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THE CHINA_MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, · 1955.
POLIO VIRUS IS Pilots' Dream cr NOTHING ON THE CLOCK"
GROWN IN
CHICK EMBRYO
New York, Mar. 14.
A new milestone in the continuing search for lasting protection against poliomyelitis, the dread paralyser of young and old commonly known as "polio," was reached with the recent growth of polio virus "In chick embryo for the first time in history.
After many years of persistent work, Dr H. R. Cox, Director of Virus Research at the Lederle Laboratories Division of the American Cyanamid Company, and his associates, succeeded in modifying deadly Lansing type strain of polio so that it would grow in the chick embryo.
of
The chick embryo is an ideøl dividuals in whom the infection material for mass producing – can alrently be detected. Strug voretnies, since it is rendily
The available rupply available,, pronomical, and free *LTIMA
serum globulin,” I 191 poferitially dangerous material obtained by processing human blomt. and its cost are other handlenes
Horns organtons
other
Micro-
PAVE THE WAY
Although Dr Cox and his fellow workers believe that their work will pave the way for eventual produc- tion of a practient and nato Tiina agent against
pollo, they have emphasised that no prediction can be made al present on when this kon will be reached. 12 Cox.
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If the enfleu iminune corum i globulla
of the production United States were used solely to pravení polo, there would be
| enough masterkai to treat only 17 por veni of the child on In the United States under ten yours uki The
cost average would be 323.50 colinrs (about
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NOTICE
VEHICHLAR FERRY
Owing to repairs to Piers, the Vehicular Ferry Service will br suspended ** follows:-
Thursday Evening the 17th March. 1955
The Service will Le suspended from 9.00 p.m. to 1.00 A.m
Friday Morning the 18th March, 1955 The first forry will com mence at 7.20 a.m. instead of 6,20 .m.
Tuesday Evening the 22nd March, 1965 The Service will suspended from 7.00 p.m. to 1.00 a..
be
Wednesday Morning the 23rd March, 1955 The first ferry will com. menco at 7.20 m.in. instend of 8.20 0.03.
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Tuesday Evening the 29th March, 1955 The last ferry will leave at 12.00 Midnight instead of 1,00 a.m.
During the abovementioned suspension Passenger Ferries will be operated as usual.
THE HONG KONG & YAUMATI FERRY CO., LTD.. Hongkong, 9th March, 1955.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
̧· MY.. "CDANŐSHÁ“
ared. 18th March, 1953
· Damaged cargo ex this vessel will
he surveyed ry Moms. Goddard & DOUSTĀ „04 Hong Kong de Xowloon Wharf Godeers at 18 kan, on Friday,
the
Stoles Publ Health Servier, The serond method, and "the 111 the logicul way to amuntiae 1- produced, fanta 1
children against
whreken enbryo
hundreds of
doses during the just
W
10
Bao
Dai
Saigon, Mar. 14. of | poliomyelitis," according to Dr Representatives of the three for Cong to y a method based principal Vietnamese politico- and
Opi what takes place under religious sects have failed to con- naturnt conditions—namely, vince Chief of State Boo Dai to induce infection via the gastro- return ไ South Vietnam and Intesikud route by feeding ri willxtraw full powers from modified OF attenunted live | Premier Nga Dinh Dlem, accord- ¦ virus.”
ing to informed sources here.
The representatives of the Cho Dal Ho we secis-the
and Binh Xuyen-went to
inanisations of trooper civilian
in population. typhun-infected war zones
With Sir MacFarlane Burnet of Australia, Dr Cox wit the Comelistevere of The disease known i: "Q" fever
ad N. YHT
In other words by inducing a very mild cons of pollo brought about by the intake of weaken-
The procedure for production
chick embry IN now alone. A laboratory teclunetan uses a dentist's dried polio to break a tiny hole through the
shell, taking
care not the inner membrane puncture
SHK
Tu
Through the opening. rf radar-e
is
the south of France, where Bao Dat is residing, for this purpose last week.
body virus, the stupul de into producing its own potretive material. The body is
These sources here said Hoo thua permanently equipped to Dal told the representatives of combat the pollo virus.
hiz satisfaction that a "unified To develop a vaccine
front of nationalist forces" had contains the specially modified been created in South Vietnam, or weakened virus, research and urged the sects not to K-seientists must be able to grow begin uny open conflict with
the virus in large quantities, the Nationalist Government- Chung Mall Special.
¡ France-Presse.
Technician injects
Marall amount of Itving modified virus with a hypodermic needje The hole to then scaled and the incutiated.
