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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March 13, 1939.
Scientists Urge Madrid Test Of Anti-Nerve "Pill"
Secret Drug Will Make Nations Panic Proof
LOCKED IN THE SAFE OF THE MINISTRY
OF HEALTH IS THE SECRET FORMULA Debutante Will
OF A GLANDULAR-VITAMIN PREPARATION PLANNED TO MAKE BRITAIN'S CIVILIAN POPULATION PANIC-PROOF IN WAR-TIME.
While the formula has been submitted only for experimental purposes, it is understood that Sir John Anderson, A.R.P. chief, is taking a keen interest in-the-preparation.
It has been suggested that medical experts, acting for the Government, should go to Madrid to study, the effect of the pre- paration on the war-stricken population. In Capsule Form
Sir John Anderson's department is said to be in consulta- tion with the Ministry of Health as to the possibility of issuing the preparation in a simple and safe capsule form.
Made A Fortune Out Of Fairies WILLIAM Butler Yeats,
the Irish poet whose death at the age of seventy- .three was announced re- cently, made-a fortune out of fairies.
His poema and plays were about places and people existing -only in his mind.
People thought he really believed in fairies until one day he said: "Fairles .. poof! What are fairles7 What they call fairies in Galway they call spirits at a Soho seance."
Sue Count
MISS Blana Ursula Chalta- combe, beautiful young blonde. BioNK Just year's debutantes, is plaintiff in an action pending In the High Court,
She is sung Count Munifred Czernin, of York-terraes, Regent's Park, N.W., for damages for alleged assault and battery.
The claim arises out of Incidents aald to have taken place after u dinner party at Lansdowne House on November 30. The defence is a denial of the allegations.
Count Czernin la cousin of the wife of Dr. Schuschnigg, ex-Austrian Chancellor.
15 AIRWOMAN The action has been let down for The Government are impressed with the claims of the inventor, and hearing in the
Jury list of the hope that if its issue can be restricted (King's Bench Division, but is not ex-
a valuable part in the protection of the civil population, especially we men and children.
to
"The Idea of the formula is alleviate human misery in times of
great stress," the Dolly Skeich was told by one in close touch
with the inventor.
"Such a preparation in wor-time would be of incalculable value.
Tall and slim, Miss Challacombe, who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Nicholas Chailncombe, has appeared in several lms and on
stage.
the
She la, too, a well-known sports- woman. At school she won eight cups for sport, including tennis and swimming, and holds a
record for
high jumping. Riding and squash Selentists who have been in-are other forms of sport in which vestigating the properties of theshe excels, “pente pill" say that Madrid, during, Recently she took up flying and a bombardment, would provide ideni holds a pilot's certificate. conditions for experiment.
Biterature he said: "Good. How much Is it worth in English money?"
"COME TO SUPPER"
When told "About £7,000." he ald: "That's good news. Come to supper. My wife is frying sausages,"
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Here is a picture from Spain, taken during General Francisco Franco's Insurgent drive on the Loyalist capital of Barcelona, It shows supply truck "near Artesa del Segre hit by Loyalist air raiders. An Insurgent soldier attempts to salvage some of the material from the truck, set alire by the bombs.
Brutality By The Police Alleged
MEMBERS of Parliament was, Mrs. Joyce Lee, of Cheyne
recently gave évidence
Walk, Chelsea, S.W.
SERIOUS WOUNDS Her right eye
was closed and
A doctor who is attending her both
in support of a demand for an inquiry into allegations swollen. that police used unneces-found serious wounds over sary brutality în dispersing eyes, and an X-ray examination is "Arms for Spain" demons- there is any fracture of the skull.
to be made to determine whether trators in the West End.
Mrs. Lee's thigh is also sprained, So many
statements have and numerous bruises make it dif
cult for her to walk without as- sistance.
women
Toledo, O. To make Jones Junior high school For years school children have students inore vitamin-conscious, Not only was he a writer of ex-learned his poem. "The Lake Isle of three free meals are awarded every been made that defenceless and quisite lyrics, but his appearance was Innisfree.* He wrote it in a London day to those who choose their food unoffending men and in keeping with the popular concep-Į park-when he
was a young man. I the most scientifically in the school were charged and batoned dur tion of a poet.
Though he would never say where | cafeterin.
lanisfree" was, it was said to be a rocky Islet in Lough Gili, known locally as Rut Island. The tone of the poem took many literary pilgrims to Silgo.
With a shabby black cloak over his shoulders, a soft bluck sombrero on his head, a voluminous black silk tie round his neck, he avondered through the sireets of Dublin with his hands behind his back and his head in the air.
He looked mild and gentle, but he had a quick sense of humour. When telephoned in 1923 to be toki that he had won the Nobel Prize for
State Railways
Canberra, Australia. I lived at Rathfarnham at the
State owned railways are charit- fool of the Dublin mountains, but in
able. Minister of the Interior Mc recent years because of his health, Ewen has arranged for free transpor- he went to the Riviera in the winter. tation on the Commonwealth fallways
examination
ing orderly picketing that the National Council of Civil Liber- ties decided to lay the evidence before Parliament..
The Commissioner of Police also received signed 'statements from witnesses of alleged police
It was at Mentone that he died. Het children, and their escorts, when [violence. married in 1017 and leaves a wife travelling for medicul and a son and daughter.
and treatment,
Among the people alleged to have been injured in Parliament Square
Ship Beached Near City
Sydney, N. S. W. Sydney had shipwreck at its Star, after a collision with the coastal front door. The freighter Sydney
freighter Macumba, late at night, had to be beached at Rose Bay, near the Empire flying-boat basc.
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