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20 THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1926. cement a better understanding be first red leaves in autumn, and those drifting leayes that in the back end of the year take the place -of parr and keen vou ininatient and alert. TO LET. Mr. O'Flanagan lived in the first, floor front, and Mrs.

Silcote lived in the second floor front, so there was nothing SLEEPY SICKNESS. Little Evidence, that it is Infectious." DEPLORABLE AFTER-EFFECTS ON CHARACTER. The Medical Research. Council publishes to-day (price Is. 8d- net, H.

M. Stationery Office) The Sheffield outbreak Epidemic Encephalitis in 19S4," (the outbreak in which there' were 301 cases). It is the report THE WEATHER. Forecasts for To-day. The Meteorological Office issues the following forecasts for the twenty-four hours ending midnight to-night: General Inference Pressure continues high from the Aaores England and Ireland to Western Russia.

A. rigorous secondary depreion. associated with a depression north of Iceland. morinr north-east towards th Faroes, and a rery slight secondary trough is oonng east across the British Isles. In Scotland, Ireland and Northern England there uill be occasional hovers, but in Southern England the weather vill he mainly fair, with less widespread Ic; lor a.

time London. Light indefinite minds roalol fair, local fog, becoming more widespread later; hligut Irost in most places night. Sk. aod SW. England.

East and West Midlands, and Sonth Wales. Light iudednite winds, inai nly tir Local fog, becom ing more widespread later: slight frost in medt places night. W. aod N.E England, North Wales, aort North Midland. Wind bouth-westerlr to westerly, ligh" to moderate; occasional showers; omc mist or to; at lroat in most places at night.

Isle of Van. Wind south-wwterly to weaterly. light to rooderatr; occasional ahoerf; come mut or fog at tufiht; hght Irost in. most places at night. Jrtfh Sea Wind south to couth-Tcest.

light to modeiate: flight local showers; tomo coastal mist; tea alight. Fuithor Out loot. No important charge. YESTERDAY IN MANCHESTER. Whitwortb Park Meteorological Observatory, Thursday.

November 25, 1926. Fog; clearing in the afternoun. ROD AND LINE 1 Fishing Diaries By Arthur Ransome One of the many merits of Lord Walsingham's little book about his life as an angler (Fish, by Lord Walsingham, London: Philip Allan, 6s. net) is-its precision. For him prehistoric times end early.

He cannot be sure of all his dates, but as long ago as 1S62 he was keeping a game-book in which the fish he caught were duly entered side by side with records of trapped mice. "On the 2nd August, 1S62 I caught no less than 61 perch in one day, the 5 largest being and 3 of sib. each. On the 15th January, 1S69, I killed a pike weighing and I remember that his capture was in this wise. He fished for bleak and chub at Eton, trout in Hampshire, salmon in Ireland, and went for the first time to Norway, where for twentv years he has had a little river of hU own.

He gives a true fisherman's account of this river, so good that, although there is no map. which is a pity, the reader knows each pool, and when he comes to read of the capture of nsh in particular places is already aware of the character of the water, unen a fash is hooked Foss Pool and goes right down to be gaffed in the tail of the House Pool he does not for the reader make that journey -in the void, but an actual stream, from JJoss to the Annexe, down though the CORRESPONDENCE ENGLAND AND CHINA. The Way to a Better Understanding. To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. Sir, One is glad that our Government repeatedly, and one believes sincerely, has disclaimed any intention of forcible intervention in the internal affairs of China.

We must be equally determined to avoid a repetition of what recently occurred at Wanhsien, even when legitimate rights seem to be threatened. The use of force in such cases is both wrong and futile. Wrong because we have no moral right to exact for ourselves within the borders of another nation, at the cost of bloodshed, immunity from the sufferings which her own nationals have to endure. Futile because the result in local freedom from interference is far outweighed by the wide embittering of feeling against us. A letter just to iiard from a colleague who is professor of chemistry in a Chinese university gives a glimpse of the feeling after the Wanhsien affray.

The students put out a pamphlet describing the misdeeds of Britain, and calling British folk treacherous' dogs, wolves, brutes," tc. "When this terrible news reached us, wc men, with our hair standing on end and our eyes cracking open aghast, swore that not until we had wiped out this incomparable shame will we live under the same heaven or in the same world as these rebels." One ciay be quite sure that British trade is at a standstill in Szechuan to-day. Secondly, a mere policy of do-nothing, of Wait till the clouds roll by," is not enough. We realise now the golden opportunity we had of securing friendship" with China in the years following the Washington Conference, years frittered away by the Powers waiting for each other to move or for tween. England and China.

Yours, Clifford M. Stubbs (of the West China Union University, Birmingham, 24. A MUSIC UNIVERSITY fo the Editor oi the ManchetUr Guardian Sir, In a day or two the first music university library in the British Isles is to be opened at- the Imperial Institute in London, and I cannot help thinking that this is a very important lead which might be followed with great benefit in Manchester. The new library is to be equipped with pianolas and gramophones with complete sets of rolls, records, and scores, and the students are to have free access to bear these and study them at will. It is high time the gramophone and pianola took their places beside the piano and the violin as instruments of pure music.

