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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY,

DECEMBER

11, 1937. -

RABBITS' EYES TO MAKE RADIO

BLIND PEOPLE SEE

SURGEON TO GIVE

RESULTS

OF

EXPERIMENTS

Thousands of blind human beings, many of whom have been sightless since birth, will, it is expected, be able to see through the eyes of rabbits in the near future.

Mr. J. W. Tudor Thomas, the Cardiff eyegrafting surgeon, has been trying for several years to breed rabbits which have corneas large enough for grafting on diseased human eyes.

These experiments, it is understood, have been successful, and it is, believed that Mr. Thomas will shortly announce the results of his experiments to the medical profession,

The conen of an ordinary-sized rubuit: too small to be afted ont

a human eye, althouga Mr. Thomas bus found that it is suitable in other respert-.

The cornea is the external ins lucent skin of the ege, which in some eye diseases becomes opaque.

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In an eye-grafting operation tabs' opane cu cea e. Leaved, and a nor-i rial healthy she is grafted place.

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Eye surgeons have been handicap- shurlage of vultabile ped by the human corneas. They have had to rely on being able to take them from people blinded through other causes.

The number of healthy cornens obe tainable from this source is very small, and the supply is limited fur- ther by the fact that they must-have certain technical characteristles to be suitable.

Mr. Tudor Thomas's race of gigantic rabbits will provide an unlimited supply suitable for giv ing sight to bilnu people.

The rabbit-breeding experiments are taking place in laboratories in Cardif

OFFERS

So great is the demand for cornens

!

No Will-

But 3,500

Lawyers

Philadelphia.

No will was found when the buy

Mrs. Henrietta Edwardina Garrett. whose £6,000,000 -fortune bas been claimed by 17.000 people, was. exhumed at Laurel Hili cemetery, Philadelphia.

The exhumation was ordered

a petitions Ale: by Mrs. Henrietta Garrett Ferguson, of Haverford, Pennsylvanla, one of the ten claimants left alter successive eliminations,

Claimants have briefed 3,500 lawyers to prosecute their claims. and it is thought that it will take the courts fifteen years to decide on the disposal of the property.

that people with normal eyesight have BOY FLIES SOLO:

offered to lose the sight of one eye!

to bedeilt relatives.

Recently, an article appeared in the Lancet describing how eyes removed from the dead have been successfully used for eye-grafting, operations.

The eyes removed from corpses: were preserved in an air-tight Jav an ice chest at a temperature a few degrees bave freezing point.

It was stated that the results from corneas obtained in this way were as good as those obtained from living nyt%

People have come from as far atleid as New Zealand and Canada to be operated on by Mr. Thomas at the, Central Landon Ophthalmic Hospital, Judd-street, London, W.C.

DOCTOR GAVE LIFE TO BABY BORN DEAD

From a little house in Colley- row, Bedlinog, people can heur the occasional cry of a “baby born during the week-end.

birth.

But the baby, a girl, was born dead-or apparently so for there was an obstruction in her throat that prevented her breathing.

AFTER TWO

HOURS' TUITION

George Uden, eighteen-year- old Hythe (Kent) boy, broke Bir school records when he flew solo after only 1 hour 55 minutes' piloting lustruotion at Lympne airport.

Hi friend. John Richards, 'flow alone after only 2 hours 50 minutes teaching Normaltine-15-201.. hours.

Chief Lympne

David instructor Llewelyn says their sugress is the recult of teaching them to dy by ground demonstrations before they,

get into a plane at all.

Uden und Richards are two of the six pilot-pupil members of a newl youth teulting scheme. They pay dd. a week towardly their flying bill.

FLYING CLUB CLAIMS RECORD

A RECORD for all flying clubs

in Malaya is claimed by the Royal Singapore Flying Club by their feat of flying a total of 315 hours during October,

The number of members who few

Kays the

Here is the latest popularity Queen-Miss Photo-who was elect- Here she is facing a battery of

ed in a recent Puris competition. camer..

'OFF WITH THE OLD LOVE' HUSBANDS

ATTACKED BY M.P.s

(By William Barkley)

BROADCAST

Doreen Ma at the Piano From the Studio

HOTEL ORCHESTRA

Rudo Programme Bronteast from Z.B.W. on wavelengths of 355 metres (8.45 k.en.) 31.49 metres (0.52 m.e's.)

H.K.T.

12.00-12.20 p.m. Relay of Special Service from St. John's Cathedral.

12.30 Turner Layton (Plano and Vocal).

The Echo Of A Song (Edgur, Konig and Mann); Leave Me With A Love Song (Kennedy and Williams); Parks In The Spring (alm 'Parls Love Song').

12.40 Hawaiian Music, Papulinu Lahilahi (Johnny Noble): Hulelwa (Woodd).....Roy Kinney with Dick McIntire's Harmony Hownilans; Hawaiian Love-Waltz (Alohlken)....Nol Lane's Hawaiian Orchestra. Vocal refrain by N. Lopez and Trio; Maybe Its The Moon (Whiting); Hock Me In A Cradle Of Kala (Wending)....Frank Fereru's Bawalfar Trio: On The Beach Of Waikiki (Kallimai); Illo Hanakahl (Intekalea) Walkiki Stone-Wall Boys.

trn.

