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SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1932.

SIR RONALD ROSS'S GREAT WORK

NATION WOULD VALUE RECOGNITION

Fight Against Malaria.

London, August 4 stegomyia revenged herself on me

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THE CHINA

HITLER DENIES PLAN |

FOR NAZI COUP.

No Intention Of Seizing Power.

Berlin, Yesterday. Herr Adolf Hitler, Nazi leader, who is at present living in a flonely cottage near Berechtes- garten. in an interview to-day. maintained that his reference to Mussolini recently had been mis- represented.

Tenderfoot Observes American Life

Hoped To Be Farmer Taken For Bandit

PIGS AND THINGS

A great benefactor of the human for the death of her friends. The The fact that the Nazis had race lies sorely, stricken at the In-screws of my microscope were rust- never asked for the Ministry of

When I left Shanghai last year) then the axe fell I dropped the stitute which he founded at Putney ad with sweat from my forehead Defence showed that he did not

Ito spend my well-earned vacation, body, legs and neck, all of which Heath. It is Sir Ronald Ross, the and hands, and its last remaining claim exclusive power...

very "though Tsays it as shouldn't." I seemed

much alive, and) medical scientist who first discover-eve-piece was cracked."

Hitler ridiculed the rumours ed-in popular phrase the secret

The Great Discovery. of a Nuzi march to Berlin and spent one month in luxurious travel wherever I went they followed me of malaria.

Ross had dissected hundreds of said that the Nazi stormtroops across the Pacific, an anxious few until I looked as if I had rolled houra crossing over 1,000 miles of through a shambles or just come His name is celebrated through mosquitoes, of alt species, in the would not attempt an illegal the Rockies by aeroplane, a few out of Swifts or Armours. Anyhow out the world; his fame is securel hope that at last he would find the march. He also disclaimed the miserable days in a train, made still the steps I learned were the first for all time. Yet Twould suggest parasite-carrier. Then, one broit desire to eliminate all large con- that if some public, expression of ing afternoon, his head aching with cerns, but was in favour of the more miserable because of the dust that any gigolo learns a combina-

storms encountered, and after walk-tion tango-waltz-fox trot winding] national appreciation were conveyed the treat and long application to his wide distribution of property, so ng scross the Canadian-U.S.A. up with an apology to Saint Suens to him now it would comfort him in microscope. he came to his last that everybody would have a border

from Portal to Northwith an adagio movement, leaving his hour of trial, declares J. B. specimen. The moment of reward share. This would provide an Portal, crossed and recrossed the me prostrate.

had arrived.

antidote for Communism. -Reu-Mississippi so many times that I

The Hog. "The dissection was excellent ter..

became dizzy, I finally arrived at And next. let me introduce and I went carefully through the It was aid that in talking to the station nearest to my destina- Minnie and Winnie, not of the tissues now so familiar to me. President. Hindenburg he claimed searching every micron with the a position such

as Mussolini had China Sunday News."

tion, writes: Pedigreen in the "North Shanghai Scottish fame, but the two handsome looking sows of the Duroc 'same passion and care as one after his "march to Rome.”

From there, after failing three breed, "cach" with a fine litter of wouhi search some vast ruined)

times to obtain a conveyance be-young ones-boys and girls! Uncle cause, so I was assured, I might be had decided the sons should have the counterpart of a Chinese bandit, two extra rings stuck in their noses, I arrived near to a lone farm and the young ones one each, 28 [house," not without misgivings. The altogether. Well, the only way to driver of the car evidently taking no throw a hog is to follow it, dive for risks because there had been so its near rear leg: give it a "twist,! many holdupa, considerately let me and the whole hog of bacon'rolla' know that he always took with him gracefully, though with a decided a revolver--just to shoot crows you"plunk" to the ground. Except---| know though why he shot crows, Duroe hugs are not the snub-nosed The abrogation of the United or tried to, with a .45 I am at a loss type.

Firth in the Daily Telegraph.

