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MORE SECRETS."
WHEN KITCHENER SOUGHT
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Mr. Page, who died in Decom- ber 1918, was American Am bassador in London during the
SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1926.
LIFE-SAVING DRUG.
"STEAMER FATALITY.
CLAIMS FOR NEW DISCOVERY,
SINKS WITH MORE THAN 100, ON BOARD.
Further striking revelations A new life-saving drug, which, Last week a great steamor concerning the Great War aroit is claimed, will have a pro- fatality took place in the Han contained in Volume III. of the found effect on the work both of River, wrlton the Wuchang Life and Lattors of Waltor H. the spoolalist and the general correspondent of the North-China Pago,
published recently by medical practitioner, will shortly Daily News on Dec 21. The William Heinemann, Ltd. (price be used extensively in medical launch Mei-Lung, belonging to 21s.),
practice.....
the Han. Hsiang An Company sank in the river near to Han- Ch'uan with more than one. board, hundred passengers on and hardly a person was saved. The cause of the tragedy was simply overloading. Quite launch companies now ply up large numbor of nativo steam-" and down the Han and they all rooklessly overload, the marvel being that accidents of this kind are not more frequent.
WAT.
The substance is termed alpha lobolin. The herb, lobelia inflata, from which it takes its name, was first discovered in America al physielan of James L. and was described by the person-
In a letter to President Wilson, written only three months after
It was, however, for a long the outbreak of war, Mr. Pago makes the romarkable statement time in dieropute, until in 1925 that, although the United States Dr. Henry Wieland, Frofessor of was then noutral, ho had been of Chemistry in the University of approached indirectly by Lord Freiburg, succeeded in isolating Kitchener as to the possibility of the alkaloid alpha lobelin in a his Government supplying Eng- crystalline and pure form. land with an enormous quantity of arms and ammunition.
Lobelin possesses the power to spood up breathing to a remark-
Mr. Page comments piquantly able degree.
One of Professor Wieland's
At present, the natural result of greed and careloseness having actually taken place, a great deal. of popular indignation is being An Co. Compensation for all the directed against the Han Heiang
deceased is
on what he describes as Lord Kitchener's amazing cheek" in patients was subject to spasms, families of the
October 16, 1914:-
u letter to the President on which interfered with his ability expected to be demanded, and the to breathe, to the point of asphy Chinese Chief Commissioner of The Chief of Ordnance of the xiation. The injection of lobelin the River Customs is asked to (Including admission to Carnival Dance) $4 per Head. British Army (Major-General Sir directly saved his life on three deprive this company of the right
7.30 p.m. to 9.00 p.m.
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Other uses claimed for this ex- bodies have been recovered from to run launches. Already 70 doad. proached Colonel Squier, military attacho, with his questraordinary drug are:-
the river near to Hanchuan. tion, whether Squier thought| To prevent the patient. from This work is being done by the there would be any use in sound-falling into a state of come in river-police and the local ing our Government, on the pos-cuses of severe morphia poisoning. Benevolent Societies, and A sibility of procuring from it, or To revive respiration during reward is given for each body from anybody in the United operations. States, 100,000 to 150,000 Spring-
Whon breathing has stopped field rifles and 5,000,000 rounds of owing to pressure of a blood clot ammunition,
Squier, of course, intimated his personal doubts, and kept the conversation on a purely tenta- tive and personal basis, and he has brought it to me.
on the brain.
that is recovered.
In cases of coal gas, poisoning. begin breathing normally,
To assist infants at birth to CLIMATIC CHANGES
practice in Germany, and in the The drug has been used in
United States by pupils of Dr. I think we shall hear no more Wieland, and certain medical au-: about it, and I am sure the thorities in this country are ad- Foreign Office will never present vocating its use in hospitals and such a question-certainly not private practice.
unlose the British cause come to some wholly desperate state such as the successful invasion of Eng- land, the completo crippling of the British Flest, and the defeat) of the Allied Ariny on the Conti- nent--any one of which of course now seems wholly improbable.
QUICKSILVER.
ITS MANY USES.
Mercury, or quicksilver, is not
VOLCANOES IN ALASKA.
