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Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1927, Page 2

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(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] GLAND TREATMENT. WASHINGTON. March 2. Doctor Hugh Gumming, SurgeonGeneral of United States, states the gland operations are fallacies. He said that rejuvenation is a myth. It is inevitable that old age must be fully realised. The due prolongation of life with reasonable retention of physical and mental vigour may be reasonably expected by following *i carefully lived life, Camming pointed out that most efforts to delete the imprints of advancing age were designed to preserve and bring back the youthful appearance. Scientists have been zealous in their efforts to replace burnt out glandular elements, hoping i for a rejuvenation result. These ox- • jiefinients are interesting aiul suggestive but at present there is no evidence to warrant the assumption that glands from outside sources would cause rejuvenation. of tile human body; * ti.R: FINANCE. . ; WASHINGTON. March 2. 1 Treasury officials authoritaveiy stated that many bankers in United States have appealed to the, administration! to lift the embargo prohibiting private loans to Franep. A delegation ol fuiaiiecrs recently visited Mr Kellogg seeking a removal of the restriction biit after a conference the Administration reiterated its decision that no loans to French interests would be sanctioned until after the war debt ratification by tile French Parliament. The announcement, of France s proposed payments (cabled on 25th November) was expected to encourage bankers to renew the protest. They claim American money loaned in London at five percent' is being placed in France by British at a much higher rate. Some threaten to disregard the embargo and float loans without the (lovcni men t’s n pproval. \ RUSSIAN ENVOY. WASHINGTON, March 2. Alexander Kehensky arrived on Wednesday to expound. Ids views on tiie RusSian situation. He said iilhetyniiio per cent of tiie Russians t\eie hostile to the Soviet, which although turned sour, was responsible, for move good than the Czarists regime would have been. U.S. DECISIONS. WASHINGTON. March 2. Mr Cool id go signed the nnvDl appropriations bill which includes authorisation for starting three additional cruisers. Appropriation of 450 thousand dollars therefore teas approved by tile House and Sente, alter ihe House had orighvdly rejected the sum mil tile Senate had approved of it. Mr Coolidge is...expected, shortly to sign Britain’s hid authorising, an expenditure of 13-150 thousand dollais on modernising the battleships Oklahnm. and Nevada, now passed hy the Senate. A bill also authorised increasing the cost of airplane corners Zexington and Arattoga from thirtysix to forty million dollars each and increases the fleet submarine authorisation by a million and a half to (‘>.300 thousand dollars.

• BE UINEDO. •RKITNOS AIRES. March 2. Re Pineda arrived on Wednesday front Potto. ATLANTIC STORM. NEW YORK, March 2. Nine vessels are helpless and two more are aground as the result of a storm which was sweeping the South Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday night. Thes vessels include the coastwise passenger liner “City of St. Louis.” Twr lightships were torn from their moor ings off the' V irginia coast. CATHOLIC DIPLOMAT. NEW YORK. March 3. Senator Heflin, who recently has been attacking the Roman Catholics, to-day in the United States Senate, charged the British Ambassador, Sir Esme Howard, with conniving with the Knights of Columbus and with friends of the Roman Catholic Church to force the United States into war with' M6xioo, and also with endeavouring, in eutijnhilion with the Roman Catholic Church to force Britain to recognise the Catholic Regime of President Diaz in Nicaragua. He asserted that the fact that Britain had sent a Roman Ctaliolic AthbaS sndor to the United States, indicates that Britain had fallen under the domination of the Roman Catholic Church. Senator King immediately rose to reply. He said that Sir Esifie Howard was a man of the highest attainments. He was a man of intelligent!?. He was an honour as a diplomat to his country’s service.

Senator King added: " I cannot permit to go unquestioned this charge that he would do anything derogatory to his country, or to the I nited States. His honour should not tie impugned or questioned.”