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WITH TODAY'S VERDICT FROM
THE MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
A WAR DISCOVERY GETS GOING
TIE DOCTOR watching the young girl sink demper into consciousness the diagnosis
was clear-inflammation of the brai due to poisoning Ly arsenic.
IT HAD BEEN a susțiñable risk to use the poison as à drug in her case. Her chronic skin complaint had vicided to it as it would to no other treatment.
of
It began in the early years World War II., when the most-feared shemical weapon was lowistle, `a colourless, vily liquid smelling duint- ly of geraniums. One drop of it on the skin can cause a terrible blister:: eyes splashed with it become pez- manently blind. Its vapour attacks the lungs, causing pneumonia t'nd often death.
Our Troops avere issued with on ointment which could prevent blis-
BUT LUCK had been against her. ring if quickly applied to skin con-
Laminated by
lewisite, Jhut it could
THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1947.
DAB ... AND FLOUNDER
by Walter
BBC Overseas Shortwave Programmes
SUNDAY, OCT. 19
6.00 FORCES' FAVOURITES. 6.30 THE RICHARD TAUBER
GRAMME,
Guest artist: Janet Davis,
7.00 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER,
7.45 WOMEN'S TALK,
TJO SUNDAY BERVICE.
*
1.00 FDA TODAY'S PAPERS,
9.15 DANCING THROUGIE
10.00 TUE NEW..
10.15 *HAVE A GO
PRO- 10.45 PRODUCTION PROSPECT. A talk by Willem Jolt.
from Warbreck Moor Methodist Church, Aintree, Liverpoal, conditcled by the Rev. Levi Dawson,
1.00 THE NEWA.
8.13 Tommy Hundley IN ITTMA” 8.45 COMMONWEALTH AND EMPIRE. 0,00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS. 8,15 'AWEET SERENADE'.
10.00 NEWS.
11.00 RADIO NEW REEL. 11.35 INVITATION TO THE WALTZA An adaptellon of Yiamond Lehmann's book, hy Mabel Constadduron.
SATURDAY, OCT. 25
9.00 AS SEEN FROM SCOTLAND, 6.15 COLONIAL, QUESTIONS. 6.30 MURIC WHILE YOU WORK. 7.00 TALK ON MUSIC,
The
Peler York and his Concert Orchestra. The First Symphony (3), an 10.45 Jean. Metcalfe.
HOME PLASIT,
The British Broadcasting Corporation is 'scoking to extend and improve its services to the Far East. The aims and the problems involved are here discussed by the BBC's Far Eastern Director How the Wireless Came to Toytown": a
Broadcasting to the Far East
OCIAL custom and long- formed habit make it possible for orientals to
by
As sometimes happened, the smali hot suve eyesight, en halt the irl-absorb by ear much of what JOHN MORRIS
doses of arsenic had kualdinusip attacked the brain, and now the girl was near death.
THE DOCTOR reas confident as Je
prepared to inject the oily Equi in the syringe. It was a new drug which, in 55 similar Pedra, had produced 44 dramatic- re- coveries......
S
coveries.
The real solution to this problem would be close collaboration with existing broadcasting organisations in the Far East. This could have the double advantage of allowing us to dios internal effects of the ttas. westerners cannot fully com-
employ people who, If not already The active principle in bewisite is prehend without resort to the arxente. What wa urgently need- ed was an antidole with the power printed word, and ideas on cur- mission path passes close to professionally trained, would find a their home country, while it might rent affairs, politics, philosophy tho magnetic pole. Transmis career in broadaesting on return to and religions are mostly passed siens emanating from London also do much to raise the general mouth. must, therefore, be assisted on level of local broadensting all over around by word of Therefore, in addressing lis- their way to the .listener. the Far East. The dificulty, at the
in the Far East the During the A research team was formed atteners
was moment, is the virtual impossibility
mutralise its effets deep inside
the tissues.
The struggle
at
of
War this
B.B.C.
chnos
THANKS YOU FOR YOUR LET- TERA,
11.00 RADIO NEWSREEL.
FRONT THE CHILDREN'S
Toylown Play. 11.50 Interlude.