Sir Ronald in his time has broken many fance with officialiom. He has flung his challenges gallantly, sometimes perhaps a little reckless- ly, but never with a thought of personal ambition. Recognition thery has been, for it could not be withheld But it would rejoice thousands if a graceful act of hum- age were paid to the genius ut one! why he deserved so well of his

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palace for a little hidden treasure. ANGLO-SOVIET PACT Nothing. No, these new mos

quitoes also were going to be a TO BE. ENDED. failure; there was something

wrong with the theory.

Ottawa. Yesterday,

Word of Greeting.

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"But the stomach tissues still Decision Follows Ottawa Malarit is endemic over one third remained to be examined--lying

Parley. ut the world's surface. It is one of there, empty, flaccid, before me enj humanity's most terrible scourges. the glass side, a great white expanse It has debilitated, where it has not of cells. like a large courtyard of destroyed, <whole rapes of mankind. flagstones, each one of which must! It probably contributed first to the be scrutinised, half an hour's labour, Kingdom commercial treaty with to know. That revolver never left They have a wickedly long snout,' devidence, and then Es the over-at least.

the Soviet, signed in 1930, will his hand, or rather as it lacked self ready, it seems, like the wolf of Red throw of the great ancient civilian-"I was tired and what was the follow the adoption of the Anglo-volition, he stuck to it; he held it in Riding Hood fame, to gobble you up, tions even ingre than the vices which use must have examined the Canadian agreement it is asserted. a position which spelt disaster to my and a scream, "or shriek or syren sapped the strength of once strong stomachs of a thousand mosquitoes! A high Canadian authority fur-cardiac organ should' a jolt of the loud enough to waken the dead! ant martial peoples. -

by this time, «

Ither stated that a formula had been car cause it to go off. And then, a Uncle, not the Percheron, showed me The physical debasement of the "But the Angel of Fate fortunate- agreed to, whereby Russian dump-mile from the lone farm house to how it was done. I tried, but the mest degenerate tribes of Darkest ly laid his hand on my head, and 1, ing would be dealt with immediate which I have referred I saw an olusive now seemed to understand I Africa, the enfeeblement of vast had scarcely commenced the searchly in an administrative action, equally lone hog cart containing a was either an amateur or did not! native populations in India, which again when I saw a clear and almost The formula did not specify Russia still lonelier calf just dragged from like nasal ornaments. I followed still pay annual toll to malaria in perfectly circular outline before me in its phraseology, but it was the comforts of a mother's love, and that hog, jumping over the hurdles more than a million lives, the col of about twelve microns in diametre. understond to. refer to "Non- a far lonelier farmer waiting for formed by her squealing young, lapse of and virtual extinction of The outline was much too sharp, the! Empire" countries.-Reuter.

the arrival of the truck that was to tripped over first one and then an-| almost forgotten races in Central cell too small to be an ordinary The problem of Russian dumpstake that still lonelier calf for its other, and when the wicked mother air South America, are directly stomach cell of a mosquito. I looking is said to have underlied the inst ride to vesldom,

decided I was sufficiently helpless. traceable to malaria.

ed a little further. Here, was an-, postponement of the Conference's

she turned me in turn into Need more be said to Justify the other and another exactly similar closing date. Canada and some of A word of greeting, a smile from a nice light hurdle.. Un- assertion that a supreme discovery | cell.”

the Dominions pressed for the the driver of the car, accompanied fortunately she did not under- was made by Surgeon-Major Ross;į The afternoon, kept very hot and rigid control and restriction of

by a lowering of the revolver, and stand the game, but step- of the Indian Medical Service, when overcast. Rose recalls opening the Russian 'importe into Britain.}

great relief to myself, and I wasped on me instead and there I lay on August 21, 1897, after years of diaphragm of the substage con-i

clambering is that the right word? while 300 pounds or was it 200 or detective labour, he found

the denser of the microscope to admit AIRMAN WILL SEEK on to the cart, leaving a dear 600? of live pork put most of its parasite of malaria in the stomach more light and then changing the

