FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1925.
TROPICAL MEDICINE. REFUGE IN DEATH.
IMPORTANT TOKYO CONFERENCE,
HONGKONG'S. DELEGATE.
Amongst those who left by the "Empress of Russia" were Dr. and Mrs. W. 5. A. Moore. Dr. Moore is visiting Japan as a Delegate from the Hongkong Government to the Sixth Congress of the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine to be held at
Tokyo next month.
This Congress corresponds in the Orient to the International Medical Congress of Europe, and was organized in 1910 to promote the science and art of medicine in general in the Far East. This
year it will be held under the Auspices of the Japanese Govern- ment from October 11 to 81. The most eminent physicians and scientists of this hemisphere are expented to attend, says the "Japan Advertiser." "The techni- cal sessions will be held during the first week and at its conclusion a series of excursions lasting two weeks will be made to such places as Nikko, Mianoshita, Osaka, Nara and Kobe. than 500 delegates will, thought, be present.
Kyoto, More it is
TOE INVISIBLE.
MAN-KILLER FEARS LETHAL CHAIR.
CHEMISTS AND GAS IN WAR.
TAKES HIS OWN LIFE.
The San Francisco chemist who was "wanted" for murder, following a plot to defraud insur- ance companies of £30,000, com- mitted suicide when police were about to arrest him.
The amount of insurance at stake caused the companies con- cerned to make inquiries when Schwartz was reported to have been killed in an explosion in his laboratory, and it transpired that the body which had been found was that of someone else.
the £80,000 after all.
Schwartz's widow will now get
Schwartz, who had been want- ed for some days, had mutilated Barbe's body to make it appear that he himself had been killed accidentally by an explosion in his rooms, while experimenting with an artificial silk formula.
Els object was to collect £30,000 insurance on his life and also to avoid a suit for breach of promise of marriage.
HUMAN PLAN. URGED.
THE CHINA MAIL.
EARTH SHUT IN.
U.S. OBSERVERS, AND ENGLISH THEORY.
IMPALPABLE. ENVELOPE.
An impervious layer of electri-
Concentrating upon the ad-
The earth is forever, barred vocacy of non-toxic gases, a from communicating by radio conference of the American with other planets, according to a Chemical Society has condemned discovery announced by the Navy the proposed prohibition, by the Department (which is a direct League of Nations, of chemical confirmation of Heaviside warfare, declaring that such a theory). step would mean the abandon- ment of "humane methods" for the "old butchery of attack.".
It was contended that tear and sneeze gases temporarily dis- fabled men without injuring them, while smoke screens saved life by concealing troops.,
cally-charged molecules surrounds the earth atmosphere, like the skin of an orange, and through it wireless waves cannot pass.
AIR LEVELS.
DURES AND BUTCHERS REACH FOR JOY-STICKS.
NO CLABBES ALOFT.
EARL'S HEIR-
MARRIES MR G.
WIDOW
FORMER GAIRTY GIRL
* CROESUS,
MONEY FROM FOTS AND PANS
MRS. SCARFE PREFERS SCOTS.
Newspapers are keenly inter
of Mrs. Scarfe, of Adelaide, who
Dukes, butchers, and artisauA figure on the membership roll of of the Earl of Midleton, was murested in the doings and sayings Viscount Dunsford, son and heir England's first aeroplane club, which, it is hoped, will provide ried at the American Presbyterian was a centre of interest during the foundation of a system for Church, Montreal, to Mrs. Gine the Mauretania's voyage from training a nation of aviators. vere Sinclair Could, widow of the America.
With such success has the late Mr. George Jay Gould, of New movement met that it is believed
that in a few years there will be thousands of volunteer airmen and airwomen, too capable of taking their part in defending London, should the need arise.
When opaning the head-
ork, and heiress to a hurge part of the Gould fortune.. issued in New York, Lord and Lady According as the announcement Dansford will make their home in London.
"What the world loses by this discovery, in its efforts to extend its knowledge of the universe, it quarters of the first club, the ing blonde, figured recently in a
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The "Evening News," repro-
Rucing her photograph, described
that nobody would imagine that dressed so plainly and quietly
she was the wealthiest woman in Australia.
