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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1929.

ARTIFICIAL BLOOD. NEW WESLEYAN SAILORS EVERY FOX TO BE SHOT. & SOLDIERS' HOME.

MANY LIVES ALREADY SAVED.

FRENCH DOCTOR'S WONDER- FUL DISCOVERY,

[MAITISH UNITED PREIS.)

serum which serves As A substitute for blood enabling sufferers from hemmorhage to sury vivo was described by its discoverer Dr. Leon Normet, in a paper read Lefore the Academy of Sciences in Paris, by Professor Charles Richet, the eminent biologist.

GRAND CONCERT.

SOMERSET FARMER'S ORDER.

CAMPAIGN AGAINST

HUNTING.

PRINCIPAL LOCAL ARTISTS.

A thoroughly enjoyable evening's

Open war has been declared on entertainment is in store for those the hunting community at Minehead who have been fortunate enough to by Mr. Henry Nation, the West secure tickets for the concert which Somerset farmer who caused a "sen is to be given in the Assembly Hallation by banning all hunting ever of the Home by the principal artistes of the Colony, on Saturday next; May 11, at 9 p.m. in aid of

Mr. Nation, has instructed his men to shoot all foxes at sight the funds of the Home.

The concert is under the patron-He has brought his intentions to the age of Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn and Mrs., Southern who have taken

keen interest in the Home, Mr. Southorn having laid the pria-1

The serum, which produced as tonishing results when applied to animals has recently been remark ghly successful with human beings.cipal foundation stone of the build- Two hundred cases of severe loss of

ing November, 1927. General Sandi. blood were treated by injection of lands and Commodore Hill have the serum with invariably satisfac «tory results. This is the rst time also promised to be present. in the history of medicine, accord. ing to Professor Richet, that a

serum has been evolved that is able to remedy beinmorhage permanent.

Successful Research.

Seience has occupied itself for many years with the problem of finding an injection which will serve as blood during the period re- quired by the drained organism for

generating a new supply. Prof Ricbet himself experimented with various chemicni salts and sugars and was able to keep patients who

had bled copiously alive for a short „time, but in every case the patient

eventually succumbed.

to

STREET HYDRANT CASE

ALLEGATION. AGAINST

POLICE.

A Chinese, who appeared yester day before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Central Magistracy on a charge of drawing water from a street hydrant in Connaught Road West without authority, was fined $3 or in default to serve seven days' im

his lands laat November, and pre-prisonment. serving sanctuary for all hunted animals at Clatworthy, on the Bren- don Hills.

notice of local hunt masters, and publicly issued the following notice:

Extermination of foxes. I have instructed tenants of my farms at West Hatch and Clatworthy to shoot every fox within range. For the benefit of the country generally it is hoped all farmers will do the same.

Mr. Nation is determined to exter- minate hunting in his neighbour- The cordiality with which the hood. His latest move will serious artistes have tendered their services affect the Taunton Vale Fox

hounds and West Somerset Fox- reflects not only their personal hounds.

generosity, which is much appre ciated by the Committee, but the willingness of the public of Hong Kong to support anything which is done for the welfare of Service Men.

Popularity of Dry Institution. The popularity of the Home and the fact that it is ministering to the tastes and needs of a large and

dry institution to a wet growing class of men who prefer a

are in part indicated by the fact

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that nearly 7,000 men have slept in the Home since its opening three months ago, and 1,929 have enjoyed hot baths. Many other figures could Dr. Normet, who is to-day an he given "showing appreciation of army doctor with the rank of the the various amenities of the institu- tion, including those of the smart colonel, began his researches dur-up-to-date restaurant, with its ex ing the war, presenting the first rellent and varied menu. It is in- fruit of his researches the teresting, to find that 27,000 fresh eggs have been consumed, an Academy of Sciences in 1924. On

average of about 300 a day, served that occasion he discussed the up in a variety of appetising forms efficacy

equal of

into and accompanied by an injection ส

variety of attractively presented the veins of citrate of soda in cases entables of other kinds, the cooking of hemmorhage. Now citrate of of the Home being of exceptional wyla in the smallest doses is a quality and carried on under almost deadly poison, but Dr. Normet had perfect sanitary "conditions. found that when used in combica- Service Men's Appreciation, tion with citrate of magnesia its Apart from their patronage of the poisonousness diminished consider Home, Service Men have frequently ably In fact, combined in this expressed their gratitude to its way, citrate of soda is harmless promoters and basked such expres- safe in doses of more than sixsions by voluntary contributions in, money and gifts towards the further' equipment of "the Home,

grams.

