MYSTERIOUS MISHAP GREY OWL SS FURIOUS

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20426, 17 February 1938, Page 14

MYSTERIOUS MISHAP

GREY OWL SS FURIOUS

PARALYSED VICTIMS OUTBREAK IN SOUTH AFRICA (Times Air Mail Service) LONDON. January i Twenty-seven penplp. as well as fines, pigeons and other pels. hav<’ fallen victims to a mystery paralysis, says the Durlinn correspondent of tin* Daily Express. Puzzled doctors, including government medical experts, were debating to-day what to do when a Derm an walked into n newspaper office waving a flerman newspaper, the T>ill*ecL< r Yolkehot e. In it was an account, of the mysterious rase of the Jean I>. !».. French freighter. which reached Dunkirk from Durban last. November with *2O of her crew prostrate or rolling drunkenly about the fleck. Durban doctors now believe ilia? the Jean L. D.’s crew brought t!i 1 diseasp to Durban from another port. One victim, Mr Arthur Wooifsnn. said: “My wife and I felt a queer weakness about Hie feet. First we beeam* 3 lame. Then we lost control and could not stand up. Soon we were completely paralysed. There was not much pain, but it was frightening.” Doctors say there is no cause for alarm. The disease is not fatal. When the Jean L. D. arrived at Dunkirk on November 5 specialists called from Paris disagreed in their diagnosis of the cases. One, professor Tanon. diagnosed botulism poisoning caused by eating decomposed foods . said was contagious. The other, Professor Debre. said Hie disease was a form of food poisoning which attacked the nerve centres ami was not contagious.

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firry Owl. Chief Scout of the North Amercan Indian?, had recontly |r i br broadcasted in the B.R.C.’s .Children’s Hour. He arrived front i.ni da wearing an eagle feather in Ids hair and bear rlnws at Ids neck, but owing to differences to his script he refused to take par! in the programme, ancl returned to his country.