MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1926, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] AMERICAN DENTAL BUTCHERS. LONDON, February 21. A thoroughly had operation,” is how a British denti-t describes the new extraction method to which the Americans practising in Loudon arc attempting to introduce their patients. The Americans arc giving a strong local anaesthetic. 'lhe skin ot the gum is peeled hack and the hone •surrounding the tooth is chipped, after which the tooth is lifted out without it wrench. ■'! have had to mend several jaws as the result of this hacking treatment,” said a London dentist, who pointed out that the most modern and least painful method was the regional anaesthesia, thereby temporarily paralyzing the main nerve of the iaw and not the local tooth nerve. I,ENINW WIDOW. LONDON. February 21. Lenin’s widow is temporarily negotiating with her London Communist friends with a view to .securing the Home Office’s permission to permanently reside in Britain as she fears an attempt on her life if she remains in Russia. AN INVENTOR SINGER. VIENNA. February 21. Jakob, the singer, has invented a contrivance to prevent motors running over pedestrians, consisting of a network of india-rubber ropes fixud to the front of the car. Experiments have shown that the pedestrian is sottly caught up without being hurt. FOREIGN SINGERS NATURALISED Alt IS, February 21. The 'State-owned Theatre, desiring new artists, but who are unable to employ foreigners, have requested several singers to become naturalized. A number of Americans agreed, although the step involves military service and possibly of garrison duty in .Morocco. PRINCE RESUMES HUNTING. LONDON. Feb. 20. The Prince of Wales has resumed hunting, lie followed the Blankney lion mis. YEN’S RAPID RISK. TDK 10. Feh. 24.

Owing to the yen's rapid rise the Government has decided to suspend further shipments of specie to America. JAR POLITICO. TOKIO. .Fell. 21. Owing to the defeat of certain Government. Bills for railway exti'nsion on the Singokti railway, the Alinister is expected to resign, resulting in a. Cabinet irisis. It: is understood the Premier is endeavouring to persuade AT. Singokti not to resign. RUSSIA'S OUTLOOK. LONDON, Feb. 20. Al. Rudovskv, writing in the series of articles in the ” Morning Post ” on the world outlook, asserts that no country in the world has given proof of such active progress as the Union of the Soviet Republic. It is true,” he says. ” that the need of foreign credits is being fell, because we are

in a period of extraordinary expansion. Tlie lack of credits may hamper this development hut it caiinoL prevent it. In any ease it is a mistake to believe that •Russia any more needs foreign capital than foreign industry needs our raw material, and Russian orders.”

Regarding complaints made on the grounds of Russian propangamla. Al. Bukovsky admits that the Russian masses, as had happened in other countries at the moment of revolution were inspired by the spirit of revolutionary proselytism. This was due to the fear that the capitalistic States were aiming at the destruction of the Soviet Union. This fear was justified hv the economic blockade and by armed intervention. It is tbe tear he says which has determined the attitude ot the Soviet Union towards the League of Nations. We believe that it is not so much triun any desire lor peaie that the efforts are being made to draw Russia into the League as it is to induce a change in her social and political regime, iho two main causes of war. namely, the shortage of markets for industrial production, and the lack of raw material, can he iemnvod bv agreements satisfying tla* interests of all the countries. The latest declarations by Sir Austen Chamberlain lead us to believe that the British Government is veering towards a resumption of negotiations, and 1 think that the conditions under which negotiations "Ml L-o ies timed will Up boiler Ilian 1 prevailed last year.