Dr. Wu. our eminent visitor, comes from' a Penang over-sea Chinese family. He was educated' at the Penang Free School, and, as the winner of the Straits Settlements' King's Scholarship he went to Cambridge to study medicine. He had a brilliant career there and returned to Mslay: with a research Scholarship from his almg mater. For a number of years he was attached to the Straits' Government Research Institute at Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, where he made a number' of Important discoveries! regarding the origin of beri-ber! and other tropical disessés.
Fame comes to men generally from unexpected sources and in unexpected ways. Dr. Wu had built up a practice in Penang where after marriage he had settled down probably expect ing to pass the greater part among childhood friends and associa-_ tions. But it was not to be. Fate came knocking at his door with a diploma of fame.
Dr. Lim Boon-keng passed through Penang on his way to Europe to medical conference to be held at Dresden, and, by the way, it is not
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