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TOLD FOR THE FIRST TIME:

Dog Doctors' Great Victory

A medical discovery as important to “vets” as penicillin to doctors is quietly prolonging the lives of dogs. It is a British dis- covery and today our Science Reporter reveals the details and the men concerned.

THE FULL STORY..by CHAPMAN PINCHER

D'Acourge

ISTEMPER. once the Sir Patrick Laidlaw, who

of the dog world, has been defeated.

When you bought a puppy before the war the odds were that you would lose It just when you had grown fond of it, or have to watch helplessly while it suffered.

Wan

Diso pioneer in influenzak research Back in the 1920's he showed that successful inmund- sation against distemper WHA possible." Laber Sir Thomas veterinary escuch worker, devisæd a method for vaccine commer- producing the clally. But songs kept supplies

ümited. Then came a discovery by Dr Donald Haigh, a Scottish Today a new vaccine 19 scientist working in South defenting the plugie.

After the war the dog diwase

violent more knew

when

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devastating form of distemper called "hurd pad" invaded! Bri-

tain,

killing thousands

The Dog World's 'Flemings'

What Sir Alexander Fleming and his pentella did for man, Sir Patrick Laidlaw (left) and Sir Thomas Dalling have done for dogs

valuable dogs and manch-loveri pets.

Now one small ampoule of a creamy-pink powder will protect a dog for life,

the

Africu,

the

Haigh fortand out, in 1948, how

to grow a strain of ultra - microscopic distemper germ in incubating hen's SHES so that big-scale production of vaccine at reasonable cost be- enne possible.

By exi

turk the vaccine proved safe for use on dogs and plso gave full protection against "hard pad."

Demand Grows

so effective

A neck In production Wall wies set ups at Beckenham and hus been expaskiing ever since,

The vaerine was tês, t demand for it grew r.play. Perduellen is now to be further increased to cope with export

orders

A one-shot Treatment glyen to on eight to 12-week-olci pup gives proteseliers for tile The Cost? With the Vet's free about £2.

This may

sound higĖ, but with pedigree pups fetching taky prices it is a cheap Jn. surance.

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As might be expected of the most dyi-nehklicted nation, defcut of distemper

"Distemper is now ja imest

that it is almost an event," entirely an all-British victory A Leam Jed by Dr Robert Kennel Club offel raid. Montgomerie at the Beckenham Even ownerS laboratory has put the vaccine into full-scale production

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THE · CHINA -MAIL, - THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1956.

"Now we'll see which shaves the best-the electric razor or the old fashioned cut-throat.

Joy Matthews Meets Five Notable Women

TELL

HOW MUCH CAN YOU ABOUT A BIG MAN TALKING TO HIS WIFE?

said

wives for

my

London Let me tell you some of Eight hours HAVE been talking the things the this week to the wives of five men who steer the palities of the Empire.

of give-away

And I have been thinking: mongrels, especially those who What a lot you

can tell have seen a dog ravaged by

rating the £2 about “big men" by talking

to their wives!

The defent of the dog-plague distemper, It! began with the work of the late treatment as money well spent.

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DAME PATTIE

family - I MENZIES, have five wife of the Australian Prime Minister, is a Woman dominated by distance,

"Not many people realise it, but Autralia is bigger than States," she said. the United "I spend great deal of my time in planes. Canberra 425 miles from Melbourne,

Her entertaining is extremely havyand the has dropped every other activity except that of being the Prime Minister's wife.

"Even my hospital work," sho told me.

"I used to be on the 1xard of management of

of the big

I've had

giving

запу

hospitals. But

NOW

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eight hours for

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Mr Melland

Atra. Bandaraname

Mrs. Strydsen

Bandaranaike,

the Princ Minister of Ceylon, is gay and happy and full of life.

pray, and 1 spend my time working for the nations and my people.

Thero Is so much we can learn from the women in Great

She she said

wants to KO to the Britain,"

"What cur

And you learn from theatre-a comedy.

she us? That is up to you. Per will pend an evening at the

dogs. haps curry!" she laughed,

The motherly one home,"

MRS

on,

party.

