NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1923, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

DRY LAW DEFIANCE. NEW YORK, Mnv 28

The Chicago Daily News publishes to-day the results of its investigation of the effect of prohibition upon the liquor business. It states that apart altogether from the amounts which are being smuggled from overseas, 100,000 gallons are daily carried across the border from Canada. The major portion of this traffic is manipulated from a small (own ten miles below Detroit, where 25,00!) men are regularly engaged in smuggling. The Daily News assorts that bootlegging is now the greatest industry in the U.S. and that in Chicago every block of fiats has a bootlegger among its tenants. Similar conditions, it says, prevail in all the great cities.

KITK-GLLRfXO. LONDON, Mav 28

An ingenious method is being tested of giving aspirants to tin* French flying service a first experience of the air, writes an air correspondent. A large motorless glider of the Inplane type, fitted with duplicate controls, is occupied by a skilled airmail and it novice, who si! side by side. The glider is towed forward by t> motor ear anil rises like a kite. It ithen east tree and begins a gliding descent to the earth, during which the pilot accomplishes various manoeuvres. The pupil, holding the duplicate controls, obtains his first “leel" of the ait and finds out what actual movements arc necessary to halaniv or turn the glider and to bring il smoothly to earth.

By this method, described as ‘‘kitegliding. ” it. is claimed that novices can obtain preliminary instruction with an apparatus far less costly than a large power-driven aeroplane.

ST. SOPHIA MOSQUE. CONSTANTINOPLE, May IS The Turks propose to change the name ol the historic mosque of St. Sophia lo Mehnieilie Mosque, that is, the Mosque of Mahomet. This proposal is due to the growing sense nf jealous nationalism. The Mosque of SI. Sophia is on:' of the most iainotts religious buildings in the world. The first I'hureli of St. Sophia was built b\ Constantine the Great, the founder of Constantinople, in the year 326. 11 was destroyed by lire in 101, re-toreil. and again destroyed in 532. Under Justinian it was rebuilt into a magnificent chinch, the work taking live years. Twenty years later ill" main dome fell in. and again it was restored to eelqise ii- liirmer grandeur. Il is said that I III) architects were employed, each of whom had a staff of lllfl workmen. Tim altar was ol gems set m gold and silver: the doors were ot ivory, amber, and cedar, the oilier one being .silver-plated. The H’ven seats lor the bishops and the Bat riareh's throne were all covered with silver.

Alter the capture ol Constantinople by the Turks in 11 S 3 the church was converted into a mosque.

MEMorilS OF THE MAN WHO I'XMASKED M()>(,)(TIT). LONDON. May 28. The lull story of Sir Ronald Ross's solution ol the malaria problem through identifying the mosquito as tlm carrier of the germ which has been called the “most dramatic episode in the history of medicine"—is contained in his “.Memoirs." Sir Ronald recalls the feeling of elation with which lie returned from India in England, successful alter prolonged and laborious research, to lay before the l.ume autliorlt ies his scheme for stamping out malaria in llie Empire's cell I res of civilisation. In two years, 1 sail I to myself, we shall stamp malaria out of every citv and large town in the tropics —at least if they possess sanitary departments as

i:i British possessions. A ornetii-nl polcy as regards the roductioii of “one of the most widespread of diseases" is, lie declares “always ultimately in the hands ol laymen—it is tliev. not the doctors, who rule the world."

The fact is (he continues! that mosquito reduction was very unpopular among officials, governors disliked the expense and doctors the trouble. 1 hey onuilnncd not againsl mosquitoes hut against me. . . For years I was Ireely and frequently demolished in the Press: and. alas! even some of those whom 1 thought were my friends curried favour with the authorities at my expense. As ail instance of “administrative barbarism." Sir Ronald cites an incident which came under his observation ii: .Mauritius in 1998:

A battalion of British troops had arrived here just before we did. They Imd all been provided with excellent War Office mosquito bed-nets hut. those had not been hung, because the local authorities disputed as to who should provide the hook's: and the result was that there were 71 cases of malaria. ■> deaths, and many invalidities, costing thousands of pounds! TN.Bri.TN SFCCESS. . LONDON. May 28. Dr Hugh Maclean, professor of mediri" '. London Fnlversity. says that insulin (the recently discovered preparation from the psiriereas ol cattle) has provided the greatest therapeutic measure in the treatment of diabetes. He lias treated 2l> patients with entirely satisfactory results. ••That it is capable of eliminating tlio svitiwtonis of diabetes, ami restoring strenotli and energv is now definitely, established." says Dr Maclean. He said it was net. uncommon for a patient to gain 141 b in 10 days. Insulin is being manufactured on such a large scale in this country, that, according to the Lancet, it can he obtained through ihe usual commercial source*.