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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25TH, 1924
SUN BATH DANGERS.
BAILINGS FROM HONGKONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION* LONDON, HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP-vin Singapore, ment there is always a danger of its
Colombo, Suez and Port Said.
"PARIS MARU” (Calls at Sudan)
Sandar
Sth Oct
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"MEXICO MARU“
CHICAGO MARU”
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BANGKOK via SAIGON & SINGAPORE.
"KISHU MARUTM
CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon
HAMBURG MARU"
"HAGUE MANU
Wednesday, 22nd Oct. Monday,
14th Nov.
Sunday,
-5th Oct Saturday, 20th Oct.
Wednesday, 1st Oct.
Saturday,
1715 Sept. Sunday, 16th Oct.
[BY A WEST END PHYSICIAN.] Whenever good results have been achiored by a system of curative treat- being advocated indiscriminately, to the serious detriment not only of the public confidence in the system itself but also to
be the victim of mistaken enthusiasm.,
Now this is exactly what is taking place in regard to sun bathing, and my own recent experience has convinced me that a word of warning is needed if the application of what may be called a natural method of treating certain human ailmenta is not to fall into un. deserved disrepute.
Experiments have shown that sun treatment has greater possibilities than anyone ever dreamed of. And yet it can not be stated too plainly that the system, more harm than good.
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Japan Ports.
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Wednesday, 18th Oct.
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Writing from Singapore, under date March 81st, 1922, Sir Godfrey. Thomas, Private Secretary to HER. THE PRINCE OF WALES, ATE:--
BIB-1 beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 23rd instant and am desired by the Prince of Wales to thank you for the copy of the 60th annual edition of THE DIRECTORY & ORSONZOLE FOR CHINA, JAPAN, THE STRAITS BETTLEMENTS, WTO, WC," which His Royal Highness has been pleased to accept, and which will be extremely useful during the remainder of the tour.
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Sunstroke and heatstroko are the most obvious dangers, for if the temperature of the brain rises too high death may result. It is therefore imperative that those undergoing the sun curs should be protected against either contingency aris Ing by the provision of shields for the
STEERING IN FOG.
· GUIDING · CABLE FOR USE OF
·CROSS-CHANNEL STEAMERS."-
It is reported from Paris that is hai a submarina been decided to construct cable on the Loth system from Boulogne to the English coast, thus enabling ver sels equipped with the necessary appara tus to guide themselves electrically, i necessary, in case of fog by means of a submarine cable into part..
It is hoped that the first section of the overhead cable between Paris and Bon- logne, for the use of aeroplanes on the Paris-London route, may be ready for use next May.
INDO-CHINA
STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED. BALLINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION,
TSINGTAU via SWATOW
**SHANGHAI SHANGHAI via SWATOW MANILA
TIENTSIN STRANTS
CALCUTTA
SHANGHAI VE SWATOW
Tia SWATOW vis SWATOW &
SHANG SANDAKAN MANILA vis AMOY HAIPHONG HOIHOW KOHE via MOJI
**WAISHING*
Thursday, 25th Sept. 106 Friday
96th Sept. 10 Be
Saturday, 97th Sept, Noon."
"CHEONGSHINGTM Saturday
FOOKSANG"
Saturday,
TINGSHING". Sendar.
27th Sept, Noolle
27th Sept 3pm
391b
9th Sept. 10.
CHAKBANG ...Monday, 29th Sept., 3pm
"FOOSHING
HINSANG SUIBANG *MINGSANG*
LAISANG
Wednesday, 1st Oct, 10 Wednesday, 1st Ock, I pulle Saturday, 4th Oct 3
6th Oct. 8am.
*Wednesday, 8th Oct., Noop
It has been also reported that that equipment of other important; channels besides Spithead Portsmouth and the Anbrose Channel of New York Harbour, CALOUTTA LINE,TRA Line now afforda regular milings to Calcutta, PIADE THE where Lath cables have already been installed, is contemplated.
BRITAIN'S ONE-INCH TILT,
NORTH HIGHER AND SOUTH *-
LOWER.
