and Manchester Ship Count and United Kingdom trade routes and to the above arrangements. They remind discovered with certainty. Dr. Cothornughly tried out measures of mos The Canal Company itself DEFENCE OF DUTCH INDIES is the existing managing agent sys the Waichinopu, Bestly as to foreign debts claims to have discovered a spirochaete quito control liave been among the great nere, and Mesin Guinness

▲ considerable reduction in the and obligations certain of which are now in certain cases of dengue in Syria, but est triumphs of human benga over a constructed whart with namber of ships being used is conten in default, that they were contracted by the case in which he discovered the para harmful environment Little can be ex-ing one GOVERNMENTS SCHEME OPPOSED pinted.

the Chinese Government, before the date site are not quite like the common dengue pected from #paemodia and hiphazard world. BY LABOUR ORGANISATIONS

of conclusion of some of the internal of the tropicsA US. BANKERS SUPPORT

loans which according to the present In Calcutta Lieut Col. Megam records auf dengue is like a

fire which must be completely, FINNISH LOAN

proposals are to be secured by the way the Anding of a spirocknete in a caso of plas, Chinese respues; recondly that the disease in 1021, but he was unable to

when the conditions under the terms of the agreements in obtain full confirmation of its being the able, it will lgit up. sneli foreign lonas, the Chinese Govern-Casual organism. ment engages in the event of deffult, or

strengthening and organisation of markets, Sir Montague Barlow said he was de lighted Mr. Bruce had supported the idea of group settlement in the Dominions, which was one of the most hopeful lines of progress, &

U.S. SHIPPING BOARD POLICY.

NEW Toze, October 18th.

of a specific security pledged becoming

SEARCHING FOR THE PARASITE

Prevention of dengue by anti-mosquito

fierceness

Individual prote curtains is not

man who believes in democracy, but he

bel ven in the national spirit, and wants

serious oppression 2015,

shinp

Brooke Bond &

others all the greater dequired

in the mosquito were the cicides Lee, the com

lows day Mos ball those of Manchester tropella and fr

phar in

liet has not been

The Hague, October 18th....... The Second Chamber began the discus- bion of the Bill for the further defence of A syndicato of bankers has taken up the Finnish Loan of thirteen and n hait the Indies. The Socialist, Herr Hugen million dollars with interest at six per holtz, and the Liberal Democrat Herr cent, at price of ninety per cent. ineffective, to provide from other sources Major Knowles has been making a stegomyi

the sums newssary to produce paymant determined effort during the PAST six quita Marchant, opposed it, and sixteen other THE ZEV-PAPYRUS MATCH of the principal and interest, The ander-weeks to discover the parasito, and has members -notified their intention of

signed, must point out that these foreign thoroughly examined the blood of many people. Lowder, October 16th. loans are entitled to priority over the patients with the assistance of his proved cho: effecti participating in the debate. A petition Mr. Hildreth, the trainer of Zev, says later internal loans, and they accordingly colleagues, he has found a similar spiro the state of

he will accept an offer of fifty thousand request an immediate explanation and chaete to that seen by Megax in a fairly dengue, let us hope that against the Bill , organised by the Social dollars from a local association of Laurel, clear statement regarding the intention large proportion of the eases and also in pogible to democratic party and the Netherlands Maryland, for a match between My Own of the Chinese Government in respect to experimental animals which were Inoen- b.en, t

throw tad the winner of Saturday's Zey the employment in future of the surplus lated with blood taken from patients in for Las Federation of Triule Unions, with over a Papyrues race, at Laurel on October customs revenues towards payinint of the early stages of the disease, but he put topra million signatures, was presented to the 25th. Mr. Jarvin says he sails for Eng. foreign debts and obligations "- (Signed) does not yet, claim to have established and

land with Papyrus on October 23rd unless Schurman, De Fleurian, Macleay and beyond doubt that the parasite is the cause alread President at the opening of the sitting otherwise instructed dead Yoshizawa.

of the discaACE