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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1936.

LONDON NEWSPAPER TESTS EFFECT OF AMAZING NEW TRUTH DRUG'

It

Revealed Treasured Secrets

-THE "PATIENT" NO SHAME: NO REMORSE: FEELING

OF RELIEF

FOLLOWING THE OFFER OF A "TRUTH

DRUG" TO THE FRENCH POLICE TO USE IN THEIR EFFORTS TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY OF THE MURDER OF MME. MARIA ANNE ARBEL, A WEALTHY WIDOW, OF NICE, TWO LONDON "DAILY MAIL" SPECIAL REPRESENTA- TIVES, F. G. PRINCE-WHITE AND MICHAEL KILLANIN, INVESTIGATED EFFECTS OF THE DRUG.

He did

Michael Killanin was the subject of the test. not know what questions he would be asked. "When the drug began to take effect," he states, "a glowing happiness filled my whole being, and 1 felt garrulous. Knowing that this was the object of the drug I fought against it."

He states that he "gave away carefully guarded sccrpts," and that he is convinced that "the procedure penetrates the subconscious mind without leaving any harmful atter-effects and might save many people, wrongfully accused, from embarrassment."

**Thea you are afraid of some-

"Yes,"

thing?"

(Before the injection was given Michael Killanin said he had written: down A word which referred to something he wished very strongly! not to talk about, and he had placed. the paper in his pocket.)

Further pressed, he answered:

"It is about flying. I hate flying -I hate all things that Лy: aero-

"Anxious Feeling Overcame Me"

Now-half an hour afterwards-1

Bu MICHAEL KILLANIN being given ansation of relief at having made a IMAGINE

anesthetic without..the ter- clenn breast. planes, insects, birds-especially rifying thought that an opera- birds. I can't bear them. I always tion was to follow. That was want to shoot them. I love shoot the feeling I had when I entered ing birds."

the doctor's consulting room.

He was suddenly ordered to "Sil uple turned his lead this way and that at first, as though dazed then sat bolt upright.

Aga one of the doctors spoke sharply to him: "You are, all right, Rowand he appeared to come to full consciousness with a Jerit.

"I don't know where I am." he said, and, smiling ppologetically, he added; "I feel as if I have drunk railer a good deal of brandy!"

New Field Opened Up by the Test

new

By A Medical Correspondent Although solum exipan is well known as an anusthetic, a field is opened up by this demon- stration. It is only when slowly injected that its new properties are revealed,

arc

None of the questions which I to me; though I had made up my was to be naked had been revealed! mind that I would not talk about the topical sub- one subject ject of trans-Atlantic flying. Feeling of Curiosity

To make certain

that

there

stut have no remorse. This drug must be wonderful if carefully ap plied either to those who suffer from inhibitions or to those who are afraid of telling the truth.

If used voluntarily by the police in countries where the third degree is in vogue

It would save much And physical and mental torture would bring the inquisitors very much hearer the truth. After this amazing experience I am convinced that the procedure penetrates the subconscious mind

should be no doubt I made a note without leaving any harmful after of this renolition in a pocket book. effects and might save many people and two doctors stood wrongly accused from embarrass- A nurse beside me, as well as two shorthand ment." writers. I was not exactly frighten- el, but an anxious feeling of curio- sily overcame_me.

take

When the drug began to rifect a glowing happiness filled my whole being and 1 fell garrulous. Knowing that this was the object of the drug. I fought against ft. 1 lost all count of time. Though i teli bewildered, my ceedingly active. There was a feel-

felt I could rule)

ing

of ambiilon. the world.

brain seemed

tx-

I can remember the doctor asking The Bighest centres of the brain

affected Arst. Inhibition-the the my name and age, and 1 remem- After that the replying. power of keeping silence and being ber discreet--is thrown to the winds, and sequence of events is vague. I was the subject discloses his innermost still conscious of the people around

thoughts

One of the most obvious applica

of the victim suffers memory. Here

dual personality. Mr Hyde refuses to admit knowing Dr. Jekyll. With evipan the patient recognises

tons of the method is in luss

from

me,

I made a terrific effort not to

talk, but I could not belp speaking.

I cannot remember what I wal I got very muzzy and seemed to: forget everything.

AMERICAN

WORDS IN

ENGLISH

“Number Much Exaggerated"

DICTIONARY

EXPERT'S VIEW

Oxford, Sept. 30.

"The extent of American in-

1 came to with a feeling that I had fluence on the English language

his second personality, and can solve realised what had happened 1 largest proportion of new words

the conflict that made him lose his memory.

is of

Dr. C. T. Onlons, of Magdalen

Below the two representatives describe their experi-im me and lazy. It is casier ation which I would never have had College, Oxford, thus summed up

ences.

FEARS

CONFESSED

By F. G. PRINCE-WHITE

The Daily Mail test, carried; ed.

unhesitatingly:

for him to talk than to resist the persistence of the questioner. There no doubt that a place will be found in psychotherapy for the new treat ment,

the

When I lis much exaggerated. The Kot something off my chest.

questions mediately Inquired what

the present time been put 10 m had

As I was told, at lo me. the questions all came back to me as technical origin." Besides relaxing inhibition the in- dreams de in the middle of the day. The shorthand writers had inform- drowsy, makes the subject

under what, in his opinion, are the main courage

them to give

forces behind our written language, conditions. There was no normal

task of revising the Shorter Oxford pain or after-effects except for a pin-He has just finished a three years prick mark in my arm.

