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Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 25, 1939.

Trek To Formosa

DOCTORS DISCUSS YOUR HEADACHE

Cure Is-

Give Up Worrying

HE headache you had

THE

74, SHE RESCUED FRIEND

last night, the one you

From Burning Room may (we hope not) get to- SEVENTY-four-years-old Mrs. day, were discussed by doc- Amelia Smith, of North- tors at the B.M.A. con-umberland-road, Southampton, raised a bandaged hand and ference at Aberdeen recent-wiped away her tears, after she ly, with FREE advice on had told how she tried in vain to save a woman of 63 from a

cures.

are.

When the coroner at the South-

Physical disorders are, it blazing room. seems, not to blame; worry,ampton inquest said "I think you are insomnia and depression very brave woman," Mrs. Smith, broke down, and replied "I only wish I had raved her." Professor H. Cohen (Liver- .She tried to rescue Mrs. Lucy pool) explained that there are Filleul, who lived in the same house, types of headaches, one accom-¡

when the Are broke out,

She said, "I asked her if she could panying lesions of the brain and the other associated with irrita-en the door, and heard her moan-

In The

locked on thr inside, zo 1 ran out of the house to her window, and threw it up.

tion of the brain's membrane. Just Relax

WIN

Mrs. Filleul was standing, light from head to fout. I called her to Professor G. W. Pickering the window and managed to drag (London) has found that he can her through it, then 1 wrapped rugs banish a headache after a tiringend her to smother the Bames day by consciously relaxing the muscle of facial expression. In i

KEY WAS BROKEN "Practically all her clothes were!

a few minutes the pain disap-burnt off. Later it was found that pears, he stated.

the key of her door hal broken in Dr. W. C. Maclay (London), the lock as she tried to escape." also considers that relaxation i Mrs. Smith then threw buckets of water over the burning bett und eur- gives good results.

Talost.

Dr. D. R. MacCalman (Aber- ( deen) said that some patients would say that aspirin or any other drug had no effect

their headache but that sleep would often cure it

The Causes

What causes headaches? Here are some of the explana- tions given by the doctors:

Continuous headaches are almost certainly due to anxiety, depression, mental disorder or Insomnin,

unnecessary uperations are performed on the nose because patients have not been asked whether they sleep well or have worry, Kald Dr. C 1'. any Symonds.]

[Many

M. Filloul died in hospital. Veidet: Accidental Death,

A disordered personality" often bring a headset

Dr. T. A. Ross (London) declared that neurotic patients with "hend- achet were really suffering from some form of emotional feeling of discomfort.

Drake No Gymnast

When physical training was dis- russed, Professor 11. A. Harris (Cam- bridge) said it should involve some-

thing distinct from regimentation.

The feats of daring, of physical and mental endurance, of lonely watches, and the forced marches. have been a product of the spirit of the British race, not of the

Medals For Four Heroes

A SERGEANT, a corporal

and two privates who took what arc described officially as appalling risks in an effort to deal with a blaz- ing petrol tank in Palestine, are to receive the M.B.E. for bravery, it is announced by the War Office. -

They are Corporal Thomas Atkinson, Privates Thomas McAvoy and Thomas Fowler and Sergeant John William Brindle (acting Sergeant Major), all of the 1st Battalion The Green Howards.

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Corporal Atkinson was in charge of mechanical trans- port at Jinsafut Camp, truck Palestine, when caught fire.

A petrol tank became in- volved and Private McAvoy, to relieve pressure on the tank and try to avert an ex- plosion, took a pick-axe and, without any thought for his own safety pierced the tank. The jet of burning petrol which gushed out caused him to be badly burned.

In spite of this, the tank exploded, spreading burning petrol over a wide aren.

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Company Sergeant-Major Brindle and Private Fowler, despite interse heat and danger, rescued several men whose clothing was alight.

Corporal Atkinson was neverely burnt in endeavour- ing to save the life of a comrade.

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gymnasium or the barrack square," He continued.

"Drake. Cook, Scott,, hwrence and Somerville are not the products of any system of physical education or sport."

UFS

Mr. and Mrs, Carvell Wells, famed explorers. prepare camera <quipment in San Francisco for Chicago Geographie expedition to Formosa, to film head-hunters. Lawrence Mlls, Princeton bird student. centre.

Irish Flag Causes Scene

A

Grasshoppers Are Marked

There

SAFFORD, Ariz.

are 100,000 grusshoppers-

N Irishman addressing hopping morrily around Southern meeting in Hyde Park on re-Arizona that are decidedly "hot" if They were cently unfurled the Irish flag. they only knew it. The crowd of 500 became very taken and branded with red pigment) hostile and the police arrested by 4-11 club workers and then turned loose in an effort to ascertain from him.

whence they come and whither they

13.

The man was Willum Curtin (25), af Paddington, a member of Clann Na Gael, the Irish society mentioned

A constable stated that before un-} furling the flag Curtin said: "Soon in the "S" plan produced by Home Secretary in Parlament... we shall all be deported, and when He was charged at Marlburough we get there we will blow the Eng- Street with using words calculated tulish out of it."

ente a breach of the peace.

the

Curtin was fined 10s.

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