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GERMANY'S DIRE STRAITS.

Phenomenal Increase in Cost of Necessities.

(Reuter's Service.)

Berlia, August 20..

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;

KEEP CHEERFUL.

Proof of How Mind Rules Body,

That an ailing person with a strong resolve to get well has a

Berliners are aghast at the prospect of coal being sighty five great advantage over an invalid million marks a ton in consequence of the Coal Council's warning of of the pessimistic type is general a forthcoming two hundred per cent increase in prics. This comes (ly recognised. Will power is a on top of a two thousand per cont. increase in the transport great asset in illness. But how rates just effected, already making the coal prices two the body can be moved by the million times above the pro-war rate. Electric light, gas and mind's influence is shown by railway rates are becoming prohibitive. The prices of clothing, boote prechobiologiste. and food are advancing enormously and already exceed world parity. With the object of saving the Leipzig autumn fair from becoming a washout, the fair authorities have been empowered, to issue energ enoy currency.

BRITISHERS MAROONED IN THE ARCTIC.

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Rescuers Have to Dodge Soviet Authorities,

London, August 20. Stefannsson announces that the schooner Donaldson sailed from Nome, Alaska, on August 2, to rescue four Britishers marooned on Wrangel Wisland since September, 1921.

The Donaldson's departure was kept secret in order to preveal Ita interception by the Soviet authorities, who recently reported that they had ordered the capture of any British ship trying to roach the island, which the Soviet claims to be Russian, The four Britishers wore landed in 1921 to preserve the British rights re-assected by Canadian Government in 1914. "

H.M.A.S. AUSTRALIA TO BE SCRAPPED,

Melbourne, August 20. Mr. Bowden, the Minister for Defence, announces that stope being taken to dismantle the battlecruiser Australia.

INTERNATIONAL CROOKS.

Hull Shipowner to Get

£23,000 Back.

Paris. The trial of William Warren and his confederates, accused of swindling, ended to- day.

Sir Walter Cockerline, a Hull shipowner, was awarded an order of restoration for 1,800,000 francs (about £23,000) of which Warren defrauded him by a trick.

Warren, a South African sub- ject, aged 57, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment and fined 3,000 francs.

Francis John O'Brian (Austra- Jian) got two years, and John. Evans (& Scot) three years, for cheating a Paris merchant.

Other terms were: O'Connor, two years: Dickson and Donovan, 6 months each.

Edward Lewis was awarded five years' imprisonment in his abeance.

HIDDEN SPOILS.

One of Warren's aliases WLS "Mr. Rafferty, the American millionaire." He and the gang were "wanted," as "international crooks," for many "confidence" and "gold brick" tricks.

Scotland Yard at one time had a complaint of £12,850 gone a- missing when Warren left London. Altogether the police of the capitals have been for months on the track of some 15,000,000 france, or 1,000,000 dollars, or £200.000, said to have been col- lected by the band of sharpe.

Most of this money is said to be still in the banks of Spain and other countries.

NICE TRICKS,

The prosecutor from Hull met "Mr. Rafferty, the millionaire," At Nice and Monte Carlo...

Betting transaclious were made in which the winnings wors stated by the "crook" 'to be as much as £150,000, but the latter left with £23,000 of Sir W. Cockerline'e money.

One of the gang bas what the police call a cauliflower" ear, and that clue was most important in the rounding up of the gang.

"Mr. Rafferty," true to his gift for leadership of the gang, was the last to be arrested,

FRIDAY THE 13TH,

Why J. Parham Stayed

in Bed All Day.

the

are

Dr. A. Reutordahl, of the Ramsey Institute of Biology: Minnesota, says that anyone can prove that the mind is effective. in controlling the blood circula- tion by the following experiment: "The subject is strapped to a balance, which is then brought'] into the horizontal posi ion of equilibrium. Upon being reques- ted to make some mental calcul. ations which involve concentra- ! tion, it will be be found that the balance will begin to ewing on ite fulrum or pivot in such a manner that the feat will ascend while the head descends.

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**If it is desired that the blood shall fluw

the in

opposite direction, then tho atten- tion of the subject moat be directed to the lower part of the body. The experimenter Gret brings the balance once more into a horizontal position. Then it is only necessary to direct the subject to think about his foet.

