HONG KONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, MARCH
CHANGES IN THE POST OFFICE.
TOO MANY M.Ps AND TOO FEW ROOMS.
IMPORTANT
MEDICAL
DISCOVERY.
COMMITTEE TO MAKE SUGGESTIONS.
BUT G.P.O. STARTS TO REFORM ITSELF.
COMMONS LAUGHTER OVER | REJUVENATION PROCESS,
RIVAL CLAIMS.
יו:
GREAT ADVANCE ON
· VORONOFF.
RECTOR AND HIS ACCUSERS.
STRIKING PULPIT UTTERANCE,
CHURCH'S DUTY TO
FALLEN.
There was
amusement in the House of Commons, over questions Big changes may be made in the and answers concerning the rooms
Every man and woman may have
The Rev. H. F. Davidson, in a constitution und motheds of the allotted for, the use of the various
n chance of becoming a centenarian, striking sermon preached in the Post Office in consequence of the parties.
and some of the most intractable of Parish Church of Stiffkey, Norfolk, Government decision, announced Mr. Buchanan (Lab., Glasgow, modern disonses may be cured by referred to the allegations against yesterday, to to set up a Committes Gorbals) asked the First Commis-menus of a new medical discqvory, his moral character which are short. Details of this ara rovinled forly to be investigated by the Con- the first time to the whole medical sistory Court of Norwich. profession by Major Vincent Nes fold, F.R.C.S... (Eng.), the eminent Harley Strost surgeon, in the Medical World.
of Inquiry to suggest menas tsioner of Works whether the pur- secure growler efficiency in the pose of the 13 rooms allocated to the Government for the use of all postal service.
sections of their supporters applied to the nine rooms given to the Ho explained that what he meant was that, whereas Mr. Lansbury and his followers bad] abeen provided with accommodation there was none for the Independent Labour Party.
Meanwhile, the Post Office is ""reforming" itself. After the tole
printer comes the Business ReplyOpposition. Card:"
nt..
Sir Kingsley Wood, the Postmas ter-General, announced luncheon at Leads the inauguration in April of a Business Reply Card system, which will work in this way?
"
A firma communicating with a prospective customer will enclose a raply postcard or envelope of a special pattern,
'
The customer will post his reply hustamped and the addressed will pay the aorinal postage of 1d.
A new substance, named Vit
Tho
Rector has emphatically denied the charges, and has engaged. Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C., to ap pear for him when the hearing takes. place.
Alexín, has been soparated from the A congregation of 500 grawded embryonis tissues of the body. This the church; and hundreds were un- substance, it is alaimed, will reju-able to find accommodation Special venate human glands, and atimalate services of motor-buses had brought them to maintain the balance of the many people from neighbouring, secretions which are necessary for towns and villages to Stiffkey in the maintenance of health.
anticipation of the sermon..
11
Hypodermic Injection.
Three choors for Mr. Davidson" were Faised by a large crowd whon the rector loft the church.
Mr. W. Ormsby-Gore replied, amid "
"general laughter, that the quarrel was between Mr. Lansbury, and Mr. Buchanan and his friends. He declined to be drawn into it.
Mr. Lansbury jumped up in a hurry, saying: "I know of noministered by hypodermis injection, The hymns ang included quarrel. I refuse to have anything and can only be given by a doctor," Through the night of doubt, and to do with "it." (Ronewed laugh has been in the Hands of a limited sorrow, and during prayers the number of practitioners for more roctor made a special plan for all
for a letter and Id for a post-or.)
The new treatment, which is ad-
card, plus a halfpënny surchargo Mr. Will Thorne (Lab, Plaistow) than a year, and it is the results of who were involved in this terrible. in each cuss. The present fee for asked if all the trouble did not their experiments which Majorcase." He took as his text:-
arise because the women members Nesteld summarises.
an unstamped letter is 3d and for a postuard ed.
+
Saving Stamps, Firme using the service, will be required to obtain a licence and make a deporit at a local post office to cover charges duo, for a
specified period.
Sir Kingsley Wood explained
that the service would mean à say- ing to firms who went to the ex- pense of stamping reply envelopes. He had been informed that often this had resulted only in the stamp being used for another 'purpu88.
Inquiry Chairman.
["had" pinched a room on the ter: "Stripped of technical langungė, race.
'Lady Astor (C., Plymouth, Sut, tons it not a fact that all the about that room was started Labour women members in the
my case,"
last Parliament { In women don't pinch anything.
Liberal Claims.
