The Archive · 1938

Up Empress of Japan Dr. D. Cater Suspected Of Typhus Infection

Tokyo. Apr. 8. Discovery that Dr. D. B. Cater, 29- year old British surgeon of the Lester Chinese Hospital of Shanghai, was suspected to be suffering from erupted typhus, caused the detention of the C. P. R. liner Empress of Japan outside Yokohama harbour, it was announced here this morning.

The vessel reached Yokohama on Thursday evening from Kobe.

Dr. Cater is travelling from Shanghai to Vancouver, B.C., on leave from the Lester Hospital—Domei.

Kingdom remains the great entrepot of the world—a trade worth over £110,000.000 last year. And this gives on community its special characte: world community, responsive to all currents and all changes—but all this must rest upon a strong and consolidated base at home.

"It was an idea very near the heart of my father, whose proudest title was that of Colonial Secretar) It is the ideal which I have done my utmost to forward, not for a narrow aim alone, but because I firmly believe that the first duty we owe to the world is to do our utmost with the regions for which we, and we alone, have responsibility; Reuter.

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