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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAFH;~~FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1924.

MEDICAL TRIUMPHS- IN WAR.

LANDING SPEEDS.

Advances in Alleviation

of Suffering.

the Great

Autometic Devic for Aeroplanes.

One of the important problems

LOVE LETTERS TO KING.

Woman Poets und Premiers Courted,

How the Britivh medical associated with flying is the

There have been many books services. in

War reduction of the speed at which an early Georgian times, and wa triumphed over difficulties in an aeroplane lands, without a have a fairly full and accurate shown in the third volume on the corresponding effect on its top picture of the Hanoverians, Yet Lady subject, forming part of the series pood, and numerous devices Mr. Lewis Melville, in

The Official Modical History have been suggested, avon patent- Suffolk and Her Circle" (Flut of the Great War." This volume, ed, and in some cases tried out chinson & Co., 218.), contrives to like its predecessor, is the work to secure this end. So far, with make a very entertaining volume of Major-General Sir W. Gone or two notable exceptions, and to introduce new matter. Macpherson, the editor-in-chief not much progress has been made

For the first time nearly 40 of the whole series and has commercially in this direction.

of An excoedingly interesting con-lettere very considerable official dospatches, supplemented, whon those were missing, with tribution to the solution of this interest aro printed. They includo information from officers who question has now been made by Lady Suffolk'e complainte to her held administrative and other Captain G. Do Havilland, of the Royal lover, George IL, concorn- medical appointments.

De Havilland Aircraft Company, ing his troatmont of her, and hor and a demonstration has been demands to be informed what It is mentioned that in the Battle given to me of the Do Havilland was the offenco of which she had of the Somme in 1916 the modical Automatic Flap, which coctainly boor gulity. servicos had a strain thrown seems to mark a distinct stop upon them which was without forward, writes the Times noro parallel. For instanco, batween nautical correspondent, July 1 and November 30 no to a De II. 50, the machine was favourite to interest him. fower than 316,073 casualties brought in to the aerodromo, in the lady is very disoreet. were admitted to tho field very humpy air at a definitely

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ambulancea of the Fourth, Fifth, lower spoed than would be pou-j To judge from her portraits, SPECIÁL ATTRACTION

and Third Armies: No. 29sible with the normal wing and Lady Suffolk was by no means Casualty Clearing Station at airolion. The chiof feature of the a bonuty. Lord Chesterfield, one Gozaincourt received an many flap is that it is automatio In of bor ́oldest friends, has this as 5,346 in one day along action, and this în itself is com- account of hor

-the twenty-four hours from mondable, for the pilot in an

Her figuro am. on July 2 to 6' am on July omorgency has as many pointe

was above the 3--and 11,186 in the first threo to

es middle size and well shaped. ongage his attention twenty-four hour, periods of the ho noode.. Combined with it is Hor face was not beautitiful, offensive. "Yat in spite of those the De Havilland, differential but pleasing. Her hair was ex-

almost

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colossal figures--the largest in airollon control, and it is this tromoly fair and remarkably in

and were squaro any period of the war the combination which gives that Hor arms medical servicos," it is stated, measure of control at the slow loan, that is ugly. Hor count "atoad the strain with porsistent landing speeds which has always tonance was an undecided one, cheerfulness and undiminished been one of the difficultion in the and announced neither good nor ill-nature, noither senso nor the vigour, and very soon the may use of laps.

want of it, nøjther vivacity nor chinery was working

The Raps in the Do H 50, a automatically."

comparatively small machine, dulness. During the Battle of Arras tho run the whole length of the trail- physical features of the country mounted on a movable unit, which Mrs. Howard. as sho

jing edge of the wing, and are sido were turned to useful ac- count by the ingenuity of Colonel is controlled by a spring. To known until her husband auc- H. N. Thompson, the Deputy this unit is mounted separately ceeded to the title, made many Director of Medical Services of the device for operating the laps friends. Three Prime Ministers the Vith Corps, This officer, airolions, independently, of wrote to her, Polham. Gren- movement as ville and Pitt. Lond Petor. made special preparations in their automatic

the at what he designated advanced laps. The mechanism controll- borough, dressing stations, but in realitying the flap action is intercon- 70, entered into an amorona they were equipped to perform nected with a similar device in correspondence, and Mrs. Howard the functions of main dressing the opposite wing, to ensure that engaged the services of John Gay. stations, with the full resources whon in action as a slow-landing the poet and playwright, whose device tho flap on ono side works have recently undergone of the fold ambulance tent divisions, supplemented by absolutely follows the movement an astonishing revival, to help her of the other side, but the in this delicate and platonic in- other material specially ob. tained. They were established mechanism for operating the trigue. by each of the divisions in caves, airolions remains unaffooted by collars, and basements of build-any position taken up by the flap ings protected with sandbags and mechanism. overboad bursting courses, on the

THE ACTION..

