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French Gold Taken To Canada & Removed Again

The whole of France's £250,000,000 worth of gold was taken to Halifax, Nova Scotia, in June of last year-only to be spirited away when France began negotiations for n separate peace.

Men's Cure Help Up By Ration

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New Drug Praised By Army Men

Sulfapyridine Cuts Pneumonia Deaths

The cruiser Emile Bertin, carrying the gold in 14,000 sacks, arrived Tho astounding success of there at dawn on June 18. But that the wonder drug sulfapyridine morning the ahip's radio in the treatment of pneumonia brought new orders-Marshal Petain was seeking an armistice with the patients among personnel of Germans, and the gold must be the Philippine Army was re- taken to the West Indies.

British officers came aboard and vealed by medical officers in a announced that special trains were Paper read at the last monthly rendy to take the gold to Montreal, meeting of the Manila Medical

Captain Battel, the cominander, Society. played for time by pretending that Six merchant seamen, casualtiese must await final orders, and, uc

Vichy account, he of the sea war, were in hospital re-cording to the ceiving treatment for fractures. resisted considerable British pressure,

But the surgeon had to retard their progress because they were receiv

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rations.

Guna Manned

com-

The report was written jointly by Colonel Victoriano Luna, chief of the medical service, Major Adriano T. Cruz, manding officer of the PA gen- Their meat ration was insufficient of alifax slept, the French

The following night, while the cityeral hospital at Camp Murphy; com-and Lieutenant Conrado B. to build the strength necessary munder ordered the engines to for the exercises which would re-started, and the cruiser turned and

be Tensiano, executive officer of the store the use of their injured limbs. ran for the open sea.

same hospital. This was revented by Sir Ion Hamilton Benn at the Court ot! Governors of the Seamen's Hospital Society,

An Anomaly

"In one bed," he said, "there may Le a soldier, Royal Navy sallor, or nirman who may not have encoun- tered the enemy or endured extreme hardships. He is entitled to Service rallons.

the next bed Hes a sallon straight from a Merchant Navy ship which has been torpedoed bombed.

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"He is classed as a clvlilan casuni- ty, or even civilian slet it, having avoided enemy attack, he lins only contructed pneumonia from exposure on watch.

"He is only allowed the same ra- tions as you or me, though he is really a front-line combatant."

All her 20 runs were manned in case the Canadian coastal batteries should open fire.

The ship swung wide of Bermuda and arrived at Fort de France, Martinique, on Juno 22, the gold belag immediately carried ashore and burled under the mountain-top fortress of Desaix:

Guarding the gold on the island are 2,000 French troops; says British United Press.

R.A.F.'s Latest Fighter

Typhoon's Speed

FIFTH

MISTAKE COST SOLDIER'S LIFE

Torundo COLUMN

now

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Of the 85 cases of lobar pneumonia admitted in the PA general hospital In 1937, six patients died, giving u mortality of 17 per cent. The fol- lowing year, 1939, the mortality rate went up to almost 20 per cent when 13 died out of 60 patients admitted, despite all efforts of the army medical service, using all treatments and re- medies known to selence.

No Undue Optimism

. Since January 1040, when the sulfapyridine treatment was started, all of the 80 cases admitted in the army general hospital have recover- ed. The army doctors have been careful to temper any undue optim ism regarding the excellent results by stating in their reports the fol- lowing:

"In spite of such encouraging results we are still giving the drug fair trial knowing 100 well that

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or

Britain is

the producing world's most formidable fighter air-there can never be a perfect drug craft, the Typhoon, which surpasses

100 per cent, cure in the treat- infectious disease. the Spitfire and

new ment of any the In performance.

Besides, strains of pneumococci vary The

We may be Typhoon, fitted with the magnificent from year to year.

present withl milder new Napier Sabre engine, in capable dealing at of well over 400 m.p.h.

strains." The Typhoon is armed and ar- detalls as incidence of the disense, The paper further discussed such moured better than any of its pre-

Its armament comprises types, dosages, toxic reactions, com- a

treatment, and tabulation of all results.

fifth columnist of cannon and machine-plications, complete description of the

Mistaken for during Army exercises

at. night! Sergeant Willum Nolan received as

dented

giving terrific fre power. The Satre engine, designed by bayonet wound and died in hospital. Major Frank Halford, fumed as the

At the inquest ut Winchcombe.

producer of Gloucesteraire, a verdict was re-

of racing motor-cars be- corded of death by misadventure fore the war, develops the unprece-

Harts-power of 2,400, with negligence, not amounting to criminal negligence, on the part of The aircraft is a single seater,

single Arthur Rath a battalion bayonet caused the

The jury added that there

was negligence on the part of Colour Sergeant William Power for allowing Rath to carry a fixed bayonet.

