BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.]

CANCER RESEARCH

DR DYE'S AIM. (Received this day at 8 a.m.V LONDON. July 23. At the British Medical Association’s Conference at Bath which is being held in camera, Dr Gye and Air Barnard contributed papers oil their cancer discoveries. Interviewed, Dr Oye said: “We are seeking a prophylactic to make man and animals self-protected against cancer. We shall have to consider the claim of vaccination in our search for immunity.”

Referring 'to the numbers volunteering themselves for experiment. Dr (ive pointed out that experimenters always first try human experiments on tlieni.se,lves, then their laboratory assistants and then their colleagues. “We never api>cal to the public. In any case we have not yet thought of human experiments." concluded Dr. Oye. FRENCH DEBT. PARIS. July 23. It is announced that three experts of the Ministry of Finance will depart for London on Monday to begin debt negotiations. M. Cudlaux (finance Minister) will follow later. The English credit, at the end of June was £019,607,090. RAILED FOR INDIA. LONDON. July 23. Lord and Lady Reading have sailed for Tndia. A LUNCHEON. LONDON. July 23. Hon A in cry and Dr Haden Guest M.P.. were guests of the self-support-ing Empire League luncheon at the Hotel Cecil. All the food served was produced in the Empire. Admiral Mark Kerr presided. THE NAVAL PROGRAMME. LONDON. July 23. Mr Baldwin in making the eagerly expected naval construction statement in the Commons, announced that two cruisers were to be begun in October, two in February and three yearly thereafter. The Government also decided on the annual construction of nine destroyers and six submarines, together with certain auxiliary vessels, beginning with the financial year 192627, which would be continued during the normal life of the present Parliament. Some three cruisers will be ten thousand tonners and the remainder will he smaller and less, expensive,

being approximately eight thousand tons. The Admiralty will meet the additional expense of £527,170 from sarings under other heads. The Government will only ask Parliament to make additional provision this year in respect to the commencement of the new programme if sntisI lied of the impossihil:tv <>l limiting I these savings, but it is not proposed j (to allow the increased expense to eon- ] | stitute an addition to the total of the naval estimates. , THE DEATH SENTENCE. PARIS, July 23. The Amiens courtmnrtial passed the death sentence on the German, LieutC'olonel Wacohtor, one of the alleged , war criminals for murder and arson. ; IVauditor was the town major at Es- ( quiharies on the Aisne in 1914, when j a French soldier who was found hidden in a farm. The Frenchman was shot without trial, the farm burned and f the farmer’s wife imprisoned. t Eleven British soldiers who were found, hiding in another farm were shot with the farmer, whose family j was imprisoned and the larm burned. | Another French woman, Madame Lo•gezwlio. who had thirty-live British .soldiers mid afterwards helped them to escape, was shut in an iron cage and subsequently sentenced to hard labour, j while her mill was burned. ■

THE POPE NOT INDISPOSED. BOME, July 23. In view of the adverse foreign reports re. the Pope's health, il is announced that his Holiness is perfectly well. He, recently received over one thousand iiersons and granted private, audiences and delivered short addresses in a firm voice.