Anchorage, Alaska, Doc, 31,-
The return of volcanic activity
to Mt. McKinley is one of a sories of volcanic phenomena in which many observers see the promise of radical permanent climatic changes in Southern Alaska. Sinco. Mt. Shishaldin of the Aleutian group, was in erup- tion on November 11, this region has experienced. a springlike November' and `December un-
oldest inhabitants.
It is very like Kitchener to only unique in being the only paralled in the memory of the have such a "feeler" ward.. His directness and "cheek" metal that is liquid at ordinary
aro
put for
amazing-very soldierlike temperatures, but its properties Seattle, Wash., Dec. 31-The and more, That man has a way altogether out of proportion to its Katmai,
give it an importance in industries Aleutian Island volcanoes, Pavlof, Gakushin,
cnemy.
pre
of going after what he wants that small production. Its peculiar Shishaldin and Vzedivor takes your breath away. He is value is due to applications for emitting smoke again according capable of forgetting that there is which no substitute is available to advices today from Alaska. a Cabinet, a Government, Parlia- ment, a declaration of noutrality;
or satis actory. he is capable of forgetting evory-facture of drugs and chemicals, It enters largely into the manu- thing except that there is an as fulminate, it is still the chief detonator of gunpowder and high This incident is, I am sure, a explosives, its sulphide is the flash of Kitchenor's forgetfulness brilliant red pigment vermilion -nothing more.
and its nitrate is used to roughen the hairs in the ménufacture of felt hate, the oxide is the base of Although apparently surprised anti-fouling marine paints, and at the suggestion that his country the metal and various compounds should assist England in this are employed in electrical up- manner, Mr. Page himself, in paratus, scientific instruments, another letter to the President the amalgamation of gold and written on the same day; October silver
and ores, cosmotics,
TO END WAR.
16, 1914, appoara to support it by scientific experiments. broaching a remarkable scheme? In a bulletin of the U. S. of compromise between neutrality Bureau of Mines, L. H. Duschak and operi war that he thought and C, N. Schuetto note that the might end the great conflict. production of mercury has been He suggested that America given less attention than the. might say to England --
¡ more abundant metals, low grade Now you wish to end militares offering opportunity for im- proved treatment. The richest riam. Very well We'll recall mines, those of Almaden in our noutrality, we'll sell you guns Spain, have ores averaging 6 or 7, and ammunition, we'll sell noth-
per cent of metal while some ore ing to Germany, ifnecessary we'll bodies are stated to yield as high let our citizens volunteer in your as 25 per cent, but in the United Army: you may have our Navy States, which supplies about a if you need it; now, what abridg-fourth of the world's total pro- ment of armaments will you make duction, most of the moroury has after this war if we thus help end been extracted from oros contain- it?
ing less than 10 pounds to the ton. Forhaps we could drive a bar-In 1850 to 1923, the United gain in that way and really reduce States production was 2,126,000 the armaments of the world-and flasks, or 73,000 metric tons, end the war almost at once. For, worth $120,500,000. Of this if wo stopped all shipping to California yielded 2,195,000 flasks, Germany and gave England arms, and the remainder came from peace would come quickly. Toxas, Orogón, Nevada, and
If we turned the proposition Arizona. around and offered to aid Gorm. any, apart from the trouble of
gotting our aid to Germany, we their captive spy write to the should only strengthen militarism Germans that the English and in Germany, and, consequently, French were about to fand a big everywhere else, and the same army at Antwerp. It was judici-| race in building armies and ously whispered in the clubs that navies would go on as before. a groat force. was going to Ant- Mr. Page tells a remarkable werp. For two days the boats to story of how, early in 1915, the Holland were stopped-the pas- English caught a German spy songer bouts, I mean. and discovered his superior's Every man whispered to his address in Holland, and the kind neighbour." Troops going to of invisible Ink the spy used. He Antwerp, you know." SLYS
The daily papers one morning They have ever since made tha about an Allied Army landing contained a mysterious paragraph spy write lotters to his chief which
somewhere."
to
they (the English Intelligenes The Germans, of course, got | officers) ·· diotato. When the the story, and withdrew a consi- auswors come the Intelligence derable body of troops from officers open them. In this way France and they keep up a useful correspon-Antwerp.
rushed thom donge with the German head spy. Then the English and French
A little while ago thoy mado made their big "drive.":
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