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ANTI-MALARIA CAMPAIGN PROGRESS IN ASIA

When royal persons travel they choose the best and the most learned medical doctor to accompany them and so it' was that Leopold III, King of Belgium," on his trip to the Congo colonies. Was accompanied by one of the most eminent sclen- tists on tropical diseases: Prof. C. D. de Langen.

Professor de Langen, who was pleal Medicine at Nanking Prot. born in the town of Groningen de Langen remarked "It is of im- (Holland) in 1887. is one of the portance in judging quinine ana world's greatest authorities general remedy that in the course tropical diseases especially (of the years it has won for itself on malaria. His name la famous ta medical practice a range of in- wherever scientific work, aimed alcations far beyond that of mere

of malaria treatment, at the ultimate eradication this scourge of humanity, goes on.

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In more recent years quinine Not only being a learned man, and the products derived from

received greater but also a great teacher and a quinine charming causeur, Prof. de Lan- greater recognition especially in gen for a number of years repre- heart and lung conditions " sented Holland and the Nether And in his Clinical Textbook, lands Fast Indies, as well in South which we mentioned above, he And North-America as in all parts writes "It is our firm opinion that ef Asia, in Japan, In.Chins, the pregnant women who abort dur- Straits and the Philppines on ing an attack of malaria owe miscarriages to the high numerous congresses, which dealt their with tropical diseases. His Clinical temperature. They should there- Textbook Tropical Medicine, fore be given full doses of quinine. seen the least which he wrote in co-operation We have never with Dr. A. Lichtenstein, has becolection to this in practice" come an indispensable guide to the student of tropical diseases.

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PROTESTS AND MORE PROTESTS!

BRITON WHO WAS SLAPPED JAPANESE

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LONDON. June 8 (Reuter) --In the House of Commons yesterday, in reply to a ques- tion by Mr. F.J. Bellenger (Lab), Mr. RA, Butler, Under- Secretary for Foreign Affairs, made a statement regaldiak. the incident ka the Hongkew General Hospital on April 24 when Mr. A.D. Samson, AGM- tant Commissioner" of the Municipal Polles in Shanghai, was stated to have been slap. ped by a Japanese, navy, man following the fatal accident in which Mr. Bertram Lilie was killed.

Protesta Made

Mr. Butler said that the British" Consul-General had addressed a Favourable Opinion

protest to his Japanese colleague This extremely favourable opin-against the assault on Mr. Samson lon of the beneficial effects of and he understood that similar The judgment of Prof. de Lan- quinine was corroborated by the action had been taken by the

on the prophylactic and Malaria Commission of the League Shanghai Municipal Council. therapeutic effects of quinine on of Nations, of which Prof malaria 15 considered of the Langen was a collaborator utmost importance.”

This Malaria Commission pub- At the Ninth Congress of the ished a Report in which it recom- Far Eastern Association of Tro-mends. for the treatment at malaria a daily dose of 15 to 20 grains of quinine to be taken during 5 to 7 days and for the prevention of malaria a daily dose of grains of quinine during the

ERNST TOLLER FOUND HANGED

Tragedy Of German

Author's Exile"

NEW YORK, May 22-Ernst Toller, the German author and playwright, who was exiled from Germany and deprived of his citkenship after Hitler, came into power, committed suicide In a New York hotel to-day by hanging himself with the belt of his dressng gown.

His wife, Christiane Grantoff: the actress, who was one of Max Reinhardt's discoveries, is at present in Hollywood,

malarial season,

the East since 1914 returned in

Mr. Bellenger asked if stepa could not be taken to protect British officers who for various reasons had to enter the hospital

Mr. Butler: The reason for the protest was to try to stop.. incidents like this happening In future. We will do all we ean to protect British lives.

Prof. de Largen, who worked in SECRET 1938 to his own country where he

was appointed professor at the University of Utrecht. In the same

year he attended the Third -

ternational." Congress vod Tropies! Medicine and Malaria in Amster-

dam.

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Toller's body was found early this PRICE OF RECEIVING

afternoon by his secretary, Elsie

Burroughs The police, In recording the case as one of suldde, reported that no notes were found, but friends of Toller state that he had! been depressed about events in Germany and had been in ill-health for some time.

