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MACAO SUPPLEMENT Hongkong Amusements Building New Cinema

DR. SOARES' SUCCESSOR

The New Cinema "Nankin'

start laying mains and subsidiary connections in side streets. The A new Cinema, was inaugurated amount of water now being sup- on January 17 in Macao. It is in: plied by the Company amounts to tended for the Chinese commun-

250.000 litres per day and the ity, and silent pictures only will number of consumers is gradually

cinema increasing. It is be exhibited. This new

worth noting makes a total of four silent pic-

that this quantity of water is now tures houses in Macau and two

being supplied within 3 months sound pictures cinemas A new from the date the service was sound-picture house is now under started and therefore this should construction by the Hongkong be considered quite satisfactory. Amusements in central apot. It is expected that the quantity being right in front of the Post-will be increased to 500,000 litres The number Ofice Building.

per day very socn. of consumers connected mains is getting larger every day and it will proportionately" in- Grease to the laying of mains.

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Macao Hockey Club,

The Club is certainly mantain- ing its high reputation this sea- son. They have played against nine of the best Hockey Clubs of Hongkong and have successively beaten all the visiting clubs which speaks highly of the class of hockey to which the club has at- rained

It is anticipated that the Macao Hockey Club will visit Hongkong On February 4, for a return match with the Medway Officers and again on the 14th, for the Inter- port.

The interport between Macao and Hongkong has created quite some enthusiasm amongst the local sportmen and it la expected that a large crowd will accompany the local players on their visit to Hongkong.

A New Surgeon For The Government Hospital

to the

NEWS FROM PORTUGAL.

Lloyd George Returns to England.

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Mr. Lloyd George who spent few weeks at the Sunshine Coast of Portugal is returning to London) on Monday.

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Unemployment in Portugal.

The total number of unemploy- ed in Portugal is 20,000 This is about one half the total of unem- ployed registered last year.

Dr. Samuel Mala.

Dr. Samuel Mala a hoted Portu- guese writer and "nedico has Dr. Vargas Moniz, the new sur- been awarded the medal of "the geon for the Government Hospital Grand Omcer of the Order at has arrived in Macau and has re-aly by King Victor Manuel, on sumed his duties at the Hospital. a proposal submitted by Mussolini. Dr. Moniz is preceded by a good reputation in Lisbon, were he has been practising for a number of years. Dr. Meniz appointment is the result of over 20 applications- for the post in Macao submitted to the Colonial Office. This speaks well for Dr. Vargas Moniz's selection and to the improvement, of the local health services..

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1934.

‘DEATH RAY' FOR FRENCH INQUIRY INTO 40-HOUR

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A unique film, adording, for the first time, à scientific demonstra- tion of the effects of veritable "Death Ray." was shown in Lon- don recently by Dr. 8. Moncktan Copeman, F.R.S., at a meeting of the North London Medical and Chirurgical Society.

suggestion As the result of a made a few years ago at the In- Cancer Congress by ternational

experi- Dr. Copeman, elaborate ments have been carried out in the laboratories of the University of Transylvania,

They proved conchisively that minute unicellular organisms meet with instantaneous death when with invisible ubra- irradiated violet rays.

The application of the discovery to the treatment of eander was described by Dr. Claude Gouldes- brough as the only one of all the methods which have been tried in fighting cancer which offers some hope

of eventually dealing wih the spreading of the absense to different parts of the body.

Preparation of Salts.

The method of treatment is to give the patient by injection or otherwise a preparation of salts which emit ultra-violet radiation when subjected to X-ray excita- tion.

The blood itself, thus contain- ing ultra-violet light is destruc- malignant cells in the tive of body, assuming them to behave in the same way the organisma used in the film

O that there is no direct la- boratory proof, but Dr. Gouldes- brough showed some remarkable X-ray photographs showing the results of such treatment on: growths in the lungs.

