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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JANUARY & 1937.

SNATCHED FROM LINE AS TRAIN CAME

Gold Braid At

At Happy Valley

Valley Fireman Poised On

On Buffers

PITT

Review

Of Landing Party

Royal Naval Officers at the Review, last week, of a landing detachment from U.M .ships on China Station.

LIVING MARSH

SWAMPS WHERE

PREHISTORIC

PLANTS SURVIVE

By A Special Correspondent

THE latest discoveries of living "prehistoric" plants by

the Botanical and Zoological Institute of the Debre cen University in Hungary have caused a sensation in the scientific world.

PLANTS

Mother Kills To Avenge Her Daughter

to

BOY HELD WHILE TRUCKS PASSED

FORTY-SEVEN trucks laden with coal thundered along "the railway line at Washington, Co. Durham. Sud- denly the driver and fireman saw a tiny figure between the rails ahead.

It was a two-year-old boy playing among the sleepers

| NERVE STRESS heedless of the danger.

OF

MODERN LIFE

There was no time to stop the train. Shouting was of no use; the train was going at great speed.

Firemon George Steel neted, dashed out of the cabin, clambered on to the engine buffers. He caught

Supposed Cause of the child in time, and pushed him

Internal Ill BODY CONTROL BY

SMALL GLAND

down with his foot so that the engine and leading trucks passed safely over him.

DRIVER JUMPS

Meanwhile Driver Thomas Bartlett had reduced speed, at great personal risk he jumped between the trucks and held the terrined boy close to the permanent way while the rest of the trucks went over their heads. The child, shaken but unhurt, was

home. Driver and

The theory that the increased pre- valence of duodenal ulcers In the modern world might be due to the greater nervuus and mental sirain under which we live was discussed by Professor E. Mellanby, secretary sent

of the Medical Research Council, carried on with their job. when he lectured at the Royal in- stitution, London, On "Chemical Messengers of the Body."

It had been suggested. Professor Mellanby stated, that there was some connection between the "posterior lobe" of the pituitary gland beneath

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This was the story told by Scuth Shields mayor, Councillor Chartes Smith, when he presented N.S.P.C.C. diplomas to Bartlett and Steel.

the brain and such ulcers; and the Dance Bands'

theory about nervous strain would. he thought, bring "some kind of i sense" into the suggested connection. Professor Mellanby also referred

to the "life saving” use of a particular extract from the pituitary in cusca of hemorrhage after child-bird.

ACTIVE PITUITARY

In all, he mentioned eight different | substances, al which are known

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to be manufactured within the body Paying To Go “On The by the pituitary and which controlled such varied functions as growth and the production of sugar by the body. Although the functions of the pitul-

Dance band leaders, at a meeting tary were not normally of a life-in London recently, decided to reject and-death character, all these sub- the B.B.C's new financial terms for stances were now being used by broadcasting, and to intimate plainly doctors

carry out their specifle that, unless these terms are amend functions, he added.

ed, they will refuse to broadcast after January 1.

to

at-

To illustrate the control of growth exercised by the pituitary, Professor Mellanby showed a photograph of a This decision, which

was unani- Parts. Dec. 31.

boy of 18 who stood 8 feet 4 inches) mous, was renched by the recently-

Dance OW a

Band Ho man, his wife. and his and weighed 28 stone. In the photo- formed

Leaders step-daughter quarciled as

graph the boy's father, who, Profes-Association. The meeting was which of them should murder lach under six feet, could be seen Association,

sor Mellanby explained, was only an tended by 72 members of the

representing dentist to avenge the family honour stretched to his full height and still best-known bands in

all the was described by

the country, forty-year-old failing, by some four inches, to reach and many of the members had Mine Praprian Sarafian to Examin- to his son's shoulder.

travelled long distances from ing Magistrate Brw at the Palace of

the Justice in Paris to-day.

After an X-ray photograph had provinces. Mr. Juck Hylton pres been taken to aid his doctor's sided. Her confession ended a fifteen-diagnosis, the boy bad picked up the Dr. Rezso Soos, hent of the institute, recently led an expedi-hour, investigation by Paris

According to

one speaker, the police photographer under his

B.B.C.'s proposals would mean that tion to the marshy regions of Batorliget, near the Rumanian into the death of Setark-Sassouni, walked out with him from the con- many bands would be "paying some- frontier, the fauna and flora of which have never been subject torty-one-year-old

ropin. This condition was due

thing for going on the air, instead of stot in his surgery in the Rue de; to over-activity of part of the found suiting close investigation.

