BRITISH & FOREIGN HEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN HEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable .Association

DUMMIES FOR BABIES,

LONDON, March 20

'l'he French legislation against dummies has aroused vigorous discussion on the merits of comforters. Olga Nethersole, the actress, the founder of the Peoples League of Health, states many mothers put dummies in their own mouths before giving them to their children, thereby often causing tuberculosis.

The new Health Society objects to dummies, but the. National 11aby Week Council state it is futile to introduce legislation. If dummies are forbidden, mothers will immediately improvise an alternative.

SOLAR OBSERVATORY. CAPETOWN, March 20. Doctor Abbott, of United Stales Smithoniaii Institute after a long investigation, including Algeria and Baluhistan has definitely decided on Berslieba, South West Africa, as the site for the new solar observatory, from which American .scientists will study th(' variations in the sun’s heat, with a view to improving weather forecasts. The African observatory will co-operate with others in Chile and California. DEPORTATION. CAPETOWN, .March 20. Despite determined opposition, including the Labour members of the Union Parliament, the Government 1 carried a clause empowering the Minister of Justice to deport anyone not born in South Africa for any offence under tho insolvency law. The three- Labour Ministers were absent.

To-day the Prevention Disorders Bill was published. It also empowers deportation after conviction for sedition, and compels natives, after conviction to reside in certain areas. N.S.’W. LOAN. LONDON, .March 27. Tho financial editor of “The Nation and Athenaeum,” commenting on the New .South Wales loan, emphasises the lack of details in the prospectuses. Ho then proceeds to point out the growth of the State’s debt, and the increase of the annual charge thereon by one million sterling since 1924. “It is,” he says, “ little short of a scandal that New Smith Wales is able to raiso money so cheaply by means of the Trustee Act.”

“ Why.” he salts, “ should its loans, offering uncertain security be admitted as full trustee securities, when English electric light and power debenture stock are not treated in a similar wav?”

MUSSOLINI’S 1 GREAT HOLD. LONDON, March 28. Sunday was the seventh anniversary of Fascism and it was celebrated throughout Italy. .It was announced that Mussolini himself would review the Rome Federation of Fascists. He issued a message. to tho Nation. The “Observer’s” Rome correspondent, in a singularly frank article, says that Mussolini stands forth to-day as tho real master of Italy, lie has a position held by no other premier. People arc imprisoned for speaking ill of him, while drastic laws protect him from harm. His ambition is not, merely to he a party leader and Premier, hut to change completely tho whole spirit of Italy. To understand the atmosphere surrounding flic “(luce” of tho Faseisti festival one must go back to the days of Caesar. AMERICA CUP. SIR T. UPTON’S DETERMINATION ■LONDON, March 27. Sir Thus. 'Linton is going to America next week. He intends to build a further yacht, the Shamrock V., and to issue a challenge lor a, race for Llio America, Cup in 1927. Ho says that lie will keep at it till ho wins. A NEW ALLIANCE. BUCHAREST, March 27. A treaty of alianoe between Rouinania and Poland has been signed.

GERMS IN MOUTH. LONDON, March 27

A warning against the man who “talks confidentially right into one’s face in the manner with which we are familiar,” is issued by Sir Kenneth Coadley, the bacteriologist. “ I know' that it looks impolite to sheer hack and to hold the head away, but this must not influence the listener,” he says. “ These people are very dangerous, because they may be suffering from disease. It is not .generally realised that germs may he carried in the mouth and the throat without the conveyer suffering from the disease. The nurses working in the consumption hospitals may have the consumption microbe in the mouths, though they are not suffering from it.” CHINESE BATTLE. ■ PEKING, .March 27. Communication between Tientsin and Peking has been cut since yesterday. This is believed to indicate there is lighting in progress in the vicinity of Yangtsun. Chinese circles in Sahnghai repo'rt that Tnnnchijui has fled to the Japanese Legation, and that Marshall Wongshihehen. who recently lias been most active in peace proposals between the combatants, has taken temporary charge of the Government at Peking, lint, so far. there is no confirmation ol this BRITISH BYE-ELECTION. LONDON, March 27. Tlie Botlnvell bye-election resulted in the return of Mr I. Sullivan (Labour) with 14,830 votes. The others contestants were: A. M. McKay. K.C., (Conservative) 8.740; and Mr E. Young (Liberal), 1276. The vacancy was caused by the death of Mr John Robertson (Labour). LINER STRIKES A ROCK. LONDON, March 27. When the steamer Garth Castle, hound for Capetown, was approaching her anchorage at Ascension Island, sho struck a rock heavily. As there are no facilities to repair her within two thousand miles, the vessel with her 318 passengers and crew, will have to wait till a. relief steamer arrives from London.

A WINDFALL. LONDON. March 27.

After years of poverty, a. Gloucester family are hoping for good news in answer to a cable sent to Australia on their behalf. It is stated that Eli Talbot, whose trade was that of a baker, loft home, after which his wife, with four children, was obliged to enter the workhouse. The wife was appointed last year as domestic help to the Matron, and while tidying the Matron’s room she noticed an advertisement in a local paper stating that Eli Talbot was dead, and asking for information regarding his wife and children, which would be to their advantage. The address given was in Perth, where inquiries were promptly directed. REDS DEPORTED. PEKING, March 27. Thirteen Russians, Eluding three military instructors, were arrested in Canton and deported. Several strike lenders were also arrested,