BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

MIGRATION RESULT. (Received this day at S a.in.) LONDON, July 24

As the first fruits of the formation of Durham County Migration Committee, fifty-five sturdy lads, aged 15 to 18, w enjf 1 eremo ll iiius I,v farewellcd. The Bishopof Durham delivered a stirring address. The hoys tire embarking for New South AVai'cs by the “ Borda.

beam writ el ess. DELHI, July 24. Beam wireless service between Britain and India is opened.

GENERAL DEAD. LONDON, July 21. Obituary—General Dyer, formerly of Amritsar.

TRIBUTES TO DEAD. (Tteceivod this day at 11.0 a.m.)

LONDON, July 24

Mr AVorthington Evans, AYnr Minister in inviting General Plumer to unveil the Ypres Memorial, said it commemorated the heroism, of men, who maintained the inconquerable rampart for four years against the most hitter insilnught in tho history of warfare. The memorial was erected by the Government of every nation in the British Commonwealth anil every Colony and Dependency. General Plumer said the relatives of the missing must have felt that more might have been done to recover their loved one’s bodies, hut now they will probably see, it is more than impossible after realising the conditions of the fighting on tho Ypres Salient, yet although void, seemed still greater when no grave existed on which to lay n token of remembrance.

The Memorial fulfilled the object because they could now sav, he is not missing, hut is here. He recalled, how from Mon in Gate, King Albert led the Anglo-Bclgian armies in the final victorious advance.

Kin<; Albert, in an n<l<hess after tbe unveiling, said there is no ground in the world more snored than the salient, first, because thousands and then hundreds of thousands of Legions came to Flanders from (Britain and the Dominions determined to conquer or die. It ■was for this reason that Ypros, from the outset, Won me a most decisive corner in the war, and .secondly A'pres for fifty months was the Empire's threshold. It will for ever remain a ,symbol of British heroism and endurance. The memorial will perpetuate the heroes but their memory will always dweM in the hearts of the Belgian people.

EPIDEMIC AMONG AVOMEX. A'TENNA. July 11

Newly published figures reveal an extraordinary epidemic of female suicides in Austria. It has been ascertained that one woman in 300 between the ages of 10 and 20 either commit suicide or attempts to do so. Melancholia, unhappy love a flail's, and conflicts with views on the freedom of the modern flapper are severe, are given as the main causes. The limit was reached this week when n. servant girl, Id years of age. left a letter for her mistress in which she asked for “forgiveness for using up so much gas in ending a useless life.” What led to that girl taking her life was the fact that she had been reprimanded for forgetting to give a pet dog its meal. WOMAN SMOKERS. NEW YORK. July 12. Dr 0. H. Kress, Dean of the College of Medicine, University of California, speaking in New Brunswick, N.J., said that the woman cigarette smoker was not a home maker. “Her nervous system makes cigarettes especially attractive to woman, but the rapidly decreasing world birth rate is largely due to women smoking.’'