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AMERICAN ACTION IN THE

PHILIPPINES.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1901.

THE BRITISH'COAL SUPPLY.

Those who are by no means alarmists We read as follows:-The U.S. Commission must feel some misgiving when brought facé in the Philippines is determined to adopt more to face with the fact that during the last aggressive mensures towards treason, rebellion half-century the output of coal in the and edition in the archipelago, and a new act

United Kingdom increased more than four- bas just been promulgated, which is aimed fold. As there does not appear the least especially at insurgent smpathisors. The likelihood of any diminution of consump eighth section of this act reads:-Every person tion, a serious question presents itself qu to who shall utter seditious words or speeches, how long our coal measures can stand such write, publish, or circulate, scurrilous libels a drain if this country is to retain her Against the Government of the United States manufacturing supremacy, the supply of fuci must not only be plentiful bus at the lasular Governinent of the Philippine Islands, or which tend to disturb or obstruct cheap. It is in evidence that when the price of coals went up last year, some industries any lawful officer in executing his office, or

became crippled, owing to the previous profit- which tend to instigate others to cabal or meel together for unlawful purposes, or which sug.margin having disappeared." There are, doubt- gest or incite rebellious conspiracies orriols, or less, fine seams at lower levels, but the cost of which tend to stir up the people against the haulage to the surface increases in proportion lawful anthorities, or to disturb the peace of the to depth, and it will be an ill day for England community, the safety and order of the overwhen nothing but these reserves remain to be ment, or who shall Knowingly, conceal such evil practices, shall be punished by a fine, not, exceeding two thousand dollars or by imprison- ment not exceeding two years, or both, in the discretion of the court.

MALARIA AND THE MOSQUITO..

IS THE MOSQUITO ALONE TO FLAME? In the Indian Medical Gazette a note of some importance by the Malaria Committee of the Royal Society announces the discovery, in the planting district of the Duars, of two species of Anopholes (A. funestus and A. costalis), not previously described as occuring in Bengal Special interest attaches to the discovery from the fact that these are the two species of Anopheles which convey the malarial infection in tropical Africa; and it is noteworthy that the district of India in which they occur is that in which black-water fever is most prevalent. Captain W. Glen Liston contributes a highly interesting paper on a year's experience of the habits of Anapheies in the district of Ellichpur, where four varieties, described and figured in the paper, have been found to occur. The most important of the facts ascer tained are that Anopheles breeding-places were found during the rains in ditches and natural hollows in the ground, especially where the water was not more than two feet deep, in a few artificial.cement ponds in gardens, and very seldom in water-courses. Except in the absence of a free supply of water, the eggs hatch out within forty-eight hours after being laid. The larvae grow more or less rapidly according to their food-supply, which must in part at least consist of animal matter. Fish and frogs prevent the develop- ment of larve more by the destruction of the adult females when, they come to lay their eggs on the water than by actually eating 1arve. Malarial fever in the district, it may be added, has a well-defined seasonal varia- tion, the number of cases reaching its maxi- mum just at the close of the rains, and falling

to a minimum at the commencement of the hot weather.

THE EPPECT OF WATER.

Captain Leonard Rogers contributes a some- what controversial paper on "The effect of the silting-up a Lower Bengal River on the Pre-

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LIFE IN MONGOLIA 800 YEARS AGO.

A letter from Dr. Sven. Hedin to the King of Sweden has recently been published, in which the fist detailed account of his last! journey of exploration is given. This com munication, like the previous ones, sayı an exchange, was written at Charkalik, and is dated April 28th. Leaving Tumen Tagh, Sven Hedin went east-north-east via Lake Gasnar, and passed over the highest part of the mountain chain of Aka Tugh and Astin Tagh as far as Anambar, with a side trip to the Sirting Mongols, As is already known from his pre- vious letters, he went through the Desert of

He found that this desert is divided Gobi. from south to north in the following belts- Firstly, low and barren mountain chains ; secondly, sandbills; thirdly, kamish steppes- kamish is a kind of reed which also grows in great abundance in the Kirchis steppes.

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"Here," says the explorer, "we dug for water, and found some that, at a pinch, is After this we crossed, going con- potable. stantly, north, a system of low bill ranges running parallel east and west, a direct con- tinuation of Tien Shan and Kuruk Tagh. In this exceedingly lonely, barren, and moan. tainous country, where we wandered twelve Are now showing a large and varied assortment of materials suitable for ERNEST SIMONS, Captain Vaquier, with

whole days without finding a drop of water, and where our situation would have been very precarious if we had not been overtaken by. a snowstorm, the wild camel lives in lar, c herds. On the way I observed all the camel paths."

