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ANGLO-AMERICAN COMBINE.
NEW YORK WELCOMES MOND MOVE.
Washington, Apr. 13,
The announcement made by Sir' Alfred Mond in London of the formation of a combine of financial interests in Great Britain and America, and confirmed hors, is regarded in financial circles and the financial Press of New York 8 one of the most important Anglo-American development since the War.
It is, in the opinion of these! authorities, the culmination of work done with such patience and skill by Mr. Montagu Norman in bringing about the closest co- operation between the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve Board, through Governor Strong, of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Instead of rivalry and a selfish policy of competition for tempor- ary advantage without considera- tion of the ultimate dangers, Bri- tish and American bankers have been led to see that the world re- quired that they join hands to bring about peace and stablisation. While the initial capital of the
company is comparatively new email, the interests on both sides Ansure whatever capital is needed, and the character, experience, and Istanding of the directors, both in ILondon and New York, are guaran- tees of the success of the company,
With such men as Sir Alfred Mond, the Earl of Reading, and their associates in London, and the Chase, Securities Company, a subsidiary of the Chaon National Bank of New York, the Recond largest bank of that city, and Ienders of finance and industry affiliated with them, there is at the alisposal of the Finance Company of Great Britain and America the pick of the financial brains of both countries, and perhaps the largest aggregation of capital ever assem bled.
In this combination there is it is felt, nothing political except as capital indirectly may affect poli- tics. It has been formed solely to bring together great interests; whose primary purposes is to do business and to give employment and make money. Neither legisla- tion by Congress nor any other official action is required to make the arrangement effective.
MAY 19TH.
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TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1928.
DEFEATS GOLF TITLE-HOLDER.
Mian Glenna Collett, the American golfer, who defeated Mile. Simone de La Chaume, the French holder of the British Ladies' Open Title, in the first round of the competition,
VARSITY CRICKET.
DULEEPSINHJI FOR CAMBRIDGE..
London, Apr. 22.
RICKSHA TOUTING.
REFERENCE TO HONGKONG
NUISANCE..
THE ASTHMA SCOURGE.
MODERN TREATMENT
METHODS.
GIRL STOWAWAYS IN WARSHIPS.
COURT MARTIAL FOR US. SAILORS.
Every sufferer from asthma is familiar with the manifestations
Now York, Apr. 13. of this painful disease, the name
The United States destroyera. of which is derived from a Greek Brooks and Williamson have been word, meaning "to breathe hard." ordered "to proceed to Mayport, Serious attacks of breathlessness Florida, for a Court of Inquiry fol are especially frequent at night-lowing the discovery of five girl time. They sometimes last for stowaways in ships of the Atlantic hours and may be of an extremely scouting fleet. Men of the des agonising character. It should be royers are wanted as witnesses at borne in mind, however, that the
the Court:. much dreaded danger of auffoca tion is really non-existent. »
Our knowledge of the nature and origin of asthma is mostly based on assumptions. It has been assumed, for instance, that
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Four of the girls lived at Now. Orleans, and the Afth, fifteen years of age, at St. Petersburg, Florida. Four of them were taken off the light cruiser Concord at Key West, she having taken some of the girls
it is caused by muscular spasms of other ships, and the fifth was. and by the resulting narrowing landed from the destroyer Bil- or closing-up of the air ducts of lingsley. the lungs. Another theory is that
The men involved will have to
it is due to a swelling of these face a Court Martial on charges of ducts and to the simultaneous aiding and abetting civilians to secretion of some viscous sub- stance, thus giving rise to a groat if moral turpitude is involved, on take passage in Naval vessels, or shortage of breath. It is quite charges of scandalous conduct. possible that both views are right, and that in some instances the Alberta Poole, a high school stu- The fifteen-year-old girl, Cynthia former, and in some the latter dent, told the Commander of the cause must be sought for. If this Billingsley, that she met a sallor is correct, it is easy to understand named Kramer, who persuaded her why. remedies that bring about an to go aboard a destroyer, and added immediate alleviation of the that he persuaded her, but that she tacks in some cases, are quite "wanted to go." Ineffective in others. It is also possible that a certain asthmatic tendency may be acquired by beredlly, seeing that it is a disease that often runs in a family. It has been established beyond doubt that the attacks can be brought about by external circumstances,
Nervous influences are not with out their bearing on the subject.
