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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1935.

THE

IT'S WINTER THERE

BLAZING

PACIFIC

AIRLINE

H.K. Tourist

Traffic

To Australia

MORE PEOPLE NOW

GO SOUTH FOR..........

HOLIDAYS

MORE and more Hong- kong people are spend- ing their leave in sunny Aus tralia.

This fact is borne out by statistics just issued by the Australian National Travel Association.

People in Hongkong and China! who formerly travelled to Europe for their vacations are now going south. Fares are cheaper, the cost of living in both Aus tralia and New Zealand is much less expensive than in Europe and the scenic attractions, especially in Now Zealand, rival those of any other part of the world.

+ Instead of spending ten to twelve weeks of his all too short leave in travelling to England, the Hongkong resident need spend only a little over month in the return trip to Australia.

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The Australia National Travel Association reports an increase| of 28 per cent, in visitors to Australia during 1934.

Tourista have taken consi- derably more than £5,000,000 to Australia in the last four years. The reasons for the increase, which shows signs of aceleration | In 1935, says Austral News, are given as organised propaganda, a better general appreciation of | the country as a winter resort for the summer months in the northern hemisphere, improved) ships and cheaper fares, and the exchange which makes the Eng- lish pound worth 25 shillings. -

WE'VE WON A WAR

First pictures to reach the outside world show construction scenes at two of Pan American Airway's airline basca in mid-Pacific Ocean, being established for inaugration of a commercial aircops that will soon link the United States with Hongkong. Above, clearing a path through iromenad brush on desolate Wilkies Island in the Wake group for a supply railway. Below, un- loading thousands of gallons of petrol at Midway leland awaiting arrival of the first flying

Freezing Experiments

May Solve Diseases

RUSSIAN CHEMIST CHEATS DEATH

Hollywood, Aug. 28.

A snarling, angry little Rhesus monkey snap- nep and "cursed" volubly at an unprecedented number of visitors in the laboratory of Dr. Ralph Willard.

"Isn't he beautiful” beamed Dr. Willard. The ill-tempered simian was “Jekal,” who, un- like his celebrated brass colleague, rose from a frozen death after five days..

Dr. Willard, dark, intense young research chemist, froze Jekal experimentally into a small; grey lump of ice. Then, after 120 hours, he thawed him out and placed him back in his cage, as good as new.

To the doctor the monkey's irritable chattering Wan fis music. It meant that Jekai had returned to normalcy, and that five years of experimentation has been crowned with success. Born in South Russia 32 years. ago, Dr. Willard learned secrets of suspended animation under. the famous Dr.

Petrov.

Then he came

to America to

study chemistry at the College

of the City of New York.

In 1931 he made his first at-

PROFESSOR PETROV

Clipper.

Station Built On Shells

Arras, Aug. 30. New railway track work has led to the discovery that the station at Arras has been standing ever since the war on a British ammunition dump consisting mainly of 4.5-inch shells.

Already 250 abella have been dug up without ac- cident-Reitter:

Scientist

Fight That Has Gone On For Century

MALARIA ALMOST CONQUERED IN HONGKONG

Malaria has been conquer- ed in the urban areas of Hongkong.

Thanks largely to the un- relenting war by the Health department, against mos- quitoes, malaria has ceased to become a source of an- xiety and danger.

To-day, owing to efficient drainage, there is practically no malaria in the thickly populated portion of either Victoria or Kowloon, and it is only in the outskirts and more open parts that the disease still persists.

In the early days of the Colony, malaria was the chief cause of sickness and death in Victoria, and In 1844, coincident with the breaking of the soil for the forma ilon of Queen's Rond, which was then the chief arterial road of the town, It became such n scourge that there were serious thoughta of abandoning the island.

Malaria not being a notifiable disense, few figures are available to measure the actual Incidence throughout the Colony. But by taking the hospital, police and military returns, it is possible to make fairly accurate returns.

Lowest On Record

From statistics to hand the number of cases admitted to Government hospitals In 1925 wns 1,142 and since that year there has been a steady decrenso until last year the figure had dropped to 457, the lowent ever recorded.

It would seem also that here, as

in Malaya, the danger areas are not the large swamps and paddy fields remote from the hills, but

France Wants lotions of water within half a

Every Air Record

4 MILLION FRANCS AS PRIZES FOR AVIATORS

Paris, Aug. 30.

mile of the Intter. Why it is so is not known, but spring water which has not yet lost ita sparkle does have an attraction for Ano- pheles minimus and Anopheles jayporiensis which, in this Colony, are the most potent carriers of malaria. Such water may be in soopagca, springs, pools or streams or it may be from the Irrigation water for wet cultivation on the hill sides or in the valleys in the vicinity.

The most malarious areas are, In an effort to encourage therefore, those in or near the hills. French aviators to make new Unless carefully watered and care. world's records, the Air vicinity of the hills which involve fully controlled works in the Ministry has announced that disturbance of the soll such as 3,975,000 franes in prizes roads, raliways, or waterworks are nearly always attended by high

World Forgot will be awarded for perform-slekncse and death rates, among For 50 Years

WAS 100 YEARS OLD LAST MONTH

ances between now and the the labour forces employed. In end of the year.

Malaya this was especially the ense when the soil was of granite forma- Prizes are offered to French tion and the same applies in Hong- flyers for three new world's kong. records and two long distance

N. T. Decrease flights between Paris and Statistics in the report with re- A DESCENDANT of one of colonial capitals: a new speed gard to the ineidenec among the the five royal tribes ofmark for land planes, a new police of the New Territories show Wales, Dr. Griffith Evans, of world's altitude record, a flight decrease from 1,205 in 1925 to 65 Bangor celebrated his 100th bettering the distance record of birthday last month.