1.00 Time and Weather,

1.03 Czech Philharmonie Orches

Slavenie Dance No. 11 in F Major; Slovenic Dance No. 13 in B Flat Minar Slavonle Dance No. 10 in A Flat Major (Dvorak).

1.15 Latest Dance Tunes. Fax-Trot-The Toy Trumpet... Nat Gonella and ills. Georgians: Waltz You, Needn't Have Kept It A Secret; Fox-Trot-Moon At Sca.... Ronnie Munro and Ills Orchestra: Fox-Trots-Ten Pretty Giria....Nat Gonella and His Georgians; Toodle- On...Brian Lawrance and His Luns- downe Orchestra: In An Old Cathe- dal Town....Jack Harria and His Orchestru.

1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press; Weather and Announcements.

1.40 Variety.

Dance Orchestra-I'm Gonna Kiss Myself Good-Bye--Fox-Trot: One In A Million (from the Alm)-Fox-Trol Brian Lawrance and His Lans- downe Orchestra; Trumpet-Until The Real Thing Comes. Along (Cahn- Choplin-Freeman);

High Hat. Trumpet and Rhythm_(Valaida)..

with Valaida (Queen of the Trumpet) Swing

Accompaniment; Vocal Duet -All Because Of You (Low, Clarke, Browning and Starr) Let's Go Bally- hoo (Browning. Starr and Brooks).. Plano-I Drowning and Starr Have A Heart For Lovely Women- Waltz (Kunneke)....Fred Stein; Comedian-Julietta (Goer, Vaucaire Smith and Harrington) The Love Bug Will Bite You (Tomlin).......... Мах Miller: Orchestra-I Like Bannmas Because They Have No Bones (Yurich); Wah Hoo! (Friend) The Original Hoosier Hot Shots. 2.15 Close Down. 4.00-7.00 Chinese Programme. 7.00 Brahms--Quartet in A Minor

Played by the Lener String Quar-

The House of Commons provided an unusually in- teresting Friday discussing a Bill to stop husbands op. 51, No. 2. disinheriting their widows and children.

It was introduced by Mr. J.S. wich), who said;~

Holmes

(Lib. Nat-Har

"It will stop such cases as that of a man who has been married for twenty years to a woman who has given him the best years of her life suddenly making a will in favour of some young woman who has swept him off his feet, thus leaving his

widow and children destitute."

Major Dower, (Penrith-Cons.) opposed the Bill He admitted such hard cases. "A devoted wife." he said, "may be left penniless on the death of her husband because

and his children to another third of it.

"I frankly prefer a modification of Scots law if there is to be any legis

of some new love for some fluffylation for England" said Mr. Spens.

bit of stuff when he was an old

man.

"Surely It is better to give a wife and family some sort of definite right from the beginning. But under this "I should like to see such cases | Bill every person within the requisite stopped. I should be compulsory | degree of relationship will be able to for a man to leave a specified sum gy to exurt and say that the provi- to his wife, but he should leavesions of a will are unreasonable. everything to a good wife.”

"VEXATIOUS'

becnuse He opposed the Bill would lend to vexatious litigation of worst kind-the kind which

the

divided families.

'APPALLED'

"Knowing human nature as 1 do, it I am absolutely appalled

The prospect of the litigation which would be opened up. for dissatisfied people to go to the courts as a righi."

He read this letter, which he said had been sent to him from the head of one of the biggest businesses in Sunderland:-

his

AVAS

worked since i "I have #hirteen, starting with nothing. My wife has helped me daily throughout

bad my life. I have a son, aged twenty-five. Although mother and myself and the rest of the family re life-long abstainers, he persists and lin: persisted for years in spoiling his own life and our lives.

"An interfering mother-in-law or sister-in-law might think that a widow was flighty' and might dissipate her husband's money before the children of the marriage attained the are of twenty-one.

They would make application before the Court of Chancery to have provision made for the children, although the father might have had perfect confidence In the widow's ability to look after the children.”

Supporters of the El retorted that became law testutors would no longer make wills which they knew the courts would have power to set his client to make a will in defiance permit

of the Bill.

When the local doctor called st) during the month was 60. Five Colley-row to help Mrs. Watkinsjøbtained their "A" Heences for sen- with her first child he did not planes, while Miss E. M. Uniacke expect any difficulties—just another became the first woman member to

Koin a ticket for land planes,

"Flying for anti-aircraft height finding continued during the month."

report signed by J. C. Ho took a chance in a million, Cooke, the club captain, "and gun gave the baby an Injection, flenners who suspected the accuracy of held her up by her legs and shook our flying accompanied our pilots her. Out flew the obstruction like from time to time, and expressed; a bullet.

surprise at the accurate heights kept |

"Our son is not it to fnherit my Then he breathed into the baby's and recorded on these flights."

money. Should the Bill be passed mouth and in about half an hour

More members were Indulging in against your ideas and the go had the joy of seeing her come to

aerobatics. "This is 10 be en Judgment of the House,

shall life.

couraged," says the captain, "as it certainly get rid of this money before

accurate makes for

nying, but

we depart from this vale of tears. ['aerobatic' landings are not popular." God guide you in your good work,"

Purilument then witnessed wholesome and refreshing spectacle so much argument its prin-

elple had overwhelming support. of lawyers refusing gund inaney,

When Mr. Bartle Bull (Enfeld- "The Bill will prove a perfect Cons.) looked like talking out the goldmine for the lawyers," said Sir discussion, when the House was due Archibald Southby (Epsom-Cons.). | to udjourn at four o'clock, the

and I do not believe the legal pro-

closure was carried by 159 votes to fession want it."

