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THE HONGKONG

GRAPH

MONDAY, MARCH

1938.

Doctor Says

EMPIRE NEWS

ISSUES BEFORE

PARLIAMENT

Ottawa,

The Canadian Parliament, in which the Liberal party has an overwhelm- ing majority, meets to-morrow.

but

No Areworks are expected, three important topics are likely to be debated in the five months during which Parliament is expected to be in pension. They are defence, tariffs and the export of hydro-electric power to the United States,

The Budget, as a whole, is likely to be a relatively simple matter, and will almost certainly be balanced. The proposed new trade pacts, Involving Brliain,

United the

States

and

Conado, are not likely to be com- pleted

before the Budget is intro-

dused.

dufund

Fund for Agriculture-Legistation in the interests of the Farmers' Union is predicted in the Quebec Provincial Legislature. The Minister of Agri- culture, Mr. Dussault, to submitting bills for improving the condition of farmers. It is expected that there will be a £2,000,000 increase in the Farm Loan, and that there will be an increased budget for agriculture.

Export Figures Exports of Cana- dian products for the first nine months of the fiscal year ending March 31 amounted to a gross value

of £170,052,894, compared with £163,104,345 for the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year. The United Kingdom took goods valued at £84,131,100, compared with £64,825,600.-Exchange.

Butter from New Zealand.-New Zealand is exporting record butter shipments, totalling 1,375 tons, to Canada owing to a shortage here.

ALBERTA DECISION

Ottawa.

The Supreme Court to-day reserved Judgment in the case involving the

constitutionality of the three Alberta

billa assent to which was withheld by the Lieut-Governor of Alberta. The

bills deal with taxation of banks, con- trol of credit and regulation of the

Press.

"Here Is Cancer Germ"

ROMANCE RUMORED-Envy of every Russian woman is dark- eyed Maria Demchenko, collective farm girl, not only because she was recently made a deputy of the Soviet Parliament, but because of her close friendship with Red Dictator Josef Stalin. Stalin has ordered leading Russian professors to educate her.

SACRED GOLD STOOL OF ASHANTI

.

THE mysterious Golden Stool of Ashanti, which

no

white man has ever seen, was described to the Lon- don News Chronicle recently by Prince Cabina Kessie, nephew of Prempeh II., King of Ashanti.

A week ago the court reserved "I have never seen it," said Prince Kessie, "but my

Judgment concerning the powers of

the Governor-General in Council to

disallow, and of the Lieut-Governor

to withhold the Royal Assent to the

Australia

mother, sister of the Queen, was allowed as a special mark of honour to gaze upon it, and she told me of it.

covered with wonderful designs.

TELLS OF LONG HUNT

(By A Correspondent)

Vienna.

DR. FRANZ GERLACH, forty-seven-year-old bac teriologist in the Austrian Government veterinary service, gave a delicate twist to his ultra-powerful microscope and said to me: “There they are. You are the first layman to have seen the germs of cancer."

Through the microscope, against

a dark background, I saw little pin- pricks of light like the smallest stars. They remained quite stil.

Dr. Gerlach, after fifteen years' research, announced to scientists in Vienna that he jhas succeeded in. making visible the ultra-microscopic germs that cause cancer, hydro- phobla, foot-and-mouth disease, and influenza,"

Te

INFECTED HIMSELF

Tail, with greying hair, he talked to me about his discoveries as he demonstrated slides on which were tiny cultures of millions of germs- enough to kill half of Vienna's two million people, he explained.

CLOSING

THE OPEN DOOR IN

MANCHUKUO

By Henry Wood United Press Staf. Correspondent/

San Francisco, Feb, 25. Two new blows have just been He sold: "These germs are the delivered by the Manchukuan smallest living bodies we know. government to the already tot- Compared to them the germs thattering Open Door policy in that cause tuberculosis are like an cle-

{country, according to a survey of phant to d mouse.

These are:

"I have been able to make them the Institute of Pacific Re. visible by this new microscope, which lations. uses ultra-violet rays. It has taken us nfteen years in this laboratory to and a substance which would mix with the cultures and cause the Herms to show against their back- ground"

He held up his forefinger. "Twice I pricked myself with a needle in this finger during experiments on hydrophobla. I went right away to have serum Injections, but it was awful La recognise the disease symptoms as they appeared and to wonder whether I had been in time.

be

cover.

