BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 August 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[“Tjiw Times’’ Seiivice.] EMPIRE SCIENTIFIC PROBLEMS. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 28. Sir Frank Heath, Secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, will sail on Saturday at the invitation of the Commonwealth to exchange scientific experiences with Australian experts with a view to coordinating scientific achievements for tho lienefit. of Empire markets. They will devote particular attention to the transport ol food problems, the possibilities of shipping chilled meat and the rapid and efficient carriago of fruit. They will also investigate fuel development power and later They will visit New Zealand. GREEK WAR DEBT. ATHENS. August 28. The Government has cabled the Greek .Minister at- London giving definite authority to sign an agreement) for the settlement of the Greek War debt-. AMERICA ASTONISHED. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 28. American circles are astonished aiml concerned at Britain’s offer. They believe M. Callaux will attempt to olstnin the same favourable terms from Washington and point out America i.s not willing to accept less than 3.1 per cent., while tbe British arrangement amounts to two per cent. At. Caillaux considers any arrangement, with Britain is worthless without a stipulation providing for the suspension of annuities if they threaten to disturb tho exchanges. Why should France have to pay the Allies collectively more than she receives from Germany. RUSSIAN TRAIN BLOWN UP. RIGA. August. 28. A bomb placed on the rails blow up a train carrying Russian troops. Tho ammunition exploded and five waggons were destroyed, scores being killed and wounded. PERPETUAL BACCHANAL DANCE. A SWEEPING DENUNCIATION. LONDON. August- 27. Infanta Eulalia, of Spain, makes a sweeping denunciation of English girls in her book " Courts and ( ountrics Alter the War,” which lias just been published. She states: " I am sorry to see so manv blase artificial English girls. Their daily round of life appears to be one perpetual bacchanal dance from hotel to hotel. Iron) club to dull, and from cabaret to cabaret. They will never become mothers ol a slrong race. False modesty seems In apply solely to domesticities. English matrons and girls sit unhlusliingK through questionable plays, read books in wliicli sex shrieks on every page and wait in queues to gain admittance Lo murder and divorce trials. I here is a certain lack o! modesty in all classes of society and one wonders when the hare-barked brigade will realise that attraction consists in partly concealing and not in unduly reveal-