MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1927, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

j Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] SPAHLI NGEIi'S TK EATM ENT. \Reeeived this day at 8.50 a.in.) LONDON. Jan. 11. Spalilinger has entered the controversy witii a letter in tbe “Daily Express from Geneva in which he says:- - “1 have given up my life to this work. Ilho lives of others Hear to me uv similarly devoted. If the ;u hievvntvuts are to be easily discredited. 1 should he glad to burn my secret and return to tbe bar for which I am i'tidv qualified to load for tbe first time in fifteen years and live an orutuary man's share of sunshine. Tbe •'Daily Express" editorially referred to the statement as a threat, adding if Spalilinger lias discovered a met bod of deputing a scourge then however tired and dtscuraged, it both bis duty and bis privilege to gi\o it to tbe world IN A LION S CAGE. LONDON, Jan. 11. Gapt-ain Rostock of Bustoek-W omhell's circus was saved from death in Leicester by a lioness springing upon a lion which had attacked him. He entered the cage to attend a sick cub. when the lion broke through the partition ami started mauling him. The lioness sprang on the lion and there Was a terrific light in which the cubs joined with the mother and succeeded in dragging the lion off. Bustoek was able to crawl through the dm l ' badly torn. The fight continued till the animals were separated bv attendants. This is the second time a lioness Ij.tS saved Bustoek.

RUSSO-JAP TREATY. TOKYO. Jan. 11. Moscow reports a satisfactory conclusion of the long negotiated RussoJapanese treaty giving Japan huge forestry concessions in the maritime provinces of Russia. Japanese regard the terms as exceptionally favourable.