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THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1937.

"LINDY'S" SECRET FLIGHT TO BRITTANY

Solving

Man's Greatest

Problems-

WHAT IS DEATH? AND CAN IT EVER BE CONQUERED?

(By Victor Burnett)

Paris, July 27,

I HAVE just learned the secret behind Colonel Lindborgh's dramatic visit to the lonely island of St. Gildas, on the Brittany coast, last week.

THE FAMOUS AIRMAN'S ORANGE AND BLACK MONOPLANE SWOOPED OVER THE ISLE ON SUNDAY NIGHT AND LANDED AT A

NEAR-BY AIRFIELD. LATER HE PADDLED TO SPECIALIST SHOOTS SON

THE ISLAND IN A RUBBER BOAT.

He had arrived to help his friend, Dr. Alexis Carrel, scientist and Nobel Prize winner, in a vital part of an experiment that may reveal the secret of life itself.

In a guarded, walled labora-j tory on St. Gildas, a machine is' being slowly assembled. Only two men have ever seen it or know exactly what its ultimate function will be. They are Dr. Carrel and Colonel Lindbergh.

apparently dead for years can be brought back to life in exactly the same condition I was in when life was suspended--no older. In perfect! tealth.

One day, Dr. Carrel has said,; human beings may have their inas

tion suspended for ang period they

desire and return to life at selected periods.

Lindbergh has helped Carrel to bulld the machine. It was these two whe startled the scientific The experiment now going on is world recently by perfecting an only at the start. Smali pleces of artificial heart to keep organs in tissue only are being tried. If he

the body alive almost indefinitely succeeds with these, larger pieces.

His visit to St. Gildas was to Ati one of the most important parts of the new machine. He has the reputa- tion of being one of the best spienti- fe mechanics in the world.

Not even

world-famous scientists have been told details of the experi- ment.

Fear of failure is the reason for secrecy. Not until it succeeds will Dr. Carrel publish his results.

i have, however, gleaned some

· facts about a process that may change the whole course of human life.

A THEORY

then whole organs, will be tried.

GREAT CHAPTER

The results of the new work, when published, will contribute a Kreat chapter to the story of man's quest for knowledge. Nobody knows what makes some collections of matter alive. while others, similar in struc- ture, are inanimate,

Alexis Carrel may find out. Some months ago Dr. Carrel and Colonel Lindbergh demonstrated the jurtificial heart they had made. This

heart enabled on organ taken from! an animal to be kept alive long after the death of its owner.

Itarted just like a human heart, Some years ago Dr. Carrel pub-

other essentials lished a theory he held that life kept land and might be prolonged for centuries toursing through the organ,

which the right scientifle process was fol was kept in a glass life chamber. It was halled as # masterpleen of

lowed.

Now, in his elaborate laboratory. he is trying to prove that theory,

Basically It consists of taking various living organs, such as glands, killing them by drying them-and bringing them back to life.

sefentific research,

On the Carrel Istanal there is now) a much improved version of this: that can even keep a brain alive after the animal it was taken from is dead.

This alone will contribute a great

All tests show that the dry tissues deal to medicul knowledge of brain are dead. But the secret Dr. Carrel diseases. Scientists will actually bel process, through the new apparatus, able to watch the course of a brain may be able to preserve the dead disorder and see the effect of various glands and then, at any desired types of treatment. moment, bring them back to a living.

healthy state-exactly similar to the

This new heart, I under stand,

IN "MERCY MURDER

Then Revealed That Diagnosis Was Wrong

UFS

What England is doing in the way of streamlining is shown in this unusual picture of the new Coronation, express train special- ly constructed tu make the London to Glasgow run in 6 hours. This is the fastest time on record for the journey of 401 miles, The blue-and-silver, high-speed train is shown getting into its stride near Watford, England, on a test run to Crews and back.

Man Of 70

A FAMOUS specialist's "mercy murder" of the son he Gives His Life

believed suffering from an incurable illnes, followed

For A Child

Six-year-old Peter Absalom, of

by his own suicide, was based on a faulty diagnosis.

