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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17th, 1928.

JAPAN'S ATTITUDE YANGTSZE SHIPS IN GERMANY'S SUPER PASSENGERS' GRAVE

TO CHINA.

NECESSITY OF SAVING FACE.

BOYCOTT RESENTED.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY, ]

TOKYO-Nov, 16th.- It is learned that an important meeting was held yesterday at Kyoto at which the Government reported that it had decided its future policy towards Nanking.

COLLISION.

CRUISER.

360 CHINESE DROWNED.

MODERN IMPROVEMENTS,

ARBITRATORS' AWARD.

(Tanovas REUTER'S AGENCY.]

BUILT FOR SPEED.

[TAROUGE, RITTER'S AGENCY.}

The great improvements to be the construction incorporated in of Germany's деж cruiser were described by General Groener, the Minister of Defence, daring a speech in the Reichstag. The cruiser, which is one allow ed under the Versailles. Treaty, will be built for high speed. Her fighting capacity will be vastly superior to the existing 10,000-ton

SHANGHAI, Nov. 16th. In the matter of "the collision between the Atanta Maru and the Jin Taning near Chiakiang which on February 18th, in it is estimated that 380 Chinese The crux of the situation appears were drowned, the Shanghai to be the question of treaty revi. Time states that three, arbitra. sion, as apart from the necessity tors awarded the Chinese owners of of both sides saving face, the the Hain Taming approximately Government, though desirous of w203,000. The two Japanese az opening formal negotiations asbitrators dissented but it is under-cruisers. It will exceed the radius soon as possible, wishes first to stood that the signatures of the ensure that once they are COM. menced there will be no deadlock other three make the decision bind- The Government is also anxious to ling. avoid the possibility of becoming involved alone over the question of extraterritoriality.

Hankow.

Nanking's Sincerity,

The Disaster.

ACCUSATION.

CREW HELP THEMSELVES.

NO DISCIPLINE.

"TENUTER'S" "AMERIČAN BREVICK]

New York, Nov. 18th. "Half a dozen passengers examin- 10,000 toned by the United States attorney before the United States commis sicner declared that as far as they were able to judge, the suddenness of the Festris final plunge found officers and crew unprepared for the situation. They asserted that there was a marked absence of discipline and no orders were given. It was the passengers rather than the crew who appeared collected.

Witnesses alleged that the life boats leaked, while water, food, flares and oars were missing. One witness, Mr. Frederick Puppe, who lost his wife and child, testified that members of the crew ran from boat to boat, and he thought they were collecting the best equipment for.

husbands (instancing himself) were ordered out of the boats; in which their wives and childrep" were placed and in one instance members of the crew were allowed to take their places.

of the heavy artillery of the old ships. by 12 kilometres and fire thrice the number of shots per

minute.

Security against sinking is in creased by a new kind of armour and under-water protection.

RYE LIFEBOAT DISASTER.

DROWNED IN VIEW OF WATCHERS.

TRAGIC BRAVERY.

(THROUGH SKUTER'S Agency,]

LONDON, Nov. 15th. Fuller details are now reported of the disaster in which the whole of the crew of seventeen of the Rye motor-lifeboat lost their lives in a gallant attempt to go to the rescue of a ship in distress in the Chan nel.

Ti

Disaster overwhelined the little craft in the full view of a bood of anrious watchers on the cliffs, many of whom witnessed the death of their dearest relatives. The bont capsized as she was returning from answering the distress signal of the Latvian steamer dice which had been badly battered by an angry tempest, and had to be aban- doned by her crew.

The tragedy means that prae-

population of the tiny hamlet of Rye Harbour has been wiped out, and the disaster is said to be the worst in lifeboat history for 42

POINCARE'S POLICY OF REPARATIONS.

INDEMNITY AND FOREIGN

DEBTS."

NEW CABINET ACCEPTED.

(THRONOR. REUTER'S AGENCY"]

LABOUR SCHEMES

"}

CRITICISED.

LORD "PARMOOR'S MOTION

DEFEATED

DISARMAMENT POLICY DEFENDED.

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

Ruday, Nov. 15th.

