He paid a visit to England in 1923, was happily married and returned to Kobe. Besides being an ardent and conscientious worker, Mr. Young also took a great interest in sports of all sorts and was at one time captain of the Kobe football team ind of the Kobe cricket team. He played the game, both on the field of sport and in the field of business, in the truest sense of that classic phrase.
Some time ago, he began to suf-for from a nervous breakdown. Phycians ordered a sea voyage and change of air and environment, With Tokyo, Sept. 9.
Sleepin ichness has raised its ugly head in Japan in, and between August 28 a1 been smitten, of The present epidemic is confined yrineipally to the regions skirting the hem of the Inland Sea and the plague made its appearance with startling suddenness. Every effort ing made by the authorities to stamp the epidemic out.
Sleeping sickness first made its appearance in Japan three years; ago. It was not of a very virulent type and, after claiming some 20 odd deaths, it was eradicate The present epidemic is of a worse type, Persons affictea fall into a state of semi-coma almost immediately and from this simulated form of] sleep they never awake. Deatn usually comes within a week or s0. 'Those thus far affected have been the older persons and children. Strong robust people have not been' attacked by the di The medical department mas mobilized a force of extra workers to stamp the disease out ang to make bacteriological investigations into] the germ or virus that is the cause of the disease. The manner in which patients are attacked, _the speed with which the victims drop into unconsciousness and the suddenness with which death arrives are presenting baffling problems to] Japan's medical fraternity.
Honckone, Sept, 17.—A message] from Canton states that Res Admiral Stirling visited Canton Mrs. Young, the late Mr. Erie Young embarked on the President Polk at Kobe, visited Hongkong znd, while the vessel was en route to Manila, he was found missing—washed overboard. His mother is at present in San Francisco.
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