Even more striking experiments have been made with sheep in this direction.
Over a year ago a ram lamb was born in Poland from semen taken from a Suffolk ram and sent by air 1,00 miles, The lamb was appropriately christened "The Airman."
In the USSR, many such experiments have been conducted. Failures must be recorded against these successes, and many of them can be attributed to faulty packing of the flask or test, tube.
The experiments open up possibilities for using valuable sires over a wide area, A woman moneylender, Eliza Shaw, of Ney Street, Green Road, Leeds, was at Leeds on Dec. 20 fined £1 and 7s. costs on each of five summonses for being in possession of Army reserve identification certificates with a view to obtaining payment of a debt, states the "Manchester Guardian."
Mr. D, W. Bradley, prosecuting, stated that five men had Army reserve identity certificates commonly known as "ring papers" which entitled them to reserve pay each quarter They had borrowed from Mrs. Shaw, and if was alleged that she had kept the identity certificates as a means of enforcing payment, Detective Officer Clayton said that when he interviewed Mrs. Shaw about the certificates she said, "They left them with me.for safety and not for any security." He pointed out that it was stated that such certificates were no security for a debt.
'A reservist said in evidence that he left the certificate with Mrs.
Shaw because he was in lodgings, and thought it would be safer to do so, Arising out of the case, another Army reservist, James Goodliffe (25), of Rushall Read, North Newton, Marlborough, Wiltshire, was charged with perjury.
It was stated that an identity certificate issued to Goodlife was found at Mrs, Shaw's house. In a document from the Royal Army Service Corps Goodlife had said. "I have not left it with any creditor and I have no reason to think that it has passed into the hands of any other person."
Goodliffe stated that he borrowed money, and he alleged that Mrs. Shaw asked him for the paper. did not ask her for it back because he had no money to pay to her.
'He was sentenced to three months' imprisonment in the second division Tried 160 Years Ago The Medical Correspondent writes:
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Artificial insemination was first attempted 160 years ago by Lazaro
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Spallanzani, an Italian scientist. He succeeded in producing three healthy puppies from a spaniel bitch.
"Provisional Government" To The method has been most used in Subscribe Russia, and according to the last report the Moscow Experimental Sta-Tokyo, Jan. 13. tion has successfully impregnated The organizing committee of the 2,000000 cows, 3,000,000 ewes, "Federated Reserve Bank of China," 650,000 mares and 200,000 sows. at a meeting at Peiping to-day, de-One ram can be used to fertilise cided that the $25,000,000 capital of 4,000 ewes in the 40-day breeding the new bank "shall be equally sub-season, while a bull in its season of scribed by the 'Provisional Govern-60 days can be responsible for 1,500 ment' and the eight member banks," calves. The semen can be kept for according to a report received here up to two days, to-day from North China. T In man the raéthod has been used The Bank of China, the despatch only when there is physical deforstates, will subscribe $4,500,000, the mity, and all other treatment has Bank of Communications $3,500,000, failed to cure sterility. the Bank of East Hopei $500,000, and Altogether there have now been the other five member banks $860,000 about 200 cases, a third of which each. have been successful in spite of the The "Provisional Government" is serious difficulties, said to be asking the Yokohama Specie Bank and the Bank of Korea to advance its subscription of $12,-
Furic trials are taking place with the first of the new Ensign monoplane air-liners of Imperial Airways. These great cad weighing when fully-loaded slightly more than 20 tons, atid driven by engines developing 3,200 h.p. will when used on European services provide luxury ous accommodation for 40 passengers, and will attain a speed of 200 miles an hour.
The organizing committee, the report adds, desires Japanese bankers to grant the new bank a credit of Y.100,000,000 for an exchange fund.
The new bank will have its hegdquarters in Peiping, with branches at Tientsin and other important centres. The inaugural meeting will be held on Febtuary 1, but the bank Will not start business until March 1—Reuter.
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