NEARER TO CURE

1. The announcement by the prime minister of Manchukue that It is the intention of the govern- discontinue all extra- ment to Lerritorial treatment formerly foreign residents in granted to Manchukuo.

Z. The enactment of a foreign: control act which will enable the government to restrict immensely the Importation of goods from all countries except Japan.

These two measures follow a listi of several others all of which have!

of

"With this discovery we are nearer had for their objective the curtailing to it sure we have at least found of the open door, policy. Most im- was the out that the germs that cause can-portant of these to date cer, hydrophobia, influenza and creation of a state monopoly on oil which forced all of the products foot-and-mouth disease are similar.

But what it is that sets the germs large foreign-owned oil companies out that will take a lifetime to dis-the Institute reports, is that while at work we do not know yet. May of Manchukuo

The significance of these measures, "Only then can we set about find-tending to close the open door in "It is solid gold, with no particle of wood, and requires eighting how to kill them."

Manchukuo to other nations, they all legislation passed by the Legislature.men to carry it. In shape it shows Egyptian influence, and is

work out favourably for Japan.

As a matter of fact, Japan opened the way for the announcement the Manchukuan prime minister that extra-territorial rights in the treat- of foreign nationals will be dis- continued by signing a treaty with Manchukuo, which became effective Dec. 1, in which Japan voluntarily Dec. 1, In renounced her own extra-territorial privilegesstitute Ands that Japan was do this without prejudice to herselt by virtue of the fact she has already secured the creation in Man- chukuo of a set of laws, courts and prisons, all based on the Japanese model and liberally staffed by Japan- ese officials.... ... .....

Prince Kessie added. The identity of the villago is sceret,

GERMANY AND WORLD "For eight centuries it has_repre-

PEACE

sented the cul of Ashanti. Because Melbourne. it was the symbol of sovereignty and Once a year during the night of Speaking at Parliamentary nutional unity the English tried their ceremontal obeisance by the clefs it luncheon here to-day, Earl De La best to capture it in the Ashanti travels swiftly after dark the royal Warr, Lord Privy Seal, declared that | wars. But is hiding-place is still palace and to the mausoleum where the feeling of his Ministerial an inviolate secret."

dead Ashanti kings lle in golden colleagues was that war was for from inevitable. "We would," he asserted, "be making the greatest of mistakes if we believed that Germany was facing the future in a spirit of determination for war."

The stool rests in an under-collins. Before dawn It is back in ground chamber in a village whose [is, hiding place. Inhabitants from time immemorial have been ta sworn guardians.

TOUCH WOULD DEFILE IT

Not even the king himself is allowed to sit on it. He makes the

Earl De La. Warr expressed the "Quoth The Raven" gesture of sitting on it three times,

opinion that the German peoples were as apposed to war as the British. He. did not believe that it was hopeless to come to some arrangement which would ensure the future peace of the world.-Exchange.

ROYAL ROBES

GUARDED

DAY AND NIGHT

BY DETECTIVES

Istanbul.

"Every man between the ages

of 18 and 50 must produce thei body of a dead raven," decrees the Governor of Tekirdagh, in the Dardanelles zone.

Any male inhabitant between the ages laid down who falls to kill a raven will be liable to a heavy fine.

The reason is that the district is in fested with these birds, which are causing great destruction,

A day and night guard of delce- Lives are protecting the Royal Coro-

The population are also requested nation Robes which have arrived in

to co-operate in the slaughter of wild Australia for the 150th Anniversary boars, which, made desperate by the Celebrations, opening this week, cold, are killing sheep and cattle and They will be on display in the even attacking human beings. National Gallery,

states Austral News, together with an exhibition of Australian art.

D'

"One thousand boars, dead or alive, must be caught this month," the word has gone forth.-Reuter.

without touching it. To touch

it would be to defile it.

With 12 lies an Arablan. Nights mass of treasure-gold umbrella tops: golden sandals, swords, belta and guns studded with gems. "There are two other royal stools

of gold on wood for ordinary occa

sions," said Prince Kessic, "and these are sometimes confused with the secret stool."

