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MONDAY, JULY 25, 1932.

THE WHITE SCOURGE

DAY BY DAY

Endi muskat K

EXPERIENCE IS THE ONLY MASTER, ALTHOUGH THE SCHOOL FEES ARE

said to be the commonest form of infection. In the case of children, milk from tuberculous cows is a cause of bone and joint disease. While is estimated that about forty per cent. of the cows in England are tuberculous, only SOMEWHAT HEAVY-Richter. from one to two per cent, yield tuberculous milk. The registra tion of dairies provides excellent opportunities for tracking such milk, and it may be noticed that issued at 8.15 a.m. to-day states that A Manila Observatory warning

local authorities have power to a typhoon is situated more than 300 | prohibit consumptives from handl.miles east of Luzon, moving W, or

W.N.W. ing dairy products.

of

we

It has to be remembered, course, that in tuberculosis are dealing with a disease which, starting with infection by the Luberele germ, is yet dependent on other factors for its develop-

Singapore with the English malls, is The P. and O. 8.8. Ranpura, from

due here at noon on Wednesday.

*

A MAZE OF

PROBLEMS

POLICY AT OTTAWA

By SIR ARTHUR SALTER.

for

preparations

the problem might be tackled, for an Octava Conderence have been herease of price will only mitigate, elaborate. It will be richly it cannot completely solvo it. "Im- equipped in personnel. The public perini research and institutions can expectrations are high. The diff-be usefully extended, In particular cultice--and the danger are alike! by the creation of a pernianent Im- During the week-end a thief enter- great. For failure would be avother perial economic organisation. The fed a cabin occupied by Mr. Harland, hattering blow to confidence and negotiations for a division of func. Chief officer of H.M.S. Pearienf, along-perliaps an element of poison in Im-tion between different kinds of in alde the Royal Naval Dockyard, and perial relations; and a proclaimed dustrial enterprise can be develop- [stole a fountain pen and pencil valued success of a certain kind mightjed, each Dominion and ourselves

by the owner at $30.

Inter prove as bad as failure. undertaking not to foster, at least

What does success

by tari, certain classes of produc- It mean?

tion. Among departures by the Sirdhana means, I suggest, for Ottawa, as ment. A large proportion of the were Senor J. C. Magnaschi and his for every other Conference of this

It is on tariffs and preferences, Mognaseht urban population in Britain, pos-Calcutta to inke up the appointment period, that the net result is an however, that public attention has,

in the total volume of Consul for Peru, after three years increase sibly up to ninety per cent., has in Hongkong as Chancellor of the trade, the total nuiss of profitable perhaps unhappily, been mainly been infected with the tubercle Peruvian Consulate. bacillus at the age of maturity,

wife. Sonor

*

to goo!

of

are not to exchanges; and this total must in- concentrated. If we clude internal trade, reciprocal suffer serious disillusionment, we must understand very clearly some and external Before Mr. Wynne-Jones, a 15-year Imperial) trade, yet only seven or eight per cent old Chinese boy was charged to-dari (foreign) trade alike. If Imperial of the conditions upon which the negotiations can alone proceed. develop the disease. The active with the unlawful possession of an trade is increased without equal or Many people, misled by the phrase cause of the breakdown in such umbrella which was believed to have greater loss of our opportunities of "Empire Free Trade," and ignorant

been stolen. The prosecuting police trade with other

Countries, well of the extent to which the instances is usually anything oficer, Inspector tuneli, explained and good. But an increase it here Dominions have been industraliber

that a

a anw the bay which seriously impairs a person's to pawa the umbrella, which,, he would be disastrous. We must add the illusion that the volume of trade

cost of greater reduction elsewhere

under tariff protection, are under vitality. By slow degrees, the Inspector countered, was unusual pro- disease is being countered,

cedure on a rainy day. The ind was to the dimensions of the cake we

can be immensely increased by the but cautioned in view of his nge, and the have to share, not merely carve a complete victory is still a

long Inspector was directed to retain the larger slice out of a total cake no referential entry of food and raw materials from the Dominions here, umbrella until the owner could be greater or diminished, Canada way off. Housing reform

and

foutki.

and the preferential entry of our sanitorium treatment are the niest

manufactures into the Dominions. They must realise that the effective agencies for battling

