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Effect Of Libya On Vichy
Inclination To Axis
LONDON, Apr. 21 (Reuter). -The possibility of a reshuffle of Marshal Petain's Cabinet is being discussed at Vichy, nccord- ing to information from, the French frontier.
The German successes in North Africa and the Balkans, the "An" #gency says, appear to have streng- thened the position favouring closer collaboration with Germany, but it unlikely that Laval will be recalled to Cabinet, as he is still very un-
The popular.
is
One possibility is Laval's appoint- ment as Ambassador in Paris to re- place Count de Brinon. He will then be head of the French delegation with the tusk of speeding up collaboration with the Armistice Commission which would be transferred to Purls' from Wiesbad.
Japanese
Drive To
Tuesday,
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UFS
THEY'LL FIGHT NAZIS—Dutch youths drilling at Stratford, Ontario, Canada. They want to fight Nazis who have conquered their homeland and are given instruction by Canadian Army officers.
Foochow New Drugs, Surgical Technique May Reduce Number Of War Dead
SHANGHAI, Apr. 21 (Reuter)-- According to Chungking reports, Japanese forces during the week-end landed at two points on the north bank of the Min River a Fukien Province with the object of occupying Foochow the last of the Treaty ports
in
al
possession of the Chinese Nation- Government,
Japanese fleld dispatches clain that their drive in Cheklung -Pro-
vince is proceeding speedily in all
sectors.
The Chinese admit that the Japan- ese are driving inland towards the
southwest.
By Joseph L. Mylor
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
NEW YORK, Apr. 20 (UP)—The world's productive genius is engaged in a frantic effort to create new and more deadly weapons in ever greater quantity. Young men are being trained to wound and kill-or be wounded and killed.
In many parts of the world women and children, the old and the sick, the lame and the militarily unfit are subject to sudden death or horrible injury from the sky. The forces of destruction appear to be in the saddle.
It may therefore be reassuring, | juries, was to cleanse the wound and Dr Carnes Weeks said recently, sew up the holes, Dr Weeks said. there are forces of another kind, in addition, to pour sultanllande
Into the peritoneal cavity. forces dedicated to alleviation
Influenza Scourge
BASQUES WANT to know that in such a world Now the indicated treatment would Annual Report
of misery and the salvaging of Modern medicine thus far, Dr human life-and that they, too, Weeks sald, has falled to produce a are winning victories.
On Colony's Playgrounds
The annual meeting of the
April 22, 1941.
VITAMIN
DIET FOR AIRMEN
To Gain Better Night Sight
A written Parliamentary an- swer recently revealed that ex-
periments are being made to NEW determine the value of a Vitamin
A product to R.A.F. men engaged on night flying.
R.A.F. night fighter pilots are so intent on improving their efficiency that some subject themselves to what amounts to a special form of training.
This includes accustoming theth- selves to darkness by practice and a diet rich in the vitamina which, medical workers say, influence keen. ness of night sight,
Medical Opinion Physiological experiments have confirmed that shortage of one parti- cular vitamin leads to a deteriora- tlon in the powers of seeing in the dark. Medical men reserve their opinion, however, on whether these powers can be improved by feeding a person with a diet rich in this vitamin.
RAF. night fighting pilo are not waiting for a decision, but are trying everything that holds out a chance of helping them to spot the enemy.
Maud Allan Is A. T. S. Volunteer
"Salome". has volunteered for the A.TS. She wants to drive a Service car. She is Miss Maud Allan, the dancer, famous for her Salome dance of 30 years ago.
Miss Allan foured every coun- try with her exotic dance and then came tragedy. Three years ago she broke her back. Now she is it again-and wants to help in the war effort.
When the A.TS. received an op-
TO JOIN WAR LONDON, Apr. 21, (Reuter). The formation of n "Basque Nationalï| Council to continue the work of the
specific cure for one of the World Basque Government and to join with: They are the doctors at the front-War's greatest scourges-influenza- the Democracies in the fight against which is everywhere—the doctors at but has, in sulfapyridine, developed a the Totalitarian Powers is announced home, and the research workers in highly effective drug in the treatment Children's Playgrounds Association of plication from a would-be car-driver by the Basque Delegation in London) the laboratory,
of pneumonia, Influenza's deadly part-Hongkong will be held next Monday named "Miss Moul Allan, dancer," to-day.
thethey wondered whether it could
apartments among 150 empty, echo Supreme Court. possibly be the Maud Allan.
