FRANCE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 428, 6 August 1915, Page 5

FRANCE.

HEROES OF THE LABORATORY IDEAL ANTISEPTIC DIS* COVERED. (Received 6, 8.55 a.m.) Dr. Alexis Carrel, of the Rockfeiler Institute, and Air. Henry Dakin, chemist, have discovered an ideal antiseptic. consisting of hydrochloride of lime with the addition of boric acid as a preservative and carbonate of lime to counteract acidity.

■Professor Landonzy. lecturing at the Academy of Sciences said that in a series of experiments with it at Compiegne Hospita'.. it was applied to most frightful wounds, and within eight* days the aspect was modified in a way quite unknown under the old antiseptics. If applied in time, the infection of wounds may he considered impossible.

THE SEIZURE OF THE DACIA. CONFIRMED BY PRIZE UCR’RT. Paris, Aug. 5. The Prize Court confirmed the validity of the seizure of the Dacia. The American Government is preparing a protest, regarding it as a test case. [The Haniburg-Amerika liner Dacia (35-'-5 tons) was captured by a French cruiser on February 28, en route for Hamburg with a. cargo of food (declared contraband by England) consigned to an American citizen, j FRENCH NATIONAL FRATERNITY.

"SURE OF HER ALLIES.” (Received 6, 1.40 p.m.) Paris. Aug. -5. AL Poincare sent a message to the Senate deputies on the anniversary of xvar and emphasised the great current of national fraternity which had swept all disputes and differences aside., masters and workmen. rich and poor, being' united in t’ae face of the enemy. France was confident and calm, and declared that the only peace the Republic could accept xvas one that would guarantee the safety .of Europe, reconstitute our dismembered country and protect us effectively against an ofiensive return of German ambition. France wants to win and will xvin. France is sure of her Allies ami they are sure of 1* ranee.