THE
HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1937.
SNATCHED FROM LINE AS TRAIN CAME AVE
Gold · Braid · At
At Happy Valley Fireman Review Of Landing Party
Royal Naval Officers at the Review, last week, of a landing detachment from H.M'ships
on China Station.
LIVING MARSH
SWAMPS WHERE
PREHISTORIC
PLANTS SURVIVE
By A Special Correspondent
PLANTS
Mother Kills To Avenge Her Daughter
How
l'aria, Dec. 31.
to
Poised On
On Buffers BOY HELD WHILE TRUCKS PASSED FORTY-SEVEN trucks laden with coal thundered along the railway line at Washington, Co. Durham. Sud- denly the driver and fireman saw a tiny figure between the rails ahead.
n two-year-old boy playing among the sleepers
Was
NERVE STRESS heedless of the danger.
OF
MODERN LIFE
There was no time to stop the train. Shouting was of no use; the trala was going at great speed.
Fireman George Steel. acted, dashed out of the cabin, clambered on to the engine busters. Ile caught
Supposed Cause of the child in time, and pushed him
Internal Ill
BODY CONTROL BY
SMALL GLAND
The theory that the increased pre- valence of duodenal ulcers in the modern world might be due to the greater nervous and mental strain under which we live was discussed
down with his foot so that the engine and lending trucks passed anfely over him.
DRIVER JUMPS
Meanwhite Driver Thomas Bartlett had reduced speed, at great personal risk he jumped between the trucks and held the terrilled boy close to the permanent way while the rest of the trucks went over their heads. The child, shaken but unhurt, was
This was the story told by South Shields mayor, Councillor Charles Smith, when he presented N.S.P.C.C. diplomas to Bartlett and Steel..
by Professor E. Mellanby, secretary sent home. Driver and fireman of the Medical Research Couneli, carried on with thele jab, when he lectured at the Royal In- Istitution. London,
"Chemical on Messengers of the Body." A
It had been suggested, Professor Mellanby stated, that there was some connection between the "posterior lobe of the pituitary gland beneath the brain and such ulcers; and the theory about nervous strain would. he thought, bring some kind of sense" into the suggested connection. Professor Mellanby, also referred to the "life saving" use of a particular extract from the pituitary in cases of hemorrhage after child-bird.
ACTIVE PITUITARY
In all, he mentioned eight different substances, all of which are known
Dance Bands'
Ultimatum
BETTER B.B.C. TERMS OR NO BROADCASTS
to be manufactured within the body Paying To Go “On The
by the pituitary and which controlled such varied functions as growth and the production of sugar by the body.
Air"
Although the functions of the pitul- Dance band lenders. at a raceting tary were not normally of a life-in London recently, decided to reject land-death character, all these sub-the B.B.C.'s new financial terms for
stances
were now being used by broadcasting, and to intimate plainly doctors to carry out their specific that, unless these terms are amend- functions, he added.
ed, they will refuse to broadcast after January 1.
was unani-
To illustrate the control of growth exercised by the pituitary, Professor Mellanby showed a photograph of a
This decision, which boy of 18 who stood U feet 4 inches ous, was reached by the recently-
Dance and weighed 28 stone. In the photo-formed
Band Leaders' man, his wife, and his graph the boy's father, who, Profes- Association. step-daughter quarelled as
The meeting was at- which of them should murder
sor Mellanby explained, was only an tended by 72 members of the dentist to avenge the family honour, stretched to his full height and sill best-known bands in the country, Ainch under six feet, could be seen Association, representing ali the THE latest discoveries of living "prehistoric" plants by was described by forty-year-old falling, by some four inches, to reach and many of
the Botanical and Zoological Institute of the Debre-me. Praprian Saraflan to Examin- to his son's shoulder.
the members had Ing Magistrate Bru at the Palace of
travelled long distances from the cen University in Hungary have caused a sensation in the Justice in Faris to-day.
After un X-ray photograph had provinces. Mr. Jack Hylton pre- scientific world.
been taken to aid his doctor's sided. Dr. Rezso Soos, hend of the institute, recently led an expedi-hour investigation by Paris police walked out with him from the con- many bands would be "paying some-
Her confession ended a fifteen-diagnosis, the boy had picked up the
According to photographer under tion to the marshy regions of Batorliget, near the Rumanian into the death of Setark-Sasso sulling room. This condition was due thing for going on the air, instead of his arm and B.B.C.'s proposals would mean that one speaker, the frontier, the fauna and flora of which have never been subject toot in his surgery it the Rue de to over-activity
forty-one-year-old dentist, found close investigation,
of part, the being paid something." Vaugirard.
pituitary. Though the existence there of living marsh plants and animals
Said Mme. Sarafian: "I killed function of the body," he stated, for bands broadcasting from London "There is hardly a physiological The terms offered by the BB.C. was always suspected, it has now been definitely ascertained, Setark-Sassouni 10 avenge
The same phenomena have been noted in certain altitudes of honour of my family.""
the "which is not influenced, in one way studios were outlined by Mr. A. M. the Norwegian mountains.
or another, by one of the chemicals Wall, Hon. Secretary of the As- produced by the cells in this very sociallon. They are: small gland at the base of the brain?
