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THE

HONGKONG, ✅ TELEGRAPH. ¿MONDAY: MARCH://14/ 1938**

Doctor Says “Here Is Cancer Germ"

EMPIRE NEWS

ISSUES BEFORE

PARLIAMENT

Ottawa,

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

but

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

The Budget, as a whole, Is likely to be a relatively simple mutter, and will almost certainly be balanced. The proposed new trade pacts, involving Britain,

the United States and Canada, are not likely to be com- pleted before the Budget is intro- duced.

Fund for Agriculture.-Legislation In the interests of the Farmers' Union is predicted in the Quebec Provincial Legislature. The Minister of Agri- culture, Mr. Dussault, is submitting bills for improving the condition of farmers. It is expected tint there will be a £2,000,000 Increase in the

a. and Farm Loan, that there will be an increased budget for agriculture. Export Figures. Exports of Cana-

products for the first nine months of the fiscal your ending March 31 amounted to

to o gross value of £170.852,894, compared with £163,104,345 for the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year. The

United Kingdom took Koods valued at £64,131,100, compared with

£04,825,500.—Exchange,

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

ALBERTA DECISION

Ottawa,

The Supreme Court to-day reserved judgment in the case involving the constitutionality of the three Alberts bills 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.

A week ago the court reserved judgment concerning the powers of the Governor-General in Council to disallow, and of the Lieut-Governor

to withhold the Royal Assent to the legislation passed by the Legislature, Australia

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GERMANY AND WORLD PEACE

Melbourne, Speaking ut a Parliamentary luncheon here to-day, Earl De La Warr, Lord Privy Sent, declared that the feeling of his Ministerial 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 'n spirit of determination for war."

EOMANCE 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 Parllamment, but because of her close friendship with Red Dictator Josef Stalin. Stalin han 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 Kessic, nephew of Prempeh II., King of Ashanti.

"I have never seen it," said Prince Kessie, "but my mother, sister of the Queen, was allowed as a special mark of honour to gaze upon it, and she told me of it.

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 Httle pln-/ pricks of light like the smallest seats. They'remalnei" quite "still.

Dr. Gerlach, after fifteen years"} research, unnounced to scientists In Vienna that he has succeeded In making visible the ultra-microscopie gerras that sauce, cancer, hydro-j phobia, -foot-and-mouth discose, and influenza,

1

INFECTED HIMSELF

Tall, 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'a 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 said: "These germs are the delivered by the Manchukuan smallest living bedies we know government to the already tot- Compared to them the germe that

cause tuberculosis are like un ele-tering Open Door policy in that country, according to a survey of

phant to a mouse.

"I have been able to make them the Kstitute of Pacific Re- visible by this new microscope, which lations. uses ultra-violet rays. It has taken

us fifteen years in this laboratory a substance which would mix to find with the cultures and

the cause germs to show against their back- ground,"

These are:

the The announcement by prime minister of Manchukuo that it is the Intention of the govern- ment to discontinue all extra- territorial treatment formerly granted to foreign residents in

Lanchukuo. on

He held up his forefinger. "Twice I pricked myself with a needle in! this finger during experiments hydrophobin. I went right away to have serum injections, but It awful to recognise the

disease symptoms as they appeared and to wonder whether I had been in time.

NEAREN TO CURE

was

2. The enactment of a foreign] control act which will enable the government to restrict immensely the importation of goods from alĮ countries except Japan.

These two measures follow u st of several others all of which have! "With this discovery we are neurer had for their objective the curtailing: to a cure we have at least found of the open door policy. Most im- out that the germs that cause can- | PUT]

porlant of these to date was the hydrophobiu,

influenza

creation of a state monopoly on oll foot-and-mouth disease are similar products which forced all of the "But what it is that sets the germs large foreign-owned all companies out al work we do not know yet. May

of Manchukuo.

LE",

and

be that will take a lifetime to dis- "Only then ein we set about find-

cover.

"It is solid gold, with no particle of wood, and requires eighting now to kill them." men to carry it. In shape it shows Egyptian influence, and is covered with wonderful designs:

Princé Kesate added. The identity)

of the village is secret.

"For eight centuries it has repre-, sented the soul of Ashanti. Because it was the symbol of sovereignty and Once a year during the night off national unity the English tried their ceremonial obelcance by the chiefs it best to capture it in the Ashanti] travels swiftly after dark to the royal wars. But Its hiding-place is still paince and to the mausoleum where an inviolate secret."*

dend Ashanti kings lie in golden

The stool rests in an under-cons. Before dawn it is back in ground chamber in a village whose its hiding place. kuhabitants from time immemortal} have been Its 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 wor 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 the body of a dead raven," decrees the Governor of Tekirdagh, in the Dardanelles zone.

without touching" it. ""To louch #1 would be to delle 11.

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

of gold on wood for ordinary acca-

sions," sald Prince Kessie, “unid these

Auy male inhabitant between the are sometimes confused with the ages laid down who fails to kill a secret stool." riven will be able to a heavy fine,

Prince Kessie finishes his law The reason is that the district is in-studies at the Middle Temple in fested with these birds, which are causing great destruction.