Paul Codos and Maurice Roshi, For nearly fifty years doctors and flights from Paris to Saigon and scientists forgot him.

Last month, medical workers all over the world honoured him or his centenary.

Not because he is one of the Royal Tribes.

But because:-

tempt to restore life to a frozen taught him, to experiment with rest in a darkened room, with animal-a guinea big. Five dealt. years of painstaking research | .. followed, during which Dr.

and Paris to Tananarive,

In 1932. In the intervening period the greatest decreases are 328 from 150 from 1927-1928, and 93 from 1926-1926; 449 from 1926-1927;

1931-1932.

The awards are calculated by the Ministry according to the speed or An interesting point, which is elapsed time for the flight in ques-not generally known, is that al- tion, so that a flyer breaking the though a mosquito may bito a world's speed record by four person suffering from malaria, it kilometres an hour will get more cannot transfer the, infection until than he would for a new record two it is "ripe", or alck of the disense In 1870, at Ipswich hospital, a for three kilometres faster than itself. youth came in with tetanus. Raymond Delmotte's 505.848 made Medical men stared aghast at at Istres in December, 1934.

It takes fourteen days for the Dr. Evans's advice of complete

mosquito to get "ripe", so that for is offering a maximum of 760,000 fected person it does not transmit For the speed mark the Ministry fourteen days after biting an in- plenty of fresh air, fresh water francs, and it is understood that the germ to another person. and no medicine or stimulants.

Delmotte himself will be one of the Yot, this is the recognised maximum prize is for a flight at GAOL-BIRD WHO

first to attempt a new record. The Willard froze and restored to munkey. His "death" in the lee

treatment to-day, with the addi- 555 kilometres an hour. life hundreds of small animals. box restored him to health, Some of them had been dead as the small, icy animal out. From

Ton hours were required to thaw tion of anti-toxin.

- A prize of 1,000,000 francs is

STROLLED AWAY long as five months, -

the ice chambor he was placed in a

In India he set out to cure offered for a new altitude record, At length, this year, he was, heated compartment equipped with surra," a disease which devas- the award being calculated on a rendy to carry his experiments lights, warming coils and a hot air bed those solte exhaustive minimum of 14,500 metres and the FROM WARDEN'S SON basis, of the height reached over a IN CLOTHES STOLEN to the ranks of the higher | fan.

blood tests he isolated the germ;maximum being for an altitude of mammals, preliminary to experi- Then, restored to "normal" rigor and had to fight hard to establish 15,000 metres. ments on humans.

mortis, Jokal was laid on an opera- the value of the discovery.

Brisbane Aug. 15. The straight line distance record ting table. Hypodermic needles Years later, when sleeping sick-prite is also variable, but there is a looking for a prisoner who Soveral previous tests with mon- hovered over him. First a shot of ness was being investigated in fint award of 100,000 francs for any strolled out of Brisbane Gaol yes Police all over Australia are koys proved disappolating until adrenalin, to stimulate the heart, Africa, medical men successfully light lettering the 2,100 kilometre terday and escaped swiftly and Jekul came through with flying then a blood transfusion from Dr. adopted his method in tracing New York-Rayak flight of Codos luxuriously-in an air liner. colours, and lived again..

The goal of Dr. Willard's re- search is to find a cure for anterior and posterior pituitary The microbe he found was maximum award is calculated for a tendent's home.

Other swift operations injected the disease to the tsotso-fly.

and Rossi, Prizes for this event The prisoner was "employed as total 1,125,000 francs, and the a kitchen-hand in the superin- tuberculosis, syphilis and other substances, and Jekal moaned and named after him--Trypanasoma distance of 10,000 kilometres. human plagues through artificial tried to sit up.

Evansi. freezing..

Passed Guards The secret of ravivification is the All this was fifty-five years Cold is fatal to gorms of many use of sodium citrate injections Into ago. Dr.

Saigon Flight

Ho found a suit of clothes, be- classos, he explained, and it is the veins, the doctor explained. It Bangor.

Evans retired to

longing to the superintendent's son, For the Paris-Saigon flight the It contained money and a motor-car possible that the freezing prevents the blood from coagulating

Air Ministry hopes that In 1930, when he was lying French aviator will win the maxi-. A few seconds later, dressed in technique might eliminato several and Inducing permanent death.

soma licence. disensos which have plagued man- Matilda, a second monkey con-

bedridden at his home, the kind since the dawn of time. gonlod in the experiment, froze too

British Association paid tributes mum of 500,000 francs for a flight the complete outfit, he strolled past to his diacoveries half a century roughly to the speed attained by the prison gates.

of. 48 hours, which corresponds the unsuspecting guarda at the Dr. Willard lays no claim to fast and was irrevocably dead. having discovered a cure, how. Gaston, a third monkey, is still in To-day he is a frail man, and race. The Faris-Tananarive flight field Airdrome.

winner of the London-Melbourne ever. Ho merely expressos hopes the Ice box. Dr. Willard will at stone deaf-but still one of the award, of the same amount, will be Within the hour he landed at his Next he made his way to Archer that one may be found...

tempt to revive him on September greatest: medical scientists of calculated on a similar basis- Unhappy Jekal was a tubercular 5 after ten days of "death"

| destination-Land vanished. United Press.

United Presa,

change.

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Willard's own veins.

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