Vaugirard.

pituitary. Said Mme. Sarafan: "I

There is hardly a physiological killed

The terms offered by the B.B.C. Setar-Sassouni

function of the body," he stated, for bands broadcasting from London เข avenge the "which is not influenced, in one way studios were outlined by Mr. A. M. honour of my family,"

or another, by one of the chemicals Wall, Hon. Secretary of the As- She said that last Sunday her produced by the cells in this very sociation. They are: nineteen-year-old daughter Anfade small gland at the base of the brain.” revealed that two months ago when she went to Setark-5assounl's surgery as a paflent he drugged and

saulted her.

Though the existence there of living marsh plants and animals was always suspected, it has now been definitely" ascertained.

The same phenomena have been noted in certain altitudes of the Norwegian mountains.

Batorliget is believed, however, to be the only flat stretch. of land in the world, surrounded by fields and villages, where owing to the swampy character of the ground, the damp cli- mate, the lack of sunshine, and the corlinual mist, the flora and fauna have remained the same as some 10,000 years ago. Ten miles away from these'swamps such flowers and animals could not exist."

In 1933 a canalisation scheme vory nearly turned the swamps of Batorliget into ploughland, but lack of finance preserved these rare phenomena.

dentist,

Aniade's-step-father threatened to commit suicide at first, He had been dishonoured. But nineteen-year-old Anizde wanted to do the avenging with revolver, She added: "Then I will shoot myself."

But her mother said: "No. Re- venge is my duty."

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On the other hand, the terms sug-

It has been developed here |from a single chance plant that "just happened to grow that way," according to an Attica gested by the Provisional Committee horticulturist, Mr. Edward C. of the Association Stroh.

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After working for three years to develop a thornless rose, he came upon a single plant quite free from thorns.

But how, why and when it became thornless Mr. Stroh cannot explain.

BRIDGE A GAME

OF SKILL

broatleast ore;

for a 10-minute

8 players, 40 guineas, 5 guiness. each new orchestration.

12 players, 60 guincas, 6 guineos

each new orchestration,

10 players, 80 guineas, 7 guineus each new orchestration,

20 players, 100 guineas, .8 guineas cach new orchestration. Mr. Wall pointed out that the B.B.C. under their new policy, tended to take action to enforce the in-

co-opera-

Bridge is a game of skill; whether terms of contracts. The method of poker is to be regarded as such enforcement would be in questionable, declared Mr. Justice than with the music publishers, who Macnaghten giving judgment in the had pledged themselves not to sup- King's Bench Division in an unsuc-ply free orchestrations. cessful action to recover money lent

to pay card debts.

MEANS A FIGHT

"I always understood," he added, "that blutt is the monosyllable Mr. Wall protested further against quality useful in poker."

the arrangement for a monthly meet- Sydney Alexander Woolf, pro-ing between a committee of the prietor of the Dorchester Bridge B.B.C. and publishers' representa- Club, Willesden Lane, NW, sued tives, to decide what should be in Max Richard Gray Freeman, of the dance band programmes. Woodchurch Road, West Hampstead, Mr. Jack Payne expressed the for £52 195. 2d., the balance of view that it was "going to mean a money lent, and the cost of

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fight." supplied.

After a long discussion, during Alternatively he claimed £33 109. Which every aspect of the dispute

the

amount of a dishonoured Was reviewed, the Provisional. Com- cheque given him by Freeman but B.B.C. to amend their offer regard- mittee was instructed to request the drawn by another person) and £19

As

Ds. 2d., the balance of money lenting fees. The committee is to report and food supplied.

to the Association before December 20.

Judgment for Mr. Wool for £4 0s, 2d. was entered, with no order ns to costs.

"IRRECOVERABLE"

to decide whether bridge and polier were lawful games,

Mr. T. Springer (defending) intl- Mr. Charles Doughty, KC,, for mated that he did not intend to call Woolf, said the money was largely evidence. He submitted that Mr. paid by Mr. Woolf to cover losses Woolf had paid, on behalf of Mr. Incurred by Freeman. It raised an Freeman, Bums won by other players interesting question under the at an unlawful game, and the money gaming Acts. The judge might have was therefore, irrecoverable.

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