THE OUTSIDE WORLD

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XIX, Issue 6280, 26 July 1921, Page 2

THE OUTSIDE WORLD

BRITISH INDUSTRIAL CRISIS

A BRIO LITER OCT LOOK

PROMINENT RANKER’S VIEWS

LONDON, May 31

Few Englishmen are in a bet'fr post!tinn than .Montagu Nonmiu, deputygovernor ul the- Rank of England, to estimate the industrial outlook ol Croat Britain and the world. Adi.Vessiug (lie Association of Baufc(l> he said: 'Twelve years ago, in whatever direction you looked, there was nothing leal, darkness. AVe were ■roar.'al at the condition oi Europe', to say nothing ol America. Comparing the podium now with what it was then. | think in wry direct ion then' i- impKiveiueul. I really do. 1 have watched it closely. i J do not say there is not trouhlie to itav in manv places, but 1 see t*r lewer eounirii's in (rouble now lha.il 1 did Llifii.

' Sigiu are not absent ol a gradual cmergem e irom llm-e irouMe., ’which I'Uvelope.l Us a year ago. I. am more i 1 an optimist to-day. despite passing troubles, I han 1 have been ad any time, lor Mars.

••In Ihe hist low months an agreement |m,< heteu readied with Germany. 1 liol.iovo ii wo mu ibllow up t,h.a.t slop. ill- assistance In (lie League of Nations. wo shall In 1 doing not only Easts oin Europe. Imt ourselves, an iniinily of good.

EX UNCTION OF FEVERS LOW DEATH-RATE IN ENGLAND. ONLY FLU PREVALENT. LONDON, June 2At tin- moment the death rate from lever was tig, lowest in the history of England and the lowest of any country •in the r\orld. ' 'this sUttemenl was made by Dr. Wd- . ban, Hunter, senilir physician to the ! Dnnloii I'Vver Hospital, in the third ol I his Chadwick lectures in the .Medical I Sot iet v el I .ondo-n.

He advled Dial the five principal fevers —t.\ pints, typhoid, cholera, smallpox. and scarlet, fever—were now almost uimpYtciiy under control, and the first four were on the point of extiiuv lam.

From diphtheria the deatli rate used to be one in two. or one in three, but

since HO'), when aiUi-tcxin was introduced. it had fallen to -I per cent. 'I Ins di-c isu. which was the uVest dangerous of all to the patient attacked, w-'as the on,, mm most completely under control be trial metil.

I'nllnenza was tiie only lever which had iecreased, in prevail ire., taking info a., mini lhe great epidemic oj 1918.]!).

EXECUTED BY REBELS

FAREWELL LETTER TO WIRE AND KAMI LA’. EON DON, May it. I,ale en Sunday .Mrs Potter, wife of District Inspector Rotter. of C.'uhir, who Was kidnapped- th-rc-e weeks ago while returnin'; in a motor car from Clogheeu to ('a.lur, received a small packet from her hushami containin'; a farewell letter, 1 1 ia\ .signer ring, and gold watch. The letter was dated 27th April, and the packet, was posted, in Cahir,

l.n the lei ter Mr Pot.ter said he was writing it in the morning, as he would he “executed' 1 that day. He I aide tarewell to his wife and four little children in affectionate terms.

KnVAL poison gas

MENACE UE MODERN WARSHIPS, ■ ONE WHIFF WJLL KILL" Nl'lW YORK, June I. As at present designed, the modern 'winship is the most 'dangerous menace lo its own crew. .If. is a trap in which ever,- soul on Hoard would ineel instant death in the first brush with an enemy

using the newest engines vd warfare. This is the theory heid( by the highest

t xjK’i'ls on Hie Americ an army and navy And | his L the reason:

The v,oh dal ing system nt nil warships j is based on a suction sy-tem that draws lair through tubes to every corner of I lie I vc-sel. Oases so deadly that otto whiff will kill would, if used, he slicked, by the ventilating apparatus and distributed in a trice throughout Hie ship. Dense poisonous dust clouds, I i hern-led on the surface od the sea Irom bombs or smoko boxes dropped to windward of a vissel would produce a similar result. Tie-re are no gas masks yet invented, the expert- -ay. that- would save men! from some known gases in such circinnstances, and they insist that lor the protoil ior of tin- erews warships must he, marie airtight.