-PARIS, Nov. 15th. Reparations, the religious isanze

There was a short debate in the and the necessity for pushing the House of Lords to-day on the sub- budget through as rapidly as pos- ject of disarmament. It was begun sible are the main features of a by Lord Parmeer, who was the British representative to the statement submitted by the new Poincaré Cabinet to the ChamberLeague of Nations when the to-day. The Cabinet asked the Labour. Government was in office Chamber for a vote of confidence in 1924.

Lord Farmoor moved that the in the reconstituted Ministry.

The Cabinet's declaration em- House regretted that the British phasises the paramount reasons delegation to the recent meeting of why the vote on the budget should the League Assembly did not give be taken before the end of the pre-effective support to further a sent year if the Government is to policy of disarmament und all- function satisfactorily.

inclusive arbitration.

will

the

The master of the Afuta Maru, It is believed that yesterday's a 1,300 ton steamer, stated that the meeting decided inter alia that the vessel was sailing down the river Government, before catering upon

Weight will be saved by using, negotiations, should insist that the and had reached a point about 30 Nationalists restrain the anti-miles east of Chinkiang, when two arstly, light metal wherever pos- Japanese movement in Tiertsin sad small steamers were observed to be dible; secondly by the electric their own boats. He alleged that tically the whole of the fishing sibility, that the question of church League of Nations, replied. He re-

leaving the small river port, Tai method of welding: and, thirdly, pingehow, and making up riverby modern motors which will be How The Accident Happened only 5/8ths of the weight of The second of the steamers the machines used in 1918.

General Groener's speech was ill-fated "Hain Taming, attempted

Socialist to cross the bows of the tute made in reply to a Maru. A collision seemed im- motion for cessation of construc- minent, and although the Japanese tion, on the ground of economy.

The Reichstag is likely to reject steamer reversed her engines, the this motion, although the Socialist Hein Taming, of 700 tons, crashed Chancellor, Dr. Mueller, and other into the port side, the Atate Maru Socialist Ministers have to vote for it in accordance with the Party de- being holed.

It is reliably learned that the Government is abortis instructing Mrs Yada to proceed to Nanking to ascertain the sincerity of the Nationalists regarding the settle. ment of pending questions on the hasis of past conversations.

If he is satished that they are sincere the Government will thea initiate formal negotiations.

TSINAN INCIDENT.

(Wah Te Fat Pao).

SHANGHAI, Nov. 18th. Dr. C. T. Wang told the delega- tion of Stuntung provincials yes terday that the determined prin. eiple of the Nationalist Government was to demand the complete with drawal of Japanese troops from Tsinan and the adjacent territories in dealing with the Tainan altair, The Japanese Government was will ing to do so and had actually reduced the present garrison in Shantung to 5,000. It was rumour. ed that the Nationalist Govern had made concessions to Japan by the withdrawal of the former Note notifying the invalidity of the old Sino-Japanese treaty, as a condition of Japan's evacuation' of Shantung, but such a was entirely groundless.

ment

rumour

CUSTOMS AUTONOMY.

(ah Ts: Yat l'as).

·SHANGHAL, Nov. 10th, Dr. C. T. Wang has issued a statement to the effect that the full contents of the Agreement be- tween China and Norway on Chi nes Customs autonomy will be published next Monday. Negotia tions with other nations including

*Holland, Great Britain, France, Belgium and Portugal are proceeding.

'NORWEGIAN TREATY. (THROUGH XEUTEN'S AGENCY.]

to the Chinese The damage steamer was even more severe. Her bows were crushed below the water- line, and she made water rapidly.

Heavy Death Roll,

The Hain Taming Boated, for about an hour, but there were 530 Chinese passengers on board the vessel and a panic started which quickly spread, the men running about and interfering uninten- tionally with attempts at rescue.

A great many of the passengers umped into the water, but the majority went down vessel.

with the

The drain Meru and a number of junks reached about a hundred of the victims of the disaster, but. even of these great many died of cold and exposure.

cision.

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STATE BANQUETS IN JAPAN.

RETURN TO TOKYO.

·CONCLUSION OF THE

ENTHRONEMENT,

(THйOCOH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

Exoro, Nov. 10th.