Lady Dunsford, who is a charm-
Mrs. Scarfe denies that she Over 1,000 members of the gaine, however, in increased Vice-President of the Aiz, Council suit involving more than £16,500 stating that she merely draws an manages large financial interests, As police officers surrounded American Naval Chemical So-efficiency in terrestrial wireless said that it was desired to wean 000, the estate of the late Mr. Jay income therefrom. She regrets the perpetrator of the chemically ing the recent prohibition of his apartments, Charles Schwartz,ciety adopted resolutions declar-communication.
the aeroplane from its association Gould, the railway magnate and that an increasing number of The announcement by the with war and to make it a power father of her late husband. wealthy Australians are investing scientific murder of G. E. Barbe, chemical warfare by the Geneva Secretary for the Navy, Mr. ful agent for civilisation and She. then testified that Mr. their money in America „because mitted suicide. a wandering missionary, com-Conference to be a menace
to Curtis Wilbur, confirma the peace.
George Gould, whom she married they think that the most stable. humanity and to the safety of the theory of an ionised region in "Our ideal is a nation of air-in 1822 after the death of his first country. The Scarfes, who made United States.
the higher levels of the atmoa-men. This club will be the pre- wife, Mrs. Edith Kingdon Gould, their money qut of pota and pans The chemists vigorously de- phers, which is determined as cursor of many throughout the was the father of her three children had never done that. clared that the pacifists were constituting the celling of the sky, country. It is for members to who were all born before her mur- seeking to
She added that she would defence.
undermine national Additional research is required to wean the aeroplane from its riage with him. She is a daughter rather see lots of hard-headed
determine its size, shape, and association with war and make it of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Sinclair, Scots in Australia Speakers contended that the location, but it is said to lie more a powerful agent for civilisation of Dublin, and her paternal grand-Americans who were teeming
than the prohibition of chemical warfare than a hundred miles from the and peace," said Sir Philip father was Sir Edward Sinclair, meant the abandonment
$888000 of earth.
(Under-Secretary of provost of Trinity College. humane methods for the "old butchery of attack."
This ceiling, or ionised layer, State for Air and Vice-President She was appearing in the English acts as a deflecting surface to the of the Air Council), when open-musical comedy The Girl on the electric waves, under which waves ing the London Aeroplane Club's Film, and was formerly a Gaiety are guided round the world. headquarters at the Staglane chorus girl, when she first met Mr.
These discoveries, made by the aerodrome. The
George Gould in New York in 1914. U.S. Naval Research Laboratory synchronised with the anniver April 15, 1915; Guinevere, her ceremony Her first child, George, was born co-operating with the Carnegie sary of the first British flight in second child, on Jut. 29, 1916 and Institute, are expected to improve Belgium in 1914, which inaugur Jane, ber third child, on April 11, on behalf of national defence, radio and wireless communica- ated air
in 1922. "which at any time may be tions by eliminating "fading." warfare. threatened by pacifists who for. It is also stated that, under this this purpose have combined with new system, a high frequency the economists."
transmitting station. could be had lost sight of the fact that present,
It was added that the public built for £12,000, instead of, as at the stations costing many weapons of chemical war- £500,000, fare were not toxic. These included tear and sneeze gases, which temporarily disabled with-
Mr. out injury, and also smoke ionised layer as
He was successful in making the insurance companies pay, as following his suicide, his wife will be able to collect the money. Schwartz was president and general manager of the Pacific Cellulose Company.
It was also declared that, as the Geneva protocol went no fur ther than the Washington Confer. ence had gone, ita ratification now would embarrass the logical prosecution of scientific research
"Problems that affect every foreigner living in this part of the world will be discussed, and the results of years of research by numbers of scientists will be brought forward at the sessions for elaboration and approval. 'Among the more important Undoubtedly he planned that ften which the association has the explosion and fire should wipe madeats special subjects up to the out every evidence of the identity present and practical results of of the man he had lured into his which have been observed, are laboratory, and expected that the prevention and extermination only the skeleton would be found, of malaria. the diagnosis of but the careful night watchman, ameeric dysentery, the control of whom Schwartz sent on an beri-beri and the compilation of errand, returned unexpectedly statistics concerning tuberculosis. and extinguished the blaze.
Governments Follow Advice.
