BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16484, 25 February 1914, Page 10

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. A TROPICAL DISEASE.-’ • ‘LONDON, February 24. Dr Leipei:,' of the London School of Tropical Medicine, , Surgeon Atkinson and Mr Cherry Garrard, of. - Scott’s Antarctic (expedition, have 4 gone to China to • ascertain the mode of spread of tilematode disease in man, especially ankylostozasis, which is serious among tea and rubber coolies. DUBLIN RIOTERS RELEASED. LONDON, February 24. The Crown has released nine prisoners' who were sentenced in connection with' the Dublin riots. JAPANESE NAVAL SCANDALS. TOKIO, February 23. Tlie Commission of Inquiry into the Japanese naval scandals has been dissolved, and the entire investigation remitted to the naval and judicial author rities./ PETROLEUM WORKS ON FIRE. .ST PETERSBURG, February ,23. Fire broke out iu the petroleum works at Baku and three reservoirs were destroyed. The damage is estimated at one million roubles.