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THE WAR ON TUBERCULOSIS.

AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.

BELIEVED TO MAKE BABIES IMMUNE.

Writing in the Daily Mail Mr. J. K S. Haldane, the Celebrated | Bio-Chemist says:-

Tuberculosis does not stand first on the list of causes of death in England, but it is the most serious because it tills in infancy and prime of "fe, whereas cancer is a disease of the old, and meat other diseases affect them more than the young. Although the death rate from tuber- culosis has been halved in the Last 97 years, yet it has not been reduced to the condition of a rarity like typhoid fever, or a complaint from which one only dies by one's own neglect or that of one's parents and guardians, like small-pos

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, JANUARY 18th, 1927.

born calves were injected in this way, and it was found that they had become immune to ordinary taber: culosis

After experiments on monkeys in West Africa, the treatment was ap plied to new-born babies four years 30. Since July 1924 over 3,000

French infants have been, given doses of the bacille Calmette- Guérin, as the time tubercle

germ is called. Six hundred of those

JOANNA SOUTHCOTT'S BOX.

UNITED STATES NAVY.

SEALS MAY BE BROKEN IN LATTICEWORK MASTS `GIVE

NEW YEAR.

HIDDEN SECRETS OF MODERN

PROPHETESS.

Josana Southcott's famous box of prophecies may be opened carly in the New Year.

The story of this box is one of the most remarkable in the his-

able value to the nation.

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PLACE TO TRIPODS,

ALTERATIONS TO OLDER BATTLESHIPS.

SEA-GOING OFFICERS IN DISTRESS.

OVER $33,000 DISTRIBUTED.

Commenting on the alterations to the older battleships of the United States Fleet, the Army and Nary Register (Washington) anys:-

"Old-timers" of the Atlantic tory or religious beliefs and seacoast are rubbing their eyes to -there-are-still thousands-who-are

Armly convinced that it contains day, for they have seen two moder- secreta which will be of inestim-nized battleships, the U.S.8. Teras and the U.S.S. Arkansas, steaming out of Hampton Roads, Va., "ca The famous prophetess left” in- structions that the bar was to re

route for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 130 only 11 actually died. The remain closed until the nation is in and the modernization has entirely sulte among the children exposed to dire straits." There was talk of transformed their appearance less intense infection were, of opening it during the War, and Gone are the cage or lattice-work of which were now. course, better.

ever since, in the event of any masts of the Tezat which have trouble falling on Britain, the 30,000 believers in the efficacy of characterised the older American what the box contains have urged battleships, for they have been re- that the country should be saved by placed by tripod maata, and a concerted action of the four-and single funnel has replaced the two twenty bishops who must demand stacks formerly characteristic of the box before anything can be both ships.

were children of tuberculous par- eats, of whom one in four usually die in their frat year. Instead of

Adult Europeons are generally already slightly infected with taber ele, and infection with the new bacillus is useless or dangerous. Negroes, however, are little attack ed until they come to a temperate climate, where they die of tuber culosis in great numbers. Accord done. ingly, in an experiment now in pro-

gress one-half of a Senegalese batta-originally at Plumptree, in Devon Joanna scaled the famous box Hion in France have been inoculated, and left it in the care of the Vicar and their health is being compared of Swinford, who believed in her with that of the other half

divine inspiration. The vicar left it in charge of his son, and at the present time it is in the custody of a Church of England clergyman, who has kept it hidden for the past thirty years.

"A great number of attempts have been made of late to cure it by some method more direct than good feed- ing, fresh air, and sunlight or ultra violet radiation. Bat the tubercle bacillus is a tough areature, and it is hard to kill it without killing its bost first Sanocrysin, the gold compound advocated by Moligans, of Copenhagen, has proved effective in some cases, but it has caused kidney trouble and fever in others. A great many attempts have been made to cure tubercular disease by increasing the immunity of the pati eat to it in various ways. Most of As one quarter of the deaths of these attempts have been failures. French children in their first two At the present time the Spahlin-ears are due to tubercle, and a ger treatment, which belongs to this age proportion of the French dass, is under investigation. It has roops are coloured, Professor Cal- mette's work, if successful, will do not received a very thorough trial, because Dr. Spahlinger, unlike all more for the future security of of France than any number of other workers who have investigated treaties or parts. the question from a scientific stand- point, has not seen fit to publish full details of his method, And the value of any treatment can only be estimated when it has been applied to some hundreds of cases.

