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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1927.
OUR DAILY TALK
ON HEALTH.
BRAIN CONCUSSION' NEEDS EXAMINATION.
TARIFF QUARREL.
FRANCE AND THE UNITED STATES.
:
Washington, Oct. 5,
France's method of dealing with the tariff controversy has
MOTOR-LORRY TRIUMPH.
QUEENSLAND STRIKE
OVERCOME.
Sydney, Sept. 8.
While the case has yet to be finished of the seven Chin- constables charged with
EFFECTS. STUDIED. extortion of monay from
been neither wise nor far-seeing, Mr. Riordan, secretary of the hawkers, a second case, alleged
When a human being is hit on declared Senator Swanson, Demo- combined trade unions committee to be connected with it, came
the Senate of Brisbane, announced to-day up for hearing before Major C. the head, if the blow is not too crat member of Willson at the Central Magistracy hard, he usually recovers. Perhaps Foreign Relations Committee, in that the disputes committee" had yesterday afternoon. Tang Wai-a week or so later he will begin a formal statement. He said that chau, a constable, was charged with to develop peculiar symptoms which by refusing to the United States unanimously determined that the hawker, it is alleged because the latter was one of the witnesses in the other case and gave informa- tion against the constables.
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misconduct and with assaulting a may be the result of actual damage the most favoured nation treat Queensland railway strike shall||AUTO-TOTAL
In evidence, the hawker, whose name is Man Cheung, admitted that he was an unlicensed hawker -had been so for the past eight years--and was one of those who pald "squeeze" to the constables through an intermediary, in this case a woman named Ah Man.
Was
On the 20th September, he was informed that a constable premeditating an assault on him, and reported his fears to Inspector Lane, who then referred him to 7 Police the Inspector at No. Station, in whose district witness
is domiciled.
The Assaults.
! But before Inspector Grant could be interviewed, witness said he was assaulted by the defendant at Cheung Fun Lane, following this passage of words:
1.
The strikers at the South John-
to the brain, or which may be purement, France had put herself in not spread, to other unions.
an attitude of discriminating la ly a mental disturbance.
Occasionally the blow results in favour of Germany, her former a wound of the scalp but not al- enemy, and against her former ally
In a few instances there the United States. may be an actual crucking of the bones of the skull, but even this may not be associated with scri- ous symptoms:
Ways.
Study of 100 Cases. Recently 100 cases of persons who had been hit on the head were studied. Some of them had fallen while at work, some had been knocked down by automo- biles, and a few struck with wea- pons.
If the bruin in injured, there are invariably symptoms of importance, sometimes due to bleeding into the brain, sometimes to mild inflamma- tion.
In every case a person who has received a severe blow on the head and who suffers with any secondary symptoms such as dizziness, ring- ing in the ears, disturbance of vision, headache, drowsiness, pains in the eye, inability to sleep, con- vulsions or vomiting, should have a most careful examination by a competent specialist in diseases of the nervous system.
Sometimes the symptoms
of Witness: What has that got to severe infections of the nervous do with you?
system, particularly of the brain, resemble those resulting from a Defendant: You are sauer. I blow on the skull.. shall strike you.
Defendant I have sent many persons to warn you not to give évidence against the constables who received bribes. Why have you done so?
And with those words, witness' stated that defendant gave him several blows. Witness then endeavoured to call for help by blowing a police whistle. No policeman appeared, and at length he was obliged to flee to the No. 7 Police Station, where he report ed the assault. He returned later with Inspector. Grant, and after a search found the defendant.
For the defence, Mr. McCallum asked if witness was not endea vouring to obtain the refund of $5 which he previously paid to a woman, named Ah Yee, to save a hawker from arrest; that during an altercation with the same woman the defendant intervened in the cause of peace and good order, and attemped to arrest witness,
Witness: If his idea was to ar- rest me, he could have done so with out assaulting me.
After further evidence, the case was adjourned.
Constable Discharged.
In the other court, before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, the hearing was continued at the same time of the
robberies,
the
Disturbance Frequent.
It is safe to say that in every case some disturbance results from
con
Discrimination.
Later,
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stone sugar mill (whose dispute with their employers was the origin of the railway strike) have decided that provided all imported labour is dismissed they will re- sume work on the settlement terms proposed by the Board of Trade. If this provision is ap- proved by the other parties to the dispute and the mill atrikers re" turn to work the railway trouble will almost automatically end.
While the amount of the Ameri- commerce involved in the French and American tariff dla pute is only $10,000,000 out of a total commerce of $4,000,000,000, President Coolidge represented at White House the feeling that the
A motion calling on the central Party principle involved is one of serious executive of the Labour concern to the United States to expel Mr. McCormick, the Government, which finds it hard to Queensland Premier, reconcile the French action with the long-enduring friendship of the
countries. President Coolidge regards the dispute as strictly confined to French dig erimination.-Reiter's American
Service.
two
ARCTIC CIRCLE
HOLIDAY.
FOG-BOUND FOR FIVE DAYS.
and his
Cabinet, or, falling that, to sup- port an effort to create a new political wing, was carried by a meeting of 2,000 railwaymen at
Brisbane to-day.
