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TELEGRAMS.

"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH"

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Plague in the Shamien

AT CANTON.

{From Our Own Correspondent.)

ANTON, 10th June,

3.5 p.m. The European concession at Sha- mien. Canton, which has been kept scrupulously clean, and which so far has enjoyed complete immunity from plazue, records the first case in the the person of Mr. Pasquet. Jr., of the firm of Messrs. F. Pasquet & Co., silk merchants and commission agents.

The Kwangsi Rebellion.

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PLACLE AND THE FLAA THEORY.

There is still a great

Seven years have almost past since Bombay city was convulsed by the first appearance of plague, but the ascertained facts with regard to the spread of the disease are, for all practical purposes, wil deal ol abstract speculation proceeding amongst medical nen ani scientists, and a number of plaus.ble theories built on close observation, but we remain without a single generaliz nion which promises to yield any ex- act knowledge. But repeated failures have not emirely discouraged the diligent workers who are endeavouring to kft the veil. From time to time the courageous thinkers come forward with new theories, site them before competent judges, see them ruthlessly criticised out o existence, and return to the laboratory to work anew. The most noteworthy of these attempts to fathom the works of plague is that of Captain W. Glen Liston, M.D., LMS, who discoursed with a striking amount of plausibility of the flea being responsible for much of our troubles. On the accepted troth of the axiom that prevention is better than cure, a consider. able amount of study has been devoted to the inquiry of how plagne spreads. Were it possible to explore the main channel along which the infective influence flows the best half of the battle would be won, but so far no theory has come near filling the whole of the

The China Merchants', Steam Navi gation Company's steamer Toman has arrived with over nine hundred troops for Viceroy Tseng, who is tests which must be applied to it. Captán reported to be hurrying down from | Gion Listau's fea hypothesis, as put forward the North in order to conduct opera. in his paper published in the last number of tions to quel the disturbances in the nicely, is striking and supported by a mass of Province of Kwangsi. The troops careful observation, and, if not entirely con- are sent down from Hankow.-

vincing on first acquaintmice, at least opens up an avenue of research which shold be ex bassted before any final verdict as pronounced

The New Acting Viceroy of the Two Kwang, H.E. Tsin Chun-hsuen, passed through K'uci choufu, Szeclusan, on the 19th May, and was expected to arrived at chang, Hupeh, on or abut the 8th instant. 1ster advices state that to meet the emergency the Viceroy designate of the Two Kwang was not going to call at Shanghai, but was coming, direct Shoth.

Owing to the activity of the insurgents in the prefectures and districts in Kwangtung, which ajo us on the officials of that part of the latter province are on the alert for fear that the Cantonese may cross the bouter. The Gover

or of Human has further despatched two thou- sand and live handred troops to the borders.- Ed., HAT.]

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The Loss of the “Liban.”

the journal of the Ronsbay Medical and Physical

an its value.

It seems to be established that the common de of extrance of the plague bacillus into the human organism is through the skin in the bubonic and septicemic forms of plague. This is the common furat of infection. You may acquire plague through the mouth, or, pharynx or other channels, but such cases are

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For the moment Mr. Dooley represents Americ in humour. We have had his "Philo.

attack than experienced last year. It is scarcely possible that fleas could develop suddenly the energy necessary to bring about such results, and annually at a given point diminish the attack. At the original discussion of the paper, Major Bannerman raised the point that in cer- tain expriments fleas had failed to carry disease sophy" and his "Opinions," and his most recent from one susceptible animal to another, and, further, considered the experience of the plague.nouncements appear in book form as his hospitals in Bombay and elsewhere antagonis in large doses, or the peculiar trish-American "Observations." His books must not be taken ic. He said, "Unless it can be proved that dialect grows wearisome. He comes before the fleas are absent from hospitals, this theory public across the Atlantic in instalments, as the must fall to the ground. Prima facie, it seeins very improbable that hospitals full of patients rate of a column at a time in the newspapers. and their unwashed friends should be free from This is how Mr. Dooley should be read. A fleas.'

