SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1933.
FIGHTING
THE CANCER
SCOURGE
10th Report Of Empire Cancer Campaign.
LORD READING'S OPTIMISM.
London.
WHY · CONFERENCES CONVICT'S
FAIL.
World Enchained With
Nationalism.
MORAL DISARMAMENT NEEDED.
(By ALAN THOMAS.)
THE CHINA MAIL.
To-Day's Short Story.
10,000 – MILE
| ADVENTURE
THE
Escaped From Devil's Island.
FIVE YEARS AS BANDIT":
Bordeaux.
WOMAN WHO
WATCHED
THE
world's
coming
to
By Adelaide Foster.
TIES-
This case of Mary Peel. She was
She
"Tsomething," Bassanio ex-glad the woman had got off.
That maddened him.
But
A number of distinguished
A strange battle for freedom, ploded over the breakfast-table, had been led a dog's life. Everyone Year by year the war against" -cancer goes on. The silent struggle Savants from different countries waged by white-coated doctors and have been conferring in Geneva which took him over 10,000 miles, when women can get away with was talking about it. Mrs. Roere, Goes scot free. And husband along to choose her hats, scientists in the hospitals and under the Chairmanship of Pro-has been related to his final captors murder. That woman Peel has an old customer who brought her The by a convict who escaped from got off.
will probably make a few thou-referred to it
"Of course she did it,” she said, laboratories of many countries of fessor Gilbert Murray.
Committee which brought them Devil's Island.
Victor Garder has arrived" under sands out of it. It's disgraceful the Empire never ceases.
How long it will be before victory together is called the Interra-
It That's what tional Committee for Intellectual close guard hero all the way from paying them to murder their "but she shrugged.
Wallace Bassanio had returned and at last rests with mankind, no one
Co-operation, and one of the most French West Africa to be tried for husbands.
And this jury was lounging in the show-room. He
joined in. сап вау.
Bystem →→→→→ But the conclusion that the important subjects under disa crime committed in Portugal four amounts to.
Words failed to Appease his "It's disgraceful! Here we are Daring escapes into the "Green "front" in this anti-disease war is cussion has been the question of years ago.
Moral Disarmament.
haying women murdering their hus- America and the spleen. slowly being pushed forward is one
What is Moral Disarmament? Hells" of South
Mrs. Bassanio looked at her husbands with impunity. They should jungles of French and Portuguese that can be drawn from the tenth!
West Africa, five years of banditry, band. She had looked at him a lot have brought in a verdict of Guilty. annual report of the British Empire It is not easy to define. It might be described shortly as an or- Cancer Campaign.
three continents were described by Once there had been a soft, doglike People seem to take a very strange There is a note of qualified optim-ganised attempt to put an end to wandering 10,000 miles through later in a brooding sort of way. If she killed the man she is guilty. devotion in her eyes. She said view of what is law and what isn't." tné prisoner. ism in the report for the year given feelings of hostility between peo-
He laughed his smooth laugh. Condemned in France in 1928 to nothing. by Lord Reading, Chairman of the Ples by means of educating the
public mind and trying to remove 120 years in French Guiana, for at-
He jerred; "I suppose you'd say "Why, we husbands will never know Grand Council.
when we are going to get a dose of the prime causes of those feel- "Our knowledge of both the cause:
tempted murder, Garder escaped she was justified?"
"Test"
arsenic in our food. The jury. sys- within a few months into the dan- and treatment of cancer is increasings.
tem is all wrong." In the eighteenth century
gerous jungles known as the "Green ing rapidly," he declares, "and great
"Man is born Hell." After terrible hardships be Bassulo never showed his anger "She did it in self-defence! He strides have been made since the Rousseau wrote:
free and everywhere he is reached civilisation living a hand to outwardly. His suave voice be was a cruel man!" A slight flush Inception of the campaign."