When the authorities learned of screens, which were used to save "Since the majority of the mem- the large amount of insurance in-life by covering up troops. bers have been health officers, ed the arrangements then being volved, they summarily suspend-
NO PETROL FAMINE.
reconnaissance
CLAIM TO £800,000.
flight in a 60 h.p. Moth of Sir Philip made the inaugural which the c.ub possesses two. In the settlement of the George Mrs. Lynn, athlete and cham- Gould estate she was awarded pion jumper, who was the first £200,000 in Liberty Bonds without woman member of the club to relinquishing the claim to £800,000 fly, looped the loop repeatedly,
provided her in the will. The hundred members of the Each of t; children received Wilbur described
club include dukes, butchers and £2,000 a year from the estate. the
During the suit birth certificates maximum density, its varying experienced in flying.
the plane of artisans, the majority being in-
were introduced to show that
ATMOSPHERIC ENVELOPE.
they have urged the various made for the funeral of what was Harrison Howe, of Washington, envelope that surrounds the possess thousands of airmen and as the father.
governments to put into practice at first thought to be Schwartz's to a considerable extent the re sults of the society's scientific
said:
height above the surface of the earth depending upon the cease At the close of the session Dr. less billowing of atmospheric would globe. The maximum height "The point we remains. Later, the District stress is, why are the representa probably was inside 300 miles. research and discussion. In 1923 Attorney Ennounced that the tives of our chemical industry funeral had been cancelled and a at the last Congress in Singapore, the. Council of the society recom- Schwartz's arrest.
murder warrant issued mended that each of the Govern- ments interested be invited to nominate a representative on a beri-beri committee, the report of,
for
new
which is to be heard at the coming FROM GRIP OF ICE. of a petrol famine was ground.
Bessions, in conformity with the policy of the association to have Government representatives dia-
cuss particular problems at the general meetings.
"It has also been decided to hold an exhibition relating to medicine and hygiene at the Oxford con-
diseases in the Orient.
LONG-PRISONED VESSEL BREAKS FREE.
DRIFTED FOR YEARS.
men
legs.
were
now
Natural resources wasted, but science was brink of a development that would stabilise the industry and provide an adequate supply.
The secretary of the club, Mr.George Sinclair' was the father Harold Perrin, says he believes of her children, but Mrs. Gould that in a few years London will testified with tears that Mr. Gould, In 1917, Viscount Dunsford airwomen, capable of defending married Miss Peggy Rush, the the capital.
actress, who divorced him last January. AMAZING SEANCE.
KNIFE AND FIRE DEFIED.
Mr. Donald Macmillan, the x- plorer, reculls in the current issue of "The World To-day" a lesson in Eskimo.. Wanting a rent in he asked a girl in what he thou the knee of his trousers mende to be good Eskimo. Actually had asked her to sew up the snow.
hole in the roof of his trousers. "What do you call such a hole?” he asked. "Keed-la." "What is too."" a hole in. the ground?". "Foo That is another word." "Now
What is a hole in ice?". said Mr. Macmillan, "I want know the simple word for hole. "There isn't any such thing." was the reply. "If it is a hole it is a hole in something, or it wouldn't be a hole." Well, would it, now?
"Look at Miss Oldfield and ME
"Yea, a romance of the Maldle Agee, so to speak."
Sixty-Five over there.
CHILDREN LIKE CHAMBER- LAIN'S PAIN BALM. For "black and Nue" bruinas, sprains of wrists and ankles, strains of cords. He had started to stay out late at and muscles, stabbed toes, cuta, burns night, and 'She' tearfully re- and 'other' muhaps of childhood, proached him thus:
Chamberlain's Pain Balm always gives rellet. Does just as much for older. pains, backaches and neuralgia. Just people too. Bases their rheumatic rub it on the sore spots. It is penetrat- ing and quickly helps. Sold and recom manded everywhere.
And you used to say that just one hair of my head would bind you to me always.