"Another thought that chapter before dinner, and perhaps another later in the evening, and one appreciates him occurs to me is that in the days of house-to- house visitation, hundreds of susceptible people all the more. But do not read him as ont must have daily visited plague inflected rooms,

would a novel. In the present volume he dis. courses on thirty-seven topics, varying from and become thus covered with vermin of various kinds, and yet one seldom heard ofcases of plague "Sherlock Holmes" to "Swearing," and "King among them." These are undoubtedly hard Edward's Coronation to the "Rights and fences for Captain Glen Liston to get over, Privileges of Woman. He is as shrewd and but they by no means annihilate the possibility amusing as ever, but indulges less in ferocious of a considerable amount of truth in his clever gibes. The Sage of Archery Road has a keen assumption. 'l'be chain of presumptive eye for the little weaknesses of people and evidence extends a long way and is wonder- nations, and beneath his jest and exaggeration fully complete, and the probability that it may

there is many a home truth, If he pokes fun at the Britisher and the Germ in he dies not be atumately discovered that vermin is at least

trust he will give the public the results of bis further observations.

"But crime," says Mr. Dooty, is a pursoot iv th simple minded-that is entchable cime is a purscot iv th' simple-minted. Th' other kind, the unentchable kind that is look up be men iv intelict is called high fi-nance."

During his summer season at Newport, Mr. Dooley admitted that he suffered from “onwee, which is th' same thing as ingrowin' money." autymobillin'" or whether he had "three or tin "millyon dollars in me pants pocket in the morning? It was only his idea of the monkey that saved him.

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Dooley does not quite fike modern bustle, and the progress of machinery. He thinks that 10-day norace Greely, were he alive, would be "settin' on three inches in the educ iv a chair in th' outside office iv me friend Pierpont Morgan waitiu' f'r this urn."

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"A cow goes lowin' softly into Armours an' comes out glue, beef gelatine fertylizer, celooloid, joolry, sofy cushions, hair restorer, washin' sody, soap, fishrachoor, an' bed springs one of my agencies for spreading the spare his own people. His remarks on the

so quick that while aft she's still cow, forlard disease. The inquiry is proceeding, and weippines and Cuba expuse the weak spots

she may be anything fr'm buttons to l'annyma and the inconsistencies of American policy, hats. I can go frm Chicago to New York in whilst his satirical account of his doings at twinty hours, but 1 don't have to, thank th' Newport does not conceal the failings of the

Lord. Thirty years ago we thought was mar- velous to be able to llygraft a man in Saint THE KASHMIR SILK INDUSTRY.moneyed aristocracy of the States. Mr. Dooley's Joe an' get an answer that night. Now, be&c.,

skit upon Governor Tali's report on the 'hilip wireless llygraft ye can get an answer beftre pines is delightful. Eeverything there is per-ye sind th' Oftygram if they an't careful. We fecily quiet. "Th' people are goin' ahead, friend Macron has done that." garnerin' the products in the sile, sindia' their childer to shool, worshipping on Sundal in the churches and thanking Hiven for the blessings iv free government an' th' pro-tiction iv th' flag above them." It is indeed a charin- ang spot:

"We de make pro-giess, but it's th' same kind Julyus Caesar made a vry wan has made befire ar sin.e un' in this age iv masheenery we're still berid be hand.". Donley is very amusing, and hits off the On the subject of newspaper publicity Mr.

methods of the American yellow journals, "We march through life an' behind us marches the phottygrafter an' th' rayporther.

If we wasn't so anxious See our names among those prisint at th' ball, we wudden' That ought to be prisint in the dock.

get into th' pa-apers so oken as among those

The silk industry run by the Kashmir Darbu is advancing with rapid strides, ard, thanks to European management, is growing to be an enormous enterprise and promises to be not only a source of substantial revenue to the State, but a factor of phenomenal prosperity to the people. Kashmir, as is generally known, is a land of Nature's bounty and named the

I turn to th climate. It is simply hivenly, Festile, Among much else that favoured soil