Dog Which Survived.

an

May Cause IL-Feeling. Mr. Nation's farm at West Hatch consists of about thirty acres, in- cluding several coverts, in some of the best hunting country of the Taunton Vale Foxhounds. His pro perty at Clatworthy is Roes Farm, holding of 168 crea. Deer, as well as foxes, abound in this hill country neighbourhood, which is hunted by the Doven and Somerset Staghounds the Quantock Stag the West Somerset hounds, and

Foxhounds.

Defendant informed his Worship that the Chinese constable who arrested Kim, had been willing to release him un being offered $1 as bribe, but that on seeing a Euro pean Sergeant coming his way, he re-arrested him (defendant) and took him to the Station..

His Worship directed the Inspec

in charge of the case to look into the accusation.

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA.

HOLIDAYS IN JAPAN,

N.Y.K. EXCURSIONS,

The Nippon Yusen Kaisha has decided to issue summer excursion tickets between Hong Kong and Japan, commencing June 10 nd ending September 18, in order to afford every facility to residents in Hong Kong and vicinity to take summer vacations in Japan, the rutes of passages being as follows: Nagasaki and Teturn H8168 Kobe

Yokohama....

210 235

There summer excursion tickets

will be available for three months. permitting. of stop-over at way- ports.

BANNED U.S. NOVEL.

DOSTON'S BOOK CENSORSHIP AT WORK.

mea-

Boston's book censorship sures again are called into play, this time against Mr. Theodore Dreiser's widely discussed novel,

An American Tragedy."

The prosecutor, "in asking for a conviction, asserted that the novel contained" matter tending to cor. rupt the morale of youth."

(BRITISH UNITED PRESS.]

A local jury convicted Mr. Donald Comel. T. E. Lawrence, author Friede, a New York publisher, 'for and mystery man of the British selling the book in Bostor, Anding Army in Arabia, has again disit to be an "obscene work." covered that he can't hide his iden tity in England like he can in the far, wilds of Arabia. He has been found scrubbing floors and making urda in the "Cattowater Royal Alr Station at Plymouth.

Early in Lawrence, going under the name RUSSIA'S FOOD SHORTAGE. of Aircraftman Shaw of the Royal Air Force, arrived in England from Arabia with the greatest secrecy; The Uncrowned King of Arabia, as he is termed, was ordered to re turn to England for diplomatic

reasons.

"February,

Living in a Hut.

Colonel

In an interview Mr. Nation said that he and his wife were deter mined to pursue relentlessly their crusade against hunting and all that it entailed in suffering to de-

Since his return he has been try fenceless animals. He also em- phasised the loss and anonyance to ing to avoid the public, and for farmers caused by the depredations many days he went by unnoticed of foxes, to prevent which he con- among the humble workers with sidered they should be shot and whom he was associated. His Ox- betho fordian accent and bis diminutive not hunted."

Severul Masters of Hounds declin-statute he is only & feet 3 inches ed to express any view, but an ex- tall-soon gave him away.

"In order to avoid, the inoppor. Master of several well-known packs deplored a move which was, he said, tunities of memento hunters," auto- calculated to create ill-feeling be graph seekers and persistent inter- tween landlords and farmers and views, Colonel Lawrence resorts to his high speed "motor-cycle with hunting people.

which he fees from the flying field.

Dr. Charles Cornish, # veteran follower of the West Somerset Fox- He lives in a hus along with hounds, described Mr. Nation's de-twenty or more other aircraftmen cision as "humbug," and said that with whom he has his meals. They other farmers would ridicule it

are now aware of Mr. Shaw's real name and fame but he has forbid den them to mention the word **Lawrence or Arabia."

CIRCUS ELEPHANTS' ESCAPADE.

