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A Terror from the East.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH 1:24. - 1914.

MOSQUITOES AND DISEASE.

WITH WHITE WOLF IN CAMP.

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The terror of the central pro Hampshi e, Durest, Wiltabire,

vinces, White Wolf, a very prines and Somerset on February 15 and Major Sir Ronald Ross lectured of brigands, ie forty-three years. 16. Armed with a revolverhe on 23rd uit. before the Institute Ho is not much to look at. compelled a chaulf drive of Public Hygiene, on "The Pre-ordinary kind of porson, abort him at racing paes

Aho fout vention of Mosquit -borne Dis- and atout, some say of Lim that counties, to the Ar of the leases," Sir Felix Simon being in he is quits a decent sort of fellow, people. By

diabing the the obair. Le outlined briefly and that it is his men who will revolver he ally scored off the historical researches by not obey him. Herein lies the ading the police, which it has ben proved character of the man. He is an Op him. Eventually that such diseases as malaria, arch-deceiver, and be deceives TO LET till 31st October TOLET-From April 1st. The he wel to his residencɔ Fellow fever, and dengue none more than his own men. 1914, No. 64, Lyndhurst, where the police are carried by the mosquito, and For instance, on entering a city, seven rooms and drying room, Voeux Road, Contral. Suitable subsequently arrested him. 1 sterillustrated his lecture partly by he gives his orders, "Plesce your furnished, including Electric fans on he was discovered with big cinematograph film and partly selves;" after leaving the placs and Telephone. throat cut in a cill at the lock up. br lantern slides. Among the when the work is done in the way TO LET No. 5 Mountain

Oilice Boy Gets £ó a Week. reasons which had led to the dis-that he intended that it should View from 1st April 1914. Phillip Morris, a lad of 16, appearance of malaria from Eng-be done, he gives his men a leg-

No. 12 Beaconfield Arcade, claims the distinction that he is land were that the number of taring for being so cruel, and

Shop. the highest-paid office boy in mosquitoes had been diminished urges them as younger brothers America He is an employs of by improved urainage, that the to be more careful in the future. the Ford Motor-Car Company at parasites in man had been largely His name in camp is Big Brother. Philadelphia, and, under the destroyed by quinine, sad also, How a City is Taken. Ford's profit-sharing scheme, perhaps, the withdrawal of Before he takes a city he has which bas just come into effect, the window tax, which had laid his plans carefully. His be bas received just over £6 for a made it possible for working mon spies are geat first to gather in- week's wages,

Ordinary office to have glass windows in their formation and to intrigue with boys in the United States, where houses. There were several faot.nd characters. They call tria- the cost of living is very high, or concerned in the spread of kets, silk handkerchiefs, make a neually receive a pound a weak, malaria, and if one of those could show at mending crockery, and but the Ford profit-sharing to eliminated, malaria could be so forth. Two days before Lao scheme, or

"Ford's "philan prevented. Sir Ronald Ross de l'eh-lang wishes to enter a city, throphy," provides that where a plored the fact the yellow fever a few dishevelled apologies for TO LET-Two room Flats in boy is the sole support of a sick parasite had not yet been discover-soldiers go to the yamen, and put opeans; in good airy locality. Kowloon, Suitable for Eur- and widowed mother he comesed, and suggested that some man "p the story that they have been All Modern Conveniences. Terms under the pound a day claues, was wanted who would sit down fighting the White Wolf and, Moderate. Apply H. RUTTON- Young Morria bes for a year and search for it in the body of beaten back, have rushed to the JEE. Royal George Hotel. maintained his mother and sister, the mosquito: for five years. Asyamen, and urge the yamen to Hongkong, 17th Oct., 1913. [967

The Physically Fit. regarded municipal hygiene, he get ready to defend itself. Speaking at the annual dinner suggested that it was a mistake White Wolf then appears. He TO LET.-No. 2 Park Road, of the Institute of Sanitary Engi- to give self-government to a town would not be interested in the Breezy Villa." Airy and neers, Sir William Ramany raid too early, as people, for the most discussion as to whether city walls Comfortable. Garden and Tennis the question whether the phyei- part, knew little or nothing of should be preserved or not. He Court-Apply to No. 4, Ripon cally anfit should be left to die. hygiene, and the town was in does not fear them. He does not Torrace. The famous scientists surpric id consquence neglected. In taking need to scale them either. At Hongkong, 13th Jan., 1914: [1139 his audience by asking whether preventive measures it had to far am, hia usual time of at- it was right that these people be remembered that the epi-tack, he opens fire with a volley

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No. 104a, The Peak, furs. WANTED---House or flet un- differences in the breeding habits formazes. By this, time the in- Prince's Buildings. of the mosquitces responsible. habitants are trembling, believing Malaria was a rural dieeace and that the city is surrounded. With St. Petersburg, like San Fran endemic; yellow fever was an the city in this panis, bis allies cisco and New York, has a very urban disease and epidemic. so fire to the important buildings big Chinese quarter, which has Filariasis, again, was endemic and and the wildest excitement is bain growing steadily during the dengue epidemic. After showing worked up. last few years. By order of the several diagrams illustrating the

Next the gates are opened to Prefect of Polica, however, says a way in which the incidence of him, and he marches in, the con- correspondent in the Russian yellow fever and malaria had besa quering hern, bis retinue contain- capital, the inhabitants of the reduced in various parts of the ing a whole train of captives and quarter are now, to be evicted world, Sir Ronald Ross advecated many young girls.. from their present homes and a combination of methods for