In no case was there any in- dication or proof of normal tissue or altered. cells being destroyed whereas, in the case of radium, it' is a well-known experience, said Dr. Gouldesbrough, for marked necrosis and fibrosis of normal to take place side by side with destruction of malignant growth. The exciting X-ray beam is too feeble to exert destructive effecis on the cell itself.

The French Government has

The experiments have shown awarded the Legion d'honneur to

that the lethal power of the 11- the Portuguese aviators, Major

berated invisible ultra-violet ray Machado de Barros and Captains about four thousand times as Sergio and Jorge d'Avila,

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Recent Disturbances in Portugal.

Owing to recent disturbances provoked by bolshevist elements in Lisbon the Government is deport- ing to the South of Angola, where has been concentration 'camp

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disturbances. The

Dr. Soares, the well-known local surgeon who has been in charge of the Civil Hospital for about 20 years is credited with taking care of practically all operations per- bullt, a number of persons impll- formed in Macao. This has been cated in the publicly acknowledged by the local Government intends to act quite Government and public demon-energetically and henceforth no stration of the people's recogni- slemency will be extendd to any tion for the services rendered to parties disturbing the public peace. the community. The Government has on a few occasions rendered public praise to Dr. Soares' ser- vices by mentioning the Govern- ment Gazette,

Civil Aviation

Civil aviation

is in Portugal

great as that of large doses of radium. It is operative where or- dinary deep X-ray treatment has no effect.

An interesting point is that various cells seem to have more" or less specific ranges for killing pur- poses.

"Surely," şald Dr. Gouldes- brough "Nature, in elaborating the electric magnetic spectrum, did not Intend this particular wave-band to be of use only for luminating watch dials, for bronzing the bodies of sun-bath- and for mild therapeutic treatment effects by lamps."

ers,

Dr. Soares' contract with the gradually seeing new followers and £10 BEQUEST FOR

Town Council will terminate,with-

in the next 3 years.

The Waler Works Company. The work of laying. the water mains is progressing quite rapidly in the main roads." As soon as this is finished the Company will

Mr. Carlos Bleck is now preparing to start from Lisbon to Portuguese India early in February.

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London, January 2. George Bernard Shaw is among the seven authors who have been Jert £10, by Mr. A. B. Solomon, of West Runion, Norfolk.

Mr. Solomon, in his will, which has been proved at £11,552, stated that the bequest was made “as a token of graiitude for the pleasure I have had from their works."

"I had not heard of the bequest, but I am very pleased, and I shall be glad of the ten pounds,” gald "G. B. 8." to a "Bunday Express" representative.

"I am not flattered, because I have a high opinion of myself. I only hope everybody else who has read my works will do the same thing when they die-providing They can afford it."

The other beneficiaries are George Lansbury, Bertrand Rug sell, "Yaffe," H. N. Brailsford, H. M. Tomlinson, and Miss Mille F. Prout:

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France in Unfavourable Position if

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"The results of an inquiry into the probable effects. in France, of the introduction of a 40-hour working week, are given in a pamphlet prepared by M. Mau- rice Pinot for the French Society for Economic Studies. The con- clusions are based on data sup- plied by "the largest, possible employers." number of French In view of its peculiar position as regards population and labour, says the author, France would be placed in an unfavourable situa- ilon the 40-hour week were established by international con- vention. Europe as a whole world be handicapped as against dis- tant competing countries which pay their labour on a much low-

and er scale,

this inequality would be increased by a further general increase of wages. Fran- ce, however, would be placed at n disadvantage even as compared with other European countries. measure causing scarcity of la- the bour in a country where number of persons unemployed is relatively alight and the popula- tion generally declining would in- evitably lead to a rise in wages. As the situation improves and the supply of employment re- turns

In to normal, this rise wages would reach considerable proportions. On the other hand, in. countries like Italy and, Ger- many, where there is a surplus of labour and the number of per- sens unemployed is very high, the rise in wages, would doubt- less be smaller. and it might even be found that a fall in wages wages would take place before very, long this would be in-ac- cordance with the general ten- dency observed in these coun- trles.

