NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 April 1926, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL.

LITTLE POKER-FACE. LONDON, Feb. 20. “All comfortable and not a man lost,” was the laughing comment of an ex-soldier patient of the Aliddlesex Hospital, AY., after, with 97 other patients, lie had been moved yesterday from |he condemned wards of the west wing of the hospital to the new annexe in Cleveland-strect, 309 yards away. Doctors, surgeons, students, sisters, nurses and ambulance men co-operated in tlie move .the patients being conveyed to the new quarters by motor ambulances. All the patients were labelled, and iltcir personal possessions were in a bag also labelled. The patients were examined before transfer, and on arrival at the annexe by the house physicians and surgeons attached to their wards, but no one suffered during the move. Yesterday afternoon Prince Arthur of Conaught visted the annexe and there was an amusing incident at the bedside of Gerald Leyden, aged 0. chubby faced boy. ho resisted all the blandishments of the hospital staff and Prince Arthur to induce him to smile. The expression on his face never changed. “Little poker-face—perhaps a future tennis champion,” laughed Prince Arthur. GERMAN TRADE PUSH. BERLIN, February 20. “Where is the money coming from?” asked a member of the Budget Committee of the Reichstag, after sharply criticising the Government’s proposal to spend £20.009,000 in reviving the industrial life of Germany. ■■ We must get to work to further the development of our industries.” replied the Chancellor. Dr Luther. He declared that he himself was acting oil the assumption that tlie Exchequer would not sullcr by the reduction of the burden of taxation because, with the revival of industry, it would not receive less than it does now. He pointed out that Germany had liad to concentrate on the restoration >f her currency, and now she had to •oneentrnte on the restoration of her industry. Certain important industrialists have, however, already pointed out'to die Government that, it is all very well :o finance German industry so that goods for Russia may be manufactured wit the question is whether Germany vill ever recover the money from Rus-