And He replied tartly: "But
When a radio wave is despatch- not consulted by statesmen suched from a station it shoots sky- questions as chemical warfare are ward until it hits this layer, discussed and
policies whence it rebounds. to the earth or formulated.?"
travels along the earth-like sound Speakers declared that the fear, waves under a vault of dome,
experimenting with FAKIR'S EXHIBITION BEFORE Scientists short wave-length radio trans-
JURY. mission have bean bated by the
behaviour on the peculiar
of these' Before an audience of 2,000 waves. Signals would be heard people and a jury of nine doctors, at a
distance of forty or fifty a fakir gave a most amazing ex-you've been shingled since then." mides, and then would disappear, hibition in Paris. and could not be heard again Scythe blades and sharp nails until points 100 or perhaps 1,000 failed to pierce his flesh. Having miles distant picked them up. 'stabbed himself his blood Bowed These intervals of silence be- and ceased flowing, as he willed, came known as "skip distance." He evinced no sign of pain when Experiments now indicate that burned with a torch, and did not two waves exist. One runa along breathe for twenty minutes when the earth and the other along the buried with sand, dense upper layer. It is this carries the long distance. second (upper) Wave
EMPIRE AIRWAYS.
LONDON VISIT.
MAHARAJAH AND HIS
CHEFS.
SPECIAL MEALS.
The Maharajah of Patiala, the other stalwart and picturesque Indian prince, who arrived in London re-
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Great interest has been roused, that says "the Paris correspondent of "The Times," by the seances of a fakir, Tahra Bey, who claims to possesses exceptional powers of auto-suggestion. He gave an exhibition in the presence of 2,000 people and a jury of nine doctors, The fakir threw himself into the cataleptic state, and was laid on two scythe blades one under his
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After drifting, helplessly, lock- ference, to display home-manu-ed in the ice for three years, factured instruments and ap Amundsen's Polar ship, "Maud," paratus for medicine and surgery, with, it is presumed, 15 various drugs, many kinds of aboard, is returning to Alaska. serum and vaccine, various species These men formed part of the of parasites, medicinal plans, expedition which set out in 1922 statistics of various kinds and in an attempt to reach the North materials relating to the medical Pole. Whatever their history of Japan..
hardships -have been; however, "A large number of foreign they were plentifully supplied cently with his suite of nearly 30, members have accepted the invita with food. tion of the president of the
Captain Amundsen's famous was not tempted to leave the association to attend the sessions, exploration ship "Maud," having the whole of the millionaire's Savoy Hotel, where he has taken many of whom are to read im got free from the ice, is coming to, wing of about 100 rooms. All day portant papers before the Nome, according to a radio mes three of his twenty motor-care wait delegates. A number of Japanese sage from the Behring Sea.
The "Maud" became frozen in should be required. Scientists are working to present
ed in the countyard in case they
neck, the other under his Domestic Occurrence various interceting subjects rela- the Northern ice, and has been
ankles. A stone weighing a Leading Articles tive to the diagnosis and care of drifting helplessly for practically-his State revenue is said to exceed first, commercially-run Empire on his stomach and smashed with
"No," said this wealthy potentate approved, we hope to begin the hundredweight was then placed "Refs." Wanted three years. She has been away 4000,000 a year when questioned airplane service from Kantara to
Correspondence "The object of the Far Eastern from Seattle, her last port of call, by the distinguished Indians who Karachi in January as the first not show the slightest mark of the a sledge hammer. His body did Association of Tropical Medicine
exactly 1,181 days.
visitar him, he Indian Ocean was step in the Anglo-Australian ser blades. is to unite into one compact East Cape, Siberia, and should
She reported herself when off not kind to me, so I shall stay in."vice," said Sir Sefton Brancker, placed on a bed studded with Tahra Boy was then organization the medical pro-reach Nome in a fortnight. It is sonally to questions concerning his departing for Port Said to meet cheat. The fakir again was un- Merely a Touch.
And so he was able to attend per Director of Civil Aviation, on sharp nails, and a man sat on his fession of the Far East, for the presumed that there are 15 men 200 bulky items, of luggage, all the experts who will survey the injured. growth and diffusion of medical aboard. knowledge, to promete friendly
heavily sanded with the elephant of route and select wireless sites in When he emerged from the Coal Theft international intercourse among into the
With the idea of sailing as far his coat-of-arms. His chefs who order to maintain land com-trance he stabbed himself with a Chartered Bank physicians, to elevate the standard then flying across the North Pole, is lunch a tight curry that he
Aretic as possible, and came ever with his quite prepared for munication with the 'planes. of medical education, to enlighten Amundsen left Seattle in the favors, made of chillies, gingers, machines until the Imperial Air he himself stopped it when a Local Baseball
The Air Force and dagger, but the blood did not flow Found Wandering
until he himself allowed it. Then Theatre Royal and direct public opinion in regard "Maud" in June, 1922. Tan Nor- aud, rice that they had brought ways Company's 'planes, which doctor ordered him to do so. to problems of hygiene, to form wegians and seven Eskimus form specially with them. habits which may conduce to the ed the crew, and they had pro hotel foyer when he arrived the pre- of mails and freight, are ready in of pain. He permitted himself to
will be specially constructed and
Ran Amok.... The politely amazed guests in the capable of carrying heavy loads with a torch, and showed no signs H, B. Ollerdessen prevention of disease among the visions for seven years.
