THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 6, 1939
INCENDIARY
FIRES
IN FOUR COVENTRY
STORES
I.R.A. Terrorism Continues
London, To-day.
NEW-
REICHSBANK PRACTICE
Berlin, To-day.
The Reichsbank has aban-
Incendiary bombs are believed to have caused out-doned its practice of buying
breaks of fire in four Coventry stores last night. In each case, early discovery prevented serious damage. The fires occurred within a short space of time and each case showed the action of an incidendiary device which had been em- ployed.
Following the discovery of the Ulster document, arms have been issued to members of the Special Branch at Scotland Yard.
containing the names of all Scot- land Yard officers in charge of in- vestigating the bomb outrages, which allows the assumption that the ter- Vigilance on certain State offi-rorists have "spies” amongst the cials and Police officials has in- police. Trans-Ocean. creased following the discovery of
the document. Reuter..
LIVERPOOL FEARS
London, To-day.
Prison among
Liverpool police fear that the bomb, attempt on Liverpool will be a signal for trouble the prisoners. Scotland Yard, therefore, last evening sent special officers to Liverpool with orders to clear up the case immediately. Simultaneously the police have in- creased precautionary measures. Trans-Ocean.
PALACES AND BANK OF ENGLAND THREATENED
London, To-day. Belfast police have found a docu- .ment disclosing the plans of Irish Nationalists for bomb outrages in England, it is reported the “Even- ing Standard."
According to this document, Buckingham Palace; Windsor Castle and the Bank of England building are to be blown up.
Consequently, strong police guards were placed in the threatened build- ings.
Police
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house
in
bills of exchange and cheques issued in foreign currencies exclusively at Reichsbank dis- count rates and will in future purchase them at the discount rate in the country in whose currency they are issued.
It will also refrain from deducting the fee on bills and cheques. Reuter.
NEW DRUG SAVES 200 PEOPLE WITH PNEUMONIA
LONDON, JANUARY 20.
FRENCH MOVE TO REVIVE CHANNEL TUNNEL SCHEME
The urgent need, for, military and economic reasons, of the con- struction of a Channel tunnel is brought once more to the attention of the French Government in a re- solution by M. Marcel Boucher, de- puty for the Vosges Department.
the
It has been submitted to Chamber Foreign Affairs Commis sion for consideration.
The resolution calls on the French Government to renew con- versations with the British Govern- ment with a view to a speedy de- cision on the question.
M. Boucher states in his report: "Just as in 1914, Great Britain and France suddenly realised in September last, in face of common peril, how sadly lacking was the Channel tunnel,
"Between two nations whose very existence faces the same ricks a rapid and safe communication link
A NEW BRITISH DRUG M & B 693, HAS CUT THE MOR-is of capital importance and of the TALITY RATE OF PNEUMONIA BY 25 PER CENT. THIS WIN-utmost urgency." TER.
M. Boucher quotes the words of
tunnel had existéd in 1914 the World War might have been avoid- ed.
In London the drug saved the serums that often cost £80 a. treat-Marshal Foch that if the Channel lives of nearly 200 people in ment. December alone one of the worst pneumonia months.
By December the drug was used It is only this winter that the in every London hospital. The drug has come into routine use in mortality returns for pneumonia began to tell the story. Every all London hospitals.
week there was a gradual drop.
The drug was put on clinical tests before it was issued general- ly. Out of 100 cases treated with it only eight died. In cases not treated with it twenty-seven out of 100 died.
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Doctors reported a “dramatic Stoke Newington, found a list success," but before the drug was used generally it was tried out on cases of lobar pneumonia-sudden and often fatal.
BRITONS KILLED IN AIR RAID ON CARTAGENA
London, To-day. Forty were killed, including
two British sailors, according to
reports, when Nationalist planes bombed Cartagena, the last im- portant harbour remaining in the hands of the Republican Govern- ment. Trans-Ocean.
HUNGARIAN LEGATION LEAVES MOSCOW
Moscow, To-day,
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SPEEDY RECOVERY
The doctors, said: "The results leave no doubt in our minds that
One of the outstanding successes of the drug is no people aged more than sixty. They are often frail and weak and can offer little the disease. The resistance to mortality rate in their class is high.
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Early clinical tests were made and out of five treated only one died. Out of four cases not treat ed three died.
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that the tunnel would contribute to He urges..on economic grounds
the equilibrium of trade exchanges, in need. of which the world to-day is sadly
SPITFIRE TO BE IMPROVED
of this
The Air Ministry contemplates. fitting all 'new. Spitfire fighters, and possibly Hurricane fighteṛa as well, The drug was tried on forty with variable-pitch airscrews. if the drug is used within
the children.
Only two died. It is The pitch of the blade fourth day it will cut short the now being used all over the world, type of aircrew can be altered by infective process and bring about and as the doctors grow a speedy recovery.”
By-November practically every hospital was using it.
A cure of fifty tablets coats 158. and they replace in general use expensive
M. HERRIOT NOT TO STAND FOR PRESIDENCY?
Paris,, To-day
more the pilot to assist the machine to
successes increases. familiar with it the percentage of rise rapidly from the ground, and can then be changed in the air to January returns for pneumonia the correct pitch for normal flight. years, yet the mortality figures for inne are remarkably easy to fly and cases are the heaviest for some Both the Spitfire and the Hurri
the first few days are still drop-to land, and, when once in the air, ping:
climb ́verp rapidly. Nevertheless it The drug was found by-Dagen-fis apparent that, when fitted with ham (Essex) chemists. The initials their present fixedpitch wooden air- M & B are the initials of the firm screws, they require a considerable making the "drug; the number 693 run to take off. This limits the is the chemists' registering num-possibility of operating them from ber..
small aerodromes or landing grounds
:
when
It is under strict supervision and in time of war. is issued only on a doctor's pre- It is also a disadvantage scription.
they are used for night flying, be The small tablets are crushed cause it is then desirable that they and taken in milk, and the doc-should rise from the ground as Chamber President, M. tors' experimental report said: rapidly as possible, and thus be able Legation in Moscow left here yes- Herriot, who was expected by many "They will, not produce nausea." to clear any obstructions on the terday after having the intimation to be the next French State Pre- The dose is taken every four borders of the aerodrome by an from the Soviet government that the sident, will not be a candidate for hours, and produces an Immediate ample margin. Soviet Russian Legation in Budapest this office at the fortiffoming elec fall in temperature.
The entire staff of the Hungarian
The
had been closed because Hungary tions it is reported in the Sunday The correct name of the drug joined the Anti-Comintern Pack- edition of the "Paris Soir"-Trans- is. 2-(p-aminobenzenesulpho-
namido) pyridone..
Trans-Ocean.
Ocean:
Swatow, To-day.
No Japanese warships are now off Swatow - Central News.