MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 March 1925, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAUSE ASSOCIATION SUN YAT SEN’S FAITH. (Received this day at 11.25 a.in.) PEKIN, March 2D. The family of the late Dr. Sun Yat Sen have disclosed that during,his last hours ho stated that ho was dying in the life-long belief of Christianity. It was disclosed in the funeral service that bo was not what was c-nlled an Orthodox Christian, but a professor of the Christian faith. A friend who delivered the funeral oration, said that Sun Yat Sen conceived Christ as a revolutionist and a leveller of all forms of inequality and that prolcjssing Christian nations should not seek to enslave China or oppress the masses of their own people. He considered there were no more remarkable, but. also no more inherent teachings of Christ than that throughout history so-called Christians should slay each other in the name of Christ.

TRANS-ARCTIC ELIO ITT. SAN FRANCISCO, March 27

A journey from Paris to San Francisco, by aeroplane, crossing the Arctic Ocean, near the North Pole, is being planned as a feature of the Diamond Jubilee of the State of California in September. Haakon Hammer is associated with Amttnsden, who is the originator of tlio plan.

LORD CUR EON’S SUCCESSOR. LONDON. March 28.

The “Daily Express” states that Lord Salisbury succeeds the late Lord Cumin as Lord President, and as Leader of the House of Lords. If Lord Balfour is willing, he may, join the Cabinet as Lord Privy Seal, hut it is thought most likely that Viscount Cecil will take over that office, a young Peer succeeding him as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

GERMAN PRESIDENTSL ELECTIONS.

BERLIN, March 2D

Though millions of German men and women for the first time in their lives to-day put a cross on a ballot paper for President of the Republic nobody expects any of the seven candidates fo obtain the absolute majority requisite for the election, but the voting will give a clear iileli whether the candidate elected at the second ballot will be a

Republican or a Monarchist, even if a Monarchist candidate like Vice-Chan-cellor Jarres is elected on the 20th April. This does not mean that there will be an immediate restoration of the monarchy, but merely popular dissatisfaction at the Republic Regime.