Proceeding to estimate the ef- fects on prices, M. Pinot says that, according to the data col- lected, the share of direct wages in industrial costs" of produktion. in France varles from 18 per cent. and 20 per cent in the metal and paper fridustries, re- 'spectively, to 50 per cent, and 72 per cent. in the building. mate- rials and coal industries. From this he concludes that the first effect of the reform would be to Increase, by one-fifth, a branch of expenditure which represents from 20 per cent, to 60 per cent. of costs of production, and the 40-hour week would therefore im- "mediately result in raising costs by 4 per cent. to 12 per cent. This rise would be inevitable, since any further advance of me- chanisation in the near future appears Improbable. Moreover, these percentages represent. only the proportion of labour costs at a particular stage of manufac- ture; in order to obtain corres- ponding percentages for the total cost of manufacture of the finish- ed product, account must also be taken of indirect wages, includ- ing those Incorporated in the cost of raw materials, transport, &zè., where the share represented by wages may be very high.

the General costs,

anthor reckons, would also be increased

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construction of the great R.A.F. aerodrome at Dibán, in Irak, already begun, will involve a charge of about 4300,000 on the coming year's Air Estimates. The total cost is expected to be about £1,500,000, to be spread over five years.

Under the 1930. Treaty, by which Irak became an Independent Bbate, it was provided that the RAF should evacuate the aerodromes at Mosul, and Himaldi, shẽ that sites be selected west of the Euphrates and near Basra, Under the fřekty. the transference is to be effected by 1937.

A complète Air Force Base, almost a new town, is to Bé büllt at Dhibait. The personnel to be transferred will be nearly 8,0bd, of whom suze 40 per cent, afe Dil- tish officers and Arifen.

Strategio potr

Posth on. Dhiban, which not marked on many maps, the west bank of the Euphrates In reply to recent criticism the Undre-Becretary for Air recently stated that the site was selected after exhaustive sur- veys and on the advice of the principal medical authorities.

Its strategie Importance is great, and it accepted that the safety of the British Empire in, the Mid- dle East now largely depends upon the air arm.

by the fact that expenditure on such items as socläl asurance and allowances, workers' 'housing. &c. varies in proportion, to the hümber of workers employed; Such expenditure is equivalent to: about 30 per cent of nominal wages in the iron and steel in- dustry of Eastern France. There would also be an increase in pay- ments for amortisation purposes. &c.

Altogether the increase in costs of production is estimated at about 20 per cent., and might even exceed 20 per cent, in all cases where the maximum pro- duction is reduced. On the same busts, M. Pinot estimates the in- crease of expenditure on labour. raw materials, and general costs as follows:-15 per cent. for rail-1 way transport; 19 per cent, för coal at the pit's mouth: 16 per cent for building: 15 or 18 per cent. for local transport; 15 to 20 per cent. for gas: over 13 per cent. for the commonest cotton piece goods; 12 per cent. for mo- tcr-cars. &c. He adds that, ex- cept for shoe-making and food products, the relatively low co- efficient of increase of which (6-6 per cent. and 2 to 7-9 per cent.. respectively) is explained by the absence,, of certain data, the rise in prices resulting from the adoption of the 40-hour week would vary from 10 to 18 per

cent.

Even that estimate, it is point- ed out, does not allow for a series which It factors of increase would be difficult to express in Agures. As any hope of off-set- ting the rise in costs of produc- tion by a reduction of wholesale or retail price margins is out of the question even in normal times, the author concludes that the consumers would bear the whole weight of the proposed re- form. Finally, in view of the in- crease in expenditure of certain public services, such as post offices and railways, which would result from the reform, and tak- ing as a basis of comparison the estimates of the effects of the Eight Hour Day Act, published in 1922 by the Society for Economic Studies, Mr. Pinot considers that. the adoption of the 40-hour week would result in a deficit, in the sational budget of from 4,000,000,- 600 to 5,000,000,000 francs.

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