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SMALL-POX OUTBREAK.

MAINLY CONFINED TO

JUNK PEOPLE.

The outbreak of small-pox has not diminished but nĺtiough there was a slight increase in figures yesterday there is, according to Dr. G. W. Pope, Medical Officer of Health, no reason for paule, as the authorities expect a decrease during the next two weeks.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1928.

VESTRIS DISASTER

CAUSE.

MOTOR CRATES CRASH THROUGH BULKHEADS.

New York, Nov. 15.

LOSS OF SCRIP

CLAIM AGAINST UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY:-

Trading Co. L, and J. Hoff v Union Insurance Sveiety of Can-

ARCHÆOLOGY FROM THE SKY.

RESULTS OF AIR PHOTOGRAPHS.

The progressive character of

The first official explanation of ton Ltd.; Somo y. De Rougemontiinodera British archeology was one

the cause of the efaking of the Same v. Same; Samo v. Union In-

lectura given by Dr. R. A. M. Vestris is given by the agents, surance Society of Canton Lof the points which, leapt from the Wheeler at University College an Mesars, Lamport and Holt, namely A passenger's experience in a or three that a number of motor-cars in first-class carriage of a train the work of British archeologins

crates, shifted by the heavy scas, travelling through Lithuania was during the year. crashed through the steel bulkhead related during the hoaring of this

This lecture was to inaugurate and fetched up on the starboard action in London. The Trading

Co. L. and J. Hoff, of Walbrook, a series which Dr. Wheeler will de side, oausing the ship to list.

One of the most distressing EC, aued the Union Insurance liver on "British Archaeology" dur- about the Vestris Society of Canton Ltd., of Corning the coming torm. He showed how archeologists are no longer ifta of news disaster is that the steamer Mon-hill, E.C., and Mr. C. I. De Rouge mere diggers: they. By in the air toso, which has arrived at Boston mont, a Lloyd's underwriter. from Porto Rico, was only twenty- five miles away when the liner aank, but is not equipped with wireless and did not hear the 8.0.S.

Dr. Popo remarked that people who had not been vaccinated during the past five years should not lose too much time in being vacelnated.

When asked if there was any explanation for the large number of cases reported from Kowloon while exceptionally few have come from the laland, Dr. Pope anid that he thought the cases were mainly confined to the junk population in the Yaumati typhoon anchorage.

among

inhabitants

ahore. on

A Graphic Narrative.

and descend below the water-line.

Happiness.

The plaintiffs' claim was in res

What on Irishman might call ex-]', pect of the loss of 82,740 bearer cavation from the air gives the most His Health Means Your shares in an Estonian company astonishing results. One nir photo- known as the Premiere Societe des graph taken at Windmill Hill, near Chemins de fer Secondaires Rus- Avebury, showed the habitations, sea. It was alleged that the formed by rings of trenches, made shares, which were packed in a before the dawn of history by the Inhabitants bf these trunk, were stolen from Mr. Ellas ancient Hoff while he was on a journey islanda as clearly as if they had from Riga to Berlin. The shares been traced. had been insured for £10 each.

Evidence was given in German intervals in the trenches, for which stomach' or bowels, as most of

A

You could even see the breaks at

New York, Nov. 15. A graphic account of the sinking The usual precautions are being.

of the Vestris was given in hos taken by the authorities to prevent pital by Mr. Paul Dana, the South a serious outbreak. Vaccination le being carried out by the Gov-American representative of the Radio Corporation of America, ernment among the floating com- munity of Yaumati as well as who was picked up with a stewar- and Russian, the questions and

Clara dess, Mrs.

Ball, after answers being translated by intor floating in the water for twenty-preters.. two hours.

Mr. Elias Hoff said that he awoke to find that the trunk was missing, and that money had been stolen from his jacket pocket. He informed the police and sub- acquently the trunk was found at In other words, through afr in

vestigation, our the bottom of the railway embank-Messrs. Keillor and O. G. S. Graw- archaeologists, ment and a packet containing ford in particular, have for the first 2,200 shares was found on the line. time recovered and disclosed the

There has been a ready response to the action taken by the Govern-

ment and many people are being

vaccinated daily,

Mr. Dann said the night of November 10 saw the worst storm in his experience. The Vestris Older Generation Immune. was struck by two big waves simultaneously at midnight and According to Dr. Pope, the older quivered from end to end. It is generation is comparatively im believed that she started to leak mune to the disease which has on Sunday, when the weather was been confined almost entirely to still rougher, and most of the pan. infants and children under ten sengers were very acastck. years of age. Since the present

The ship listed and the furniture cutbreak only two

have come to the notice of the Authori-n the dining room and smoking room sild to starboard and crashed ties where the victim has been over

around. the age of ten,

casca

When he woke on Monday morning, the water was level with the windows of his cabin, and the floor was under water.

His staward came in groaning, his shoulder wrenched, and said the hold was filling with water He had been baling all night long with a bucket: and the cargo had shifted too,

When asked if he thought there was any danger of the outbreak renching any serious dimensions, Dr. Pope replied that he did not think so. After two ör three weeks he thought the number of cases ought to decrease, although, of course there would probably be ensen throughout the winter, as it was impossible to say how many. Mr. Dana went on deck, where cases were imparted. Several of the crew were throwing the cargo the present cases night have been overboard. Akabt of men were imported, the victims being dumo-watching, very scared, some of ed from sampans which have them wearing lifebels. The off- arrived from outside poris. ‚” cers were cheery, but most reticont. The belief that the cases have He did not know until the Vestris foundered that she had sent out come from the floating community

the S.Q.S. of the Yaumati typhạon shelter Is

Women based on the fact that the bodies have buon found dumped in brought up at 10.30 and told to don Canton Road, Shanghai Street and lifebelts. other thoroughfares near the sea wonderful, some crying quietly,

but there was no hysteria.

