Dr. B, A. Neff and his wife and daughter arrived on this coast re. cently after six years of virtual exile in the British Government leper colony at Mokogai, 60 miles south of Suva in the Fiji Islands. Mrs. Neff and child were the only whi Woman and child in the settlement, which cares for 400 lepers from all the British south seas possessions. After six months in London, Dr.
Neff, wae is a Canadian, will return to his home in the leper colony. He will visit the leper colony on the island of Molokai, Hawaii, en rout ited without permission. a well-known principle that the mora thoroughly a crowd is kept, moving and prevented from forming" into. compact masses, the less likely it is to do any serious damage. Motor~ cars and even omnibuses directed by police officials were kept running round the Place de l'Opéra and along the boulevards, while hundreds of policemen walked through the mob, quietly but firmly: requesting: thei to move on. This went on for about two hours, and at Inst the attempt to hold the meeting in the Place de YOpéra_was abandoned. About the same time, sympathisers. among the railway servants carried out small strikes of their own at two of the—principal terminal stations, the Gare St. Lazaro and the Gare clu Nord, causing great though temporary' inconvenience, and there was also some trouble Jat one of the electric light stations, In all 423 persons were arrested, but only three were detained custody. The incident seems have created quite a scare in other countries, especially England, where the French practice of releasing. Prisoners without trial, when the offence is not of a serious nature, is /not understood.
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