BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 September 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

(■ 'Tui Times’' Service.] SWING THE CHILDREN LONDQN, Aug. 30. the British Medical Journal, coinmen ling on M. Calmette’s vaccine, observes the results thus tar obtained are most promising. During the past vear two thousand newborn childion have lavn vaccinated in France. Calmette is able to trace -123 of these. Ui' those vaccinated at least six months’ previously. none have died of tuberculous infection. Those fact art noteworthy in view of the heavy toll tuliorculosis ordinarily exacts of tin offspring of tuberculosis parents. ———• Calmette recently made a communication to the Academy of Medicine, which the medical journal adds encourages the hope that the objective ( ,f manv years study is within sight, it not already reached. PRINCE OF WALES. BUENOS AYRES, Aug. 30. The Prince of Wales was the guest „i honour at the British Colony bnn,,t:et. The .speeches paid a tribute to tin friendly relations between the two countries. The Prince spoke of the hospitality of Argentina and the sportsmanship of the Argentine polo -4 team. SIR O. LODGE’S BELIEF. LONDON. Aug. 31. Sir Oliver Lodge delivered a remarkable sermon in connection with the British Association’s meetings. He declared that if the earth lasted for one hundred million years, as lie believed it well might, the human spirit would last longer. There was a universe higher than this glorious material universe, namely, the universe of the mind, of love, and of character He said: “We take with us our eliara-ter for lietler or worse. With it we continue to eternity.” The ■ mystery of existence, of which thero was no end. was a formidable one. Ho thoughc he believed that creation was a continuous process, like evolution. A gradual, constant, energising thing —continuing not only on earth, except i-i mail’s spirit, but in the depths of _ space. In all the distant worlds tho same laws as the earth’s prevailed, tho same physics and the same chemical atoms. It was a university of illfinite extent, testifying to the unity -ii the mind wherein it was conceived, r - Our knowledge of the universe, as it bad been enlarged by scientific study, by seers, and by poets, was still indefinitely small. POPE AND RADIO. LONDON. Aug. 31. The “Morning Post” states that it is proposed shortly to broadcast an address by the Pope, in order that Catholics throughout tho world may hear his voice. A FIRE. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) TDK 10, August 31. A fire at the medical college of Kyushu University, Fukuoka, dos- . troved the hospital and college build- " - ings. The damage is estimated at over a million yen. There were no casualties. OFFICERS SENTENCED. MOSCOW, August 30. At the end of a forty-six day trial, nine officers of the military supply depot were sentenced to death on charges of misappropriating goods. Thirty-three received varying terms ol imprisonment, the maximum being ten years. RED PROPAGANDA. (Received this day at 8 a.m.l LONDON, August 30. The Minority Movement Conference passed resolutions that women should receive equal pay, privileges and responsibilities its men ; in favour of tile abolition of night work and 8 hours a day for women, including domestic service. It was decided to form a Deleiice Corps in opposition to the I aseisti. The conference welcomed the .seamen’s strike leaders, who described the wages reduction ns tho 1 greatest niece of trade .union tyranny i ever known. They said there was a I law to protect seamen against ship owners, lint none to protect them against tyrannical trade unionists.* The conference resolved to ask the local I rades Councils to" render every assistance to the strikers. Mann addressing the conference, proclaimed a message to Empire workers.—Our most important task is to ally ourselves to the struggling workers in every corner of the Empire. This involves unremitting, relentless war on tho British Empire, for its downfall wo mint attack Imperialism. Pollitt declared . “ We are going to compel the trade union leaders to t'■otne in with the revolutionary workers or go over to the other side. They had definitely repudiated the Versailles Treaty and Dawes Report. The masses ■ v " should realise that the British Empire stood for robbery, violence, tyranny and exploitation of workers. The conference decided to demand an increase of 29s weekly in all existing wages, with a minimum of 80s weekly and forty-four hours week for everybody except those engaged in tbo mines, railways and banks, the nationalisation of which the conference favoured, without compensation, with tho workers in control. TURKEY TO RE MODERN. CONSTANTINOPLE. August 31. Kemal Pasha, in the course of speeches in. the Northern Provinces, condemns the Turkish mode of dress as neither rational nor civilized. Hemal insisted that international civilized / dress, even hat, collar and tie. should be adopted. Furthermore, woman must unveil and see all the world with her own eyes. The speeches aroused enthusiasm and felt liats and panamas everywhere are replacing the fez and the turban.