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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,

OCTOBER 13,

1938.

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TWO DOCTORS HALF- STRANGLED FOR

Head-in-Bag

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Tests to

Save Lives

Leeds.

Locking themselves in a room at a private house, two Leeds docters-- one 44 years old and married, the other single-half suffocated each other time after time to test a life- saving combination of gasses.

All Dr. W. Stanley Sykes and 27-years- old Dr. Reginald C. Lawrence-anaesthet- ists at Leeds General Infirmary-would say about their experiment was: "What we discovered may be of value to the big hos- pitals."

By placing a rubber bag over their heads they restricted their breathing almost to nil and only of semi-strangulation gave up when the effects brought them to exhaustion.

LASTED TEN MINUTES

While one of them underwent the test at a time his colleague held a watch and took noto of the time that clapsed before suffocation point. was reached.

They found that when the bag was filled with a mixture of helium and oxygen they could breathe longer than when the contents wero ordinary air.

Dr. Lawrence, a non-smoker, had the best return in ten tests-by lasting 10min. 21sec, before reaching exhaustion.

"As we were using ourselves as subjects wo olarogarded Home Office regulations about killing the experimental animals at the close of the session," the doctors drily comment in the British Medical Journal.

"We tried to obtain many readings in one evening, and very soon found that the fatigue caused by semi- strangulation produced Increasingly rapid intolerance to a repetition of the process.”

Dr. Sykes and Dr. Lawrence came to the conclusion that an artificial atmosphere of hellum and oxygen is about twice as easy to breathe as ordinary air, and that the mixture should be of great value in cases of respiratory obstructial to economise

muscular effort.

or in cases in

It is learned that helium- oxygen mixture is already prov- ing its value in cases of post- operative collapse at Leeds General Infirmary.

In one case that of a girl of 2) whose heart had almost slop- ped beating after a gravo opera- tlon--the mixture saved her life.

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American doctors have for years been using hellum to replace nitrogen in the atmosphere breathed by patients in oxygen tents.

A mixture of hellum-oxygen re- quires only one-third as much effort

to breathe n nir containing

- same amount of oxygen.

the

The cost of the new helium is ap- proximately 2s. 6d. per cubic foot. It is a by-product in the manufac- ture of oxygen from liquid air. it is possible that it will in future find considerable application in deep- sen diving, as the light nature of the gas makes it easy to eliminate from the system.

Indians' Anger At "The Drum

Bombay,

of Moslems picketed A crowd Bombay's oldest theatre, where the Alim, The Drum," is being shown. They object to it because of the - peralons which, they allege, are cast in it on the frontier Pathans. Pro- paganda has also been worked up the Nationalist for some days by newspapers, which any that the alm

SCIENCE

HAUETAN FERN V

23 Rockets Fail-Last Saves Crew And Girl

Ten men and a girl, saved by their last rocket from the sloping decks of the disabled Glasgow steamer Girasol (648 tons) in the Irish Sea-they had fired 23 in vain-were landed at Liverpool and, Cardiff recently.

RADIO BROADCAST

"After the Tempest" And Other London Relays. CHILDREN'S HOUR

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W, on a Frequency of 845 k.e's. and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. and 8-11 pm on 9.32 mac's, per second.

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Studio- The Children's Hour.

7 Closing Local Stock Quotations. 7.03 Choir and Organ of the Temple Church.

O Come, Everyone That Thiraieth and (Mendelssohn).....Organist Director of Choir G. Thalben Bull; I Walted For The Lord (Mendels- and Organ with sohn)....Choir Masters E. Lough and It. Mallett (Soloists); The Heavetu Are Telling -Creation-Haydn); How

La Thy Dwelling Place ("Requiem" Brahms)....Choir and Organ.

Six of them reached the Mersey In the Yeoward liner Agulla (3,255 tons), whose passengers, returning from a trip to the Canaries, took part in a thrilling rescue Face and Coronation Processional secured snapshots of the drama for their holiday albums.

724 Regimental Band of II. M. Grenadier Guards

Music

(Selected from the Music in the Royal Procession, Coronation Day, May 12,

Ceremony....with words of com-

The other five, among them De-1037); The Changing Or The Guard borah Halden, 19-year-old daughter of the Girasol's chief engineer, were landed at Cardiff by the coaster Shumo.

Miss Halden, who was thrown from her bunk when the ship listed and scrambled out in her pyjamas with a coat around her, was least perturbed of the rescued.

"It was a pretty nasty experience while it lasted," he said, "but I suppose we are lucky not to have suffered a worse fate."

CREW'S STORY

The Girasol was on a voyage from Cardiff to Glasgow with a cargo of Charge of manslaughter has been placed against 300 tons of pig-iron when part of it

shifted in a 75-mile-an-hour gale. Mildred Gaydon, Miami, Fla., night club elgarette girl,

"We were of Bishop's Rocks, who drove her car with the Count of Covadonga as close to the Pembrokeshire coust passenger when hit a telegraph pole. Upper left when the cargo shifted and the the Count, son of former King Alfonso of Spain,

victim, who bled to death from his in- Girasol heeled over at an alarming hemophili juries. Upper right, the wreelted cor. Bottom, Miss rate," sald W. Cook, the mate,

Nevin, North Wales. Gaydon booked in Miami by Deputy Sheriff Desmond we were soon listing at 45 de- Kelly. At left is her sister Mary,

BULLET PROVED MAN'S STORY OF ACCIDENT FALSE

bullet had proved his original story to be false.