No other worrad describes it. A white man produces luxuriantly is die mulberry tree-the

who goes there seldom rayturns unless the food par exceilance of the silk comm. Several bereaved family insists. is just right. years of feeble, half-informed, indigenous efforts

winter inough rain, in summer plenty iv heat. were spet to take advantage of this happy Gin'rally speakin' when the thropical sky starts .circumstance in order to rear the silkworm for rainin' it doesn't stop till its imply, so th' coun- comparatively rare. The fist establishert fact the market, but for want of organisation the thry is not subjected to the sudden changes is that the germ is punctured into the skin. balling exercise was never renumerative, and that affict more northerly climes. Whin it Having got so far, the next thing is to look for the indelent villagers could see nothing in it to rais, it rains; whin it shines, it shines, it an agency capable of performing this function, spire within him dreams of avarice. The shines. Th' wather frequently remains in th and of working the devastation which is the pri introduction, however, of 'expert European air af ther th' sun has been shinin' a month or cipal feature of outb eaks of plague. Captain management under State control, galvanised more, th' earth bein' a little overcrowded with Loxpox, 8th June, Glen Liston thinks he has discovered n in therat

the industry to such a considerable extent, that juice au this give the stmosphere a certain Two hundred to two hunkel and fifty | Rea Told in easy form, his theory amounts to

at present Kashmir silk is now being woven in cosiness that is indescribable. A light green people were on board of the Liban of whom this: Ra's become infected with plague, and enormous quantities ou Continental looms. I mould grown on th' clothes an' is very becomin'. was soon found by the management that s ik- I met a man on th' boat comin' back who said it is believed one half have perished. The rats are intested with a flea, pules pillidus. The barillus of plague is easily recovered from

worm could not for some climatic or other was th' finest winter climate in th' wurruld. steamer sank in twenty minutes; a panic or

theken ff a plague rat. Fleas, presum-

reason be bred in Kashmir, but once the curred among the passengers, who were alable, s read plague am ngst rats.

He was be profission a rubber in a Turkish Dead rats

egg was introduced the worm could be reared bath. As fr th summers they are delicious. lunch when the steamers collided, and who

cease to be infective when they have been therefrom quile successfully. A large 'im- Th' sun doesn't sit lost above th' jools in 'th' endeavoured to seize the boats only one of deserted by their parasites. Plague can passportation of eggs from Italy was accordingly Passylic. It comes down and mingles with th' which was lowered; many persons were from infected rats to other animals which have aranged, and the supply is now renewed people. Ye have heard it said th isles was picked up by the boats of steamers in the not come directly in 'contact with them; fleas | annually at a very small cust, as the eggs them- kissed be th' sun. Perhaps bitten wud be a vicinity.

selves are cheap and the freight inconsiderable | better wurrud, But th' timprachoor is re- in view of the small bulk and weight of the consigaments. These eggs are distributed annually from the central depot at Srinagar to the villages in the valley for many miles around and the silkworm is there reared on mulberry leaves. The work is so light and so simple that once the directious issued to the villagers from the head depit have been grasped, women and children can carry it on with ease in their liesure, and thus the ordinary agricultural pursuits of the valley remains en-

The Floods in America.

It is estimated that the floods in America have rendered homeless 25,000 and sub merged 200,000 acres offertile farms. Martial law has been proclaimed at St. Louis to pre vent looting.

which infest rats will transfer themselves as

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parasites to men. Here you have a train of “The collision which occurred in sunshine-sation-established, nt-first-sight adequate to and a calm sea was apparently due to each convey plague from tat to man, although it commences after rat is infected, and implies Captain persisting in his course expecting that the first cause Ees with the flex, ar the other to deviate.

untenable theory, we believe. Following the line of argument closely, we have plazus in the rat fles, and the flea has transferred itself to man. Examination of many plague cases favours the idea that infection may result from the biles of these insects rather than front any skin abrasion, as phlycteaules are most comtirely uninterfered with. The profits are in man just in the situ ujons which are most sub. ject to attacks by fleas. Briefly stated, that is Captain Glen Liston's case, and he is able to harmonize with it a considerable amount of evidence recording the possible manner in which people have become plague infected. Oe case quoted is that in which twenty men were employed to remove dead plague rats, and ten lied. Others, who did not handle the rats, but worked where they were found, did not.

The Forest Fires in Canada, &c.