29.

SAVED BY SHADOW

A shadow over him mado sixty- three-year-old Edwin Day. of Liverpool-road. N.. took up as ho food Eri Beauvais-plaet, Holloway.

Dogcatcher Soft- Hoarted

n

Wo

the

Kirksville, Mo. This city boasts of a dogcatcher who doesn't consider his job done] Many M.Ps laughed loudly at the until he Anda home for the pleture of Chancery refusing El wandering pets he takes to the Dorado, but oddly enough It was n true picture, beenuse the most strenuous opponent of the BRI was Chancery barrister Me, W. P. Spens (Ashford-Cons.).

pound.

The shadow was cast by Albert Chalk, thirty-five-your-old telephone Death Changes Toast mechanic, of Ferney-rond, East Barnet, falling forty feet from a roof.

Mr. Day stepped aside Instine tively, Chalk crushed to the pave -ment at his elde, was killed.

Bald Mr. Day: "I felt him brush past my Art,"

Budapest.

Heinrich Welss invited a group of friends to a village inn where they were to celebrate his 65th birthday. A friend stond to wish a long life to] the host, whereupon Weiss fell

dead.

He and other lawyers contrasted the simple Scottish law with the pro- posal in this Bill that the aggrieved widow or children must make appli eation to the courts have the will nitered.

aside. Na solicitor would

Every speaker favoured relief for declitute widow and children. Although the terms, ut this 2361

This is a big Friday vole and a big vote for carrying the Bill further. The second rending was then car- ried without a division at all.

W

Mint Becomes Arms Factory

Pretoria, South Africa, The Royal Mint here is to be used an armaments factory when

In Scotland, when a man dies his the premises are transferred from wilow is automatically entitled to the British Government to the South one-third of his movable property ¦ African Government.

let.

7.33 Stock Quotatious and Hong- kong Exchange Market.

7.38.Studio-Doreen Ma_at_the_

Plano,

1. Medley from Wake Up and Live: Intro: There's a Lull in my Life; It's swell of you; Never in a Million Yours: Wake Up and Live; 2. Truckin'; 3. Stardust; 4. Tea for TIND

8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.

8.05 London Relay-As I See I [];

A talk by the Rt. Hon. Margaret Bondeld. L.D.

820 London Philharmonic Orches- tra and Alexander Kipals (Bass),

Froissart Overture, Op. 19 (Elgar)

Orchestra: Der Doppelganger: Aufenthalt (Schubert)....Alexander Kipnis with Piano accompaniment by Frank Bibb; L'Arlesienne Suite (No. 2-Bizet); Farandoie: Menuett.... Orchestra.

8.50 London Relay London Log. A ink by Cyril Cardiner. 9.00 Variety.

Goes

Humorous Sketch-Sandy Courting. .Sandy Powell and Com- Vocal-What Have You Done pany: To My Heart (Alm 'Cafe Collette') Twilight Sertrude....Clarrie Wright and The Twilight Serenaders; Humorous Sketch-The Cure (fe- coughs)....Cleely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert assisted by Laurence Green and Ceelle Dixon; Vocal-Mad Dogs and Englishmen (from Words and Music'); Lover of my Dreams (from 'Cavalcade")....Noel Coward (Baritone); Humorous John Henry's John. Henry assisted by

Night Oidge.

Gladys

9.30 London Relay-Tho News, 8.50 Relay of the Dance Orchestra from the Roof-Garden Gelli-Room of the Hongkong Hotel.

1. Smarty: 2. Moon got into my eyes); 3. After you; 4. Blue Danube. 10.10 Interval of recorded dance music from Z.B.W.

10.15 5. Lovely One; 8. Turn on that red hat heat; 7. That old Feel- ing: 8. Melody in F.

10.30 Interval of recorded dance music from Z.D.W.

10.40 9. Half way to Heaven; 10. Dream of Love: 11. Wouldn't it break your heart:,12. Skater's Waltz. 10.55 Interval of recorded dance musle from Z.B.W.

11.00 13. Опл lite bamboo bridge: 14. Sweet Leilani; 15. Med- ley of Itawnilan Hulas: 16. Honey- suckle Rone.

11.15 Interval of recorded dance muste from Z.B.W.

11.20 17. Love, what have you done?: 18. Adios Argentina; 19. Cubalero; 20. Cuba Libre.

11.35 Interval of recorded dance music from Z.B.W.

11.45 21. Whispers in the dark;

22. Publle Melody No. 1. 23. Stop! (Continued on Page 7.)

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