Correspondence Attached. The attachment of the wireless correspondence alleged to have been Exchanged between Capt. Carey of the Festris and the agents of Lam- port, and Holt in regard to the situation aboard the Festris has heen ordered for the purposes of the Federal investigation of the

disaster.

With regard to Articles 79 and

Labour Protocol. 71, which occasioned the severance of the Radical-Socialista from the

Lord Cushendun, who is Acting former Ministry, the Government Foreign Secretary and the present

British engage, on its own respon

Tepresentative to missionaries will be loyally discuss ferred Lord Parmoor to statements ed with the shortest possible delay, which he had already made on this

with the national interest. and will be resolved in accordance subject.

He repudiated Lord Parmoor's The declaration shows that big submission that if the protocol international negotiations for the proposed by the Labour Govern- Ten bodies have so far been rest are on ine reparation Froment had been accepted, every- blems are now in progress, and are thing else would have followed suc covered.

proceeding favourably.

cessfully. lieved if the protocol had unfor-

On the contrary he be sunately been carried, so far from helping disarmament, we should have had to increase our naval and military forces in order to be in a position to make good Habilities under that instrument..

years.

Just Too Late.

Five minutes after the lifeboat Bea in the most had put to treacherous weather, a message was received on shore that the crew of the Alice had been rescued by the German sa Smyrna, and that no further assistance was required. «

Points Of Lavastigation. Twenty-two bodies of victims of the l'estris disaster have been "re- covered and brought in by the three destroyers engaged in the searchi Some of the vodies were found en tungled-among-the-wreckage-of-the-ing-its-occupants-in-the-waves ship, and among them is that of Major Yoshio Inouye, who was to have taken up a diplomatic post at Buenos Aires.

The lifeboat continued its battle unaware of this and crashed on a

Madame Inouye, who was rescu-

condition.

Over sixty witnesses have been subpoenaed to attend the Federal Inquiry into the disaster, which opened to-day.

sandbank, overturning and bury

Struggling In The Surf. Watchers on the cliffs who sàw the lifeboat capsize, raced to the

news and doctors, nurses and first aid men raced to a gap in the cliffs leading to the shore.

The Cabinet also commits itself to a promise to work powerfully for the rational organisation of world peace.

Reparations."

The most important passage in the statement of policy of the new Poincaré Cabinet, refers to repara- tions.

It says that there now seems to be no further obstacle to the ap- pointment of experts to a round- table conference for discussion of the whole question, thorough

-and-the-Government are-of-the

opinion that the negotiations will be brought to a. successful con- clusion.

It adds that the destinies of

depend upon a satisfactory settle- ment of the reparations question.

Government's Efforts.

our

Continuing, Lord Cushendun said this country had given every possible demonstration of its desire to go to any possible, length in the disarmament. He entirely attempt to reach an agreement on

re-

pointed any içen that the back- ward position in regard to dia- armament, which he regretted as much as Lord Parmoor, was due in any way of the acts or omissions of the present Government.

Eilateral Treaties.

The statement adds that the new

The only point of disagreement Government proposes to subor between himself and Lord Parmoor dinake every question before the was as to what were the most effec country to the restoration of French Banners.

Te-day, shortly before nooz, was ed, now lies in hospital in a serious little village of Rye with the dread France and Europe may very well held the Erst of the two state banquets marking the successful conclusion of the auspicious events of the past few days. The second wül take place tomorrow, after which other banquets, and celebra- tions of various kinds will follow: These will continue until the 36th of this month, when Their Imperial Majesties will

out on their

set

REORGANISED SERVICE OF return journey to Tokyo.

SALT LOANS.

CUSTODY OF FUNDS.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY. }

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NANKING. Nov. 18th.

The Return.

The principal points of the in vestigation will be the numerous reports from the survivors and the crew that the door leading to the coalbunkers was found open and that the sea poured through with | such volume that it could not be shut, resulting in fatal fooding: "the stories of shifting curgo; the possibility of weak bulkheads; the ineffective launching of ill-equip ped life-boats; and alleged delay in sending out on. S.O.S. pl.

Senator Fletcher has announced that he is prepared to ask for a Congressional Inquiry into the disaster and meanwhile, Messrs. Lamport and Holt have begun their own private, examination of the Festris.

