THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1988.
Japan Moves To Reap Harvest In China Take Advantage Customs Rates In Conquered Provinces Slashed To Aid Merchants ""
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Mr. Joseph Kennedy, the United States Ambassador, with his wife and five of their nine children, in the garden of their London home. They are, from left Jeanne (9), and Bobby (11).
Family Group to right, Kathleen, aged 18, Father and Mother with Teddy (0). Fatriels (13),
New
Lessen
Lessons of
Anguish
Medicine of Man
More miracles of medicine are lessening the anguish of mankind.
Here Ritchie Cal-
der describes a few of the latest methods of minimising suffering, saving lives and
Old Bed Saved
An Airman
NOT many years ago a
NOT
even restarting the pulse of life.
broken
spine meant either being cripped for life or a lingering death, Nowadays in our hectic civilisation, broken spines are twice as common as broken collar bones and just es likely to be cure
cured,
Α famous frer, I was told by an eminent surgeon, recently, broke his back in a crash and six months later broke the record from London to the Cape, says a correspondent.
And all as a result of being sus- And all as pended in
sling, from the
લ
frame of an ohioned iron bed-
stead, by four meat hooks, obtained from a bulcher,
The sagging canvas allowed the broken parts of the spine to slip back Instantaneously into place. The vic- Um was placed in a plaster cast and two months later was convalescing.
Miracle Man
Wants Job
TX-PRIVATE E., G. ATKINS, of the E
Royal Berkshire Regiment, is a living example of the miracles of
surgery.
BLOOD MAY NOW BE BANKED
A METHOD by which blood
can be "invested" against the day when the investor may been need a transfusion has developed at the Cook County Hospital, Chicaxo.
This is one of the hospillais which is developing a system of storing blood in refrigerators.
Blood thus stored, it is claim- ed, can be kept for several weeks (Brillant experience, so far. puls the limit at four or five days) Bo that a patient can give blood case he needs a transtusion later.
have an Or a patient may "overdraft" from the bank by having transfusion from the reserves.
Re-Starter For
ΑΝ
The Heart
N electrio self-starter for the heart
has been devised by scientists.
A gold needle carrying a delicate electric circuit is thrust into the heart muscle of a patient sulfering from heart-collapse or in
cases of 03- phyxiation.
The
He had half his face blown away
pulses through the needle re- during the war.
Through the British Legion he was start the heart and set the pace untit admitted to Ministry of Pensions, the organ itself "ucks over again."
two! Patients who have lain "dead" for Hospital, where, in the last years, he has hind five operations 11 minutes have been brought back of bone-grating. Now he is not to long life by this device. afraid to look at himself in the mir
Soon the "self-starter" will be the equipment of most ror, and is on the look-out for a light among
hospitals. job.
Now
Can Pain
Be By-Passed
A
OPEN DOOR POLICY "NOT EVEN AJAR”
By Henry Wood
United Press Staff Correspondent
SAN FRANCISCO. JAPAN IS MOVING SWIFTLY TO REAP THE COMMERCIAL GAINS AND ADVANTAGES OF HER OCCUPATION OF THE FIVE PROVINCES OF NORTH CHINA, ACCORDING TO A SURVEY OF THE INSTITUTE OF PACIFIC RELATIONS.
The most important move to date has been the pro- mulgation, by the puppet "provisional government of the republic of China," which the Japanese get up at Peking, of an extensive slash of customs rates in favour of the major articles of Japanese manufacture. The new tariff rates already have gone into effect, giving the Japanese such an advantage over other countries as not to leave the open door policy "not even ajar," according to the Institute.
One of the most important slashes made was that on Japanese cotton, rayon and linen textiles. Here the cut was so great that it is hoped it will offset the tariff increases that have been in Japan's overseas markets in various parts of the world.
In the field of cotton alone, the old consolidation tax on cotton goods has been abolished entire- ly, as has also the export tax on raw cotton from North China,
The latter is of exceedingly great importance to Japan for It will en- able her to get a supply of raw cot- ton nearer home, at lower rates and with less transportation charges Dun
The
EMPIRE NEWS
INCREASED. WAGES when purchasing it in the Brazilian IN SOUTH AFRICA
and North American markets. nbolition of this export tax will have the cotton direct repercussions on markets of the two lalter countries..
is
CAPE TOWN. The value of gold and other mining industries to South Africa Flour is to be admitted entirely emphasised in the wages Agures for free of-duty and with the Chinese 1937. They are published lo-day by harvests far below normal this year, the Department of Mines. Japan is expected to find an immense
Con WOMAN surgeon, Miss stanco Ottley, FR.C.S., surgeon of the New Sussex Hospital for Women and of the Marie Curie Hos pital, says in this week's British Medical Journal that injections of alcohol will relieve
pain.
market in north China for feeding] The wages bill in all the mining The iden is to "disconnect" from the many millions there.
industries, including gold, damond
Bre Stili other steps that
being
yen.
of
the central nervous system the Another important cut in customs and coal mining, reached the record nerves which carry the agony mes-charges on foodstuffs is that of more figure of £31,500,000. Europeans re- sages from the spot where the pain than 50 per cent, on Japanese refined ceived £18,010,000-an increase originales.
£1,016,000 over, the 1930 figures. Only those nerves and nothing else sugar.
The gold mines paid out most of mas: be affected.