They are invaluable to the study of music in these times, when orchestral concerts have fallen on bad days, and in my opinion the education of the young man and woman of to-day cannot be considered complete without some knowledge of such char acteristic masterpieces of our age ss Hoist's Planets," Vaughan Williams's "London" Symphony. Delius's Dance Rhapsody, and indeed almost all the recorded work of Henry Wood, GuBtav Hoist, and our other great British conductors. It is fashionable among serious musicians to decry the "low-brow" taste of our young jjeonle to-day. Why not try to improve it by giving youth a taste for something better by making good music available in all our schools and universities? Many of the most up-to-date schools have gramophone instruction, I know but it is the idea of the librarv where young people may "browse" at will among the finest music that is so important. I hope it will not le long before the example of the London University is followed in everv educational centre of the kingdom.

Yours, Dan Godfrey. Pavilion and Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, November 24. THE MAINTENANCE OF FREE SPEECH. To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. Sir, Until recently England has had the reputation of leading the world in the maintenance of freedom of sneeeh one of the highest indices rf civilisation in contrast to tne open and secret suppression practised in so many other leading countries of the world.

Abroad, an Englishman could listen with satisfaction to the envious ackhow-ledgment by other nationals of England's ascendency in this' respect. This is no longer true. The prosecution of the Communists not for actions, but merely for words which certainly led to no actions and were not even proved to have been read by those to whom they were addressed the vindictive sentences nH by "local magistrates for trivial offences auring tne strike; and finally the banning of Mr. Cook from addressing meetings all these things have attracted, and are attracting, significant comment in the press and from individuals of other nations, and will serve as precedents for intensifying, or excuses for not relaxing, repression in other reactionary countries. The most discouraging eign of all is the apparent laelc of protest in England beyond the mere formal raising of the subject in Parliament against this dan ment to restrict liberties won by great enort anu sacritlce in the past.

In the nineteenth century Liberals led the struggle for freedom of speech; but since the war the Liberal party has for the most part been silent on this issue. Even the Labour party has allowed itself to be scared by the Bolsheist bogy, and has been so over-anious to clear itself of any suspicion of Communism that its protests have appeared lukewarm. Yet on so vital an issue one might hae supjrosed that Englishmen of different views would have united to save the country's reputation. Among the numerous societies now cxiitinir. is the nnn u-biofc has as its sole object the maintenance of fiec speech? The aftermath of the war has shown the necessity for such a society.

Governments hae shown a rp-idlnoss! to adopt so-called Emergency Regulations on ine nimsiest pretexts, fcuch a power would be dangerous in any cas-p, and is doubly dangerous when wielded by a class Government such as the present Government, elected on a minority vote. In view of the weakness of the Liberal and Labour narties the matter of organising effective public protest, a society should be formed with the general obieet ts tr free speech, and with the particular immediate objects of clearing away the archaic statutes used by an aichaic Home secretary for the prosecution of the Communists, and, secondly, of checking bv statute the practically unlimited powers at present possessed by Governments of adopt ing extra legal powers on slight pretexts Precise definition of emergencies and oi tne extent, of the extra powers, strictly limited in each case, that can he adopted in diuerent kinds of emergencies should be put on the Statute-book. If these nJlasures were taken England might regain its lost reputation as the home of free speech. Yours, E. F.

Penrose. JTagoya, Japan, 1. THE MINERS" DEFEAT AFTER. AND To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian. Sir, Sir Richard Redmayne's defence of British coalmines, quoted by your corres pondent Mr.

D. Stanley, deals exclusively with engineering equipment and manage ment within the mines, which is one detail only of the general- condition of the which I criticised. The funda mental defect of the industry lies in its failure to avoid waste by organising the mines in groups with combined selling agencies, to pool and reduce redundant railway waggons oy "eliminating the private owner, and above -all by setting up plant for obtaining by-products from coal, the utility of which, is' vouched for by unanimous scientific opinion. Here is surely sufficient field for reform. Sir Alfred Mond has stated b' opinion plainly with, regard to the need for selling agencies.

Underground we find loss of time and labour due to absence of wayleaver, due to private ownership, miners having often two hours to walk daily to and from, the pit face. "Barrier coal" is left standing between one property and another. In the Falkirk last year accumulated" -water broke through such a barrier 45 men were drowned. Above ground an enormous amount of time and money are lost on the railways in sorting out private waggons by the primi tive method of shunting. This is glaringly obvious at the present time, as the traveller passes the long lines of.

motionless waggons bearing private labels that (bake the sidings. After the already towering Even human beings are worth mentioning sometimes, thougn not often. TO-DAY'S ARRANGEMENTS. Manchester Assizes. College of Technology: Conference on Tar; Sessions at 10 a.m., 2 p.m..

and 5 p.m. Manchester Universitv lublic Lantern Lecture by Professor V. A. Joligher (Dublin). -The Great Names of Greece," S.

Medical Charities' Annu.tt Meeting: Lord Mayor's Parlour, Town Hall, 3 30., Manchester Kaees, 12 45. Manchester University: Public Lecture by Dr. Hu Shih (Professor in the National University of Peking), "China at the Parting o'f the Wajs," 8 p.m. Mr. Baldwin at Farewell Dinner to Dominion Premiers at House of Lords.