Kramer, it is alleged, supplied her with magazines and meals white sho was on board. She revealed the plot, and this resulted in the discovery of the other girls. Sho told a friend that she was going to sail on board a destroyer. The friend told Cynthia's parents, who told the Navy authorities, and In those persons whose nerves search-unearthed all the five-girle, are sound and healthy, any dis-one on board the Concord, one on turbance of the normal function- the destroyer Sands, one on the re- ing of the bodily organs is impair ship Dobbin, and one on board
another ship unnamed. mediately put right by an automa-
Case
tic adjustment, whereas in the The four other girls gave their of those suffering from names as "Billy" Lacor, Rose Mc- asthma. it..would seem that thoir Guiro, Flossie Rice and Romilda nervous system is incapable of Avery, effecting such adjustment.
Smells Cause Trouble. The factors that may cause the disturbance of the central nervous system of asthmatic persons are very dissimilar in kind. In some cases attacks are due to the smell of horses, cats, or rabbits, in others to the scent of roses violets. It has also been aucer-
or
Writing from Bandoeng. Java, K. S. Duleepsinhji and the Nawab to the Straits Times, Mr. Maré T. of Patuads are practising strenu-Greene says: ously and are likely to be included Your leader regarding the tained that particles of dust from in this year's Cambridge and Ox-rickshin touting nuisance in Singa-the hair or furs of animals, grains ford cricket elevens, respectively-pore is certainly pertinent, for it of pollen OF plant Beeds, Dulcepsinh is in a very fit con- in a most detestable nuisance. mycoderms, bactarin, etc., act as dition and will almost certainly be Yet it's no worse than in Colombro carriers of the disease. It is for choses.
or Hongkong and not as bad as this reason that American in- Interviewed, the Nawah of Pain Shanghai. But the point really vestigators have advanced the tuadi stated that he was training suggested is, why is this thing theory that the greater frequency under the Kent cricketer, Woolley always so noticeable in the British of the attacks at night time is duo The latter is satisfied with Lis pro: East and so strikingly absent into the fact that the air inhaled at The Nawab of Patuadi the Dutch East? Personally I am that time contains numerous dust. hopes to be chosen for the Oxford
a very pro-British American, as I like substances of animal origin eleven notwithstanding the fact
have often demonstrated in my derived from the horse hair, rab- that he is a freshman at Balliol articles; but as to the thing called bit hair, feathers, and other ar He participated in the Indian
"eficiency," In this respect, the hockey team's recent matches. ·
comparison markedly favours Holland.
LONDON-BRIGHTON WALK.
W. HASCOMBE WINS IN BIG FIELD.
Lonon, Apr. 28.
POLICE STOP SWEEPSTAKE.
London, April 30-The pollee have stopped the Civil Service Supply Association's Derby sweep- atake for members. Thousands
The annual Stock Exchange Lon-of tickets sold to members have don to Brighton walk was held to-been called in.
day.
There were 59 starters from Westminster at 6.30 a.m.
The result was:
1. W. Bascombe, 9 hours 24 mins.
45 secs.
2. S. Ayles, 9 hours 36 mins. 21
Bcca.
3. S. Schlesinger. .9 hours, 47 mins. 32 scco.
CRICKET TOUR.
WEST INDIANS' FIRST MATCH.
London, Apr. 26.
The West Indian cricket team opened their tour with a one-day match against Mr. Leveson-Gover's team at Pelsham, near Rye, each side playing twelve,
Going in first the West Indian teará declared at 224 for two, Chal- lanor contributing 110. The Love- son-Gower team responded with 90 for six. The match ended in a draw..
F. A. CUP FINAL.
RECEIPTS MORE THAN £23,000.
The receipts of the F. A. Cup final between Blackburn Rovers and Huddersfield amounted to £28,288.
