1939-10-09 — Page 2

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ERROL FLYNN in THE DAWN PATROL"

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BRITAIN'S POSITION IN A WAR OF ECONOMIES

London, To-day.

THE VALUE OF A STATEMENT in a German news- paper, the "Berliner Boersen Zeitung” that the "British economic and social structure will break if the war continues,” may be gauged in the light of comparative figures taken from a single factor, the nation's economic structure. The annual income of British foreign investments exceeds £200,000,000 in gold, whereas Germany has no foreign exchange and a smaller gold re- serve than in 1918.

FROZEN SLEEP

Frozen into insenbility- warmed back to conscious- ness, these may be the ex- perience of future patients undergoing surgical opera tions.

New agent in anaesthetics is

re-

The Budget expenditure is £2,000,- 000,000 at present, but if half the na- tional income should be devoted to easily war expenditure, Britain can spend double the present expenditure on the war effort.

In taxation, the income tax lower Income ranges are less than one- fifth of the lower ranges in Ger- many, where the married pays a tax on an incomo 265, whilst in Britain he does not pay until over £225. While there is a German

scarcity, Britain has 1,500,000

man

over

Iabour

men

on whom to draw.

Rationing is not yet introduced in

vealed by Dr. G. H. Parker, Harvard Britain where there are ample food- University medico, who, in recital of stocks and in addition control of the the vast experiments already carried out, dis-Atlantic leaves available

Dominions.-British closes that frozen sleep has been resources of the used for considerable time in induc- Wireless.

ing unconsciousness in operations on fishes, other forms of marine life and reptiles.

Working in the laboratories along with other research authorities, Dr. Parker immersed the subjects for operation in water and cracked ice, or cracked ice alone, for fifteen minutes before laying them on crack- ed ice for operation.

ON HUMANS Recovery was speedy and from the frozen sleep was

release

secured by applying the ordinary tempera-

ture of the laboratory.

It was found that the animals could be tested immediately without wait- ing for the gradual disappearance from their systems of an anaesthe tising drug.

Similiar methods before operations on human beings is suggested by re- ports of a kind of cold hibernation brought about by a slight lowering of bodily temperatures.

RATIONING OF WOOL

London. To-day. The Wool control "have arinounced that wool-tops and yarn are to be rationed from November 1.

The amount of individual civil ration will be decided after allowance has been made for the amount of machinery employed on Government orders. Reuter.

an aid in treatment. The measures employed, however, satisfied scien- tists that safe hibernation in humans was established, refrigeration methods cooling the body three to four degrees below. normal temperature.

Before inducing a frozen sleep patients were given sleeping. me- This method is in line with the dicines, put in a room cooled to about treatment of inoperable cancer re- 50 deg. Fahrenheit. An air-condi- ported by doctors engaged by the tioning unit was used to keep the American Association for Cancer body temperature below normal, Research.

ice with patient being surrounded bags and coils circulating ice water. No claim is made for the method It was found possible to keep patients as a cure for the scourge other than in this condition for several days.

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