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The Price of Safety. Outside France similar protection has been afforded to thousands of coloured children in the French Colonies In another five years it should be possible to pass a definite judgment on its value.

It is worth remarking, however, that success on these lines seems to be much less hopeful than in the

But meanwhile the known pos- case of acute diseases such as scar-sibilities of prevention in this coun- let fever or measles, a single attack of which generally confers immunity

in future.

Experiments On Bables. The most interesting attempt to confer immunity is one which ais a prevention and lays no claim whatever to cure.

try might well be exploited.. The greatest single channel of infection fis milk from tuberculous cows drunk in infancy or early childhood. But the vast majority even of well-to-do parents do not take the trouble to obtain Grade A

Turned Out.

Joanna's excursion into the realms of prophecy was due, originally, to disappointment" in a love affair, after which she claimed divine aspiration," a claim which her inther disputed to the extent of turning her out of his house. After various wanderings she went to Exeter, where she was spiritually informed that she was, to "be the mother of Shiloh, the second in carnation of Christ."

The Methodists of the district, to which aret she belonged, by their hostility drove her to Plumptree, where a married sister gave her house-room.

It was while living with her Grade A certi-sister that she began her written Professor Cal-fied milk for their younger children. prophecies, and, as the sister was

and the Exeter Methodists, Joanna had to seal her writings in a beak to save them from being burned famous box went into hiding, but It was not by her will that the

The

This year,

The Marcantile Marine Mistera and Officers' Relief Fund has k proud record of work in relieving distress amongst certificated officers. The fund is jointly administered by representatives of the Shipping Federation and Liverpool Employ. era" Association" and the officers' societies-namely, the I.M.S.G., the MM.S.A., and the M.EA, repre- presenting navigating and engineer officer with a central committee in London and local committees in various big seaports. At the last held in London, some twenty-three meeting of the central committee, applications were considered, five following the usual custom, special Christmas graats were made to the existing beneficiaries..

The fund WAS established in September, 1919, and has thus been in existence for over seven years, covering a period of unprecedented depression in the shipping trade These two ships and the U.S.S. and consequent unemployment terations as provided by progress that time well over £35,000 has been Florida have been undergoing al-amongst certificated officers. During The Florida sailed November 1st for distributed-a fne record indeed, Guantanamo Bay from Boston. and one which should, give` great. The modernization of the Texas, | satisfaction to those who have so- Arkansas and Florida is to be folgenerously contributed towards the owed at once by similar alterations hund. There now remains some to the New York, Wyoming, and £1,560 in the main fund and, £188 in

tak. The New York will be King George's Fund section. transformed at the Norfolk Navy Yard by the same process as was her sister ship, the Tezza. The Foming will undergo modernian- tion at the Philadelphia Navy Yard and the Utah at the Boston Yard. It is expected that the New York, Wyoming, and Utah will be ready for sea in their new silhouette form in eleven months.

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Protection Increased. Specifically, the alterations made to the Teras include conversion from coal to oil-burning, additional plating on the protective deck as a defence against aerial bomba, and high-angle gunfire, installation of

powder impulse catapult for air- planes, blisters" on the under- water hall for submarine and mine and bomb protection, and the re moval of the mainmast and the substitution in its place of a low mast just forward of No. A turret and the installation of a new tripod mast between turrets 3 and 4 These changes also will be made on carrying, 34-inch guns to be the New York, the only other, ship

mette, sub-director of the Eastour in many places it is, of course, not of the same opinion as her father Institute in Paris and a Fellow of available, but it would be if an the Royal Society, who has been economie demand for it existed. engaged on the problem for over And with no public opinion behind "twenty years, believes that he is able it in the matter, the Government 10 render most babies immune to connot be expected to legislate tubercle for life.

drastically in favour of pura milk. for followers deemed this the safest the present, to moder- For thirteen years tubercle bacilli If science has, not discovered a way of preserving the contente