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LONDON, June 7 (T/Ocean), Television will soon be general In Germany, according to a recent announcement, and those who wish to do so may participate under the same conditions as in the case of the ordinary radio,

GENERAL

BOY RAJA AND WIFE OF HIS HEADMASTER

DIVORCE DECREE FOR HUSBAND.

Surprise Return To Bungalow

Haja Mohamed, nephew and adopted son of the former Sultan of Perak, was cited as .,co-respondent by Mr. Bernard

headmas Preedy, formerly tar of a school at Kuala Kang- was granted sar, Perak, who

a decree nisi in the Divorce Court on May 26.

Mr. Preedy, now an officer in the Educatioh Department of the Federated Malay States, petitioned for divorce from Mrs. Litian Josephine Preedy, on the ground of her adultery with Raja Mohamed, who was

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The Judgment

Mr. Justice Hodson, giving judų- ment, said that in 1937 the hus- band was suffering, from thenis. "

ленга-

In 1932 Mrs. Preedy left her hus- поде,

band in Malayo and came Mr. Preedy said that she did so declaring that she intended" to leave him for good.

He saw her on one or two oc- casions in 1935, when he was home on leave, and she rejoined" him in Malaya in 1936.

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About 709 members of both Honses of Parliament BOD other distinguished visitors on May 23 attended an "air display arranged. for their benefit at the RAF station. Northolt."Middlesex,

began to take the wife out riding, and Mr. Preedy's 209- pictons were aroused in March. 1937...

On March 31 the husband,, con- sulted his solicitors. Acting on their advice, the following day he asked Mrs. Preedy if she had misconducted herself with Raja Mohamed. She replied that he The programme began shortly was a "nice-mannered boy." after 10 am, with à mass fight

On the day the wife returned

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When Mr. Freedy returned home that it is reckoned there will be a included formation flying on Hur with a friend, a Mr. Walker, they large number of buyers The ricanes by RAFVR. pilots, aero went to the bedroom, and public television stations of the hatice by three Gladiator gh-siderable force was used to Reichs Post Office will remain ters, a demonstration of the speed the door. opën, free of admission charge. range of the Spiture, and air A comparison with the methode drill by a squadron of Hurricanes, procedure of the German Post was performed with clockwork Office' with developments in Eng-precision.

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Mr. Preedy looked round and saw the co-respondent crouch- · ing near a dressing table.

The co-respondent's slippers were outside the door, and ob seeing that he was discovered, be said, "Sorry, Bir," and bolted as fast as he could," knocking over something in the hall. *

is instructive. Dr. Gerald After the balloon demonstra- Cook director of British television. tion which concluded the air Comprising:~ Brass and Teakwood Bedsteads. wishes to start a five year plan for display, great interest was arous Teakwood Dressing Tables, Ward-the development of television,

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In regard to Mrs. Preedy's con- Teakwood Book-cases, Teakwood "bachelor', that is to say, that it ed twin-engine monoplane, shot duct, Mr. Justice Hodson said that preserve its independence across the serodrome at what ap- she did not, at the time, attempt Round Tables and Chairs, Teak-must wood Sideboard, Teakwood Ches from encroachment by the ordinary peared to be a terrific speed, even to give her husband the explana-

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MASS SPIRITUAL · MOVEMENT

Marked Progress In Kwangtung

-- SHIUKWAN, June (In'i)-The LONDON, June 7 (T/Ocean)-- Prof. Dover Wilson, the well- Mass Spiritual Movement launched

by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek i known English philologist and man in Chungking

She

Adultery Committed

teel satisfied beyond doubt that adultery has been committed," remarked Mr. Jus- tice Hodson, who added that It was a case in which the husband could ask for", the exercise of the court's discre- tion.

The judge said, "I see no reason ie gathering why there should be any refusal

Large and Small Tientsin Carpets of letters, recently delivered: momentum in Kwangtung under of a divorce on that account. 1 Morrison Electric Fiano Player lecture on Bhakespeare's "Mids the direction of Gen la Han-yun, Mr. Justice Hodson, who exer-

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mer Night's Dream in the Goethe Chairman of the Kwangtung Fro- cised his discretion in favour of 1 Perfection non-electric Vacuum Hall of Harnack House, head-vincial Government, who has made Mr. Preedy, granted him costs

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