12.00 MIDNIGHT, IN A RENTIMENTAL Box Leopold and his Players.
MOOD
MONDAY, OCT. 20
0.00 OBSERVATION PORT. Introduced by Richard Benneti.
30 MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK. 7,09 WORLD OF WORK.
7.15 AMERICAN DANCE BANDS.
Læramophone records).
7.30 8PORTING RECORD.
1.00 THE NEWS,
4.IS FORCES FAVOURITES.
9.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS.
2.1 VARIETY CALLS TOE TUNE.
BBC Variety Orchestra. Conductor: Nau Jenkins.
10.00 THE NEWS, 19.13 NAVY BUXTURE. 10,45 PARLIAMENTARY SUMMARY. 11.00 RADIO NEWSREEJ.. 11.4 MERRY-GO-ROUND.
TUESDAY, OCT. ZI
4.00 WELSH HALF-HOUR. 6.30 MUNIC WHILE YOU WORK. 7.00 PLAIN ENGLISH, Think Before You Talk. Henry Snell deals with the need for clear thinking before any sort of oral expression.
7.15 BAND PARADE, 8,00 THE NEWя.
talk by Ruger Fiske.
7.30 RADIO RUTTUM CLUB.
8.00 THE NEWS, -
8.18 NATIONAL SPORTSREEL. 8.45 PIPE BAND,
lustrated
9.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS, D.JS RADIO NEWSREEL. D.30 MERRY-GO-ROUND MELODIES. 10.00 THE NEWS. 10.25 SATURDAY SPORT. 10.15 Interlude.
Including commentaries on Racing: The Solario at Sandown Park, commentator. Raymond Glendenning: Soccer: Wout Bromwich Albion v. Went 11am United, commentator: Alan Clarke, ('Programme Announcements, Sid Phillips and Band. and Varlely on records included
ស In this, period).
JESTS
AND JEERS
Definition of a boss
15 TRAFALGAR DAY. Ceremony and Service in Trafalgar
man who Square on the anniversary of the Battle is early when you are late, and late of Trafalgar, Commentator: Rex Alston when you are early.
8.30 BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA.
5.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS.
9.15 RHAPSODY.
Paul Fenqulhet and his Skyrockets. Dance: Orchestra.
10.00 THE NEWS.
Scanda is something that has to
10.15 BAND OF THE ROYAL LINCOLN.Įbe bad to be good.
SHIRE REGIMENT.
Conductor: W. T. Brown.
10.45 TALKING POINT. 11.00 RADIO NEWSREEL.
A girl may show bad taste and good form in her clothes at the same ilme.
Oxford's Blochemistry Department. broadcaster has one great ad achieved by re-broadcasting of of close daison between the In a brilliantly planned series of ex-vantage in that he is speaking programmes by stations in In- and local Far Eastern broadcasting 10 another British drug periments Professor Rudolph Peters, to peoples still dominated by dia, Ceylon, China and Saipan, organisations, as means of communi-
helped by L. A. Stocken and R. II. today takes its place S. Thompson, worked out the exact oral tradition. As far as ean and now Singapore has become cation are still in a state of
the among
world's t:cts of arsenic on anuseles and be ascertained, it is believed the main re-broadcasting centre apart from the chronic disorganisa- great medical dis- skin.
that there are at present not
from where the bulk of the tion of most of the foenl Far Eastern The name to remem- They discovered after many more than half a million is B.B.C.'s Far Eastern output is broadcasting corporations. We shall ber is BAL.
tempts a penetrating liquid which tening sets amongst a potential at
present relayed by the
never be able to number our listenera Its Importance is acclained in the arsenic on the body. They called it audience of some 650 million British Far Eastern Broadcast- by the million until such time as it 1.5 VARIETY BAND.BOX.
rapidly counteracted the effects
de named people in the Far East awaiting ing Service. Even this ar is possible to induce local sintions in
the development of broadcast-
Far East to relay our pro- Trials with human ing. But the receivers now in rangement, however, is not en- the
tirely satisfactory and it is grammes part of
13
their the volunteers showed that use are in the hands of
develop medium-wave transmissions. It BAL prevents bilstering most influential sections of the planned eventually to completely if appiled to population-government the telecommunication links be true that many of the Far Eastern the skin within an hour officials, wealthy merchants, in- tween the source and the relay- broadcasting organisations have ex- The Borell String Ensemble, conductor. Wanting what we don't get and get-
and It tellectuals
through this channel of listeners 20in key positions, broadcasting
can already exercise a vital in
Medical Resarch Council report British Anti-Lewisite, puldished on October 1. The de- BAL covery seuns that
senle can now, bo fully i
exploited as a drug.
for
Doctors have known
years that
cilla Foe germs
arsenin
more
efficiently than docs
by CHAPMAN
PINCHER
any other wubstance. They knew it with
HVIT of great value
oľ contamination. saves an eye splashed lewisite it given within
treating minutes.
on.
so on-and
fluence.
