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SATURDAY, SEPT. 24 1927.-

MEDICAL RESEARCH.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1927.

leprosy (In connexion with which one is mindful of the work being done by British. doctors at Calcut- ta), and beri-beri; two of the most dreaded diseases. One is proud to think that Britain's contribution

DAY BY DAY.

A KISS IS THE WAY IN WHICH TWO HEARTS SHAKE HANDS.-Armiger Barclay.

A HUMAN KALEIDOSCOPE. Sights and Sounds in French Morocco.

Their

to this effort is fully commensurate The popular orchestra of H.M.S. with her world-wide obligations as at Lane, Crawford's Restaurant Spain, is frequently drawn between shoe repairers, earthenware sellers, Danae will play during dinner A comparison, detrimental to grain sellera, fishmongers, boot and the Power in charge of a far-to-night.

the development work of the furriers, basket-makers; grocers, flung Empire, and many of the sub-

French and of the Spanish in vegetable and fruit vendors, jewel- ject peoples are to-day grateful for Headquarters House this afternoon

A Scout Rally is to take place at Morocco. the medical benefits enjoyed. In at S'p when the Hon. Mr. R. H. that of the former, which is truly number is legion.

Without in the least depreciating cuit sellers and so

lers, leather workers, bread and bis-

оп. London, the Ross Institute for Kotewall will make a presentation. notable, it is only fair to point out Tropical Diseases Research is to

that (apart from the hitherto un- with donkeys and dogs, children, The streets themselves are filled day appealing for funds and, in the Francla Brett Young's novel of the zone which has of course rendered loured and white, mostly sparcly "Sea Horses," the film version of settled condition of the Spanish women and men-black, copper co- words of the appeal, there is danger same name, will be screened at the even a modicum of development clad, many of them in tattered that valuable work will have to be Star Theatre for the last time to difficult) the hilly, stony nature of rags, unkempt, unclean, all stock

day. Jack Holt and Florence Vidor the country, with the far less fer-ingless. given up unless much-needed. fin- are the leading players.

tile soil within the Spanish lines, ambles by, ringing a miniature ball.

A bent ancial generosity is forthcoming.

water-car ier does not offer the same opportunity! A couple of camela with heads erect rad's famous story, "Lord Jim," in the French Protectorate. There scattering folk,

The film version of Joseph Con-of success that is to be found with-1 stalk along, ereing disdainfully the which was announced in yesterday's the country is mostly flat, some A difference of opinion between Telegraph as coming to the Queen's times undulating, practically tree-seller and buyer suddenly fares up: Theatre soon, will be screened on leasa ready cleared vast area of high-pitched voices draw a crowd: Tuesday and Wednesday of next agricultural land, great tracts of great excitement momentarily s which are already under cultivation. vails: a third party intervenes; a Motoring through it; one sees on single coin passes hands and the H.M. the King has not been ad-each side of the road, and extend-noise instantly subsides; the crowd vised to exercise his power of dis-ing as far as the eye can reach, melts-and again the donkeys, the allowance with respect to the fol- crops or in process of ploughing, shaven Jews, the cloaked Moorish wide spaces greened with coming children, the black scull-capped un- lowing Ordinance: Ordinance herda of cattle and goats, vines men and women, pass to and fro. No. 4 of 1927-An Ordinance to commencing to shoot after last amend the University Ordinance autumn's pruning, ponds of water 1911.

and cement circular wells.

In every town there is a charcoal Here and there, scattered about mer, the charcoal, which has been and a grain, market. In the for- square buildings surmounted by lies piled, encased in rush nets, in this expanse, stand small white conveyed from outlying districts, domes. As a rule two or three tall the centre of an open yard: Cats palm trees rear their stately forms and dogs lie asleep on it. above their walls, and camels stand or crouch in their vicinity.

Here lies to hand for ali a ready means of expressing sympathy with and giving encouragement to men such as the late Professor Stokes. It would be a pity if such work

had to suffer because of financial need.

The Big Fight.