House of Commons: Emergency Eegula-tions. Sir A. Steel-Maitland at ftugby. Mr. Chamberlain at Carnarvon.

Mr. W. Churchill at- West Essex Unionist Dinner, London. CATHEDRAL SERVICES. latins at ETexutme at 3 30.

IIol Communion. Wekdars 7 SO a m. Fnduo (choral), at 11 am. Baptlunt daily after due natioc Friday. Mutltn ami I.itany aid itt 80 Hymn 323: Itltroit: "I am not worthy" (Lo William); Holy Communion! Tours In Hymns 3J6, 319(2).

Evensong: Stanford in Anthem, "My soul, tbera in country" (Parry). Senitc rendered ultbout. onjui. TIio head offices of the" Roads Improvement Association have been transferred to 180, Clapham Road, London. S.W.9.

Th tolcphone number will bo Brixtort 5S89 and. tho telegraphic address Kuobildcr, Clap- oad, Londo.i. SfESTMACOTT'S TONIC CHAMPAGNE. With Wtals and With Spirits. All Holeh.

UIN1ESS CHILDBIRTH. Est 1917. Tel. 895 Chcrlton. Wrif for booklufc.

ELP NATURE TO KEEP YOU FIT. Drink vrroyiov A THAT PLEASE. WILLIAMSON'S. Sraithficld Market Oak SU end. Mi'o Painless Childbirth.

Ma Twilight Sieep i4aiu uuui vUUI I LOU u. IV Hfl ETC Tel. 807 Chjrlton Write for booklet to Macdoualrll TEF0RE BUYING your FURNITURE what HUNTER'S hdTo to sbow Jwo. 28. 3T MARY'S PARSONAGE, MANCHESTER.

IVER PILLS- (P. and remove that A Ynaiy lond of ro and worry la. Weetmacotts. Announcement in this column are charted at tbe rate li. 6d.

per line. Ail ucn announcements must be authenticated tha i v. acuuec. rootage stamps or postal orders may bo sent iu payment. MAKRIAGES.

tho 24th at. Su Vincents Cburcb. Allrlnciuim, by tho But. Canco. Welch (with Nuptial Massl.

EDWARD. youuirejL eon Mr- F- HBENNAW. Sunnyiide, Cotton Lane, WUhinston, to MURIEL, only child ol Mrs- Tom USIG1I, Clcnesrry, Entillo Itcad. Bowdon ll" 24th iust at Alt Saints Church, blsnd, WbituGcld, by the Rev. Arlbur Kurehaw ireclur), assisted by thtt Rer.

y. A. Cuoko (rector ol St. Matthias's, Sallord), JOHN, clde. ton oi tho late Mr.

Tom BKIEJtLEY and ot Mrt Bnerley, Circular Road. Hilton Park. Prcstwich. to JSffe daughter Mr. and Albert OGDLN, Holmdalo.

Hamilton Road. Whitefleld. NoTembcr 25, at th O.M. Church. Ashtun-uudcr-Lyne, by the Rev Honry Jsraer (presfciunt of the United Methodist Cn'ucel jyiLLlAM G.

TAYLOR, lo MARGARLT bMCTHtTRsT, both ol Ashton-uuder-Lyue. DEATHS. tbe 24th at Top-flat. 26 CitKtaX. Road, Birkdalo.

BARAil. aged 61 year, the belorcd wife ot John A. BRAD3HAW and widow tho Into Herbert Richardson, ol Jry Cottaic "'torment at SUnd t-nnrcn, Saturday next, at three o'clock. Incnds kindly awept this It lie only) Intimation. the 26th at Dunjitcr.

Weat Bjdsbury. THOMAS BROWN. SerViciilMnl.bc."r Crematorium Monday, November 29, 13 30. Ho specially deiin.d no mourning and no floucrs. thl: Blrkdale, Soutliport.

in his 91st year, the THOMAS CAIN, since 1864 tmerilua ol otubbins Congrez-tionaj Churrh Ramsbottom. Lancashire. Funeral at 3 'his day (Fridaj). I-cavine Rwebanfc Haw, Aasuibottom. 5iw iMtaftSo.

CAWTHRA, On llm 23rd nf Nmrmfwr TtmV "ATrV14 P'l'S-th," ir5SioTS5SSi.3 IJorrare K. Cawthra Inlermrnt. boulbern "2 "urd. II Ffenrlon Tbone- DJCKWOBTH -On NoTmber 24. at 15.

Wt Bank M- "fCKWOBTH. Ihn 22nd at. his reiidrnce rhrLlpher si rent. in S3M jesr. W1L1.WM HAVSES, the bVloTcrl htiBbaml ol Alma PAJJIALL.

awry oeloTcd FARROW -On I he 241 hi, mMrnr. Frederick Mtrcel, Oldham. JOHN -THOMAS Ihn dearly belored husband of Mopbla FASROW fit 5" 6'b Btrpa, at St. Tbomas Chmch. Werneth, Saturday.

Noiember 27. at eleTen dVlcit prior to interment at rjharfderton Cemetery rt rtrrtT; al lt -'ohn On Ibr 25rd inr (lal of Old Traflordl.This 6Stwi5 jSSSE Plea.e accept this tthi only) 85. Interment al day. Norember at 11 Kendal. Milne and Co? Jrnintrffs to lf.IOH.-On tho 23rd tnst at Neither.

