NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 June 1932, Page 8

NEWS AND NOTES.

WALKING TREATMENT

Wlien a man was recently admitted toa hospital in Newark, New Jersey, suffering from an overdose of sleeping powder, the doctors who examined hint said that his only chance of life was to keep walking until the desire for sleep had passed. Up and down the corridors of the hospital he was kept moving for fourteen hours.- Orderlies to whom w:s deputed' the tr.isk of keeping the patient walking' were on duty for specified periods, but so exacting was the work that several gave up. before their allotted time was completed. Others took' their place, and the patient, with his life at stake, was steadily trumping, until it was considered that he had a good chance of '-recovery. Doctors, interviewed on the treatment, said that it has been administered with success in recent eases of opium and morphine poisoning.

WELSH CHILDREN’S MESSAGE

In many countries, May 18, the date of the opening of the first Hague Conference, has been recognised an “World Good-Will Day,” one of its chief aims being the promotion of international friendships. On that day. this year, the world wirelers Inessa." c ef the children of Wales was broadcast for the eleventh successive year. The idea was frst suggested in 1922 by the Rev. Gwilyn Davies, who proposed t at children of Wales should send an annu n l message to the children of every other country. May 18 wan chosen, and for the first year no, resoon.se or word of encouragement was received. Six months after the second message was broadcast, word was received that it had been in Australi ' and repeated at a gathering of the All Nations Chum Movement. 111 1924 several communications of appreciation were redrived, and last year replies came to the Welsh children from sixty-three countries.

FRENCH RAILWAY SCHEME

A startling report from Vienna alleges that France is attempting an international amalgamation of railways over a wide area in Europe, to be under her own control. The senational revel'vatien was made by a former Austrian Secretary of State and a railway expert of international reputation. The scheme, lie says, is designed to embrace existing traffic systems in Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary. Roumunia, Jugo-Slgvia, Greece, Poland, together with the Baltic States, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. It is alleged that reports indicate that the plan has already asburned enormous dimensions. The company originally mentioned in connection with the enterprise was said to he Belgian, but it has since been 'earned that- in reality it is French and will have its headquarters at Prague. ' Those opposed to the scheme say that its chief aim will to forward the political and industrial •Interests of France arid her satellites, and to hamper similar interests in Germany by interfering with direct Austro-German communication.