Dominions have never for n Loment intended, and cannot be x- with the disease, and as time goes

pected, to let us seriously compete on it is confidently felt that the

with the industries they mean to present relatively high rate

maintain. A preference upon mortality will be materially

such articles as would in any case come from outside, yes; but that is creed,

of

cannot afford to disrupt her trade with her great neighbour. We can Despite IL kurried, Inst-minute not afford to abandon our trade change in the programme, due to the with either the Argentine, Sean non-arrival of the advertised film, the dinavia, Europe or the East. King's Theatre management provided| patrons with excellent entertainment

re

•

yesterday. "Two Kinds of Women' This is a quite possible objective

the picture screened, and it was if we all pursue it with determins quite an entertaining study. The Lion, and reject all policies incon- theme

is not strong, but the most was sistent with it. For there are ninde of it by such favourites as several ways in which we can in- Mirian

Hopkins, Phillip Holmes,

a much more limited affair, There

is also some reason to fear a serious divergence in the point of view from which we and they are ap

negotiations. We Prouching the

How have a general tariff, from which We have provisionally exempted the Dominions. We shall

One of the most valuable results of Ottawa which would help to this end might be to obtain a concerted monetary policy. This does not mean a single Empire currency, a naturally inquire what new pre- common Imperial Central Bank and ferences we may expect in return all that would imply. For the time for an extension of this exemption. Big Fish Caught At Sham Tseng, it would be enough for us all to But they may expect to negotiate

CORRESPONDENCE,

To the Editor, Hongkong

Telegraph.]

Must Women Smoke? Wyann Gibson and Irving Pichelease Imperial trade without Fashion is not only a hard task-movement, "Two Kinds of Women"

Admirably produced, with plenty of Jeopardising foreign trade. mistress but a crafty one, who lean be recommended. rules most rigidly those who her. foundly believe they rule She has been Inughing up her sleeve the Inst few years at women who sonie time Tuberculosis, a disease which

would not have cared to smoke in takes a heavy toll of life in Hong-private nor dared in public, but

agree upon a definite abjective in from the present basis, including. our policy. I do not think this the exemption, and ask what new kong, continues to be the subject who now do not dare not to. And

would be difficult. I think it should advantages we shall give ench of much concern in Great Britain, it may be amusing to Dame Fash

be that of increasing the general other. level of wholesale prices to some where, despite stringent measures ion to recall that many of them Sir is to be regretted that clearly fixed point at higher than

It may well prove in these cir- to combat it, the death-roll totals took up the cigarette fad as a ges-the gentlemen who sent you 4

that of 1929. It this were agreed cumstances that it will not be pos- пл agreement about 40,000 a year. Much is ture of independence to note photograph of a big fish caught and declared, à stable relation be-sible to conclude being done by sunatorium treat-that the woman who once blew Sham Tseng, which was pub-tween our currencies would follow which will result in more than a smoke in the face of conventionment on Saturday, appear to have easily be secured, with negligible will be a success, though a limited lished in your picturial Supple-almost automatically, and could moderate increase in the volume of trade with each other. Even that now knows what it is to have enn-mistaken the fish for a cod. luctuations, in practice. With run these institutions have no vention blow it in hers. It takes glance shows it to be of the family such a basis we could enlarge the one, on one vital condition, namely, power to keep patients under treat-no more than casual observation of fish known as the Scambridge, stering area by similar understand that it is not based on an under- standing that WE will main- ment. The result, in many cases, to convince one that many women which includes the giant mackerelings or agreements till it covered tain high tariffs against is that when there are signs of smoke against their will. If not, and tunny fish. A closer examina half the world. And with this

countries. foreign

Such tion of the photo and the weight strength behind us (or perhaps at

An improvement, the patients want to why do they contort their usually and size indicate that it is one of once)

understanding would be fatal we could co-ordinate our to our bargaining power with coun- return to their homes, where they pleasing features into such odd the so-called Spanish Mackerels, policy with America, who is already tries with whom agreements are are not able to be looked after su

patterns? Cybium Sp., which occur in differ-proceeding along this line, but with People are expected to look so cut parts of the Pacific and China much greater dimeulty, because the vital to us. We must be free to make such arrangements as will well as in these special institu- only when swallowing their first Sea, and run to an average of 30 polley of other countries is uncer maintain our trade with such coun tions. In this way, a good deal of oysters, sitting on disintegrating lbs. in these parts. A similar tain.

