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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY AUGUST

CABBAGE VITAMIN BRINGS NEW

HOPE TO T.B. SUFFERERS

"Cure Possible," Says FACES YOU KNOW ARE HERE

Doctor

NEW HOPE FOR TUBERCULOSIS SUFFERERS IS BROUGHT BY A FAMOUS GERMAN DOCTOR WHO HAS ACHIEVED REMARKABLE RESULTS BY THE USE OF VITAMIN C, THE VITAL ELEMENT OF GREEN VEGETABLES, SUCH AS CABBAGE AND LETTUCE.

-After nearly 30 years of experiment, he got a "clue" when it was noticed that tuberculosis sufferers improved in spring ns green vegetables and salads entered their diet after the winter months.

The doctor is Dr. Bernhard Scholz, physician at the Burger Hospital, Frankfurt-on-Main.

"Up to now," he told a reporter, "medical men have failed to cure tuberculosis because they could not has defled get at the bacillus. It treatment as it has A protective covering of fat and wax.

"This fact has been, known to medical science for some me. We also knew that the human body possessed substances which can dissolve this wax coating and kill the bacl!l!.

"These stibalances are known as fat-dissolving! fermentics, and con sist of albumenoid particles Vitamin C.

HOSPITAL TESTS

and

have been "Several scientists searching for them, including two blochemists, Dr. Kaut and Dr. Pant- schenko. of the Dortmund (West- phalia) Research Institute. They proved by experiments that by in- creasing the Vitamin C content in an animal organism, an abundance of these fermenties was obtained,

"Following carried out a number this discovery," added Dr. Scholz Escertaments at my hospital and

of

that an increase of these fermenties may be induced in the

body.

human key to the

whole problem

appears to be the amount of Vita- min C in the human body. Research has shown that a deficiency of it deprives man of resistance against tuberculosis,

WORK TO BE DONE

"I have treated a number of tu- berculosis sufferers, and I am con- vinced that in some cases a complete cure can be obtained by the sultable upplication of Vitamin C.

great deal of experimental work remains to be done, but I feel convinced that we are on the right path and will eventually and a cure for a dreaded disease which has ever been the scourge of mankind."

Girl Tarzan Captured

A

GIRL Tarzan, her naked body burnt brown by sun and exposure, with long finger nails and uttering inarticulate cries, has been captured by hunters In mountains of Adana, Anatolia.

Joan Crawford

Loretta Young

Nation Should Take

Over Pits,

Miners

Say

From Ian Mackay

Whitley Bay!

UNANIMOUS demand for the nationalisation of the

coal industry on economic, social and safety grounds was made by the Mineworkers' Federation at their con- ference here recently.'

With Mr. Nikolenko, leader of the Russian miners, on the platform, speaker after speaker who had visited Russia as experts declared that the Russian mines were safer and more efficient than the British mines."

It was a good day for Mr. Nikolenko, and he will have a grand report for Stalin when he gets back.

The resolution declared that the how landowners and royalty owners revenue acute problems affecting the mining were extracting enormous

really the industry and those engaged in 11 can out of land which

They had just killed a large mountain bear in the brown forests when out of the treen them the girl menacing Came with cries and gestures. After being overpowered she, was token to a medical institution at Brusa, where she refused all cooked

food.

CRITIC OF PRESIDENT

only

not effectively be dealt with so long agricultural land and has only got as the mines are privately owned. on economic value through the

Nationalisation of mines and by-exertion of the miners, products, it went on, has become grave and national necessity and de- lay is adding to the hardship of the miners and postponing that which is inevitable for the ultimately national welfare,

“SOVIET MINES BETTER”

An attack on the president, Mr. Joseph Jones, for bls speech yester- day was made by Mr. W. Foster (Lancashire). He said he disagreed that the strike weapon was ineffec- tive.

Mr. Ned Moore (Durham) `· who "I believe," he said, "it is the most She also refused to sleep in a bed moved the resolution, said there effective weapon we have and will and was given a mattress on which were thousands of individuals who be as long as capitalism lasts. We she slept in a

dark corner of her have extructed from the industry are in danger of getting a type of fabulous fortunes and have never intellectual leadership which is so TOOM,

ADOPTED BY BEAR

ifted a finger to benefit the nation, capable of analysing the position the mine or the mine workers. All that it sees the other side's case Investigations revealed

is to make huge two-years-old child had disappeared they have done from a nearby village 14 years be-profits out of the impoverishment of better than the side of the miners. fore and it is presumed the child the mine-workers." wandered Into the forest and was "adopted" by a bear.

power of speech.

that A

LOOK BELOW.

"COMPARE

THEM WITHI

THESE

Sylvia La Marr (left above). double of Joan Crawford, with Margaret Bry. son (Loretta Young). On the

right Betty Dietrich, the other Garbo, and her sister Carole, who doubles for Marlene Dietrich. The sisters Dietrich are no relation to the real Marlene. They are the daughters of a farmer in New York State.

"To Enjoying Goothe

-£300"

Three children will receive £100 cach "as soon as they are able to read and enjoy Goethe."

This bequest is made in the £21,772 will of Mrs. Wilhelmina M. Frisch, of Berlin and formerly of Elmsiclgh. Princes Parks. Liver- pool, who died at the age of 85.

Dr. William Clif Hodges, father of the children, receives a legacy of £4,000 aud the residue of the property after several bequests have been made.

He lives at Hillsleigh, Nightin- gale Road, Godalming, and is well known in Surrey.

Soap King's Fortune

Greta Garbo

Marlene Dietrich

HORDER

DEMANDS

'END QUACKERY'

Lord Horder, speaking in the House of Lords last month, demanded Govern- ment control "for quack medicines at a time when a serious effort is being made to improve national fitness."

