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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, accord- ing to information from the French frontier.
The German' successes in North Africa and the Balkans, the "A" agency anys, appens to have streng- thened the position, favouring closer collaboration with Germany," but it is unlikely that Laval will be recalled to the Cabinet as he is still very un- popular.
One possibility is Laval's appolet- ment na Ambassador in Paris to re- pince Count de Brinon. He will then be head of the French delegation with the task of speeding up collaboration with the Armistice Commission which would be transferred to Paris from Wiesbad.
Japanese
Drive To
Tuesday,
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SUFS
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 in Fukien Province with the object of occupying Foochow the ins of the Treaty ports in possession of the Chinese Nation- al Government.
Japanese field dispatches claim that their drive in Chekiang Pro- vince is proceeding speedily in all sectors.
The Chinese admit that the Japan ese are driving inland towards the southwest.
BASQUES WANT
TO JOIN WAR
recognition of it by all 'nations.
bad
at
By Joseph L. Myler
(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.
sew up the holes, Dr Weeks sald. Now the indicated treatment would be, in addition, to pour sulfanilamide Into the peritoneal cavity.
It may therefore be reassuring, juries was to cleanse the wound and Dr Carnes Weeks said recently, to know that in such a world there are forces of another kind -forces dedicated to alleviation of misery and the salvaging of human life-and that they, too, are winning victories.
They are the doctors at the front—¡ which is everywhere-the doctors at hune, and the research workers in the laboratory.
New Developments
Dr Weeks, an advisory chairman of
needed surgical Instruments
Influenza Scourge
April 22, 1941.
VITAMIN
DIET FOR AIRMEN
To Gain Better
Night Sight
Awritten 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: thom- selves to darkness by practice and a diet rich in the vitamins which, medical workers, sny, influence keen- ness of night sight.
Medical Opinion
Physiological experiments have confirmed that shortage of one parti- cular, vitamið lends to a deteriora- tion in the powers of seeing in the dark. Medical men reservo
their opinion, however, on whether these powers can be improved by feeding person with a dietrich in this vitamin.
Д
RAF..night fighting pilots 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 In Service car. She is Miss Maud Allan, the dancer, famous for her Salome dance of 30 years ngo.
Annual Report a
On Colony's Playgrounds
Modern medicine thus far, Dr Weeks said, has failed to produce a specific cure for one of the World War's, greatest scourges influenza- but has, in sulfapyridine, developed a highly effective drug in the treatment Children's Playgrounds Association of The antual meeting of the of pneumonia, Influenza's deadly part-Hongkong, will be held next Monday
at 5.15 pan. in the office
ner,
£19
•
Miss Allan toured every coun- try with her exotic dance LONDON, Apr. 21 (Reuter).The formation of n Basque National
and then came tragedy. Three Council to continue the work of the
years ago she broke her back. Basque Government and to join with
Now she is fit again—and wants the Democracies in the fight against
to help in the war effort. the Totalitarian Powers is announced
plication from a would-be car-driver When the ATS. received an ap- by the Basque Delegation in London
named "Miss Maul Allan, dancer," to-day,
The Council alms at attaining the
Improved public health control, Registrar of the Supreme Court. possibly be the Maud Allan.
of the they wondered whether it could full national liberty of the Govern- the Medical and Surgical Supply Cater knoweldge of diet essentials, The report of the Executive Com- ment of Euzkadi, established
To-day she lives in three tiny Guernica In October, 1936, and the Committee, engaged in gathering/ Including vitamins, development of milice of the Association for 1940 | apartments among 150 empty, echo-
X-ray and portable
machines for slates: examination of civilian as well
Ing rooms of her bomb-shattered The financial position as shown by Regent's Park mansion, her sole The Basques are a race of unde, drugs for the doctors of Great Britain,ilitary casualties, better facililies the statement of accounts. termined origin living in the north justifled hope that the new conflict, new methods of storing blood for tively smaller income for the year un- said developments since the list niet for preventing asphyxial death, and factory, though there was a compura-
was satis- companion her dog Perky, of Spain. They
been promised
Shocked Edwardians autonomy by the Republican Govern-horrible as the last.
In some respects, might not be #3
transfusions are other encouraging der review. The Association is grate- "When the raids are on I just go ment of Spain which was beaten in
ful to various clubs, the Civil War. The
In the past two and a half decades, factors, Dr Weeks said.
associations, down in. the wine vault and enjoy a Basque Holy
But there is another side to the schools and individuals for their gener-perfect illusion of safely," says Miss tely he said, new drugs and new surgical ploture. In Great Britain there is City of Guernica was in June, 1937, techniques have
jous support.
Allan. subjected to the most complete and which, had they been known then, argent need for surgical equipment playgrounds was as great as ever. Many the Edwardians, it was performed in
been developed
The number of children using the Though her Salome dance shocked terrible bombing by German avia- tors on Franco's orders."
and drugs, which Dr Weeks Com-school children used the playgrounds draperies which any might greatly have reduced World War's total of 8,538,315 dead mittee is striving to supply through for drills and exercises, and 21,210,452 wounded.
