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NAVAL APPOINTMENTS
The following appointments are During the half-year which be-made by the Admiralty:— ' gan on July 1. about 25 vessels are
Capt.-C. Casion, to Kempenfell, due to be completed for service, in command, and as Capt. (D), aggregating nearly 70,000 tons. This compares with 11 vessels, or 38,260 tons. In the corresponding period Pot 1937
tion
Fourth Flotilli (Aug. 18).
LIP. E. J. Ryan, to Dolphin (June 291,
Burgn. Lt. (D)-W. H. Bain LDS., to Wildare (July 11,
to
The principal ship for comple-
14 the aircraft-carrier Ark Sub-Lts.-D. M. Lloyd, to Hazard Royal, the first large carrier to (July 6); R. F. §. Gould, to Vernon have been designed as such. Then (July 7); H. R. W. Twynam, to there are two cruisers, the Liver-Verity (July 129).
Cd pool and Manchester, which are
Bhipt.-T. E. Murch, Colombo (Aug. 18). to go to the East Indies.
Schoolmaster (Proby)-P. H. O. About nine more destroyers of Hackson; to Excellent (July 5). the tribal class. the largest ever
PROMOTIONS built, should be commissioned by the end of the year: and eight Lt.-Cdra. (Retd.).-J. H. Lewty, I. submarines belonging to three D. Anderson, to rank of Cdr. (retd) types, the Cachalot minelayer: "foutseny. June 29),
:
RETIREMENT
4.
A NEW SERIES OF POWERFUL DRUGS
TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1938.
Remarkable Results From Treatment
A new series of drugs of remarkable power was marketed in 1935 by the German Dye Trust. They are sold under the trade name "prvatos!],", and are closely related, to 'a substance named para-amino-phenyl-sulphonamide, known in England and the United States as sulphanliamide.
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„Numerous Investigators soon reported, extraordinary results ob- tained by treatment with the new drugs, but the reports were re- ceived wih caution, as the conclusive proof that medical recovery is due to treatment and not to other factor's is usually · difficult, Clinical research has now provided sufficient proof that the discovery of the sulphanliamide drugs is one of the greatest in medicine, writes the scientific correspondent of the Manchester Guardian.
They are particularly effective in
PUERPERAL FEVER the treatment of puerperal fever,
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Comprising:-
Very careful, trials of the new blood poisoning. meningitis, and drugs in the treatment of puer Teakwood Furniture. Carpets, many other diseases due to strep peral fever have been made at Rugs. Ornaments. Cutlery, E. P.
Brass tococel, or round-shaped bacteria Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Lan- and
Ware, Porcelain of the type which arrange them-don. Sixty-four patients were and Glass Ware. Electric Ceiling selves ke strings of beads. Those treated, and every aspect of their
and Table Fans, Tennis Rackets. Cricket Bats, Pictures. Broka, Ice Chests, Gramophones and Records, etc.. etc.
(E) forms of meningitis due to the case was observed and thoroughly
Infection of the surface of the analysed.
of the Triton patrol class, and the Lt. (E) (Retd).-W. E. H. King. first three of a new small 540-ton D.S.C. to rank of Lt-Cdr. class. Unity, Undine, and Ursula. (retd) (seny June 29). The escort vessel Egret and the Surveying ships Auckland, Seagull and Franklin are in the list, which is completed by the river gunboat Scorpion, to be the new flagship of the Rear-Admiral Yangtze,
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Until 1988, 92 per cent to 100 who had mild attacks, would have per cent of patients suffering from the recovery of the remaining 36 FEW PIECES OF BLACKWOOD - recovered without the drugs, but per cent of patients suffering
was definitely assisted by them. The one type of streptococcal fall in the death-rate after the from ROYAL AIR FORCE meningitis died. Since then 39
introduction of the treatment was. patients definitely known to have this disease have been treated with form at the disease, described as sudden and remarkable. One SQUADRON LEADER FRANKS
the new drugs and 32. or 82 per invasive, is deadly. Formerly 71 per Squadron Leader A. L Franks cent. recovered. the R.N. Hospital at Malta for has concluded a period of Dive According to Price's "Text-book from it had died. This figure fell cent of the, patients suffering duty with Sugeon Rear-Admiral years' special duty on attachment of Medicine." published in 1937 to 27.3 per cent after the intro- and as Naval Health Officer, Medi-to the Royal Iraqi Air Force, and no patient suffering from menin duction of the new treatment. terranean, in succession to Surgeon will revert to service in the R.A.F.gitis due to the sort of bacterium Captain H. St. C. Colson, who has
which also produces pneumonia Experiments on the use of the completed three years in this post.
had been known to recover. Since drugs as prophylactics have been
! Grand Piano The name of Tiger VIII has been then, in records of 16 patients made. The patient is given in- NAVY WEEK PROCEEDS. 1937.