Com- To-day
she lives in three tiny
ing rooms of her bomb-shattered Regent's Park mansion, her companion her dne Perky.
at
The Council aims at atlaining the, fali national liberty of the Govern- ment of Euzkadi, established Guernica in October, 1936, and the recognition of it by All nations."
The Basques are a race of unde- termined origin living in the north autonomy by the Republican anent of Spain which was benten in
of Spain. They had been se
New Developments
ner.
at 5.15 p.m. in the office of Improved public health control, Registrar of the
states:
sole
Dr Weeks, an advisory chairman of greater knoweldge of diet essentials, The report of the Executive the Medien und Surgical Supply including vitamins, development of mittee of the Association for 1910 Committee,
engaged in gathering needed surgical Instrument!
X-ray
machines for and portable
examination of civilian as well as drugs for the doctors of Great Britain, i ***
The financial position as shown by said developments since the last War military casualties, better facilities the statement of accounts was sails- justified hope that the new confilet, new methods of storing blood for lively smaller income for the year un-
for preventing asphyxial death, and factory, though there was a compara- Shocked Edwardians in some respects, might not be
as transfusions are other encouraging der review. The Association is grate-
"When the raids are on I just go horrible as the last.
ful to various clubs, associations, down in the wine vault and enjoy a the Civil War. The Basque Holy he said, new drugs and new surgical picture. In Great Britain there is The numbe
In the past two and a half decades, factors, Dr Weeks said.
But there is another side to the schools and individuals for their geners perfect illusion of safety," says Miss City of Guernica was in June, 1937, techniques have
Allan. been developed
The number of children using the subjected to the most complete and with, had they been known then, urgent need for surgical equipment playgrounds was as great as ever. Many the Fidwardians, it was performed in Though her Salome dance shocked drugs, which Dr Weeks' Com-school children used the playgrounds draperies which any have reduced Kreatly might World War's total of 8,538,316 deadmittee is striving to supply through for drills and exercises.
modern girl
terrible bombing by German avin- tors on Franco's orders.
Hitler's Latest War Trophy
the
and 21,210,452 wounded.
Greatest of all discoveries in the drug fela
field is sulfanilamide and other members of the same chemical family These discoveries, combined with a technique developed by Dr Douglas SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
Winnett Orr of Topeka, Kans.. have BERLIN, Apr 21 (UP)-Accord-revolutionised treatment of compound ing to the official news agency, the fractures, one of the ugliest and most Serbian commemorative tablet re- dangerous of modern war wounds. cording the assassination of the Aus- Dr Orr's method, tested "very tro-Hungarlan
the successfully" during the Spanish throne on June 28, 1914, was secured Civil War, might be ealled the after
the capture of Sarajevo and "studied neglect" treatment, was turned over to Illiler's field Weeks said, headquarters by the first German soldier
to enter the City, Lieutenant Mittelmann. The tablet will be pre- sented to the Berlin War Museum.
successor
to
Japanese. Who Hasn't
Heard Mr Churchill TOKYO, Apr. 21 (Reuter), "There's no telling which side is going!
and
contributions.
And in the countrles at war doctors must devote their time to ministration rather than to research work.
might consider heavy clothing.
In 1938 she severely injured her spine in n motor accident in Call-
Desecrating U. S. Cemetery
Nazi Bombing. Plan
Miniature Football' „A_Small_Boys' Miniature_Football |fornia._ "This country," Dr Weeks said, "isLeague was organised for the long-
kong playgrounds. Over ten the last stand of the research
teams entered to compete for the Tung Fan worker."
Shield presented by Mr T. F. Lo. The matches were, keenly contested, ond the first winner of the shield was the STOCK EXCHANGE Tai Chung Wa team.
