WORLD'S NEWS.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1891, 9 April 1913, Page 7

WORLD'S NEWS.

FROM LATEST FILES. "CONSUMPTION CUREK." 2000 PEOPLE ATTENDED, New York, March 1. Remarkable scenes were witnesseff at the Waldorf Hotel to-day when it became known that a young German physician. Dr. Friedmann, with his tuberculosis serum, was staying there. Two thousand invalids suffering from consumption in various stages besieged the corridors clamouring to see him. The newspapers assert that the doctor claims his cure to be infallible, and that it is not for favoured j millionaires alone but for the humblest in the land.

Dr. Friedmann instructed the hotel attendants to inform the applicants to return in a few days, when he would have an ample supply of serum. He will administer the first treatment to children, as they respond more rapidly than adults, the first test being made under the auspices of the United States Government. "I want nothing," he says, "but to convince the world j of the real value of my discovery. " DEAR FOOD IN BRAZIL. DUTIES TO BE REDUCED. Rio de Janiero, February 26. The Government has decided to proceed with the revision and reduction of protectionist duties, and has authorised the Minister of Finance to reduce or, if need be, to abolish import duties on necessaries of life.

This step has been resolved upon by the Council of Ministers as the result of the popular outcry against the dearness of food. —Renter.

TWO DETECTIVES. RETIREMENTS FROM SCOTLAND YARD. London, Maich 1. The Criminal Investigation Department of Scotland Yard is shortly to lose two of its chief inspectors, Mi Collins and Mr Divall, who is known as "the coiners' terror." Mr Collinfe was born in Dorset; no one at the Yard is a better authority on country life, and this knowledge has frequently stood him in good stead. While in charge of the C. I. D. at Bethnal Green he was instrumental in bringing to light one of the most atrocious crimes that has ever startled London. This was the murder of a young married couple named Derby, and their child, for wnich a man named Edwards was hanged at Wandsworth in March, 1903. The last case which brought him to the notice of the public was the Dundee murder mystery, a few months ago.

Mr Divall has not been a chief inspector for more than two years. While stationed in North London he conducted many raids on coiners' dens.

ENGLAND AND GERMANY. London, March 1. Mr C. P. Trevelyan, M. P., who is spending a holiday in Germany, writes to the Brighouse Observer as follows: "I have been making the acquaintance of many members of the German Reichstag in Berlin. I am more than ever convinced that, apart from a few fire eaters who exist in Germany as they do in England, the ordinary German believes that nothng should prevent perfectly good relations between our two countries. We have no cause for quarrel. Our trade is interdependent, and talk of war is criminal folly." BOY BURGLAR'S VERSE. STORE OF STOLEN GOODS. London, March 1. A boy of 14, charged with housebreaking at Gateshead yesterday, confessed to having written the following verse: Two young burglars do live heie, What they steal they have to share;' This hut we built all in one day; When we are discovered we will fly

away. Our booty we gain by skilful toil, Taking care never to leave footprints

in the soil; The police we've baffled in mary a fray, We aie willing to meet them any day. Down with England, up with Erin!

This was read during the hearing of throe charges of breaking, entering, and stealing against James William Brennah, 15, and Joseph Arthur Kelly 14, who were committed for trial. A man crossing a lonely piece of land found a leather bag, which lead to the discovery of a quantity of stolen property. Several remarkable letters were found and the above verse, which Kelly admitted having written.

LOSING SENSE OF TOUCH. THE PRICE OF SCIENCE. Loudon, March 1. Dr. Alfred Wilson, speaking last night at a meeting of the Child Study Society, said lie had seen a brain which puzzled some of our best brain experts. "It resembled that of a cat and it belonged to a woman who was an idiot, who ate raveuously like a beast, and who* when irritated, spat like a catJ' A normal brain, he said, was a perfect machine. Legislators thought that a child's brains were an empty vessel, and all that was required was that it should be filled, and so for forty years they had carried on a murderous policy and ruined the children of the land. Change involved motion, and a child loved to be rocked or jumped up and down, and even adults enjoyed being whirled along in a motor car. The seuses of smell and taste had been lost through the advances of civilisation, and the sense of touch was rapidly being lost through the advance in scientific instruments.