BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1924, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

ENERGY FROM MATTER. SIR ObiYEl! I,ODOR’S VIEW. ("Sydney Sun" C'aliles). ilvcccived this dav at 9.0 a.in.) LONDON', .r.'ui 2. Sir Oliver ranine, in an article in the .Empire Review” suggests a new line oi' research, aiming at the harnessing of tile atoms of energy hv building up complete atoms from the simple atoms instead of attempting to break up the complex atoms as hitherto. lie explains that when the hydrogen atom is packed into helium, whose atom is believed to consist of four hydrogen ■ pears and the liberated energy is so gigantic that the result would put all other.sonrPWttl energy to shame. ()r- ---• , 'dinary combustion ii, due to the jiarkthis being a loose sort of association H which gives a. very small amount ol energy. Nobody has yet seen matter W converted into energy or vice versa. Sir Oliver expects that- Mime day it will he done. Sl'B.M AR.IN E’S CR IMS!:. LONDON, JaiTiiary "The Daily .Mail” .says embarking in longest cruise a British submarine ever underLakin. K‘2ti. the largest submarine in eoiiiinission, hopes to travel ten thousand miles for experimental purposes, calling at Gibraltar, Malta and the Red Sea. 'I lie • cruise will occupy three months.

SKA FAR KlfS’ PLIGHT

(“Sydney Sun" Cables)

iKoocivcil this day :t( !M;> a.m.)^ ’ - . LONDON, January i»f Two thnirvinil sea captain- and mate-, ;u t unemployed ,nl . Liverpool. N 1 any liiivt linen ashore lor two or tint"' years. Their savings »v© exlin'njtccl.- and .thojj arc existing in a state uf ( setni-stnpfl-Don. Tliirly in a similar jiligld. I i'v Z\Tivrino Service Association instances 'fiiptniris triinin i i i<c lamps, .sixty are hawking iip: Liverpool stieets and m ore- officers me mieinploycd or casually cinjdoyed earning most meagre, going as aide seamen. N tfjw.*ijpiU . the history of Biitish shippi%|Mre ,the conditions lieen so had. ebb Ni.f 1 '

A TRAIN WRECK" (Received this duv at L2.i’.i p.m.A CAPETOWN. dan. 3. Four persons were killed and live injured through a train leaving the line at GraH'reimT and roiling down an e uInoikinent, the enrriage heing euinpUdewiecked. CHINESE ELECTION. PEKINO, .Tan. V. A mandate has been issued fixing the date of the parliamentary election tor the fourteenth <d' April. MURDERERS CAPTURED. DELHI, dan. 2. The La.ndak Shinwari tribesmen .011cerned in the murder of Major I'inuis in Ueluchistan have been captured, but four others are evading the vigilance ol tlie military. All! MACDONALD'S OFFER.

LONDON, dan. 0 It, is reported that -Mr Ramsay Donald has olfered the Colonial ‘-V re tnryship to Sidney M ebb. EMPIRE EXITIHITION. 'Received this day at 1 - -ID LONDON. lan. 2 It is officially announced the Hritisli Empire Exhibition will not he open on •Sundays, except the Stadium for certain If religions events, as, for example a •aB,tional thanksgiving service on Lm;,i e EARTHQUAKE at MANILA. ■ b :: S [“Tim Tntna” SEHVibk.j . this day at 9.0 a.nr.) At AN IT. A, Jan- -> ■' Several sharp earthquake shocks were felt between one and two ©.clock this morning. ...