His words have an mouth existence in South America, came a little more sacrastit; his eyes rose in Laura Bassanie's checks. It is also cheering to hear that in chains."
twentieth
finally working his passage to a little narrower; his lips a little Lord Reading reports that, in spite application for the of bad times, none of the important century. To-day man is enchained Portugal. There he carried out a more cruel, almost imperceptibly so, research work has been handicapped with the fetters of Nationalism sensational burglary of a smart Only his wife knew.
-nationalism in politics, na-Lisbon jeweller's shop. He was
sentenced to eight years in the think it is quite right to put arsenic One of the most important mat-tionalism even in everyday life!! ters dealt with in the tenth annual The world's faith in interna- Portuguese penal camp at St. Paul in tea, eh?” report is, of course, the experiment tionalism, particularly in inter-
of Loanda, in Angola. He escaped in the use of anti-serum in the treat-national conferences, has been into the African jungle four daya
The Disarma-after his arrival.
Cruel, she thought, in a way that ment of cancer which Its author, Dr.jbadly shaken.
ordinary, kindly people wouldn't] Thomas Lumsden, Honorary Diret-ment Conference, having sat for Garder was caught again by the
understand. Such as being ignored tor of the Cancer Research Labora-18 months without achieving French police at Matadi, French
for days on end, or openly humillat- tory at the Landon Hospital, des- any concrete result, has been ad-West Africa, and promptly found
That was true and be knew ited until one's soul grew slek with a cribes as the "final and crucial teet" journed till the middle of Octo-means to escape once more. Corner-
The Economic Conference. ed finally at Brazeiville, he has now He had been able to crush and break crushing sense of inferiority. Des- to ten years of research.
still in the been sent here to stand his trial 'her because of the love she had for pised-because one's overtaxed brain Twenty-five cancer victims whose whose fortunes are condition is hopeless from the point balance, will surprise most people for the jewel robbery at Lisbon, for him, but, strangely enough, fear was too tired to trouble much over place in her heart.the economic condition of one's lif it registers more than which he has already been sentene had found no of view of existing methods have
qualified success. After ed. But since a French citizen Perhaps because she did not parti-country, and care still less about the voluntarily placed themselves under a the anti-serum treatment.
for want of money.
ment:...
ber.
"You would! 1
suppose you
Sre did not answer, "Hate me-don't you?" "No!"
"Ha, ha!" he laughed smoothly. "I don't hate you! Hate is fear and I'm not afraid of you."
He went into the hall and the
click of the door followed the click of
golf sticks.
MONDAY'S STORY .
Monday's story will be “The Patron,” by Guy De Maupassant.
cruelty.
Bassanio met the gaze of her
what has happened in the Far cannot be extradited from French cularly care about anything-even political quarrels of others! Goaded. Goaded to the verge of dès- "It is not considered expedient at East, confidence in the League it-territory, it appears that this is the living.
He slammed down his
cup.peration by pin-point baiting, that; this early stage to publish even the self is beginning to wane, Na-only procedure by which he can be! provisional conclusions arrived at tions are tending more and more dealt with. A Bordeaux jury will "You'd better get up to the shop. the years turned to dagger-thrusts. by the author and by the surgeons to "turn inwards"-to rely upon therefore hear evidence about the Mrs Crabtree is coming in at ten... Yes, there were two kinds of who attended the treated cases," Dr. their own resources.
crime committed in Lisbon.-Reuter. o'clock." League an Illusion? Lumsden states.
He adds this significant com. What then? Has the effort)
"to promote international co- "It can only be said that the re-operation" failed? Is the League sults are considered to justify fur- of Nations, which in 1919 was ther and intensive investigation hailed as the greatest comfort of along the lines of research referred a desolate world, proving an ill- to, and the Campaign has generously usion in 1933? If so, the Insurance Claim Fought provided the funds to make the ex-gloomy.conclusion must be drawn tension of the author's researcnes that human will and intelligence are not sufficient to devise the possible."
Lord Reading, too, speaks of necessary guarantees of political these experiments in his report, and economic international order.