I had no feeling of shame when 1 English Dictionary, a new edition of perused the answers, though I had which was published by the Oxford given away some carefully treasured University Press on September 17.

Very few Americanisma stay with secrets. Instead I had a certain sen-us for long and become part of the language," Dr. Onions stated. "On the other hand words which have their origin in broadcasting or the aeroplane are becoming increasingly familiar. More financial terms, also, have become accepted currency. For nnd of example, deflation,' 'reflation'

"frozen credit' are nowadays very a familiar."

"Sometimer-Women Aboard Ship

out by a London doctor in the casually-when i feel like " presence of

medical another

which man, produced results

Presently the questions became more personal, and although my col- lettuc normally reticent

and

Adrift for

Two Months

Nauru Island, Sept. 28.

crew and passengers

certainly indicate that the very reluctant to talk about himself, "truth-compelling influence of he admitted that he regarded him- "vain person," that he was the drug (sodium evipan) is self as

com- very real and undeniably effec-greatly influenced by a relative, and

very fond of feminine panionship.

Asked what thoughts were upper- most in his mind, he said he was sails tattered and bleached by wind

and wanted to become and ambitious famous as a writer and playwright.

tive.

My colleague, Michael Killamin, is a young man of normal health, who offered his services in a spirit of acientific investigation.

The operation was simple, "and was effected in a few seconds. A

suitable vein in the upper part of the right arm was selected for the injection. My colleague, lying But on a divan, was taking part in general conversation As the needle entered.

IL

to

Within one minute his face lost Its animation and he began look a little drowsy.

the

RIDE A CROC. HORSE!

There Was a Young Man

Australia

22

Who Went for Ride

Crocodile

DIL

W like living skeletons and her IT doesn't rhyme, and the end- ing, unlike the tiger story, 40-ton Marshall was quite happy for the young Island schooner Regina arrived man whose name was Alfred "Do you believe you have the here last evening flying a distress Frith and whose job was to be

signal.

funny with the crocodile-in-a- capacity to succeed is a writer?

Yes, I think I am clever enough! The entire ship's company of 23 film.

to earn a lot of money."

women persons, including several

PRIVATIONS

24

the

a

on a

WIRELESS WORDS As an example of a technical term and both "transmission, in the wire- from broadcasting he quoted "fade," less sense, and "superhet" as short for super-heterodyne have also been included in the dictionary.

There are nearly 1,000 new words, and nearly 2,000 new usages. They range from "companionate marriage' to "sidecar" (meaning a cocktall) and

It merely illustrates the vicissitudes By now most of the drug had and children, had been near to death. of a screen comedian's life, and it"wisecrack."

Says Austral "Expressionism" has for the first 'been injected, and he was becom- The vessel, which was walling be- has just happened,

So huge time gained recognition.

has crocodile, Ing more and more talkative. Hetween two islands in the Marshall News. The

"surrealism.", a still more recent no longer waited for questions, but Islands group, failed to make her specimen, was caught on the Great

became hopelessly Barrier Reef. Its jaws were roped arrival from the art world. talked rapidly, reverting to matters destination und

"Jam" is another new wireless term previously touched on, and amplify- lost in mid-Pacific far from the track and it was given a passage

The "nine- small ship to a little island paradise which has won its spurs. ing his answers.

of any steamer or sailing ship.

where a Cinesound unl! was "on teenth hole" is a more cheerful new. He stopped talking very abruptly,

Near location."

the comer from the golf course--or there. island,

"Solo" has come to be A few seconds later he had the ap- however, when he was asked: "Have pearance of a man who had com- you a fear of any particular thing?" For two months the Regina has crocodile was thrown overboard and abouts. posed himself for a nap after dinner,["You Are Afraid?"

been drifting in open ocean and all hauled ashore with ropes, whereupon applied to aeroplane hights, as well ture tunes" have come to us from the Suddenly one of the doctors asked:

His lips met in a frin line, and it on board have suffered terrible pri- Mr. Frith had to clamber on its back as to musical performances. "Signa- "Do you work for your living?"

The crocodile, however, proved to world of entertainment. was clear that he was trying hard not vations. Providentially Nauru was and "do his stuff."

sighted yesterday and the crew im-

refractory that an expert had to be "Afraid of Something"

WRITTEN EVIDENCE to open them.

knock its legs from employed to

Many of the thousand new words mediately set sail for the island. Reuter

it each time it reared up pre-first came to the notice of Dr. Onions The Marshall Islands are a group paralory to an attempt to knock Mr. through

correspondents sending of islands under Japanese mandate Frith down with its powerful tail. suggestions to the Clarendon in mid-Pacific. They consist of two Ultimately the scene was shot suc- Press. Evidence of written use chains or rows of lagoon islands. cessfully, and so was the crocodile. Ja, however, always sought,

Nauru, un island under British Mr. Frith lives 10 ride another everyone associated with the under- mandate, is about 600 miles south of crocodile another day-but only if taking is naturally on the look-out the Marshall Islands.

absolutely necessary.

for what they can find.

Without any

Increased sign of

"I am trying not to answer your wakefulness Michael Killanin repli- question," he said.

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