The Archive · 1939

Negotiations Progress Slowly

Stockholm, Nov, 6.

An official statement "issued it. Helsinki today says that the Finnish-Soviet negotiations in Moscow are proceeding normally. They are, however, it adds, progressing slowly, Safe Deposit Made for Hospital's Radium Tubing Sunk in Thames Gravel Under Building perctaL TO THE "Nenn."

London, Nov. 6.

A safe deposit, 50 feet deep, in the Thames gravel under the Westminister Hospital is being constructed for the hospital's radium bombs and contents—six grammes of radium salts valued at between £30,000 and £40,000. Fifty feet of steel tubing, 15 inches in diameter, was sunk into the gravel during the week-end.

The Westminister Hospital's radium supply will be brought back from a similar well at the Royal Cancer Hospital where it had been deposited since the outbreak of War.

In future, radium bombs will be deposited in the tube each night and in the event of air-rais This will enable continuation of treatment by radium at Westminister Hospital during daylight hours.—Reuter.

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