BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 March 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.]

FA SCI SAL ANNIVERSARY. ROAIE, March 28. “ Fascist Italy is liotli loved and feared abroad, but I do not attack importance to what foreigners tliink or write,” said Signor Mussolini when addressing the troops. “It is natural,” he said, “ that Plutocracy, Liberalism, Freemasonry, and Democracy should combine against Fascism, but these antagonistic forces ni.ust either copy Fascism or die. The foreigners must end their gossipy Parliamentarism. and give their executives greater power to regulate Labour and Capital as the Fascists have done.” ROAIE, March 29. Italy has just celebrated the seventh anniversary of Fascism. .

Signor Alussoliui sent a message L'i-., the people, recalling how, after seven years, the situation in Italy had lieen cleared and the opposition dispersed. He urged the Black Shirts to renewed endeavours for the national consolidation, with the watchword Discipline—continuing and unchanging!” Signor Alussoliui thereupon reviewed the 'Fascists from an aeroplane. The Premier later on addressed the Fascists, asking them not to forget that the destiny of Italy was under their safeguard as a nation worthy of the name of Empire. From, the early morning, the Fascists paraded the streets with ensigns and the strains of bands. The public buildings wore decorated until pictures of Signor Alussolini everywhere. FRENCH ROY ALT STS. PARTS, March 29. The Due d’Orleans died at Palermo from pneumonia. Ho had been ill for several days. The Succession Orleanists claim that the Throne of France now devolves upon the Duke of Guise.

PARIS ELECTIONS. PARIS, Alareh 29. Two Communists have been returnedat the Parliamentary bye-election for the second sector of Paris. The Radical Socialists Executive urged its candidates to withdraw in favour of the Communists. AIARTYR OF SCIENCE. LONDON, March 29. The “Daily Chronicle” publishes a pathetic story of the sacrifices which the astronomer, AH- William Denning, has made in the interests of science. He is now 78 years of age. He lives alone in Bristol on a- small civil list pension. Ho is only able to eat liquid food, owing to the hardships of his earlier life, when for many years ho spent his nights in his garden observing the stars, even when there was snow oil the ground. Ho often spent the following day in his study, chocking lii.s observations. The fan? of tlio heavens became so familiar to him tli-t n glance of the naked eye was sufficient to tell him whether there was any alteration in the larger stars, so that he was able to make his famous discovery of the new star, Cygnus. Mr Denning’s observations recently proved that the temperature fifty miles above the earth is tropical.

AIARVELS OF' SURGERY. (Received this day at 9.0 a.m.) PARIS, March 29. ’l'he result of a strange experiment of gland grafting is reported from Roubaix. A year ago Olivier, the murderer. was guillotined and his thyroid gland was removed from his body after execution and taken to the hospital, whore a young girl was lying prepared for an operation. She was suffering from, an affection, of the thyroid winch had left her mentally and physically deficient. "Within three months of the operation the girl improved and after a year possesses all the powers of the normal girl of her age. * V-” DARDANELLES SINKINGS. ” (Received this day at 9.0 a.m.) LONDON, March 29. The “ Daily Mail ” states an Italian firm has secured a concession to refloat tliirty-nino ships sunk in the Dardanelles in war time, including the H.AI.S. Goliath, H.ALS. Irresistible and H.AI.S. Majestic and the French dreadnoughts Caulois and Bouvais. FOR N.Z. TRADE. LONDON, March 29. The twenty thousand ton motorship for the Shaw Saville Coy (cabled yos- . torday) is for tho Panama-New Zealand service. Fairfields are building it sister ship. MOSLEM LEAGUE OF NATIONS. LONDON, Alareh 29. The “ Daily News ” states that a new movement, born of the recent Islamic political and intellectual unrest, aims at nothing less than the establishing a Moslem League of Nations and a reorganised Khalifate forms part of tliis ideal. The- League’s president would be the titular Kbnlif. Tiie Cairo correspondent of the “ News ” says that unity is likely to lie achieved in a Khalifate radically reformed in accordance with modem ideas when the Islamic Congress meets at Cairo on Ist Alav.