4
the
RECEPTION STANDARDS
chronic skin complaints, malaria, anaemia, and nervous diseases. - BAL was not ready in time to be But the use of lusenie has been issued to troops, but the research
Driven by limited by its own terrible affects on human tissues. The arrival of BAL
they had found means that these effects can quiddy overcome, and often preven- ed.
The proof
The Medical Research Council re- ports striking successes on 44 British cases of poisoning by arsenic. Thirty-
one of them responded to the treat ment in a remarkable way:
In warlier
American Rests, 68 people out of a total of 88 with ar- Benical skin poisoning were cured within a fortnight of getting BAL injections..
work went necessity of whi
time. BAL was the answer
arsenical poisoning in industry.
disorders.
to
to
re- peak
ing agency.
Another problem facing the
DAVI
is
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 22
6.00 I'LL PLAY TO YOU.
6.30 MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK, 3.00 SCIENCE AND DAILY LIFE. 7.15 VOICES OF STRINGS,
Jain Blore.
7.45 Interlude.
7.30 UNVEILING OF KING GEORGE V
MEMORIAL BY HIM. THE KING.
Commentator: Richard Dimbleby.
8,30 THF, NEWS.
pressed their eventual willingness to Far do this, but most of their equipment Eastem Service of the B.B.C. is is obsolete or has greatly deteriorat-in the grounds of Westminster Abbey, the recruitment of oriental staff. ed under prolonged Japanese occu- Broadcasters in oriental languages pation. Indeed, it is only with
the
are mainly recruited for their in- greatest difficulty that they are at
qualifications, and are not
able to maintain a present capable of holding other
Imited output of their own.
ments in other departments
very In any
of the Corporation. They have thus case, it would not be in the interest
the the
their
ranks
not.
UNDERLYING POLICY
the convenient
8.43 JOSEPH SEAL (thestra -organ), 5.00 FROM TODAY'S PAPERS. 2.15 CAROLE SINGING.
9.30 'GREEN FOR DANGER" from the Frank Launder-Sidney Gilliat film, Episode 5: "The Inspector Has An Idea.'
10.00 THE NEWS.
10.15 LONDON FORUM.
-1045 THİNK ON THESE THINGS.
11.00 LADIO NEWSREEL.
THURSDAY, OCT. 23
6.00 SCOTTISH HALF-HOUR.. 6.30 MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK. 7.00 CULTURAL TALK, Pleasure from Books, 'Greenmantle. A Secret talk about Buchan's tale of the Service with illustrations from the book.
7.13 HARRY PELL and ̃h[#"Orebéstraï
3.00 THE NEWS, 8.15 08EAR RADIN,
and he Band.
be something no less useful in peace Far East, the first considerand service and cannot con- new equipment has been installed→ 11.15 MUSIC BALL.
In planning a service to the limited scope for
for advancement be of the B.B.C. to have its programmes of their own belayed through local stations until tion is the attainment of cer-
positions to be a life-time tain reception standards: the
a lite-ume which is unlikely to happen for career. Moreover, we
have found Today, two years later, BAL is service should be audible in all that it is necessary for staff to have several years. proving equally effective against poi-areas with a high density of first-hand knowledge of the country broadcasting, to which com- to
they are Boning by salts of mercury, used in population; it should be
which is of particular importance in intelligible
the treating heart complaints and other pletely
the present rapidly changing condi-
It may be argued that in view of average domestic receiver;
tions of the Far East in general. Ex- these technical difficulties, it would
bas perience shown that it is. Of 20 patients with acute mercury coption of the service should be
in be more satisfactory to serve BAL reliable throughout the desirable to retain oriental staff Poisoning 25 recovered after
East or at the For
from some listening hours. These stan- London for more than two, or Brlish territory in that area. But injections.