A sense of profound admiration all that they desired.

week.

nounce by special advertiserüent in Hongkong Amusements Ltd. an- this issue that Charlie Chaplin's famous comedy, "A Dog's Life," will be screened in the Queen's Theatre from Thursday to Satur- day next.

the day, owing to her petition for who figures in the cable news of Constance Talmadge, the film star

divorce from her second husband,

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One can leave it to the sports writers to dilate on the details of the Dempsey-Tunney contest at Chicago, and its result. It suffices for a commentator otherwise to view the fight from the angle of its relative importance to the public, and the money factors it involves. Gene Tunney annexed the title of

Round the sidea of the yard ait world's heavyweight boxing cham-

cross-legged men and women sell- plon on September 23, last year,

ing loaves of bread. In one cor at Philadelphia, almost exactly a marked the welcome given by Neware of various shapes. Sometimes traneous

The astonishing scenes

Groups of native houses are dot-ner a ring of women circle big rush- which ted about all over the place. They mats and baskets, sorting out ex- year age, and the battle went over York to Colonel Lindbergh on his they look in the distance like huge Dozens of pigeons hover about pick- the full ten rounds, ending in a

matter from grain. win for the challenger on points. his lone flight across the Atlantic like raised squares of dark soil. donkeys file out of a doorway laden return to the United States after beehives or ant hills and sometimes ing up what they can. A string of Thus history has practically re-are fully depicted in a remarkable Their walls are generally built of with heavy packs, peated itself. Tunney is 27, and a topical gazette being screened at mud strengthened with so-called "highbrow," while Jack the Queen's Theatre to-morrow. Dempsey is 31 and a very ordinary

stones eyed, hand-shaven children wander Dirty, bright- person as to education.

their roofing consists of either thin round. Thus age

boughs and straw or of a woven and temperament may have had "Fast and Furious" comes to the and attached to supporting timbers. which a short tour in the French Reginald Denny, whose comedy, mantle of camel's hair flung over give briefly some idea of the sights The foregoing is an attempt to some effect. Otherwise, both mer Queen's Theatre to-morrow, has are physically perfect specimens of manhood. The fight must have visited Hongkong on more than one larly the main routes, which are back in his temporary abode: Be

The roads are excellent, particu-zone discloses. The writer is now given the "fans" who were present East as a member of the Bandman hundreds of miles and are already dows wave gently long-stalked fern- occasion, having toured the Far frequently asphalted, extend for low tho high green shuttered win- for the self-sacrificing work of those paid, some of them very heavily, land and served as an aviator dur One speeds over them with all this road gleams. Beyond that lies a

They had

Company. He was born in Eng-planted with young blue-gum trees.like palms. Behind them a white who undertake the role of pioneers test, and they could not have beening the war:

for the privilege of viewing the con- in the realm of medicine and disappointed. We read of a hard

to look at below and with a sky of vast expanse of level green land, science is instinctively engendered fortunes for either side, and there

centres as Rabat, Fez, Mazagan and struggle, with waxing or waning

within the native portions of such s cloudless blue above.

on, or unrelieved by a single tree Within the towns, and especially-right to a point where land meets when one reads of the heroism of is the mental picture of two strong

Marakesh, the scene is full of inter-painted gold-red--the bright gold- the late Professor Adrian Stokes, men, tense, battling for the lew is to be seen in a film now showest. The narrow streets, barely red of millions of wild marigolds. The foreground of this picture is whose laniented death has just and which culminate months of ing at the World Theatre.

minutes that may decide a career, taken place at Lagos, in West training and previous years of is "Her Sister From Paris," a side by a long, low, continuous mass of flowers sit a circle of young This four yards wide, are bordered each And right in the middle of this Africa. This was a case in which steady progress upwards in the nald Colman as the leading man. seemingly unending succession of surmounted by a ring of small piquant Viennese comedy, with Ro-building within which appear a Moors-a circle of white "jelabas" a scientific research worker, fired night, a fortune was actually at "Her Sister From Paris' will be tiny, closely packed native shops, in crimson "Harbouches."

realm of pugilism. On Thursday by the humanitarian desire to solve stake.