The operation of motor trans- port has been so successful that i the Queensland railway service may be permanently affected by the strike. To-day Brisbane was plentifully supplied with fruit and vegetables, with a consequent fall in prices. Cauliflowers, citrous fruits, and bananas arrived from
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Motor-trucks carrying quanti- There has recently, returned to ties of fruit and vegetables ac- England a party of adventurous tually left Brisbane for Tenter Cambridge undergraduates who during the vacation have been field, New South Wales, a distance trying to add to the scientific of 100-miles: knowledge of the Arctic Circle.
a severe blow on the head. Fre- The expedition had its origin in quently the patient recovers the enthusiasm of Mr. H. G. Wat- promptly without any serious sympkins, a 20-year-old undergraduate toms later, but in most instances of Trinity College, who enlisted there may be sufficient damage to six of his friends under his ban- the brain to merit attention.
ner for un expedition to Edge Island. one of the Spitzbergen group.
A great many people receive blows on the head and apparently recover completely. Men who are knocked out in football games or in a prize fight will, after a short time, recover consciousness and apparently have no further distur- bances.
It is safe to say, however, that heinche, dizziness, irritability, fatigue, and tendency to disturbance of sleep after a severe blow on the head is a sign of actual damage to the brain and the person must be treated accordingly.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
APPOINTMENTS.
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They were Mr. A. G. Lowndes (St. Catharine's, biologist), Mr. R. A. de V. Woolley (Caius, physicist), Mr. C. T. Dalgety (Trinity, ornithologist), Mr. V. S. Forbes (Christ's, assistant sur veyor), Mr. A. G. Michelmore (Trinity, botanist and entomolo gist), and Mr. N. L. Falcon (Trini ty, geologist).
FORGED STAMPS.
FOUR MILLIONS SEIZED
IN SHANGHAI.
Shanghal, Oct. 5. Following careful investigations, the Municipal Police on October 3, with a Consular warrant, raided a Japanese printing shop and Belz- ed #
one-
large quantity of cent forged Nationalist tobacco tax stamps and arrested a Chinese who was leaving the shop with a Major H. T. Morshead, of Mount parcel containing half a million stampa, and the Japanese printer, Everest fame. accompanied the who revealed that the original expedition as surveyor and Dr order was for six million stamps. H. M. Woodman as medical officer.of which the police have When Edge Island was reached at present seized upwards of four a party consisting of Mr. Watkins millions.-Reuter. (leader), Major Morshead, Mr. Forbes, Mr. Woolley, and Dr. Woodman set out to explore the interior, but had gone only a few miles when an Impenetrable fog surrounded them and they were marooned for five days, not daring to move. Fortunately there was plenty of provisions.
Yesterday afternoon a Govern case in which a Chinese constablement Gazette Extraordinary was was charged with associating issued notifying that the Hon. Mr. with thieves and pickpockets and W.T. Southorn had assumed the sharing in
proceeds of administration of the Government of the Colony on the departure of His Excellency the Governor. In reply to Mr. Lindsell, Mr.
The Gazette also notified the Sparrow, A. S. P., admitted that following appointments made by the defendant was not put up for His Excellency the Officer Ad- identification, because it wag thought that this formality was un-ministering the Government: necessary, a the defendant was Tr. Edwin Richard Hallifax," well-known as a constable to the C.M.G., to act as Colonial Secret-ed for 36 hours, cutting them off pickpockets who had previously given evidence.
Reduced to Crumbs. Ultimately two of the party, Mr. Watkins and Mr. Morshead, set out to see what they could find. but a blizzard developed and last-
completely. They had enough ary.. A
food for a day, but by the time Mr. Roland Arthur Charles they were reached they were re- as Secretary for duced to eating crumbs from the North to act
bottom of their haversacks. Chinese Affairs,
Mr. Bernard Roy Forster to be
A walking expedition across the his Excellency's Private Secret-island consisting of Mr. Watkins, ury.
Mr. Falcon and Mr. Forbes met
Iis Worship held that formal identification should have been held As the prosecution was deprived of vitally important corroborative évidence to that extent. He agreed with Mr. C. A. S.. Russ (who Captain Allen James Levinge with heiter fortune, and found appeared for the defence) Whyte, Royal Engineers, to be conditions so mild that they were that the evidence was not his Excellency's Alde-de-Camp. able to sleep out in their sleeping corroborated in certain in-
Captain Patrick Perfect, K.O.S.-bags at an altitude of 2,000 feet. stances, and in others it was in- B., to be his Excellency's Honorary The expedition was able to dis- sufficient, and said that it was un-
Aide-de-Camp. safe to convict on it, even though his Worship believed it to be highly probable that the defendant was guilty of the offence. The de- fendant would be discharged.
prove the theory that the interior Captain Hugh Blackwell Layard of the island is covered by an Dowbiggin, H.K.V.D.O., to be his ice cap. Actually it is a big Excellency's Honorary Aide-de-valley in which reindeer live, surrounded by an ice ring, horse- shoc in formation.
Camp.
BANKS SILENT.
REFUSE TO CONFIRM OR DENY REPORT.
London, Ooct. 5. The Chartered and the P. and o. Banks refuse to give any in- formation that will either con- firm nor deny the recent news. paper report that the Chartered Bank of India is taking over the P. and O, Bank-Reuter,
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