Power and Rath, with Lance- Sergeant MacDonald, were walking

Private Cook-whose wound.

along

the road at night, according to their story at the inquest, when they saw three strangers approach.

They had already been told by an officer to look out for Fifth Column- fals: and when they saw three men coming towards them they called a challenge.

Shot Was Fired

engined machine, designed by Mr Sydney Camm, chief designer of the Hawker Aircraft Company, who also planned the Hawker I ricane and the Hawker Tornado. It has a greater range than previous single scaler types.

Germany's latest single senter

fighter, the Heinkel 113, is bellev- ed to have a top speed of 398 m.ph., a celling of 39,400 feet, and is armed with four large-bore guns.

NEW GERMAN PLANE COULD BOMB U.S.

An

Usherette Causes Divorce

UFS

PARAGUAYAN-Higinio Morinigo, Jr., young son of President of Paraguay, arrives in New York by plano. Victim of Infantile paralysis, ho's on routo to Warm Springs, Ga... for treatment. Physician oc- companios him. J

New Faces

For Victims Of Raiders

The world's most famous plastic surgeons, led by Sir Harold Gillies. are now working six days a week to restore the faces of British civilians which have been shattered or scarred by bombs.

These patients, who include many women and girls, have priority on the services of Harley Street specialists. No matter how many, how long. or how delicate are the operations. the necessary treatment is free.

The surgeons are being paid the Ministry of Health.

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June 30, 1941.

B.B.C. Told To Give

Facts

Questions Asked

In Commons

The B.B.C. has been told to confine its news bulletins to facts,

The House of Commons cheer-

ed when Mr Harold Nicolson,

Parliamentary Secretary to the NEW Ministry of Information, said this.

11am-

He wan replying to Mc mersley (Con,, Willesden, E.), who mentioned pubile irritation ot the inclusion of "Inappropriate ani. madversions" in the nowa broad- casts.

Mr Nicolson said the B.B.C. diu not Include in news bulletins any commentaries which were not either supplied or approved by responsible Government departments.

To Be Factual

Dut the Minister had been aware that irritation was caused if the news bulletins failed to be wholly factual. (Cheers).

Mr

He had asked the B.B.C. to render them as factual as possible.

The Minister would consider Hammersley's suggestion that if no news was nvollable the time allotted to news should be curlalled.

Mr Hammersley asked whether the habit of interiording the news with Items other than news had grown arid had been particularly prominent

the Minister," he added, "bear in mind the desire of many People to have the news at the news time and nothing but the (Loud cheers).

ictins?

Bedtime Storica

news"

Mr Granville (Lib., Eye); Will the Minister see that the B.B.C. tells its not in the middle of the news bul- bedtime stories at the right time and

Mr

that the Nicolson replied Minister had made representations to the B.B.C. exactly in this sense.

"What causes a great deal ar Irritation,"

sald Mr G. Strauss (Lab., Lambeth N.) "is the lack of balance In the newa

The greatest skilt and patience is

"Important matters such as raida needed to ensure that no disfigure--are dismissed in a few words, and ment is left, after the operations.

Essential scars are made to nestle

some smaller incident is given a lot, more time." (Cheers). invisibly in natural crenses.

Mr Nicolson: That would arise Rhonda Churchill, speelal corres-under, the allocation of time and the pendent of the "Daily Mail" writes:nvoidance of padding.

"I watched a famous surgeon per- form a skin-grafting operation on a Manchester factory worker.

Face Unmarked

"A generation ago the patient' would have died of shock as a re- sult of his injuries, while a few years ogo, even if he had lived, his life would have been in torture because of his seriously disfigured face. association between Major "But now he will return to work

Wiliam Vandeleur Beatty, the race-with an unmarked, cherry face, re- horse trainer, and a cinema usher-taining all the characteristics of his ette led to a divorce being grunted old face, revently to Major Beatty's wife.. "Later I toured a women's ward. The wife, Mrs Victoria Beatty, where a Plymouth woman who had who is a daughter of Lord South been struck in the face by a shell ampton, alleged that Major Bently splinter, said: I wouldn't want Committed misconduct with Miss live with a face so disigured, but the Gladys Knight, of Newton-terrace, doctors assured me the wounds could Newmarket,

Major denied that they had committed mis-

Beatty and Miss Kaight | gerpletely healed by plastic sur-

Previous Complaints

One of the strangers thereupon raised a rifle. They heard the click

girl who was also badly in- of ammunition being pressed home,

"onduct, or that Miss Knight had Jured in the face said laughingly, I GERMANY'S new long-range visited Major Beatty,

believe my new face will be better and a shot

Ared. was They remembered the

Heinkel, HE177, could carry half a warning

than the old. I never thought much about Fifth Columnists. Though in ton of bombs 3,200 miles from Brest,

Mr Justice Hodson, giving judg- of it, but I couldn't afford plastic the faint light

light they could see that France, drop them on New York, the men wore British Army uniforms and return to Brest says the Londonent, said that Mrs Beatty previous surgery in order to impove it."

ly had" "cause to complain of "her" new bomber has a range of husband's association with other wo- men. She left him at least once, but returned at his request.

