FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1930.
BRITISH SUBJECTS IN
AMERICA.
MANY APPLICATIONS FOR FREE PASSAGE HOME.
Numerous applications for re- patriation are being received at the British consular otlices throughout the United States from British subjects who have been discharged and are in financial difficulties..
During the present Industrial depression American employers Anding that reductions in staffs
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INVISIBLE GERMS.
An Epoch-Making Discovery.
PROFESSOR'S CLAIMS.
Professor Albert Calmette, n director of the Pasteur Institute and a bacteriologist of world-wide farbe, has just made a communi- cation to the French Academy of Medicine of very unusual interest and importance.
THE
ATLANTIC FLYING.
Nineteen Lives Lost in Three Years.
FURTHER ATTEMPTS.
London, May 14.
It is being asked if nothing can be done to dissuade some of the many pilots who are planning to make attempts to fly the Atlantic this season. The suitable weather for Atlantic dying begins in about three weeks' time, and altogether thirteen attempts are being plan-
ned.
During the last three years nineteen lives have been lost in Atlantic flight attempts, and among them were some of the best pilots in the world.
Captains Nungesser and Coll, Colonel Min chin, and Captain Hinchliffe were among the lost.
Twenty years ago, Dr. Fontes. were necessary have been pursuing of Rio de Janeiro, reported that a systematic policy of dismissing he had discovered In cases. of all who are not American citizens, | tuberculosis a Kerm or virus ao This policy is encouraged by the minute that it passed through American Federation of Labour. porcelain alter, and through the Mr. Henderson's statement in walls of the blood-vessels of the the House of Commons on April 7. placenta. For many years his which has been widely quoted discovery was doubteil, but it was here, has led to the impression that fully confirmed by Dr. Vaudremar But these disasters have not de- men stranded in this way could in 1923, and since that dato Pro-
terred other pilots from coming return to Britain on British public fessor Calmette, Mr. J. Valtis. forward to make the attempt, al funds.
and others have been investigat-though there was a perceptible lull The Embassy here issued a state-ing the nature of the fillerable last year. ment that this impression virus, with results summarised by mistaken. Distressed British sub- Professor Calmette in his com-
at the munication.. jects are only repatriated public expense after special re- Terence to the Foreign Offee and on the production of satisfactory evidence that they. will be main- tained by relatives in Britain, or that they will not become a public charge, and on the signature of a promise to refund the money ex- pended in repatriation.
TOAD VENOM.
May Furnish Drugs for Medicine.
Baltimore.
are
Famous Pilot To Try. This year Captain Coste, the French pilot, has announced his Professor Calmette and his col- intention of starting soon after leagues have demonstrated the May 15. Other pilots who are pre- very remarkable fact that the in-paring to make the attempt visible filterable virus is a stage in the development life of the tubercle bacillus. In its invisible Alterable stage the germ does not cause tuberculosis, merely various diseases of the skin and various septicemic conditions: but it is apable of developing into slender invill, and finally into the typical hacillus tuberculosia discovered by Koch.
CHINA MAIL.
"BINGO" REACHES VIOLENT STAGE.
CHILD SHOT IN SAILORS' MELEE.
Have You Heard?-
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HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
Opening Daily Official Quotations 6th June, 1930,
Bay-Sell Sater Nom
Last dividend and, when paid
YANT
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Banka.
I'll give you £25 Bank of Asia ......... 12t
Insurances,
Canton Insumo
Bangkok, May 17.
Owner (at end of test): "A Growing out of a controversy at hundred miles and never had to use
The car is worth £250 Hong Kong Bank ... 1548 a "bingo" stall at Talat Sam Yarn, a spanner.
What will you give Chartered Ban where the Si Phya Read joins the as it stands. Rama IV Road, two petty naval for it?"
Mercantile Bkc., Abl police Client: "Prepare yourself for a 22 officers clashed with officer and a constable last night. shock, old man.. A pistol shot fred by the police and no more."
order to keep the Owner: "Prepare yourself for officer in mariners at 'bay, struck the hard another; I'll take it!" pavement and glanced, hitting a
On his last call on Friday a 'com. boy in the thigh. The police officer
Sub-Lieutenant was
Boonjuny mercial traveller was about to re- Rochana pradisth of Pradumavan ceive a small order when he started Station
the constable was searching through his pockets.
