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How to Greet Lions,

It is wonderful how they spoil the tourist in these days (writes Peter Simple in the Morning Post) The latest effort in this direction is a pamphlet issued to tourists in the Kruger National Park, on the cor- rect way to behave with lions.

"Don't get alarmed," runs one! helpful hint, "if lions stand and stare at your car. They have pro- bably never seen a car before, and are naturally overwhelmed with astonishment."

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1931.

The writer of the pamphlet is to be congratulaed on his tact. would not do to suggest that a lion might be overwhelmed with ing authorities. astonishment at the sight of some of the tourists.

PUREE DE POIS.

By BESOMORO.

A Garden of Friendship" has HOTELS IN MOURNING.

Hotels in Prague have "gone into been started by Victor Melaglen, mourning" as a protest against the the film-acter, on his estate in It number of new licences granted to Flintridge, near Hollywood. In a

rival establishments by the licens rock garden, designed by his bro-. Black crepe has ther Arthur, Mr. McLaglen is plant- been hung on the wills in both ing trees and shrubs, cach given hotels and restaurants to attract by and named after one of his attention to the position. The friends. At the base of each plant hotels are suffering considerably will be a copper plate embedded in from the slump in the tourist traf- concreto carrying the name of the It has often said that there is, resulting from the fall in the ex- donor. Mr. McLaglen has already nothing new under the Bun, but change. British. American, and received gifts of trees and shrubs most of us would be surprised to German visitors are especially miss from Mary Pickford, Douglas Fair- hear that rubber tyres were used ed.

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Epidemics & Rumours! During a crisis or an epidemic

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just been definitely catablished that which, it is expected, will prove SALOME MISJUDGED.

This is the opinion expressed by young they were used in Egypt in or about the value of a new method of mak-1

Preliminary ex- Miss Joan Maude, the 3,000. B.C and the Baby-ing hair grow.

were not slow in periments made by Dr. B. Norman actress, who recently interpreted

Bengston, of Maywood, consisting Herod's daughter in the play from. adapting to their. own ru. quirements

of of injections of pituitary gland ex- which the censor's ban was only the inventions

The tracts, have proved successful in. fted a few months ago, Miss their Egyptian neighbours.

Maude has been accused of giving' Egyptians chariots were equipped several cases. with two-inch solid tyres.. Some! have been excavated which still are GARDENS OF PEACE AND OF

FRIENDSHIP. in a fair stato of preservation. The Egyptian formula for treating-the-. In order to commemorate a cen-together bad. "She was an in- rubber is not known-Straits tury of peace between Canada and experienced young girl, but liable,

Times.

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News in Brief.

The lowest open air temperatura The less rumours as of nocuous germs. yesterday was 63 degrees.

We repeat, therefore, that in humidity at 10 am, and at 4 p.m. the case of the present epidemic of diphtheria, we are fortunate His Excellency the Governor has in having a Medical Officer of very kindly consented to preside Health who is anxious to restore at the King's College prize dia- tribution, which has been arrang- public, serenity as speedily as ed for 11 am. on March 5, that

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the United States,, we were told a few weeks ago that a Garden of Pence was to be established on the boundary between these two coun- tries. I have sinco come across the following:

THE DIPTHERIA EPIDEMIC.

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ness until a yellowish-looking

deposit is firmly adherent to the

a wrong interpretation of the part, critics sald she was not wicked enough in the play. Miss Maude does not think that Salome was al-

through being a daughter of that perverted family, to evil impulses of the blood. It would have been easy to make Salome a com- mon vamp-but how crude, and how.. untrue!"

the chief indusify in the Colony possible through the channels of being the anniversary of the official false membrane is formed. This they are principally in the form

The

appears to the manufacture and dissemination of rumours. present outbreak of diphtherin is no exception. Enough rumours have been broadcast during the

the Press. There can be no doubt opening of the College. that through his statements to a