: Iron Sates adopted offcially for the new suffering from this disease and jections to prevent her from It is officially announced that Armstrong Siddeley 14-cylinder air-treated with the drugs, six or 38 catching infections.
It is not as the net proceeds of Navy Weeks at cooled radial aero-engine with two-per cent. have recovered.
yet certain whether all normal the three home porta. In 1937 speed "supercharger recently in- In may of these
the patients should receive such treat-Modern Style Diningroom Suite mounted to £19,807, 14s. 10d. This troduced Into the Service for in- bacteria disappear from
ment as a routine, but it is cer- the
1 Fine Modern Style Bedroom Suite was approximately £695 less than stallation in the Whitley II and III patient's body within twenty-four tain that if a patient has recently
by "Arts and Crafts" recovered from tonsillitis, scarlet in 1936; but was greater than in aeroplanes.
hours to seven days. The patho-. any other year, and shows that By the use of this engine logist who made the bacterial tests fever. infections of the nose. &c. the pubile Interest is well main-the maximum speed of the In one case could not belleve that or has recently been in contact tained. After making provision for ¦ aircraft has been increased to the second. specimen, free from with infected persons she should financing Navy Week in 1933, and about 215 miles an hour at 15,000r... bacteria, could have 'come'
receive such preliminary Injec-
NEW AERO-ENGINE
cases
from
for capital expenditure at the three compared with the 192 mph. of the same patient who shortly tions,
ports, there is a balance of £18,400, the Whitley I.
SIR R. KEYES
ON ALIENS'
RED ENSIGN
before had provided the first.
Britain's Great Potato- Mystery
A nation-wide investigation is in progress in Great Britain to discover why potatoes tend to get black when cooked, said Dr. L H. Lampitt in an address to the International Congress of Chemistry Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger in Rome. Keyes, M.P., told me recently that
Dr. Lampitt, who is a director and Chief Chemist of a big British he has received protests from cap-firm of caterers (Editor J. Lyons and Co.), instanced this investiga- lains in the merchant navy. intlon as an example of the work being done by British research work-
cluding some with fine war records,
against the way in which allensers in the development of food science. are obtaining British registration "The most Important factor for worthless ships in order to which has been effective during make profits out of the Spanish the past generation," he said, war, writes the Evening Standard"has been the desire of nations to correspondent.%
be self-supporting, particularly in
"I am not at all satisfied." he respect of the feeding of their res- said.""with the Government atti-pective nationals.
(To Be Continued)
AMERICAN AIR STRENGTH
Big Contracts For New Machines
£2,900,000 ORDERS
The War Department announced m" July 1, that as the culmination of the intensified effort made dur-
£5,125 FOR AIR ing the past year to obtain 2.320
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Arst-line aircraft by July 1, 1940. orders had been placed for 98 new ircraft and additional engines" and equipment costing $14.434.000 (£2,886,800).
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tude. as shown in a recent answer "This desire has influenced the
The first order is for 13 B-173 given in Parlament by Mr. R. s. agricultural policy of every nation.
four-engined bombers from the Hudson, Secretary to the Overseas in Europe at least, and any de-
Kare yarieties of air mall Boeing Aircraft Company, of Seat. Trade Department."
velopment of. an agricultural stamps from a well-known Ameri-tle, to cost $3,175,000. This will This reply was to the effect that policy can only be brought to a can collection realized a total of bring the number of these "flying satisfactory conclusion by and 25,125 In a two-day sale, which fortresses" on hand or on order up It. had always been the practice of this country to allow and encour. with the help of those concerned ended recently, at Harmer, Rooke's to 52. The new bombers are of the
A Quantity of Valuable Hand age foreign "ownership of British with the science of food which is auction rooms in London, says The same type as the machines which
Made Embroideries, Laces, Art. ships provided it was done in ac- to be the outcome of that polley Times.
recently flew to Buenos Aires and Linen, Handkerchiefs, Hand Bags, cordance with the law and through
FUNDAMENTAL WORK
Errors and misprints were a back. They have maxinum Silk Lingerie, Kimonos Ivory companies carrying on business in "The report of the food in-feature of the collection, the high-speed of over 250 m.p.h. änd^carry Jades.