Batorliget is believed, however, to be the only flat stretch of land in the world, surrounded by fields and villages, where owing to the swampy character of the ground, the danip cli- mate, the lack of sunshine, and the continual mist, the flora and fauna have remained the same as some 10,000 years ago. Ten miles away from these swamps such flowers and animals could not exist.
до
She said that last Sunday her nineteen-year-old daughter Aninde revealed that two months when she went to Selark-Sassouni's Burgery as a patient he drugged and assaulted her.
Aninde's-step-father threatened to commit suicide at first. He had been dishonoured. But nineteen-year-old Anlude wanted to do the avenging
In 1933 a canalisation scheme very nearly turned the swamps with a revolver. She added: "Then of Batorliget into ploughland, but lack of finance preserved these rare phenomena.
I will shoot myself."
But her mother said: "No., Re- venge is my duty."
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Attica, New York, Dec. 28. THE thornless rose, dream of flower lovers for cen- turies, has arrived.
It has been developed here from a single chance plant that| "just happened to grow that way," according to an Attica horticulturist, Mr. Edward C. Stroh,
After working for three years to develop a thornless rose, he came upon a single plant quite free from thorns.
But how, why and when it became thornless Mr. Stroh cannot explain.
BRIDGE A GAME
OF SKILL
40-50 minute session, £2 10s. in respect of each member of the band, plus £6 allowance towards orchestrations;
55-65 minutes, £3 cach, plus £7 orchestration allowance; Outside fee;
broadcasts, two-thirds
Empire broadcasts, 75 per cent. fee:
Provisional broadcasts, centage to be decided,
BAND'S TERMS
per-
On the other hand, the terms sug- gested by the Provisional Committee of the Association for a 60-minute broadcast are:
8 players, 40 guineas, 5 guineas cach new orchestration,
12 players, 80 guineas, 6 guineas cacit new orchestration.
18 players, 80 guineas, 7 guineas each new orchestration.
20 players, 100 guineas each new orchestration.
guincas, 8 Mr. Wall pointed out that the B.B.C., under their new policy, in- Bridge is a game of skill; whether terms of contracts. The method of tended to take action to enforce the paker is to be regarded as such enforcement would be in co-opera- questionable, declared Mr. Justice tion with the music publishers, who Macnaghten giving judgment in the lind pledged themselves not to sup- King's Bench Division in an unsuc. ply free orchestrations. cessful action to recover money lent
pay card debts.
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"I always understood," he added, that bluff is the monosyllabic quality useful in poker.""
3
MEANS A FIGHT
the arrangement for a monthly meet- Mr. Wall protested further against
B.B.C. and publishers' ing between a committee of the
representa-
mean a
Sydney Alexander Woolf, pro- prietor of the Dorchester Bridge tives, to decide what should be in Club, Willesden Lane, N.W., Max Richard Gray Freeman,
sued the dance band programunes. -- Woodchurch Road, West Hampstead, view that it was "going to
Mr. Jock Payne expressed the for £52 19s. 2d., the balance of money lent and the cost of food
fight." supplied,
After a long discussion, during Alternatively he claimed £33 109, was revf wved, the Provisional Com- which every aspect of the dispute Dr the amount of a dishonoured miltee was instructed to request the. cheque given him by Freeman but B.B.C. to amend their offer regard- drawn by another person) and 10 ing fees. The committee is to report Ds. 2d., the balance of money lent to the Association before December and food supplied,
20.
Judgment for Mr. Woolf for £4. 03. 2d. was entered, with no order as
to costs....
MRRECOVERABLE”
to decide whether bridge and poker wore lawful games.
Mr. T. Springer (defending) inti- Mr Charles Doughty, KC, for mated that he did not intend to call pald by Mr. Woolf to cover 10 Freeman, sums won by other players Woolf, said the money was largely evidence. He submitted that Mr. Wooll had paid, on behalf of Mr. Incurred by Freeman. It raised at an unlawful game, and the money interesting question under the
gaming Acts. The judge might have was therefore, irrecoverable.
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