Aldworth was sentenced at Croydon to three months' hard labour for receiving a revolver.knowing it to have been stolen and for being in possession of ammunition without a permit.

It was impossible to grees. the, decks without clutching Trupports.

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The gale whipped up the sea and it was bitterly cold as dawn was breaking. When we tried to launch a boat it smashed against the side and one of the firemen who was in it fell into the water with the debris.

Д lifeline and He clutched pulled back to safety."

was

SICHTED TWO SHIPS Second Engineer, W. Galbraith, or Ayr, said: "We fired 23 rockets with out success, and, battling against the elements at 4 p.m. on Saturday-11 hours after the accident we sent We had almost

up hope.

mand.

7.40

Studio-Z.B.W. Orchestra. 1. Three Dances (Cyril Scott): Gavotte; 2. Eastern Dance; 3. Record: A Sum- English Dance; 2. mer Night (Morzials and Gering Thomas....Doris

Vane (Sopranb)

with Piano and 'Cello Obbligato; 3. Una Notte sul Volga (Russo).

8 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.

8.03 Stadlo Z.B.W. Orchestra.

Blumen Serenade (Leonardl);

4.

5. Smoky Clouds (Ranzato); 0. "Dic Csardasturstin" (Kalman)--Selection. 8.30 London Relay "At The Black Dog.

Mr. Wilkes at home in his own bar-parlour. Presented by S. E. Rey-

nolds and Pascoe Thornton.

9 Cortot at the Plano Ballade No. 2 In F Major, Op. 38 (Chopin); Ballade No. 3 In A Flat

9.15 London Major, Op. 47 (Chopin).

Affairs."

Relay-"World

A talk by H. Wickham Steed. 0.30 London Relay The News. 0.50 Bongs by Muiza Korjus (Soprano).

The Maldens Of Cadiz (Dellbes); Orchestra Serenade (Moszkowsky) cand. by Bruno Seidler-Winkler.

10 London Relay "After The Tempest."

A fantastic comedy by Geoffrey Lady Marten; Treate; Characters: Major Tony Manners; The Hon. Freddie Fitzrain; Prudence Marten; Nova; On a Pacific island, some twenty years in the future, stands the hut shared by the two women of B small party' of castaways, Lady Marlen and her daughter Prudence; Production by Howard Rose.

His

Wallz-

Accompanied by two warders from prison, Stanley

10.30 Dance Music. Morgan Aldworth gave evidence at a Croydon inquest off the final one.

Quick-step I Wasn't Lying When I Said 'I Love You'; Wall-Oh, Mr. recently of how he accidentally shot Mrs. Kathleen Aspin-Then we sighted two vessels Man In The Moon. Henry Jacques wall (23), of Dingwall Road. It was revealed that the which had seen the distress signal, with : Fox-Trots-A Fine Ro- Dance Tempo Correct coming to our assistance. The wind Orchestra; was dying down and the sea becom-mance (from Swing Time'); The

Look

To-night (from ing calmer, and boats were launched Way You from the rescue vessels and we were Swing Time) ........../

....Ambrose and His taken off safely."

Orchestra with vocal chorus; Six- While they clung to the decks one Eight-Andalusia; Com (from of the men tried to heliograph an I'm Popeye, The S.O.S. with his shaving mirror, but Popeye, the Salle Hotel Band with the Sallor). Sydney Kyte the signals were not seen.

and His Piccadilly Hotel vocal chorus; Fox-Trots-Love Ain't Nothin' But The Blues....Frankio Trumbauer and His Orchestra with Vocal Refrain; Cherry....The Big Chocolate Dandies with Vocal Re- frain: Waltz-One Kiss In A Million; Fox-Trot-Love, Please Stay............. Henry Jacques with His Correct Dance Tempo Orchestra.

11 Close Down.

Mr. E. C. Morey, the Deputy-Coroner, sald:

England Must Have More Babies

Is

says doctor

Dr. F. Grundy. Lalon (Beds) medical officer, discussing the birth rate, asys In the annual report, issued recently:-

"There

Justification for and stating that, If fertility mariailly remain what they are

bulk of to-day, the

the stock which now inhabits England is doomed to extinction within a comparatively short period,

"There is a strang desire, amounting In some cases, almost to determination, not to have children. No longer is a targe family

ground for respect,

but rather are its creators re- garded by The Dian-in-the- Street as irresponsible.

MENINGITIS CURE New Drug Available In Hospitals

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"I don't want to moralise, but it chiefly because Aldworth led

rather badly right at the beginning Touch Of

that I thought it right he should be present to-day on a Home Office order."