Before hatching, the egits ar erneked and ving emirvos which contain Tremendous quan- *harvested" tifies of virus ay anet processed T
produce rither killed or living, modified virus varcipe
Laboratorices はじ as many an 11,000,000 estats a year 1/ production of these vareizus
baale methodin
a
material
TWO BASIC METHODS
there are two Generally
produc- at
the Iar protection against pollo virus. One way in to Inject into the human body which directly opposes the action of the virus. and cine such material. Known as “immun serum globulin" has recent. ly received much attention. But it is not believed to be effective for longer than 21 to 28 days. fortel JE 14 <font>:ful whether its use will benefit in-
THE
NOTICE
HONG KONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS.
LIMITED.
Notlec to Shareholders
NOTICE is hereby given that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of the Shareholders of The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., will be held at the Registered Office of the Company (Secund Ficor. Telephone House, Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong), on Friday, 18th March, 1956 at 12 Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directora together with the Statement of Accounts for the your ended 31st December, 1954, to re- elect a Director and to appoint. Auditors.
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 5th March, 1956 to the 18th March,, 1955, both days in- clualve,
{
By O
Order of the Board,
A. SOMMERFELT,
Secretary, Hongkong, 17th Feb., 1965.
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flesh on the starved body,
Activities, Kingsway. (T-CM) Pelk1-9,' India,
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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
HEAR THAT? A VOICE --SPEAKING
ENGLISH/
WAIT
FERDINAND
NANCY
LET'S WATCH THE GREEN MONSTER ON YOUR TV.
TUAN THIS WAY--SO THAT WE MAY FACE EACH OTHER-
AND SPRAK
NO, PEEWEE --- YOUR MOTHER. SAID YOU GET NIGHTMARES
JOHNNY HAZARD
YOU SEE, JOHNNY, TWITCH.
LAND HIS BOYE LIVE SOMEWHERE
IN THE CASBAH IN ALGIERS! SECRET ABENTER LOCAL POLICE 04 ALL HAVE FAILER TO PUT
HANDS ON HIM {* ́
HE SOUNDS LIKE A REAL SUPPERY BEL * PARADISE I.
FROM THAT
PROGRAM
HE IS! ALSO, NOBODY IN
Poruchuting to safety, oven
from ground lavet, was tho
dream of pilots on low-level Dresses Too Low,
a now
ground-strafing
this dream
bombing missiona Now has come true with the news that the Mariin-Baker” com- pally have muccessfully tested
type of ejection weat (see story). Our pictures show
the (left)
cartridge Ares and the dummy airman is ejected from the Moleor jet, and (right) after ejection the dummy floats to safely.—
N.
Central Prosa l'hote,
SNAKE IN THE BASKET
Too Short
BUT PILOT
IS
NOW SAFE
Parachuting to safety even from zero fect-- for years this has been an unattainable dream of pilots taking off for low-level bombing or ground-strafing missions. Now the dream is coming true.
."
A few days ago, a deserted airfield in
· Oxfordshire was the scene of the first trials of a new British Lightweight ejection seat. A 600 mph jet fighter was chosen for the tests, and the new seat, complete with dummy pilot, was fitted in the rear cockpit.
Squadron Leader Flüeld, test pilot of Martin-Baker, the Arm which designed the now scal, climbed Into the front cockpit and taxied out to the start of the runway.
VEREY LIGHT SOARED
A thousand yards away, a treen Veroy light Foared bito the air, and the pliot pushed his twin throttles
wide open.
The plane leapt forward, and as the airspeed indicator touch- cd the hundred-knot merk, with the aircraft hurtling along the runway,
the not yet airborne, me ejection soal was fired. There was a puff of smoke from the
Too Transparent cartridge, throwing the seat high
Saigon, Mar. 14. The South Vietnam Press has launched a vigorous campaign against the clothing worn by Vietnamese women, describing their dresses.ns "loo transparent, too short at the bottom and too low at the top."
nessed successful ejection from a plano flying only forty feet above the nerodromo,
During all of these trials, the parachute has been fully deve- loped with the dummy still t lenst twenty feet from the round, no that the rate of despent on touch-down was no higher than for a normal drop from altitude.
As far as is known, no othe ejection scat con equal this performance.
The uircrow parachutes used during the war required about thousand feet of height for successful operation.