SHANGHAI LINE
MANILA
HAIPHONG BORNEO
Is Great Britain tilting and becoming head and spinal column.
higher in the north and lower in the But the most important aspect of this south
the subject centres round
question
Recent readings of land levels above There are many in-sea levels indicate that since the last of suitability. dividuals who should on no account be readings about 50 years ago the north of submitted to sun baths, and of such are Scotland has been lifted by about half an those who will not readily pigment, or inch and that the south of England has TIENTSIN in other words, do not become brown as sunk by rather less than that distance. the result of exposure to the sun.
Levels at intermediate places have risen BANGKOK Albincs are unsuitable for sun treator fallen according as they are north ment, while the very young, the aged, or south of the dividing line. Experts and the infirm should never attempt to say, however, that we must wait probably improve their physical condition by sun another 30 years and take entirely fresh bathing except under the closest medical readings before the question can be
supervision..
There is a right way and a wrong way to take a sun bath,
The patient should begin by exposing the feet, and then gradually the rest of the body should be uncovered so that full exposare is achieved in about ten days or a fortnight.
Fatigue must be avoided at all costs, and, indeed, the efficacy of the treatment may easily be gauged even by those with scanty medical knowledge, for unless the baths are followed by a feeling of ax hilaration, of mental and physical well- being, there is something wrong, and careful inquiry into the cause is advis
able.
settled.
MOVEMENT OF EARTH'S CRUST.
"Rising and falling of the land may be taking place," an official of the Ordnance
Department, Survey
Whitehall-place, SW, told a reporter. It is an estab fished fact that the north coast of Nor- way is rising by about half an inch a year and that the coast of Holland is sinking by that amount. But erosion is consider able along these coasts, and this subject and erosion are connected.
"Io past ages Britain and the Conti- Movements in the nent were joined. earth's crust are always taking place, and it is possible, that the movement Sun treatment is destined to play which separated Great Britain from the very important part in curative medicine Continent, by creating the North Sea in the future, and is an excellent remedy and the English Channel, may still be for certain ailments, as well as being a
going on," wholesome tonic even to those in normal health.
Sun baths have an exhilarating effect. they induce a feeling of fitness and banish any tendency to depresion, always assuming, of course, that they are in- dulged in wisely.
People who respond to sun bath's and that they begin to enjoy so increasing immunity to common complaints, such as colds and catarrh, and their powers of resistance to the inroads of disease of all kinds are greatly increased.-Daily
Maili
NEW BRITISH ARMY RESERVE.
23,000 OFFICERS AND MEN WANTED.
jast month Army Orders issued authorise the formation of a supplemen- tary reserve of officers, provisionally 6xed at 2,489, also the formation of a supplementary reserve, provisionally fix- cd at 20,839, to complete, on mobilisation, the requirements of the Artillery, En- gineers, Corps of Signals, Army Service Army Corps, Army Medical Corps, Ordnance Corps, and Army Veterinary Corps. i
servo in zn
Officers will be liable t emergency in any part of the world, but not in aid of the civil power in a domes- tic emergency.
The annual gratuity of £25 will be paid to each officer if he resides in Great Britain or Northern Ireland and carries out the prescribed training, Nominations for appointment will be proceeded, with at once, and forms of application can be bad from the Under Secretary of State (8.D.3); at the War Office, Whiteball, S.W. 1.
BOUNTIES FOR TRADESMEN.
The supplementary reserve will be technical in character. One category will comprise personnel required to undergo training in peacs, incorporated in, and supernumerary to, the establishments of the Territorial Army." Enlistment will be for four years
The other category will consist of those who will not have to undergo training in peace, but will be required, it called to the Colours, to perform duties similar to their occupations in civil-life En. listment will be for 2, 3, or 4 years
Bounties "of £20, 213, and £iz will be paid annually to men enlisted as trades men, according to the group to which their trade is allotted. For other re- cruits the annual bounty will be 58.
Recruiting will be opened on October 1st..
An official, of the War Office told & Daily Mail reporter that men desiring to join the reserve will be required to pass a trade test for proficiency.
THE OLD AND THE NEW IN THE HOUSE
The old and the new mingle freely int the present House of Commons. 1 was amused a day or two writes a dor-
280, respondent, in watching Mr. T. P. O'Con nor, the father of the House, and a con- Armed snuff-taker. dusting his face, us it were, with a bandana handkerchief. On the opposite benches sat the Duchess of Athall, cooling herself by means of an orange and green fan. It is the first time to my knowledge that a fan bas been used in the House of Commons-Ex.
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