MEXICO'S. NEW PRESIDENT. PRONOUNCED LABOÚR ·

A human chain was formed and the men ran out to sea up to their necks in the boiling surf, while volunteers fought to rescue the floating dead bodies from a Chan- nel grave,

Some little time later, the wreck- ed lifeboat itself was hurled ashore by the waves with two of the dead crew lying underneath it.

The storm was such that the Hastings lifeboat, which is not equipped with motor, ዝ... unable to put out to the wreck of the ice although they had also observed the distress signals.

BRITAIN'S GIFT-TO

NORWAY.

LONELY ISLAND IN THE ANTARCTIC.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

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M: Poincaré said that he expect ed the Chamber to dispose of inter pellations to-night and to begin the discussion of the Budget "to-

morrow.

France's Policy.

tive and feasible methods for the peaceful settlement of disputes. The. Government preferred the method of bilateral treaties, or re- gional treaties, to those larger Instruments which were left open for signature by any State which He submitted that came along. Lord Parmoor had utterly failed to substantiate the charge in his motion.

The motion was defeated by 33 votes to 10.

In the course of the debate," M. Poincaré reaffirmed his recent out- line of the formula by which France would conduct her side of the reparations discussions, name. ly, an acceptance of a settlement which would allow her to pay her creditors in the United Kingdom MOST BAFFLING DISEASE. and the United States, with an annual payment for reparations in addition,

The Chamber passed u vote of confidence in the new Government by 330 votes to 128.

The Radical-Socialista abstained from the vote of confidence.

DIFFICULTY OF DIAGNOSING SLEEPY SICKNESS:

ARE DOGS AFFECTED?,

In the treatment and dingnosis of encephalitis, lethargicn' (sleepy

The main events during this intervening period will be the visit of the Emperor and Empress - to the Grand Shrine at Ise on the seth, to report to the Sun Goddess. that the accession ceremonies have "been completed, and their visit to the mausoleum of Jimmu Tenno, Mr. T. V. Soong's statement on the ault regulations recalls the

the first Emperor "of Japan, at purposes for which the Gabelle was Unebi on the 23rd. Similar visits Italy, created.

It continues While will be paid to the mausolea of the service of the Reorganisation the Emperors Ninko and Komsi. Loan itself has always been met the 120th and 121st Emperors of from the Customs surplus, other Japan, on the 24th; and to the mausoleum of the great. Emperor loans consolidated under the rear- ganisation loan agreement will be Meiji at Momoyama on the 93th. Fully met by the Ministry of Finance,

On the occasion of each of these However, it has been found visits. Their Imperial Majesties necessary to revise the regulations will be accompanied by a military governing the administration in escort and special rites of worship order to make it effective. The will be performed. Finally, after part of the Nationalist Government leaving Kyoto on the 20th and under the exclusive control of the breaking the journey at Nagoya

MEXICO CITY, Nov. 16th. Ministry of Finance inspectorate where they will spend the night, will no longer be entrusted with the Emperor and Empress, to

The progressive labour views of Gil, the President-Elect of Mexico, the custody of the funds, except gether with their personal retinue are set out in the projected legis. those provided by the Minister of of princes and princesses, rituallation submitted for the approval Finance to meet the service of theists, high officials and others, will of the National Congress of Work- enter Tokyo in state the following ers and Employers. The legislation The Minister of Finance assumes full responsibility for making ade day, and the elaborate ceremonies provides for an elaborate system of marking the accession of the Em arbitration courts, an eight hour quate provision for lean services.

Mr. T. V. Soong has appointed peror to the Throne will be brought day and a six day week, compare the Frenchman, Captain Bouvet, Exhibition, held in Great Britain baffled by that, too, for we get

SHANGHAI, Nov. 16th. The Auto Mia states that it is learned from C. T. Wang, the Foreign Minister, that the new Norwegian

giving tresty

tariff autonomy to Ching was sigued on November 13th by C. T. Wang and N. Ast, the Norwegian Charge d'Affaires. The text will be gub lished on November 10th in Oslo and Nanking.

