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Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1927, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

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RUGBY LEAGUE AFFAIRS. LONDON. June 9. I lie Rugby League by 20 to 9 cancelled an agreement with Australia and New Zealand restricting the signing on of Dominion players. Edgar Osborne described the New Zealand League team's team as the most disappointing and discouraging feature of the season. lie said: -‘lt nevoi occurred to these of ns who have been in New Zealand that there would he such dissentiou created by the action ol the players, and what 1 think was a vacillating and weak management.” Newthwaite, on behalf of the Australian Board commended the amendment of the rules, limiting the playing of the ball to two plovers. and said it had speeded up and popularised the game. Several delegates supported it, hut owing to a technicality the discussion was deferred till a special general nut-ting.

A COOL CONFESSION. ROM K. June in. With amazing coolness and callousness, Geno Lneetti faced his trial before the Special State Defence Tribunal. He recounted his preparations for his attempt on Signor Mussolini's life in September of 1920. when he hurled the bomb at the Dictator. Lneetti said “I first conceived the idea of killing .Mussolini in December, 1924. I did not communicate my plans to anybody, because the deed must be accomplished rather than talked about, f preferred a bomb to any other weapon. because it was likely to achieve better results. I intended to use a pistol if the bomb failed.” Cynically Lneetti confessed placing poisoned bullets in a. revolver for the purpose of making them destructive. The acid lie used was supplied to him by a friend living in France. Lneetti repeated that he had no accomplices. and that he came expressly from M arseilles to commit the deed. i The hearing was adjourned. Women were not being admitted into the Court, following upon Mussolini’s complaint against the women’s fashion displayed at the trial of Zoiibioui. which, lie said, introduced an element too gay to ha permitted in military proceedings.

GLAND OB HR ATION. LONDON. June 9. The Ihree year old racehorse, Pentin-. whose lip was saved through a thyroid gland operation, won the Murk Price Handicap at Manchester. Milt. Sox, his wealthy owner, concluded that Pentirc was worthless, and condemned the animal to lie shot, but a veterinary surgeon, says the Daily Express that the colt should he spared for gland treatment. Although it looked hopeless, the owner consented. The colt, from an undersized weed, developed so as to justify training, and ho accomplished his excellent performance under second top weight.

I*RATER BOOK QUESTION. LONDON. June 10.

There has been a two-days’ meeting of the Anglo-Catholic, clergy, representing every Diocese in England. ’The meeting agreed unanimously that the Revised Prayer Book was not acceptable in its present form.

EMPIRE SERVICE. LEAGUE. /Received this day at 3 n.m.) LONDON. June 10. The British Empire Service League discussed an invitation to send representatives to a Conference of the International Federation of Servicemen at Luxembourg!]. Dvett said he did not object to a representative going as an observer. Constituent members of the League might join the International Federation, if desired, hut Australia would not entertain the idea of the League itself being linked up with any international organisation. Stewart concurred. The meeting derided to accept the invitation, but representatives would attend in the capacity of observers.

amer(Can.'s aspiration. RERUN, June 0

“A round the world non-stop thirty thousand mile flight is not impossible,” declared the U.S.A. Admiral Chamberlain. “I hope some one will offer mo a quarter of a million pounds to play with so that I can construct a suitable plane.”

LONG FLIGHT PROJECT. LONDON, June 10.

In view of the fact that seven petrol tanks cause an air-lock in the course of switching over the last tank, this is considered the most likely cause of compelling Carr and Giltnian to descend. Under such circumstances, pilots are helpless. .Experiments carried out with a duplicate machine s?cm to strengthen this possibility. Should the weather he good a start will he made on a new attempt to create a non-stop flight record from Cranwell Aerodrome. Already a new machine has keen taken up with a load of six tons. Mechanical alterations render failure from the same cause impossible.

IMPERIAL TRADE. LONDON, June 10. The British Empire Service League carried a resolution recommending Empire headquarters to send a questionnaire to branches all over the Empire inviting suggestions for using the organisation to further inter-imperial trade. Supporters emphasised the proposal was in no way political.

CONFERENCE LOCATION. LONDON, June 10. The Empire Service League lias selected Australia as venue for tlie next biennal conference. A MADMAN’S ACT. PARIS, June 10. A Spaniard, Gomez, after killing four children, the eldest of whom was 17, jumped to a ledge on a sixth storey window, and blew out his brains, his body crashing into the street.

LODGE’S PREDICTION. LONDON, June 10. Sir Oliver Lodge’s bold prediction that life will one day lie produced in a chemist’s laboratory lias created some interest in scientific circles. Mr Haldane, a leader in bio-chemis-try at Cambridge University, challenges Sir Oliver Lodge’s views. He says that bio-eheinists are gradually building up, out of inorganic materials, some simpler kinds of molecule found iu living beings, but these molecules do not contain more than about 100 atoms, whereas the molecules of protein characteristic living matter consist of from 5,000 to 10,000 atoms, arranged in quite a definite manner. Personally, Mr Haldane says lie suspects that we will have to wait, not for one, but for several centuries, before life is created in a laboratory, it it ever is created. LONDON, June 10. Profesosr Julian Huxley has expressed the opinion that the creation of living from non-living matter cannot bo regarded as impossible. There were many people working on fj|c< subject at present, lie said.