AMERICAN CABLE NEWS
(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] DEPORTATION ORDERED. (Received this day at 9.30 a.in.) OTTAWA. March 10. At Toronto, Judge .Coatesworth sentenced Sterry to sixty days’ gaol, to Tic followed by deportation to England. SUICIDE WAVE. BUENOS AIRES, -March 10. Because suicides (cabled on 23rd February) now total ' 350 for five months, the police have banned tho sale of the particular poison which a great majority used. The sale has been prohibited for two weeks in an effort to check the wave of soil-de-struction, after which period it will] he subjected to regulation. DE PJNEDO ARRIVES. BUENOS AIRES, March 10. * Do Pinedo arrived at Corumba today, after a live hundred mile, flight from Asuncion over unexplored jungles.
DENATURED ALCOHOL
WASHINGTON. March IG. The new denaturing of alcohol form-
ula (cabled on 3rd September), substituting alcohol tor pyridine, becomes effective on April Ist. The change eliminates the deadly poison, and inserts a liquid absolutely undrinkable. Doetoji Doran, the chief prohibition chemiHt, said: <( Alcohol is oxidised ot burned, the kerosene oil having a smell similar* to the fumes from an automobile exhnustrwith too rich an oil mixture. The taste is very nauseating. Persons who attempt to drink the liquor containing this alcohol will be violently sick in the stomach, but will suffer no serious after effects, unless it is taken in huge quantities.” The officials declared that bootleggers have already engaged expert chemists to discover if this alcohol can ho eliminated from alcohol.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1927, Page 3
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