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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] BOMBAY, December 9. Mrs Vijayalakshmi Pandit, Nehru’s sister, who is a prominent member of the Congress Party, and was Minister of Local Self-government and Pub'ic Health in the United Provinces Government in 1937, was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment for civil disobedience. PAINLESS DENTISTRY.
(Recd. Dec. 10, 11.45 a.m.). MOSCOW, December 9. Soviet dental clinics are using a solution of table salt to anaesthetise for 'drilling teeth. The sponsor, Dr. Levin, 'of Odessa, says that the solution, when rubbed in the cavities, dries up the fluids which are conductors of pain to the nerves. The method is claimed to be 95 per cent, successful.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 December 1940, Page 7
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