NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1927, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

MOM EN MTTH SM'ORDS. ALLAHABAD. May 39. Nagpur Ims a unique possession in armed amazons, who have joined the ranks of the “Republicans," the new term for non co-operators. Last night a large procession ot Republicans, each carrying a sword, beaded by five women also armed, marched to Sitnbaldi. the European suburb, where a public meeting was held. The police watched the proceedings and later arrested throe Satcagrahis (passive resisters), causing intense excitement. The police then attempted to confiscate the women’s swords, but immediately met with resistance, and as an excited atmosphere prevailed they abandoned the task.

SCIENCE'S NEW ALLY. LONDON. May 30. Tlic success of Dr 1L 0. (..anti, of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and the University of Cambridge, in securing film records of the -behaviour of colls of living t»s>ue, both normal and malignant. reealls the invaluable services that cinematography performs for science unknown to the .genera! public mid without much encouragement from anyone, at least in this coun--1 try. As long ago as 1908 the great I French .surgeon. Dr Doyen, declared that motion picture records of olierat A o surgery eould teach students more m a feu months than all the reading and lectures in the world Moreover, he himself by studying films of his own operations had improved- his technique and eliminated all useless manipulation. A short film can demonstrate the whole course of the development of a disease and its treatment over a i>eriod of years and can provide a permanent record of rare operations and symptoms of little-known complaints. A library of medical films would offer to the student and to the practising physician or surgeon the advantages of contact with the work of specialists in a dozen different countries and keep them in touch with innovations and new surgical and remedial discoveries from all over the world. Astronomers, ornithologists, ethnologists, biologists, and scientific engineers have all found in films a new ally. Rare phenomena can Ik- recorded, movements too rapid for the eye to take in can be portrayed and shown I again slowed down, and the invisible j made visible in motion, ' l