The crew started to launch the Dr. Pope added that the boatlifeboats at 11.30 on the port side. people at Shaukiwan and clae- The launching took two hours, where were also being vaccinated, owing to the boats catching the

side of the ship.

front.

as a precautionary measure,

According to the statement issued daily by the Medical Officer

and children were

The women were

Lifeboat Holed.

of Ifealth there were eleven cases: Boat No. B, to which Mr. Dana of smallpox notified yesterday. was assigned, became holed as It Ten were from Kowloon and the was let down. The holo was other from Victoria.

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patched up with a ploce of tin, but, the tin did not hold. The boat contained 10 women and two chl- dren, und a crew of four negroes.

The ship heeled over and sank only three minutes after they had pulled away. Forty mon loft aboard raced down the side of the ship and dived off as she sank,!

A matter of much concern to you is the eclection of the right remedy to give your child when he is out-of-sorts or ill. It la to fill this need of yours, and he, if the trouble arises in the child's

experts cannot yet account exactly. On the Trundle site, near Guildford, childhood's ailments do, that the successive works of the Stone Baby's Own Tablets have been and Bronze Ages can be seen over- specially devised. Pleasant alike lapping, and, even more important, in appearance and taste showed clearly a system of ploughed. the air photograph of this site terraces which cannot have been constructed later than 500 B.C.

Mr. Jowitt, K.C., for the defen-traces of farming upon the soil of dants, suggested that there was no Britain from that remote period. robbery, and that Mr. Hoff himself emptied the trunk and throw it out of the train.

me."

Caércleon Barrack Work,

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Dr. Wheeler spoke appreciatively of the help extended to archeology Mr. Hoff replied: "I have sworn by The Daily Mail and by the Bri- that it was stolen and your per-tish Press in general. He gave sonal opinion does not concern particular attention to an account of the results of work upon the The defence was a denial that Caerleon amphitheatre and the loss of the shares occurred, barrack site.

Hia, lecture showed that British and it was alleged that the plain- tiffs' claim was a fraudulent one. archeologists are busy in every The defendants also alleged that corner of the kingdom, from Pen- the shares were over-valued and unce to the Orkneys, at both of which places excellent work has over-insured, and that the plain-been done in 1927-28. The Orkney tiffs concealed material facts when the insurance was effected..'

The hearing was adjourned.

excavations have revealed a strange little township where the people Hved practically in tunnels. The various centres of the place were connected by roofed runs about 4ft. Several times fish brushed Mr.high, and presumably more or less raintight, along which the in- Dana'a body, and he squirmed, habitants must have crept, bent fearing sharks. No ship was down, from hut to hut. visible by daybreak, and the wreckage was beginning to break

p. They had to hold it together. extremely interesting medieval dis- Then they sighted the Wyoming at

was the laying bare eleven in the morning twenty miles Glastonbury of a crvnt which would away, and started to swim to It. appear to be part of St. Dunstan's They had been swimming an hour work. The Board of Works is when they looked back and saw the showing great activity in the pre- American Shipper a mile away.servation of ancient monuments, un- He toro off his shirt and waved it der Mr. C. R. Reers, C.B.E.' · wildly, and the signal, was seen and they were picked up.

Accusations Refuted.

f

Later.

The underwater work was done at Hrentford, on the Thames. An

covery

at

Dr. Wheeler held out some hope that the wonderful Roman bar- rack-site at Caericon, may be saved for the nation.

Bitter accusations by certain survivors against Captain Carey HIS LAST DAY ON DUTY and the crew of the Vestris are not echoed by sixty-four survivara i who landed from the French SOLICITOR DIES IN STREET. tanker Myriam;

On the contrary, they are our prised that anybody should con-

While on his way home from his with one boat still on the deck.sider the sinking us anything fee recently Mr. Charles Fred- erich Davis, a solicitor, collapsed on the starboard side other than a tragedy of the sen; and died in Budge-row, Cannon- The Hon. Treasurer bega to ne. The boats

and declared "Captain Carey did knowledge with thanks the fellow-were cut away, and rowed round his duty, and did his best." street, E. C.

It was to have been his last day ing donations to the Hongkong and picked up a lot of awimmers.

The Honourable Company of at business. University Chinese School Fund Mr. Dana's boat began to fill, Master Mariners in a statement

Mr. Davis, who was the senior from the local European Firms and capsized. One woman was protests against the cruel stories partner in the firm of Messrs. Davis Further donations will be grate- drowned. The others righted the in the American press, and states and Davis, solicitors, of 11, Queen fully received by the Hon. Treu-bont and climbed in, but the waves that no authentic account of the Victoria-street, E.C., was 63 years Burer, Mr. T. N. Chau, No. 8 pounded the bont to pieces. The disaster will be available until an of age. He travelled daily to the Queen's Road West..........

official enquiry is keld,

City from Westcliff-on-Sen. Mr. Allcott, a merchant of His only surviving son, who lived him in Valkyrie-road, British Gufana, a survivor aboard with the American Shipper, suggested Southend, told a Daily Mail re- the rawness of the crew and lack porter:

"Although he has, not spent a of organisation might have been responsible for the delay in day in bad through illness my launching the lifeboats. One father was told by a specialist:

tired heart. negro quartermaster is credited that he had a

children and women disappeared, except Mrs. Ball. She and Mr. Dann swam to a place of wreckage and clung to this. The water WES 500 warm, but great waves crashed down on them almost knocking the 500 life out of their bodica and smother

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