utmost three years, at the end of Now it is being tested against the dards should be achieved with which period they are beginning to London, as a centre of both news and 9.00 FROM TODAY'S FAPERS, toxic effects of lead, zinc, old, and out an excessive variation in get out of touch with their national vide cultural activity, has advan- Writer by Cheater Wilmot and Terence
0.15 THEY FOUGHT AT ALAMEIN, frequency schedules. Direct environment and the quality of their
Tiller. technical 19.00 THE NEWB, transmission from Britain does broadcasts begins to deteriorate. Lages which outweigh the BAL-now to be mass-produced in
of broadcasting from
10.15 JAZZ CLUB, Britain-will be hailed
not yet meet these require, Under these conditions it is difficult difficulties throughout
to attract the best to what is, in there. Eventually, we shall probably the world as one of the most impor-ments, as reliability is
pro- their case, only short-term employ- arrive at a compromise whereby "tant spons of war:
gressively-reduced-as the trans- ment.
news bulletins, authoritative com- ment and a limited amount of care- fully selected cultural entertainment material will emanate from London, while local news, light entertain- ment and talk on matters of purely local interest may be contributed by stations at Singapore, Hongkong and other centres, in the Far East.
The carefully weighed words of today's report describe the British cures na dramatic.. No less drarna- tic in theas days, when good nows is scarce, is the story of BAL's dis- covery,
other metals.
Thinking Aloud
FIND that I am in conflict with Dr Cyril Garbett, Archbishop of York.
воду PAUL HOLT
shells from her Gin, gun before they would calm down again.
any
10.45 EXPERIMENT IN FREEDOM,
100 RADIO NEWSREEL
15 BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA,
FRIDAY, OCT. 24
6.00 THE GAY NINETIES REVUE! 0.30 MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK. 7.00 CURRENT AFFAIRS.
This week's expert and F.E.D.'s discus- sion group leader tacklo a tople in the
news.
7.15 AT YOUR REQUEST. 8.00 THE NEWS,
8.15 KENTUCKY MINSTRELS. A black-faced minstrol show,
Our SIDE GLANCES
The underlying policy of our Far Eastern broadcasts is the projection of Britain in all its many aspects. Nows is the backbone of all In this one small incident there programmes. The Corporation does lies the feart of the great world ar- not accept, and never has accepted, Eument going on today. For there censorship of its
other of are plenty of people prepared and than that imposed by the needs eager to talk about brutal
security. Even during the British War-time Imperialism, which holds down the war we never hesitated to give the Innocent, native in thraldom and op- Japanese reports of news unfavour- poses wooden spears with six-inch enjoyed by the B.B.C. is based to a able to ourselves; The high prestige great extent on the proved veracity
gins,
One day he told an audience at York that he thought the Church should resist "modernism." He disapproves of the idea that ".....if our contemporaries cannot be at- tracted to the Church without that the Government should tighten Dartford, has been going around col-
But there are not enough people, of its news bulletins, and this policy Rensation and excitement, they precautions against collusive divorce, lecting money for charity dressed up
which, unchecked, wil should be given
develop as a comic copper, and Chief Inspec- I fear, equally willing to point out is now beginning to pay handsome stunts, into divorce by consent. The arch- tor Jackson and Superintendent to the world that the Communist dividends all over the eastern hemi- emotional services, sentimental bishop disapproves of "the muddies Baker have been asking him, rather agitator had not the slightest Inten-sphere. solos by infant prodigies, latent headed kindness which makes a hus- solemnly, to stop his larks.
tion of fulfilling the promises that led to all the hullabaloo. advertisement and sensational hand think it chivalrous to spend a sermons on the sins and follies sordid night in an hotel with
woman in whom he takes no interest und who has been hired for the pur pose."
of the day.
But why not? Our ancestors were not so nice in their appeals to the people to come to God.
Stunts? They put on morality plays on the altar steps, with Good- man paring the nails of the Devil dressed up as a bear.
Emotional services? A service without emotion is nothing at all.
Advertisements? What are church spires and church bells but adver tisements?
in this department.