"FOOLING ABOUT"

Mrs. Aspinwall was shot in Ald- worth's home in Cecil Road, Thorn- ton Heath, when Miss Queenie Hibbs, (known as Mrs. Aldworth) and a baby were also present.

At the hospital Aldworth said he had been fooling about with the cartridge trying to get the cap off with a a chisel

Felice pointed out, however, that the bullet showed li had gone through a barrel.

"We were all Miss Hibbs said:

A Vanished

Hand

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Cardiff. Foraging among a book-seller's bargains here Oswald James, 64- year-old commercial traveller, of Exmouth.

dramatic find.

made A

Picking up a book, he turned to the laughing and talking and chatting fy-icat and read: away, and all of a sudden I heard a noise like a whizz and a thump.

It

LOCAL SUCCESSES

Accountancy and Commerce Examinations

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Mr. Lim Tail-sim. of Hongkong. student of the School of Ac- "To you, dear, with love from Ada." countancy and Commerce, was suc "Over 40 years ago, when I became cessful in winning the gold medal awarded for overseas candidates at engaged," he said, "my wife present- the half-yearly examination of the ed me with this book. It had been International Institute of Account- missing for many years, and how it ants, which was held in June last, came to be in Cardiff is a mystery.

There was an increased number "Although the handwriting is now examinees both in Australia and very faint, I recognized it immediate- Overseas who sought to qualify. Mr. D. G. Payne, of Sydney, was success- "My wife is dead, but I shall careful in winning the gold medal

connection |wag wannag to take it.” He look fully preserve this book as another awarded. In

out to clean it, opened part of it and cherished memory of happy days." Australian examinees. then realised Mrs. Aspinwall might= see it.

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Ite closed it as quickly as he could puty coroner said, "I think it is and then there was a noise. He did tragedy that a young wife of 23 not know there was a cartridge in should have lost her life in this way and I am certain that it will be a After the jury had returned a ver- lesson to Aldworth for the rest of

It.

is imperialistic jingoism and harm- the new drug of the sulphanilamide diet of "Accidental death," the de- his life,"

ful to India's freedom.

on

Following two remarkable cures, group, known for short us M and B 693, is to be available generally to

At a public meeting a resolution hospitals and doctors for the treat-i was passed protesting against The ment of pneumococcal meningitis, a Drum" the grounds that it disease from which few have re- "Justines the aggressive polley of covered in the past. It will also be British Imperialism against the avaliable for the treatment of other freedom-loving independent tribes diseases,

of the North-West Frontier, depict-

A seven-year-old girl, desperately

ing them as treacherous, wily and with the disease, was admitted to the the Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton,

- ferocious, and the British

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saviours of humanity.": The Gov-in July, and after eleven days' trent- ernment is asked to ban the film.ment with M and 3 699. she had Sabu, the 14-year-old Indian boy partially recovered. In mid-August appears in "The Drum," which was she was in produced by Alexander Korda,

It

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was shown in Singapore recently.

perfect health.

A 05-year-old carpenter, admitted to the Brompton Hospital, London, on June 27, was cured of septicaemia in six weeks.

As the result of the two cures, the

EYSTON'S GOLD STARakers received requests for suppiles

from doctors and hospitals in all parts of the world, but production The British Racing Drivers' Club was then only on n laboratory scale. Committee has awarded special gold It is now available in commercial stars to Capt. George Eyston in re- quantities, and all the medical de cognition of his land speed record of mands can be met.

The sale of the drug will be per- 843.49 m.ph., and to R. J. B. Son- man, who recently won the German mitted solely on a physician's pre- Grand Prix.

scription.

Gangs In Battle

At Billingsgate

GANGS FOUGHT WITH RAZORS AND KNIVES

IN BILLINGSGATE MARKET RECENTLY.

WHEN THE POLICE ARRIVED THEY FOUND THE GANGS HAD FLED LEAVING ONE 'MAN ON THE GROUND WITH SEVERE KNIFE INJURIES TO HIS HEAD.

HE WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL AND THE WOUND WAS STITCHED UP. HIS CONDITION WAS SO SERIOUS THAT HE WAS KEPT THERE.

A SECOND MAN WAS SADLY:CUT FROM THE LEFT EAR TO THE SHOULDER BY A RAZOR ~ ~

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with the

A large number of students of the Hongkong School were also success- ful in passing examinations in book- keeping, law, auditing, shorthand and typewriting."

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STOCK MARKET REPORT

The Hongkong Stock Exchange official summary issued at 12.30 p.m. yesterday, says:

Market was neglected with prices showing a small decline.

Muyers

Union Watersboats #7 Peak Tram (Old) 0% Btar Turtles $77

Bandakan Lifts $10 Telephones (New) 10 Govi, 8%, LORD 64% prem. Govt. J% Loan par.

Sellers China Lichte (Old) $11.19 Macao Electrics #175 . Balan

Hotel $7.03 Lund 364 Electrice $94 Antamoks PHOT Bagulo Gold 2414 Benguet Consol 11.00 Cooo Groves A3 Consol. hétres 0036 Pernonstrations „37.

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