BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 February 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

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AUSTRALIAN ASX) N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. NEW WIRELESS WONDER. LONDON, February 22 The “ Daily Mail ” draws attention to a newly discovered South American mineral whereof a small tube enabled a reporter to listen to the London broadcasting without a wireless set. The tube replaced the cat’s whisker detector. One end was connected to the lead-in from the aerial and ile other eiiul linked up with the lead phone terminal, the second phone terminal going to earth. The experiments gave a fifty per cent improvement in clarity and range of volume over the ordinary crystal detector. The mineral also enables a broadcaster to operate a large loud speaker by means of the crystal without the aid of singis valve. One hundred weight of the metal has reached England, which is sufficient to make one hundred thousand detectors.

imperial challenge shield. LONDON, February 22. The National Rifle Association .announces the War Office and Canada Australia and New Zealand and South Africa have agreed to the principle of grouping the results of the Imperial Challenge Shield competitors lor bovs under eighteen in order to form an' annual test match on a large scale for which the King is presenting a challenge trophy. . His Majesty, in a message, said that he was convinced the new match would promote comradeship among the ooys

of the Empire. The Association hopes, with tiic o • sent of all, to arrange that India, Ceylon Rhodesia and other possessions he erouped as one Dominion lepre.) rating the “ Rest of the Empire. Britain Canada. South Africa, Austral a and New Zealand are each to rem.nn unrestricted as regards the number m competitors and to be represented m 1925 by the best teams of platoons selected after the firing, the aggregating not to be for less than two thousand hoys whose average score nil constitute the figure of merit of Bi - tain and each Dominion. By group i,m the rest of the Empire it is hop id that every British boy will lie able to compete in the test match no matter where he lives.

BROWN HEART IN APPLES. LONDON, February 22. The Food Investigation Board in a special report on brown heart in app'-O shipments, states the cause of the disease is scekal.lc rather in the corn!;- _ . lions of shimnent than in an inherent defect in fruit variations. In different shipments, and also in different holds of the same ship, they were generally correlated in obvious ways with the amount of Ventilation afforded ind with the composition of the atmosphere in the chambers. Boats without means for changing tlic air in the holds uete more prone to arrive Home with affected cargoes than boats fitted with fans and other moans of forced ventilation. The available evidence points conclusively to the fact that brown heart in Australian shipments appears to be the result of the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the presence of a cer- . tain amount' of oxygen in the atmosphere of the hold and examination of—, shipments on arrival in England shown a very marked correlation between the occurrence of brown heart and the carbon dioxide contents in tho hold.

night clubs raided. LONDON, February 22. Simultaneous midnight raids on several night clubs were carried out at Brighton. Entrance to tlie largest one was gaincd by means of a ruse. A uniformed constable stopped at the door and when a confrere in evening dress rushed up and threatened to strike the constable the door was opened and the man rushed past the doorkeeper who ran after him. At this moment twen-ty-five officers in evening dress arrived in taxis and rushed in. The proprietress described the raid as must friendly and clanctag was continued while one hundred names were taken. The officers remained to see the cabaret. NORTH POLE FLIGHT. LONDON, February 2!. Captain Amundsen has decided to commence flying to the North Pole from Spitzbcrgen at the end of June, with two Italian hydroplanes, each with three men. BRITISH STEEL SUPREMACY. LONDON, February 21. The Messend Iron and Steel Works, Lancashire are reported to he secretly constructing the largest steel mill in Europe 500lt long, costing £1,000,01X1 with an output of 5000 tons a week. It is expected to rehabilitate British supremacy in steel production. THE HOBBS CASE. LONDON, February 21. The “Daily Express” understands Mrs Robinson and Airs Bevan nave been subpoenaed for the trial of Hob as. WAR ON COM MUNI STS. PARIS, February 23. Continuing the war upon the Communists, the police armed themselves and raided Marseilles City on a wholesale scale. They rounded up 5,236 men and women in the streets, hotels and cafes. When their papers were inspected, GC2 of those arrested were taken to the Police Courts, hut only 38 were finally sent to prison. LABOUR AND ROYALTY. LONDON, February 21. The “ Evening Standard ” says Mr D. tho Glasgow Labour ALP., since his speech anent tlie Prince of Wales travelling expenses in the House of Commons, on Feb. 12, has received three hundred letters of protest, some threatening that Mr Kirkwood “ will quietly disappear some night and never he heard of again.” FILM CENSORSHIP. LONDON, February 23.

The syndicate controlling the distribution of cinema, films in Ireland announces that it will stop hiring films to Free .State exhibitors, unless the censorship is relaxed. Professor Magennis. a member of the Board of Censors, replying to a deputation which complained that a number of films have- recently been barred said that the films which make an appeal to the lower box sense will always be turned down in the Free State, which prefers not to have pictures exhibiting the vices of an underworld in the great cities.

The deputation replied that they were in the hands of the American producers, and they had to give what they received. Doctor McHugh, the Reman Catholio Bishop of Derry, in his Lenten pastoral, complained of the prevalence of demoralising dances, openly suggestive of evil, especially in view of their actions.