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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY,
MUSSOLINI RECALLS
AN ADMIRAL
JEWISH NAVY CHIEF MAY BE RETIRED
NEW ROME BANS
Rear-Admiral Paolo Maroni, Com- mander of the Hallon Naval forces
at Palina, Majorca, has been recalled to reports in Jewish circles in Rome.
by the Ministry of Marine, according
Maroul is a Jew. It is believed that he will be placed on the reilred fist, says the B...
Hitherto, his Jewish origin has not hompered his career, and he has be- come one of Italy's most capable!
men.
He fought in the Libyan, Worldi and African wars for Italy and was decorated several times for bravery, He also served as a naval attache in various capitals.
SEPTEMBER
27,
1938.
Doctors Baffled By
Anaesthetics Mystery
Plymouth.
THE British Medical Association Conference here heard how reaction to anaesthetics can be pre-judged, from the colour of a patient's hair.
Dr. C. J. M. Dawkins, of London, said: "On seeing a person with red or auburn hair come info n case room one instinctively prepares for difficulty in maintaining a smooth anaesthesia.
"This has been consistently borne out by experiments conducted during the past four months with 700 dental cases.
PUZZLING POINTS
Four Months' Old Summons Dismissed in Kowloon.
Giving the benefit of the doubt to the defence, Mr. K. M. A. Barnett dismissed a summons against Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, agents for the steamer Mentor, for Blue Funnel endorsing a Harbour Office permit to work cargo on a Sunday night na "Not Used" whiên cargo had been case discharged at the time. The
NEW DECREES Several decisions to be put into the operation at
"Glyen the same anesthetic fair- once concerning elimination of Jews from the Civitoired patients require on an average Service and the armed forces were 52 seconds to lose consciousness;
red published by the Italian Governmentdark-wired 12 seconds; and to-day, says the Exchange.
haired 08. Mussolini, as Minister for the in- "Moreover, 13 per cent, of red-came up at the Kowloon Magistracy 19 Jewish haired patients require restraint, yesterday after a four-months' ad- Huspended mber
of the
permanent compared with only .03 of dark- journment. ot the Home Office. haired and 04 of fair-haired.
Evidence was called to state that The Minister of Education, Signor
NO EXPLANATION
cargo had not been worked at the Bottai, has privately mivired 174 " can offer 110 explanation for time alleged, namely 8.20 p.m. on university professors of Jewish origin, this phenomenon. It is possible that Sunday, April 24, and that was why that, necarding to the decree, some fuctor yet unrecognised is in the permit, which allowed working
from operation." Urey will October 18, and that their position Dr. Dawkins added that regarding pensions is being examined. | times any men as women re-
EXCEPTIONS
quiced restraint under an anasthe defendants, while inspector Shep- heard and Police Sergeant Mattinson
suspended
Ds
between the
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three midnight, had been for the
Mr. D. B. Evans
No decision has yet been made tie. abatt Jewish officers and men now Favourable conditions for anesthe-were present for the police. serving in the armed forces. It isaia varied greatly with the weather understood, however, that each ense and barometric pressure. Storiality is to be dealt with on its own merits, was highest in winter, at that exceptions will be made to the general rule of elimination in where special service was rendered in the Great War, in the Abyssinian campaign, in the Spanish way, and in the cause of the Fascist revolution.
CHACS
The fiome newspaper, Il Tevere, the Trastavere region, should be re- ggests that the Somino Square, to named.
The
square was named after Baron Somnino, a Jew who was Premier of Italy for 100 days during the world war.
CANTON
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Canton, Sept. 28.
SCIATICA TESTS A new operation for sclatlea, tried successfully in America, Was de- scribed by Dr. Joseph S. Bar, of Boston, Mass.
I had been found, he said, that: sclation might be caused by the dis- placement of a "dise" at the point of
damage was located by injecting muximum strain in the sprine. The poppy seed oil into the spine and watching its progress by X-ray. The gap was then bridge by grafting with bone clippings.
It was sinted at the previous hear- in. on May 27, that steel cargo had been unloaded at 8.20 p.m., and the Chief Officer had voluntarily signed a statement to that effect. The ense was then adjourned as the Mentor was on her way to England.