The change from two smoke stacks were grown on bile-soaked potatoes cure or an infallible preventive for of the coaket unharmed. in his laboratory. At the end of tuberculosis, it has at least shown box itself weighs about 13 hundred to one has been made possible by this time they had become domes-how the mortality could be greatly weight, and is roped, nailed, lock the substitution of a smaller num ticated, so to speak, and although lowered. For the price of a cigar ed, and sealed, the lock having

ber of oil-burning boilers for the they multipled when injected into or a cinema & week you can protect key which Joanna used to carry installed on these ships Oilbarning casi-burning boilers (formerly in- animals, they no longer caused them your child against its most danger a silk bag which hung round her boilers were available for all six illness Over three thousand new. ous enemy. La it worth while

ships to be modernized from the eleven capital ships that were being. Washington Treaty, but which were constructed at the time of the subsequently scrapped.

LONDON BOYS AND BANDIT THE KING'S ALL-BRITISH

GANG.

EÄRLY MORNING RAID

· FRUSTRATED.

POLICEMAN FIGHTS FOUR MEN.

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"As tried to seize the steering wheel the driver struck me in the face, but I held on and succeeded in making the car crash into & garden wali.”.

This was one of the passages in the story told recently of a boy's struggle with motor bandita carly one morning last month at Stoke Newington,

Thieves were engaged in unload ing the stock of Mr. Charles White, a pyjama manufacturer, of Marta- ban Road, Stoke Newington, into a Ford van when they were foiled. The hero of the incident was Ken- neth Subert, a tall, and atheltic- looking lad of 17, whose house over locks Mr. White's premises in Martaban Road.

Mother's Alarm.

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CHRISTMAS DINNER.

neck.

The Millennithm.

Installation of a powder impulse catapult for airplanes on the Teras has resulted in changing the posi- tion of the mainzast.

Assist

Nature

However robust and strong the con- stitution there are times when Nature requires assistance in relieving

congested parts and re storing normal function.

Nature has no more efficient aid to health than Beecham's Pills:

When the digestive. organs refuse to assimi- late food: when the liver li acts sluggishly; when the kidneys do not properly perform their allotted duties, then is the time to assist nature to restore sound and vigorous health by taking

Reecham Pillo

three deal boxes, one inside aur Actually there is not one box, but other,, the outermost one measuring about three feet in length by About a foot and a half in breadth Their Majesties the King and and depth. This outer case is so Queen showed in a very practical heavily nailed that it will have to way this Christmas their sym- be broken when the greas day of

Other Ships. pathy with the movement for the opening comes, to get at the inner The modernization plans for the purchase of Empire products. They enses. Found its edges gave orders that their dinner on seven faded, red seals which were Arkansas,

the other four ships, the Florida, Utah,

and

Wyoming, Christmas night at Sandringham affixed by Joama's followers when similar to those for the Teras. and should be confined to foods pro- it was closed, duced within the Empire, and chose

New Tork except that the cage. - XXV. ZEINUE" ZAMRUT... the following menuClear soap

According to Joanna herself, the foremnat will be retained, new | THERAPION No. 1 fried fliets, of soles Clise 3 opening of the box is to signalise cruising turbines will be installed,THERAPION NO. 2 the beginning of the millennium. and the present fire control systems.

bam with spinach; ronst Norfolk turkey stuffed; cauliflower soufles plum pudding; mince pics. All the ingredients of the plum pudding and mince pies, including raisins, cur- Fanta, sultanas, and candied pech, and also the fruit for the dessert came from Empire sources.

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It is because of this that the of the four ships will be retained. THERAPION NO. 3 followers of the lady are anxiously On the Arkansas and Wyoming the adder Chad & waiting for the bishops to make s move, and give the nation a chance. turrets 4 and 5. In the Florida wa Dar Eventou do,

new tripod mainmast is between

ROYAL BRIDE HELD UP.

PASSPORTS.

"The policeman inade a dive into DUKE OF BRABANT FORGETS the factory, which is only a small place, and the man who was carry- ing the load took alarm and jump ed on the van, and the driver, who was sitting in readiness, made tho car, shoot forward.