female relative to complete, in care weight of an Anopheles mosquito,

en me, followed by her of the tender mercies of the bandit squealing kida, no not kids, they scared driver, the last stage to the are of the goat specie aren't they? one farm, "where, she was greeted which did the same. with: "We don't want anything Anyhow after I got up, I was in- to-day!" The truck came along and furiated, though why I don't know, while Uncle I suppose I may call for I was going to do a lot worse "As with that pigment, the granules numbered about twelve? Mr. Raynham, Managing Direchim Uncle, well, he is anyway to the sow if I could I made one sixteen in each cell, and tor of the India Air Survey Com-backed the hog cart to the truck to dive at her near rear foot and got became blacker, and more visible pany, is leaving for Rangoon, to form a run way. I hopped over and her. If there is a God in Heaven when more light was admitted morrow on his way to Bangkok to tried to induce the motherleas calf he must have been very deaf if he ད་ didn't hear that hog squeal, but I through the diaphragm. I laugh search for the Malayan planters, to do what it didn't want to do.

Now anyone knows, that is any took a fiendish delight in putting ed-and shouted for the hospital Salt and Taylor, who set out to fly assistant--he was away having to England but have been missing one who has had experience, that two perfectly good rings in that! the only way to reason with a calf hog's anout. The ornaments suited s just to seize one ear with one her. She seemed plensed with them, and no I haven't three hands when the operation was over she hand and the tail with the other she squealed her appreciation, and,

well, the argument is sometimes at just raised her snout and then an end. Not always. The bovine lowered it, showing the rings with infant took a strong objection to pride. "..

Oficial Apathy.

focus. The great discovery was close at hand. In each of the cells. was a cluster of small granules.

"black as jet and exactly like the black pigment granules of the Plasmodium crescents.

A French army surgeon, Lavéran, observing certain conical parasites,|| called Plasmodia, in the blood cor- puscles of a malaria patient, had, established that malaria was due to̟,

parasite and not to miasma or effluvium, as medical science had -believed for centuries. Patrick Manson had suspected mosquitoes of conveying this parasite to drinking- water, It was Ross who detected the actual species of mosquito which! conveyed the parasite direct to the blood of the human victim...

research.

to

his Biesta."

LOST FLIERS.

British Planters Last

A Week...

for a week.

Calcutta, Yesterday.

A

So the theory was proved, and the Commander Häll of the Royal Ross has told his own story in secret of malaria had been found at Australian Navy, who is on pares charged with an enthusiastle last. The means of salvation for fight from England to Australia,

Dum Dum in even religious-zeal for humanity, millions of the human race had been has landed at uniqau in the annals of medical suddenly revealed on the slide of Hermes Bluebird machine.

that sweaty microscope with the

Reuter. He had to work in the teeth of cracked eye-piece, and Ross" there official apathy and discouragement and then took his place in the au- which at times amounted to persecuthentic line of Prometheus among tion: He had to combine his re-mankind'a. greatest deliverers. search work with his ordinary routine duties as medical officer in

Worked on Undaunted.

Incalculable Results.

FRANCO-JAPANESE TRADE TREATY.

Paris, Yesterday.

being so treated, and was joined by And, inhuman and unsporting) #bull calf which was making a though it be, I felt no qualms of similar sad excursion. It needs no conscience at almilarly adorning her stretch of imagination to realise children. Their appearance was cer- what happened. The darned bulltainly improved, but unfortunately calf played leap frog, I lost my grip mine wasn't. I was filthy and For, when the cause was found, The Franco-Japanese commercial of the ear, was bowled over and wringing wet with perapiration, and the military stations, to which he the road to prevention war obvious. treaty, signed in Paris on May 13 while lying on the bottom of the to add to my injured feelings all I was attached.