WILLIAM LHW in Indent Parish Om.raB.?Sjg& LINNEY. On l.b 25th inrt Tnrru infant son ol Mr. and J. F. th MARSDEN.

On November 24 at town. JANE MArtSDEX Led cS wile of ft. S.SeSarS'u111' and LirerpofJ, and othrVr vL "iMebesbirr Marsden. the JPf' bert Monday. November 29 at.

tt on tbe funeral Vertco bjirur Parish Church. EarKtown Victoria Park TABmTA Jt George PpGSON. THAl Wm the late RIDEAU-Os the 24th int i. denu-, 95. Park Street cSenhJr fttSfh1 of the lato Grr? altDEAU iK-.

City 6769. "1 Gordon, Ltd. In Memosiah. wounds in FrScV26ti ot and Mrs. To, ElstanBowe? Eos HiS7' FROM l06 K40H niNGLEYS, Piccadilly, ukrtrmmv UMENTAL WORKS, GOBDON; LtrL, phon iTi "JAl.

DIRECTORS. frintea na IMbuahed br JOBS RtTSSTELt SOOTT left for Miss Cranberry but the first floor back, otherwise the kitchen, and a teeny-weeny bedroom coaxed out of the attics. When, as sometimes happened, there was a kitchen boarder, Miss Cranberry surrendered her lofty perch to the newcomer and rolled herself up each night 'in a patent bureau-bedstead1 arrangement in the kitchen, much as 1 a caterpillar rolls himself up on a cabbage leaf. Every night Miss Cranberry prayed to be delivered from battle, murder, udden death, and Mr. O'Flanagan, and every night she added a special petition for a new house.

Like the prophets of old, she had visions standing afar off she beheld herself in a solid, brick-built, double-fronted house this last 'clause was important containing half a dozen good bedrooms and a pacious dining-room in which she presided at a dining-table spread adequately but not too adequately with viands which she smilingly dispensed to six young and well-mannered bank clerks. "Give-me," said Miss Cranberry to her bosom friends in moments "of expansion, a dozen nice bank clerks, and I'll thank you." The reason why, like a modern Salome, she made this demand of six heads round a charger was that she possessed a theory surpassing that of Einstein in that it could be grasped by the simplest intelligence. Briefly it was that a bank clerk's work, making small demands on the physical system, that same system required small replenishing, so that at thirty-seven and six a week, or shall we say thirty-five 1 Whereas, bring in a schoolmaster like Mr. O'Flanagan after a game at hockey with the boys and you might as well let in the wolf from the front door at once. Mrs.

Silcoto was different, but then she paid so little, and ladies were always in, and fussed about their food mid the little bits of things left over. I believe," said Miss Cranberry to herself one morning as Bhe viewed the open-air desolation of Mr. O'Flanagan's sitting-room and the arid Sahara of his breakfast table, "I'd sell my soul for a new house At that moment there came such a loud ring and double knock at th.e front-door that Miss Cranberry, as she phrased it, nearly jumped out of her skiij an operatioti which, judging by appearances, would have been nearly analogous to the conduct of the sausage in the frying-pan. However, it proved to Le only Mr. Wanderbank, the house figent, with his battered stove-pipe hat, nhieh he wore impartially indoors and outdoors, fixed firmly on the back of his head, a large cigar in the corner of his mouth, and his general air of having walked out of a musical comedy.

Hello, Miss Cranberry he began. Blooming as usual I see (Mr. was always gallant). "What d'you think I've got for you this morning? An 'ouse! H.O.U.S.E.," spelling it on his five fingers. "And ghat's more, an 'ouse to let! No said Miss Cranberry.

"Yes!" said Mr. Wanderbank with laugh like bacon sizzling in the pan, as he pushed his way into the kitchen, near in mouth, "a perfectly stood 'ouse, three naught seven Blynders Road, double-fronted, two good entertaining, six bed, kitchen, pantrv, to be let let mind you and I'm giving you fi3t chance. Queer old boy the owner, don't want to sell, gone abroad inde-nnitely, left the whole thing in -my 'raids, and 1 tan tell you I've clients as rud near jump down my throat to get such an 'ouse, and at a moderate rent too, so if you Wait a said Miss Cvanberry, I'm all of flutter. Ts he was he this old seutleman a a Churchman, do 5 on think?" "A what1!" aid Mr- Wanderbank. His battered hat knocked against the back of the chair in his surprise, and fell (iff.

He picked it up and replaced il- on his head. He might 'a'. been a l'lymouth Brethren for all I know." Miss Cranberry caught at the words. "Oh. a Pit month Brother," she a most respectable sect.

and strict. believe. Very well, Mr. Wandeibank. I'll see the house.

And I'm sure I'm very much obliged- to Oil." whitll nie Mr. O'Flanagan notic" on Saturday." Mis.s Cranberry to "herself she closed the front, door. Hnik in the kitchen the sniffed. There's a very queer smell." she paid, tin'l exactly tobacco, and jet- But after hu exhaustive search she was obliged to put. it down to that horrible big cigar." after all.

