MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 June 1925, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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ROCND I R OF CO.M.M F.NISTX. (Received this day at 11.2 A a.in.) SOFIA, .June I. Tile l elite are very active against the Communists. They have arrested lot) persons un the "round that, they have ii; identity papers and no fixed occupation. The tin Lori lies at Varna arrested I I 0 aliened communists. ITALY AND Kf'SSIA. (Received this day at 12.30 p.m.) lid.M E. dune I. The Chandler Inn approved of the Italo-Russiau Treaty of Common e Honed on Eehruary 102-1. .Mn.soiini said the results of fifteen inenths working of the treaty seemed satisfactory. Italy, in the first four months of lo2d. had imp tried from Russia nineteen million lire worth of pood:- and had exported to Russia seventeen million lire worth. The rejection of the Treaty would have serious eeonomi.: and polite.al re.-ults. KARAKHAN”,-; SOFT SOAR. (Received this dav at 12 30 p.m.) RF. KIN. dune •!. Karakhan. the Soviet Ambassador, yesterday addressed the following note to the Fotleign Mlinister■: “Having learned with feeling of profound grief of the shooting of several Chine.--;' workers and students nt Shanghai I wish to express to the Chinese people feelings of the deepest- .sorrow which are certainly shared by the people of Russia. I have the honour to request you to accept the expression- of my condolence and convey them to the bereaved families.”

CANCER CERES. lON DON. .Tune I

Sir St. Clair Thomson exhibited before the Congress of American doctors six persons, including Admirals Martin and Cochrane, now in the best ot health, who were operated upon, for cancer in the larynx. Dr. Thomson declared that fifty-one thousand people were suffering IVun cancer in Britain and the minder was increasing hy seventeen hundred yearly. Little progress had been made in the diagnosis of cancer. Anyone persistently hoarse for three weeks should he examined by ex per Is.

SC’IENTIETC MARKS. LONDON. June I

Sir Walter Fletcher sMd that only four persons hud left a mark as l’urthoriii or tlio interests of science. They were Henry the Eighth, diaries the Second, Victoria's consort. Prince Albert and Mr IJoyd George. The latter founded the Afedical [Research Couneil, also the Department of Scientific research.

l,or<l Dawson described lile as one long innoculatioii in which we were |rjvon an overdose ol struggles. Pleasures become anxieties and material progress is so rapid, that it has outstripped man’s rate of adaption. Motors, telephones and wireless have brought men’s minds to sneli a high tunc that they have to remain in the same key day and night. The prolessions would be more greatly consulted in the lid lire regarding the suitability of employment, thus entering more closely into the guidance of a nation’s life.