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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1925.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

RIVER BOAT ON FIRE.

THE PORT'S HEALTH.

KUNG ON DESTROYED.

DUCHESS OF ATHOLL" INTERVIEWED.

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FOR THE YEAR.

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The .. Kong On, which was on

"The report of Dr. R. H. Mellon, The Duchess of Atholl, Parlia-the Hongkong-Kongmoon run; and mentary Secretary to the Board was laid up at Tal Fing market Modical Omeer of the Port for the place between Sunwul, and Shuntak past year, gives some interesting of Education, and substitute dele-on the outbreak of the strike, with Agures, a feature of which is that, gate of Great Britain to the only a few members of her crew on in spite of entries from divcase

Infected ports, there were Assembly of the Lengue of board, suddenly caught fire on the deaths within 10 hours sall of the Nations, in a newspaper interview 23rd inst., nt 10 p.m., and, according port from quarantinable ailments. to the owner of the ship, who is During the year, 6,484 inward declared that before the League

now in the Colony, must have been bound occan vessels were visited can become what it should be, a totally destroyed. The fire inged by the Health Omeers, of whicḥ real co-operating agency for the furiously and soon spread to two 2,050 were on British register and welfare of mankind, it must first firewood junks, which were lying 3,834 on foreign register.

vessels arriving in an unsanitary nearly. of all be understood.

condition were dealt with undor The market town' was also ignited the Blerchant Shipping Ordinance "The subject that interests me most, personally, is that of educa-and about eighty per cent of the and 2,594 Bills of Health were.

shops of the town were burned, issued. "You tion," said the Duchess.

Ships arriving in port with know, no doubt, that the Assembly The damage auffered by the town

alone is estimated to exceed corpse on board must obtain a permit from the Health Officer $1,000,000.

before landing it and before this is granted, enquiries are made in order to determine the cause of death. If a death occurs within ten hours of a ship's arrival' in port or whilst the ship is in hur- bour, the body is inspected and the case is investigated. If for any reason the cause of death is in coubt, the body is sent to the mortuary for further examination. During the year 149 special visits were made to ships for this pur- pase, 137 permits were granted and 28 bodies sent to the mor-

has decided this year that a com- mittee of experts should examine the best methods of disseminating the aims and achievements of the League among the young people of every nation.

"The educational work under taken by the League of Nations is specialized; it is not, education in the proper sense of the word that It seeks to regulate and CU- ordinate. It is simply an attempt to create among the young an atmosphere similar to the atmos- phere of Geneva, that of peace, friendship, good will and co-opera- & Phone C.4602gtion, by the study of what has been done to promote pence during $60000066600osso the past six years.

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Visits and Exchanges. "I think it would be impossible) to write a general book on this subject that would appeal to every country. Each national mentality must be left to develop the sub- ject in the way most suited to it. But the Secretariat by sending resumes and reports of the work done at Geneva can supply the material to cach nation on which lessons of contemporary history jean-be based, 1 hope much from the visits and exchanges, both in- dividual and collective, of scholars and members of universities, but I consider that in order to under- stand the country one is visiting it ineecssary to understand its language.

"in order to interest children in

The Kung On was a wooden ship, about 400 tons, 176 feet long, an is estimated to be worth about $100,000, including furniture.

RHINE OCCUPATION,

Emigration,

Wiesbaden, Dez, 20, Official exchange of authority from the French to the British intuary.

was made! the Wiesbaden zone, this morning, the only outward and visible 'sign being the lowering of Under the heading of Emigra- the Tricolour and the hoisting of tion, it is shown that the total the Union Jack in its place. The number of emigrants was 130,982, event wis marked by a simple an increase of 10,198 over 1923, military ceremony in the Schloss 32,692 over 1922 and 71,013 mere Platz, where two companies of than for 1919. More than half of these were bound for the Straits French infantry, two squadrons of Settlements, while approximately Chasseurs and a detachment of equal numbors luft for Honolulu, hundred men of the second Dutch East Indies and the United April and Camerons, which is the only regi-States of America.

the most favoured eat up to the present transferred May were Wiesbaden from Cologne, paraded months and February the least Rejections of medical- and the guard was changed. The favoured. Tricolour

lowered to they unit persons numbered 946. strains of the Marseillaise, and Free emigrants, that is those then the Union Jack was hoisted, who pay their own fares and ure the National Anthem being played.48 a rule petty traders, totalled 88,428, assisted emigrants, usual- A march past concluded the cere

ly engaged three-year con- tracts in tin mines, rubber planta- mony-Router.

tions and nitrate deposit work- ings, numbered 10,605, while the rest of those figuring In the re- were mainly wives and children of emigrants.

