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Show CURRENT EVENTS Simplified Discussion of News for Children 1- TWO MEDH IL DISCOA ERIE6. i Two important advances have just! been mude by doctors studying thol human body and trying to find now ways to fight disease, keep us healthy and make our lives longer, I In Moscow, Russia. Dr. X. Krltch. 1 a woman, says she has discovered :ho' germ that causes typhus. For two years she has been working in her iaboratory over a mlcroscops to find this germ Wtiy Is this Important? Because1 now that the germ h.us been found, it will not be hard t find a vaccine ur serum that will kill the germ and prevent typhus. We rartdy hear of typhus in this country Hut on the eastern iron win re the Germans fought the Rub-; Slans In the world war, typhus Is said io have Killed more soldiers than li. bullets. And "-ince the war thou-! sands of Russians and others In enst- ern Kuropc have, been killed by this disease. Typhus comes from a Greek word "typhos" which menus stupor. It is' a kind of fever. The victim breaks out in a rash of mulberry color. Later i the one. afflicted suffers pains In thej head, delirium, and finally drops into a stupor. Many doctors say typhus is spread by lice. If you have heard the nto-ries nto-ries about "cooties" brought bsi k from Kuropc by American soldiers, you will understand why typhus was one of the most dreaded diseases of the war. The other important medical discovery dis-covery is announced by Ivondon physicians phy-sicians they say they have discovered discov-ered the germ that causes diabetes. ' L'nlike typhus, diabetes is a well-known well-known disease In America and you probably know of many who have suffered from it. The y.-rm that causes diabetes, thej London phcslclans say. is a bacillus that means It Is shaped like a rod or staff. CHINESE WAR GROWS The civil war In China became 6o! serious that It attracted the attention1 of our own government. One. of our battleships now Is on Its way to China Chi-na and Others are ready to move on I short notice. Of course, our country does not! Wish to Interfere In the affairs of China Our country docs not care whether one side ir Die other wins In the present -druggie Hut there are many Americans In China and American business men are much interested In Chinese trade.1 So our government Will demand that Initli the fighting armies respect the llvei md Interests of American citizens. citi-zens. As long as American citizens are Htfe and their business is not tampered tam-pered with, our government will take no action. Otherwise; the I'nlte.i State may act with European nations to put an end to the fighting. In the Chinese war the first battle In history between airplanes and battleships bat-tleships has taken place. Sun Yat Sen. president of the southern Chinese Chi-nese Kovernment. sent a fleet of airplanes air-planes to conquer several battleships in the harbor at Canton. The airplanes dropped bombs on the battleships. destroed one audi forced the others to surrender. This may be an Indication of the kind of j naval fighting that will take place) In ware of the future. Qeneml Wu has Just defeated Gen-j oral Chang and captured Peking, the capital of China. Some think 'he civil war Is over, others believe Dr. I Sun from the south will seek to defeat de-feat (Jeneral Wu m ANOTHER PEACE MOVE. David Lloyd George. Great Britain's Brit-ain's famous prime minister, has new-ambitious new-ambitious plans he hopes to carry, out He plans to settle all the houn- 1 dary disputes that have been vexing Europe and sowing the seed for more ' ware. Almost every boundary line In eastern east-ern and central Europe is in dispute is i result of the world war Th Is means that neighboring nations can-j not decide how much land each owns and that peoph living near tho bor-' d-rs in not know to what nation they! belong. Boundaries of Russia and neighboring neigh-boring Baltic countries never have! been settle, Italy and Jugoslavia' do not know w here one country ends and the other begins. other countries coun-tries with disputed borders are Cat I ho-Slovakla, Rumania, Poland, Austria ond Hungary. Lloyd George's ambition Is to let-tie let-tie all these problems Then he will ask the nations of Europe to sign i non-aggression treaty each nation promising not to start a war with any other nation in the next ten years. In the past we have had boundary disputes In our own country. One was botween the United States and Canada. Another was between two of our own states Michigan and In- ' dlana. And in South America nmall r publics continually are quarreling over their boundaries. |