Events marched. So likewise did Mr. O'Flnuagan. Little Mrs. Silcote simply slid away, as a not too solid jelly slides from one plate to another, in a month Miss Cranberry was mis-ttess of the new house, the dining-room, dining-table in fact all the f.ppurteuances of her vision except the six bank clerks.

These unfortunately tarried long, and a the barometer and Miss Cranberry's bank bafance had dropped suddenly about the same time, and thf pinch of wintet began to make itself felt, the plump lady's nose began sympathise with the weather, and her mouth with the. barometer. I knew there was a snag in it somewhere." she saiil mournfully, "and uow I'm going to be starved to death to punish me- for wanting it." But she wasn't. One afternoon, when "she had cleaned the house down for the umpteenth time, there came again a. double ring and a knock, and the're in- the first flakes of snow stood Mr.

O'Flauagan, iti his old overcoat and a tweed cap not worth sixpence, smoking his abominable old pipe and grinning in his usiial cheerful way. I'm back, you said he with all his old never found anybody so charming as -yourself. Miss Cranberry, for me landlady. If ye'll take me in and do for me again l've a slip a friend or so that'll join me, and we'd be company for each other. Me fiiends." he added hastilv.

are in the bank, and quiet nice lads as you'd meet in a day's Well Well At the North Pole one 'doesn't ask for hors Miss Cranberry took him and the two quiet lads, and then more and more, like the oysters hopping through the frothy waves in Alice," till three naught seven Blynders Road was fidl as it would hold. How nice if one ceuld end the stoiy here with a lived-happy-ever-after Christmassv ending of dreams come true. But one can't. The theory, the gigantic theory, failed. One bitter night, alone with her housekeeping books.

Miss Cranberry was fain to enunciate the startling dis covery that bank clerks on tne whole eat more than schoolmasters In deep dejection Miss Cranberry lead her nightly chapter, before retiring to a rest: broken by the strains of jazz music on the front room piano, and, haunted by-visions of a leaping igas-bill, "findeth it swept and garnished read Mies Cranberry "tatosth- seven other spirits of a sub-committee appointed by the Medical Advisory Committee of the local division of the British Medical Association under the chairmanship of Dr. Arthur J. Hall, Pro fessor of Medicine in the University of Sheffield. Professor F. E.

Wynne, Medical Officer of Health for Sheffield, became re sponsible for the epidemiological inquiry, Professor J. S. C. Douglas for the patho logical report, and Professor A. 3.

Hall and Dr. A. Gurney Yates for the clinical studies. An appendix on the aetiology of the disease, giving a summary of recent researches, is contributed by Dr. J.

H. Perdrau, a member of the scientific staff of the Council at the National Institute for Medical Research, Hampatead. Professor Wynne (savs the introduction to the report) draws attention to the impossibility of obtaining records of mild and abortive cases of the disease, and points out, as Dr. A. 6.

MacNalty had previously done, that statistical estimates of the incidence of fatality of epidemic encephalitis should be accepted with reservation owing to the occurrence of unrecognised cases of this type. Althoueb. Professor Wynne fovind evidence of contact in six instances. involving thirteen patients, or just over 4 ner rent of the total number of cases ascertained, he concludes, in view of the negative evidence as to lack of spread in the elementary schools, that there is no good evidence ttiat the disease is spread by direct contact, nor anv data for computing an incubation period if infection does take place. It is possible, however, that the infectivity of epidemic encephalitis is in accord witn those ot its sister diseases, cerebro-spinal fever and poliomyelitis, in which the chain of infeetivitv from case to case is maintained by unrecognised mild and abortive cases and by healthy carriers." On this assumption the un-recocnisecl cases form links in the chain of infectivity from patient to patient.

Professor Wynne offers some interesting observations on the correlation between eoidenuo encephalitis and influenza. This is a controversial subject (adds the introduction), and the difficulty is accentuated bv tne lact that many examples of epidemic encephalitis are mis taken for influenza in the first instance through failure to diagnose the febrile prodromal stage of the malady. Men More Susceptible. Ii- the course of his conclusions Professor Wjnnc says the evidence already available as to increased susceptibility to infection in males- and increased liability to death feirnles is confirmed by the Sheffield figures. 'There is an increased susceptibility to infection in males between the ages of 15 and 30 venrs.

There is no evidence which establishes any relation between the disease and social conditions, such as over-crrwding, poverty, or insanitary conditions in dwellings. There is no evidence ot any association with topographical considerations, or with the supply of water, milk, or anv other form of food. The observations contributed bv Professor Hall and Dr. Gurney Yates in the clinical section of the report show that on the whole the milder tjpes of primary attack lea more often to complete recovery: the more severe attacks more often resulted in partial recovery or death. The condition resembl ing paralysis agitans.

usually known as Parkinsonism, is an exception to this statement; this sequel not infrequently follows an extremely mild attack of epidemic encephalitis. Among tne most striKing resiaua 01 epidemic encephalitis" (thev point outl, "3 the change which it produces in moral character. This is most marked in children and young people, whose moral make-up is incompletely set, but it by no means limited to them. Older patients, although they do not usually sbow it in such a difficult wav, are frequently much altered by an attack. In one case a man aged 56.

with slight Par kinsonism, spends all ins time trying to annoy and irritate the members of his household. His wife assures us that previous to this he was a kindly "ind loving husband. Another ease, a woman of 4g, lias changed from a generous and cheerful woman to a stingy and silent one. These tragedies of homo life are soon, however, at their worst in the children. A large proportion or children attacked become altered to some extent.

