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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 14, 1940.

NANCY

I'M THE CENSUS TAKER, YOUNG LADY --- HOW MANY. ARE THERE IN THIS

HOUSEHOLD?

OH, ABOUT SEVENTEEN!

SEVENTEEN ?

SAY ARE YOU TRYING

TO KID ME?

DOCTOR ON

66

"GERM

OF

MILLIONS

OUR ADORABLE QUEEN

AFTER visiting the H.Q. of the Women's Royal Navy Service at

Charing Cross recently, the Queen went next door to Drummond's Bank to call on an old friend, Captain Drummond. The Queen' was photographed as she left the bank.

WAR BRINGS ONE BLESSING TO EAST

Slums Make Way For A.A.

Guns

By PHILIP JORDAN

ALEXANDRIA.

NOT MUCH attention is being paid here to the hardly veiled threats that have poured out from Rome this week-end.

Even, "Giornale d'Italia's" mention of Allied armies in this part of the world, followed later by the words: "A new phase is starting and it will not be long before- to-morrow or the next day-an expression of non- belligerency would be considered as incompatible with Italy's new attitude," has failed to disturb the active serenity with which this country faces the future,

Soldiers Told "Don't Criticise" Says M.P.

The allegation "that at a Scot- al camp soldiers have been paraded and Instructed that In all outgoing letters they must refrain from criticism of the camp condl- tion, and that some soldiers at this camp

complain that they with have also been threatened

punishment if they receive any letters containing what was tie- scribed as offensive matter," is made by Mr. Gallacher (Com.. Fife, W.) In a question le put to the War Minister in the House of Commons on April 2.

WANTED A JOKE AS EPITAPH

WHEN Rufus Coward, a

reilred

farmer, who lived in Doncaster, bought himself a motorcar and learn- yed to drive at the age of seventy-

Four', remark to him.

OF COURSE NOT!

By Ernie Bushmiller

COUNT THEM YOURSELF!

Z9USHAJAL.

FARM" SAVED

LIVES

Cured Ferrets -Then People

A MAN WHO HAS SAVED MILLIONS OF LIVES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD WAS CREMATED RE- CENTLY AT GOLDERS GREEN, N.W.

He was 58-years-old Sir Patrick Laidlaw, the patho- logist who seven years ago announced from an old army. hut that he had tracked, with two companions, the source of the influenza germ.

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Medical men said it was perhaps the most important discovery in medical history, for when he announced that he and his companions had established that influenza was a filterable virus, it was the world's first definite step to- wards preventing one of mankind's most deadly diseases, From 1918 to 1920, more than 15,000,000 people died from influenza. Together with the common cold, it was costing the nation £10,000,000..

The discuse could not be controlled until the basic cause had been discovered.

The three British doctors of the Medical Research Council

friend of his made a joking found that the causal agent was a microbe so small that it could not be seen in a microscope. It could pass through finely porous filters that held back visible bacteria.

The friend said: "It's better for ap old man to be killed by a motor-cor than a young wife."

The remark so tickled Mr. Coward's sense of humour that he left instructions In his will that it should be 'written on hui tomb- xtone.

This was revealed by the publica tion of the will of Mr. Coward, who lved in Regent-square,, Doncaster, and died last October aged eighty-

seven.

Ife left £10,000, and among his bequests were £1,000 to Doncas ter Royal Infirmary, and

£350 plus 25 for each year of service to his housekeeper. Mr. Coward's

¡years ago.

wife died twenty

15

• His nearest surviving relative is his niece. Miss Maud Coward, who manageress of a music shop at Selby, Yorks, and who has a big interest in her uncle's estate,

Remarkable Man

Miss Coward told something about her uncle, whom she described as "a remarkable mân.”

"For years he rode

horses and

drove his horse and trap round the

led."

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The influenza virus then joined the ranks of the smallpox | JAPAN and measles viruses, of which medical science had already con- siderable experience,

So they tried to isolate a serum which wont counteract the influence of the virus. Every disease was known to produce in a victim a swarm of what were called "anti-bodies."

SHE CALLED IN ROLLS-ROYCE

Got Enough

Sugar For

140 People, To Pay £90

ronds in the district where he farm- A WOMAN and her jed,"

said. "He retired soon: she after his wife died. and made his chauffeur drove up to a home in Doncaster."

Watford shop in a Rolls-

"He had on excellent rond sense

drove a great deal and rarely missed

and thirteen years ago he decided to Royce, went inside, and came buy, a car and learn to drive. He out with enough sugar. to a meeting of hounds in the Doncaster provide a week's ration for

140 people. district.

"He drove within Ave years of his death, but stopped when he had had an accident.

"The remark about it being beller for an old man to be kill. ed by a car than a young wie was made jokingly to him when He bought the

It amused car. him, but it was not unill the with was read that I learned he wani- ed it Inscribed on the tombstone. "I don't want the remark inscrib- ed on the stone," added Miss Coward,

[uppearance."