A day and night guard delec- tives 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 bours, which, made desperate by the Celebrations, opentus 1Zain week. cold, are killing sheep and cattle and They will be on display In the Lven stacking human beings. National Gallery, states Austral "One thousand boars, dead or alive, News, together with an exhibition of and he caught this month," the word

Australian art.

bas gone forth.--Reuter.

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May, when he returns to Ashunti as adviser to the king. For the pust 100 years the men of his family have all been educated at Oxford.

He broke the tradition by going to the London School of Econuries.

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

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The significance of these measures, the Institute reports, Is that while tending to close the open door in Manchukuo to other nations, they all work out favourably for Japon.

As a matter of fact, Japan opened the way for the announcement of the Manchukuan prime minister that extra-territorial rights in the treat- ment of foreign nationals will be, dis- continued by signing a treaty with Manchukuo, which became effective Dec. 1, in which Japan voluntarily renounced her own extra-territorial

privileges.itute finds that Japan was

The

able to do this without prejudice 10 herself by virtue of the fact she has already secured the creation in Man- chukue of a set of laws, courts und prisons, all based on the Japanese model and liberally staffed by Japan- ese officials.

NO EXTRATERRITORIALITY Americans, Engilshmen, French- men and other foreigners residing in Manchukuo will, under the new order of things, no longer have the right · to be tried before their own courts, an but will be

regime. them

on the same

While

this

case with the new foreign exchange control

discriminates gainst foreign interesta.

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UNTHINKABLE!

Of course you would not give your baby a cigar or adult food because you know babies require special care and treatment. That is why you spend so much time in the preparation of his special food. Yet when baby's system is upset and he is troubled with colic, diarthen, sour stomach, indigestion or constipation, are you careful to use only medicine that has been made especially for him? Castoria is the ideal remedy for your child because it has been pre- paredespecially for infants and children. It is mild, pleasant-

tasting and easy to take. The next time yɩaur kaby is upset by some simple child ̃ailment, use Cas- toria, safe for even the newborn infant.

CASTORIA

The medicine made especially for children

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GOING ON LEAVÉ

Don't hoard Moth Eggs, Grit and Grime in your Carpets, Rugs, Clothing, Drapes, Loose Covers,

which

NEW STAR FOR HOLLYWOOD.......... | * protest against its application has

Hungarian Cinemactress Franciska

Gaal is the latest European recruit aiready been made by the British to Hollywood's studios. She has an csul-general on the grounds that it important part in the film "Buc-discriminates in favour of the Japan- cancer," shortly to be released in ese violates the principle of equal etc.

Hongkong.

NO OATS FOR ARMY HORSES

IN ITALY

'SUBSTITUTE'

TUNICS

FOR SOLDIERS

Turin.

Changes In Army supplies are the

comdal opportunity for all.

You do if you permit them

United States consulate at to go into storage without clean- Mukden has also protested against ing.

the application of the new banking act to the Manchurian branches of The National City Bank of New York, under which quite a few foreign privileges are to be suppressed.

The pe

new foreign exchange control act follows closely the one put into jeffect by Japan last year, and gives complete control over the portalen by either granting all or refusing to grant the necessary foreign exc

exchange with which to pay For them

first results of a plan drafted by.. Exchange for such imports

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, otc. ara completely got rid of,

Take no chances, moth eggs in textiles romain 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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Once & Works. Tel. 57032 Kowloon Depot. Tel. 88900.

Hongkong Depot. · Tel. 21270, Peak Depot.

Tel. 29352,

The use of substitutes, which bas] 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-omein! reports. Sufficiency Plan, has now been exileences for the importation of such tended to the army. It is hoped to luxuries # Jewellery, cosmetics, dispense with imported textiles for cameras, cigars, cigarettes, high- uniforms and Imported. cals for priced motor cars and similar articles horses' fodder,

will not be granted.

four, sugar, paper, tea, Gen. Parnini, Under-Secretary for watches, clocks,

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 which made of refuse ond various by- substitutes are obtainable in Japan, products. Those include:

will be "strictly restricted," accord“ | Bran siftings, molasses and cocoa ing to this report.

Imports of pods;

raw materials like raw cotton, and wool will not be permitted in excess of domestic demand.

Skins and crushed seeds of grapes and ather vintage by-products;

Tomuto skins and seeds, olivej husks, rice husits, and beans;

Brewers' by-products and powder-[to close the "open door" but also the

animal blood;

power to favour "friendly" nations Flour from leguminous plants, such as Germany and Japan, and pre- mineral salts and chopped hay and sumably Italy which is also aligned straw;

with the Nipponese-United Press. Cotton seed remains after the ex- traction of the oil, and

This new law not only gives the Manchukuan government the power.

Refuse from the military bakerics. At Naples & factory has been duill| for the sole purpose of manufac- turing the new fodder. There is another one near Bologna.

The food is sald to keep well and

City Healthy For Babies

Adelaide,

This city bus just, established a

to be much onsier to transport than world record, during the past year

PEAN SON

for low Infans, mortality „That rate The 'Italian soldiers' new uniforms fell to dip, pergi thỏuskad

sire to be madeintzunol mixed with peber.

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