In discussing these moral cliansei it is not easv to separate them from the changes which may bo called mental. Mental deterioration may and does ocrur quite frequently as a residuum, and 1 not uncommonly associated with moral changes." PRINCE'S EVENING WITH ROVER SCOUTS. Carrying On Early Training. The Prince of Wales visited the London Rover Scouts social at the Central Hall, Westminster, last night. As he was conducted to his seat by Lord Jelticoe and Lord Hampton oer two thousand Rover Scouts gave him a vociferous welcome.

Two-thirds of their number were seated on the floor in semi-circular formation in front of the platform. The sitters rose as one individual and joined in the chorus greeting "Rah, rah, rah! Prince, Prince Prince! up. up. up, up London The Prince in a brief peech said Lord Jellieoe and brother I must first, of all apologise for coming in plain clothes. am not goinspto keep ou long, because I tlut on are requested not to smoke until after the interval.

So far as am concerned vou mav smoke at once. All you Rovers are really nothing but scouts who won I grow up. and who mean to carry on till the end of your davs that vou have learned as Smuts. plus that little bit more which conies all ol us as we get older and, it may be, wiser. Yon London Rovers have splendid opportunities ol putting into practice your motto of Service." I know you don't miss any of those opportunities, and I think the splendid increase in your numbers proves that you not only enjoy the job and make others want tn ioin vou.

but that many of. you help to train the younger members of the movement and put them in the right way to become satisfactory The Prince was asked to accept a silver matcuoox as a memento ot nis visit -and to undertake that when lighting a cigarette iu me piesence oi rtover scouts ne woiuu make use. of that presentation box. Proinptlv the Prince struck a. liebt for his mm cigarette and for those of the leaders of the movement who were on the platform with him.

Captain Lisle Watson, the London Rover Commissioner, read the following cablegram from the Chief Scout in Sputh Africa: "Best wishes for successful evening with Chief Scout for Wales. You lucky i TRAFFIC HOLD-UP. Traffic was dislocated at the junction, oi Market Street and Cross Street, about 7 30 last evening, through the rear bogey coming off a tram-car as it 'turned into Cross Street. A number of other cars behind it were "held up and "some little inconvenience was caused, though the mishap was righted after a delay of about a quarter of an hour. n.ore evil than himself and She raised her head suddenly, and seemed to consider.

Then, bringing her hand down on the table -with unwonted emphasis. I know -what that smell was," she cried; it was sulphur 1 Doha Brooke. Barometer: Unsteady. Shade Temjieratures. To-day.

Yest. To-ilny. lest. Drv bulb Sara. 37 Wmimm OA An Dry bulb 9 p.m.

44 36 Minimum 29 35 To-day, Yesterday. (black bulb) 64 AO Rainial! (in millimetres) Sunshine (hours) 03 0C Humidity (percentage) 9 a.m. 100 300 i. 9 p.m. 87 93 Sun rises.

Sets Moon rises. Sets. 10 39 p.m... 1 19 p.m. 21 48 p.m...

1 39 p.m. To-day 7 53 3 59 To-morrow 7 55 3 58 For everv ten mites north of Ma irjheEtersmiKr. eirliet by 43 seconds LAMP-TIME FOR VEHICLES 4 59 ru. MOTOR LAMPS FOR NUMBER PLATES 4 29 p.m. 'IVft law doBK not rcnnlra Tnntn-Uf tn Herhr .11 their lamps ball an hour before other vehicles are illuminated but the lamp -rhich shines on the number plato must be lit at the earlier hour stated.

A COUNTRY DIARY. November 25. Twice this week my thoughts have turned to grey squirrels. The first time was when I noticed the bedraggled corpse of one that had ended its days in a keeper's trap stuck, perhaps as a warning, in the crotch of a small tree; the grey squirrel is on the gamekeeper's black list, and I do not much mind, for it lias evicted our native red squirrel from many old haunts. In another wood I came across three, hunting beneath the beeches for mast.

A blackbird was throwing the dead leaves right and left, pecking at any insects that were lurking beneath; many chaffinches were with some difficulty crushing the three-ribbed nuts, whilst great tits carried them to the branches and hammered them open. The squirrels proceeded in short bounds, jelk-mg their curved tails as they ploughed up the leaves with their fore-feet. What acro bats they are. One, travelling from tree to tree, often ran upside down beneath quite large branches. When it descended the bole to join the mast-hunters it came down head foremost with the useful tail flattened against the bark; the long hairs parted on either side of the actual tail, and certainly seemed to act as a drag or balancer in this headlong descent.

Evolving man was foolish when he failed to retain a tail. T. A. C. AUSTRALASIAN TERMINAL CABLE CHARGES.