The forest fires in Canada and New England continue and are particularly at arming in the Canadian maritime provinces. Around Quawa and Montreal the people in the lumbering villages are seeking refuge at Nulldains.

fact in the nature of additional pocket-money for the villagers-pocket-money which often amounts to much more than all their earnings. put together. When the cocoon has been finally open the silk is gathered in and carried to the great factory at Srinagar, where it is worked up by means of up-to-date Furopean machinery into silk thread ready for export to Continental weavers. To old residents of Ka hmir an unique spectacle is presented on a

men, and women and children carrying raw silk from the villa, es into Srinagar, Thousands of mands of the stuff are being brought in, and a simple villager may receive as much as two bundred rupees in payment for his own contribution of silk. So far as the Durbar is concerned the pr. fits netted this year amount, as we are informed, to about six lakhs of rupees, which represents a return of something like co per cent. on the capital expenditu e. his profit is, of course, quite in addition to the enormous carnings of the villagers. What is more the enterprise is now growing rapidly in magnitude and altogether Kashmir seems to be in for a good thing. The enthusiasin of the reposeful villagers has been fairly excited, and her ale becoming more and more keen to participate in the gam. Times of India,

vrybody is intherested in what ivrybody else is doin' what's wrong. That's what mares th' newspapers.

Some goes in at Mrs. Rasher's dinner an' some as st" D'ye think peoples th' newspapers iv y clips is a throlley car, but ferybody land at th' prisini tine?" asked Mr. Hennessy.

"D'ye think they're printed fr fun?" said Mr. Donley.

Dooley does not believe in swearing-" not as a reg'lar thing" but it is essential to some

trades:-

"No man can be a printer without swearin'. 'Tis impossible, I mind wanst I wint to printin' office where a frind iv mine be th' name iv Donovan beld cases..... Ivrybody swore at ivrybody else. Th' little boys runnin' around with type praitled innocent profanity an' afther thin aurybody else. But 'twas aisy to see he'd awhile th' iditor come in an' he swore more not learned th' thrade iv printer. He swore with th' enthusyasın an inacc'racy iv an amac- boor, though I'mus' say he had his good pints. I wish I cud saymimber hat it was he called th' Czar iv Ronshya f'r dyin' jus' as th' paper was goin' to press. I cud 've often used it quently modified be an eruption iv th' neigh-sin e. But it's slipped me mind." borin volcanoes athithraduction-iv-A-men-

can stoves. At night a coolin' 'breeze from

the crater iv a volcano makes sleep possible in a hammock swung in th' ice-box. It is also very pleasant to be able to cok one's dinner within wan!

Mr. Dooley has a hit at some of the Ameri can metho's of "pacification," including the "watercure." Nor is he afraid of contrasting the new pulity with that of the Spaniards. "I was talkin," he says, "with a Spanish gintleman the other day who had been away fr a long time, an' he said he wudden't know th' country. Even th' face iv th' people in the streets had changed. They seemed glad to see him.”

An amusing chapter is that in which Mr. Douley explains to his friend Hennessy who Sherlock Holmes is :-

Holmes. I'm settin here in me little parlor We'll suppose, Hinnissy, that I'm Sherlock

wearin'a dhressin' gown an' now an' thin pokin' Ye

come in, "Good-mornin', Walson."

Hinnissy."

There are lots of good things in Mr. Dooley's

"Observations louches which remind one of Mark Twain and Artemus Ward. Mr. Doo- tey should be in every library. A little taken now and then makes a plea ant relaxation.

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[A single issue of the New York Timer, that of May 2, contains reports of extensive fires in the Adirondacks, in Connection, in Pennsylvania and in Canada, which burned farmhouses, mining settlements and sailway suffer. The throry finds additional support in fine morning, of an erorious process'on of mesilf full iv morpheen. Here we are. bridges. A report from Norfolk, Conn, told of the failure of those warlier speculations which a fire sweeping a country two miles wide and exercised the public mind when plague first ten miles long, and still barning at the Gme of the report. In the Adirondacks the fires had broke out. We are informed that bacteriological been burning for week before they were ex- evidence is uniform in maintaining that plague tinguished by a heavy snowstorm. A fire near germs, naturally or artificially placed on soil. Willamsport, Pa, swept over a wide region, clothing or grain, rapidly disappear, or at least, destroying saw-mills and lumber valued at more than $2,0:0,0:0, besides the homes of cannot be recovered fram these substances Iumbermen and a number of farmkouges. A even a few days after infection. Having thus report from Oil City tells of a fire devastating far established the fea thenry, Caplain Glen farm lands as well as forests and burning a number of oil plants and sawmills-Ed., Liston deals with the seasonal prevalence of H.K. T

plague, a curious characteristic, and particularly in Bombay, which has added con iderably to the mystery. The visitations have invariably taken place between the months of December and May. In the year 1920 wa had twn epidemics in twelve months, the second cons

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Gernan Consular Changes. Herr Lyburg, German Consul General al Batavia, has been transferred to Yokohamia replacing Herr Coates, who has been ap pointed Minister at Bangkok.

