BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 March 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

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IUBTBALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. EGIIPTtIAN EXPLORATIONS. CAIRO, March 11. Work at King Seneferu’s tomb continues. Lord and Lady Alleiiby visited it. They describe the tomb as a most valuable discovery. It is eight feet long and twelve feet wide. The sarcophagus has a. golden cover, on which the surnames of Seneferu appear. The tomb is filled with golden furniture, alabaster vases, and other furniture.

SUN YAT SEN DEAD. (Received this day at 9 a.m.) PEKIN, March 12. Obituary.—Dr Sun Ynt Sen.

KILLED BY A SHARK. LONDON, Alarcli 11

Jack Canning, aged twenty-two, who was surfing on the Newcastle Beach was savagely attacked by a shark which made a terrific rush, throwing Canning into the air. Canning fought desperately for fully a minute iii full view of crowds of horrified spectators on the beach. Gordon Lees, an official lifesaver, went to the rescue with a life line and succeeded in bringing Canning ashore, they being followed by the shark to within a few yards of the beach. Canning was terribly mangled and died en route to the hospital. FOOD PRESERVATIVES. BRITISH CONTROVERSY. LONDON, March 12. The most notable contribution so far to the preservatives in food controversy is a letter by Professor John Cloister to the “Aiorning Post,” in which he states. “The foodstuffs which Britain must import are preserved. Without preservatives, we must inevitably return to war conditions. The nation cannot live on bread ajone. He proceeds to describe experiments by which he has tested the effects of boric acid upon the constitutions of men and women working for many yeais in an atmosphere of boric acid and borates. The Professor affirms tha he has found no ill-effects. He also examined 21 workers in a borate factory, whose average was 58 and their average period of service 38.7 years. He says: “I subjected ten to a full physical examination, and found all in excellent health.” . . The “Aiorning Post” says, editorially Accumulating evidence shows that the Ministry of Health’s draft regulations virtually condemn the people of Britain to partial starvation. paper points out that in addition o Profsesor Claister’s evidence, Robert Hutchison has publicly expressed the opinion, based on long experience at two hospitals, that chronic boric acid poisoning is a myth. FRANCE AND VATICAN. The Finance Committee of the Senaet has refused to accept an article in the Foreign Affairs Budget, because it no longer contains credits for a French Embassy at the Vatican.