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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1932.

DIRECTORY & CHRONICLE

OF THE FAR EAST

CHINA, JAPAN, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, MALAY

STATES,

PHILIPPINE

ISLANDS, INDO-CHINA,

· NETHERLANDS INDIA, ETC. ́ ́

(Published by the Hong Kong Daily Press, Ltd.)

First edition 1862, revised and enlarged annually

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NEW THEORIES OF CANCER.

SMOKING IS NOT A CAUSE.

UNITED STATES SUBMARINES.

WELL EQUIPPED FOR RESCUE OF OREW.

An extremely interesting, and to anjokers reassuring, piece of re

Washington.-United States sub. starch is forthcoming from Bir-marines are now better equipped mingham in the ninth annual re- than ever before for rescue of the port of the British Empire Cancer crow in case of undersea accidents. Campaign.

For many years it has been known that cancer can be induced

Should an American submarine sink to the same depth as the French submarine Promethee, re

in animals by the repeated ap-cently lost off Cherbourg, the crew plication of tar at certain tem probably would be able to escapo peratures. Last year Dr. J. W. unaided provided they could keep Cook, of tho Cancer Hospital the water from flooding the entire (Free), Brompton-rond, was

able vessel. to report that he had isolated from the tar group a hydrocarbon which was found to produce cancer in a very large and constant propor- tion of eases.

Now it is known that, during the process of smoking, tobacco also produces a tar, and it was thought that there might possibly be some relation between this and the incidence of cancer in the lip, tongue, and throat,

The "lung," individual rescue device developed by the navy, in believed capable of rescuing a sub- marine's crow at any depth at which the vessel would be able to resist being crushed by the pressure of the water, say, the navy's sub- marine rescue experta.

The navy also has five large steol rescue chambers, which can be lowered into the water and adjust- ed over a hatch, allowing the crew to climb in and be hauled to the surface

Radio Apparatus.

Prolonged experiments were, therefore, made with tobacco tar in various solutions and at various temperatures. But of the large number of mice treated, only American submarines also can оде · exhibited any traces of bend out radio signals from below cancer, and that only at the end the surface. This is done by re- of sixteen months.

leasing a buoy which is equipped As previous inquiries had al- with a radio coil, telephone, and ready shown that there was no electric connections for the disabled The submersibles also are definite, provable relation between vessel. cancer of the lip, tongue, and equipped with air hose connections throat and the possible irritation for pumping in fresh air and re- caused by a pipe stom, tobacco | moving fos) sir, " smoking would seem to have been conclusively eliminated as a cause of cancer.

Gone-mutation Theory,

Apart from this and the general- ly impressive record of sustained research, probably general interest in the report will be focussed upon the gene-mutation theory of the cause of cancer, sponsored by Mr.

The "lung," which resembles a gas mask in appearance and method of operation, is standard equipment for all submarines.

In Case of Accident,

When a submarino sinks, the crew escapes, if possible, to one compart- ment, the water-tight door is closed and each man dons a "lung."

A flooding valve then is opened, J. P. Lockhart-Mummery, and the and water flows into the compart very promising results in the curoment. This forces the air in the and prevention, of career in mice

obtained by Dr. Thomas Lumsden compartment toward the ceiling, at the London Hospital.

and when the pressure between this Briefly, the theory put forward Air and the incoming water is by Mr. Lockhart-Muminery and by

previous observere is as follows: equalized, an air bubble is formed For a considerable time biologists between the water and the celling, have postulated in the nucleus of and the men stand with their heads every living cell 0 series of.

elements, known as genes, which in this bubble.

contain the inherited characteris. The men then insert the mouth ties that are to determine the piece of the "lung" in the mouth,

inture and behaviour of its dea- 'cendants.

The Escape Hatch,

place a clamp on the nose, and in- Now malignant or cancer cells date the breathing bag of the only differ from other tissue cells"lang" with oxygen. in their behaviour, their lawless growth regardless of their, sur- roundings. In all other respects they breed true to the tissue in which the cancer arises. Hence the great variety of kinds, of cancer,

In Mr. Lockhart-Mummery's view, a change in the genes of the first affected cell, wherever it may be, in the explanation of the peculiar behaviour and varying types of

cancer.

Last year Dr. Lumsden obtained

Next the escape hatch in the side of the submarine is opened. More water flows in, but does not disturb the air bubble. A cork buoy floats to the surface with cork markers at intervals along the rope.

Each man then graps the buoy rope and floats out through the hatch along the rope to a distance depending on the depth.

an anti-cancer sorum that could be At the first marker and each one safely injected into mice. He bas thereafter he stops for a length of sinca been working intensively time measured by counting his with this sorum.

breaths. This process decompresses In a series of forty-seven mice his body, and he suffers none of suffering from natural or spon, the ill effects of the "bends" which taneous cancer, he can now report result from passing too quickly a curo in 70 per cent, of cases. He from the pressure a great depth. can also report that of the cured to that at the surface. mice no less than 10 per cent, have beon rendered immune to the further. induction of cancer.. It is a re markable achievement, opening up a vista of the highest promise.

THREAT TO BURN

'MAN ALIVE.

KIDNAPPER'S NOTE TO

CAPTIVE'S WIFE,

Ipoh, August 8.-The police have auccessfully tracked down the kid nappers of Yeoh Swee Sim in hut in the hills beyond the Tekka mine, midway between Ipoh and Gopeng.

SHIPPING MOVEMENTS.

The R.M.S. Empresa of Japan, arrived at Manila on Aug. 21 at 10 am., left on Aug. 22 at 4 p.m., is due at Hong Kong on Aug. 24 at 7a.m. and leaves for Vancouver via porta on Aug. 26 at noon,

The R.M.S. Empress of Russia left Yokohama on Aug. 20 at 3 p.m., leaves Honolulu on Aug 27. is due at Vancouver on Sept. 2, and leaves for Hong Kong Thom.v. Siamese Prince from New via porta on Sapt. - 10. York tailed from Shanghai on 20 istant and. is expected here on 23rd instout at daylight.

Seeing the police approach the captors fled, leaving their captive ing so, with the others, soized him. in the hut. The police returned to He cried out but his captare Ipoh together with Yeoh Swee Sim, plugged his mouth with tobacco, who reached home on Sunday at 7 dragged him to the car, pulled him p.in having been absent since Wed-in and drove off. nesday.

The car halted near a jungle path Relating his experiences Yeoh on the Gopeng Road and his cap. Swee Sim stated that after loaving tors led him to a hut on the hill the mine he noticed a car standing He was treated well while in cap;" by the roadside, the driver attend- tivity but was forced to sign a note ing to repairs. He slowed down to for a sum of money, pass and the man came up and ask- Two days after his capture hi ed for the loan of a pair of pliers wife received a demand for 86,000. Ho stopped the car and gave the and, in default of payment; it was man the pliers, Labter the man to stated that her husband would be turned the pliers and as he was do burned, to death. The note was (Continued at foot of next column, handed to the police,

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