VISITS TO GERMAN SHOPS. The inhabitants of Reutlingen, in Wurtemberg, have been provided by a capricious elephant with an effective, if not literally pertinent, illustration of a popular saying. In Germany it is an elephant, not à bull, whose behaviour in a china shop is frequently compared with that of devastating blunderers.

The elephant, which with three others of its kind was visiting Reut-

found at an optician's and in a lamp true, enter a china shop, but it shop very similar material upah which to exercise its talents.

At the end of five years Dr. The Building Fund is still incom- Normet succeeded in producing a plete, but, apart from that, it must serum consisting of a combination be evident to anyone visiting the of citrates the success of which sur. Huing that an institution "run on passed his fondest hopes. Before such first class lines, and working attempting to apply it to human without the profits which are made beings Dr. Normet tested it ex by awet

bar, cannot possibly haustively upon dogs. He tried it be a commercially paying. concern In cases of herumorhage where the with the low scale of prices which lass of blood was fifty to sixty cubic are charged. It is not intended to "centimeters per kilogram, carb. It exists to serve Service Men; responding to the less in pot to thake money out of them, and average man weighing 145 pounds it is hoped that many annual sub- of a gallon of blood.

scriptions will be forthcoming in In these cases the animal had order that the high state of linger with a circus, did not, it is practically censed to live; its heart had stopped heating and it did not breathe the only sign of life was the feeble functioning of the ner." An injection of the vous system. serum not only brought the dog to life immediately but stimulated to eat and run about. The subse quent recovery was perfect."

The serum has been applied with equal success in approximately two- hundred cases among human beings. The value of the serum in all cases Its em- of bemmorhage is obvious. ployment in emergency cases where

cessary and transfusion is donor is not obtainable will make it indispensable in all elinies and hospitals.

The formula of Dr. Norinet's serum is simple and is as follows:

efficiency may be maintained for the benefit of the men to whom we are so much, and for the honour of the Colony.

Programme. 1-Selections from "

doliers":

The Gon-

(a) For the merriest fellows

Are we

Mr. Parker and Chorus. (b) When a merry maiden

marries"

Mr. Tinson and Chorus (c) A regular Royal Queen

2-The

The Chorus:

In the Main Streets. The four animals slipped away from their keepers at the goods station after being detrained. Three of them, after dancing round several suburban gärdens regardless of boundary fences, were soon brought to "reason, but the fourth walked

across the railway lines into "the

บ

The shortage of foodstuffs and other daily necessities is getting) very serious in Moscow, the people waiting in long lines for copre near the shops without getting what they need. The private shops are also unable to get supplies even at exorbitant prices for the very poorest qualities.

The same state prevails in the

cities of the Ukraina. The authori ties have decided to issue new re- gulations concerning the trade in daily necessities but they will hard-

relieve the situation as long as the Government stands by its Policy of restricting importa..

MORE SHIPPING BOARD

SHIPS TO BE SOLD.

Washington.The United States Shipping Board his ordered pre- parations to be made for sale of the vessels of the American, Gulf i and Orient line to the Yankee Line, for guaranteed operation

ECHO OF KU KLUX KLAN.nder the American flag.

A SENATOR'S PLEA REFUSED.

The Senate at Washington have

BISHOP'S BONES FOUND.

refused, by 80 votes to 14, to adopt the ruins of the Abbey of La Noe, During the recent excavations in

a resolution moved by the Hon. Laboaneville, France, according to

Heflin J. Thomas Alabama), condemning the attack skeleton of a Bishop of the thir (Democrat: word just received from Paris, the made upon himself at Brockton, teenth century, his pastoral ring Massachusetts, recently, after he still on his finger and his episcopal had addressed a meeting of the cross by his side, was found in a

Ku Klux Klan.

Senator Hefin, on that occasion, tomb. Through documents in the ing a bottle which missed him but Garin de Sierrey, who died in 1201. was assailed with missiles, includabley, the body has been identified as that of the Bishop of Evreux,. struck a policeman.

The pastoral ring has been added to the treasury and relics of Evreux. Cathedral.