In 1936, Majer Beatty had his left sible methods by which the Germansleg amputated. It was said He was no Fifth Columnist, but could bomb New York and factories since then he had been impotent, but Sergeant Nolan. The shot which on the U.S. east coast:-

1-Direct flights from airfields in the judge was not satisfied that that

France, West Africa, and contention had been borne out.

they were hallesi,

So they sprang forward to arrest the strangers. Then one of the strangers fell, crying: “My God, you have struck mel"

wns fired was a blank.

"I did noti

Sald Private Rath: thrust my bayonet at him.

on to it."

"Aeroplane.

magazine 7,040 miles.

"Aeroplane" discusses four

pos-

He Partndirect flights from Norway

sprang forward, and must have run by way of Greenland, from France by way of the Azores (scaplanes only), from West Afrin by way of Martinique or Latin-America air-

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Bombers From Australia

The First Beaufort The first Australian-made Bristol Beaufort bomber has been completed, it is officially announced in Melbourne.

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planes catapulted from

ships.

4-From aircraft carriers.

A bomber lying nlong the trade- wind route from Dakar, or from Stavanger, Norway, would have to cover about 7,500 miles.

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Splitting Up Germany While succeeding machines are coming off the production line, After The War the first machine, an experi- AFTER the war, it might be neces- mental model, will be put sary to divide Germany into small

lucking great through trials. Many modifica principalities

tralized power, so as to prevent the tions have been made to the Nazi system influencing the worid, sample British design.

the New Zealand Minister for Lands, Plans for producing the Beaufort, Mr F. Langstone, told the Press re- a twin-engined general purpose tor- cently.

Mr Langstone said that, under the pedo bomber, in quantity have been

it would be system, going forward for some time. This Nazi trade

the possible for Germany to lose the war type has been much used by Coastal Command and has some not- and still win trade through the barter Germans had been able successes to its credit,

system. The The Commonwealth Aircraft Cor- advancing in this direction before the poration at Fisherman's Bend, Met-war, and they might continue to de bourne, has been making the Wirra-120 even afterwards, unless their way, a trainer based on the North power was reduced, American Harvard design, for som time,

Nazis Pressure On Portugal

that

Mrs Beatty left her husband's home last October.

evidence of servants that on several The sting of the case lay in the

occasions at night, when Mrs Beatty vas nay, Miss Knight went to the use and was admitted by Major Bently.

The judge accepted that evidence with its inference of misconduct.

Alien Doctors For Hospitals

Hope Diamond Duke Dies

Married May Yohe The Duke of Newcastle, first

Hope) of May Yohe, the actress, husband (then Lord Francis

of the ill-

and former owner fated Hope diamond, died recent- ly at Dorking, Surrey. He was seventy-five.

He was eighth holder of the title, tu which he succeeded in 1920 on the death of his brother,

Namesake

Towns Committee

To Aid Britain

A Namesake Towns Com- mittee has been formed in America to foster closer rela- tions between towns in the United States and those in Great Britain of the same name. There are more than 2,000 such towns in the United States.

Representatives of the "American Namesake Towns Aid to Great Bri- tain" movement, which has its head- quarters in New York, are meeting mayors of British towns in order to discuss methods of making closer contact. The American committee existing hopes to co-operate with organisations for the supply of materials to towns which have suf- fered from air raids, and, after the war, to help in the reconstruction of historic buildings.

The American committee Is work- Ing in co-operation with the Foster

for Parents' Plan

War Children. under which donors in America send help to British children who have been rendered homeless by air raide.

the

Robert Boothby Joins R.A.F.

Mr Robert Boothby, M.P., 103 Joined the R.A.F. us on observer and was to start training last month.

He wil retain his

seat in Parllu- The £60,000 diamond which once

ment. belonged to Marie Antoinelle is re-

Mr Boothby resigned his office as uted to bring disaster to its owners.

to the The duke did not belleve in its curse. Parliamentary Secretary

Miss Yohe, who died in poverty Ministry of Food in January, after a in America in 1938, attributed several Select Committee of the House of Commons had criticised his part in The appeal of Field Marshal Sir misfortunes to the jewel, which she

realisation of Czech assets in Philip Chetwode, on behalf of the had worn. She was once the idol of British Red Cross, for 1,000 American Landon; she ended as a charwoman. Britain.

second The Duke's son by his doctors raises the question whether more use might be made of the 1.600 marriage, Squadron Leader the Earl ollen doctors already in England. of Lincoln, succeeds to the uue. liberty but doing no medical work. The great majority of these are at

The Medical Registration (Tem- Dorary Registration) Order, 1941, empowers the General Medical Coun- ell to register qualified medical prac titioners from foreign and other over- soas countries.

