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Hopes Of Cancer Cure

One of the most encouraging reports of the progress of science in the treatment of cancer shows that the chances of recovery if the disease is from cancer taken in time have become "very hopeful. Mr. J. P. Lockhart Mummery, Chairman of the Exe cutive Committee of the British Empire Campaign, gives statis

HERE, THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

SCARE MONGERING

A cyclical return to Britain, of an Influenza epidemic is promised "for this monthinter

At present not much is known about this aspect of epidemiology-- too little, at any rate, to justify n forecast that will do as much harm as good.

A LAND TOO MUCH PROMISED

PALESTINE'S TROUBLES

UNDER MANDATE

POLITICAL DIVISIONS AND DEADLOCKS

(By H. D. Ziman)

ALESTINE is a small country,country where both races would

Every doctor knows that to be P a fifth the size of England find peace under the protection of

afraid of contracting a discase is without Wales, or roughly half as Britain.

the first step towards catching it. large again as Yorkshire. The The detalled story of the decline

The medical profession does not

know how to prevent an Influenza large-scale maps of the Holy Land from those days of co-operation epidemic. So, there is no point in upon which we were all brought has no place in the present article creating a scare inadvance about up have given a misleading Im Suffice it that the Mufti's successors what may not after all take place.pression which a similar map of and rivals in the Arab leadership the country to-day would hardly refused to accept the conception of AA Jewish Home In Palestine at all,

corrected

CHAUFFEUR, HONOURED

Hills no greater than the Cota- and with few exceptions refused France has its New Year Hon-wolds are called mountains, and to co-operate with the British ours List as well as Great Britain, plantations less extensive than mandatory administration.

Provocation on both sides, racial Among the names in the Journal Chorley Woods are known as the

riots, and petty bickering have Officiel la that of M. Froissac. Balfour or the Herzl Forest.

M. Froissae was the driver of the At the last census Palestine varied in intensity according to the motor-car in which King Alexander contained well over 1,000,000 in-supposed strength of the High and 1. Barthou were assassinated habitants. (Before the war there Commissioner of the moment, and at Marseilles. It was he who selz wore less than 700,000.) Some 60 the degree to which at any given ed hold of the assassin before languages are spoken, a figure ar-time the British Government may Kelemen was struck down by the rived at after removing such oddi- ben considered liable to Intimida sword of Lieut. Colonel Piollet. ties, as the African dialect of one tion.

The position of the Administra

M. Froissar has been awarded dusky resident, who had no one to the Gold Medal on the list of the whom he could profitably speak it. tion to-day, between the extremista |of both. aldes (and in the Near Ministry of the Interfor.

Your Daily Smile!

Jews' National Home This diversity of peoples is no East a moderate leader is apt to country feel the need of outbidding the ex- doubt appropriate to a where you can go from 3,000 ft. tremists from time to time), was An artist claims to be able to paint above sea-level to 1,300 ft. below curiously illustrated by two talk person's thoughts Some of his blank sea-level in an afternoon. It is, I had in Jerusalem on the same

day. canvases are said to be remarkably moreover, a partial explanation 04 true to life. Nike A

No Common Feeling

Palestine's still suspended pești-

In the morning I spent an hour every year incresses our power His wife was vigorously powdering cal development. If that country

is happlest which has no history, at the Supreme Moslem Council to repel the disease from the in-her face before going out.

"Why do you go to all that trouble"a land of three Faiths (to make no with the ableat member of the Arab dividual victim, and complete asked her hubby who was waiting Im-further sub-divisions), where at Executive. He spoke of the Pales control may not be long in com-patiently. ing.

"Modesty, my dear," was the reply, least half a dozen civilisations of tine Government: "Palestine Gov- "Modesty?"

different dates have left present ernment? It is a British Govern- "Yes. I've no desire to shine in survivors, cannot be expected to ment acting as mouthpiece of the coalesce at the mere twinkling of a Jewish Agency (The Jewish British Mandate.

