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IT'S WINTER THERE
H.K. Tourist Traffic
To Australia
MORE PEOPLE NOW GO SOUTH FOR
Mo
HOLIDAYS
[ORE and more Hong- kong people are spend- ing their leave in sunny Aus- tralia.
This fact is borne out by statistics just issued by the Australian National Travel! Association.
People in Hongkong and China who formerly travelled to Europe ! for their vacations are
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going south. Fares are cheaper, the cost of living in both Aus tralia and New Zealand is much less expensive than in Europe and the scenic attractions, especially in New Zealand, rival those of any other part of the world.
Instead of spending ten to twelve weeks of his all too short! leave in travelling to England, the Hongkong resident need spend only a little over month in the return trip
Australia,
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The Australia National Travel Association reports an increase of 28 per rent, in visitors to Australia during 1934.
Tourists have taken const derably more than £5,000,000 to Australia in the last four years.
The reasons for the increase, which shows signs of aceleration in 1935, says Anatral News, are given as organised propaganda, a better general appreciation of the country as a winter resort for the summer months in the northern hemisphere, improved | ships and cheaper fares, and the exchange which makes the Eng- Hish pound worth 25 shillings.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1935.
BLAZING PACIFIC AIRLINE
WE'VE WON A WAR
First pictures to reach the outside world show construction scenea at ito of Pan American Airing's airline bases in mid-Pacific Ocean, bring established for inangration of a commercial airways that will soon link the United States with Hongkong. Above, clearing a path through irotwood brush on desainte Wilkies Island in the Wake group for a supply railway, Beline, un- lating Phonsaule of gallons of petrol at Midway Island errailing arrived of the first tying
Freezing Experiments
May Solve Diseases
RUSSIAN CHEMIST CHEATS DEATH
Hollywood, Aug. 28.
A snarling, angry little Rhesus monkey snap- nep and "cursed" volubly at an unprecedented number of visitors in the laboratory of Dr. Ralph Willard.
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"Isn't he beautiful" beamed Dr. Willard.
The ill-tempered simian was “Jekal,” who, un- like his celebrated brass colleague, rose from a frozen death after five days.
Dr. Willard, dark, intense! young research chemist, froze Jekal experimentally into a small grey lump of ice. Then, after: 120 hours,, he thawed him out and placed him back in his enge, as good as new,
To the doctor the monkey's irritable chattering was 09 music. It meant that Jekal had returned to normalcy, and that; five years of experimentation! has been crowned with success.
Born in South Russin 32 years ago, Dr. Willard learned secrets of suspended animation under the famous Dr. Petrov. Then he came to America to study chemistry at the College of the City of New York.
In 1931 he made his first at-
PROFESSOR PETROV
Clipper.
NCJRSTELAJAKARTA OSTEAN 1996K 300LANGAN JAKKNKALPE
Station Built
On Shells
Arras, Aug. 30. New railway track work has led to the discovery that the station at Arras has been standing ever since the war on a British ammunition dump consisting mainly of 4.5-inch shells.
Already 250 shells have been dug up without ac- cident-euter.
France Wants Every Air Record
4 MILLION FRANCS AS PRIZES FOR AVIATORS
Paris, Aug. 30.
Fight That
Has Gone On For Century
MALARIA ALMOST CONQUERED IN HONGKONG
Malaria has been conquer- led in the urban areas of
Hongkong.
Thanks largely to the un- relenting war by the Health + department, against mos- quitoes, malaria has 'ceased to become a source of an- xiety and danger.
To-day, owing to efficient drainage, there is practically no malaria in the thickly populated portion of either Victoria or Kowloon, and it is only in the outskirts and more open parts that the disease still persists.
In the early days of the Colony, malaria was the chief Entise of sickness and death in Victoria, and in 1844, coincident with the breaking of the soil for the forma tion of Queen's Road, which was then the chief arterial rond of the town, it became such a Scourge that there were serious thoughts of abandoning the island.
Malaria not being a notiflable dincase, few figures are available to measure the actual incidence throughout the Colony. But by taking the hospital, police an military returns, it is possible to make fairly accurate returns,
Lowest On Record
From statistics to hand the number of cases admitted to Government hospitals in 1925 was 1.142 and since that year there has been a steady decrease until last year the figure had dropped to 457, the lowest ever recorded.
It would seem also that here, as in Malaya, the dauger areas are not the large swamps and paddy fields remote from the hills, but collections of water within half a mile of the latter. Why It is so is not known, but spring water which has not yet lost its sparkle does have an attraction for Ano- pheles minimus and Anopheles joyporienals which, in this Colony, are the most potent carriers of malaria. Such water may be in seepagos, springs, pools or streams or it may be from the irrigation water for wet cultivation, on the hill sides or in the valleys in the vleinity.
The most nularious areas arr. In an effort to encourage therefore, those in or near the hills. GRACZANESİworld's records, the Air vicinity of the hills which involve French aviators to make new Unless carefully watered and care- fully controlled works in the
Scientist World Forgot For 50 Years
Ministry has announced that disturbance of the soil such as 3,975,000 franes in prizes roads, railways, or waterworks are will be awarded for
nearly always attended by high perform-sickness and death rates among ances between now and the the labour forces employed. In end of the year.
Malaya this was especially the case when the soil was of granite forma- Prizes are offered, to French tion and the same applies in Hong- ayers for three new world's kong. records and two long distance
N. T. Decroase lights between Paris and Statistics in the report with re- colonial capitals; a new speed gard to the incidence among the for land planes, a new police of the New Territories show the five royal tribes of world's altitude record, a flight decrease from 1,206 in 1925 to 55 Wales, Dr. Griffith. Evans, of bettering the distance record of 1932.
