GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

U.S. WITHDRAWAL. WASHINGTON, Juno 24. The recall of five hundred marines from Nicaragua is - part of the plan tor the withdrawal of American forces. WIRELESS EXPERIMENT. LONDON, June 20. Dr Vamlerpol is collaborating with Professor E. V. AppVeton Alper, at the famous Dutch wireless station at Eindhoven. sending out steady Morse on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday on a wave length of 30.2 metres to enable an experiment to note the oflect of the eclipse on the strength oi wireless signals.

BEAM TESTS. LONDON, June 24. Marconi's have issued a statement that the South African beam tests have been completed. While the contract required ei'even hours daily, the service tests showed two wave lengths of 10 metres in daylight and 35 in darkness with a modification of the transmittei and aerial feeder ■ systems enable 22 hours communication outward and 20 inward.

XEW GUINEA NATIVES. GENEVA, June 25. Sir J. Cook (Australian High Commissioner), presented the New Guinea Report to the Mandates’ Commission, lie pointed out that the system ol control there included control of new districts, chiefly in order to gain the confidence of the native population. The outlook generally was satisfactory. hut in two islands the population was dwindling, owing to the natives buying rice, instead of planting their food, and also because they ate practising infanticide.

SPACER'S CHANNEL HOAX. LONDON. June 25. Reports from Prague state that in connection with the Channel swim, the police are prosecuing Spncek on a charge of attempting to mislead the public authority.

BULGARIA AND JUGO-SI.AVS

LONDON. June.

Tho Times Sofia correspondent says: A serious incident has occurred on the Jugo-Slav—Bulgarian frontier. A Bulgarian hand attacked the Sera Customs post at Desilavgvnd, and lulled the ollicer. Jugo-Slavs regulars took drastic reprisals. They shelled lsyor and the country round, which is. inhabited. hv Bulgarian population, which has now been incorporated in Jugo-Slavia. One hundred villagers were arrested. The remainder fled to the mountains or escaped to Bulgarian territory.

THE THEOSOPHITES. LONDON, June 25,

’1 lie amphitheatre erected on Balmoial Beach, at Sydney, Australia, is the centre of a discussion in the “ Daily Express,” in which it is stated that the building is so constructed as to enable those reserving seats to witness “The Second Coming of Christ” across the waters of the harbour.

The Theosophical News Bureau declares that the Unos Amphitheatre cost £BOOO, and that those contributing £1 and upwards to £IOO are allowed a seat hut it is in no sense reserved for any event.

In rebuttal of this, the “ Daily Express ” publishes an extract from a pamphlet under the name of Dr Mary Rocke, the National Australian Representative of “ The Star in the East.” 'lbis is diametrically opposed to the Theosophical News Bureau, as it says that the amphitheatre “has been erected for the use of Christ, the Supreme Teacher, whose coming it is the privilege of ‘ The Star of the East ’ to announce and prepare lor.” This amphitheatre, she says, may he regarded as the forerunner of similar buildings elsewhere.

The “ Daily Express ” asks how the Theosophical News Bureau can reconcile its denial with Dr Rockc’s authentic statement.

BOBBED HAIR. BERLIN. June 27. Reminiscent of locking the stable door after the pony lias belted, Germany is now in the throes of a heated controversy over bobbed hair. Nationalist extremists declare no true 'Teuton maid would have her locks shorn, but bobbed trails and frauleins bitterly resent tho taunt that they are not patriotic. The little Royalist town of Zerbau clinched the argument by decreeing a monthly tax of 2s on bobbed married women and Is on spinsters.

RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS. MOSCOAY, June 26. The President of the Communist Party of the Central Control Commission, proposes the exclusion of Zinovieff and Trotsky, oil the ground that they have repeatedly violated party discipline, and engaged unceasingly in factional activities.

GERMAN CONCERN. BERLIN, Juno 24

Speaking in a foreign affairs debate Count Reventlaw alleged that during M. Briand’s recent visit to London tentative arrangements were made for Anglo-French-Polish co-op-eration against Russia in the event of a military clash.

Count Reventlaw contended that if there is war between England and Russia, Herr Stresemann, the German Foreign Minister’s policy, will he decidedly harmful to Germany. The interests of France ad England, he. said, no longer needed any Locarno understanding.

AUSTRALIAN MISSION. NEW YORK, June 25,

The Australian Mission inspected a sugar factory’s new process of refining sugar, claimed to reduce the present costs by 50 per cent. Queensland members regard tho process as of great value to Australia owing to the present high costs. They also inspected a celotex factory where a million square feet of celotex is produced daily from megass, a residue of sugar cane. A company is being registered in Australia anticipating the erection of a factory within two years. Speaking at a luncheon, Doctor Rosenfeld, consulting technologist of American Sugar Growers League. warned Queensland to prevent disease destroying cane crops. Owing to an outbreak of disease at Louisiana the crop dropped in 1919 from three hundred thousand 'to fifty thousand tons.. In 1926 the ravages were cheeked by developing various immune or tolerant towards the disease. McNeil responding said he trusted Queensland would take steps to prevent a similar occurrence. Tho mission is departing for Houston, Texas on Sunday, investigating cotton. Matthews and Mackay having complete cltheir report which it is understood makes no recomniendatiion, but states facts as disclosed concerning employment of women have left for Mexico city and wil rejoin tlie mission in San Francisco. Murthy declined to autliorise the visit, which the observers have undertaken at their own expense.