"We have two greyhounds at many English friends."

she said, "and three children. I have to do some guarded. [RS FLORENCE HOLLAND, shopping for the little girl-and She concentrates

wife of the New Zealand buy her lots of pretty dresses." people simple meals,

Prime Minister, is the mother "Are you interested in food?" "They've usually had enough we all long for, the grand-

I asked her. of rich hotel food. So we give mother

"Would you like a We wont for Our

sweet?" thent

Australian beef children. good

repiled In spite of being the she

"I made them especially English people, lo Prime Minister's wife she stil myself. 1 like to cook and show them how good Australien finds time to knit and sew for make sweets and cakes for the beuf is. And of course druž

children—and rull her seven grandchlidren.

lots of differ cont eys n KTOW OUT own

curries." "Are New Zealand women in the

She enjoys her official enter- garden, and interested in politics?" I asked. vur own wine. It's

Ph yes.... they can listen laining but finds it tiring,

"When we have a to political talks in the

really big afternoons on the radio. I'm

dinner party-like the one we

for Mr that

Menzies,

the It means there's had a chance that more women

Prime will Australian

Minister- four call in an outside caterer and

have soup, fish and chicken.

---We melons

make

young yet....but it's nice to have everything home grown."

a

in

all for

go in for politics.... rest in the Government al·

**

For her the trip is from shopping-I bought

used to play a lot of But we do not drink we are everything before I came. I've tennis. but

It's com- trying to get prohibition

But I'm Ceylon, you know." no time for hopping. We have mittees and Bridge.

do good materials and good dress- determined to

She is a very young 40, some shopping In

"I have been married for 10 Australia and over here, I love your "coats

"I married the average woman at home and suits....I want a coat like years," she added now dresses very well,"

Lady Eden wore at Chequers. late, you know," She has

managed to

was in a lovely herringbone to go to It wa one theatre already-and plans tweed.

The silent one

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to see some good straight plays. Her other shopping will be "We have no good theatres in spent in antique shops looking Australia, enough people in one town to

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DIANA DORS ON BROADWAY

BEFORE sailing for America, Britain's mont highly publicised woman film star told exactly why she went to Hollywood. It is simply ...... money. From New York now comes this Dors-eye view of the big city......as seen in an interview with CHRISTOPHER DOBSON....

THIS

*

i s wonderful,

glorious...it is the most exciting city in the world. It has a magic about It...but oh how I hate the humidity.

I can't stand it, I had never experiencvat air-conditioning be- lore, but by golly, when I'm asked anywhere hero I'm always going to ask, "Has it got air- conditioning?"

1 have even insisted on an air- conditioned Cadillac to take me cround!

I couldn't move a step without it.

You know I wasn't really sure about New York until yester- day. I have had such a hectic ume, but last night my husband and I had dinner on the terrace of a Manhattan penthouse.

We had a wonderful stenk-It was barbecued on the penthouse terrace overlooking New York, but the steak was only begiving.

As

THE STARS

we sul

the

there afterwards

drinking our coffee, might gradually fell and the lights came on and the stars shone.

Suddenly we felt this thing, this magle that New York has, How can I describe New York? I feel that it is...well, literally Jumping.

Londa is beautiful and will always be my favourite-t'a so quiet and dignified, the two as chalk places are as different and cheese.

New York is a boisterous ambitious

ful.

place. 1 walked down Broadway...It's incredible... the advertisements, they're wonder- I've never seen anything quite like them. And the people Sulong Broadway--they friendly and hospitable.

SURE NICE....

only was?

are so

Do you know they knew who My taxidriver had

my

came here £1 1054. did not shine then.

"It is not truc," she went

"to

that say

we entertain members of our own

We 500 other people seen me on TV. "Soy, aron't whenever we can, even if it's you Dors?" he asked me. I told only for two minutes, I have him I was, so he said, "Well,

it's sure nice to mest

et you. Aboul clothes sho

was hope you have a nice visit.

I've done

all the things "I like clothes but I never tourist should. I've eaten discus them even with

my first bamburger and I've eaten own friends,'

ple, and I've had a blueberry About food she was reticent strawberry loc-cream soda. I've "A menu is too intimate to had a mint julep too. discusy," she said.

I like Italian and Indian food. Her great Interest is music. 1 and if you order that sort of Before her merringe she was dish here you're all right but I a planist and taught music.

don't like the ordinary sort of I asked her whether

she goo they serve up. I've been believed that women should be shopping too. Oooh! the shops Interested in polities.

...they're fabulous. "But of course, I speak for

And then, what else is there my ha band sometimes, but I'm I've noticed? Oh, yes, the colour

not

I used in truly a

the roads. London is con to discuss politic,

with him, servative with its black cabs and But now he tells me nothing, dark cara, but here everything When people ask me what is is alive with flashes of colour. going to happen i can say with And then there is Radio City complete honesty that I don't where they have the film shows know **

along with tremendous stage Tell me, Mrs Strydom," I shows. I've never seen anything asked her. "Do you think that like it in my life. the South African women have anything they can teach the women of Great Britain?"