"What have you lost?" asked the named Lai. The mariners involv- ed, were Third Class Petty Officer customer. Soon Lee, of the newly arrived gunboat Sukhodaya, and Second Class Petty Officer Win.
and
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The incident occurred at about 9 m. when the police officer in plain clothes was on his round inspecting the various bingo stalls. He ar rived at Talat Sam Yarn, when Con- a stone. somebody threw stable Lai was explaining to the a small boy officer that he saw throwing the misalle from a dark Captain Ahrensberg, the Swedish corner, when a man in the bingo airman; Lieutenant Haya and stall approached and, said that he "I put in the French phrases here Commandant G. Morato, who have had nothing to do h the throw-and there," said the would-be au-
"to testing. Some words were exchanged, thor,
give. the book AD already made,long distance flights with their machine; Kaud the policemen resenting the inter- atmosphere of culture."
"That's all right," said the von Clauspa, a Danish military ence. The man then departed any- pilot: Mr. Paul Montgomery, and ing that he would settle the score publisher, "but it would have helped Tronoh Mine...... Captain Kingsford-Smith.
still more if you had put in a little Two French firms are building The police officer started to con- good English here and there!'"
his round, when a long-range aeroplanes, and the tioue Dornier Do X. may make an At-whistle was blown. Constable Lai
came running past blowing his sitles began an doctors have lantic flight attempt, probably via For a long time recognised diseases associated in the Azores. The airship R100 will whistle loudly while two men were some way with tuberculosis, and make its Atlantle flight attempt closely chasing him brandishing in apointed, weapon. yet showing no tubercle bacillus, next month, and the Graf Zeppelin their hands
Sub-Lieutenant Boonluay stood in and the
such will also make an attempt some explanation of
their track and when the latter time during the year.
came near, swept out his pistol in order to command them to stop. Somehow or other he touched the trigger and the pistol exploded.
The venom of tonds, for turies used in Europe as a source of poison and in China as a medianomalous diseases is now plain.
cine, contains potent principles that resemble drugs in therapeutic use to-day and may provide medi- cine with new weapons against
heart disease.
Four kinds of chemical sub- stances have been isolated in crystalline form from Ch'an Su, dried toad venom used as medicine in Chinn for hundreds of years. The researches were conducted by Drs. H. Jensen and K. K. Chen of Johns Hopkins.
Dr. Chen is a Chinese blochemist whose research on an old Chinese drug plant gave modern medicine the drug ephedrine which, has come into wide use in the treat- ment of hayfever and colds.
In the river and lake regions of China is found a large toad which when irritated secretes a whitish,. slimy venom from glands, located behind the eyes. The Chinese have long used this dried venom in
canker treating
sinus trouble, inflammations, toothache and bleeding gums.
sores,
The reason why the tond venom is effective for stopping and pro- moting drainage of infected sinuses was explained when Dra. Jensen and Chen isolated from the
The clinical value of the, dis- covery of a prebacillary, virus is considerable, for it will render it possible to detect tuberculous ten. dencies before any bacillus can be
found. and thus will enable doc- tors to take measures to nip the disease In the bud. It also proves that a mother can infect an in- fant with tuberculosis even before
it is born
Apart from clinical value, the discovery is of biological interest, for it shows that invisible entitles are an earlier stage in the evolu- tion of bacilli, and gives some sort of support to the evolution- ists who have suggested that the unicellular organisms known to- day were evolved from prior or- ganisms more minute in size and more simple in character.
ARMY FRAUDS.
Siamese Official in Bankruptcy.
Bangkok, May 13. The bankruptcy charge brought venom two principles which raised by the Ministry of War against (former Phra blood pressure, one of them iden- Thavil Janlekha tical -with epinephrine or Sanbayuddh) Was dismissed by adrenalin, the principle of the suprarenal gland in animals.
The bankruptcy charge
SCHOOL RAIDED.
later.