Yesterday, Mr. R. Blakey, the Chief Oficer. testified stopped at
that 5 p.m. and
workt bad the hatches police sergeant clased. At 8 p.m.
he admitted that he had but only went to be cabin and asked him if he had been working cargo, and during the day. A permit had been issued and used for the day work-
The police sergeant then asked The operation had been performed witness to sign a paper but he re- times in Massachusetts, said Dr. Lused, having signed one already in Barr.
Only two subjects died, In the morning. However, be anally most cases the operation gave prompt; đù so under protest when told that and complete relict.
if he had been working that day ke would have to, and that he might have to do so a third time.
The suggestion that Britain's in- fant mortality rate might be halved by J reversion from the fashion of
Corroborative evidence was given artificial feeding to breast feeding the Second Omeer, Mr. A. N. was made by Dr. J. Spence, honorary Cabot, and the Second Engineer, Mr.
Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1. W. Churke, physletan Babies' Hospital.
to
in
It is heard here that the Muni-
FEEDING OF BABIES ripal Government has been requested by the telephone administration for "The infant mortality rate
advance the tolls for Britain remains twice as high as that permission 10 trunk calls Canton-Hongitong. in many other countries," he said. Though from the start one has had "In some of our industrial towns it to pay $2 national currency for afremains three times as high as, for three-minute call, the administration, example, in towns of similar size in would raise this to $3. It is desired Australia. that this latter rute shall obtain for
that of the 10,000 infonts year, during which it is expected, deaths of
each year in owing to the European tension, that Britain 20,000 might be prevented. the Honkong dollar will remain at "Twenty to 30 per cent. of bables i an abnormal disparity with the n-are artificially fed from birth in tional dollar.
many if not most, of our big towns.
This means
In dismissing the case, His Wor- ship said there had been one or two puzzling points which had not been and he cleared up satisfactorily. regretted that, because of the length of time, it was now impossible ta produce any independent evidence.
Woman, 100, Does Chores
Brunson, Mich. For
each extra minute over the It is beyond all question that breast- Mrs. Mary Sikorsky uccided i three, the new rate, if allowed, will fed infants show a greater freedom wouldn't be any rocking chair and be $1 pallonal currency. At present from disease and a greater power of lace for her on her 100th birthday— it is 65 cents.
recovery than artificially-Led In-she celebrated it by helping her son with the chores as she has done every day for years.
In making the change, the ad-tants." ministration is not taking the real FURTHER STUDY NEEDED Hongkong exchange rate, but figur- ing II.K. $10 as the equivalent of $15 national currency:
40-Year-Old Bill Paid
Allus, Okla.
The effects of natural feeding on the mother's character, temperament and mental outlook deserved more study, he continued,
Trains Outracing Autos
"In my experience it is emollonat disturbances In which the father is concerned that have the greatest In- | E. T. Spencer, state ́traffe safety hibiting effect. But over-anxiety | director, has issued a plea for
Holse, Ida.
J. R. Ham had some proof to-day about the mother's ability to feed motorists "to give up the old iden” of trying to beat trains to the railway" for his contention that mest folks her infant is almost as harmful.
six the father crossings. In are honest." He received a letter) "The behaviour of
given cases which contolned a money order for during and
after the birth of far this year, the train not there first, $2.75, in payment for a vill incurred the child, although often a subject with a total of 11 casualties.
at Ham's store in Dew, Tex., more for ridicule, is significant enough to than 40 years ago.
Ruse Baulks Spanking
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suggest a remnant of some remote biological purpose. As surit it has was that over-anxiety and the fact been studius BAND'S Dropologists. that the mother had to go out to
work were among the causes of the decline in natural baby feeding.
"It is suficient to say that in the A G-year-old daughter here, early stages he should remains an
At the same time, it could not be having been spanked twice by her admiring and protective figure in the
death-rate among parents for being late in returning background while his wife receives shown that the from school, look precautions for the the ministrations and exhortations of artificially-fed infants was abnormal. Modern artificial baby foods were third time, At the time normally a sagacious and experienced wa- due for the spanking she was not man.'
extremely satisfactory, she said, and present, nor later elther AL 10:15 Dr. Ethel Cassie, of Birmingham, added: "I think we can congratulate in the evening, her parents found said that the general opinion among ourselves on the high standard of her sleeping in a clothes closet. maternity and child welfare workers health of our bubles to-day."
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