British and Foreign

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 September 1913, Page 3

British and Foreign

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(Recoived This Day, 8.15 a.n\.) TREATMENT OE OANCEII.

London, Sept. .18. The surgeon of Middlesex Hospital' announces that remarkable results have been obtained during the last six months by treating' advanced cancers with radium. He says it is inadvisable to use the word "cured," but the growths have disappeared in a truly astounding manner. The hospital is handicapped by lack of radium -—sometimes a single patient using the whole of 144 milligrammes, which the hospital possesses —and then for twenty-four hours no other treatment is possible. Hundreds of patients are awaiting their turn, and the need is the greater because small doses of radium are useless. PROMOTION. The newspaper Express states that Sir lan Hamilton probably will become Commander-in-Chief for India, when his inspectorship of the overseas forces is abandoned. PEACE. Constantinople, Sept. 18. I Bui garia at the last moment offered to build a railway from Adrianople to Babalski if Deniotilea were ceded, but Turkey declined, and also declined to pay an indemnity or to pay for the keep of Turkish prisoners. The nationality difficulty has been settled. The Ulac'k Sea frontier is placed twenty-five miles north of Midia. Bulgaria's access to Dedeagateh is relatively valueless, as Turkey takes the only railway. The cost of the railway from the town of Mustapha Pasha southward is enormous, owing to the rugged Phodope Mountains. UNLUCKY GHENT. Brussels, Sept. 18. At Ghent Exhibition a lire in the Rheinland Restaurant occurred at midnight. It spread to a shop adjoining (a confectioner's and baker's). The pavilion and Burghersliins' four pavilions speedily wore destroyed. The fire was not extinguished for 2A hours. A LONDON ST it IKE. London, Sept. IS. Three hundred and fifty of Tillings' employees have struck. The strike is extending. The public sympathises witii the men. Taxi-drivers have promised to contribute. SPEECH ON SPEECH. London, Sept. 17. Speaking at the conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Professor Hawkins said that speech was being gradually relegated to a subordinate position in the development of mankind. Some people claimed that speech went with intelligence, but they all knew, he said, < that there was no necessity for relationship between speech and intelligence.