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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7. 1919.

MORE STAR TENNIS PLAYERS FIGURING IN AMERICAN TOURNAMENTS.

National Champion

He Loughlin

Brookes

Johnston

Gerzia Patterson

"Bill" Johnston of San Francisco stants as one of the world's best tennis players to-day. He won the U.S. title in a tournament in which five former champions, were entered, also the two great Australians who had just won the Davis Cup in England. Lately, in California. Johnston beat Norman Brookes in the greatest singles contest ever seen in the West. His style combines brains and the famous California "punch.

Here are four of the world's greatest tennis experts. Brookes and, Patterson are the Davis Cup holders and Australian wizards-Brookes, now 42 years old. being a master- strategist while Patterson is a hard-hitting whirlwind. "Bill" Johnston. U.S. champion. is a San Franciscan whose game combines both qualities, and who has beaten both the Australians. Maurice McLoughlin, the famous "California Comet," this year showed a spectacular return to form.

E. Brookes

These are the famous Australians, official world's champions. Brookes is 42 years old and is the intellectual man of the tennis world. His partner for years was the unsurpassed Anthony Wilding, who was killed in the war. Patterson, in his early twenties, shows promise of developing into the greatest player that ever stroked a ball. He is a whirlwind athlete with the swiftest strokes on record, and holds the world's singles title.

CONSUMPTION AND INSANITY, Japparently mentally sound, may

BOTH INCREASED BY WAR

DISEASE.

uncover his predisposition and become insane. The healthy man is able by the exercise of his will to restrain the impulse which would unseat his reason: the sick man is not so able. The insanities The medical correspondent of of the puerperium may be taken the Times writes: Recent reports as lustrations of this. of health officers, and others call

Consequently the victim of attention to the fact that tuber-war disease and his number culosis is increasing. There are is legion-is

arious explanations, but most of attack than his uninfected neigh- which we have seen gre hour. Tuberculosis and insanity the o

satisfying. Ar the may both assall him with a vague ant 0.

from other probability of success which did: same time. we 376 tor-

not exist before he fell a victim. quarter that insanity and ru tional nervous disorders are on He is. in medical sense, a for- the increase also.

tress the outer fortifications of which have fallen..

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more able to

So for as can be gathered both these fears are justified by the The matter is important from event. The point that arises and the point of view of pensions. In must be considered is whether cases in which tubercle has begun there is any connection between since demobilization the victim is two phenomena. Is the entitled to an inquiry into his increase of tuberculosis due to history during the war. If it is the same causes as the increase found that he is infected with a of insanity? Or are the evils disease of war in addition to his without relationship one to aa- consumption-and this is by no other?

means as rare as might be Some time ago a writer who thought he is entitled to relief. adheres to what, for convenience. The same thing applies in the is spoken of as the New Medicine, case of insanity. ventured to prophesy that both tubercle and insanity would in- crease after the war. He based his prophecy on the following considerations:-

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A vast number of men and women bave in these last years infected by diseases which from their nature are very difficult to eradicate. These dis- eases, which include malaria, dysentery. trench fever. the

OVER-TAXED GENERAL. Brigadier-General William Strong. C.M.G. of Thorpe Hall. Peterborough, who ear

active service in France during the whole period of the war. bas decided to dispose of his estate near Peterborough. At a farewell entertainment to the villagers the typhoids-in some cases and General stated that as one-third venereal diseases, act as chronic of his income now went in taxa. poisons. The poisons probably azert à specific effect on the top.it was impossible for him to

maintain the Hall. nervous system. The result is that the level of bodily "ex- penditure on any given effort is raised and the victim tends to fal into a state of exhaustion.

If he is not cured he remaine in this state of exhaustion and exhibits marked neurasthenic symptoms, weakness, instability. mental weariness, and so on. Bit by bit the margin of safety" which protects from disease whe- ther of the body or the mind is

worn away.

Now it seems to be the case that tubercle "does not in most instances seat itself in a healthy soil. It tends to follow other infections when the resistance of the patient is low. It tends to ameliorato when the bodily rasistance is raised against it.

* In the same way traits of mental instability, which may be hereditary or acquired; do not teal, as a rule, to show themselves until some secondary factor has reduced the margin of safety: represented by health. In other warde at some given point off weakness and exhaustion a man,

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WHO EVER IS RINGING THAT DOORBELL IS TRYING TO

BREAK IT EVIDENTLY-

Cormen Tamilton Pacific Coast

Singles Champion

Miss Carmen Tarilton lately won the Pacific Coast Championship against fast competition. She is a product of California, the State that produced the famous Sutton sisters, Mary Browne and Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, and is worthy to stand in that fine company of women stars. Her game is steadiness personified.

Helen Gets a Surprise..

HELLO SIS

SURPRISE ON

YOU !!

DOROTHY

MY BIG SISTER. HELEN!

CANADA AND THE ORIENT.dustry, which, as yet, is only in its infancy on this coast. Sir | TRANS-PACIFIC COMMERCE. George Bury, a former vice-pre- sident of the Canadian Pacific The increasing interest of the Railway, has lately become Pacific coast in the requirements general manager of the Whalen of the markets of China and other Pulp and Paper Company, whose countries bordering on the Pacific plant is at Powell River. Steps Ocean is a sign of the times, are being taken with a view to observes The Times Vancouver reorganizing the company's correspondent,

export business. At Oceani The period of artificial pro- Fails, 150 miles north of sperity induced by war conditions Vancouver, there is a pulp and came to a sudden end with the paper company, the daily output signing of the armistice. Markets of which now reaches 250 tons of which had absorbed tens of paper. This plant consumes 250,- milions of dollars worth of goods 000ft. of lumber per day. Still were suddenly cut off and another company which will be. general dislocation of trade con-exporting pulp to the amount of ditions occurred. The short 40,000 tons per day in the near period of inaction which followed futuure is the Beaver Cove Pulp has given place to a keen realiza-and Paper Company, at Beaver tion of the fact that to "meet Core, on Vancouver Island. This the financial conditions which industry is looking to the Orient must prevail in Canada as for a great expansion of trade. result of the war, and to find new This increasing interest in markets, it is essential that bome Oriental markets is manifest in

industries be developed and all lines of industry and has been [new territory exploited on greatly stimulated by the reports a larger and more energetic brought to this country by the scale than ever before. If Canadian Trade Commissioner in the war has done nothing else China,

for British Columbia it has, at That the financial institutions least, put an end to artificially of Canada are alive to the engineered "booms."

importance of these new markets The recent formation of the is shown by the recent visit of British Columbia and Overseas Sir Edmund Walker, the Trading Company of Vancouver president, and other officials is evidence of the prevalence of of the Canadian Bank of this feeling. This company has Commerce to the Far East. Sir been formed with the object of John Aird, general manager, has studying the needs of China parti- outlined a policy of expansion in cularly and of placing before that China of the Bank of Commerce country the commodities of which includes the opening of British Columbia in the form branches at several of the lead- required by Chinese merchants.ing ports in that country. Some Direct representatives will be months ago the Royal Bank of maintained at leading commercial Canada established an agency at centres in China.

Vladivostok with the object' of Great developments are looked catering for Canadian trade in- for also in the pulp and paper in- terests in Siberia.

BY ALLMAN,

MY LITTLE SISTER DOROTIN!

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TO SEE ME? KAY DON'T YOU

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SISTER HAS GROW UP I BE A YOUNG LADY

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