Mr. Buchanan pressed his point, but Mr. Ormsby-Core confenrod thate it was a difficulty that he could not solve.
1
"I do not sco how I can make any discrimination," he said.
"1,caune not to call the righte ous, but sinners to repentance.' the underlying principle of the new The rector spoke of the Christian treatment is that it stimulates the ideal of self-sacrifice and love, and glands to do their job, and thereby said that Christ during his life on increases the resistance of the blood earth went out among the destitute and tissues to disonse and old age..und among the fallen. Cases Quoted by "Medical World," Cases. quoted by the Medical World in which complete cures, cfter the new treatment, are claim-
inchide
14 that
"Remember," he said, God does not sit all day in churches waiting to minister to a few saved souls those icebergs of untempted chastity who are so ready to criticise their fellow creatures. We
friendship even to those who are should show self-sacrificing love and
ungrateful or who misjudge us who
ment. since the conclusion of the trentare living the Christian ideal. No
Diabetes. A man of sixty-four and a woman of sixty-five who were cured after six doses, and have re mained free of diabetic symptoms
character in the world's" history suffered from misunderstanding and
more than vituperation
chairman of the Committee of 1-followers of the Home Secretary It is highly probable that the understand, for instance, that the quiry will be Lord Bridgeman, the
Pneumonia.A woman weighing former Conservative Cabinet Minis- (Sir Herbert Samuel) want one ter, and that to other members more room than the followers of the 175, and age sixty-four who was "will be Lord Plendir, the account Foreign-
so desperately ill that her rela-Christ." Secretary (Sir Johntives were summoned, passed the jant, and Sir John Cadman, a mom- ber of the Eronomie Advisory Simon). It would be quite impos- crisis without collapso, "and was Concil.
sible for me to settle all these quee out of bed within three weeks of the
ment:
attack.
London's Outcasts.
Jesus:
I have perhaps," he said, The inquiry is the result of an tions. I suggest that they should
been greatly misunderstood in A farmer nged thirty-four, a
the work which I have not speciell agitation for Port Offer reform, led by Lord Walmer, M.P., who be doult with in a friendly manner.heavy drinker,
"whose
sought, but which I have never recovery Was Assistant Postmaster-General I am personally not prepared to appeared hopeless," began to ro. refused to undertake when it was in the last Conservative Govern- take responsibility for everything cover on the tenth day after the thrown in my way.
that goes on in
all the rooms, attack.
I have always felt that the Shortly after the formation of (Loud laughter.).
Blond-poisoning A girl of pigh-Phariscan superficiality which is the National Governmeal 300 en- Mr. McGovern (Lab., Glasgow, teen developed septicemia after a characteristic of England'a religious hefs of Parliament signed a mem-Shettleston).Is it not a fact that mastoid operation. Hor tempera-responsibility, the timidity of the
in the late Parliament the question ture rose to 107. rini to the Prime Minister naking of the improper use of one of the injections she was normal in two and the inability of legislators to After Vit-Alexia Chauch in striking at public vice,
The Committee's task will be "
days. conduct an examination into the character and organisation of the Post Office, and, if necessary, to recommend what changes, shall he made in ita constitution in order to improve the efficiency of the service.'
for an inquiry.
WOMAN AND 50 DOGS IN COTTAGE.
EX-SCHOOLMISTRESS
GOES TO GAOL.
A retired London schoolmistress, who has been living with between 50 and 60 dage in a tuteled cottage at Little Easton, was sentenced at Dunmow yesterday, to two months' imprisonment for causing the dogs unnecessary suffering.
Mr. Gordon Jones (for the R.8. P.C.A.) said that the woman-Miss Ellon Williams (67)-camo to Jive in the district a few years ago through, the kindness of Frances Countess of Warwick, who allowed her to occupy a small cottage, on Easton Lodge catate.
rooms ciupa up and it was put to another Be
High Blood Pressure,-A woman The house laughed heartily at the of sixty-five with a blood pressure suggestion, and when the laughter of 20 had it reduced to 150 after died away Mr. Ormsby-Gore said: twelve injections. It has remained
If there is anything "improper at that point for six months, taking place in any of the rooms it A man of sixty-four, whose blood had better be reported Up the pressure was 240, had it reduced to polico."
150.
Before any further revelations could be made the Speaker passed on to the next question.
IN
ELD. CERTIFICATES.
Mesers. A. Gocke & Co., inform us the Societe Internationale de Placements, Baste, cable that the
subunit of the International 'In-
ends accrued.