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Chinese Police Pose as police station when they were
Surveyors.
Shanghai, May 25. For the past four or five day residents of Darroch Road, in the vicinity of the Chung Hua College of Arts, have taken a keen interest in the activities of a gang of Chinese surveyors who spent hours each day measuring the road, taking sights and levels, making copious notes and never seeming to get much farther that 50 yards on either side of the college. There
considerable wng
speculation
The two men were taken to the
found to be seamen, They were later released pending investiga- tion Bangkok Daily Mail.
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And he looked surprised when a roar of laughter followed his un- intentional "slam."
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WOMEN'S RECEPTION,
among foreign and Chinese re- sidents In the neighbourhood, it being freely stated that the Chapel authorities were about to take control of the road and were pre-cry from the paring to widen it.
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On Saturday afternoon, the dis-
On Singapore- Miss Johnson this morning called trict received a surprise when a
on the Governor-General and visit-] On demand the Civil Court laet Saturday. large number of Chapei police ap-
On Manila- The court also ordered the Official peared, fully armed, and surround-ed Parliament, the session being
hour to On demand ...... 62 But the poisonousness of toads Receiver to withdraw his attached the Chung Hua College. In a interrupted for half an
On Shanghai- is explained by the isolation of two ment of the defendant's property few minutes the college had been allow the members to meet her. toxic principles in the toad venom as from the same date.
completely blockaded and those in- Later she had a wonderful recep- On demand
tion at the Town Hall.-Reuter. that have a pharmacological action
was side were cut off from all escape. quite similar to the familiar made in order to claim the money In a few minutes more, about 80 digitalis glucosides used in treat-allegedly misappropriated from of the students, together with the involving Tca.tutors, were herded, roped together ing heart trouble. One of these, the Army fund. cinobufotoxin, as it is named in 38,000 of which the defendant and led off to the Chapel police honour of its origin and toxicity, is
was found guilty by the Supreme headquarters. so potent that one thousandth of Court, another a gram would kill an ordinary cat. The other poison in the Chinese toad venom, cinobufagin, is not so powerful.
These poisonous principles ex- plain the cause of death of the husbands of me rriage-weary Ro- man women who fed their mates with toad lungs.
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The latter amount was the surprise raid were the gang of Missionary Murdered in Copper Cents
Among the principal actors in
the total money allegedly.mlaap- surveyors who had been so busily propriated in connection with engaged making inconsequential which suits are now pending in
measurements during the previous the court.
four days. These men were noth- Bofore the trial commenced, ing more or less than Chinese de Thav: paid to the Ministry of tectives, who had been keeping the War Tea. 38,000, but refused to college under observation, waiting pay the latter sum contending for the right moment to arrest the that the law sults in connection with them have not been definite- ly concluded.--Bangkok.
Other poisons of animal origin are snake venom, and poisons from fish, scorpions, spiders, bees, ants, beetles and other insects. In com- Mail. mon with gland extracts such as thyroxin, adrenalin, pituitrin, and Insulin, these poisons are toxic in large amounts but sometimes bene- ficial in small doses,
Close chemical relations between toad polsons, digitalis, bile acids, cholesterol, ergosterol, the vitamin
Dally
students.
This college has been notorious for its communistic activities and has been raided on no less than three previous occasions, when large quantities of communistic literature were seized. Among the D substance, and perhaps the literature found on Saturday was female sex hormone are suggested a considerable quantity bearing on by Drs. Jensen and Chen and may the May 30 incident, and calling guide their use in the treatment for a demonstration and general of disease.——Ex.
strike on that date.
Chengtu.
STABBED IN BACK.
Shanghai, Yesterday.
A message from Chengtu, Sze-. chwan, states that Doctor Clifford Stubbs, who was a native of New- castle-on-Tyne, and was a Society of Friends ralesionary, has been murdered.
He was riding in a rikisha in the street on Friday, when he was stabbed in the back, and succumbed in hospital on Sunday. Hia assailant, is believed to be a Communist from Chungking.
Doctor Stubbs arrived in China in 1913, and his wife came out the following year-Reuter."
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