LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1930, Page 7

LATE CABLE NEWS

MARSEILLES MYSTERY. MISSING BRITISH OFFICIAL. LONDON, July 22. The Marseilles police are convinced that Mr Lee, British vice-consul, who disappeared some time ago, committed suicide. 'They have discovered on the beach near Marseilles a suitcase containing clothing, a half-empty gin bottle, a new revolver case, and a box of 25 cartridges, eight of which were missing, and presumably had been loaded in the revolver, which was not found. With these things was a man’s photograph, stained by sea water, on which was written in English, “I am going to commit suicide. No one is to blame.” I The police surmise that Lee returned from Valence, where he saw for the last time the woman with whom he was in love, went to the beach, undressed, drank a large quantity of gin, entered the sea, and shot himself. The bay is to be dragged for his body. Members of Lee’s family however, state that the clothing found in the suitcase it not his, that the. shoes are too large for him, and' that the writing on the photograph only slightly resembles his handwriting. B.M.A, SCHEME FOR NATION. GENERAL MEDICAL SERVICE. LONDON, July 24. The British Medical Association at its annual meeting approved of a scheme for the establishment of a general medical service for the nation, The scheme aims at providing a service available for every class of the population covering preventive as well as curative medicine, and recommends that the medical benefits of the present national health insurance Acts be extended so as to include dependents of all persons insured thereunder. The scheme recognises the family doctor as the foundation off any. comprehensive dental, prothological, pharmaceutical, and ambulance.';facilities. , It is contended that, .based on the. contributory system, it would- be largely self-supporting. ‘L-w

PATIENT SMILED. NEW CURE FOR FRACTURES. ROCHESTER, July 25. Dr. Lorenz Boehler, head 1 of. the Industrial Hospital in Vienna; is visiting the Mayo Clinic, demonstrating a neiv method of “miracle treatment’, for fractures. He.gives a local anaesthetic; of an ounce of tivo per cent, novocaine after the X-ray has been taken and the fracture charted. Then the limb is put in a caste and in a short Avhile the patient is invited to use it. A young Avoman smiled and chatted Avith the doctor while lie Avas Avorking on her broken ankle. She Avill return to’ her stenographer’s job to-day,