trics us the Argentine and species

The advantages of this policy| Scandinavia, with whom our trade would be enormous. Combined | is complementary rather than com- with arrangements to break putitive and of the greatest value

ment, but local authorities which

uzzel unattractive

ing so; certainly they should have

has been taken off

eight inches to a foot long 18 bait,

There is much clac, too, that can be usefully done before, we come to the sphere of tariffs. The debt

the work done by sanatorium treat-rocking chairs,

the or posing for Great Barrier Reef, off Queens- ment is made of less effect than flashlight photographs. This island, running up to 100 lbs. it would otherwise be. One not to say that women who feel Some years ago, I knew a man medical man, we see, thinks that obliged to smoke despite repugn-who used to trell for them from a through, to break down, the pre- to us. But such arrangements may

ance to the practice should

nut Yacht off the east coast of the Ma-sent barriers to trade, it would re- well be difficult to reconcile with too much is made of what he terms continue to make faces while do-lay Peninsular using fish from start economic netivities and reduce the kind of preferential entry the the burden both of debt and fixed Domlalons may ask for their pro- "the sanctity of the home." He

and his catches used to charges. And concerted in this duce. We must also be able to take points out that in some countries

some liberty. One cannot Trip average over 20 lbs. apiece. With way the dangers of an inflationary advantage of what is likely to be a people affected with tuberculosis wondering, though, what has be-wire lines and several hooks, it policy getting out of hand would are not permitted to live with their come of that independence which was not unusual for him to hook be avoided. familles, and concludes that they sought to declare, with the two at a time of these huge Span-

iah Mackerel-Yours, etc., Britain will eventually have to aid of the cigarette. Observant deal with the problem on similar persons sometimes remark that at many places where men and wo- lines.

It may not be generally known there is more smoking done among men gather in the name of fashion that local authorities in England the otherwise fair sex than among are already empowered to apply to their escorts. How is one to ac a court of summary jurisdiction|count for this? Is it that many for the compulsory removal of any women smoke for fear of being person suffering from pulmonary thought unfashionable? The men tuberculosis in an infectious state are inclined to think that is the where the patient's accommodation answer, and to comment that the Indies who turned to smoking as

or

SUGAR MARKET

THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS

is such that proper precautions amcans of making themselves cannot be taken to prevent the "equal" with men have sacrificed spread of infection, and where the freedom of refusing a ciga- serious risk of infection is caused rette. Naturally the men are be- to other people. These powers, ginning to feel superfor again, at

least in this rospect. however, are seldom used, possibly on the ground of sentimentality. In this connexion, it has been pointed out that the cruelty of removing a parent from his her children is ឆម nothing compared with the cruelty of in- fecting young people. Something. is being done by rehousing suffer ers in better homes and in stresa Ing the importance of consumptives having a room to themselves. An to the causes of the disease, these mostly associated with aro poverty, dirt, overcrowding and ignoranco. Chronic overwork, Improper feeding, and worry are

Sourabaya (28/7/82). — Trust also known factors. Direct in-

sold further 4,000 tona Whiten at halation from a person suffering F6.00, also 10,000 tone Browns, from pulmonary tuberculosis is price not quoted.

The following cable at the close of the sugar market on Saturday has been received by Mesara, Pea- trenth and Co.

London Terminals, August 1932 6/1% up 1⁄2d. December 1932 6/3% down d. March 1933 6/61⁄2 up d. May 1933 6/8 no change. Buyora at above prices, sellers naking d-d more.

New York Terminals. • No quotations.

V. J.

"I didn't think so much of Europe"

greater opportunity, than we have ever had of bargaining down Euro- pean tariffs, as has-been indicated by the remarkable Initiative of Belgium and Holland and the re- cont news from France. But to bargain we must be na free to re- duce tariffs as to Impose them. Here, perhaps, the difficulty will be less, If we are careful and deter- mined, for while the Dominions are determined to manufacture for their own markets, they do not in general expect to export industrial products to Europe.

This then, in my view, should be the basic principle of all our policy; we must increase the volume of trade with the Dominions in auch a way that the total volume of our whole trade (including both the Dominions and foreign countries)." is greater than it would otherwise be. If we achieve this we succeed; if we do not, wo full; and failure would mean long enduring regrets, of which the consequences would necessarily be felt in every sphere of Imperial relations.

WATER LEVELS.

WEST NORTH AND EAST RIVERS

The following tablo fanued by tho Kwanglung River Conservancy Com- mission shows the height of water in English feet on the datea named In the West North and East Rivors:

Highest on Townut July

.

record. on record. '13

July

24

West River at

sklaħjar .. 1417 North River at

Thingyden. †26,4

0

11.9

D

14.1

·To 8.4

8,1

| Norih Rizer-kt

Bamabul, de †279 East River at

Sheklung +188