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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 2, 1939.

EMPIRE NEWS

MEDICAL DEGREES

': COMPLAINT

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Calcutta,

The University of Calcutta, has mado representations about the six years breach in the recognition of its medical, degrees by tho Сепета! Council of Medical Education in Britain,

Owing to difficulties and disagree- ments about inspection and curriculo,. the General Council gave up recog- nition of medical degrees obtained in India. After reconsideration recogni- tion was resumed.

For some reason, however, recogni- lion of the University of Calcutta degrees, which was interrupted In 1930, was resumed only with effect trom 1936, so that men who qualised in Calcutta between those years are not admissible to the British register. SOUTH RHODESIA

RECORD EXPORTS OF PRIMARY PRODUCTS Salisbury.

The general recession in world trade scarcely affected Southern Rhodesia in 1938. There were record exports of the main primary pro- ducts: Gold £6,718,000, tobacco £1,340,000, and asbeston £1,207,000. The total of exports at £11,883,000 was down by £80,000 as compared with 1937, owing to the decline in the American demand for chrome.

The imports at £0,750,000 showed un increase of nearly £1,200,000 over 1037. The favourable balance payments on trading account was thus

£2,124,000.

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The share of British countries in all Importa rose from about 70 per cent, in 1937 to nearly 70 per cent, in 1938. Great Britain, with £4,000,000 worth, supplied 40 per cent, of the Imports. SOUTH AFRICA

BILL TO REGULATE THE PRESS

Cape Town.

A bill to regulate certain aspects

of newpaper activity has been draft-

ed by the Prime Minister's depart- ment and will be introduced by the Government at the Parliamentary session.

Such a bill was foreshadowed at several United party congresses last year. The Transvaal Congress adopted a resolution making for legis-

lation "to prohibit the publication of untruths by the Press and the false Interpretation to the public of laws passed by Parliament."

CANADA

COMMON DEFENCE AGAINST FASCISM

Ottawa.

Mr. W. D. Herridge, the former Canadian Minister in Washington, said in an address recently: "Nu single democracy can stand against a world of Fascism. The British Empire connot.

The United States Cannot

western

He urged effective co-operation between all democracies of the hemisphere under the leadership of the United States. Canada, he said, could no longer claim the rights and benefits of de- mocracy and at the same time-seek to live in planetary isolation from existing dangers and responsibilities, KENYA

GOVERNOR'S RETURN FROM SUDAN

Mombasa.

and

The Governor, Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, Lady Brooke-Popham arrived by the liner.

Gloucester Castle recently. They were given an official reception. Sir Robert Brooke-Popham has been on a visit to the Sudan. He flow to Khartoum in an R.A.F. 'plane and afterwards travelled by train to Port Sudan to join the liner for Mombasa.

BRITISH GUIANA

LABOUR UNSETTLED BY COMMISSION.

Georgetown.

The recent visit of the Royal Com- misalon on labour conditiaris In the West Indies has had an unsettling effect" on labour, in the opinion of the acting police commissioner, Mr. Murtland.

Mr. Murtland made this statement before the Commission which is in- quiring into the riots at the Leonora sugor plantation, Demerara, In February.

Previously the Labour Com- missioner, Mr. Laing, had given evidence of 37 stoppages during 1938, at a cost to rugar labourera

£18,000 in wages.

No Worries, Happy At 100

of

Peterboro, N. H. Mrs. Mary Earl, who has passed the 100-year mark, is contented with life. "Worry gets you nothing. I'm per fectly happy. I have two teeth left;

and they meet," she salá

Family Beset, 13 Of 18 Ill

MASSA Midalefeld, Or Thirteen of Mr. and Mrs. Abe Weaver's 10 children have been con fined to their boda with scarlet fever which has closed schoolë here..

OXYWES

THE

ELEKTRO :: Sea the amazing "moto- man", created by Westinghouse. Hłownika, talks, smokes, obeye avery command of

his maker.

THE TIME CAPSULE::;See a replica

of the famous "Time Capsule buried by Westinghouse on the Fale grounds; the enduring capsule which contains records for the people of 5,000 years bence.

NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR

HALL OF POWER :: Seb this ex citing Westinghouse exhibit of the vital part eleculcity plays in modern industry, commerce, transportation and power sentious.

SINGING TOWER OF LIGHT.:; See this beautiful spectacle erected in front of the Westinghouse building

shown above. Music and ever-changing colours from electric lights are synchronized in a spectacular waterfall-

HALL OF ELECTRICAL LIVING :: See the many ways that Westinghouse has brought comfort, convenience and leisure to the mod- ern home :: how you can more fully benefit .from electricity today.

WHEN YOU VISIT WESTINGHOUSE

FROM

AT “THE WORLD OF TOMORROW”

the rich background of two generations, on through today, the calendar is moved years ahead. at the famous Westinghouse Building of the New York World's Fair. Here is a treasure house of the electrical miracles of today, and promises for the future.

The Trylon and Periphere, theme centre of the New York World's Fair

In the Westinghouse Hall of Power you'll see electricity harnessed to industry and commerce-a giant force obedient to your command at the mere touch of a button, The Westinghouse Hall of Elec- trical Living will give you a new conception of the leisure and com- fort and happiness that electricity

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What you see and learn and enjoy will richly repay you for the hours you spend in the Westinghouse Building at the New York World's Fair. We hope that for many years to come you will look back with deep pleasure at your visit with WESTINGHOUSE— at "The World of Tomorrow”,

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