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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 8, 1939
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THE GIRL, THE EGG AND THE FEATHER BED...
HERE IS THE strange story of a girl who is so sensitive to eggs that even feathers in a feather bed affect her.
It is related in "The British Medical Journal" by Mr. T. G. Wynne Parry, hon, ophthalmic surgeon at Llandudno Hospital.
The girl, unaware of the cause of her illness, was brought to hospital suffering from cyelitis (an inflammation of the eyes), and for a long time there was no improvement.
COAL-HEWER GOT RECORD IN RECORDS
Coal-hewer and lover of music, Mr. Sidney Wright, of Cemetery. road. Cannock, Staffs, was offer- ed 101 dusty old records of opera -for £1. He bought them.
Twenty-seven of the records are old single-sided discs made by Caruso, the Italian tenor, who died in 1921. Others were made by Tetrazzini, Galli-Curci, Gigli and John McCormack. "It must be а world's record bargain," said Mr. Wright.
Gramophone records which a few years ago were valueless are now fetching fairly big money. You may have a "first edition" at home if you have any old records. Have a look.
Petition to King Fails
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Miss Ethel Self, the schoolteacher, of Long Stratton, Norfolk, who is conducting campaign against conviction for dangerous driving re- corded against her at Lowestoft 1936, was told by the Home Office that no action was being taken on the petition she recently presented to the King.
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At last she was stopped eating eggs and became much better.
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She liked chicken, she said, but it disagreed with her. She slept on feather bed but she never felt rested and would prefer a hair mattress.
Later she returned to Llandudno Hospital with all the old symptoms. and said that while breaking eggs to make a cake some of the egg-white got on the back of her hand.
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She rubbed it off, but a few min- utes afterwards the skin began itch and an hour later all the other symptoms returned. They disappeared in two or three days.
She is undergoing a course of de-
sensitisation.
Snack Bar says: This form of sen- sitiveness to a food or drug is known as an allergy. Many people are allergic to eggs although a case where the sensitiveness extended to feathers
H.M. the Queen made a broadcast speech to women of the Empire on Nov. 13, telling them of the vital work of women in war-time and Photo shows thanking them for the way they have answered the call.
the Queen making her broadcast speech. (Air Mail Copyright).
Still More Cars
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Gestapo Spies
classes for the nine months show an more "informers" to check the activi-
Sales of motor vehicles of all
Germany is enrolling more and increase of nearly seven
per cent. tles of those critical of the Nazi re-
is receiving special gime. "Big business," in particular, attention from Gestapo spies,
year. Sales of private cars alone in- over the corresponding period of last
creased by over nine per cent.
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No, There's Nothing New Gauleiter's Fear
The remains of hob-nailed footwear
Gauleiter Lohse, of Kiel, is report-
is probably unique. "Desensitisation" were found on the feet of a skeleton ed to have transformed his house into is achieved by feeding or injecting of a Roman buried 2,000 years ago and patients with gradually increasing uncovered at the doses of the subject them.
which
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New 5s. Stamp
canip at
Roman affects Chalbury, near Weymouth.
Teacher Was Dumb !
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Five-shilling postage stamps of George VI, are on sale at the prin- new design bearing the head of King cipal post offices in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The lower portion is occupied by and unicorn, with the word "Postage" the royal arms, supported by the lion
underneath.
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Any citizen who feels he has been Presented From Court wronged has by ancient lay the right of direct appeal to the King, although this is rarely exercised. The King acts on advice tendered by his legal adviser.
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Queer News
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We get some queer messages every day. Take your choice from yester- day's batch.
as other boys are; he is a good boy,
Mother at Wood Green: He is not
Defendant at Wood Green: I remem- ber it was raining at the time cause the police-constable xious I shouldn't get wet while he was taking particulars.
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a fortress. Arms, ammunition, and food are hoarded in the basement. The Gauleiter is said to have taken these measures in case of a possible revolt against the Nazis.
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Because of the inquisitiveness of Dr. Frank Fails young workers in factories they are
Chief Inspector of Factories, in workers, says more prone to accidents than older Dr. Frank,
Sir Duncan Wilson, Governor
the newly appointed of German-occupied Po- his land, has failed in his efforts to form
a Polish Protectorate Government.
Leading Poles in Warsaw and Cra-
They gave a firm. refusal. this object by high German officials. cow were recently approached with
report for 1938.
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of workers, the report says that
Urging the need for more tuiton
injured, the inspector found that the one accident where a boy had been
instructor was deaf and dumb.
The Nazis promised to introduce a A warning is issued regarding the "tolerable regime of self-Government danger of fitting out a boy with over- on the lines of the Czech Protectorate, alls "to allow room to grow," and of subject to higher German interests." poor boots where the feet may have to run the risk of burning or lacera- tion.
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Sabotage In Nazi
Barracks
There are believed to have been many casualties in a big fire which the destroyed the Nazi Black Guards' were barracks at Constance.
A B.U.P. corespondent reports see- ing a Siegfried Line fortress sur rounded by flood water from tell Rhine.
A party of Germans she taking supplies to it by boat.
"My husband is a golfing sor."-Woman at Highgate.
Witness at Highgate: I could didn't raise a single objection when the lady was distressed because
the man started talking.
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An Atlanta (Georgia) man bought a trunk containing £200 worth of se- curities for 16s.
By means of instalment-plan purchases and pawn- ing, a Reading (Pennsylvania) youth pyramided Bs. into a £135 diamond Legislation may be introduced en- ring A New York gaol prisoner forcing the closing of shops half an was found to be receiving relief che-
hour before. sunset. ques
An eighty-six-year-old Colloden (West Virginia) woman re- married her ex-husband fifty years after they had been divorced, and a New Orleans woman got her first permanent wave at the age of 104.
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Blood Transfusion
For Bull,
Blood transfusion was used to save the life of a valuable Aberdeen Angus bull in the Transvaal. After a "com- patibility" test, the sick bull receiv- ed about one and a half gallons of blood from a bull of the same breed. It recovered within two days.
Like that of human beings the blood of certain animals varies, and with- out a "compatibility" test the trans- fusion might prove fatal.
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Fifty Germans returning to their own country from Eire, passed through England in specially sealed railway carriages,
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Many motorists, due to answer police summonses for minor offences, have received notification that their cases have been adjourned indefinite- ly.
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The mass production of revolvers England under a wartime programme. Consor).
at a Royal Ordnance factory in (By Air Mall. Passed by the
Sabotage is suspected, and the Gestapo immediately isolated the area from telephonic communication.
Lake Constance (says the "Daily Mail" Patrols guarding the Swiss side of
Zurich Correspondent) saw flames break forth almost simultaneously from different parts of the barracks.
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If Hitler Had Died
M. Jean Thouvenin, writing in the Paris
newspaper L'Intransigeant, stated:
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"It is rumoured that if the Munich attempt on Hitler's life had succeed- ed, Goring, as Hitler's successor, would have formed a temporary Govern- .- ment and would then have asked the Allies to stop the war in order to facilitate the task of reorganising the ́ Fourth Reich.
"His proposals would, according to these rumours, have included a plebis- cite in Austria, and the liberation of Czecho-Slovakia and Poland. He would have asked Russia to give up her territory in Poland which she has Occupied."
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The Government is considering whe- ther a further evacuation scheme is necessary. Many mothers with chil- dren who were evacuated but return, ed home are now regis
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