(From a Correspondent.) London, Thursday. Last night I referred to the high terminal charges in Australia of five-pence a word as compared with a penny a word which the New Zealand Government charged as a terminal fee on telegrams to those countries. A member of the Australian delegation to the Imperial Conference when questioned on the subject to-day, would not agree that the charge of livepence a word was extortionate, and offered the explanation that the land line distribution through a huge continent was much more expensive than the cost of distribution in New Zealand. He seemed satisfied that the difference in cost was the difference of five to one at present charged in these two countries. It would be interesting to have the question thrashed out, because I believe that even in countries where foreign telegrams cost sixpence a word (Australia costs2s.

6d. a word) 90 per cent of the business is done in a few great cities. I should be much surprised if Melbourne and Sydney do not occupy 70 per cent of the cable traffic. The Australia House explanation will be interesting to file in view of the reduction of prices that is bound to come when the beam wireless system is established. The British- Postmaster General's idea of terminal charges under the beam wireless system will probably also have to be revised, but the present seems a good time for the Australian Postmaster General meet the coming situation by a graceful retreat from his very high terminal charges.

Testifying before the State Industrial Surrey Commission in New York, tbe cliairman of the local Building Trades Employers' Federation iiclared that the Xew York bricklayer laid 1.60O fo 1,700 bricks a day when he received $5.50 or $6 a day, where as at when he is receiving $14 a day. he lays, only 700. On behalf of the bricklayer. Sir. John Gill, chairman of the executive of the BrickLiyers', Masons', and.

1'iascerers union, declared mat tne brick layer is as efficient as ever, but with build ings rising 30 storeys the danger is in creased and makes him more careful. and still growing vans and lorries that thunder through the country lanes these older vehicles of commerce look little better than a row of perambulators. Where German waggons cany 60 tons or more ours are confined to from 8 to 12 tons. One reads too that in France and Belgium war damage has led to reconstruction which includes ample provision for extracting byproducts from coaL On the general question, however, it should be sufficient to draw attention" to tbe closing words of an article by Mr. Walter Layton, editor of the "Economist," in yesterday's "Manchester Guardian" on the future of tbe coal industry.

"The main factor," he says, which will determine the future prosperity of the industry is. the extent to which reorganisation is carried through on the productive and on the commercial sides of the industry. The time will come when British mines will again meet the full force of competition. Their ability to do this will entirely dependon whether they put their house in order in the meantime." This is plain and -useful speaking. Yours, A.

Am Bbooxs. Bushey, Xovember 23. "7 cnriseiiu jaett.y fool to the sober deDths of Poo-m. through the swift neck into Mabel, and after that, tirinp- -nnw cu-onno skelter through the rapids into Upper House Pool, and at last over the little into tne broad and restful basin. Many people will fish that river who wm never go to Lord "Walsin'eham'K el irr fitful book is another proof of the wisdom of hoping a nsnmg diary.

are not all going to write books for other people, but we mav iiist as well seek precision in the one that we spend out lives in writing tor ourselves. Among the objects of youth is that of storing memories for old age. Yet how many old men there are who remember little mere than that the fishing was better when they were young. The whole detailed delight of the days they can never have again has laded, into a rather comparative. Perhaps even that is based on an illusion Pwhn the uses of a fishing diary is to prevent ijuouumnous growtn or nsh.

There are those who laugh at anglers for stufting their best fish, just as there are many anrrWs whn lmrh oretnren for ImtVioi-inrr v. nccu tb journal. They laugh at men wiser than cnemseives. a stuffed ish, even a fish poony scunea vantl lave seen some that looked like punctured footballs), is better than anv crvstal r'nbA fnr evoking visions of the past. There it is, to restore the fisherman's self- respect alter a blank day.

There it is, to be caught a thousand times in tbe study when there is no chance of getting to the river. There it is, to put the ciock back irom any despondent moment to the year, the day, the hour, the tremulous minute when it was a question whether or no it was to come out of the water. There it is, proof against credulity or unbelief, incapable alike of growth and diminution. But every fisherman knows that his best 'his most interesting days, the days he would, wish to remember are often not those on which he has the good fortune to catch a fish worth putting in a glass case. They may bc- days when he tills his basket witn worthy, respectable.

Tmt in no way remarkable fish. Thcy may even be days when his basket is by no means full. There is no definite relation betwef-n best days and best fish. Both are delightful things to remember, and if the fish-stuffer preserves one. a properly kept fishing diary is the best of glass cases for the other.

Sometimes, of course, it will seem that there is little to enter in the log but he number of fish caught, nothing particularly memorable in one way or another. Be not too sure. Twenty years hence you may be looking back through your diaries to compare t'nn efficacy of new with that of by tlpn outmoded flies, or to seek for evidence n. iirmm-1, an arcument on the in exhaustible subject of fisherman's weather. You cannot tell now what vou will be seeking then, fto, if you arc wise, you will put down on each fishing day other things beside the number of "fish in your basket and the Thpre will be the direction of the wind, the character of the sky.

and the state of the water. These three matters are important in jn, fiKbiiiEr dav. Tf vou are fishing fly. you will note what flies you used and what fish ou caught on each, the time of the take the natural flies that you identified-on the water, iou win nnii after year that you look back with interest to see what flies you wHrc usintr this dav last season. If you tie some of your own flies, you will have favourites.

