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Hokitika Guardian, 19 March 1921, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL.

MACHINE-GUN” DANCE

PARIS, Jan. 20 Futurist dances are described in

pamphlet jusl issued by Signor S. T. Marinetti, the Italian futurist poet. “The motion of engines, steering wheels, cogs, and pistons must he combined to achieve the metallisin' idea oi the futurist dance/’ he says. “It will he accompanied by organised noises, the language of the new machine-made life. Futurist dancing will he unliarlnonious, ungraceful, unsyinmetrical dynamics.” Signor Marinetti proposes to advertise three novelties to he known as the shrapnel, machine-gun, and aviation dances. “OLYMPIC” FAMES FOR WOMEN. NICE, Jan. 20.

This year’s Monte Carlo sporting events will include OlympicOames for women. They will take place in Easter week, and French, British, Scandinavian, Dutch, American, Swiss, and Italian teams will compete.

CENSORED CABLE'

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20

Before the Senate Committee on International Communications, Mr Newcomb Carlton, president of the Western Union Telegraph Company, declared vesterday:

“Ten days ‘fitter cablegrams from the United States to Britain or vice versa are transmitted out* copies of them me turned over to the British secret scivire, which keeps them tor a lew hours and then returns them.

“No exception is made, and American official despatches, like despatches to all other countries, to and from England, are included, but J have reason to believe that official messages are not inspected.” Mr Carlton explained that these orders were issued because of the disturbed conditions in Great Britain and Europe, and indicated that other European countries took more complete control over American cables passing through their own territory than England did.