Defences of this city--which is the second of possible and I am consulting the other execu channels by which an enemy might approach Egypt-tor to see if it's possible to prevent its increase rapidly, and it is already something of a fortress which would succumb only to an attack

a good deal heavier than is ever likely to be possible.

Objected To Road Canon A. L. Davies, of St. George's Church, Doncaster, who benefits under Mr. Coward's will, said:

"I have no idea what prompted one of my Mr. Coward, who was

Because of the presence of the British and Egyptian military authori British Ficet in the Mediterranean, it tics in slum cleurance schemes that

more vulnerable from not only benefit the civilian popul- parishioners, to make such a strange is naturally the air than from the sea, and those tion by Increasing the amenities of request." responsible for defence--the British the city, but provide valuable and Navy,

Watching them

W8B

Miss

His Companions

Dr. Laidlaw's componions in bls experiments were Dr. Wilson Smith and Dr. C. H. Andrewes. Every morning they met for experiments, Before passing into the laboratory they dressed from head to foot in ter- paulin coats and rubber boats.

After walking through a pool of powerful disinfectant their clothes were washed ได้ the same fuld by at: tendants.

white-

Inside, lined against the washed walls, were the cages housing | dozens of feriets on whom these ex- periments to save human lives were made every day.

Dr. Laidlaw Infected ferrets with virus, and then be cured them with Injections. He found they then immune from influenza for three months,

The

were

three doctors worked at the Herm farm of the National Institute for Medical Research at M H Their germs, If they find gut free, could have wiped out the whole of London.

FOOD PROBLEM

Emily Stanborough, a Food Con- WITH GASTRITIS trol Committee employee.

At Watford the woman, Mrs. Yvonne Reede, of Ivy Cottage, Bovingdon, Herts, was fined £50 for obtaining sugar in excess of the amount prescribed in the rationing order and £23 for obtaining it with- ↑ out a coupon from John Kay, Ltd.

She was also ordered to pay £15 costs.

Summenses against Messrs. 'Kay, of Cowper Street, London, EC, for supplying the sugar were adjourned for a fortnight.

1 'cwt, Of Sugar Mr. Eric Temple, prosecuting said Miss Stanborough saw the chauffeur Mr. Coward is not buried in St. leave the shop carrying a large card- gunaGeorge's churchyard, but in a Don board container the flaps of which the British and Egyptian perfect sites. for anti-aircraft Armica-have not been slow to realise and all the selentifle paraphernalia easter cemetery, and Canon Davies were widely open. It contained blue

concerned about bags which were placed in the car, that nowadays accompany each bat-is therefore not

what shall appear on the tombstone,

"Mr. Coward was one of the Inst Mrs. Reekie was later seen by Miss Stanborough and a divisional food remaining residents in the formerly meer, who told her they had reason In addition to all these multiple fashionable Regent Square, adjoin to believe she was possession; of anti-aircraft batteries, whose searching the Great North Road," the canon about lcwt. of sugar Bights are complete with electrical said. "He was tall, bearded man.

this,

Air Defence Strassod

They have concentrated their main efforts on anti-aircraft defences and Have sited their guns with consider oble ingenuity.

tery...

Desert Observers

She showed them in a cupboard

· Because' Alexandria 18 a long and i cars of astounding and rapid accuracy Ho objected strongly to the construce 481b., and said she had let her iflenda

Is a cories of far-flung chains of ton of the road, but stayed in his trained observers spread in all direc-house in spite of it," tions across the face of the vast de-

extremely narrow elly of tall houses,

It is dimcult to defend. The narrow

strip of land along which it lles, besert that surrounds Alexandria on tween the sea and the great salt lake

two sides, as well as throughout the

In the rear, is so crowded with build-fertile della to the cast. Ings of great height that it is

is almost As an additional precaution against

may

I have the rest.

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"I admit the whole thing. I paid

Kay's manager 2 guineas. I did not get a receipt," she said.

"Tempting Peoplo"

GIFT FOR RED CROSS The Hague, May 13. impossible to find space from which marauders of any kind, a series of The American Red Cross lias pre Mrs. Reekie told the Court that she anti-aircraft guns and searchlights strong, well-concealed constal bat-sented $100,000 to the Dutch Red

have uninterrupted onveran terles are ready to sweep pirates from Cress. It also asked what materials realised that what she had done was through 300 degrees, which alone can the set.

ure needed and stated that 60 motor wrong, but she thought she was doing give adequate protection against air- Anti-alreraft batteries, are mainly ambulances are ready for shipment only what many other housewives

manned by Egyptians, but there is The Dutch Red Cross expressed would have done. In order partly to solve this pro-also a section of Territorials from grateful thanks in the name of its "Why should one shop, have so blem the Alexandria municipality Northern Ireland looking after some President and Princess Jullanh much sugar by them and so tempt

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