T. Wang added that negotin.

tions for similar agreements ars

proceeding with the British, French, Belgian, Italian, Dutch and Portu guese representatives, and success ful results are expected soon.

MILITARY CONFERENCE.

(THROUGH.REUTER'S AGENCY.)

SHANGHAI, NOV: 16th. Chiang Kai-Shek is issuing in- "vitations to the commanders of the various military groups to an im

conference at "portant military

He Nanking on December 1st. hopes to induce them to agree to the reorganisation of all armies on national lines.

AUTOCRATIC POWER.

(ah Tu Fat Pao).

loans.

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Liu Tsung Yi as Chief Inspector of Salt and Mr. Hussey Freke as Associate Chief Inspector. The Chief Inspector, Mr. Liu, has been in the Customs for fourteen years!

LIU HSIANG'S BRIDGE OF BOATS.

{THROUGH REUTEL'S AOENCY.} According to a British Naval wireless message, the bridge of boats which served as a line of re- treat for Liu Heiang, is again in position at Chungking, the Treaty port 1,400 miles from the sea. This bridge is placed across Little River, one of the Yangtaze's tributaries.

Liu Hsiang, it is thought, has put his bridge of boats up again, on account of Yaag Sen's advance LADY MISSIONARY SHOT.

BRITISH LEGATION'S

PROTEST.

to a conclusion by grand naval and military reviews a few days later.

MOVEMENTS OF NAVAL VESSELS.

INAVAL WIRELEES.)

H.M.S. Concord is due to leave Portsmouth to-morrow for Hong Kong with reliefs for the Chinn Station. The warship is due here. on January 5th.

VIEWS.

PROJECTED LEGISLATION, (REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]"

sory insurance, workmen's compen-. sation and minimum wage scales. It also provides that every able- bodied citizen must learn a trade or profession and seventy per cent. of the workers in every factory must be Mexicans.

Movements to-day. include the de- parture of the transport Somerset- site, which sailed for Singapore at 6 am. H.M.S. Berwick left|** Karatsu today for Miyajima.

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H.M.S. Serapis arrived at Foo- thow on Thursday, H.M.S. Corn forer left Nimrod Sound on the samo day for Hong Kong.

H..S. Hermes and H.M.9. Seraph returned to harbour-yester. day from exercises.

HMS. Suffolk, left Nagasaki on Thursday for Beppu, while H.M.S. Kent, flying the lag of the Com- mander-in-Chief, China Station;- arrived at Kagoshima from Shang hai on the same day.

SHANGHAI, Nov. 10th. Mrs. Lino Chung Kai, a leader of the Left Clique, has proposed that the Central Kuomintang, Nas. king, should withdraw its previous resolution to appoint half of the number of Kuomintang delegates. from all Kuomintang branches to attend the coming Third National Conference of Kuomintang Mem-

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENDY,] bers." She declares that the ap

PEKING, Nov. 18th. pointment of loent Kuomintang delegates by the Central Euomia-The British Legation has re- tang means that it holds complete ceived confirmation of à report authority over all Kuomintang that an English Baptist mission- members, and this is contrary to ary, Miss Grace Mann, was shot".... The democratic spirit adathematicadead by laadita on, November 19th whilst travelling between, Taiyuan- ope to her propositon the ranh Sinchow. The dental sepen In reply Central Kuomintang council has sentations are being made to the promised-to-consider this question. Chinese authorities

BELGIAN MINISTER AT PEKING.

Drogenoplove

The Belgian Minister to Peking has been created Baron.

"MILLIONAIRE SHIP. OWNER'S TAXES.

SIR WT. COCKERLINE'S

HEALTH.

(THROUGE BEPTER'S AGENCY. ] · .

LONDON, NOV, 10th. Mr. Winston Churchill, in the House of Comunions, stated that in view of the serious condition of Sir W. T. Cockerline's health à wolle prunegui was likely to be en- tered by the Attorney-General when the case was brought up at the forthcoming Newcastle assizes.

"THE GRAND-FASCIST- COUNCIL.

ITALIAN CONSTITUTION

Ruday, Nov. 15th The Norwegian Minister in Lon don has been informed that the British Government is prepared to waive ite claim to Bouvet Island and will raise no objection to its annexation by Norway.

