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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1936.

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LONDON NEWSPAPER TESTS EFFECT New Neckwear

OF AMAZING NEW

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.

"Then you are afraid of thing?"

Yes M

TRUTH

some-

(Before the Injection was given Michael Killanin anid 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

- hate all things that fly: aero- planes,

DRUG

"Anxious Feeling

Overcame Me"

Bu MICHAEL KILLANIN

drug

anisation of relief at having made a MAGINE being given

anesthetic without the ter clean breast.

Now-half an hour afterwards-i Insects, birds-especially rifying thought that an opera-stil have no remorse. This birds. I can't bear them. I always tion was to follow. That was must be wonderful if carefully op- want to shoot them. I love shoal- the feeling I had when I entered plied either to those who suffer from inhibitions or to those who are afraid ing birds."

the doctor's consulting room.

the truth. of telling None of the questions which I

used voluntarily by the police He was suddenly ordered to "Sit

in countries where the third degree up" He turned his head this way was to be asked had been revealed and that at first, as though dazed-to me, though I had made up my

In vogue It would save much physical and mental torture and then sat bolt upright.

would bring the inquisitors very much nearer the truth.

Again one of the doctors spoke mind that I would not talk about sharply to him: "You are all right, one subject the topical sub- now and he appeared to come to ject of trans-Atlantle flying. full consciousness with a jerk.

+1

he

"I don't know where I am. said, and, smiling apologetically, hel udded: "1 feel us if I have drunk rather a good deal of brandy!"

New Field Opened Up by the Test

new

Feeling of Curiosity

To make certain

that there'

should be no doubt I made a note of this resolution in a pocket book

the drug,

After this amazing experience I am convinced that the procedure the subconscious mind penetrates

without leaving any harmful after- effects and might save many people

accused from

embarrasA-

AMERICAN

WORDS IN

ENGLISH

A nurse and two doctors stood wrongly beside me, as well as two shorthand ment. writers. I was not exactly frighten- ed, but an anxious feeling of curto- sity overcame me.

to take When the drug began effect a glowing happiness filed my Whole being

and I felt garrulous. By A Medical Carrespondent

against I fought

it. 1 Although sodium evipan is well Knowing that this was the object of known na an anesthetic, n

cx- brain seemed bewildered, my field is opened up by this demon-lost all count of time. Though I felt stration. It is only when slowly ceedingly active. There was a feel- injected that its new properties are, ing of ambition. 1 felt I could rule

the world.

I can remember the doctor asking The highest centres of the brain)

that the After Arst. Inhibition-the me my name and age, and I remem- atfected

replying.

I was power of keeping silence and being her discreet-is thrown to the winds, and sequence of events is vogue.

talk, but I could not help speaking. the subject discloses his innermost still conscious of the people around

revealed..

Dir

memory.

from

tions of the

of

thoughts.

One of the most obvious applica-

method is in loss Here the victim suffers dual personality. Mr Hyde refuses to admit knowing Dr. Jekyll. With evipan the mintient recognises his second personality, and cun solve the conflict that made him lose his

Michael Killanin was the subject of the test. He did 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 I felt garrulous. Knowing that this was the object of the drug I fought against it."

He states that he "gave away carofully guarded secrets," and that he is convinced that "the procedure penetrates the subconscious mind without leaving any many people, harmful atter-offects and might save wrongfully accused, from embarrassment." Below the two representatives describe their experi-Jection makes the subject droway,

ences.

FEARS CONFESSED

By F. G. PRINCE-WHITE

memory.

me.

1 made a terrific effort not to

I cannot remember what I said. very muzzy and seemed to forget everything

I

"Number Much Exaggerated"

DICTIONARY

EXPERT'S VIEW

Oxford, Sept. 30.

"The extent of American in-

The

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

something off my chest. When I is got some

much exaggerated. realised what had happened I Im- mediately inquired what questions largest proportion of new words As I was told, at the present time is of had been put to me. the questions all came back to me as technical origin."

middle

of the day.

Dr. C. T. Onions, of Magdalen Besides relaxing inhibition the in- dreams do in the

The shorthand writers had inform- It is easieration which I would never have had College, Oxford, thus summed up under what, in his opinion, are the main them give comfortable, and lazy.

forces behind our written language. There was No for him to talk than to resist the the courage to

He has just finished his three years' persistence of the questioner. There normal conditions. is no doubt that a place will be found pain or after-effects except for a pin-task of revising the Shorter Oxford ion of Dictionary, English

a new edition in psychotherapy, for the new treat prick mark in my arm.

