They had been working very closely with Dr. Young, the Australian inventer of the machine, to improve it, continued Lord Nuffield, although the present model was most success-
Its chief advantages, he declared, were its lightness, which aided transportation, and the fact that it could be worked by hand if electrical power was unavailable.
Originally produced for cases of incantile paralysis, the iron lung" could be used in other forms of lung failure, stated Lord Nuffield, and in cases of gas-poisoning in wartime—Reuter.
Japanese columns in Hopei and Shansi during the past three. days, according to field dispatches reaching here today.
A force of 400 guerillas were dispersed near Hanchen, 12 kilometres west of Tangshan on the Peiping-Shanhaikwan Railway in northeastern Hopei, while 200 more were routed in a clash at Paikwan, 30 kilometres north-west of Tangshan, the messages claimed.
The Japanese seized 405 rifes, 23 bayonets and 8.500 rounds of rife ammunition in the two engagements.
In a battle west of Tangshan on Tuesday 1,400 guerillas were put to toute after many of them had been killed. About 150 Chinese attached to the First Cavalry Divisi defeated in a brief clash el metres south of Ningwu in northern Shansi—Dom Count Ciano Going to Warsaw Rome, Nov. 23.
Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister, is leaving for Warsaw most probably on December 12 it was "learned here tonight—Haves.
The fire-fighters apparently were helpless in the face of a 40-mile-an-hour wind which fanned the flames toward new areas. The brush and woods burned swiftly for the area had been without rain since spring.
A school bus loaded with children was reported to be stranded in a danger spot.
Police and volunteers aided householders evacuate San Bernardino as the fire situation there grew worse with every hour. The flames reached the extreme suburbs of the northern outskirts of the town.
The smoke from the desert obscured the sun and necessitated artificial lights being turned on early in the afternoon at San Bernardino.
In Los Angeles county, the sparsely settled Topanga canyon was swept by fire. The authorities offered movie actors and actresses on location there the alternative of joining the fire-fighters or evacuation.
Miss Jean Parker and the comedians, Mr. Harry London and Mr. Oliver Hardy, evacuated.
Three fires were raging in Ventura county. The most serious of the trio of blazes wes near Camarillo. A furious wind was wrecking communications, fanning the fire and placing the fire-fighters at a distinct disadvantage.—United Press,
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