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brooding eyes, and suddenly a qucer aversion gripped him. She had been She watched him down the street doing it for weeks now. Staring There had been an excuse, once, that at him with a flat stare which gave playing golf enable one to meet
to her light eyes a curiously fixed people and then get business. She expression, like the unwavering re laughed when she thought of it.
.
No, she didn't hate him. It had yard of a cat.
For the first time since he had nothing to do with love or hate, this married her he found himself won- feeling. It went deeper than that dering what she thought about. It Right down in the depths of her, so Upon a peanut hangs £1.000. ingrained that by now it had become was a new sensation--this award- "The results at present," he says, Speaking in the House of Com-Attorney for the executor of the something with which she breathed, nes of his wife's personality. For so long he had regarded her as a real mosh on July 10, the Chancellor estate of Mrs. Johnson contend-slept, and lived, was a primitive de nonentity that it came as something *are too few to afford any
ed that the peanut, lodged in her sire for justice. People should pay of a shock. grounds for assuming that this anti-jof the Exchequer said:
"The idea that any country esophagus, -led to her death and for what they'd bad--whether they can be sufficient unto itself, that her demise could be classideat in merchandise or emotions.
Ified as accidental.
serum will prove to be a substitute for the present methods of treating cancer or inat it will really be effec tual
"All that can be said is that the results so far have been encourag- ing and that at all events a tempor- ary benefit has resulted in several of the cases treated.
that it can solve its own pro-
An insurance blems, without reference to
company can.
ACCUSED SOLDIER what is happening to the rest tended that death was not acci-
DISCHARGED. within the meaning of of the world, is one that will dental, not bear the light of experi- the terms of an insurance policy.
ence."
His words ring true. The
-Reuter.
FUNERAL OF LATE MR. G. G. CARTER.
Full Naval Honours Accorded.
"It's an extraordinary thing that] one can obtain arsenic so easily. Tell me, Mr. Reeve, why don't they tighten up the regulations concern- ing the sale of arsenic?".
"Well, that's rather difficult, Mrs. Bassanio. It's used in various pre-
"Both Sides Lying," Says parations that have a perfectly legi-
The Magistrate.
timate use. Sheep-dip and weed- killer; even flypapers-all-very easy Prick Hiley of the South Wales years ago, of a woman who poisoned A. charge against Pte. Joseph to obtain. I remember a case, many
"A great deal more work has still world, however, is what men to be done before the treatment can choose to make it. And the rea- standardised or son why international confer be in any sense made available for general use." ence do not achieve the results
Borderers of assaulting the No. 1 ber husband- with a Bolution made Dr. Lumsden, in the dramatic that are expected of them is that
coolie at St. John's Cathedral on July by steeping papers in water and story of his ten years' task, describes the delegates to those Conferences
19, was dismissed by Mr. Wynne-mixing it with his-food." ~_ how in 1925 it was first shown that are thinking all the time not!
Joms at the Central Police Court "Indeed!" Laura fixed her Intent anti-sera could be produced which what their respective countriesį
yesterday.
eyes upon him. "How very interest- were capable of destroying cancer can contribute to the problem,
The Magistrate remarked that ing cells.
but what their respective coun-
Full Naval honours were accord-both the complainant and the defen-1 "Interesting! I thing it perfect- The first attempts to cure antries can get out of the negotiated the late Mr. Gordon Geoffrey dat were lying and he did not know ly horrible." animals by injecting the anti-serum tions.
Carter, whose funeral took place what to make of it.