Overhead In 1926 the takings were screened for the last time to-day. the problem of the transmission of nearly two million dollars gold.

the interior of which the keepers the sky is still deep blue, The dreaded yellow fever, paid the and Tunney about

Dempsey received about G.$700,000, the hour, following Tunney's vic-chers, potmenders," jelaba makers, Hot sunshine floods the scend.

While boxing is still the topic of

thereof ply their respective trades. murmur of the Atlantic surf a mile penalty by becoming infected with This time the gate receipts were ing to note that the complete film

These are of great variety. But-away is wafted on a soft breeze. G.$200,000,

tory over Dempsey, it is interest-cotton and cloth merchants, retail the discase himself. According to ed a clear million dollars gold record of the recent fight between even more, and the winner has gain- the messages received, he was on Both Dempsey and Tunney are now Harry Wills and Paulino Uzcudun the eve of an epoch-making dis-millionaires. covery, for he had made definite at the early age of 27 summers, ait will be remembered, was knock- Theatre to-morrow. Harry Wills, will be screened at the Queen's very wealthy man. and substantial progress in his millionaire overnight by stickinged out in the fourth round a few

He became a task. In his own descriptive lan- out a fistic battle of about half an moments after taking the count for

GOVERNMENT TO CARRY ON. guage, he had "hooked the fish and of earning money in the world, yet hour. It appears the easiest way

LONG HOP FROM LONDON. only had to land it" when he was is the reward of years of toil, and

The feature attraction at the.

London, Sept. 23. struck down. The loss of such a real merit..

London, Sept. 23. Queen's Theatre again to-day is

The Executive Council of the fearless

It means the ability Mac Murray's colourful story of on their flight to the East from finitely to maintain the administra- Levine and. Hinchliffe departed Irish Free State has decided de- to fight one's way, through many pioneer in medical re-minor contests, to the forefront. Parisian life, "The Masked Bride," Cranwell at seven minutes past tion of the country. search will be universally mourned. Accident of birth may give one the in which the famous dancer heads eight this morning. This is the second loss sustained physical attributes, but the rest is Francis X. Bushman, who recently Levine's aeroplane "Miss Colum macting one..

a distinguished east including

A correspondent of the Times The total flying weight of understands that at a Cabinet by British medical science within succeeds, hundreds go the way of visited Hongkong, and Roy D'Arcy, bla" is 6,000 lbs., giving a load

real hard work.. For each one who a fortnight, for it will be recalled the "also rans" Yet the crown is the villainous Crown Prince of of about twice the weight of the Valera, the Republican leader, to or two Ministers were disposed to .compel. De that Dr. Sidney Rawson. Wilson, offer. It shows to what extent gramme is completed by "screen of two quarts of tea and coffeer recognised the Government's large

certainly one of the richest that can

"The Merry Widow." The pro- aeroplane. Food carried, consists take office but that the majority the eminent anaesthetist, succumb-sport has become commercialised, snapshots" from Hollywood, a topi-a dozen sandwiches, two gallons responsibilities to the State. ed when experimenting on himself and the manner in which boxing cal gazette and with a new anaesthetic through can be exploited. It is the maze of comedy.

a Mack Sennett of drinking water, a bottle of which he hoped to eliminate some monthis, the parleys, and the man- restrictions, the negotiations of of the dangers at present attending moth purses that strike such members of a notorious gang of supply is sufficient for a flight Farmers Party which with five re- Two Chineac, reported to be chocolate and fruit. The petrol bably be the new leader of the operations. He aimed at leaving sharp contrast with the old-fash drug-traffickers whose activities of 50 hours at a cruising speed presentatives in the Dail supports patients conscious of everything years ago. One recollects the re-were repatriated to China from

ioned contests of only a score of have extended to the United States, of 90 miles per hour.-Renter

the Government, disagrees with Vienna, Sept. 23.

this decision on the ground that else except the sense of pain-a cent controversy on "is boxing Seattle on the 21st August last.

Mr. Levine and Capt. Hinchliffe worthy object for which to strive. brutal?" But many of us would be They are Lam Nin and Ko-Chun, landed at 6 o'clock this evening.

