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...eradication is proven a simple problem of rural sanitation. (The worms abound in bewrayed soil, invade the body by way of bare feet.) The Board helped hookworm campaigns in Mexico, Central America, the Antilles, Colombia, Paraguay, Ceylon, Madras, Siam, Java, Fiji; surveyed the problem in Montserrat, Hayti, Java, Straits Settlement, Cook Island, the New Hebrides and Spain...
...million British coal miners continued on strike last week. To the Lord Bishops of Birmingham, Derby, Southwell, Litchfield, St. Albans and Winchester this state of affairs seemed intolerable. They resolved to intervene for a settlement in the name of Christianity...
...Bishops' keynote was that the Government should subsidize the coal industry for four months, during which time the miners should go back to work at the wages for which they struck, and negotiations for an ultimate settlement be diligently pursued...
Finance Minister Caillaux returned to Paris, from London last week a fiscal conqueror. The Franco -British debt settlement (TIME, July 19), which he had negotiated with Chancellor Churchill was supplemented by attached correspondence providing that should France ever fail* to receive less than 50% of the contemplated German reparations payments, Britain will consent to a renegotiation of the entire Franco-British debt...
Still deeper in wild Chiapas, the Mexican savants found a still older city, Junchavin, near the Guatemalan border. Signs indicated that the prehistoric inhabitants had covered their spacious settlement with a blanket of masonry before evacuating. The inscriptions on monoliths and on a "million-year-old" stone were reported of unknown designs, surely pre-Mayan...