China Mail representative, pub- KAK HANG VILLAGE ROBBERY

CASE.; lished in yesterday's and to-day's issues, he has achieved not ΣΕ little toward confounding mis-

mucous

more

There

the peculiar sequelae already mentioned are apt to follow, generally within a period of two or three weeks after all the local evidence of the disense has dis- appeared. These secondary affec tiona muy occur after mild as well as after severo attacks, and

of paralysis affecting the soft membrane beneath or palato and pharynx, causing dif incorporated with it, and if re-ficulty in swallowing with re- moved leaves a raw, bleeding gurgitation of food through the ulcerated surface, upon which it nose, and giving a peculiar nasal is reproduced in a short period. character to the voice, There The appearance of the exudation are, however, other forms of The case in which two Chinese!

has been compared to wet parch- paralysis occurring after diph- last couple of days to fill a police-chievous rumour and toward re- are charged in connection with an ment or washed leather, and it is theria especially that affecting armed robbery at Kak Hung Village,

or less dense in texture. the muscles of the eye, which man's notebook.. Unfortunately

assuring the community that the Kowloon City, on the evening of It may cover the whole of the produces a loss of the power of the originator of each rumour

Medical and Sanitary Depart-October 16, was continued at the back of the throat, the cavity of accommodation and consequent can never be traced. It would go ment, in conjunction with private Assizes this morning.

the mouth, and the posterior impairment of vision.. Chinese Sergeant Chan Sul-ping, nares, and spread downwards may be, besides, paralysis of both hard with him or her if it could.

practitioners, are exerting them-

gave evidence of going to search the into the air passages on the one | legs, and occasionally also of one - The Medical Officer of Health selves to the utmost to keep the first accused's cubicle on the second hand and into the alimentary side of the body (hemiplegia). (Dr. G. W. Pope) is to be warm-epidemic well in hand. There is floor of 76, Tainam Street, where canal on the other, while my These symptoms however, after ly commended for the frankness

on the surface of the continuing for a variable length certainly to-day less of an alarm-beneath some clothing was found a wound and candour of his statements ist tone amongst the public than spector Fallon saw the ear-drops ho with it. This membrane is aptly disappear.

pair of jade ear-drops. When In- body is liable to become covered of time, almost always ultimate-.. regarding the epidemic to the there was on Sunday or 'yester- asked: "What is that?” and, be- to bo detached spontaneously, Press. He is keenly alive, if the

day.

fore anyone could answer, the first and, as it loosens it becomes de- epidemic is to be kept under con-

As to the epidemic, its origin, from Kak Hang Village."

accused said: "These are things composed, giving a most offen- sive and characteristic ódour to trol, to the value of the utmost treatment, and so forth, it is not

Mr. Hin-shing Lö, for the defence, the breath. There is pain and publicity of all the relevant fac-

our province to encroach on the pointed out that witness did not say difficulty in swallowing, but un. You will find thousands of love tors, whilst careful to offer opin-hallowed ground of the medical this important thing in the course less the disease has affected the songs for every song of hate; sing

affection of the and you cannot keep hating. and fraternity. All we can do is to of his evidence before the Kow- larynx, no

loon Magistrate.

breathing. The voice acquires a republish some

encyclopaedic

When the throw cold water on the all too information, in addition to the omitted because the Police were not!

Mr. Fitzroy said that it had been shuffling character.

disease invades the posterior local official statements, leaving sure if it was admissible, but he nares an acrid, fetid discharge, and sometimes almost copious it to the good sense of our read-contended that it was and he pro bleeding, takes place from the nostrils. Along with these local ers not to be led astray by mis-poked to call Inspector Fallon to |chievous gossip and rumour for His Lordship admitted that the phenomena there is evidence of constitutional disturbance of the

ions and theories as such nothing more. Likewise does he

The

busy rumourmongers. community is under a debt of gratitude to the Medical Officer of Health which, it is hoped, will find an echo through unofficial channels once the epidemie is a thing of the past.

Most Pressmen have had at} one time or another, elsewhere if not here, unhappy experiences

of the unhelpful attitude adopt-

ed by Government medical offi-

cers at the beginning of or dur-

corroborate.

the evidence.

