BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1925, Page 4

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION A WRITER'S CLAIM. LONDON, August 29. .Mitchell Hedges, the explorer, in the “ Daily Sketch” says“ Everywhere in Britain are signs of the saturation of femininity. A male revival is urgently necessary to enable the country to enjoy prosperity. -Mon must not be dominated bv women, who should ica--11 -c that men are leaders by the eternal laws of nature. Oxford bags are a .si.pi of degeneracy. Australian, Canadian and African visitors arc all lamenting the dispnenranoo of the pioneering spirit and men ol all ages are becoming too soft.” A Till’. A THE EXPOS. BE. >-A\V IXO A WOMAN TKI'CK. EO.XDO.X, August 27. Pandemonium reigned at the Waterford Theatre during the sawing through a woman trick. ’Sin* assistant fearing the woman was in danger of strangling in consequence of tie tightening of the slip knot fixed by a member of the committee, hurriedly separated the two portions of tho box and inadvertently revealed the woman curled un in one end. The audience v.'ildly clamoured and the woman hurst into tears. A PROFESSOR'S CLAIM. PA PIS. August 28. Professor Charles Henry, a famous mathematician has invented a machine with which he claims lie can measure a soul. When one is dead there remains something in him which cannot ordinarily he calculated, labelled and weighed. The apparatus can measure a holly’s obessing oonsistaney alter death, seeking another abiding place. Wo cannot completely die. It is this immortal something which gives individual personality among human miilio ns. VODKA MONOPOLY. PICA, August 28. The Soviet has decided to re-estab-lish Ihe full force of the old Imperial Vodka liiononoly which the Tsarist GovernmeiiL abrogated on the eve of the wa r. SEAMENS CIRCULAR. I.OX BOX, August 29. The Seamens Union circularised the various trade unions asking:—Will you join us in the following .able to tin Secretary of Trades’ [[all, Melbourne: ‘‘We strongly recommend you to advise men in. British ships to return to work Unofficial strike here, partial inly in l.oudon No possibility in its extension. Shipowners will not go back oil terms agreed with British Union through Maritime B aid. in',ferenee of Australian Unions in British wages agreement is detrimental to principle of collective bargaining, and -hnuld not continue.” Appletorn on helm If of the General Federation of Trade Unions, Wilkie on behalf of Shipwrights’ Union, and President of the Transport Workers' Federation have already signified their acquiescence. Similar replies from several other Unions are expected today. American International Seamen’s Union. Chicago, sent a similar , cable to the Trades Hall Melbourne, londemning Walsh's action. A POUTJCAI .MOVE. NEW YORK, Aug. 28. Comment, regarding I lie tentative Anglo-French l agreement involving United States terms to Frame is generally sceptical and uncntlmsiastic. The “Times” in a leader says: “Whatever truth, there is in the allegation that a shrewd game is being played against Washington, it is from a fixed p'di'.v. All it needs to do is to reaffirm its irineinles and actions in this 1.-u-iiii and live lip to them. Among the British proposals is the ecu' dial ion of part of the French debt to England, but our Government lui •• more than once solemnly declared :t cannot admit cancellation or anything else which would rob the international cent of its sanctity. The “Fun ” says: It is .stated very phiiulv in this country that the French debt to America will lie funded on the terms accorded England, minielv sixtytwo '.ears, which will pay interest of thre" per cent for the first ten years and three and a half thereafter. If Ml Churchill knows this, and surely be must, his offer to Franco of aasy Kettlemen!. contingent on France finding an equally easy settlement with Washingion, is onlv a political move. When Ameiien declines to do more for Franc." than she has done for England then Mr Churchill will he aide to express regrcl I hat !■" must insist on Franco paying higher rates to England.