On January 29, Mr Churchill, moving the adoption of the Select Committee's report, stated Boothby:

of Mr

"As for my hon. friend, one can are paths of only say that there

"Fishing" With Hand service open, in wartime which aro

Grenades

Lo open in times of peace and some be paths to

of those paths honour."

may

to say any-

Mr Boothby refused thing about his RAF. job,

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THANKS indirectly to the Italians But applicants must first be ap- proved by the Aliens' War Service

the Australians now in the desert Department and the Allens Depart near the Libyan border are having ment of the Home Office Investgates plenty of fresh fish to vary the mono- records from the

security aspect. tony of their diet."

The Italians were always equipped There is no discrimination against

with thousands of little red hand- between the British Commonwealth being taken that they are all

After the war, some collaboration Germans or Austrians, the view

grenades which, however, proved refugees. of Nations, the United States, and

quite ineffective in action. Great No Private Practice the Latin American nations would be

stocks of these were collected after Once accepted, allens may find the Italian defents, but rabody found Capt. T. V. Somerville, of the Central Showroom Gloucester Bldg, (Corner of Eust Arcado). Tel. 24704. needed. Even an economic unior work through the Central Medical any use for them except as cigarette ILA.M.C., rode up to the front Unes Kowloon Stowroom-240 Nathan Rd., (Corner of Jordan Rd.): Tel. 67941, would be "quite possible and very War Committee, which acts as a link

car, although cases until an American officer who on top of his baby desirable."

between them and the hospitals, the was in the desert as an observer sug-under shell and machine-gun fire. Home Office and the G.M.C. Private gested using them to dynamite dah An officer of the Middle East forces practice is berred, and aliens may work only in local and emergency hospitals and at first ald posta.

Death For Crete Riflewomen

The demand is not yet very great, but it is expected to grow na more British doctors are called up for the Services. Allens are not accepted for the RAM.C.

Australian Munitions

In the Mediterranean.

This proved an excellent practient idea and now special fishing parties are detailed to go to the coast and blow up enough fish for the camps.

Bombs On Old Hostelry

In December, a Bournemouth doctor,

told of the incident in a broadcast recently. He said that Capt, Somer- took four ville, who won the D.S.O., wounded men in the ear to compara- tive safety, returned after dressing their wounds, and brought back mard casualties. In the thick of the battle he amputated a man's leg by the sido of a tonic and took the man to safely.

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"Bart's" Hit Three Times

Staff's Escapes

nurses slept, was flooded, but there wero no casualties. Later in Septem». |ber a bomb, demolished: the-onato÷; {mical lecturo theatre · and”) pomo annexes. Again the staff escaped,,"2

The Swedish Innguage news- paper "Svenska Pressen" pub- lished in Helsinki, reports inten-

The Istanbul correspondent of the sive diplomatic activity by the Nazis in efforts to bring Por- says the German High Command Independent French News Agency

On the night of the great fire roid on London It was decided to remova tugal within the orbit of the ordered the examination of the New Order.

shoulders of all Cretazi - women to

Hos. At once 102 of the 225 patients. Although St Bartholomew's

Within two hours every patient had. pital has been hit by bombs three arrived safely at another hospital The Nazi party organ, "Voelkischer see whether they bear brulee marke

Jack Biraw's Castle, the old Hamp Beobachter, considers the Ume Im-as the result of the recoil of rifles.

Limes in raids on London and the many miles away It so they were summarily shot. minerit for a revision of Portugal's

The Finance Director of the Muni- |stead, hostelry," was among places

buildings have been severely damag- All, Grecks of pact with Britain, and claims that

rigin living tions Department (Mr Nixon) has recently damaged during sie ralds. Croton

AN avenue of 40 flowering cherry ed, the staff has escaped

George Kylwan, treasurer of the hospital, in his 1940 report, says: The Portuguese, detest the English in Greece, he anys," are being sent informed the Mnlater for Supply, Its neighbour, Heath House, the trees with a background of native occasion. and do not, desire à British victory, to a concentration comp at Lamia.. (Senator McBride) that Australia Is Home of Lord Moyne, leader of the trees is being planted in the town of "The first 'damage was done on he cannot speak too highly of the

This was recently reported by n

Many well-known Grecks Inve

many varieties correspondent of the Daily Tole-been arrested, including the editor of munitions chesparen of Toled in wil be damaged. Marton, New Zealand, as a memorial night in September, when a bomb way in which the nurses have matri-

It is hoped It will be possible to in the late Flying Officer Edgar fell just outside the riturses' home. A tained the great tradition

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