Epilepsy. A youth of twenty, who in March 1831 had a many as twelve epiloptic fits every day, is still under treatment, but the fits have been reduced to one in fivo wecke.
sged
face real facts, has created and permitted to exist in London a class of person, numbering over 80,000, compelled to exist under conditions of degrading slavery.
Haunting the streets
like painted vampires, Pleading, cursing, dreading to
die.
Selling the soul to whoever will
buy,
Dealing in shame for, a morsel
of bread. Eating the living, fearing the
dend.
Mental Incapacity.-An eighteen-
"Dogradation, from out point of year-old servant girl who could do view, knows no lower depth, and nothing in consequence, and was, yet during the cholera epidemic in therefore, useless in. service, is now 1867, when many fied, when surf
ficient nurses were unobtainable, perfectly rational and healthy. Neurathonia.A woman
and the dead lay.. coffined, these and quotation in Basic for one sixty-seven, who was afraid to cross poor victims of the moral rotten- vestment Deposit Certificates yes. A street or tako any initiative since ene of society gathered round the terday was £2.19.9 excluding divider son was killed in the War, has largy. They were fearless of in- completely recovered her self-confection, neglectful of self. Moved fidence.
by pity, they laboured in the midst General Debility-A powerful of the raging plague. The Divine man of fifty-two, suffering from was there." physical and mental breakdown, lind fifteen injections. His skin looked younger, and became pliable. "Aro we each one of us taking He grew young-coloured hair. The our part in raising those whom the stature increased by ons and a half circumstances of life have dragged ioches. The abdominal fulnces dis down, the rector asked, "If the appeared. His mental quickness, circumstances of life prevented their percaption, and capacity increased doing anything actively, they could, enormously."
by prayer, instead of earping. The Medical World, summarising criticism upon those who were fac- the evidence of these and otharing the dificulties, and dangers of. CAROS, anys: A great deal of ill the work, help to overcome evil with health in undoubtedly due to good."! break in the hormone balance,
NEW AIR BASES FÖR JAPAN.
DECISION TAKEN BY NAVAL
AUTHORITIES.
"Altogether there were probably
Tokyo, March 11.-From the point between 50 and 60 dogs thore.
of view of national defence, the In one room, as well as a sumber naval authorities have decided to of dogs there were three onte sit-construct two new naval air bases ting on a piano.
in this country. Miss Williams (Mr. Jones com, The Bay of Tokyo and a place tinued) holde vegetarian views and near the Ominato Naval Base will apparently all she fed her pets on probably be selected for the propos-
ed air parts of the Impérial Navy wore vegetables, & little hound menl and cheese.
Migs Williams, he said, no doubt loved the dogs, and the R.S.P.C.A. wook half a hundredweight of pots had no desire to punish her. They toes and cabbages, da worth of naked for a technical conviction sobread, a sack of hound meal, and that the dogs could ́ he got into com-she received, through the kindness fortable homas.
of a friend, a parcel with about 10s, worth of sausages, margarine and sponge cake for the dogs.
The Chairman and that the woman would be sent to imprison ment, where she would be cared for.
Earned £500 Year. Mies Williams said that Frances, Lady Warwick; hoard of her and offered her a cottage "I was then getting £500 a year," she said,
Lady Warwick presund me to The Bench ordered the dogs to be Java sobool, and I came here.. given do the R.8.P.C.A.
that
She said that she bought each Miss Williams: Oh, not (Continued at foot of next column.) I ciety, please.
BO
"Oarping Criticism,”
Ho announced that the collection 'Due consideration' of the symp would, in part, be used to help the toms of old ago suggests that the work in London with which he wAS body slowly loses a vital substance assecinted, bat in which, owing to which controls its mechanism present circumstances, he could not through the hormone-producing engage.
glands.
*); Great Advants on Vorenoff,
inid that Vit-Alexin represented a * Vit-Alexin is not a specialised great_advance on the researches of hormone like melin, but a.com-Dr. Voronoff and others on the mon factor of all hormone prodite ductless blands
ing glands. It appears to be very To be Introduced into Hong Kong. potent in creating a proper hadance of the hormones."
This treatment is being intro Major Neafield, seen by Daylyduos inia Hong Kong Aversi press representative, said be had lending local practitioners are nothing to add to the account of the giving their support and are test. discovery in the Medical Worlding the treatment, which can only Another Harley Street spesialist be applied or medical recommenda (Continued at foot of next, column.) tion, and by a doctor,
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