WAS

AGREEMENT APPROVED.

the intellectual values of other MEXICO'S EXTERNAL DEBT. turn countries they must be talked to about great foreigners, learned men, writers, artists, historians, and they must be made to realize what these men have done for the whole world. Friendship is born of admiration, and in this way all efforts will unite toward the same Jend.

Mexico City, Dec. 30. The Senate has unanimously approved the agreement settling Mexico's exterant debt.-Reuter's American Servier. "

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Quarantine.

The number of vessels arriving in quarantine was 233, with 16,686 passengers and 14,868

Ten vessels, all withi cuses of small-pox, were detained. Twenty-nine cases of infectious disease were investigated and found to be due to non-quarantin- able disease; these were dealt with This in- in the usual manner. volved the examination of 311 sick persons and many special visits to ships in the harbour.

"I have the greatest admiration for the work necomplished in lite Near Enal for the protection of women and children. The com

In an interview the other day mission in Aleppo, of which Miss Jeppe is president, has succeeded with a correspondent of the Spun-

The total number of persons freeing more than 1,100 ish newspaper. "A:B.C.," Signor Armenian women and in succoring Mussolini acknowledged the ex-medically inspected during 1924 to 219,222, which is number from tent of the influence exercised amounted

equivalent to 600 examinations about the same slavery. These people were sold upon his mind by Georgos Sorel for each day of the year. in the year 1916. Miss Jeppe "This master of Syndicalism,

Saigon was declared an infect- hopes to secure the help of the with his rough-and-ready theories League of Nations to continue this on revolutionary tactics, hes con-ed port on February 7th, owing to

although it work, for,

has tributed rescisively in creating the prevalence of small-pox in its neighbourhood, restrictions being given its protection in the past, it the discipline, energy, and power withdrawn on July 21st. has, hitherto, not contributed of the Fascist cohorts."

She scite delighted the Premier only) great financial assistance." continued:

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The Sixth Assembly'. "Let us now talk for a moment of the general work accomplished by the sixth assembly of the League. The English delegation

is as unanimous as the country it represents, in desiring to maintain by every means passible the work of peace carried on by the League.

Niotz-

The ports of the Dutch East" when he was twenty, and holped Indies were declared infected on him to strengthen his anti-demo-August 19th on account of small- cratic tendencies. The second pox and the port of Macassar on person ready to influence him account of plague. The restric was the American philosopher, so tions on these ports were still in diametrically opposed to Croce, force at the end of the year.. whose booke Mussolini says he has never read, "William James has helped me in my career," he! continues. "James taught me that an act should be judged more by results than by its essence. From

Vaccination.

The Vaccination Department in- stituted on January 1, 1924, where emigrants could be cheaply and elleaciously vaccinated, was not

extent, but, 1,877 emigrants at- ended, while 4,092 non-emigrants resented themselves for free vac-

But it considers that it is imposhim I learnt to put my faith in | taken advantage of to any great sible to go faster than the events action and in a flaming determi- themselves. It is better to nation to live and to struggle, to surely-even if one has to go very which Fascisino owes a great slowly-and to have a logical and

part of its success." The unassailable line of action.

fact that should dominate the influence Great

Iessential

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cination,

During the year assistance was rendered to the Health Officer for varying periods by Captains Fattes and Walker, R.A.M.C., and Smalloy, Fehlly and Doctors Chang,

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should be to do all that is done whenever the League feels that It is for its work could be replaced by the thoroughly and well.'

to be action of a particular government, hurried, although we do not neces- then it should no longer continue The work to be sarily refuse the propositions that in that path.

done should be done together, in are made.

a reciprocal spirit of confidence, "Do not forget that all we lake between the leading men of every

Paris, Dec. 30, back from Geneva is studied in the nation, and I am sure that with

According to the newspapers M. most careful way in London, and time this will come to pass.

Briand is informing Mr. Canning, that our own views na delegates "You ask me if people in Eng Abd e Krim's representative, are submitted to detailed criticism. land ore interested in the work that it is impossible for M. Briand Why, in international legislation, of the League. I will say that the to have any relations with him.→ should things be hurried on at whole English population, without Reuter. greater rate than in national distinction of class, is very much legislation? Is not the work far interested in the peace question. more complicated when it touches am aware that the League of the interests of 64 nations?

Nations attracts the attention of the intellectuals more than the England and League.

icas educated. But that simply

London, Dec. 30. "In our opinion, the work that comes from the fact that a good

The settlemoist of the French the League of Nations should take many of the discussions are too in hand is work that cannot be technical for the comprehension Government's financial proposals accomplished by Any single of ordinary people, and shows the has resulted in a notable recovery government. This is a criterion necessity of world-wide enlighten- of the French franc in London this that I think should be applied, and ment,"

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