An Inter-school. Small Boys' Minia ture Football League was organised Minimum Movement
The Washington correspondent for the Kowloon LONDON, Apr. 21 (Reuter). With schools took part in the competition the State Department has reason to grounds. Over 10 the "Chicago Daily News" says that Dr operators very cautious, a minimum for a large silver trophy kindly dona- of movement occurred on the Stock led by Mr Lal Tuen-po. The National Exchange to-day, but on the whole English School was successful as the
Arst holder of the trophy. the prices were well maintained.
There was some support for glit- edged securities, which recorded
Industrials small advances. occasionally lower, chiefly the heavy
Wound Heals Itself- Dead tissue and bone fragments are removed, the wound is sprinkled with sulfathiazole, a powder, a pinster east is applied, and the wound 13 left to heal itself.
Sulfathiazole, Dr Weeks said, is a stocks. potent weapon against gas gangrene, the terrible infection which killed so many soldiers in the World War.
This and other new methods were
to win the European war in the long studied in Great Britain by Dr Philip rum," "declared the noted political Wilson, chief surgeon of the New commentator, Mr Murobuse, speaking York Society for the Relief of the
debate
under the
auspices of the Ruptured and Crippled, who reported newspaper "Miyako Shimbun," which on them when he returned Inst was attended by many notables.
month, Dr Weeks sold.
at
O
were
shares were irregular and Kaffers were steady after early Cupei selling.
Wall Street was quiet.
Submarine Sinks Enemy Tanker
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" Mr Murobuse added that a settie- Stufanilamide also appears likely LONDON, Apr. 21 (UP)—The Ad- nent of the Chinese war should pre- to cut down the fatalities from peri- mirally
lo-day announced that cede any attempt to drive southward tonitis, on Infection to which, In}H.M.S. submarine Tetarch sank Ik and that any cabinet which had no] mødern war, civilians und soldiers fully loaded enemy tanker which was confidence that it could dispose of alike are liable.
enroute to Tripoll, but the announce- the China Affair successfully had The World War method in ' the ment did not specify when this hop- better dissolve itself quickly. “ treatment of abdominal shrapnel in-pened.
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will start officially on May 3, and the following games have been ranged for that day: First Division-Ricerolo "A" y. Craigen- power: Civil Service v. Kowison CC Indian Recreation Club v. Falice; Kowloon Bowling Green Club "B" v. Recreio "D." Kowloon Docka v. Kowloon Bowling Green Club "A."
Second Division-Recreta v. Hongkong Cricket Club; Kowloon CC, v. Kowloon Tong: Craigengower v. Prison Officers; Kowloon Football Club y, Hongkong Foot- ball Club,
Third Division-Craigerigower v. Kow loon Dowling Green Club: Honakong Foot- ball Club v. Kowloon Football Club; Police Indian Recreation Club: Hongkong. Cricket Club v. Recreio,
V.
Little Enemy. Air Activity
(Reuter),-
LONDON, Apr. 21 Enemy activity over this country during the day has been on a small scale, mainly confined to south-east England.
No bombs were reported dropped, Boys un Air Ministry communique.
Fifth Column In Lourenco Marques?
LOURENCO MARQUES ⠀⠀ (For- tuguese East Africa', Apr. 21 (Reuter)-Eight persons, including d retired colonel, have been arrested here for alleged "subversive and un- patriotic netivities."
They will be deported to Lisbon.
No Hitler-Mussolini Meeting Planned LONDON, Apr. 21 (Reuter) ---- | Without giving a direct dental, a statement, made in political circles in | Berlin implies that the rumour con- [cerning" an ; imminent. ́ ́ meeting of Tiller ande«@Mussolini la quito un- foundód..
of
believe that the German military authorities in occupied France are an experi- contemplating setting up an mental bombing area which maj
may in- clude
the largest American cemetery abroad, that of Romagne- sous-Montfaucon, near Verdun.
It is believed that the American Administration has
asked
for
war
further explanations, and has stated the reasons why the American people would not care to see 15,000 Ameri- can soldiers' graves bombed.
The proposed bombing experiment, rumour insists, will Include the use of gas.
HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN. WE ARE AT WAR Mr. Chamberlain on Sept. 3rd said:
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