BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1927, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

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VALUED BRITISH SERVANT. TOKYO, .May 20.

Alter over forty years of British service in Japan Sir Harold and Lady Parlctt have sailed for England, Parlett was Japanese Secretary to the British Embassy, 'Tokyo, and a most invaluable authority on Japanese men and affairs,, an expert in the language and author of an Anglo-.lapan-ese dictionary. He served for Ambassadors here since the opening of the century.

AT GRETNA GREEN. LONDON, .May 19

That Gretna Green is still a centre of romance was revealed by the arrival of a hoy and a girl, medical students from Edinburgh, in a fast motor car in order to he married at the Old Blacksmith’s Shop. They were surprised to find that a Priest had received a telegram tr im the girl's uncle, forbidding the marriage. The situation was under discussion when the uncle arrived.

RHINELAND TROOPS. BERLT. .May 10

It is rumoured that Air Chamberlain and Af .Briand have agreed to a reduction of the Rhineland occupation troops by 10,000, which Germany considers inadequate.

COST OF CRUISERS. LONDON, -May 10. In the House of Commons, Mr \V. C. Bridgemnn (First Lord of the Admiralty) in reply to a question, said the approximate cost of a 10.000 ton cruiser armed with 8-in. guns would he C2,l 10.000. Her annual maintenance would cost £215.000. A 0000-ton cruiser armed with 0-in .guns would cost. £l,l JO,OOO, and her annual maintenance IT JO,OOO.

SPA KLINGER’S FORMULAE. LONDON May 10. The Medical Committee attached to the King Edward VII. AVelsh National Memorial has been to Geneva investigating the Spahlingor treatment. Their eonelusion as to the result of the eases examined are on the whole disappointing. The remedies do not offer a certain cure for tuberculosis, an I there is not conclusive evidence that their use materially altered the course of the disease. While it is evident .that Spahlingor has shown much ability in devising apparatus for .special branches of bacteriology, secrecy rentiers it utmost impossible to jtulj'e tlivalue of the work. It is claimed that its achievements are far in advance nl modern knowledge, hut there is no adequate evidence in substantiation ol its claim. Whether, owing to technical or financial reasons, all attempts to obtain supplies of Spahlingor preparations for a test hv competent* authorities failed. ’l'lie Committee considers that the application of public and other funds towards 'the Spablinger Institute cannot be recommended, and a publicity campaign on behalf of Spablinger was to be deplored as raising false hopes in the minds of sufferers. Since the war £8(1,000 has been provided from British sources for the Spablinger Institute. The Committee considered the question of patenting the remedies, and failed to discover an adequate reason why this course should not be adopted, if Spablinger persisted in keeping the formulae secret. ’lhc production must necessarily be limited, as only small amounts can he produced by Spablinger, assisted by a few per-sonally-trained assistants, and under these circumstances there is no hope of giving the remedy to the world.

RECORD MATROX. LONDON. May 20. Miss Alice Dale, for forty years

Government Alatron on migrant ships going to New Zealand, retired early m the year but was unable to resist the call of the sea, and to-day rejoined the lonic. She says she has already covereel a million and a-half miles and is a record godmother of babies horn on shipboard.