NEWS BY MAIL

Hokitika Guardian, 15 June 1922, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL

'HOOKWORM IN AUSTRALIA. EXTENSIVE IXVESTIG ATIOXS. SYDNEY, June 1. Over 200,000 persons have been examined in Australia and Papua in connexion with the survey work undertaken by tbe Federal Department for Health, in conjunction with the International Health Board for the treatment of hookworm. The Campaign, which was to have been of five years’ duration, was begun in 1919. It lias been demonstrated that bookworm does not exist in Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia. West Australia, with the exception of the north-west, is also free. The disease as been found to a limited extent in Quenslaml oil the coastal regions, and other portions of Northern Australia, and also in the Northern Rivers district of New South M ales. Tbe survey work having been completed in Papua and New Guinea, the oflorts of the officers will now be devoted to controlling tbe disease. Of the persons examined in New Guinea, 74 per cent were found to lie infected with hookworm, and in Papua the percentage, was 59. The percentage of infected eases varied in Queensland. In some districts it was 3 per cent, and in others 14. The DirectorGeneral for Health (Dr Cuinpston) states that it is intended to set up a permanent organisation to ensure that ili«‘ active work at present being carried out will not be lost.

FLOAT!NG EXHIBITION

ITINERARY IN AUSTRALIA

SYDNEY, June 1. Details of the Australasian itinerary of the vessel chartered by the British Trade Exhibition to make n world tour in the interests of British oversea commerce have been announced by Alnjor H. E. Goddard, the advance representative of tbe expedition who is now touring Australia. The vessel, British Trade, is scheduled to leave England to-day. The people, of Australasia will have opportunities of studying British products in bulk, because the exhibition will call at Fremantle, Adelaide, .Afelbotinie, Hobart, Sydney, Brisbane, Dunedin, Lyttelton, Wellington, Auckland, Fiji, and Port Moresby. She will then pass on to Japan and through the Fast. If the Australian manufacturers desire exhibition they will take samples of their products for exhibition on the trip through the Eastern countries, and will provide accommodation for tlit-ii representatives. Major Goddard emphasises the fart that the enterprise is an Kmpiic one, and they are prepared to ship and display exhibits from all the Dominions. Actually, lie says - , it is an aggressive expedition, hacked by the finest advertising and selling organisation obtainable, to stimulate and create a demand for goods manufactured in Britain and lior Dominions.

KILLING JUSTIFIED. NEW YORK, April 7. After hearing the evidence of Airs Day, a coroner’s jury at Oklahoma City yesterday returned a verdict recommending that the charges be made against. Judge Jean P. Day, who in the early hours of Tuesday morning blew out the brains of Lieut Col. Paul Beck, a prominent officer of the United Stales Air Force.

Mrs Day maintained perfect composure in the witness-box us she narrated how as soon as the oilier guests, escorted by her husband, left the house, Beck seized her in his arms and cried, “Girl, girl, you’ve swept me off my feet. You must come to my room tonight .” She struck him in the chest or face and was stil! struggling when her husband returned. “I looked up,” she said, “ and saw Mr Day, gun in hand, looking pale, haggard, and distressed. 1 said, ‘Oil, Daddy, don’t.’ Tho next thing 1 remember was seeing Colonel Beck oil his hack at in\ feet. I .-.looped down. His lips moved. I lifted his head up. Then Mr Day said. '1 didn’t mean to kill him. Th*' only thing to do is to call the police.’ "I saw blood on mv hands and fainted,” Day gave evidence after his wife. Turning to the jury lie said, “You can do what you like with me, hut don’t east aspersions on my wife, the purest tyomnn that ever lived.” The jury found that Day killed Beck, [nit was justified in doing so in defending his wife and home. DETECTIVE HUSBAND’S HUNT. PARIS. April 7. Tiie romantic marriage of Allle. Jacqueline Bellieres, the 1 * -years-old I daughter of the late Jacques Lebaudy, flic French “Sugar King,” known as the “Emperor of the Sahara,” has been disclosed by the attempt of her husband to force her to leave her mother and live with him. in January 1919 Jacques Lebaudy, who was then living in the United States, was shot dead bv AI mo. Bellieres. who was acquitted on the ground that she killed him to save her daughter’s honour. Mine. Bellieres had not been married to AL Lebaudy, but bad lived will, him for many years, and she and her daughter inherited 1 1 is vast fortune, which was estimated at Cl 2,(10(7,000. This fortune, however, was in trust, and until Allle. Bellieres came of ago or married neither she nor her mother could dispose of the money. Mine. Bellieres and her daughter then came to Franco, and last January the girl was married in the south of France to Mr Roger Sedreau, a young American detective. He and his father jointly manage the Paris firm of detectives known as “Harris.’

It is alleged by Mine. Bellieres that before the marriage an arrangement bad been concluded by which Mr Roger Sadre.au would leave his wife immediately after the ceremony and would never claim a right to her. The marriage was simply with a view to freeing the Leliandy fortune from its restrictions.

Mr Roger Sndrcau, however, slates that lie and Jacqueline began to love each other, and when Aline. Bellieres found this out she took her daughter away. Both women disappeared, but tho firm of Harris traced them and seized -M is Sadrenu and carried her to a wailing motor ear. She screamed so loudly, however, that her mother mu out of the villa and, aided by the nurses was able to put the detective party to flight. , . The next day mother and daughter had again disappeared.

| TRADE PUSH IN CHINA. [ CHEFOO, Shantung, April 7. The warning given by Lord North

elide when lie was in the Far East recently regarding the influence of German propaganda oil Far Eastern trade was most timely.

Hero in Chefoo tlio effect of suck propaganda is being felt, and circulars from Germany reach the district regularly* Goods arc offered at ridiculously low prices and there is an obvious effort to capture the trade. In pre-war days German firms were well established in Ohefoo. They had to go when China declared herself a belligerent. They are not hack yet, though it must he admitted that several of Germany’s nationals formerly residing in Chefoo for business purposes are hack again and hard at work doing all within their power to work their way in the affection of Chinese business and commercial men.

At present it looks very much as though a newly-established firm in Cliefoo is f rying to corner the hair not market. Represented by a buyer who is of German nationality, it has purchased practically tho whole of the local supply of hair nets with the inevitable result that the price has been doubled. It is reported hero that the firm is scooping tbe hair nets there also. It appears to have plenty of silver, for there is no scarcity of it when buying the hair nets. NEW CHINESE POLICIES. TOKO, April 7. Commissioners have been appointed by Japan and China to superintend the impending witdhrnwal of the Japanese troops from the Chinese province of Shantung. Japanese residents in tho province nr anxious for China to carry out tho Washington Conference declaration and open the towns along the Shantung railways to international trade. It is pointed out that an opportunity is provided for Britain while handing hack AVei-liai-wei to the Chinese to secure Ihe free opening of the port and to preserve the town from the consequences likely fo follow its absolute return to Chinese authority. The Japanese [Minister in Pekin is expected here on AVednesday when lie will discuss with tho Government the new policy in China which follows the Washington decisions.