AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1924, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. A SNAKE STORY. SYDNEY, Jan. 2G. A snake story, remarkable even among; stories of that class, is being featured in the press. A youth named Clifford Sehnlcs, residing in the Alim ry district, has been in hospital live times during; the past few weeks for the treatment of snake bites. Ihe remarkable features of the case are that siuee the hm n!i Hite he was carefully guarded by another boy in prevent the snakes attacking him and that the snakes were not ever seen by idffier people. Sehules hi ru sell declares that they smell him and in their presence his functions become paralysed. Doctors are non-committal as the wounds always received the lir-t treatment before they saw them. Alter refusing an offer hv a theatrical firm for show purposes, Scholes decided to come to Sydney and place himself outside the danger zone being convinced that his life was endangered in the vicinity of any .snakes. A.s proof of this he points out l hat nobody else on his home farm has been attacked and that very few people have seen any snakes this season and ih.it three bites were received during the night time.

J ABANESE POLICY. SYDNEY. Jan. 25. Speaking at an official dinner to him, Admiral Saito supplied the sequel to the German raider Ennleii. He said that when the news of the raider was received. the Japanese cruiser 11.n1,i rushed oil' to intercept her. hut the Australian i mi-er Sydney got there first. While the Japanese realised what a splendid light tile Sydney made, they were a Hit disappointed because they wire too late to lake a hand in the final battle. Referring; to the Washington naval limitation treaty’s replacement of the Anglo-Japanesc Alliance, the Admiral said that it had not altered the feeling between Japan and Britain. If anything it was stronger than ever. MELBOURNE. Jan. 21. Tile commander ol ibe visiting; Japanese naval squadron. Admiral Saiio, C.IL. spoke of the advantages of improving I rude relations between Aus--11 alia and Japan. The Jaiiane.se were neither an aggressive nor vindictive people. There was supposed to he uei easily for Japan to expand beyond ner own limits owing to the continual Ulricas,, of her population, hill this notion was rather a chimera than a fact. The more thinly populated portions of Japan and I lie many islands around her would hold her population for a hundred years or more. There also were Korea and other places for extension.