Mr. McKinnon Wood, replying io the House of Commons on February 13 question by Mr. A. Baker (R.) regarding the precautions taken by the Chinese Government to ensure the safety of Earopean doctors working i the plague district of Harbin Hia Majesty's Minister rte that all the doctors inoculated with Haffkine's They are comfortably i may car, with the exception of one who ving with the British Consul. The Chinese Government have done their of thole considerate They wear make, oilekio boots, and complete overalls when dealing with cases of plegae. The French doctor Mesny, who was not inoculated, became infected owing tos patient coughing in his face while examining bim unmasked. Dr. Jack-0p, the Britih doctor, died after continuous bard work among a crowd of infected coolies, It is believed that he was too exhausted to mi in proper precautions. The heroism of the doctors, Sir John Jordan reports, is beyond praise, On Kebrasry 16, Sir E. Grey in-formied Earl Winterton that we far the the Foreign Office bad riv t heard of the alleged protest of the at Tieotsin og foreiga Consuls to order a sanitary cordon round the European settlement. Bot His Majesty's Mioistor had beea asked by telegraph to report on the matter, MOTOR NOTES, vi There is little doubt that to many drivers, and especially to those of older ined the prior ciples involved, to give two pinte in regard to changing down from a higher gear ton lower which will assist those of my readers who now find the operation a difficult one, We bare seen from pr planstioos thet a change of gear is effected by slipping toothed wheel slong s shaft into eogegement with another toothed wheel on another shaft; and that io the case of moving from the neutral Fosition to low or reverse gest the two wheels are stationary, bat all other cases they are revolving. And, referring again to the diagram published Inst week and the week before, it i easy to see that just previous to any change of bein: trade the tro. wheels to come juts eogegement are turning at very differrpeeds. Now a moment's reflex will show that what may be called the axle speed of wheel, that is the namber of revelations it makes in a given time, is quite a different thing to s circumferential speed, or the speed rough space of any given point on ils And it is clear that since the
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