Agency, I should explain, is the

STOLE TRAVELLERS"public"

CHEQUES Woman Sentenced To Gaol

ENGINEER VICTIMISED

"You can't eat your cake and have it,” declaren an M. P. Unless, of course, you eat it in bed..

The present 'administration may mainly Zionist body which col- be described as a Crown Colonylaborates with the Government on regime with special local varia-immigration and agriculture and "Have you brought many people to tions, of which the most important on Jewish communal matters.) your way of thinking?"

centres in the Zionist movement In the evening I spent an hour "No," answered the statesman.

"Public opinion is something, like sand its objective the establish with one of the Revisionist (Jewisk mule I owned: When I was boy In ment of a Jewish National Home Padcist) leaders, who proceeded to order to keep up the appearance of be- in Palestine. This movement. I give his impression of this “Now

A 22-year-old Chinese woman, Ling driver I had to watch the way not, as sometimes represented, a called Palestine Government." I

matter to the police.

the

He also suggests that, in a not) Last Friday morning, the second

he was going and follow on behind." war-time or post-war creation was not unprepared for his ex- evolved out of the eccentricities planation that it was "a British LOCAL NEWS

BREVITIES

at, No. 457 The Peak,

tics of cures in hospital which Kuen, charged with the theft of 41 go beyond the highest expecta- travellers' cheques, and, alterna- tions of the layman. When the tively, receiving the same, appeared

of British Imperial policy in the Government acting as mouthpiece, disease has been detected in the on remand before Mr. W. M.

Near East. The Jewish colonisa-for the Arab Nationalists."

There is a point in this experi early stages, and removed by Thomson at the Central Magistracy

tlon which gave it a foothold in

ence beyond the implied imparti modern methods, close upon 100 this morning. She was sentenced to

Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Macgregor Palestine began in 1880, per cent of the patients have six months' hard labour on the first

and their younger son arrived in

The establishment of a "legally fallty of the Administration. The been cured. Taking all cases to-charge, and the second charge was the Colony to-day by the 8.8. secured, publicly recognised home existence of a Palestine Government gether, early and late, the per-withdrawn. centage of cures is nearly 50 per Leo Chang King, aged 21, who "Chitral" and will take up residence for the Jewish people in Pales which justifies its name presupposes.

tine" was adopted as the pro-a common feeling of Palestine na cent. The old lesson that medi- was charged with receiving one of

gramme of a World Zionist Con-tionality, such as neither of my la cal advice should be sought on the cheques, and attempting to cash An unclaimed telegram for Milin gress. In 1897. Twenty years later, dignant, friends would admit. the first sign or suspicion of any it at Messrs. Thomas, Cook, Limit: Ebenezer, Pokfulum, from Sings on the day, after Lord Allenby cap-It is, indeed, thin fact which has ill-health could not be more, for-jed, was given the benefit of the

pore, is lying at the Eastern Exten- tured Gaza, Lord Balfour proclaim-blocked, the efforts of successive. cibly or more cheerfully confirm-doubt and discharged.

alon Telegraph Co., Ltd.

ed it the policy of the British Gov High Commissioners to introduce s ed. St. Mark's Hospital, Lon- It was alleged on Saturday last,

Legislative Council which might ernment to facilitate! don, in which these cases were that complainant, a European It is learned that the next lecture "the establishment in Palestine prelude future self-government. The treated, is specially concerned engineer having

book of the Italian culture will be held of a National Home for the Arab leaders first declined such an with cancer of the bowel, which of cheques in his possession, visited by the Association of Dante Jewish people...it being clear offer in 1921, and continued to de is one of the most difficult forms the first defendant on the night of Alighieri next Thursday, at 5.80 ly understood that nothing cline in all subsequent negotiations, of the disease. Mr. Lockhart- January 30 The next morning, on p.m., when the Rev. C, B, R. Sar should be done which may pre- New Legislative Council Mummery gives heartening 85- his return to the hotel where he gent, the Headmaster of the Dioce judice the civil and religious, When the present High Commis surance that cancer in

most resided, he found the book of aan Boys' School, will speak on rights of existing non-Jewish com cloner, Lt. Gen. Sir Arthur Wauc parts of the body is curable to- cheques missing. He informed the "Verd" in the Jacobean Room of munities in Palestine, or the rights hope, went on leave during the paat day in a considerable percentage local branch of Messrs. Thomas the Hong Kong Hotel.