Prince Kessic finishes his low studios al the Middle Temple In May, when he returns to Ashanti as adviser to the king. For the past 100

years the men of his family have all been educated at Oxford. He broke the tradition by going to the London School of Economics.

Recently he spoke at the City Temple on "Colour Prejudice in London." He believes it is on the increase.

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NO EXTRATERRITORIALITY Americans, Englishmen, French- men and other foreigners residing in Monchukuo will, under the new order of things, no longer have the right to be tried before their own courts, but will be passed on by the Man- chukuan Juridical regir

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discriminates NEW STAR FOR HOLLYWOOD against foreign interests. Hungarian Cinemactress Franciska Protest against its application has Gaal is the latest European recruit already been made by the British and Grime in your Carpets, Rugs,

Don't hoard Moth Eggs, Grit

to Hollywood's studios, She has an cr.sul-general on the grounds that it Important part in the film "Bur-discriminates in favour of the Japan- Clothing, Drapes, Loose Covers, caneer," shortly to be released inese and violates the principle of equal etc. You do if you permit them The United States consulate at to go into storage without clean-

Hongkong.

NO OATS FOR ARMY HORSES

IN ITALY 'SUBSTITUTE' TUNICS FOR SOLDIERS

commercial opportunity for all.

Mckden has also protested against ing.

the

the application of

the new

banking

act to the Manchurian brandlies of

under

the National City Bank of New York, which quite a few foreign privileges are to be suppressed.

The new

new foreign exchange control act follows closely the one put into effect by Japan last year, and gives the government complete control over

K all Importations by either granting or refusing to grant the necessary foreign exchange with which to pay

for them.

Turin. The use of substitutes, which has However, an exception is made in for some time been general among the case of Importations from Japan. the Italian public under the Self- According to semi-officlul reports, Sumelency Plan, has now been ex-Ucences for the importation of such tended to the army. It is hoped to luxuries as jewellery, cosmetics, dispense with imported textiles for cameras, cigars, cigarettes, high- uniforms and imported oats for priced motor cars and similar articles horses' fodder.

will not be granted. Changes in Army supplies are the Exchange for such imports an flour, sugar, paper, ten, first results of a plan drafted by wheat, Gen. Paraini, Under-Secretary for watches, clocks, silk and rayon War. From now on cavalry and textiles, and canned goods, which are Artillery horses will be fed on cakes produced in Manchukuo, or for whien made of refuse and various by substitutes are obtainable in Japan, products. These include:

will be "strictly restricted," accord-

Bran siftings, molasses and cocoafing to this report.

pods

Skins and crushed seeds of gropes cotton of raw materials like raw

and other vintage by-products;

and wool will not be permitted In excess of domestic demand. Tomato akins and 'reeds, olive. This new law not only gives the husks, rlee husks, and beans; Manchukuan government the power Brewers by-products and powder- to close the "open door" but also the ed

blood;

power to favour "friendly" nations Flour from leguminous plants, such as Germany and Japan, and pre- mineral sails and chopped kay and sumably Italy which is also aligned with the Nipponese-United Press, Cotton seed remains after the ex- traction of the oil, and

straw;

food

City Healthy For Babies

Refuse from the military bakeries, At Naples a factory has been built

the sole purpose of manufac turing the new fodder. There is another one near

Bologna,

Adelaide. The

Bald to keep well and This city - has jüst - established ́à casler to transport than world record during the past year for low, infant mortality, Bryne ráto The Italian soldiers' now uniforma fall to 25 per thousand births sa are to be made of wool mixed with compared with ii dati per homsand 30 to 50 per cent. of rayon Rockal during the nine, preceding

to: be much oats.

Carpets and Rugs should be thoroughly Shampooed & Dried

- Clothing, Drapes,

Loose Covers should be "ZORIC" Drycleaned-in order to be sure that moth eggs, grime, grit, etc. are completely got rid of.

Take no chances, moth eggs in textiles remain fertile and soon become active when Clothing, Carpets and Rugs are put into use again,

Send them to the cleaners before storing,

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