AMERICAN CABLF NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1925, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLF NEWS.

[Australia A, N.Z. Cable Association.]

ATTACK OX FASCIST! IN ITS.A. NEW YORK, Oct. 28. Police reserves repelled an attack by a mob of four hundred, said to be members of the. Anti-Faseisli Alliance of North America, upon a local bold where six hundred members ol the Italian Fascist League were holding a dinner. MANHOOD LACKING IN VITALITY NEW YORK. Oct. 28. Sir W. Blair Beil, of Liverpool, declared at the American College of Surgeons' Conveuton, at Philadelphia, that prominent women in public idfairs in England had indicated that manhood was lacking in vitality. Ibis also was true of America. This condition was harmful to women who, possessing a diflerent gland and psychological make-up, were unhappy unless they were under man’s thumb. .England was reducing infant mortalitv^through pre-natal care, baby clinics and education. Anaesthetists reported great progress in limiting the risk during operations. Nitrous oxide was the satesl anaesthetic, and ether next. GENERAL MITCHELL S AIR POLICY. WASHINGTON, Oct. S». The defence won the first skiimwn at the Mitchell court-martial, opening when three of the original thirteen ofli-

<ers, constitilting the court were oli- ' m inn ted on the grounds of alleged prejudice. Mr Trunk Reed, a member of the U.S.A. House of Representatives is General Mitchell's chief counsel. D contended the three officers’ recent s)leeches proved them not to lie impartial hut hostile. The officers reninvincluded Brigadier-General Albert, Bow lev, hv a vote of the court; secondly, Charles Sumnersall, rantnng ns Mnjor-General, and an Army Cow" President, who asked to he excused, declaring General Mitchell’s previous charge, namely one of mismanagement of aviation in the Hawaiian manoeuvres was purely personal and untrue: and thirdly, Major General Fred Staydon, Superintendent of West IV" Military Academy, who withdrew. The trial is proceeding in an uncomfortable old army warehouse. After reading lengthy specifications, based on General Mitchell's critical speech, Mr Feed challenged the authority and judicial power of the Court, declaring General Mitchell had not violated military law or the Articles of War. He claimed he was within the constitutional right of free speech in expressing his opinion on a public question so important that President Coolidge had called a special enquiry.