The fakir next burned himself
Chefoo Cricket-i native populations and to presenti to the world the results of such been refitted, and her propeller figure wearing perfect fitting West airboats will be constructed to and did not breath for 20 minutes. Mr. C. H. Lyson
The "Maud," an old vessel, had vicus night saw in him a handsome October 1926 Special metal he buried in sand, inside a coffin, Six Articles
Obituary had been so arranged that it clothes, an apricot turban, po cross the sea between Calcutta Growth of Work.
could be lifted out of the Ice when earments, and a gold bracelet, and Rangoon and Singapore and doctors to perform an operation nt Needs Finally he offered to allow the Record Spoilt "Since the great majority of the caught in the pack. In October,
which, though dazzling, were not
Darwin members belong to the semi-tropi- 1922, the party went into winter. His Indian visitors saw in him
incongruous.
A scheme is afoot to develop using an anaesthetic. The doctors Honam's" Trips
to remove his appendix without
Boarding Housės cal and tropical countries, the quarters near Point Barrow.
a man of 84, with the quick European lines to enable Indian had prepared for the operation, The first wireless news of any eve of the skilled wicketer and Australian mails and pas when one of them remembered organization has been styled the
Taxi Collision Association of Tropical Medicine. actual progress was received in the princ, who came to England sengers to be carried speedily to that it would be illegal.
Food Ships Research and discussions have March, 1923, when it was stated and captained an All-India cocket
Kantara:
Cheloo School been gradually expanding, and that the sunlight had weakened team in 1911. - now cover the whole field of mediadio communication. In the cal science, a fact that is evident three months, the vessel had drift from the revised constitution ofed only 62 miles. «i pagal the association. At the third congress in particular a résolution
scientific observations.
THE PLANE FAILS.
was passed to admit veterinary With the advent of spring, science, and, accordingly since the Amundsen tried out the plane in fourth congress veterinary science which he proposed to fly over the has been admitted., To-day when Pole, but it proved a failure and dentistry is, recognized as neces he decided to abandon the asry for the preservation of attempt
general health, the sixth congress In September 1928, the proposes to act in favour of admit. "Maud" reached 76,16 nor the bar ting dental science, a fan de je furthest drift in that
"The gradual extension of.
scope of the meetings led to the
increase of the part)
bers; at the fourth
In the mean had returned to
in the course November;
were as minny as 400 members and might
At the fifth congreses drhembeve again for fre attended the
could be reache
HIOBEST CRICKET GROUND He was more interested in the fect. that he owns the highest cricket ground in the world" 8.000kt.
in the Sims Es, than that he bas
PASSENGERS DEPARTED:
P.Y.5, 18 Seki
a special silver bath, in brivate lifte in scarlet and gold incquer, and ma 8,000 fresh pose blooms every day, provided in his London palace
He is to represent the Indisai at the League of Nations Bly in Generu in Septem
week, among others
ROXOR
Chefoo Visit
STEAMER MOVEMENTS,
Wine Labels
Strike Episode
Alltelt Shishing
The
La
Bear's Front:
pore for this port
Sewer Death Captai
Cassa
Tennis Match.........
Tragic Death ... Traffic Accidents V.B.C. Fete Weak-End Baseball Share Deal d Service Boxers... Army Decimated Local Football "Honam" Blinded! K.C.C. "At Home" Mate's Wages The Weather. Stowaways Spey Cup Bowls Mercantile Chinese Lawn Bowls ... Local Colour Seeking & Remedy Loan Bonds Sir John Jordan Canton Items .... Teachers Dismissed Cheung Chau Notes
Master Masong Fubize. Progress Bates Plea
Share Market
Shire Transfers Two Typhoon
Who Will It Be? Banzai
Water Folo
Faid the Penalty "Uphill Wor
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