"That is a question I cannot answer,

People say that we arrange flowers very well,"

TAHUS the five wives.

FANTASTIC

TELEVISION

is so different.

T1 watched my first show. It

as advertising soap powder and they had soap powder all over the place.

It's so unllloo English com mèrcials. I happened to mention have never met their morning so

this to somÈeno and the next

enormoti

parcel husbands: but I have an idea arrived for me from the soap that I learned more about them powder people..

about the men--by talking to There was soap powder, tooth "It is not true," she said, their wives than I would have paste,

After-shave But that's

to MRS SUSANNA STRYDOM, wife of the South African make it worth while for a good Ireland, Hollywood to see a film

But we made-Honolulu....and home," Prime Minister, is a company to open one, do got dil the good alms

with not a hair, not a word out

She has grandchildren. One

three and

straight from Hollywood," The laughing one of place.

boys "The

LOOP,

even

beginning of cricket team," MNAIKE, wite BANDARA- "that my husband and I have learned had I interviewed the lotion, Fantastic,

THE BEGUM

MOHAMAD ALI, wife of the Pakistan Prime Minister, is

a woman with a mission.

דיי

am only interested in nocial welfare"he greeted me

with these words.

"When I started social work

of Solomon not been to England before. We Prime Ministers themselves.

New York, I suppose.

MAN VERSUS MID-WALES

TH

By LES ARMOUR

were

London on the rich plain below-put of ton had no running, water, cost, and few farmers in the THE border which up a fight on the hills.

Somo diá not ever have wells; ared căn find their part of the The other day Parliament water had to be collected iu money, suparates Shropshire abandoned its political warfare rain barrels.

What is the anawer? The In Pakistan I could not get the and · Herefordshire,from for a few hours while members Nearly all tho farms

committeo

investigating the rich werten to, join me. They Mid-Wales winds around the of all three parties soberly running at a loss-If interest on aren suggested that more land would offer a donation--but edge of a range of green considered the case of Man v. the capital Invested in them be given over to forestry, that when I asid for real help they hills. It is not often marked Mid-Wales.

was counted. Farmers do not there should be Man, it seemed, was nighting pay themaclyce interest, of and more stock-rearing, that course, and so, where they have farms should be amalgamated

scratch along.

refused,

"For thres

youry'

I was a fold with signs but there is no a losing battle, worker: to get better conditions mistaking it.

4td

count.co

no

finarice

...

dairying

debts, they manage to into

inta units of “more. ceonómla for women and children: to A slight chill: obema to come

size. It is suggested, too, that gain marital rights for women over the air ney you crow from. In 1901 tha

ahead! After the necessities of "life the government push of To gain political "rights for the sleepy little village of Cardigan, Radner · and Mont have women: to fight for the exo Leintwardino, in Herefordshire gomery had a population of they have nothing over

been paid for, however, with the installation of publie to services waler, electricity and toral and economic

Lomic rights for to Knighton: women. You have no idea how town perched on a Radnorshire to 23,238 less than two-thirds dood, in most

the grey stone 34,773. By 1951 it was down improve their comfort or, in road-so that more people can be encouraged to stay and fight hard the struggle has, boen!

it out. See hill. She is sad that entertaining

1901 total. Today it is improvements 50, to Anarios The villagers in Leintwarding lower still

Under the Hill Farming Act talice her away from her work,

To other parts of Britain, of 1940 and the Livestock Rear salt, people are big and square, red-faced often, lawed to make social calls but and bluft-well-fed and cor- things ille running water and ing Act, the govemment has to try and it is possible my husband, and I were but bented looking In Knighton electric, light have become so pumped a quarter of a million Mid-Wales will not, after all,

a subject out working. They used to go o tomer madder-looking, familiar that hardly anyone, pounds into the area, Much degenerate, Into away again. But how I have more determined... to, entertain.sometimes....only

ye, would know how to more might bo spont

to who have fought the hilla, for But, out of 1,400 forms grable from the government to generations do not, after bu, o women you know, 1 enter Life, le hard on the Mid-Walde without them. toin them on, my, own

( hill.""It must be scratchel checked by an investigating

rich their improvement give up easily. But the complete "I have divided my day into from the rocks and the thin committee Ini Maid-Wales, only, schemes, but the farmer himselt plains batow: must provido, va thebe, Eight hours for træelf.

The elmentsineo tame 200 much electricity. / Seven qut: Thust pay 50 percent of" the courtant temptation,

It has always been that way,

- י. ד.

The government, has promissä that

acte which enlitso farm the archaeological research.

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