"Well, I mean to say, Mrs. Reeve, failed, but by 1932 it was possible And why do they do this? yesterday afternoon at Happy It was alleged that on the even-interesting from to record that mice could be cured Not because they themselves do Valley.
a psychological ing of July 19 Hiley was in the point of view. The cause, in the in a large percentage of cases. not realise that the common The coffin, which was draped in compound of the cathedral with a first place, because there is always The mice so cured were in future interest is greater than the the Union Jack; was drawn from Chinese woman, when the coolle in- a cause; isn't there:” Her voice be- immune to cancer," he adds. "Some sectional interest, but because the Royal Navy Hospital to the terened. He tried to arrest her in came introspective. "I dare nay of these mice are still living and public opinion in their own coun- burial ground on a gun-carriage Garden Road, but she went away quite a lot are never found out. have now been free from recurrence trics has not yet learnt this twenty ratings from H.M.S. after speaking to Hiley. for nearly a year, ie. a period truth Nationalism in all countries Verity.
With arsenic, for instance, as there The coolle was returning to his is no taste." - equivalent to something like 30 or 40 is still stronger than internatión-} Six other men from the same quarters, he alleged, when Hiley and "Oh, it's not so easy to get away "The resulta gradually but pro- Therein lies the importance of ship acted as bearers, and at the three other soldiers attacked him with poisoning nowadays, Mrs. gressively attained, and all step. by Professor Murray's meeting of sounded, by bugler Aggett of the police whistle and all but Hiley fled with the Borgias. Are you ready, graveside the "Last Post" was with their sticks. He blewds Bassanid. It's a lost art that died step confirming the hypothesis upon savants. which ten years ago, this research was based, made it justifiable and expedient at last to apply the final; and crucial test and ascertain whether comparable results could be
years ja man.
alism.
TEN INJURED IN GALLERY CRASH.
achieved in man or not.”Reuter Accident During Service
NO INTEREST IN PROHIBITION
Repeal Election Fails To Attract Voters
In Old Mosque.
!
Royal Marines.
Ân Indian and a Chinese constable my dear?""
"Still," insisted Laura doggedly, The Rev. F. Ke Chamberlain, arrived, but Hiley refused to be ar
rested, and ran into Murray heding Mrs. Reeve her hand-bag,| Naval Chaplain, officiated
"there must be plenty who do get Among those present were Lieut. Barracks:
away with it." Com, Brewer (HMS. Whitehall),
Lieut. Swain (HMS. Verity), NEW PLAY GROUND
Lieut Ashcroft (HMS Wild Swan), Com. Eng. L... S. Rooke
REGULATIONS.
You don't know what you're talk ing about" suit her husband con- temptuously
(EMS. Wishart), Gunner (F) For Use Of Children thing wrong with her. A dozen
Under 13 Years?
No doubt about it, there was some-
times a day he found himself glinc- fing in her direction, only to realísa, afterwards, with a start," that the
Belgrade. W. J. Cooke (HMS. Whitehall), Ten men were seriously infured Mr. J. Hunter (representing the when the women's gallery in the Hong Kong Australian Associa 400-years-old mosque at Vlasenitzation), Mr. G. E.. Endley (Anzac His Excellency the Governor in had been staring at him. It follow Charleston. near Garajevo, collapsed during Coy HXV.D.C.), Dr J, E. Dovey Council has rescinder Bekulation led him about, that gaze, with an un- Folks up in the Pocataligo Diá- service.
and J. A. R. Selby, Rev. E. G10 of the regulations relating to serving obliqueness. At first he trict "don't much care” whaťa done The men had been sitting Imme Powell, Messrs. J. Cassel, Weth Children's Playgrounds in had tried to appear unconscious of about probibition.
diately below the gallery, which was The polls were opened at 6:80 the only part of the mosque Into Abera, A. W. Muir and 1. Bentley Kosloon, and has substituted the it. Then it irritated Him Grád-
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ually it began to get on his Ber tion repeal: election. About : Boos The gallery was packed with those from "His sorrowing mother No male person over 13 years of The mixed Dutch-Italian blood for election officials got tired waiting women worshippers at the time, and father" Mr. and Mrs Bag shall use any swing, spring his father made him for a voter so they closed up for the Amid sudden shrieks, and cries, Wong J Cansel and P. M. Penhal bird, or other appliance, erected apceptable to this strange im day, M
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