THOUGHT AND CIRCULATION, "He can be requested to im- agine himself in a jumping con- toat and that he is flexing himself on his toes in preparation for the leap in o the air.... The balance will begin to move downward at the foot end, upward at the op New York, July 12.-To- posite end, showing that the morrow, being Friday, and the blood has travelled towards the thirteenth day of the month, Mr.feet instead of the head, as in the John Farbam, owner of a garage, first experiment." will spend the entire 24 hours in This experiment, which has bed. And this is why.

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been carried out in the psycho- Whilo he was. working on logical laboratories, Bays Dr. motor-car several months ago, a Reuterda bi in Mr. Ford's journal, steel splinter destroyed the sight proves conclusively that equíli- of one of his eyes. It was on the brium was destroyed by the blood flow to the head during the pro. 13th of the month.

blom calculation. Similarly, the pulse is subject to the mental etate, and psychobiology declared cheerfulness and optimia "are the benevolent attending genii of medical science.".

On the 13th of the next month he broke an arm while cranking

a car.

Still a month later, or the 13th he slipped and broke a log.

The last time" Friday was the 13th was in April. On that day, while John was watching re- pairers lifting a car by block and tackle, the rope broke and the block smashed his too. Later on the same day the garage caught Giro.

"So to-morrow,"

CURE FOR CANCER.

Hopeful Development of Serum Reported. Berlin: At the Hamburg said Mr. Medical Society's meeting there Parham to-day, "I'm going to has been appourced an im- stay between the sheete, where portant advance in the treatment nothing can happen-unless," he of cancer by the use of a Bezu added, as an afterthought, while (originally discovered by Pro- sudden apprehension clouded his fessor Deutschmann) optimiem, "the ceiling falls on "Tumorcidin."

me."

Danying stoutly that he is superstitious, Mr. Parbam de- clares that if nothing happens to him to-morrow, he will, on June 13, 1924 (which is the next time Friday will be the 13th of the month), change his luck by doing all the following things

Riee sarly to view the moon over his right aboulder;

Don his undergarments wrong side out;"

Smash a mirror;

At breakfast drop & knife, fork and spoon and spill salt on the table;

Walk under a ladder; Endeavour to meot a cross-eyed girl, and

Let a black cat cross his path. "And if I survive all that" he adds, "I shall count myself for ever immune."

which he was travelling with two elegantly dressed girls.

called

Professor Kotzenburg atates that, after several years of effort, the serum has been so improved that slight doses have been found to prevent cancerous growths, while larger doses, extended over a long period, have produced a curative effect or a partial falling

way of the growths.

In cases where the treatment can be applied for several months without interruption the professor thinks it may be possible to effect) a complete cure,

TEST FOR DIPHTHER A.

Experiments on Children at Portsmouth.

Experiments to prevent diph- theria have been carried out in the Portsmouth Children's Home,! following a serious spread of the disease which had been contracted by some of the children at school.

Four hundred children and 50. nurses underwent the "Scholk"

When at last he was captured At one time Mrs. Warren was In Paris, Warren had £10,000 under arreet, but she was acquitt-test, which consists of a toxin worth jewellery in the car in fed of complicity in the fraude.

BALANCE.

BY BERTON

BRALEY.

A little lees of politics, a little more of sense,

A little less of blindness and a little more of vision;..

A little less of theory and more experience,

"A little less of doubtfulness, a little more docision;

A little less, a little more, of one thing or another

Would tend to clear the heavy fog in which wo grope and smother.

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A little less of selfishness, a little more of charity,

A little less of ugliness, a little more of beauty;

A little less mendacity, a little more of vority,

A little loss of sbirking and a little more of duty;

A little less of standing still, a little more of movement,

Would give a lot of added speed to progress and improvement.

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A little less stupidity, a little m170 of thought,

A little less of serpent and a little more of dove;

A little more of faith and works by which a task is wrought,

A little less of hstrol and a little more of love;

A little more, a little less, of one thing or other,

Would make each mortal, more or less, his fellow mortal's brother

injection into the arm, and proves whether pesons are susceptible to diphtheria.

Those susceptible were given a series of small injections to render them immune for seven yours. It was reported to Portemouth Guardians that the results were gratifying.

The Portsmouth Poor-law inst- itution is the first to carry out such work.

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