BRITISH & FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16231, 29 March 1917, Page 7

BRITISH & FOREIGN

' BABY WEEK. WELFARE OF CHILDREN. (Australian, and N.Z. Cable Assn.) V LONDON, March 27. , Mr Lloyd George, as president of tlie National Committee, is organising a baby week, commencing on July 1. Similar weeks have been held, in Paris, Copenhagen, and some big cities in the United" States, and have been instru-j mental in saving many infants' lives, ! Tlie British Committee is arranging for special sermons in the churches i relating to child welfare. Special films will be shown at cinema houses. A children's exhibition and conference of. Health .Associations will be held at Guildhall. , . DRUGS CHEAPENED. BY BRITISH -MANUFACTURERS. Owing to improvements in British manufacture the prices of anti-fi'orio, aspirin, and several other drugs have been enormously reduced. AN ALABAMA CYCtONE. ! VANCOUVER, March 27. i A cyclone wiped out the town' of Peterey in Alabama. Fourteen were killed and twenty injured. "A JAPANESE PURCHASE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) BERNE, March 27. The "Cologne Gazette" states that Portugal has sold the Island of Macao, to Japan. [The Portuguese settlement of Macao on an island at the mouth of the Canton river, has an area of 4J square miles and a "population of 75,000, of whom less than 5000 are Port"gueso, and the rest mostly Chinese. The commerce of Macao has dwindled since the risie of Hong Kong.]