The King presented the Cup to: Blackburn at the end of the match, and the Queen, also witnessed the game which was the first Cup final sho has ever seen.
́Mr. Dayid' Cidula, eged 44, of The stand in the 5s, enclosure By means of sandwichmen carry- "A bind's nest containing three Shereroad, Ilford, Essex, tripped at Harringay Greyhound Races ing appeals the Manchester Car- eggs was found in a G.W.R. car- aver his dog on the stairs of an caught fire recently but the flames poration Parks, Committee are to ringe at Watlington, near Oxford, omnibus at Ilford, fell headlong were quickly put out by extin- launch a vigorous campaign when the carriage, which had been Into the street, and was killed."
guishers.
against litter in the parks.
in the sheds since Christmas, was requisitioned for the Easter rush.
LOSES TITLE.
Mile: Simone de La Chaume, the French golfer, who has Jost the British Ladies' Opén. Title by being defeated by Miss Glenna Collett, the American.
ticles used in connexion with the bedding. According to Ancona, the frequency of asthma in the ense of millers and bakers is to a large extent due to a certain hyper-sensitiveness in respect of the dust inhaled when handling flour containing wireworms, and Leuwon according to Storm van the attacks are sometimes caused by certain mycoderms such may often be proved to be present in damp bedrooms.
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The episode recalls a similar oc- currence in 1923, when a girl was stowed away in the battleship Arizona and completed the voyage from Nast York to Panama before she was discovered. Twelva enlist- cd men were sent to prison as the outcome of this escapade,
Trying to lead the simple life is entirely too complicated.
Storm van Leuwen also thinks that some substances of unknown composition, the presence of which is a consequence of climatic con- ditions (miasma), may sometimes This new substance is prepared produces asthma, especially. In from Ephedra vulgaris vari Holland. He therefore recom- helvetica, a plant related to the mends a special kind of bedroom order. of coniferous trees. As in which it is said the 'patients carly as 1887 the Japanese scien- are exempt from attacks of thetist Nagal succeeded in extracting, disense.
In unadulterated form, the Practically, of course, the most alkaloid known as ephedrin, Important aspect of the subject is with which we are here concern- which forms the valuable element that we have at our disposal cer-ed. Quite recently the German tain remedies which are capable
of shortening the painful attacks chemical industry has discovered and even of preventing them al method of producing, by synthe together, provided that they are tie processes, & substance which resorted to in good time. During ephedrin and which is supplied is chemically identical with the early stages asthma cigarettes, fumigants, etc., may be used with by the makers, the firm of. E. advantage.
Merck, Chemical Works, of Darin- stadt, Germany-under the name After the attack has set in, such of ephetonin. There is no differ remedies, however, are usually of ence whatever between the effects little or no avail, and the only of ephedrin and ephotonin. These ones, that promise any relief in two preparations enable the auf- such cases are certain, medica- ferers from asthma bo protect ments. Among these adrenalin themselves against any attacks occupies a prominent position. In they may feel coming. If applied the very great majority of ins in good time, they may even exer- tances the application of this aub-eise a preventative effect. It stance causes the attacks to cease should be mentioned that ephedrin after five or ten minutes.
Injections.
and ephelonin have also proved their eminent curative properties in connexion, with complaints akin to asthma, c.g., hay fever, which is a source of so much dls- comfort to many persons during the summer months.
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A drawback inherent in it, how- over, is that its effects last a short time only and that it must be in- jected into the body, preferably into the muscular system.
Every sufferer from asthma Considerable importance I should, as soon as he recognises therefore attached to the fact that the nature of his complaint, con- thus, now been possible to dis suit a qualified physician to whom cover substanco which is not. It must be left to decide upon the only very closely allied-from the remedy to be applied for the chemical point of view-to adrena purpose of alleviating it. The lin, but is also capable of produc knowledge that there really are Ing the anme beneficial resulta as some preparations that can give the latter when it is introduced him considerable relief is in itself Into the body through the mouth. a valuable factor contributing to
In addition, its effects are of wards the cure, of the pernicious longer duration than those pro-discase from which he is suffer duced by adrenalin,
ing.