CYCLONE STRIKES TOULON.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19724, 14 September 1929, Page 17

CYCLONE STRIKES TOULON.

HEAVY DAMAGE REPORTED. (tmrnsp rasss association—b» Euscraxe TBMOaAra—COPTBIOHT.) (Heceived September 13th, 9.50 p.m.) LONDON, September 12. Terrific thunderstorms are reported on the Mediterranean coast," including an unprecedented cyclone, which struck Toulon, causing enormous damage. It unroofed houses, uprooted trees, and caused widespread floods. Casualties are believed to be heavy.—United Service. '

SURGICAL PROGRESS.

■—■ ■■ ♦ USE OF ELECTRIC KNIFE, (TirtTas raaas assocutiok—at cixersxe rxusoiura oorTßtoar.l FREMANTLE. September 13. Dr. G. Manning, of Sydney, who baa returned from London explained to an interviewer how new electric knife had aided the medical profession in the progress of reconstructive eurgery. He said that in Vienna developments in reconstructive surgery were extraordinary. Natural deformities were repaired and facial features were altered without a trace of the surgeon's work being left. Instead of the ordinary knife, surgeons now used the' electric knife, which is heated with a peculiar form of current, and when an incision ia made not a drop- of blood is loat, though tb* surgeon might cut to any jdeptft„—Australian Press Association