GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2701, 28 February 1924, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Ever since Princess Mary’s son and heir came into the world thero has been much speculation as to whether he is a plain commoner or a prince of royal blood. Bui the speculation is ended, and Great Britain now knows (bat the King’s grandson is not a prince of the blood royal, but simply Hon. Henry Hubert Lascolles, or “Master Lascelles” for short. This information is conveyed by the 1924 Debretf, the unquestioned guide to genealogy of royalty and the aristocracy of the United Kingdom. The new issue says that a royal warrant of December 17, 1917, debars young Lascolles from being a royal prince. The warrant asserts that none but children of sons of the sovereign, and “the eldest living son of the Prince of Wales shall have and hold.the style, title and attribute of royal highness, with titular dignity of prince and princess.” The warrant does not mention grandchildren of the King, who may be children of the monarch’s daughters. No greater exemplification of turning swords into ploughshares can be found than the adaptation of chlorine gas to the cure of influenza. In the great war no more dreaded weapon was used than the chlorine gas (says the New York Herald). Its effects are being borne by hundreds and hundreds of our boys who went “over there.” Its after effects were even worse than those of the fiendish mustard gas. But science has conquered it and turned it to peace uses in a remarkable degree. Professor Hale, of the University of Arkanas, has demonstrated without doubt that chlorine gas —the dreaded war implement —may be utilised to effect cures in influenza. As influenza was the most dreaded, of all diseases incident to the war, it seems more than fitting that war’s worst ter-

rible agency of death -liould be used to combat it. In applying the chlorine gas treatment to his influenza patients, Professor Hale used infinitesimal quantities at frequent intervals, and found that the gas effectually killed the germ. His figures show fully 00 per cent, ol cures.