BOUNDARY CHANGE.
upsets radium: claim. GEORGETOWN, British Guiana. Because a boundary commission decided a rich radium field was in British Guiana instead of Dutch Guiana, Dr. Otto Yogi von Sickengen of Austria will have to register his claim all over again. The radium field was discovered two years ago in what was then Dutch Guiana hinterlands, but the commission changed the line, giving the field to tho British colony. In the meantime the Austrian scientist and : Herman Weber, a German geologist, were collecting snake venom, >4rom which they believe an antitoxin "for infantile, paralysis may. .be produced. . The Institute of Contagious Diseases in Philadelphia was co-operating ■ with theni, the doctor Said. ' '
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 136, 10 June 1936, Page 13
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111BOUNDARY CHANGE. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 136, 10 June 1936, Page 13
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