Greatest of all discoveries in the drug field is sulfanilamide and other members of the same chemical-family; These discoveries, combined with a technique developed by De Douglas SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" Winnett Orr of Topeka, Kans., have worker. BERLIN, Apr. 21 (UP)—Accord-revolutionised treatment of compound ing to the oficial news agency, the fractures, one of the ugliest and most Serbian commemorative tablet
dangerous of modern war wounds. cording the assassination of the Aus- Dr Orr's method, tested "very tro-Hungarian successor to the successfully" during the Spanish trane on June 28, 1914, was secured Civil War, might be called the after the capture of Sarajevo and "studied neglect" treatment, was turned over to Hitler's field Weeks said. headquarters by the first Germon soldier to enter the City, Lieutenant Mittelmann. The tablet will be pre- sented to the Berlin War Museum.
Hitler's Latest War Trophy
re-
contributions,
And in the countries at war doctor's must devote their time to ministration rather than to research work.
Miniature Football
modern gir)
might consider heavy clothing.
In 1938 she severely injured her spine in a motor accident in Call-
A Small Boys' Miniature Footballfornia. This country," Dr Weeks said, "segue was organised for the Hong- the last stand of the research entered to compete for the Tung Fan kong playgrounds. Over ten teams
Suloid presented by Mr T. F. Lo. The mintches were keenly contested, and the first winner of the shield was the
An Inter-school Small Boys' Minla- lure. Football League
organised tor the Kowloon grounds. Over
|STOCK_EXCHANGE Tal Chung Wa team.
Minimum Movement
Was
Desecrating U.S. Cemetery
Nazi Bombing Plan
The Washington correspondent
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LONDON, Apr. 21 (Reuter)With schools took part in the competition the State Department has reason to 10 the "Chicago Dally Nowa says that
Dr operators very cautious, à minimum for a large silver trophy kindly dona-borities in occupied France are
Wound Heals Itself
removed, the wound is sprinkled Dead tissue and bone fragments are
with sulfathiazole, a powder, a edged securities, which recorded Lawn Bowls Fixtures
plaster cast is applied, and the wound is left to heal itself, Japanese Who Hasn't
Sulfathiazole, Dr Weeks said, is a Heard Mr. Churchill
potent weapon against gas gangrene, the terrible Infection which killed go TOKYO, Apr. 21 (Reuter), many soldiers in the World War, "There's no telling which side is going! This and other new methods were to win the European war in the long studied in Great Britain by Dr Philip run," declared the noted political Wilson, chief surgeon of the New commentator, Mr Murabuse, speaking York Society for the Relief of the
a debate under the auspices of the Ruptured and Crippled,
who reported newspaper "Miyako Shimbun," which on them when he returned last was attended by many notables. month, Dr Weeks enld.
at
were
of movement occurred on the Stockted by Mr Lal Tuen-po. The National Exchange today, but on the whole English School was successful as the auth
first holder of the trophy. the prices were well maintained.,
There was some support for gilt-
small advances. Industrials occasionally lower, chleßy the heavy stocks.
Oll shares
were irregular and Kaffies were steady after early Cape selling.
Wall Street was quiet.
Submarine Sinks Enemy Tanker
SPECIAL TO THE,"TELEGRAPH"
The Lawn Bowls, season
will
start officially on May 3, and the
following games have been ar- ranged for that day:
First Division Recrolo "A" v. Craigen- gower; Civil Servies v. Kowloon C.C.; Indian Recreation Club v. Police: Kowloon Bowling Green Club "B" v Recreio "B," Kowloon Docks v. Kowloon Bowling Groen
Club "A.
Second Division-Recreio v. Hongkong Cricket Club: Kowloon C.C. v. Kowloon Tong: Cratgengower v. Prison Ocers: Kowloon Football Club v. Hongkong Foot- Third Division-Craigengower v. Kow loon Bawling Green Club: Hongkong Foot ball Club v. Kowloon Football Club: Police Indian Recreation Club: Bangkong Cricket Club v. Recreio,
LONDON, Apr. 21 (UP).-The Ad-ball Club.
to-day announced "that
a
Mr Murobuse added that a settle- Stufonilamide also appears likely ment of the Chinese wor should pre- to cut down the fatalities from peri-miralty cede any attempt to drive southward tonitis, an Infection to which, in H.M.S. submarine Tetorch sank nadi that any cabinet which had no modern war, civilians and soldiers fully loaded enemy tanker which was confidence that it could dispose of alike are liable.
enroute to Tripoli, but the announce- the China Affair successfully had The World War method in the ment did not specify when this hap- better dissolve itself quickly.
treatment of abdominal shrapnel in-pened.
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Little Enemy Air Activity
LONDON, Apr. 21 (Reuter) — Enemy activity over this country during the day has been on a small scale, mainly, confined to south-east England.
No bomba were reported dropped, says an Air Ministry.communique,
Fifth Column In Lourenco Marques?
LOURENCO MARQUES (Por tuguese East Africa, Apr. :: 21 | (Reuter)-Eight persons, including a retired colonel, have been arrested here for alleged "subversive and un- patriotic activities."
They will be deported to Lisbon,
No Hitler-Mussolini
Meeting Planned LONDON, Apr 21 (Rautor)" Without giving a direct denial, a atatement made in political circles in Berlin implies that the rumour: con- cerning an imminent meeting of Hitler and Mussolini: Is quite un- founded,
that the German military
contemplating setting up an experi- mental bombing area which may in- clude the largest American wor cemetery abroad, that of
of Romagne sous-Montfaucon, near Verdun,
It is believed that the American Administration further explanations, and has stated
has. asked
for
the reasons why the American people would not care to see 18,000 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 sald;
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