I had no feeling of shame when I which was published by the Oxford ment.

perused the answers, though I had University Press on September 17. given away some carefully treasured very few Americanisms stay with 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 the origin broadcasting

in neroplane are becoming increasingly famillar. More Onancial terms, also, For have become accepted currency. of example, deflation,' 'reflation' and frozen credit are nowadays very a familiar

WIRELESS WORDS

"Sometimes Women Aboard Ship

unhesitatingly: The Daily Mail test, carried, éd,

became out by a London doctor in the casually-when I feel like it."

Presently the questions of another medical presence

more personal, and although my col- man, produced results which league is normally reticent and indicate that the very reluctant to talk about himself, certainly "truth-compelling" influence of he admitted that he regarded him- is self as a "vain person," that he was the drug (sodium evipan) very real and undeniably effec-greatly influenced by a relative, and tive.

My colleague, Michael Killanin, is a young man of normal health, who offered his services in a spirit of melentific 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 lat on a divan, was taking part in

general conversation

#L

needle entered.

FLS the

Within one minute his face lost its animation and he began to look a little drowsy,

fond of feminine

"Du you believe you live "Yes, I think I am clever enough capacity to succeed as a writer?" to earn a lot of money."

most of the drug had By now been injected, and he was becom~ Ing more and more talkative. He no longer waited for questions, but talked rapidly, reverting to matters previously touched on, and amplify Ing his answers.

Adrift for

Two Months

Nauru Island, Sept. 28.

her crew

secrets.

Wike living she and passengers IT

persons,

RIDE A CROC. HORSE!

There Was a Young Man

Australia

Who Went for a Ride on

Crocodile

The

12

or

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

as

Expressionism" has for the first So has recognition.

સ still more recent

com- was very

doesn't rhyme, and the end- ing, unlike the tiger story, panionship.

Asked what thoughts were upper-

the 40-ton Marshall was quite happy for the young most in his mind, he told he was safls tattered and bleached by wind

and wanted to become! and sun, ambitious famous as a writer and playwright. Island schooner Regina arrived man whose name was Alfred the here last evening flying a distress Frith and whose job was to be

There are nearly 1,000 new words, funny with the crocodile in a

and nearly 2,000 new usages. They signal.

range from companionate marriage" The entire ship's company of 23 ffilm.-

women It merely Illustrates the vicissitudes to "sidecar" (meaning a cocktail) and

it "wisecrack." including several

Austral und children, had been near to death, of a screen comedian's life, and

The vessel, which was sailing be- has just happened, says

huge lime crocodile, tween two islands in the Marshall News. islands group, failed to make her specimen, was caught on the Great "surrealism,"

passage Out a "Jam" is another new wireless term destination and became hopelessly Barrier Reef, Its jaws were roped arrival from the art world. lost in mid-Pacifle far from the track and it was given a

small ship to a little island paradise which has won its spurs. The "nine- of any steamer or sailing ship.

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For, two months the Regina has crocodile was thrown overboard and abouts. pearance of a man who had com-,

been drifting in open occan and all hauled ashore with ropes, whereupon applied to aeroplane fights, as well posed himself for a nap after dinner.

ture tunes" have come to us from the Suddenly one of the doctors asked:

His lips met in a firm line, and on board have suffered terrible pri- Mr. Frith had to clamber on its back as to musical performances. "Sign-

The crocodile, however, proved to world of entertainment. vations. Providentially Nauru was

WRITTEN EVIDENCE "Do you work for your living?"

was clear that he was trying hard not sighted yesterday and the crew refractory that an expert had to be

knock its legs from Many of the thousand new words "Afraid of Something"

to open them. increased Without any

under "I am trying not to answer your mediately set sail for the island. employed to

each time it reared up pre- first came to the notice of Dr. Onions Reuter.

sending correspondents wakefulness Michael Killanin repli- question," he said.

The Marshall Islands are a group paratory to an attempt to knock Mr. through

10 the Clarendon of Islands under Japanese mandate Frith down with its powerful tail. suggestions

Evidence of written use in mid-Pacific. They consist of two Ultimately the scene was shot auc- Press.

cessfully, and so was the crocodile. is, however, always sought, and chains or rows of lagoon islands.

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

for what they can find. the Marshall Islands.

sign of

He stopped talking very abruptly, however, when he was asked: "llave you a fear of any particular thing?"! "You Are Afraid?"

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