After this the explorer went to the spring Altamish Doghlak, which he visited last year, and thence travelled for two days in a southern direction to the ruins he discovered last year, but which, on account of the late season, he was unable to explore thoroughly. Of his journey he says, among other things:-

"I made excavations and excursions in the neighbourhood for a week, and discovered three more settlements and several country estates and houses built of burnt brick. In the interior of one of the brick buildings we found a dozen

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Spleen Test, and the Reduction of Malaria by filtered water." As regards the question of the effect of a filtered water-supply on the pre- valence of malaria, Captain Rogers combats the conclusion deduced by Colonel Giles from the figures in the Sanitary Reports for the North-West Provinces, that malaria has increased concidently with the intro- duction of a water-supply, and challenges, we think with justice, his assumption that the general death-rate is a fair criterion of the malarial death-rate, Further, he points out that, even on this assumption, the introduction of filtered water kas, in the majority of cases, caused a decrease in the prevalence of malaria. The result of his analysis of the figures for fever alone is, he claims, that while in four cases there has been an actual decrease of the fever death-rate since the supply of good water, fire out of the remaining six towns show a smaller increase of the fever death-rate than do the whole of the towns taken together, during the same period.

AN AYRICAN EXPERIENCE, In a London paper Dr. Carl Peters has been challenging the contention that the mosquito is the only agent in the distribution of Malaria. He says -Permit me to state that at my station on the Kilimandahaco we had no mos. quitoes whatever. Still, we had cases of malaria whenever we had the wind from Lake Dllpe. in this case, therefore, the contagion was carried by wind from the swampy water of Lake Djipe. In other cases I have found that malaria was effected by drinking stagnant. water. From my own experiences in Central Africa, I therefore cas only state that mos quitoes are one of the agente in the distribution! of malaria.

DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE.

Chinese script, and about a hundred fragments, together with 30 small staves of tamarisk wood, these also with Chinese letters, An educated Chinese says that the manuscript is a private letter, but that it mentions also a large highway Passing by here; and it further says that this district was called Lo. The small slaves ara partly visiting cards, and partly a kind of re- ceipt which the inhabitants had from the Gov-

ment for wheat and maize delivered to the Crown. The most remarkable thing is that nearly all the staves fare dated the same day.. The following date, for example, is found, the twenty-first of the eleventh month in the fifth Year of the Emperor Tashi's reign.' Hence I am able to ascer ain the exact age of these settlements. My Chinese says that they are 800 years old.

"Some Buddhist temples were alap die- covered in these settlements, one of which was especially well preserved. It must have been wonderfully beautiful in its time. Its walls

were decorated on the outside with carving, some of which I have brought with me, in the interior we found a statue of Buddha, whose dilapidated trunk we took with us. The temple looked towards the south, over the dentely- wooded shore of the old Lop or Lake. If doubts have hitherto been entertained in regard to the statement that these settlements were situated on the shore of lake long since dried

`up, proofs can now obtained that such a lake

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"A survey, lasting a week, was made of the desert between the old Lake Lop Nor and the new Kara Kozhiy, The distance between their northern shores ir eight kilometres, and the survey shows that the desert les in the same plain, with very small difference in altitude. Directly south of the ruins there is M.

sharp depression, where the bottom is on a level with the Kara Koshun This depression Recently thren Andaman bound convicts were doubtless represents the situation of the old being sent to Calcutta in charge of two Sikh Lake Lop Nor. The Lop Har problem has thus: warders; the party were travelling down in the been finally solved Owing to certain peculiari. Punjab mail. At Nimche, three miles before ties of the Kara Koshua basin I expressed the the train reaches Ranilgan, the convicts jumped opinion, at the end of my last journey, that out of the carriage window with bandcuffs and the basin of the lake extended northwards. Teg frans and with the train going at about forty. In the north a new lake bas already been odd miles an hour. The Sikhs promptly followed formed, extending forty kilometres in the suit, with the result that two of the jail-birds direction of the northern depression, and we were picked up dead, one of the warders with a required four days to go round this new sheet broken arm, another warder and the remaining of water, which changes its bed so rapidly that convict being none the worse. On the railway it seemed to me a great risk to pitch our tents' surgeon asking the Sikbe why they had risked on its shores. It receives no less than thirty their necks, they stoutly answered that they had two cubic metres of water a second from the eaten the government's salt and could Ap Kara Koshun." nothing else,

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