Bouvet is u. small island, five miles by four, in the Antarctic Ocean and is one of the most isolated group of islands in the word Within a radius of 1,000 nautical miles there is no other land.

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AIRCRAFT EXHIBITION AT sickness) we are up against tremen

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OLYMPIA.

AN EVENTFUL, YEAR.

[unirian WIRELESS SERVICE]

dously puzzling features all along the line" declared Miss K. May- Atkinson, in a lecture at the Char- tered Society of Massage and Medical Gymnastics Congress.

In fact," she added, it is one of the most hating of all diseases

RUGBY, Nov. 15th. An International Aircraft Ex-with which we have to deal. There hibition will be held at Olympia, has been a great deal of controversy London,. from July 18th to 97th as to whether encephalitis lethargica is a form of influenza or whether it next year. It is being organised

is associated with influenza. Constructors. by the Society of British Aircraft

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Mental Changes, Beferring to the mental changes in a child after he had recovered from an stack of sleepy sickness, Miss May-Atkinson said that thiev ing and lying tendencies and even homicidal and suicidal tendencies were displayed.

All I can say is that the more The island was first sighted by

The last International Aircraft I see of influenza, the more I am was in 1920, since when great pro- different type every year. The con- in 1730, and has frequently been

census of opinion is that influenza rediscovered, notably by the Enggrese has been made in design as lishman, Captain Norris, in 1820,

well as in speed and endurance, has nothing to do with sleepy sick- when the British flag, was hoisted The Exhibition will be thoroughly ness.". upon it. The faland has never representative of all phases of been inhabited and has been seldom aeronautics. approached by vessels,

Considerable. interest is being Norwegians landed there a year shown by foreign aircraft and

constructora, so ago, and it is understood aircraft-engine that they wish to. use it as a whal-well as by foreign Governments. ing depot.

The wisdom of selecting next year for the. Exhibition in ap parent when it is realised that in 1929 many important aircraft events will take place within Great Britain. For example, the next Schneider Cup Race will be held in British waters next year.

SALVATION ARMY LEADER.

CLAIMANTS FOR HIS POST?

{THROUGH RETTER'S AGENCY.]

POLITICAL MANOEUVRES

IN JAPAN.

BEIYUKAI PARTY ENLISTE SUPPORT.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

OSAKA, Nov. 18th..." Newspapers report that the Seiyukai Party has succeeded in entrenching itself securely for the coming session of.. Parliament by enlisting the support of the Isshin- kai-a small Party of seven parlia mentarians.

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"We have all to face this great problem in the future," she con tinued. We shall have an 40- ormous number of children who will be called criminals unless you and I say that something must be done to prevent it. Public opinion must agitate for more institutions up and down the country for the treat- ment of these cases,

In the discussion which followed a member raised the question of o new disease which was manifesting itself among dogs in Hampshire. The symptoms were described as somewhat similar to the symptoms in certain cases of sleepy sickness among human beings. In some >J'oners "the dogs tore around almost as if they were mad and they show!

Misa May-Atkinson said she bad

LONDON, Nov. 18th To-night's bulletin regarding the condition of General Booth states: The General. had a restful day and is holding his own.

The High Council of the Balva

The understanding is announced as a result of agreement on Japan's China policy, which the Isshinkai Party discussed last night with tion Army have been summoned to ed signs of terror as well. Mr. Kuhara, the Minister of Commeet in London early in January heard of the new disease, and they

CHANGED.

(THROUGH AKUTAN'S LOENOT.)

ROME, Nov. 15th. munications. bate by 181 votes to 19 Much political-manoeuvring bas has passed a resolution in favour been going on at Kyoto Unika the Grand Bacon Coun while leading naliticians were cil among the organs of the Cox-gathered there on the occasion of stitution

the enthronement of the Emperor,

The International Headquarters in London-issued a statement to-day were calling it influenza and frente decirring that the diessions in ing the dogs with aspirin Sh* the Press regarding supposed could not say whether there was any claimants to the Lieberditbip drevention between the discuss and premature, if not, indeed, absurd.sleepy sickness in human beings.