and political status enjoyed by summer, it was confidently believed of cases by operation and radium Cook. Limited, and reported the

Jews in any other country." that he would return with a fresh- therapy.

scheme for a Legislative Council ini Zionists And Arab

his pocket. He had given a pledge These words, which were incor porated verbatim into the Mandate before the League of Nations that which Britain received from the he would introduce & Legislative League of Nations in 1922, and Council as soon as the municipall cemented in detail dato its various ties, where electoral government had clauses, seemed to meet the ob- already been set in motion, were Im

(Continued on Page 11) Dr. H. M. Shuman, President of vious objections from two sides, working order.

There were (and still are) some the Christian and Missionary Alliance and Editor of the Alliance millions of Jews indifferent and the views of the Weekly, accompanied by Mrs. Shu- even hostile to man, arrived in the Colony yester, Zionists who had no wish to find ss themselves suddenly expatriated day from Batavia by the

from their present National Homes Dhama Ram, an Indian merchant, Tjisadane, was charged before. Mr. E I

Dr. Shuman, who is at present in Europe or America. Jed. Thirty years ago it was dis-Wynne-Jones at the Central Magis on a world tour visiting the There were (and still sṛa) Bome covered that cancer could be tracy this morning with entering Alliance's mission flelds, will speak hundreds of thousands of Aráb conveyed from one animal, to anthe Colony, without a valid passport at the Leland Wang'a Preaching/inhabitants of Palestine who did

To the Editor, “China Mail".1 other by transplanting a frag-

Sir-There are undoubtedly many Sergeant Russell stated that the Hall, No. 12 St. Stephen's Lane, not intend to become the subjects

British subjects amongst ment of the tumour. Then it defendant, who was here for two Bonham Road, this evening at 7.30 of a Jewish State or (alternative: was learnt that some of the

readers who wish to rinke. animals thus infected made a months sometime ago, returned to o'clock, prior to his departure for y) to leave the country where their ancestors had lived under the Colony last Sunday, with his Shanghai to-morrow, natural recovery. If the investi-

not realise that there is n" strict gator could discover how they wife and three children. His pass

This will be Dr. Shuman's only many masters since the seventh ment claims, but who perhaps

century or earlier,

in time limit involved, *** conquered cancer it was resson-port was not endorsed by the Bri-public appearance in Hong Kong, able to suppose that a cure for tish Consulate in Canton; had It and all Interested are cordially in It seemed in 1917 that Palestine ay I remind them that claima the disease in man would be been there would have been no obvited to attend the meeting to might well become the Promised for the year commencing April 6,

Land of both peoples. The

1928 (or notice of intention to found. How the animal did objection to him coming to Hong night. The distinguished visitor's

Kong.

We address will be translated into war Jewish settlers in Palestine claim) must be lodged with the tain immunity was the puzzle,

had suffered from the Turks, nChief Inspector of Taxes not and there has been much con- He was remanded until next Chinese.

less than their Arab neighbour

than April 5, 1985, troversy Dr. Lumsden, working Tuesday for Inquiries to be made out his own theory, produced at the British Consulate in Canton. some time ago an anti-serum-

very distant future, there will defendant presented one of the DR. SHUMAN HERE be great improvements in cheques for payment and was ar- methods of treatment, possibly rested. On his information the first

without operation, possibly by a accused was located at. No. 163, To Preach To-night At means of prevention, not of Queen's Road Central radium, or X-rays, but of serum

The cancer campaign has been developed on a very wide front, and the ground gained in one direction has proved valuable in assisting yet more important ad- vance on another line. One the enigma of the cancer cell the main attack is now being press

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