Jewellery, Pewter and this country.
vestigations board (a Government est price being £725 for the ex-five machine-guns and a crew of Cloisonne Ware, etc., etc.
air mail nine. That is not good enough, and it body) shows how much funda-tremely rare 24 cents was time the law was altered." Sir mental scientific work has been stamp of the USA. (1918) with carried out firstly on the feeding centre inverted, so that the aero- Roger said,
"There are companies.. whose of pigs to produce the best meat plane appears to be flying upside
the changes down. ships have never entered a British and secondly on port and yet are permitted Britsh which take place when the meat is One of the eight recently dis-bombers from the Douglas Aircraft registry, Some of the ships are processed either by smoking or by covered coples of the Newfound Company, of Santa Monica, These old, ill-found and ill-manned, and curing."
land Balbo fight stamp of 1933, machines, like the Boeing bombers, TERMS-CASH ON DELIVERY Dr. Lampitt said that the growth surcharged $4.50 on the wrong are fitted with Wright Cyclone en- thoroughly unit for service in the! British mercantile marine.
and health of children were still value-i.c., 10 cents instead of the gines and have a maximum speed being seriously handicapped by normal 75 cents-made the nextjof over 225 m.p.h. Over 250 of protein and vitamin deficiencies in best price at £450, while £135 was them have now been bought, at a paid for a block of four of the 1s.cost of $15,000,000, and the whole "Nutritional studies have shown air mail stamp of Papua, 1929-30, contract with this Arm is the largest ever made by the Army' in are not in every way worthy to up how little we known of the really showing the overprint inverted.
constituents of, food, those consti- hold the reputation of the Red
Two similar errors on the Graf peace time. The remaining seven WHEN VISITING tuenta which make the wheels of Zeppelin issue of Argentina (1930) aircraft ordered are Vultee YA-19 Ensign. These ships are bringing life go round or alternatively clog fetched 190 guineas, and a single aeroplanes.
They are single-
FLAG IN DISREPUTE
"We should refrain from giving |British registration to ships which
It into disrepute.
their food.
LARGEST SINGLE ORDER The second and largest single order is for 78 B-18A twin-engined
ON VIEW from WEDNESDAY, the 13th JULY, 1938.
"A very short and simple Bill them so that they elther move too mint copy of the 15 cents Sinklang engined monoplanes with a speed should be drafted for the Govern-slowly or stop altogether. This is provisional air mail stamp at 230 m.p.. and are designed to carry 600lb, of bombe and six, ment and passed to put an end to the deld where there is most work China £125.
The makers are this kind of thing
to be done."
machine-guns. Among the prices for normal; stamps were £36 for the Austra-the Aviation Manufacturing Car- lian Ross-Smith vignette, without Poration, of Downey, California. side margins; - £31- for the Brat: The orders for engines and eq
ment have been distributed among
"As I have already said in the House of Commons, Franco has "very right to complain when we illow Russians and Greeks, who in this class of ship under the British flag to take in cargoes which, though they may not be] contraband, comprise goods which are of benefit to his enemy.
MILLIONAIRE AIRMAN SETS OUT FOR PARIS
oficial 2" centavos air mail stamp
o Colombia; and £50 for a fine several American manufacturers.
During the 12 months which example of the Miss Columbia
ended on June 30, 588 aeroplanes, flight stamp of Newfoundland
were ordered at a total cost of (1930).
$2,900,000.
New York. July 11. A slightly stained copy of the Bard Hughes, the millionaire Newfoundland
De Pinedo flight
film producer and airman, took off stamp, on cover, made only £30.
"There was a time when it was universally accepted that a ship fying the Red Ensign was a well at 12.20 a.m. today from Floyd On the other hand, a mint capy! The National Government, on a found hip in all respects manned Bennett airfield for Parts on the of the Halifax issue in the narrow recommendation by the Executive by the finest seamen in the world first stage of a fight around the setting with overprint inverted Yuan/has faued a mandate cum- That claim can no longer be aus-'world.
tetched. £60, and a simillar speci- ["mending the Fu Hsing and Yu Hwa tained because of the practice Howard Hughes, who is in his men, but wide spacing. £50, Companies in Hankow for their which is being allowed...
early thirties, is noted as the "dis- American collectors were among recent donations, of $100,000 and "Other M.P.s beside myself feel|coverer" of Jean" Harlow. the the principal buyers, and fully 550,000, respectively, to the na that a "state of affairs is existing famous film star who died last half the collection will find its way tional relief funds states a dis- which ought to stop.”
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