He said that reputable groups of firms had given him help and en- couragement besides tuking steps themselves to exercise a degree of 'control and censorship, which other countries was imposed by the authorities.

in

subject from the Proprietary As-

He had received pasurances on the

sociation of Great Britain, the News-

The paper Soclely,

Advertising Association, the Periodical Proprie- tors' Association and the Institute of Incorporated Practitioners In Ad- vertising.

"UNSCRUPULOUS"

"I am seeking to break an un- scrupulous monopoly which succes- sive Governments seem almost to

to guard." he said.

WIDOW TO GET have gone out of their way jealously ONE QUARTER

D

"We have now something in- Anliely better than these extreme- ly dublous cures We have network of the finest health ser- vices in the world, "The slogan 'Use your health ser-

"I often wonder whether the best MR. Robert William Hudson, Comparing conditions in Russin type of leadership is not the in- and Britain Mr. Moore said: "If I tellectual but the type that can see one-time head of R. S. Hudson,vices' is one of the most intelligent

of Villa Paloma, Monaco, had to choose between the condi-the practical side of the miner's life) Doctors hope to develop the girl's tions, hours and wages in the mines and knows what he ought to have." makers of Hudson's Dry Soap, slogans I have ever heard. The ex-

of the Soviet Union and the condi- At present she is incapable of tlons, hours and wages in the mines any subject, al- of this country I would certainly concentrating on though she responds to music, some-choose the Soviet Union," times bursting into wild, unintelli- gible songs

She exhibits most interest in a glass mirror in her room and will

Mr. John Armstrong (Scotland), who seconded, said that nationalisa- tion of the coal Industry was even more Important to the general public

sit before it for hours gazing at her-than to the miners. If the industry

self.

"LITTLE MOTHER'S"

TRAGIC DANCE

Parents' Sunday Ban Defied

was properly directed it would play o more importans part in the national

economy of the country than it had ever done in the past.

"IN NAME OF SAFETY"

Coal From South Pole By Air?

ser-

who died on June 14 aged 81, panding health and Insurance left £234,146 1s. 4d. porsonalvices are what the Government must state in England, on which now encourage people to put in the £70,480, 10s. 8d.cstate duty has place of the witch doctor." been paid..

"REAL DIFFICULTY" Owners of large newspapers sup- Probate has been granted, to his ported him in this Bill, and he had san, the Right Hon. R. S. Hudson, letters from peers who agreed that its P.C., M.P.. secretary of the Depart-the evil must be attacked at ment of Overseas Trade. The will souréo,

Viscount Gage (Lord-in-Waiting), |stales: —

WITHIN the next 50 years coul "I bequeath to my wife, Sabina will be mined near the South Deatrico Hudson, born Bartolomel,

said: real difficulty lies with the

dividual.

instead plaints,

Mr. Joe Ball (Yorkshire) made a Pole and huge freight aeroplanes all that the law of Monaco authorises passionate plea for nationalisation in will transport it from the new me to bequeath to her, that is one- immense State-assisted medicai the naine, of safety, "Isn't it true," field to the rest of the world. he asked, "that since 1927 the in-

fourth of my estate.

45,000 FOR THE POOR

►

dustry has passed through an experl- That was the forecast made to al ence unparalleled in its history? press representative by Mr. Harold 1.

"Haven't

"I bequest to my son Roberts Fourteen-year-old Simone Glequel,

we heard the word 'ex- June, who, na pilot to Admiral Byrd a "little mother" to a number of plosion' in the past ten years more on two Antaretle oxpeditions, is the Spear Hudson three-quarters of the mall brothers and sisters at Porche-than in the 40 or 50 years that some only man in the world to have twice surplus of my ordinary disposable

worked

in the Fontaine, near Versailles, went to a of us here

mines? Yet nothing practically has been done to prevent it."

dance one Sunday in defiance of her parents' orders.

have

taken a

a plane over the South Pole. portion, Just as 11 is fixed by law Mr. June, who left Southampton on of Monaco." Saturday by Empire flying-boat for Mr. Hall said he had inspected the South Africa, is hoping to pilot mines in Russia and had to come Admirál Byrd over the South Pole back to Britain, which claimed to again in 1940,

Mr. Hudson distributed each year among the poor of Monaco, where he had Hved for the past 30 years.

It people prefer to and treat their own com- of tising the

schemes, it is largely their own responsibility if they suffer in con- sequence,"

the

He would no exclude the possi- billy of some legislation" on linca suggested, but it would bo difficult to guarantee that it would be efteclve. Lord Horder's motion was with- drawn.

Mrs. Hudson's Inheritance is the Police Restrict Scope Of estate of the Villa Palomo, one of the most luxurious on the Riviera,

Joke worth about £41,000,

Her absence was discovered when little sister who slept with her woke

Simond's Iather Informed the have the most efficient mines in the "On the inst expedition we found police, who traced her to the dance world; to report quite definitely that a range of mountains 300, miles from hall. But while the search was the British mines are not run as the Pole with huge veins of coal oing on, the returned home and efficiency as the mines in Russia, running into the sandstone," he said.

Boston. realsed her absence had been noticed.

Mr. 3. Bowman (Northumberland) raken out when trend at Aix-les-Bains, where she is now But when Joseph Sarni, 28, let

see no why that coul The Chateau de la Roche Durol, Policemen like a joke sometimes. She beret and shoes in warned them,

pandas and ran to the fallway scheme of nationalantion could sues Fortadion-intproves. "Miners would staging, in her own private property, out of patrol wagon's tires, ther few hours later, her coed unless the land question was find it no harder to work there than which she possessed before her mar failed to see any humour in the

fackled.. “He quoted; digures, to show, in Siberia,se

rlage

prank. He was fined $10,

prepralkovered.

that no

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