When a pilot wishes to bale out, he pulls a small protective
the mout
Lakex
in the air, and instantly the blind down over his fáco. From Irvin parachute snapped open, } that moment the seat fell away, and the charge. dummy fonted lightly, safely to earth.
demon-
SHOT OUT First, he is shot out of the plane, well «eldar of tho tall, by an ejector cartridge. A time-operated gun flicks open miniature parachutes which slow down and stondy the stat in the correct altitude. Another time switch unfastens the seat horness, and cnubles to puol's scat the
main ohute develop. The braking action of his chute, lifts him clear of his which falls away below sont, ปรก
nnd The Hawker Hunter Gloster Javelin, two of the new transonic fighters που in quantity production for the RAF are to be atted with Martin- Baker ejection seats of an even
Observers were convinced that had the dummy
been a human pilot from a crippled plane, he would have escaped without injury to fly and fight The newspapers, calling for a again. Another step forward in "virtuous Vietnam,"
also pro the development of parachuting tested gainst the institution of had been effectively Johannesburg, Mar. 14. While
taxi-girls picnicking near East the
(described ***
strated. prostitutes), and London on the Cape coast, Mru "disguised
against French alcoholic drinks, Pollok settled her baby in a bassinet and went down to the foreign dlms and anti-clerien bench.
books. About 30 minutes later, she returned and removed a cover The Government of Premier from the basket. Horrided, she Ngo Dinh Diem has already
'dently puff-sidder | brought watched
about a revolution in slide slowly from the basket to this city, once fained for its ain, the ground and disappear into by ordering the closing of all
enfes the bush.
and restaurants
10 The baby was unharmed. pm, and all nightclubs by mld China Mail Special.
night.-France-Presse.
AT LAST-- WE'LL SEE ONE OF THEM/
LOCK--PART OF THE WALL-- IS BECOMING TRANSPARENT.
ΟΗ, ΒΟΥ
THEN HOW CAN I [THE CABBAH WILL BETRAY · |-HELP YOU WHERE
MIN SOME KIND OF HONOR
AMONG THEVÉS!
7
ALL AUTHORITIES. HAVE FAILED TIM NO MAGLI MAN:
- YOU KNOW?/
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
TRANSPARENT METAL!
AND BEHIND IT~~58E- BECOMING CLEARER--) ONE OF THEM!
CONTINUED
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller.
By Frank Robbins; ·
YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE, OLD CHAPE YOU'RE GOING TO HAME DOMETHIN="TWITCH" ||WANTE WA HOST INTERESTIN
WPARAKEET?,
The new light-weight weighs sixty-six pounds, which is only two-thirds of the weight of a standard Martin Baker ejection scat,
A similar successful ejection off the runway using a standard at was recently demonstrated to senior officers of the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Lust month, two officers from the French Air Force's Flight | later design. Test Centre at Brellgny wit-
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This incorporates a cockpit canopy jettison gear, so that a only pilot in emergency will have one action to perform, instead of two, saving vital seconds,
In previous planes, the pilot first had to jettison his cockpit canopy, and
then fire his ejector Feat. It sometimes happened that in the heat of the moment, he forgot to jettison his hood first.
the
With the new design, flier need only pull down his Ince-blind, and his hood is automatically flung clear by a cartridge explosion. A second later, the efcétor seat operates automatically, and the Pilot 'takes silk' without rlsk of crashing through the hood.
HERALDS ORDERED
A Colombian altline operating from Bogola in South America, Lloyd Acro Colombians, has ordered a number of Handley Fare Herald airliners,
When the Heralds are do- livered, they will be the first British airliners to go into servico in Colombla, where American-bullt transport planes have in the past formed the equipment of the major opera- tors.
This order-the second to bo announced for Heralds in two weeks-brings the order-book for the now transport to 20 planes, Last week it was dis closed that Australian National Airways had ordered o largo flest of Heralds.
The Herald is the first of two ́ British aircraft designed to re- place the DC-3 In the fleets of the world's airline companies,
The second type will be thio Aviation Traders Accountant
which is to be powered by two Rolls-Royce Dort turboprop engines. The Herald, by con trast, has four piston engines, which give a shorter take-oft run than is possible with turbo- props in fact, a grass runway only a thousands yerde long fa Euficient for Herald operations even, at full payload..
.:
The Handley Puge pirliner will be fully pressurised to provide maximuni comfort for the passengers,
Its ability to carry more than four and a half tons of freight as an eternitive to passengers at the low.figure of f/3d_ mile will be of great value in South America, a land of im- mense distances and inadequate Furface communications,
where
Lon
air freight plays a much biggör part in the continental economy than in other parts: of the world. ME, HERONS USED
Another British, type, for exécutive or atriins
·which ́ has recently / visited Colombin, ja the, de Havila): land Heront. It too, provides. four-engined safety, and can... VOLLEY HP to wyentran
passengers,
Two
South American coun trite, Brazil and Uruguay alw rendy uro Herons, or rairline. servlows: The plane which v od Colombia a demonstration: machine flown by the malcerta - nepresentative in South: AmTAPINDU
Group CaptaIETA