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cloth, and in the presence of his White Wolf is undoubtedly a army said, "I will lead the battle remarkable man, but (says a cor- myself." He rant strict injunc-respondent) if I were a batting. Captives on the March, tions to his outposta, held mostly man I would lay 10 to 1 that en scattered in the different distrints dealing with the problems. MOB. The writer has recently gather-by nondescripts who were proud ough of the troops are more or less of the city, where they are to betito nete should be used, ed the following information from of the honour he did them, toin league with the great Pah Lang kept nader special surveillance by quinine should be taken, and the man who was carried off and hold every inch of their ground to explain much of his success. the sanitary authorities. The mosquitoes should killed. By kept a prisoner in White Wolf's at all costs, and "I myself will. "'! Daily News. chief complaint against the "yel- this procedure batter results were camp for me six weeks. He work round and lead the attack.

low" quarter is that it is a regular obtained than by concentrating left hie native city with bis hands. They believed him, of coures,

hotbed of disease, and a large efforts on any one of them.

numtir of children who died

recently and hpa hodias have

tied back, and later was forced to and they fought. But White carry four guns, from two of Wolf worked round the moun- which he took the brc 3oh-looks tains for three days, and then he (having been trained in a school and his thousands found them-

been examined by the doctors are THE GREAT AIR MATCH fice in Nanking). When selves as free as air. Some of

proved to have been suffering

from small-pox.

The Gyroscope.

The interesting caries of work-

ing models in the

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asked for a gun at the next town, the real Peh Lang troops waited he handed over a spoiled one, and for a bit to help the nondescripts, GostavHamel De'cated.

had to go through a bad time for but returned and joined their Museum, South Kensington, bas

Paris, Feb. 22, his enteroris. This is the way leader, as arranged, on a certain The flying match between the White Wolf's captives are made day at a certain place. Of course, been augmented recently by the British airman Hamel and the to work; yet on the whole they the Government troops had the Nothing la inore we thy of your goa addition of a gyroscopio monorail, Franch airman Garros was beld are treated well.

glorious victory that Shanghaisideration than the welfare of your eyes the invention of M. Pierre this afternoon at Juvisy, to the

White Wolf is a voracious papers have been reporting. The trouble that to-day le emull and ensi- Schilowsky. Until now the south of Paris, in very windy traveller, a man who inspires

As the facts were, the White single measures. Be on the safe side and ly remedied, if noglected many get beyond Science Museum has lacked a weather. The match iad been confidence in bis man who trust Wolf men came out at a town if your eyes are giving trouble call on us model of the monorail or any arranged as the result of a chall-his judgement implicitly. On only ten miles from the main and have them examined. No charge for adequate exhibit showing the commercial possibilities of the

engo made by Hamel some weeks their return from Liuanchow the body of Government troops. N. LAZARUS, ago to the airmen of the world pillaging of which has been fully They have little respect for the gyroscope. M. Schilowsky's in- It had Loan arranged that the reported, when White Wolf kaew regular troops, styling them most vention defies a brief description-competition should take the form the troops were massing on the contemptuously "dogs." Its most striking difference from of three tests; first, a race of 15 the hillsides, he arcomplisher

Those in League, Mr. Brennan's gyroscopic mono- lapa round the aerodrome-rather 500 li in four days, over terrific

On March G troops were pour- rail lies in the fact that equilibriom under 20 miles; secondly, a race roads, never stopping to sleep ating through Kaangohow, and is maintained for the two hanging of the same distance, each man all. White Wolf haowa the way they all admit that they will cars by a single gyroscope. Mr. ning his opponet's michine: and to get out of a difficulty. He never catch the Lio Peh-lang. BY USING C.N. Brennan's monorail required two thirdly, a flight of one lap, the air-never plans for abead. He seems certainly seems as if they never gyroscopes, a matter of import man who landed nearest to the to jump at conclusione. His mind will. ance where weight is concerned. starting line to be the winner. is made up in a moment, and he A full-size model with a car The number of laps to be raced is a man of definite and immedi- capable of accommodating six was finally reduced to 10. # people is stated to be nearing At a quarter to 4 a start was In the hills his men could be completion.

made against the wind. Garros reckoned in thousande. In his

Dontral obtained by lot the right to start first engagement with the troops, A fearsome list of the chemcial firat, and Hamel followed a minute his own men gallantly led the constituents of tobacco is given later. Both airmen attained a way to begin with, and gained by a writer in Knowledgo. He tremendous speed, but in the some temporary success by their states: "Nicotine, combined ninth lap Hamel flow wide in dob, but when the trape began with malic, citric, and other turning, and, seeing that he had to prens, White Wolf drove his organic acids, is the chief lost all chance of winning that xiffraff to the front at the point alkaloidal constituent, but small round, rose straight into the air of the sword. Even when they traces of other alkaloids, namely, and made a magnificent "loop," were so connded on all sides by nicotine, nicotalline, pyrrolidine, afterwards descending by a vol- the forty thousand of the govern and methyl-pyrrolidine have also plane. The airmen then axebangment, tre apa, White Wolf's spies, been detected. Cellulose and ed their machines-both of them thirten mounted, men dressed in calcium pectate, which serve to Morane-Saulniers with Gnoms regimentals, had accɛɛs into give stability to most plant engines and started on the the country to gather ioform- structures, are, of course, to be second round Gorros was again ation, and the villagers all knew found in tobacc), as are also the winner, beating Hamel's time who they were. albuminoide, resins, chlorophyll, by four seconde, The third round The Woll's Escape. philobophane, and other complex was consequently unnecessary Wolf and said, "Theis orly One day spica came to White organic bodies." In addition, Times calcium potassium and magne

one way of escape to the weak.

What is Tobacco ?

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of the salts of other metals and a

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