Nothing but ao accurately kept, record will prevent you froni nursing the most, fantastic illusions as to the execution done by particular flies. "Whatever you are fishing, fly. worm, or minnow, you will note with care exactly where your best fish took hold, and thus in the course of time will come to have- a more exact knowledge of your river than ever you could have if you trusted to your memory, alone. The habit of noting such things strengthens the habit of observing them, and much writing in your diarv of your own river will help you surprisingly in reading any other river that you are fishing for tne first time. Nor is it.

onlv with trout or salmon fishing that there are things to be noted. "Sever catch a pike without writing down the time at wnich. you hooked him. This will save you much earlv risinz in some seasons of the year. Note when your roach came on the feed, aet down exactly tne times at.

which you caught your best perch. Note your baits. Treat your spinners like your flies, so that you may have solid grounds for your choice of blue wagtail in one kind of water, copper spoons in another, and silver Holroyds in a third. Note the depth in which you found your fish. The noting of every one oi tnese iningts, oeijaes neip-ing to preserve fishing days that are.

past, will help towards better fishing in the- future. There is, by the way, with this object, another thing to note which is usually neglected, and that is the weather, not when yon were fishing but afterwards. And then, besides all these utilitarian do not scruple to put down things which have little conneciion witn nsning out much with fishing days. Set down the kingfishers, cormorants, and herons, the weasel that watched you from a hole in a stone wall, duckincr when you cast but constrained by curiosity to nop up instantly atter, owls and trees the buds showed in spring, the the condition of China to change. years spent in unina in intimate contact with the student classes make me certain that the present anti-foreign movement is no mere wave of passing sentiment, no mere machination of Soviet Russia, but a genuine product of the new, growing nationalistic thought of China, based on a sense of injustice and humiliation the causes of which we must seek to remove.

The common argument that the remedy must wait until China has put her house in order, and has a central Government of authority with which we can deal, only annears in China as evasion, and an example of the offensive criticism spoken ot by the ex-Commis-sioner of Customs at Shanghai (reported in Manchester Guardian November 18). Statesmanship can surely find a way of escane from the vicious circle and do something now. I believe the nresent situation calls for some such action on our part as that rare act of imaginative statesmanship by which Henry Campbell-Banner-man, after the South African War, conferred freedom on those who had recently been our enemies. Then, as would be the ease now, there were many to oppose such a step as premature, and to point out the evil consequences which would inevitably follow. Gradually, through force of circumstances, to yield to the Chinese those rights which thev feel are the prerogatives of any self- respecting nation will win neither their friendship nor respect.

There stand those antiquated treaties and concessions, which are to them monu mental testimonies to Imperialistic aggression and Chinese humiliation. I am aware of the difficulty of changing a system on which the trade and other activities of our nationals have been built up. But the present situation demands courageous and generous action, to cut loose from relations which are out of date and a constant obstacle to and inaugurate a new era of goodwill. Two opportunities for such action will arise in con nection with the teports of the Boxer Indemnity and Extra-territoriality 'otmmssions. which are due for nubli- cation and which we mav hone will lead to action satisfying the rightful national feeling of China.

Ought we not to be prepared to give up any rights, concessions, status which the Chinese to-day will not grant us on a basis of equal negotiation 1 And there is one way in which immediate action could be taken, which would need no revision of treaties, no long negotiation, hut which would be a gesture of friendship which almost more than anything elsewould prove our goodwill to China. Withdraw our armed forces from Chinese territory and inland waters! Imagine- the feelings of the young Chinese patriot arriving, as I have done, from the interior of Szechuan at the port of Chungking, on the Yangtze, 1 ,500 miles from its mouth. And there, with their menacing arina-nienls. lie the sinister grey forms of British, American, Japanese, and French gunboats. What, to the Chinese view, is their purpose there? Would we tolerate alien war vessels dominating the Manchester Ship Canal This continual menace of force makes right relations impossible.

The old objections may be raised that it would appear weakness to withdraw. We have, unfortunately just been in conflict with Chinese forces at Wanhsien, and with all its evil results that incident proved the British did not lack courage to act. Let us now prove that we have the courage to give up a wrong system. I believe, in the fundamental reasonableness and responsiveness of the Chinese, and that generous action would result, in a new atmosphere being created. But political action like patriotism is not enough.

Permanent friendly relations will depend on" a mutual change of attitude, and this, in turn, on better knowledge and understanding. The attitude of race superiority so prevalent must be dispelled. There is appalling ignorance of China and her people in this country, where the popular idea of the Chinese is drawn from th offensive caricatures of them on the kinema screen. Besides realising the solid good qualities of her illiterate and perhaps unhygienic peasant class we must know and respect the China of a great historic culture with her thinkers and literature, -her arts and crafts, her ideals and achievements, and the struggles for freedom and truth of her Dest minds tordaj And that we may have a new spirit in our contacts in Shanghai and Canton we must begin at rtnmf fxk strlrmn.ts rmraelirMz ftn, missionaries are needed not merely to snare our best with. China, but to interpret her best to us.

Interchange of visits between leaders of thought East and West must be encouraged. It so happens that this very week in Manchester, at the TJniveraity on November 26, at 8 p.m., there is a unique' opportunity for our public to hear the Chinese situation interpreted by one who is recognised as a leader in the renaissance in that country. Professor Hu Shih, of the National University of Peking. Such contacts, with they. they, bring,.