Pope

Ago of

and Arbuthnot wore dovoted to her, while-Gay-and Swift sought her influence with the King, and were disappointed, for she had none.

outskirts of the town. The chief When the machine is at rest, of these was in a large subter-both flaps are pulled down to the ranean cave, from which stone full extent by the action of the cable gossip in the book, which There is a great deal of agro- had boun oxcavated for building spring, but as the machine gains exhibits Lady Suffolk as a lady Arras in the Sixteenth Century: speed in the air the pressure under of admirable discretion. She retir and inlets for stretchers were the flaps gradually lifts them unliked from the Court at which she tunnolled into it from the com- they conform to the normal cur then held the post of Mistrasy munication tranches.

vature of the wing. At this point of the Robos in 1734. The Queen

1

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This cave, to which the name the flaps come against a stop, and wished hor to stay, but the King. of "Thompson's-Cave" was given, the whole plane oporates normal-according to Walpolo,-wanted-to was fitted with electric light and ly, the spring being so adjusted get rid of "that deaf old woman.'

piped water supply, and was that this occurs somewhere below

She was then 46 years of age, able to accommodate 700 wound- the normal cruising speed The ed on stretchora in two tiere, flaps then act as airelions only, but not without charm, and, her together with operating and dres. At intermediate speeds the laps husband having died a few years. sing rooms, kitchers, etc. Un-assume appropriate jiositions ac- previously, she contracted fortunately on April 11 a large cording to the pressuras under second marriage with the Hon. shell exploded on the top of the tham, and then, in landing, the George Berkely, who was about cavo and burst the water main, lower speed preparatory to land-five years her junior. enusing the roof to fall in ining rosults in the spring pulling

Though, according to contem- two places; and, although no the flaps down. This, in effect, casualties were incurred, it was gives increased camber to the porary records, ho was "neither impossible to continue the use of wing, and a correspondingly young, handsome, healthy nor rich." the union turned out very the cave as a drossing station.greator lift, which,

A very real advance was madoan that the aeroplane is happily. Lady Suffolk survived under control at a lower speed him by 21 plaold yours, dying in in the alleviation of suffering than it would be normally, and 1767, when she was in hor 80th during the protracted battles of can he landed in a smaller space, yourə, Ypres in 1917 by the arrange- The actual reduction in landing ments for increasing oporative spoed on the De H 50 is estimat surgery in the front arous. This ad at about six miles an hour, but plan of surgical treatment of the test pilots say that, apart wounds during the battles had, from this reduction, the use of among other results, the very the flaps enables a much greater valuable one of practically getting reduction in the apeud at wildli rid of gas gangrene, which had the pilot can approach the aerod

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Life On The Moon Controversy.

as 10 to 15 miles an hour, and is

Dr. W. H. Fickoring, the really the result of the grostor confidence the pilot has in the American astronomer, who re "foul" of the machine, which contly defied the world's loading astronomers by assorting that romains myro on a lovel kool.

One of the difficulties in all vegetation grow on the moon, flap dovicos le to ensure latteral now states that he has mapped Operating on. a Snake.

control when the flaps are right out fifty-five "fields" of vegetation An operation on one of the most down at the low landing speeds, on the great orator of Era-

tosthoner, deadly snakes for abscess in the and while further. oxperiment in

Ho has taken hundreds of jaw has been successfully carried being made in this direōtion, it is out at the Zoo. 'The pationt bolloved that this has been practi- photographs of this part of the was a groen mamba, which, like cally solved. So far, experiments moon at Mandeville, Jamaica,

This yogotation - cannot the hamadryad of India has the have not been made with large resemble anything known on evil reputation of attacking and machines, in which the physical pursuing an intruder a habit quite power required to operate the earth," he said in a report on his studios. "The moon is almost exceptional among snakes. laps against the air pressure is a absolutely without atmosphere, Many are, the stories told of very big factor, but further debut something like atmosphere hair-broadth escapes from this volopment of the lateral control terror of the African forest, which ear will, it is hoped, solve this may be supplied in steam fram llas in wait for its victims amid difficulty. The commercial value the interior, and this may enable the branchos of trees. In this of the device lles in the increased things to grow in some of the

mighty craters.* case the mamba mot-his-match, spoed range, which can be appliBritish astronomers romain

Is all the better for ted in various ways according to

unconvinced. These so-called

and

A special box, designed by Miss the requirements of the aeroplane strips of voxetation are only Joan Proctor (purator of reptilos),

was employed in order that the gi

surgeon might use his knife with the snake's head. This was then comparativo safety. Hooked into pulled tight, and, with tho patient

shadows," said a famous astronó- mer to a Daily Express represent- alive., “It is, in my opinion, impossible for anything to live

this primitive oporating chamber thus secured, the rest was easy on the moon, All that Dr.

a node was inserted through an and so is the abscess now, in the sporture and manipulated over opinion of the surgeon.

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