To-day's Thought;

Ten Years Ago.

[From the "Chins Mall of December 29, 1921.1

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To-day's dollar is worth 2/7.

Civil Servant' were shocked this which, as a moment's reflection evidence was admissible. would show, there is not a par-

Later Inspector Fallon went into most kevere character. There morning to hear of the death in the witness box and corroborated may be no great amount of fever, the Government Civil Hospital last ticle of foundation.

but there is marked depression night of Mr. Percy Burn, assistant Prior to the Police evidence, and loss of strength. The pulse at the Secretariat for Chinego becomes small and frequent, the Affairs and formerly Deputy Re several women inmates of the house countenance pale, the swelling of gistrar of the Supreme Court. Mr... spoke to being searched by the five the glands of the neck increases, Burn, it is known, had complained robbers and, relieved of various which along with the presence of articles of jewellery and small sums albumin in the urine, testifies to of indisposition and had been ex- of money which they had on their persons,

The case was continued in the

From Other Pens.

ing an epidemic. They have Music for the Guards.

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1 condition of blood poisoning.cused duty yesterday on that ac count. He was taken violently i Unless favourable symptoms emerge, death takes place with last evening and died at the hos been adamant in their injunction I have heard all sorts of music-afternoon.

in three of four days or sooner, pital at about 7 o'clock, very short- not to print this or don't men-good, bad and indifferent, but most-

either from the rapid extensionly after his admission. He is be of the false membrane into theved to have been suffering from tion the-all under the plea thatly indifferent-played at the Chang-

acute malaria. ing of the Guard at Buck-

MR. ARTHUR HENDERSON. air-passage, giving rise to as- a panic must be averted.

They ingham Palace." Queen Victoriä, }

phyxia, or from a condition of little reeked, these officers drest it is authoritatively claimed, once

Rugby, Yesterday. general collapse, which is some- In in a very brief authority that heard from her window a tuner. Arthur Henderson, who is limes remarkably sudden. all the conditions making for a which caught her fancy as an ac returning to London affor a stay cases of recovery the change for companiment to the ceremony, and on the French Riviera from which the better is marked by an ar panic were already in being and on asking its name was informed his health has greatly benefitted, rest in the extension of the falee fauned by the idle, tongues of that it was called "Come where the

js expected to take advantage of membrane, the detachment and gossip and rumour. Had these booze is cheaper."

the presence hero of Sir Eric expectoration of that already gentlemen of other days in other But one rarely hears musle com- Drummond, Secretary-General to formed, and the healing of the places taken the public,, through The Brigade of. Guarde has officially the procedure of the forthcoming neath. Along with this there is posed expressly for the occasion: the League of Nations, to discuss ulcerated mucous membrane bes the Press, into their confidence, accepted a marching song, "The World Disarmament Conference a general improvement. in the they assuredly would have found changing of the, Guard," which is over the opening session of which symptoms, the power of swallow- their own inenviable task of cop now being played by the Guards Mr. Henderson Is duo to preside ing returns, and the strength bands, The words and music are on. February 2 It is possible gradually increases, while the ing with an epidemic very con by those popular entertainers "Mr. though, not probable, that Mr. glandular enlargement of the neck | siderably "lightened. Nothing is Flotsam" and "Mr. Jetsam.” "Henderson may have to undergo a diminishes, and the albumen more calculated to increase, pub- One of these la "Mr. Malepim Maslight operation, but, it is hoped, disappears. from the urine, Res. Echern, an Australian with that even in that event, he would covery; however, is generally lic suspicion than extreme re-

mighty bass voice, who has sung in bo able to fulfil his present Intan slow, and it is muny weeks be ticence on the part of re-opera and Diatorio, and the other tion of leaving London.for Geneva fore full convalescence is estab sponsible officials, particularly is Mr. B.- C., Hilliam Evening on January 28-British Wireless lished Even, however, where diphtheria ends thus favourably? Service. when the air is as full of base Standard

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