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caught, often faces a firing squad avon in peace times. In the case of Army officers, death is practi- eally inévitable. Mr. White cites certain cases:
SPIES AND FIRING SQUADS. years ago." An officer in the Crecho-Slovakian Army-hurried to the Prague airfield, one morning, rushing to catch the Berlin plane. Ho Was Toticeably excited! He caught the plane, but in his huste and excitement left a small at- tacho-case behind. Attendants nt the field opened the case to dia- cover its owner and when the officer returned by the next plane to get the case, he walked into the arms of the police and, a little later, to a wall before. a firing squad. In September · last year, likewise, the Poles executed a cor poral in their arwy for selling seerota to the Lithuanians,
Polish Scandal,
Such was the procedure last July when Major Dembowsky of the Polish Army was arrested nu le opened the house gate of the Soviet Embassy in Warsaw. He and the suit-case he clutched so nervously were hustled into a car and hurried to the Polish War Office. There the suit-enso was opoued and from it poured a roll
The Soviet.
Storien of Soviet espionage figure of documents-the entire mobiliza-, largo among the tales which tion plans of the Polish Army, round Europe, but very little is showing exactly what that Army would do in event of war between, said of European espionage, in Poland and the Soviet Union. Aj Soviet Russia. In some ways it is few days later, after court martial, the most difficult of all countries Majur Dembowsky was shot.
An incident somewhat similar to this occurred in Praguò several
She Heeded
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(barring, perhaps, Japan) for foreign systems to operate in Every European city has its group of foreigners, retired. gentlemen of wealth, business representatives, students, workmen and even Som unemployed And a spy, can settle down among them without exciting andue attention. The central figure of the German explonage system in England before the war little Gorman tailor, living in the poorest part of London,
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1932.
ROBERT KOCH JUBILEE.
GERMAN DISCOVERER OF THE CAUSE OF CONSUMPTION.
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Aug. Aug.
Tuberculosis met for its annual
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On the resumption of business this morning, market opened in a conference it made the work of Ro 30 Industrials 76.92 74.30 pa down on, there was heavy pressure on somewhat subdued tono, but, later bert Koch the central theme of the meeting. Half a century has gone by since Koch ravealed the ossen. tial cause of tuberculosis, a plaguė. which is as old as Tutankhamen and as world-wide as civilisation itself.
Koch bad reached maturity boj fore he made any notable dis covery. He was nearly thirty when the end of the Franco Prussian War released him from: the army medical service. And he settled down in a country practice in East Prussin.
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Here brilliant insight guided hits in his search for disease- bearing organisms, using methods was which had been originated by Anaconda Copper
Pastour only a few years before.
But Soviet Russia has virtually no foreign colonies in its cities:
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It was a brilliance conditioned by Auburn exact methods of thought. For Koch not only made discoveries, but he proved them in a renaoned series of steps from the first suspicion to his final irrefutable conclusion.
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Two years later, in March, 1882, he revealed that the essential cause of tuberculosis in human beings and in animals is a minute twig.
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The idea of infection was ac LONDON EXCHANGE cepted from the beginning. Tha first results of his demonstration were chielly conceptual. The prac Lical effects were to come a gene- ration later, in legislation, in rational treatment, and the possi- biliy of the prevention and ulti- mato oradication of the disease.
No Germ No Disease.
But first there was a terrible hopelessness to bo liquidated. Older members of the present gene- ration can rebember the enclosed rooms, the superabundant cloth- ing, the attitude of fatalism which surrounded the unfortunate con- sumptive. Tuberculosis for CO many ages had been allowed to in- fect one generation after another.
The first task of Koch and bis pupils was to teach the primary notion, "No germ, no disense."
Koch's discovery of
the gorm made diagnosis of the cominoner forms of tuberculosis much easier. It gave an enormous stimulus, to further research, and with the rosult that at the beginning of the' cantúry some iden of the wide. spread nature of the disease began to be based on exact evidence.
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