MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1926, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] FIGHTING CAayER. LONDON, July 13. Real and encouraging progress lias been made towards tlie discovery of' the cause and the cure of cancer, according to the Annual Report of the Grand Council of the Empire Cancer Research Fund. It is pointed out that it would bo dangerous to raise any false hopes, and that it is impossible to predict a time when the cancer problem will he solved ; but tlie report says it is not too much to hope that, with a continuation of the recent efforts, the solution of tho greatest problem is attainable. It says a tremendous impetus has recently been given as tlie result of research, while far reaching advances have been, made in tlie knowledge of the underlying factors in the causation of cancerous tumours. LONDON, July 14.

Tlie British Empire Cancer Council’s report reveals that Doctor Lumsden’s experiments have proved that rats can both lx 1 cured and immunised ■of cancer by appropriate anti-serum. He adds that lacic of accommodation has severely restricted his experiments designed to test tlie Ces Virus Theory but experiments carried out with transplantable tumours on rats and mice last year did not support the theory.

EXPELLED AUTHOR. LONDON, July 13. A sensational libel action has been opened before Air Justice Herridge, in which Captain Peter Wright, an author, is suing the Bath Club for wrongful expulsion, as tho result of his writing a book, called “Portraits and Oritcisnis,” in which there were references to the late William Ewart Gladstone to which Viscount Gladstone took the strongest objection. Passages from the book were given prominence widely on July 22nd. of last year, when 'Viscount Gladstone wrote to the newspapers and described tho book as “garbage,” and the writer as “a. liar, a coward, and a. fool.”

AV right refused to bring a libel action.

Viscount Gladstone then wrote to tho committee of the Bath dub, of which Lord Desborougli is the Chairman, and as the result Wright was expelled.

KRIM’S NEW LOCALE. PARIS, July 13. It is officially stated that Abd-ol Krini, the late Riff leader, will be in terned on the Island of Reunion. CABLE COAIPANY CONCESSION. LONDON, July 13. The Eastern Extension Telegraph Company have secured a fifty-year concession from the Greek Government for both cable and wireless communication. This is the first occasion that joint cable and wireless concessions havo been granted.

KOLAPORE CUP RESULT. LONDON, July 13. At Ilisley, the Kolapore Cup was retained by Canada, with a score of 1119. Tlie Alother Country was second with 1113. - FRANCE AND SPAIN. PARIS, July 14. General Primo d© Rivera, Director of Spain, was greeted with cheers and hisses on his arrival at the Quai d’Orsay, where fifteen Communists were arrested and two policemen were injured.

AI. Briand. the Premier, and General do Rivera have signed a Fra neoSpanish treaty stabilising the situation in Aforoceo.

THE SPANISH NAVY. MADRID, July 14

A decree has been published authorising the construction of three cruisers of the Washington type, twelve submarines and a number of naval air stations.