Perhaps we owe a greater debt brutes, if it were, for the chance who were arrested and sentenced They expect to proceed eastward to medical science and the heroes

of winning a million gold dollars. in the United States to three and to-morrow.-Router. Dit than we do to any other en-

two years' imprisonment respec- tively for importing opium into the United States. On completion of their sentences they were de- ported from Seattle, and landed in Hongkong, where they were kept in custody until yesterday when they were deported to Sun Wui, their native place.

Tunney can refize,

BETWEEN ABERDEEN AND ISLAND:

nine.

EXCHANGE RATES.

Vienria

London, Sept. 23.

deavour on behalf of suffering NEW CABLE GROUND. humanity, and one fears that it is only when sad calamity overtakes the pioneers of research that we think on such things. The mar tyrs who have paid with limbs and even with life itself in the work of A new regulation has been made radiology, the workers in obscure the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, by the Governor in Council under tropical centres battling to unravel 1899 by which a new cable ground the secrets of the cause and cure is established between the village. of dread diseases these are the of Aberdeen and the north east Paris wonderful contribution which the the following boundaries:

corner of Aberdeen Island within Geneva medical profession is making on be-

Berlin half of others.

Eastern Doctors of to-day drawn from the north east corner Bucharest

boundary-Aline Madrid know how to fight plague, malaria, of Aberdeen Island to the mainland,Bombay cholera, small-pox and many other bearing 18814, marked by two Yokohama fell diseases whereas only a few beteons in transit on Aberdeen New York years ago these pests were in the

Island.

Amsterdam category of the "incurable." Mal

Western

Copenhagen boundary, A line Prague aria is Italian for "bad air" of Aberdeen Island to the main-io.

drawn from the north east corners Lisbon fact which of itself tells how far land, bearing, 180 25, marked by Shangha we have advanced in our know two bancons in transit on Aber,

Brussels ledge of the cause of diseasc.

deen Island.

Milah Oslo And, in many different parts of the Northern boundary, The fore Helsingfors world, there is quiet self-sacrificing shore of Aberdeen Village.

-Athens M research works being conducted into

Buenos Aires Southern boundary,The fore- Hongkong the origin and possible cure of shore of Aberdeen Island..

Silver (apot and forward)

LEVINE REACHES VIENNA.

PW.

IRISH POLITICS.

lemonade, a little malted milk and Mr. Heifernan, who will pro-

AEROPLANE CRASH IN

GERMANY.

DISTINGUISHED PERSONS

KILLED.

few months of office would ex- pose the futility of De Valera's programme.

Public opinion as a whole, how- ever, accepts the Government's continued, tenure of power with sincere relief.-British Wireless.

SEAPLANES DAMAGED.

HEAVY WEATHER OFF BOURNEMOUTH..

London, Sept. 23.

Berlin, Sept. 23. Baron Von Maltzan, the Ger man Ambassador to the United States, was killed in an aeroplane coastal reconnaisance service of .. Two seaplanes, belonging to the accident with three other passen-the Royal Air Force, which have.

Berlin, later.

124gers and the pilot-Rcuter. ,25,28 .20.42 It how appears that six persons 84.63% were killed in the aeroplane acci- 27.85% dont mentioned earlier.

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been touring seaside resorts, en- weather off countered heavy

Bournemouth Pier to day and were badly damaged while attempting

A passenger aeroplane proceed to make for Poole Harbour for 1/5.29/32ing from Berlin to Munich crash-safety. /10.31/32

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ed near Schleiz, :

One of them foundered and the Besides Herr Von Malizan, the other landed on a sandbank, but 18.17 dead include a high railway official was towed eventually into Poole, 164% and Herr Von Arnim, the traffic No lives were lost-British Wire- 2.7/16 manager of the Lufthansa Avia-less.

6%tion Company.

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An eyewitness anys that the 34.93 wings of the aeroplane broke Valumes I and II. in the series 80.25 Reuter ,18,45

of British Official Documents on Von Maltzan formerly occupied a the Origins of the War, edited by diplomatic post at Petrograd and Mr. G. P. Gooch and Mr. Harold 477 Peking, and was the originator of Temperley, dealing with the period 1/11% the Rapallo Treaty with the Soviet. 1898-1904, will be published early

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