The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-17
LORD MAYORS CALL.
Appeal to America ia Contribute to
the Indiau Relief Fund.
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PRECAUTIONS AGAINST THE CHOLERA
England Preparing to Wipe Out the
Benia Kingdom.
M,KINJPY,S slit CRITICISED
PRECAUTIONS AGAINST THE CHOLERA
MkINLEY's SUIT CRITICISED
The Young Turks Party Creating
Excitement in tho balkan Pcnin-
sula--Thc sultan Threatened.

London, January e.--(Copyrighted, 1891,
by the Associated Press.) For some time
past everything has pointed to the fact that
India is face to face with the most APP
palllng calamity since the British occupa-
ton. The spread Of the hubonlc plague
came almost with dramatic suddonness On
the heels of the famine and created
throughout Europe a feeling OF the greatest
alarm. UP to heprosent The two vista
tons have been confined to separate arcas
but 1t is extremely probable that the plague
will ere long reach the famine districts
owing to the impossibiity OF preventing
the migration OF the panic stricken natives
and should this turn out to be the case
competent authorities look forward to the
terrible mortality. as the plague germs will
find fruitful soil In the emaciated natives
The Indian government appears hardly to
have foreseen such gigantic Undertaking
as that OF relieving the necessities of over
in the proposition to appeal to private
charity indicates that 1t now recognizes
the insufficency Of Its arrangements. The
sympathy Of Great Britain is now thor
oughly aroused and relief funds have been
started IN all the chief towns.
The Mansion House fund is approaching
900 pounds. and It is hoped that the to-
tai of the fund will reach at least 700 900
pounds, which was the amount subscribed
for the relief of the sufferers by the last
famine. The newspapers, however. urge
that some more drastic measures be
adopted, and one Of the weekly papers sug
gests that parliament vote a big grant or
lend India 10000 900 pounds.
A representative Of the Associated Press
called on tho lord mayor, Mr.. George
Faudel Philips, after the meeting at the
Mansion House today. AT that meeting a
resolution, moved by the duke of Com
naught, recognizing 1t to be a public duty
to assist in the work OF extending the re-
lief measures, and molten of Henry Hob
house, NJ. r., which invited the county
officials and clergy to cooperate In the
relief work, were adopted
The lord mayor said he was hopeful that
the Americans world Cooperate, and he
wrnte the follcw.rs q stement. which he
asSs4.l the AssiTiGtsH Isess 20 publish Ia
ttheECnfted States:
| The lord mayor OF London will receive
with profound gratitude any donations
from the people Of America for the India
famine relief funds. He invites the junior
branch of the United States family To
emphasize their noble feeling towards the
mother country which the mother country
cherishes for them.
tSigned) George Faudel Philips,
Lord Mayor.
From the European point of view. how
ever the plague is matter of gravcr con =
Germ than the famine. All the continental
governments are adopting precautionary
measures at the ports and the imports
from India Of rags, linen and other arti-
cles capable Of conveying germs are pro-
hibited, and it is announced that an Euro
pean conference will be held at home TO
consider the adoption OF combined meas
ures to prevent tho plague from invading
Europe. The Russian government has sent
doctors to Persia 10 watch the progress OF
the disease and if 1t appears In Persia,
Afghanistan or Kahsear, the Russian from
tier will be Immediately closed,
The Indian government has dispatched
the director general OF the medical service
to study the plague at Bombay and two
chief officials Of the Egyptian sanitary stan
have also gone there TO arrange for meas
ures to finimize the chances Of the spread
of the plague to Mecca, which, If 1t oc-
Cured, would probably mean the invasion
of Egypt. The Egyptian government has
decided that II the plague shall appear IN
Arabia, no Egyptian pilgrim would be al
| lowed to return until the disease there
shall have become extinct Moreover no
pilgrim would in that case be allowed TO
leave Egypt unless he could prove that he
had means OF subsistence for a six months
stay The Mecca pilgrimage Is now a
source of the greatest anxiety TO European
governments aud Il Is urged on many sides
that the pilgrimage ought TO be stopped.
II appears that at tho international sani-
tary council ut Consiantinople. the Aus
trian delegation proposed that the pilgrim
age from India should be prohibited, hut
the Turkish delegates opposed this on the
ground that II might trench on an essential
part OF Mohammedan faith.
The Daily News publishes long article
advocating prohibition OF the pilgrimage
and suggests that the European ministers
at Teheran and st. Petersburg induce the
shah and the ear 10 proclaim the closing
of the channels of pilgrimage while the
Turkish authorities close the port Of jed
dah Great Britain under treaty arrange.
ments can prohibit Afghan pilgrims from
traversing India and can also stop the ef
fIux from Buluchlstan The Austrian gov
ernment has decided TO prevent as far az
possible the pilgrimage from Hcrgoze-
vina.
The British medical journal mentions a
report that six plague cases have reached
Marseilles, but adds that 1t believes the
disease will not spread, as the town Is In
good sanitary condition
The British government has not lost any
time In making arrangements to ayengc
Consul Phillips and his party. massacred
by inhabitants OF Benin city, west coast Of
Africa About fifteen officers aud officials
sailed from Liverpool today for the Guiana
coast and war stories will follow next
week The Brltish war vessel on that sta :
ton VIII furnish landingparty OF 500 blue
Jackets, who. with 800 Hausa troops. will
form an expedition which will ascend the
river in launches to Sapelo. Thence this
force will march about twenty five miles
10 Benin City. whose most formidable de-
Tense Is a rampant OF material swamps.
The expedition is provided with machine