The Japanese Squadron in Australia, The Japanese bluejackets, who took part in a review at Sydney with the British naval force, were greatly cheered,

The French in Morocco. French Antillery hai bombarded Fignig for two hours.

To the British Government and to the tea planters of Ceylon is due the simplification of the Chinese methods of culture and curing of

mencing in July, an abnormal development which has not since been rpeated. Captain Glen Liston urges that these seasonal attacks: can be more easily accounted for by the greater prevalence of some intermediary host of the plague bacillus after the same manner as the prevalence of malaria is asociated with the prevalence of certain species of an

opheles. He says: I have been informed

by several people, chiefly natives, that the plague season in Bombay corresponds with the maximum prevalence of fleas, This is an doubtedly true of r. fleas, for they are most numerous at the rat-breeding season," that is, the early months of the year.

tea. The first great step forward was made when they declared that the system employed by Christendom in the growing of all economic

It is at this point that the theory is least plants applied perfectly to tea. The proclama convincing. It is only necessary examine tion was received with considerable doubt by many alleged experts, and yet the views pro the plague charts outlining the progress of the claimed might have been formed by any one various epidemics to discover material diffi familiar with Oriental agriculture, In the East, culty to fit in with this generalization. In the says an American writer, a plough is a stick of wood, which merely scratches the surface of

months of January, February and March the the soil. It does not reach deep enough to plague mounts rapidly up to a high rate of permit the rains to soak the earth thoroughly, mortality, and as mysteriously comes toppling and the farmer is, therefore, compelled to use. down again in April and May. These pheno- the hot and mattock constantly, and to irrigate mena have mostly been associated with the whenever the weather is dry for three or four advent and disappearance of the cold weather, days. With an American plough and the cul- tivator of the West one man and two horses and it is true that the fine closely follows the line can do the work of a hundred tea coolies and of the thermometer. This year there has been achieve far better results.

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Bar Silver...... things together with me thrained faculty fr observation an' deduction, d'ys mind. Says 1 to mesill: This must be Hinnissy.' But mind ye, th' chain iv circumstances is not complete. It might be some was disguised as ye. So says tamesif;" will throw this newcome, whoiver he is, off his guard, he callin' him be a strange name! Ye wudden't feel complimented, Hinnissy, if ye knew who Watson is, Watson knows even less than ye do. He don't know annything, an' annything he knows is wrong. THE PERSIAN GULF.

He has to look up his name in th' parish raygisther before he can speak to himself. He's Professor Vambery publishes in the Zr a great frind iv Sherlock Holmes, an' if an article upon Fussian plans in Southern Sherlock Holmes var loses him he'll find him Persia, and discussing recent developments, in th' nearest sayum f'e dh' feeble-minded. But concludes that Russia evidently intends to sel I surprised ye'er secret out iv ys. Thrawn off her foot on the shores of the Persian Gulf and ↑ ye'er guard be me innocent question, ye popped to connect Bunder Abbas with Khorasan or out I'm Hinnissy an' in a flash i guessed with the Transcaspian railway. But such a who ye were. He th' same pro ess iv raisonin' project is not easy of realization, England, ❘ be deduction, I can tell ye that ye were home moreover, world in no circumstances passively las' night in bed, that ye're on ye'er way to allow Russia to plant himself so near the wurruk, an' that ye'er salary is two dollars a day. Indian frontier. If Russia adds Professor I know ye were at home las' night because ye Vambrey, has found it convenient to turn the arre always at home, between iliven an' sivin Caspian into a Russian lake, England has a bur Pathrick's night,'an' ye'er wife basn't been inuch better right to regard the Persian Gulf, in look? Pr ye. I know ye're on yelar way te as an integral part of the Indian Ocean and to wurruk because I heered e'er dinner pail jingle assure the supremacy of the British flag in its as ye step ed softly in I know ye get two water. The great sacrifices which England dollars a day because ye tol' me ye get three an has made to keep orler in the Gulf since I dedunced thirty-three an' wan third per cent the downfall of the Portuguese and Dutch fr poetic license. 'Tis very simple. Ar-re those Captain Hutton, will be despatched as aboye

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