"SEMI-MONKEYS."

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"SEMI-MONKEYS."

DR. VORONOFF'S WORK. "AN OFFENCE TO DECENCY." (UNITED rtIESS ASSOCIATION—BT SLBOTBIO TSWSGB APH— COPTRiaHT.) (Received June Bth, 8 p.m.) LONDON, Juno 7. A meeting organised by the AntiVivisection Society crowded tho Cnxton Hall and overflowed next door. Speakers vigorously protested against Dr. . Voronoff's experiments. Dean Inge, among others,, wrote doscribing them as "monstrous," and doprecating England's welcome to their originator. Miss Lindaf Hageby, presiding, Raid that Sir W. Joynson-Hicks, who welcomed Dr. Voronoff, was speaking on the Prayer Book. If Britain become a race of semi-monkeys the result of the Prayer Book controversy would . not matter. Mr George Arliss, the actor, declared that if Dr. Voronoff's ideas were carried out this would be a world of devils, skulking about and devouring people to prolong their own lives. -.'.•Let us keep clean the bodies God gave'mis,"'he said, "and not dip into> the messes brewed in Voronoff's filthy kitchens." . ' The Duchess of Hamilton said that the Anglican Church had failed on this terrible question, pleading that it , could riot be involved in medical . matters.; Resolutions included a protest against the "revolting practice of grafting of live monkeys' sex glands into ' men, women, and children, as being an offence against morality, hygiene, rand decency,"—Australian tress Association. ''v ' ' ".'' '■