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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPI!. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1919.

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ESTABLISHED 1883. MANUFACTURERS OF

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Oil Drilling Cables of any size up to 3,000 feet in length, Prioss, Samples and fall particulars will be forwarded on application

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15, Queen's Road, Gentral.

Telephone No. 75.

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Ers. A. SUGA Mr. S. HONDA 8 Queen's Road Central,

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The Undersigned AGFNTS for the above Company are pr pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates, SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. Agents.

CREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

"In Casks of $75 lbs, net In Bags of 250 lbs. not. SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

General Managers. Hongkong, 16th August, 1915.

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GENERAL NEWS,

KUHO OF DUMARU DISASTER.

The as. Dumarn disaster which ocurred off of Guam last October was brought to mind again when the Collector of Customs, Aldacess, received a cable from Mr. J.F. Jewell, American Consul at Batavia, to the effect that part of the stern of the steamar, together with a quantity of linen marked "U. S. S. B., S. S. Damaru, had been washed ashare on the northern part of the island of Hiri: The stern of the boat, which still carried its rudder, was badly burned, according to the cable,

ITALIAN EMBASSY IN TOKYO BURNT.

Fire broke out recently in one of the rooms of the Italian Embassy at Kasamigaseki, Tokyo, and before the outbreak was got under control the grester portion of the Embassy building

had

been destroyed. It is understood that all important documents were safely taken ont. At the time of the outbreak the Italian Ambassador was absent in Yokohama. It seems that the outbreak originated in a stove, and the flames had already got a firm hold upon the building before it was noticed by anyone. When the firemen arrived on the scene the whole building was aflame, and their efforts were of little avail. The building was erected some thirty years ago and the damage is pai at about T20,000.

MANILA AEROPLANE SERVICE.

NOTICE.

CORONA

PORTABLE TYPEWRITERS

$80

CORONA

case.

THE PERSONAL WRITING MACHINE A FEW FACTS:- A regular airplane line between The Corona " writes "in Mabila and Iloilo, with at least two colours. Weighs only four of the largest Government 6 lbs. Has 84 letters and machines carrying mail and per-figures. Complete în every haps passengers, is practically

way. assured according to plans which

Folds into carrying were revealed at a special meet-

case. Price $80 nett cash including ing of the Manila Aero Club

carrying recently. One instructor is DOW

Book of instructions sup- en route from the United States to

plied. train the fliers who are to be plac ed in charge of these machines and several others may follow. Vir- tual assurance has been given that the machines can be secured from the Government half price, and the money

in now

hand for the purpose of the first machines to be placed on the run.

Three or four months is regarded by members of the Aero Club as a reasonable time for the installation of sa aero service out of Manila, and the enthusiasm is so intense on the subject that the club is already figuring on solving very knotty transportation problems of the Philippines by means of regular air lipes to remote parts of Luzon and probably "other islands.

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PARIS TO PIREUS BY RAIL. Writing from Athens at the end of November, an American vice-consul mentions that the Consulate-General at that port from time to time during the past four years reported on the pro- gress of the railway line which would link Old Grece to the rest of Europe. The completion of this strip was announced nearly two years ago, bat owing to the war no international use thereof has been possible. With the cessation of hosilities, however, ||add Athens have got to work, the competent authorities in Paris plans are taking shape

and

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THE PNEUMONIA EPIDEMIC,

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character. It will be seen that be thinks it "nore than possible" that it is really a war-micknes}

The present epidemic of in- fluenza has been marked by two peculiar features the great and very fatal occurrence of paeum- onia as a complication, and the aot very infrequent cases of sud- den collapse in the midst of life's asnal activities, followed by almost immediate death. Both these features have been the occasion of speculation among the lay public and to some extent in the press. It has been more than once suggested that some disease other than those familiar to

Western populations present, and we have met various rumours that the disease was ia truth pneumonic plague, and taat the truth has been suppress- od with a view to the avoidance of panic.

Now it is obvious that if this were the case the authorities would be guilty of criminal stupidity in allowing a disease of this type to prevail with no at- tempt at its control, in order to avoid a supposed danger of panic among a population exceedingly anlikely to be affected in this way.

The bath, however, néeus no qualification or suppression, for the facts are clear and thoroughly ascertained., The micro-organisms of plague and influenza are both of them familiar: they are entirely dis- tinct in type, and no possible confusion could arise in distin-| guishing between them. Far- ther, the organism of plague can be very certainly obtained from its victims, and though the influenza bacillus is of more, "shy" growth, its recovery by

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epidemic in France some doubt 26, Des Voeux Road Central did indeed exist as to the presence of a true inflenza infection, but this has since been entirely resolved with better methods. Both in the army and among the civil population it has now been shown to an increasing extent that the organism of influenza can be found in a high percentage of all cases investigated.

There is по possible doubt that the primary disease is really influenza. The question of the cause of the accompanying pneumonia has also been answered. No such prevalence of pneumonis has occurred in previous epidemics, and the new factor is the pre- sence of a "mixed infection.' Associated with the influezna for the inauguration in May, 1919, germ there is in these cases a of a through train from Paris to

'streptococcus,' Athens, and on to Piraeus, the

a pas-forming of organismi

the type port of Athens, about seven miles common in sapparating wounds, away. This main will leave Paris and it is this which is the de at noon on Saturdays and will termining factor in the production" proceed via Milän, Venice, Trieste, of the lung-condition. Those Agram, Belgrade, Nish, Skopia, cases which escape this secondary Platy, and Larissa, arriving in infection suffer an attack of in- Athens Tuesday morning. It will fluenza of varying severity but in carry Anglo-Indian and other Far Eastern mails and passengers, and disease,

no way differing from the classical Those, on the other will in this way vastly increase hand, who contract the associated the importance of the port of streptococcal infection Piraeus, which in future will be their influenza run the starting place of steamers for great risk of a form of pneumonia the Far East, in place of Brindisi far more fatal than the ordinary and other Italian ports.

form of this disease.

What the reason may be for this association of two hitherto listinct infections is at present broke dowa: The moral is clear. persisted in working till they

"ABSENT WITHOUT Leave." unknown. It may be speculated Stop work and go to bed the turns from enemy captivity is In theory every soldier who re- that the essential element is moment you feel ill, and you "abant without leave," and is lowering of vitality and power of double your chances of recovery, liable under the Army Act to be resistance owing to a restricted For the rest, avoid overwork and tried by court martial dietary, but the disease has not

short sleep, keep the internal practice it is extremely doubtful affected in any special way the

fires barning briskly by as whether this will be done in a I more than possible that generous a

diet as can be single case. Absence as the enormous mass of suppuration and your feet dry and warm, and forfeiture of pay unless the court managed, keep the windows open prisoner of war does not cause due to war-wounds has brought carry on" without worrying too of inquiry decides that the soldier OF 25 AND 32 C.P.train of the streptococcus of

the diffusion of much about your chances.

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part. Public opinion has already The N. Y. K. Mishima-maru, induced the War Office to relax war-sickness. It is conceivable which arrived in Kobe recently, the regulation by which the that some of the cases of sudden has brought four military tanks priod of captivity does not count collapse and death are really from England. They weigh for service, and

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isolated cases of cerebrospinal from 18 to 17 tons, and are thus by

be sociated with

fever, which has in tha

The one thing certai condition has hothi plague.

Among the victims the bean been a bok doctors and

lightly larger than the cza

mcently brought. In a few the tanka will be trashi and two of them will be sent the Osaka Military while the other two will

the Tokyo Wii

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