BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 January 1926, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

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MONKEY GLAND FARM. PARIS, January LI

A Nice telegram reports Or VoroitofT s establishing a monkey farm in the Hiiera for the purpose of furthering iis gland experiments. He says the monkey is the only aniiii.’ii possessing She same anatomical constitution lis man and subject to the same illnesses ind diseases. Dr Voronoff will also devote his time io caucer research, W! BELLAS OPERATORS’ STB IKE. LONDON, January 14. Over seven hundred vessels are at present at sea without wireless operators. Fifteen hundred operators have joined the strike- according to an official of the Wireless Operators* Union, ALLAN COBHAM’S FLIGHT. NA IB 081, Jan. It. In avoiding the crowds of wildly exeitbd natives, Mr Allan Cobham slightly damaged his machine in landing at Kisumu, Kenya Colony. SCHOONER CUT IN TWO. LONDON. Jan, LI. The H.ILS. Wolfhound collided with the .schooner Miarka iii the Channel and cut her in two. The hitter’s crew, which the destroyer picked up. have been landed at Bn-st. THE HOBORATA. LONDON. Jan. 14. The la lose t report, from (lie Ho’rn rat a states the ship is in no immediate danger. Her crew numbers one hundred, hut there are no passengers aboard.

THE ICK-BOFN!) STEAMERS

BERLIN, Jan, Id. The German battleship Hessen is persisting in her efforts to reach the ships that are imprisoned in the ice in the Gulf of Finland, hut she is iii serious danger of being caught herself in the ever-thickening ice. She is now surroundeml by towering masses of grinding pack ice, and silo only makes any progress hv means of repeated short rushes, going astern for each rush in order to gather an impetus, and working her eighteen-thou-sand horse power engines to the full capacity. ANOTHER COLLISION. NEW YORK. Jan. LI The cargo sit'i!m*n', Welsh City, bound for Australia has been drydocked at Astoria.- in Oregon, for survey. She collided in the .Columbia River, during a fog with the rilotor ship Carisso, which is now dry-docked at Portland. The ships were severely shaken, plates l>eing dented by a glancing blow. They had a miraculous escape. The impact was such that every lifeboat was temporarily lowered. The Welsh City is under Air .1. J. Aloore’s (’Frisco) charter. FOGS HOLD VP SHIPPING. NEW YORK. Jan. 13. Scores of vessels are fogbound on the entire Canadian-Ameriean Pacific coastline, hut the Aorangf. hound for Australia, left Vancouver at a snail’s pace.

'LADY CURZON THE SOCIALIST NEW, YORK. Jan. 13.

“Because political views in England can Iwcoine a hitter thing.” Lady Cynthia Curzon (daughter of the late Lon. Curzon) who arrived <»i Wednesday with her husband, Mr Oswald Mostly, said her adoption of Socialism cost her mnnv friends. Lady Cynthia said that both she and her liusband. who have come to the United States to study the Labour and Industrial conditions, would stand for Parliament at the next elections. JUGO-SLAVTAN debt. NEW, YORK. Jan. 13, Ten members of a Jugo-Slavian commission arrived on Wednesday to discuss the funding of their country’s sixty-four million dollars debt to the United States.