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SOME MEDICINE
NEW “OXYGEN ICE,”
LONDON, October 23
“Oxygen ice,” t-he latest method of administering oxygen for digestive troubles, is an innovation revealed at the Medical Exhibition. It eliminates the- use of tubes, pumps or other a-pparatu-s. The doctor introduces his patient to a dish of pearly foam—a combination of oxygen and water —on a plate and asks whether he -prefers orange or lemon flavour. Either can be obtained from a few drops of juice, whereupon the souffle slips down as easily as a meringpe.
SEVEN LIVES-
POLE AVITH GUN.
WAR-SAAV, October 23
Political motives are believed to be responsible for the actions of the president of the Trade Union Association at Czenstochowa (Poland). With a revolver in each hand he entered the office of the Government Sick Fund Commission and shot the Commissioner and the chief doctor dead. He went on to the main office, shot two employees dead, mortally wounded two others, and then committed suicide.
SWOOPING TERROR,
LATEST TORPENDO ’PLANE.
ItONDON, October 24
R.A.F. pilots are testing a very deadly air weapon—a. Blackburn Nap-ier-Riipon torpedo ’plane—intended to operate from a short aeroplane against battleships. It carries a full-sized torpedo, weighing, over a ton, 9lung between the landing wheels, and can dive down from a height of 10,000 feet at a speed of nearly 200 miles an hour, discharge the torpedo within a few feet of the sen, and rise swiftly out of the range of anti-aircraft guns.
IMPERIAL NEWS
HOT, CHILLLED, OR FROZEN
LONDON, Oct 24
“Let inter-Empire news be chilled, not frvsen, when you cannot have it hot,” suggested Major J. Astor, M. P., chief proprietor of the “Times,” heading an Empire Press Union deputation to the Communications Committee of the Imperial Conference. Major Astor urged the cheapening and liberalising of cable, wireless and telephone communication as one of the greatest forces for Empire unity. He advocated a special penny-a-word deferred rate, pending the realisation of the objective of an all-round penny-a-word Press cable and wireless rate throughout the Empire. He contended that Press rates were necessary to enable the fullest advantage to be taken of the wireless telephone.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1930, Page 5
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