CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 178, 14 August 1937, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES

(By Telesraph— Presa Assn.— Copyright.i 1 McMahon Released t George Patrick McMahon, who was j, imprisoncd for attempting to injure - King Edward VUI. was freed last v night. Jffis wife was waiting as he em- 'j. erged* from the prison gates. He a earned the normal mtmth's remission ^ for good conduct. — London. , j ti r German Art Purge Under General Goering's art purge, Prol'essor Eberhard Hanfstaengl, direc- c tor of the National Art Gallery, was £ removed frdm Ms post for failing to 1 be en'ergetic against so-callod de- t generato art. — Berlin, £ « No Motors at Fiineral , Mr.Francis Everard Leyland Walker, steel founder, of Rotherham,' YorksMre, 1 who left £73*, 227, expressed wish that no motor cars be engaged at his funeral, . but only horses of the English ' hunter; 1 type, that his funeral be completed as ' quiekly as possible, and the horses al- 1 lowed to trot. — London^ ( Mine-Field Force • , The Admiralty is seeking recruits for j a new inine-field force to serve in home , waters and on foreign stations. British j electrical devices are considered so perfect that no enemy ships passing over a: controlled mine-field can escape de- ( struction. — London^ | King Goes Shooting The King, with members of his staff, - was out shooting" over one of the moors near Balmoral yesterday. The first Boyal shooting party at Balmoral will npt' be hold unti) later in the month Sj|itable weather t'avoured the opening of the grouse season, aecording to reports from Seottish moors and from Y of kshi re. — Of f i cial Wireless. Tomb. Opened Becalling days of the Burke-Hare body-snatchers, an annual rite was observed at Sutton Parish churchyard, Surrey. ^ A tomb . was opened, after prayers,, apd seven coffins inspected in accOrdance with. the will of the daugh.ters of James Gibson who so ordered to prevent rifling. Local .residents were angry as it was the first time they were not allowed to enter the tombi claiming the right as in past years, one saying he had entesed annually for 68 yeaTS, Mr Gibson died in 1777. — London. Treating Cancer A new era in the sorgical treatment of cancer by the transfusion of blood from corpses is claimed by Professor S. S. Yudin, of Moscow, who, in an article in the Lancet, descrbies how blood from a man killed in a motor accident was,' six honrs' later, successfully given to an engineer dying from loss of blood after a suicide attempt, tho patient recovering ixi two days. Experimcnts with Over ' 1000 transfusions of blood from corpses, ' Professor Yudiri claims, eonvince him that the method is most successfnl in combating cancer haemorrhages. He is able to obtain large supplies of bloo^, thanlts to the dclivery of bodies .from all, over Moscow. , Blood which had been' stored was used saecess* after -three w#eka,^1jon.dott.