GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1927, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

HOOKE’S FLIGHT. DELHI, July 22 llooke lias arrived at Agra

WHITE bread

LONDON, July 21

“White Bread” is defended in a letter published in the “Lancet medical journal signed by six eminent Doctors and scientists, including Sir Thomas Holder.

They affirm that the ease for wholemeal bread lias been overstated. Although wholemeal is a good article o! diet for many people, white bread of good quality is also wholesome and nutritious.

The doctors and scientists remark that there arc no good reasons lor thinking that the substitution of wholemeal for white bread in the national diet would materially improve the national health and physique. Finally, they declare that the allegation that white bread has Been responsible for cancer, appendicitis and other diseases is unwarranted. It i.s not supported by scientific facts.

DRUNKEN MOTORISTS. LONDON. July 21. The harmfulness of drink upon motor drivers was the text of a British Medical Association session at Edinburgh. Doctor (indfrcy-Artcr said

that the drunken motorist was only one degree less culpable than the drunken engine driver. Disaster was sure to follow. The delicate nerve balance, giving poise, judgment and quickness of decision, was the first power to become disordered as the result of alcohol.

A C'inriiiiitti delegate, T>r Emir Bogen, described the American plan for dealing with the evil. Thereunder the suspect blows up a football, and his breath, when released into a chemical mixture discloses the extent of his intoxication. In some known cases the breath has changed the fluid from a reddish brown to a bluish green. The (Scottish Chief Justice Russell, said that a drunken motorist was, worse than a drunken man with a revolver. The latter would go off in only one direction, but there was no knowing what a drunken motorist would do in a crowded street. He regretted that the law did not allow imprisonment.

DIVORCE IN RUSSIA LONDO.N July 21

The Riga correspondent of “The Times’’ says:—ln five months, 0,081 marriages have been registered in Soviet Russia and 7255 have been divorced , as the result of a new law, enabling the annulment of marriage at the desire of either party, without giving any reason. The proportion of divorces to marriages has risen in. 12 months from 20 per cent, to 75 per cent The Soviet’s first campaign was the destruction of the religious ceremony, then forcing the people to recognise the Soviet’s monopoly. They next sought in 1925 to abolish even the registration of marriages, making cohabitation the sole form of marriage. This attempt broke down because the peasant women said it was bard enough to keep husbands already. The proposal was then temporarily withdrawn, but it was again introduced, and it became law in 1927, with a concession to the peasant women that the marriages and divorces may bo registered if both the parties agreed.

RECEIVED BY KING. LONDON, July 22

The King granted an audience to Sir Byrie, the new Australian High Commissioner and T.adv Rvric.

PROPOSED FLY. NEW YORK. July 2

Detroit messages state Giles gives details of bis flight to Australia as follows:—Start August Ist, stop at San Francisco ; then competing in Dole race. ITe will make for Hawaii, afterwards proceeding to Brisbane, then to Sydney and 'Wellington. Giles’ trip is financed by W. Rosewarne, a Detroit contractor. Giles was born in Australia. Hi* - 'plane is a Bluebird, equipped with Wright motors and storage tanks for-600 gallons of gasolene. The longest leg of the journey from Hawaii to Brisbane, is 4809 miles, which is the farthest non-stop flight ever attempted. Commenting on the trip, Giles said the main object was to promote better feeling between Australia and America. I am also a competitor for the James Dole 25,000 dollars prize for the San Franeisco-Honolulu flight.*’