In the intervening period Bangor celebrated his 100th Paul Codos and Maurice Roshi, birthday last month.
and flights from Paris to Saigon 150 from 1927-1928 and 93 from and Paris to Tananarive,
1925-1926; 449 from 1926-1927;
WAS 100 YEARS OLD LAST MONTH
A DESCENDANT of one of mark
For nearly fifty years doctors and scientists forgot him.
Last month, medical workers all over the world honoured him on his centenary,
the greatest decreases are 328 from
1931-1932.
Ministry according to the speed or not generally known, is that al-
The awards are calculated by the dapsed time for the flight in ques-though a mosquito may bite a An interesting point, which is
Not because he is one of the world's speed
tion, so that a flyer breaking the
record by
person suffering from malaria, it four kilometres an hour will get more
cannot transfer the infection until than he would for a new record two it is "ripe", or sick of the discuse
itself.
Royal Tribes, .
But because:-
In 1870, at Ipswich hospital, a three kilometres faster than youth came in with tetanus.ymond Delmotte's 505.848 mudeį. It takes fourteen days for the Medical men stared aghast att stres in December, 1984. mosquito to get "ripe", so that for tempt to restore life to a frozen
Dr. Evans's advice of complete is offering a maximum of 750,000 fected person it does not transmit For the speed mark the Ministry fourteen days after biting on in- animal-a guinen big. Five
rest in a darkened room, with francs, and it is understool that the germ to another person. years of painstaking research monkey. ilis "death" in the fee-plenty of fresh air, fresh water Delmotte himself will trono tut
Dr.box restored him to health.
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STROLLED AWAY
IN CLOTHES STOLEN FROM WARDEN'S SON
Brisbane Aug. 15. Police all over Australis áre À prisoner, who
terday and escaped swiftly and luxuriously-in an air litter.
The prisoner was employóð un kitchon-hand in the superin tendent's home. T
followed, during which
and no medicine or stimulants. Willard froze and restored to
Yet, this is the recognised maximum prize is for a flight at Ten hours were required to thaw
first to attempt a new record. The GAOL-BIRD WHO life hundreds of small animals, the small, icy animal out. From treatment to-day, with the addi-566 kilometres an hour. Some of them had been dead ag the ice chamber he was placed in ation of anti-toxin.
A prize of 1,000,000 francs is long as five months.
heated. compartment equipped with In India he set out to lights, warming calls and a hot air "surra,'
cure offered for a new altitude record, At length, this year, he was, fan.
a disease which devas-the, award being calculated on a ready to carry his experimenta Then, restored to "normal" rigor |blood tests he isolated the germ maximum being for an altitude of tated horses. After exhaustive basis of the height reached over a to the ranks of the higher mortia, Jekal was laid on an opera- and had to fight hard to establish 15,000 metres.
minimum of 14,000 metres and the mammals, preliminary to experl-fting table. Hypodermic needles the value of the discovery. ments on humans.
hovered over him. First a shot of Years later, when sleeping sick prize is also variable, but there is a looking for
The straight line distance record Several previous tests with mon-adrenalin, to stimulate the heart. ness was being investigated in fiat award of 100,000 francs for any strolled out of Brisbarta Gaol yos koys proved disappointing until then blood transfusion from Dr. Africa, medical men successfully light bettering the 9,100 kilometre Jekal came through with flying Willard's own veins. -colours, and lived again,
Other swift operations injected the disease to the teetse fly.
adopted his method in tracing New York-Rayak fight of Codes The goal of Dr. Willard's re-anterior and posterior pituitary
and Rosal. Prizes for this event search is to find a cure for substances, and Jekai moaned and The microbe he found was total 1,120,000 francs, and the tuberculosis, syphilis and other tried to sit up.
named after him-Trypanasoma distance of 10,000 kilometres.
maximum award is calculated for a hutaan plagues through artificlal The secret of revivification is tho
Evansi. freezing.
Passed Guards Cold is fatal to germs of many the veins, the doctor explained. It ago. Dr.
use of sodium citrate injections into
All this was fifty-five years
Saigon Flight
He found a suit of clothes be- classes, he explained, and it is prevents the blood from congulating Bangor,
Evans retired to
longing to the superintendent's son. For the Paris-Saigon light the It contained money and a motor-car * possible Bhak the freezing and inducing permanent death.
In 1930, when he was lying French aviator will win the maxi- technique might eliminate several
Air Ministry hopes that some licence. diseases which have plagued man-ealed in the experiment, froze too to his discoveries half a century roughly to the spoed attained by the prison gate.
Matilda, a second monkey con-
bedridden
A few seconds later, dressed in at his home the mum of 600,000 francs for a fight the complete outfit, he strolled-past. British Association paid tribule 48-hours, which corresponds the unsuspecting guards at the fast and was irrevocably dend.
To-day he is a frail man, and race. The Paris-Tananarive flight field Airdrome.
winner of the London-Melbourne stone deaf-but still one of the award, of the same amount, will be Within the hour he landed at his
Next he made his way to Archer-1 greatest medical scientists of calculated on United Press,
a similar basis destination-and
kind-anco the dawn of time.
Dr. Willard Inya no claim to Gaston, a third monkey, is still in having discovered a cure, how the Ice box. Dr. Willard will at ever. He merely expresses hopes tempt to rovive him on September, that, one may be found.
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