The" prevent or rather to reduce was enforced last night. It deals cart gave the calf a kick. I was malaria the recipe is simple and exclusively with trade between lucky in my aim, and the two prohibition, was

was offered in that land of blessed jar of water! His brother officers of his own sure. It is to wage war against Japan and French Indo-China and scempered into the tumbril, and my Anyhow I had learned a few new standing thought him clever, but the breeding places of the mosquito. provides that each country apply a labours and trials were over for å stope. rather mad. His superiors were Gorgas pursued this policy in minimum tariff to imports from time.

Gander is Guard. sure that, whether mad dr. not, he Panama and stamped out yellow; the other

Now, I wonder, do you know any Was troublesome and should be kept fever. The construction of the Indo-Chinese exports chiefly in his place. Any excuse was judged Panama Canal was then, thanks to effected by the treaty are maize. The two black Percherons, Uncle thing about geese? The old gander good enough to deny him the oppor-Ross, easy.

rubber, teak and minerals. Coal-no, not my Uncle and Niece is a faithful old thing. He keeps ambled home dragging the hog cart guard over the house in which his tunities he sought for the more in- Sir Malcolm Watson, thanks to and zinc öre will be allowed to

behind them, where after the usual spouse in attending to her young, tensive prosecution of his research. Ross, in five years reduced the enter Japan duty free.-Reuter.

greetings I immediately shed the He doesn't, like so many of the Ross and his mosquitoes were a deaths from malaria in two towns!

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2. familiar joke at a score of regi- of Malaya from 300 to 45," Mor- (Continued from previous Colunm.ence in the hog cart it is literally ing goslings. Indeed, try to talk THREE STAR

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the discoverer in the most generous ob! what a farmer I made! After certainly, perhaps, playfully, per- quarters should find occasion to re- The West African Coast is no terms. The most strenuous applica- my experience I am a perfect gigolo. haps not, seize on a fleshy part of move him from the Indian Medical longer "The White Man's Grave" tion of the new knowledge was My first lesson in that difficult art your leg. One of his specie did Service as being of unsound--and The fever-haunted" Alban Hills, pressed Inx and was, in effect, coldly was when I was told I must kill that to me and I danced round with impious-mind. That he was also shunned for centuries are now pro- declined. **

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a poet and a novelist added other viding new and healthy suburbs for Officialism hampered and delayed Now I had never killed a chicken which I have christened the "goose counts to the indictment, the population of Romey

at every turn, and if Ross in my life, though having lived so step with apologies to the ex- "Well do I remember that dar! Mosquito reduction is now the was aometimes sting into long in China it is with the utmost Kaiser. hot little office in the hospital at prime rule of sanitation in the writing streng letters of pro- difficulty 1 can look one in the face. And now just a little about Begumpett, with the necessary tropies. In 100 years incalculable test, who can blame him? The small boy of the farm, age just cultivating. Seeds are planted, the gleam of light coming in from un-results, not merely hygienic and But authorities do not forgive seven years, had evidently served a planted seeds row. the ground der the eaves of the veranda. I did economic, but political, will have strong letters, and their memories long apprenticeship as executioner around the roots becomes hard, that not allow the punka to be used be followed. Ham may yet recover the are long

for he led me to the block, a small is if the rain has not fallen for cause it blew about my dissected lost birth-right of which he was Nevertheless, it is time to forget log with two nalid stack in it, and some time, and has to be broke mosquitoes, which were partly ex-robbed not so much by his brethren, all else but the genius of the dia sald: You put your head between The cultivator amined with a cover-glass, and the as by a poisonous bug, e

covery "and" the plight of the dis the nails." I nearly said "O yeah," plement, but In result was that awarms of files and *** - Lister's Quick Recognition. coverer. "A message of national but decided the chicken's head to know a little of eye-flies-minute little insects Why did the Colonial Office turn sympathy would fall like music on would be better there and would is growing which try to get into one's ears and so dull an ear to the enthusiastic the sick man's ear and be worth certainly look nicer than miners able garden eyelids tormented to me at their projects."" which Ross laid before more to hin than

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