He aroused a considerable re- ligious controversy during the de- bate on his resolution by making the charge that the opposition shown to it was due to influence brought to bear by Catholica

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It was main streets of the town.

It is reported that Havana store- apparently bent merely on a little Mrs. Tinson, Mrs. Daven-healthy enjoyment, and, like a well-keepers are gradually doing away with the use of cats for catching port Brown, Mrs. Bellamy, trained circus elephant, took care Miss Hancock, Mr. Anniss, to pick its way among the terrified mice. Instead, snakes of the boa Mr. Brock, Mr. Green, pedertrians to step over persona who Epecies are being used as Mr. Griggs, Mr. Parker. had stumbled or been pushed over Fairies from the Moon..... Mrs. Womack and Misses

in the panic. grains, citrate of soda: 51 grams citrate of calcium; 4 grams citrate of magnesin; 1 gram citrate of amoniacal iron; 20 grams citrate of manganese for a litre of sterilized

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MANILA CIGARS:

FACING SEVERE COMPETI TION IN AMERICA,

"The Philippine cigar trade is facing a very keen competition from American made cigars, and

1:h-e prospects.

sers."

on Saturday am, the 11th instant. She will be dispatched on 'Satur day, the 11th instat, at 2 p.m.

"Its first visit was to the lamp shap The m.v. Ruhr (HAL) left. P. Gittins, R. Wong, in the Wilhelmstrasse, whence, after Shanghai on Wednesday, the 8th Ho M. Glendinning. a tour of the premises, in which re-instant, at 3 a.m., and is due here 3.-Songs

Mrs. Bellamy, markably "little damage was done, 4.Songs.

Mr. Brock.is emerged by another door. 6.-Humorist

Mr. Burnett.

Panic Caused. 6.-The Jockey Dance

Miss P. Gittins, R. Wong, H. Ho, M. Glendinning.

- INTERVAL

Philippine of

sinokes in the American market 2-Songs from her repertiore this year are gloomy.

Reports have been received in 3-Songs Mr. Green. Manila from the United States to 4.-Two Scenes from

the effect that one of the biggest

eigar distributors in the States Eas

asked the cigar dealers and jobbers in the American market to refrain from handling Philippine made cigars. Berious effects on the eigar industry in the Philippines are bound to be felt in the near future unless proper ineasures to coun- ternet this movement are taken in due time.

The American market is at pre- of Bent the greatest consumer Philippine cigars, with China rank- ing second

The total shipment of Philippine cigare abroad during 1925 amount ed to 220,334,441 units, valued as P.9.530,279.

At the optician's it became more playful, burst down two doors, and shattered the whole piante glass window and the exhibited stock of spectacles, pince-nez, and optical in- struments.

1-On a January Morning in Somersetshire" from "Tom Jones".Mr. Brock and Chorus. Each visit caused a panic among "The Yeomen of England" - the sales-people and customers, Irom "Merrie England" though in one shop a saleswoman is -Mr. Green and Chorus. reported to have had the presence of mind to open a second door into Miss Woods. the street, through which the animal obligingly disappeared. The great- Carmen

est havoc was wrought in a music (a) The Canzonet Bohemian " shop. The last visit was paid-

(Act II.)

through the window-to a men's Frasquita

outfitters, whore a motor-cycle and Mrs. Davenport Browne, bicycle suffered irreparable damage. Mercedes.....Mrs. Bellamy. There followed another half-hour's Carmen Mrs. Womack chase through streets and gardens, Zuniga Mr. Parker. at the end of which the animal was Morales.. Mr. Dorner. trapped in the courtyard of a hos Gipsy Dancing Girl

pital. The heavy double gates were Miss Rachel Wong.elosed, but a playful heave of the shoulders disposed of them instant ly, and the chase continued until at last the truant, bleeding from cuts acquired during its violent progress, was comered and returned with the aid of leg shackles and a motor lorry to the circus.One of the keepers was slightly injured, and had to receive attention in hospital..

Gipsy Boy

Miss Phyllis Gittins. (b) "Terzetto (Act III.)

Frasquita, Marcodes, aad- Carmen, Accompanists: Mrs, Griggs, Mra Woods, and Mr. Mason.

God Save the King..

12.

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