A
But surely divorce by consent is clean, decent, and civilised. It is this ridiculous · law which drives people who no longer love each other such degrading aubterfuges.
Oh, dear. It's going to be so very dull when we aren't allowed to laugh at the law. They're going to pse all their precious popularity.
afraid.
Dunce comfort
Fun-in fantasy
TALKS IN ENGLISH
One of our most successful expiri- |ments lias been the introduction,
I made me feel like a king for sinety me ene proge was, of a pasty, a minute," said John Cobb, thirty-minute programme in English, when, he drove his car at 403 miles consisting of an nows bulletin, a talk an hour across the salt sands in on current tiffairs or some cultural Utah.
subject, and five-minute lesson in English. These talks in English, aro
to N° more prizes will be awarded
to bright boys in' Long - Row To feel a king for a minute'is ex-of a high cultural fevel. All over The sin, misery, and unhappiness say there that prizes to the
School. Belper, near Derby. Parents citing; to feel a king for a day is fun the East there is an increasing in- swots Bul to feel a king for a lifetime terest in western culture, and while that exist in marriage today come
the is liable to be half-dulf, half-we do not wish to pose as cultural not from the nature of the partners give an inferiority complex to
Junces. for that has never really changed since Adam-but from the archalam And riches to the clever and in-
of the law.
dustriotes give a grouch to the dull There is only one way to make and lazy.
dangerous, and altogether hell. dictators, it does seem important to
Ring-keepor
encourage a taste for the best. The planners of Britain's future broad- casting to the Far East recognise Sensational sermons on the sins
ex-that, for some time, at all
events, and follies of the day? John Knox
GI, has led a sult in Philadel-British stations will be bre
broadcasting and Wesley did not stint themselves It should be made more difcuit by cision will be to make the avots into
far to marry and much caster by far dunces; In after life it is already phla do decide it an engagement ring to artas in which Britain is a com- with other 11 Dr. Garbett will have none of today is made not by any thereasing lazy,
to divorce.
The mess of marriage turning the smart ones dull and is an outright gift, or legally return-mercial
computitor abyle if the engagement is broken. powern. It
broadcasts these things then he must be con-
to play any part in preserving British tent to see all the lovely churches, fault in human nature, hút by
Han gift, Franklin. And may influence and British trade, it fol- say you're darned lucky to get off lows that they must be able to com- sightly? Regard it as a fea paid pete in attraction with the pro- A toe
agitator got the for invaluable experience. For the grammes sponsored by Britain's com- I invo indicated the Islands so excited by his promises of ring when the engagement has been methods of achieving this desirable DONT Laugh at us," appeal the mosquito netting and "white men's broken is going to an out to bolend. The means already exist; it Eng again, in the same week, Dr, police of Dartford and Graves- beds that the Briteti submarine a real horror as a wife, On your remains only for them to be still fur-" Garbelt fold an audience at Selby end in Kent, Mr Alfred West, of Amphion had to fire off some star- way, gratefully, Frankia boy,
ther developed.
marriage more enduring and happler. The only effect of the no-prize de- FRANKLIN BERKELBACH,
cattedrals and minsters of England social system which openly
become
empty muscutna, in which people to live a lie. -the offertory boxes appent for funds
to restore the tomb of Edward the
Confessor, instead of funds to
-
build the glory of 'God.
a
inviles
Taking sidos
COMMUNIST Wot! Can't laugh?
Experience is what we obtain from
ting what we don't want.
Most things nowadays are sold at faroe value.
Television is a wonderful thing, but what's wrong with the good tid keyhole?
After a few years of marriage man can look right through a woman without seeing her, and a woman can see right through. a man without looking at him.
*
And then there was the story of the little dog that romped down the street playing hydrant beck.
Looking For Looted Skeletons
An inquiry has been received from Czechoslovakia regarding the where- abouts of three anti-diluvian skule- 'tons, believed to have been looted by the Germans, the monthly report of the British Control Commission In
Germany stated.
Other restitution claims received included church bells, barges and Persian carpets-Associated Press.
COPE, 1946 87 HEA BERVICE, INCL. T. AL RIO, LA, I
By Galbraith
HALMITAN COOKE
"I'm a big eater, ladies--why don't you go and haunt that
~man eating a club sandwich?"