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TIFFANY
Presents
CAUGHT CHEATING"
Charlic
MURRAY
and
George
SIDNEY
The Laughing Truth about two chaps who did some high, wide and fancy Mapping with two beautiful chisters
With special added attraction for the Kiddies.
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•Two Reols of children Acrobats, Songs, Dancos, & Music all acted by children from 2 to 12 years old. First time shown in the Colony. Please Don't Miss Your Last Charce Also "SPANISH RHYTHMS”
By FELIX FERDINANDO.
-STARTING TO-MORROW
SIDNEY FOX'S LATEST SCREEN TRIUMPH.
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DUE SHORTLY AT THE
TAIPING THEATRE.
LIPTON'S CHOICEST PURE CEYLON TEA From all Compradore Stores.
KING GEORGE V
nts
LOXLEY G CO.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SIR RONALD ROSS.
(Continued from Page 1.)
to investigate the malaria pro- blem.
MILLIONS OF LIVES SAVED.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1933.
SHOP EMPLOYEE
CHARGED
MONEY AND JEWEL THEFT
a sum
of
FUNGUS OF STRANGE POWERS
Induces Happy Mood When Eaten
BUT ALSO LEADS TO DELIRIUM TREMENS
A quantity of jewellery to the By his great dikcovery, which value of $4,826 and included Inoculation against money to the total value of $0.021 malaria, Ross saved millions of were alleged to have been stolen lives, for the dlugaso destroys by an employee of a shop at 1, more human lives every year than Lyndhurst Terrace on the night wore lost in each year of the great of Soptember 8-9 last. war, while for overy million it When the alleged thief was A timely discovery has been made kills it renders 200,000,000 sick. brought before Mr. Wynne-Jones in these days of depression of a In 1901. Ross was elected ant the Central Police Court this mushroom, which, when eaton la Follow of the Royal Society and in morning, Detective Inspector John moderate quantities, In 1902, he was awarded the Nobel Murphy charged him with feloni-happy outlook on life. Prize for Modicine. He was ously and burglariously breaking knighted (K.C.B.) In 1911, made out of the premises after having discovery should be made in Japan, It's hardly surprising that this K.C.M.G. in 1918 and hold many committed the theft. honorary degrees and other dis-
induces a
The officer intimated that the where fungi of many varieties form
tinctions, British and foreign. prosecution were able to prove a daily article of food both in and
Ho never received 0 single burglary by breaking out. The de-out of season. penny from the British Govern- fendant, after committing the This latest discovery has been- ment, however, in recognition of thefts, unlocked the door. Eyld-made by Professor Matsuura, of his splendid work, though it had once would be given to show that the Tottori Higher Agricultural given Jenner £30,000 for hila dis- the property and the prisoner were covery of the efficacy of vaccina in the house when it was locked School, who for many years has studied Japanese fungi and who tion against umall-pox.
up for the night, but the next morning both prisoner and the has named it "Waraitake Modoki"
because of its resemblance property were missing. The de- In October, 1928, therefore ha fendant was not seen to commit "Waraitake" or Laughing Fungus, which is another species of nold to Lady Houston for £2,000 | the theft nor to break out of the
poisonous fungus. his historic collection of docu-house.
STRANGE NECESSITY.
ments relating to malaria so that The hearing was adjourned un- he might provide money for the til Tuesday afternoon. benefit of his children. She pre- sented the collection to the British Museum.
anxieties J
on
3,
to
.that Professor Matsuura says when a small quantity of the mush- room is eaten the consumer first becomes "merry," as if he had been drinking rather liberally.
The Cadonian Pacific announce In May, 1929, Sir James. Barr that they are operating a special ex-
After this state, an with over- and other friends appealed to the cursion first-class on the Empress of public for a million-shillings fund Russia leaving Hongkong on the after-drinking of alcohol, the learned pro- to set Sir Ronald and
of September 29, nrriving fessor says that the consumer Lady noon
Manila, September 30. and leaving suffers agony, while, should he still Пона
from free
financial Manila' the afternoon of October persist in eating the delicious mush- their declining arriving back on the early
morning years, for by that time he was of October 5, at the very attractive 1oom, he enters that state which 72 and was disabled by partial low dato of £12 per round trip. Dur- the Professor calls “panic-stricken" paralysis, his health having been ing the stay at Manila passengers and which appears to resemble very broken down by strenuous work in may continue to occupy their rooms closely the deliriom tremens pro- the tropics. The result was that and have their meals on board with-duced by the other variety of over- he had been obliged to draw on his out aditional cost. This is an ox-indulgence,
coptional opportunity for anyone capital, including his Nobel Prize, who wishes to visit Manila and Baguio Technically the Professor says for family needs.
that this new species is light green Nevertheless he continued to
In colour, while the back of the work every day at the Hospital fort
head-part or cap is purplish-brown. Tropical Diseases on Putney H. well as a scientist. He wrote two and the stalk is quite easily broken devoting his attention to the in-volumes of poetry, "Paychologies" vertically. fluenza scourge. The hospital and and "Philosophies", besides. two Moreover, the poisonous element the Ross Institute of which he was novels "The Rovels of Orsora" and does not affect the stomach direct- director-in-chief were opened in The Child of Ocean". His finest ly, but the nerves, and the effect is May, 1926-by the Prince of Wales, poem is "In Exile" which won the scen ten minutes after eating the who declared: "It is not too much praise of Masefield. In 1923 he fungus. The particular time of the to any that Sir Ronald Ross has published his mometrs. His chief year when the fungus is found is made a third of the world habit- scientific work is "The Prevention in the rainy Able". The Government subscribof, Malarta". During the war he June, and it grows among decayed ed handsomely to the cost of the was a colonel in the Royal Army institute.
LITERARY WORKS.
at a very low cest..
Medical Corps and consultant on malaria to the War Office, a post he heid Inter in the Ministry of Sir Ronald was a literary man as Pensions.-Reuter and LB.S.
TO-DAY ONLY
At 2.30, 5.10.
7.15 89.30 p.m.
season of May and
straw and leaves. Though inrge quantities may be found in Tottori Prefecture, this fungus has not yet been registered in the world's book of fungi..
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JOAN
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FOX
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toith
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Walter HUSTON
Anita PAGE
Lewis STONES
Jean HERSHOLT
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Mat
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Heather
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att Horton Nils Asther
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JACK
STAR
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