This revelation of the tragedy behind a tragedy was made at Seattle, Washington, by friends of Dr. Guy Cambridgeplace, Reading, was playing Peterkin, the 66-year-old internationally-known neuro- logist.

ile shot his twenty-two-year-old, "I am sure he will never be entire on Sherman, a brilliant and popularly well. In the face of our great student at the University of Washing troubles I have done what I think ton, and then turned the same pistol best for him.“ against himself.

Then

A. he telephoned to Dr. Sherman completed his studies lastPolsky, a friend who has consulting year and went to Paris, where he sufrooms in the sume building, and told fered nervous breakdown. The father hurtled to France and brought him what he had done. his son home,

Ho

by the edge of the Thames at Caver- sham Weir when he fell into the stream.

Seventy-year-old pensioner Her- bert William Mitcham, of Queen Street, Caversham, flung off his hat and coat, plurged into the river, and swam to the aid of the drowning child.

Both were drawn to the weir, Taking up the same revolver again, į where they disappeared.

Dr. Peterkin took his son to his Dr. Peterkin pointed it at his own head and fred. He Was found consulting-rooms In Seattle. made a careful examination of the wounded and died two hours later

without recovering consciousness. son and evidently came to the con- clusion that the case was hopeless. As Sherman sat in a chair by the! side of the specialist's desk, the father drew a revolver and shot him through the fenifle.

Dr. Peterkin then sat at his desk ord wrote a note which read:-

TOO LATE Denis Shepherd, aged fourteen, of, Gosbrook Street, Reading, who was tragedy,

Dr. Peterkin's friends say that the only spectator of the Sherman was not doomed to a life-] Have the alarm to the crowds present time of suffering bat was making ajat a fete in a nearby meadow. rapid recovery.

Dr. Peterkin was of Scottish descent and had travelled in Scotland and England for a number of years.

BONES BREAK, BUT

HE SMILES ON

moment they were taken from the forms part of the secret life machine: SEVEN-YEAR-OLD JOHN NORTON is the

original body.

The main development of this experiment, if it mucceeds, may mean that an animal that has been

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Police Constable Rudling, Reading, a champion life-saver, dived in and rezovered the body of Mitcham,

Police Constable Dolby, Leslic Frederick, sailor on leave, staying at Lome Street, Reading, and Albert Roberts, of Ringwood Road, Reading, dived in no less promptly, but to no avall.

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SECTION TWO:

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still a cripple, for his bones, although apparently stronger, have developed He has been in hospitals and The trouble started with a fall tendency to curve, and efforts to convalescent homes ever since he which fractured a hip bone. After combat this tendency have so for

that the slightest knock or fall, even failed. was 16 months old, suffering a sudden turn, as he lay in his cot, from a mysterious affliction of caused a fracture of an arm or leg. "John would not know his home if GENERAL PICTORIAL SECTION the bones. Operations, diets, Once another child snatching a toy he were brought here," his mother (VIEWS, ARCHITECTURE, LANDS-

¡told a Dally Herald correspondent all sorts of treatment have been from his hand caused it.

The fractures have tolalled 36 in||recently. "Ife hus ben here for tried with little success.

little more than four years.

less than eight weeks in the last six. It was hoped, when other treat-years, and hospitals are honte to. ments failed, that Nature would work hn."

Dut despite bis suffering, John Is

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COY since 1930 and more than the six leading countries abroad of which Germany comes first.

Returns issued by Lloyds Re- gister of Shipping show that 285 merchant vessels were un- der construction in Great Britain and Ireland at the close. of the quarter ended June 30.

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During the past three months work was begun on 367,098 tons. About 100,000 tons of the tonnage now being built are intended for registration abroad or for sale.

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tones should be accompanied by a amalier print in black and white. D-No picture to be entered in more

than one Section.

10.-Mounts to be only white or cream, and, except in the Children's Section must be of one of the following pires:-10 by 14", 16" by 12", 10" by 6".

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