BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

J,v TELEGRAM —#RI«B A***-, CluEi BIGHT. HA 111 it" It ANO IRAQRON DON, Feb. 17. It i.s nUieially announced that the I.almur Party has decided that Air MacDonald will move in the House of Commons an amendment to tlie Trap Treaty, opposing Britain being commilled in any way after the expiry of the original treaty in 1028, and urging that Iran’s entry to the Teague be expedited.

GOVERNMENT AND TV Of XI) MI) .SOLDI MRS. LONDON. Feb. 10.

In the House of Commons, after a resolution drawing attention to the necessity of the Government employing as many wounded soldiers who are on the King's roll as possible. Mr Apslev moved that the House is of the opinion that the Government should have even cll'nrl made to stimulate and ns-

'i-t. in every possible form of migration and settlement within the Empire. The resolution was under consideration when the debate wa, automatically adjourned.

PRINCK GMORGK PROMOTED. LONDON. February 17. Prince George lias been promoted fo Lieutenant for service in the llagsliip Hawkins on the China Station. MATAKANA’S AIAII.K TRANSFERRED. LONDON. February 17. The .Mntakann's mails are being transferred to the Narknnda and parcel- to the Corintliia. OK UMAX CANCER DISCOVERY. | “ The Times ’’ Service, j (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) LONDON. February 17. The -Times” Berlin correspondent report- that Doctor Josef Schumacher

claims that bv u-ing new staining methods lie has isolated the cancer liaeeilus which is present in enormous

quantities in the cancerous tissues of which it I'm ids one-tenth of the hulk, li is net or present in healthv tissue. ’I he groat n ass of the liaeeilus was found on the dividing line between the diseased and the normal tissues and it advanced into the healthy tissue like a wall.

Dr Schumacher has not vet made cultures of tlie liaeeilus which is of fairly large spiral formation with thickened ends.

The bacilli cannot live in the organism of the lymplietie system which is hea I thy. Dr Schumacher expresses the opinion that Ihe ultra-violet ray treatment will he beneficial. BULGARIA'S GOOD FAITH. LONDON. February 17. The “ Time-” Geneva correspondent savs the League of Nations lias been informed that Bulgaria, as proof of her goodwill, has agreed to accept now half of the Greek indemnity due under Hie League’s decision of loth Deeenior (whereby payment was due on loth February). The remainder i.s promised for I.", 11l .March. CHANGED ATTITT DM WELCOMED. LONDON. Mebruarv 17.

The Imperial migration authorities welcome the apparently (hanged attitude towards the cheapened migration fares indicated by Mr Bruce's pronouncement. also by (he Australian press (•element. Referring (o press comparisons between Australian and New Zealand migration fares the authorities point win the Australian Government turned down the Overseas Settlement Committee’s offer In iiK-n-asr their ron-

trihutions for the purpose of approximating the Australian fares to the New Zealand fares under which more favourable passages would he granted not oolv to youths and girls hut also in single men. Notavithstnmling this repulse the committee, when submitting the 1927-28 estimates included £IOO.OOO towards cheaper passages subject to Australia participating. The British Treasury turned down the proposal partly because Australia had already not accented the New Zealand standard. Inn principally because the economy committee had insisted, on the grounds of retrenchment, on postponing the proposal to next year.

It i.s authoritatively learned that the Imperial authorities would welcome Australian co-operation in reduced

fares, but in view of the Economy Committee’s attitude they are unable lo make overtures themselves.

BISHOP'S STARTLING STATEMENT (■Received this day at 12.30 p.m.l LONDON', February 17. The Et. Rev. Barnes. Bishop of Birmingham, in a startling address to the Eugenics Society, urged that toe prevention of the survival of the socially unfit was in accordance with a plan whereby God had brought humanity so far on the load. The Bishop said it must cause grave concern to every religious man and woman that the feeble-minded were disastrously prolific. Environment v.as no longer destroying the unfit. Clod was making man increasingly master ol his own fate, hut wc must not make an environment in which the feeble-minded, criminals and insane could multipy rapidly. If it could he shown the fecundity of the feeble-minded was a harrier to the extension of the spiritual perception Christians would approve of the repression of such fecundity.

KITCHENER’S BOAT. (Received this day at 11.25 n.m.l LONDON, Fob. 17. Sir W. If. Davidson (Parliamentary Secretary to lhe Admiralty) replying to Sir R. IV.* Hamilton (Liberal, Orkney), said he was aware that the small boat in which Lord Kitchener and Colonel Fitzgerald wer t , supposed to have left the cruiser Hampshire had been purchased privately, hut there was no evidence that Colonel Fitzgerald was found therein or that Kitchener ever set foot in the boat. The weight of evidence was that only the rafts got clear of th e sinking crui.s-

PI.OT TO M ORDER MTSSOUNI LONDON. February 17. The Central News Agency’s Rome correspondent quotes a story from the “ I’opolo di Rome ” of a plot to kill Mussolini. Dr Oaieri was arrested and implicated two deputies and thirty others, hut it was found that all these were 'ltis creditors. The police, therefore. are acting cautiously. SOVIET ESPIONAGE TRIAL. RIGA, February 17. At the conclusion of the trial at Leningrad of 48 Esthonians charged with esnionage. fifteen were sentenced to death. The Public Prosecutor, in the course of a ten hours’ speech, said the Intelligence Departments of Rritain and tile Baltic had co-ordinated; ; consequently all espionage information I had reached Britain.

LORD JELL!COE TAKES HIS SEAT (LONDON, Feb. H

Lord Jellieoe took his oath and seat in the House of Lords on his elevation to the Earldom.

HOCKEY. LONDON, [Feh. 17. At hockey Cambridge heat Oxford a-2,