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Died. Admiral Heihachiro Togo, 86, Japan's "Nelson," highest ranking subject of Emperor Hirohito; of cancer of the throat; in Tokyo...
Last week, two days after the 20th anniversary of his great victory, Heihachiro Togo lay in his little Tokyo house, dying of cancer of the throat. For years Admiral Togo has been a living myth to the people of Japan, appearing publicly only once a year on the anniversary of the Battle of Tsushima Straits...
Wrap a red woolen sock still warm from the foot around the neck to cure a sore throat...
...Stavisky investigation harked back to the great scandal of 1914 which only the outbreak oi the World War wiped off the world's front pages. Last month Henri Rochette a swindler like Stavisky, who, more than a generation ago, bribed his way into high government immunity, cut his throat before his judges in a Paris courtroom and died just after they had sentenced him to three years in jail (TIME, April 16). Complicity in the Rochette scandal was largely the reason for the bitter press campaign which Gaston Calmette, editor of Le Figaro waged against Minister of Finance Joseph...
...ordinary tablet contains 7.5 grains of bichloride of mercury. One grain is usually enough to kill. Taken in solution, the tablets painfully sear the mouth and throat. Swallowed whole, they may cause no pain for 30 or 40 minutes, or twice that time if the victim's stomach is full. Then follow abdominal cramps, vomiting, frequent bowel movements. Soon the poison seeps to the kidneys, stops the flow of urine. Pain varies with the dose and individual but is usually not agonizing. Victims fall into a coma, die within...