Blow in the Facel

" My#mother," said Mr. Subert, who is a clerk at the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company "had got I leapt on to the running board up" about 6 a.m., and as she was and grabbed the steering wheel. dressing, looking out of the window, es zig-zagse to side to saw a number of men engaged inside of the road, and the driver hit Jonding up the van with Mr. White's me in the face, cutting my lip in

an effort to make me let go.

Luck!

She thought there was some thing wrong, and called out to my brother Heary, who is 22, and my seli

Dlavases. No, 3 for Chronia WeskSSONG, BOLA XT MALDE O CE SOITON, PREU DE MASAZU, 18. Du. És Commu

and Utah the new mainmast is not Max of the tripod type, and is placed between turrets 3 and 4. On all six ships living conditions for al enlisted personnel have been great- ly improved

the

This programme of modernization when completed will increase the cruising radius of these ships to that of the other twelve battles An amusing story is being told of the United States. Fleet. on the Riviera of the visit of the six modernized ships will not be Duke of Brabant, heir to the Bel- entirely homogeneous with gian throne, and his bride, formerly Istest U.S. battleships, as the Princess Astrid of Sweden,, in the elevation of their guns, to permit course of their honeymoon tour.firing at the higher ranges, was not The royal couple maintained their authorized in the modernization incognito until they decided to programme visit San Remo. On the Italian frontier they found that they had forgotten their passports. The duke TRESPASS BY A KENTISH had then to explain to the gen darmen who he was, but they were inclined to take him for an im postor and refused to allow his car,

"It is only a matter of about 60 yards to the bottom of Martaban road,, however, and here in the struggle at the "wheel, the van was turned into the other end of Listria to cross.

Dressing at top speed, Heary didn't even put his socks on,Park. we crept along inside the garden wall and out into Manor Road, as the wheel a twist round, and the Here at last I managed to give if we had gone out at the front cas, dashed on to the pavement and doar we might have been seen,

"Almost at once we saw two was wrecked against & garden wall, We all jumped as it hit, but by policemen-Pe MscMurray Band

~ Glover. I went down our and this time Police-constable Glover

of Listria Park with Pac Murray, and my brother and P..

and my brother had got to the spot and the police officer hit the driver.

Glover went down the other end with his truncheon.

of the horseshoe of Listrin Park to In the darkness, however, the catch anybody who might rau driver succeeded in escaping. The round by that way.

It is only a few yards to Marte other man bolted up the road."*"*

ban Bond, on the corner of which is Mr. White's place, and as the policeman and I came into view

The young bridegroom was com mand of the frontier post before be belled to go to the official in com was allowed to proceed His bride passed the time away by buying and addressing picture-postcards.

A CLOSE SEASON FOR DANCES.

for

HUNT.

INJUNCTION GRANTED. AGAINST THE MASTER:

Mr. Justice Tomlin, in the Chan- ecry Division recently, heard. motion by Messra: Dan and Stone, Ltd, proprietors of Wadden Hall Farm, Waltham, Kent, restraining Mr. Henry W. Selby-Lowndes, Master of the East Kent Hunt, his huntamen, whippers-in, and other servants from riding or hunting over the farm. Mr. Belby-Lowndes did not appear.annons

Mr. Christie, for the plaintiffs, said that in spite of a request not

very small part of it, the buot had

The Roman Catholic Government Meanwhile, Polico-constable. Mac- Murray was engaged in a fight with of the Swiss canton of Ticite have the rest of the gang, who numbered recently enforced a law preventing to hunit over the farm except four, making, with the driver live in dancing except during the first three from the factory to the van

men escaped. one of the mea was carrying a load all. He was overpowered and the months of the year. Every ball will ridden over it on more than one have to receive police authoria occasion, breaking down gates and badly, frightening the company's Mr. Subert, does not know how. The ven, perfectly p

tion new vehicle, many men were in the van when he was found to contain a jammiya It is expressly forbidden that per- Lowndes himself had also ridden

valuable pedigree cattle. Mr. Bejby made his lucky jump on the run deadly-looking iron bar, and three sons mider sixteen years of age across the farm and spoke to the ning board, but described what hapahaped sticks, evidently intended should dance, Between sixteen and farm bailiff pened as follows

for beating off assailanta. It had twenty dancers must be accom The judge granted the injunction Continued at foot of next column). been stolen three days before. panied by their parente.

sought."

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