It has been found that this is pos- taken by Japan to consolidate her this sun. Their bill was £27,327,- sible
by injecting alcohol through the commercial supremacy in the North 000. while the coal wages bill was cover of the spinal cord at the proper China markets are that of organizing £1,000,000, and the diamond £808,- point.
the North China currency so that it 550. Relief for as long as 18 months has will be pegged on the Japanese been secured. The average is five A new federal reserve bank for north months and the relief of pain is often China is being organized with a copi- instantaneous.
tal of $50,000,000 (Mcx.), and will, be given a monopoly on note issues.
This one of a number of financial
Inister to Retire.-Acting on asures that have been taken also medical advice, Mr. P. G. W. in Japan and Manchukuo in order Grobler, Minister of Native Affairs, the has decided to retire from politics, FAVOURITE form of mediaeval to bring about, according to
Que Institute,
creation of 1 solid He will not be contesting his seat at torture was "The Bool." A 15
Japanese-North China-Manchukuo the general election on May 10 next. metal case was fitted over the leg and foot and wedges driven in and financial bloc in which the currencica Mr. Grobler is member for Rusten-
the limb was Pf all will be based on the Japanese burg, Transvaal.
TORTURE V. TORTURE
yen,
Cat Walks 40 Miles Superior, Wis. Mrs. George.
cat, Turgeon's Tommy, became homesick when his owner took him to Fort Wing for a visit us he slipped out of the house
screws turned until crushed,
Modern surgery has learned some- thing from that--not to pause-tor- ture but to remove it.
Strong glass cases are filled over limb, racked with the foot or a arthritis, or with gangrene.
The case is sealed to the limb with rubber, and a pump is attached.
Air is forced in and withdrawn, and walked the 40 miles back to his giving a form of massage otherwise Superfor home. The trip took the
cat three weeks. Impossible.
YOUNG Bank Assistant Promoted!
CASHIL
when he got rid of NIGHT STARVATION
I HAD EARLY TEA HALF
AN HOUR AGO. I MUST
GET UP WISH I DIDN'T
FEEL SO DONE UP IN THE, MORNINGS I'M GOOD
FOR NOTHING
ALL DAY.
M-M-M. TASTES DELICIOUSĮ. GLAD I BOUGHT
THE MIXER
|HORLICKS REGULARLY SOON GAVE HIM NEW VITALITY
Horlicks is best made in the special Horlicks mix- er. Obtainable at all goodi stores-80 cts, large size and 40 cts, small size,
2 MONTHS LATER
LOOK HERE YOUNG MAN, YOU'RE LATE AGAIN THIS MORNING, WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU LATELY? YOU WERE ONE OF OUR PROMISING
YOUNG MEN ONCE!
THEY HAVE PROMOTED HIM I KNOW) BECAUSE I SAW A LETTER! FROM HEAD OFFICE ON THE BOSS'S DESK.
SORRY, SIR, BUT I'M NOT FEELING WELL. I'M ALWAYS
TIRED AND... ..I SUPPOSE I'D BETTER SEE THE
DOCTOR
I WISH I KNEW HIS SECRET SINCE HE WENT TO SEE HIS DOCTOR HE'S BEEN
FULL OF VITALITY.
TAKE
TTHE, DOCTORS TIRED, WHEN YOU WAKE UP NO ENERGY ALL DAY-LOOKS LIKE A CASE OF NIGHT STARVATION, ENERGY IS STILL USED UP DURING SLEEP YOU MUST REGAIN IT I STRONGLY RECOMMEND. HORLICKS, REGULARY LAST THING AT NIGHT
If you wake tired, if you suffer from 'nerves enervation and that' dreadful feeling of exhaus- GUARD tion AGAINST NIGHT STARVATION
HORLICKS
YOU SLEEP SOUNDLY, WAKE REFRESHED AND HAVE EXTRA
ENERGY ALL DAY
Compared with the wages for 1932, the last Gold Standard year in South Africa, the 1937 Agures show an advance in wages of £12,500,000.
12 Dead in Collision-In the head- on collision which occurred yester- day morning between two lorries at Milnerton, near Cape Town, one European and 11 coloured persons were killed.--Reuter. INDIA
EARTHQUAKE ALARM IN BOMBAY
BOMBAY. Thousands of Bombay residents hurried from their beds into the streets this morning after an earth- quake shock which was severe enough to be alarming, but did not cause any damage,
When the shock occurred, thou- sands of crows, cowing continuously, left the trees, the effect being very eerle. Similar shocks were reported from many points. The centre of the earthquake is belleved to have been about 500 miles north-east of Bom- bay.
Mysore and Federation.—The Gov- ernment of the State of Mysore has appointed a committee to Invite and examine public opinion and make recommendations on that portion of the Government of India Act, 1935, relating to federation of British Indian provinces and the Indian States. The Committee will hold meetings once a month,
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INFLUX OF ALIEN IMMIGRANTS
SYDNEY.
In spite of all protests during re- cent months against the continued pouring into Austrolla of emigrants from
southern Europe, mostly Italians, Greeks and Jugoslavs, the Federal Government refuses to take any
It the influx. action to stop states that there can be no differentl- ation between foreigners whose em- ployment has been guaranteed by fellow-nationals here, and whose good characters are vouched for.
The Government is trusting to the resumption of the system of assisted passages dormant since 1930, to stimulate British immigration, and so prevent the number of allen arrivals being disproportionately heavy.
Anti-Japanese Ban Lifted.--The Lumpers Union to-day removed the ban on the bunkering of Japanese whalers arriving from the Antarctic at the end of the month. Mr. Curtin, the leader of the Federal Labour party and of the Parliament- ary Opposition, stated that Mr. J. A. Lyons, the Commonwealth Prime Minister, had warned him of the grave complicatons which otherwise would follow Exchange lilY
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