GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) DR VOROXOFF’S HOPES. VIENNA, Sept. 11. Dr Yoronoff, in the course of a lecture, appealed to mothers to assist with his experiments and allow him to - - operate on children of exceptional talents, thus enabling the founding of a new race of supermen. .'i; FRANCO-ITALTAN RELATIONS. LONDON, Sept. 12. The Daily News Paris correspondent r , says that Nardini’s murderer obtained an interview, declaring his witc was unable to join him, owing to the rigid Italian passport regulations, wherefore he sought advice. It is feared that the crime will further embitter France’s Italian relations, which are strained owing to frontier incidents. AL Poincare, in an effort to prevent increased tension, sent his Secretary to the Italian Embassy, to express profound regret, and instructed tho Ambassador at Rome similarly. MURDERER IN HOSPITAL. PARIS, Sept, 12. Nardini’s murderer was taken to the hospital, after a seizure, lit is believed that ho Is insane. He has not been identified. SOVIET CONTRACT.

BERLIN. Sept. 12. Defeating English and American rivals. the Otto Wolff steel firm secured a. million sterling contract with the Soviet Government to construct steel pipes for the great oil pipe line from Baku to Biitum, linking the Caspian and Black Seas.

Tho contract is based on thirty months’ credits.

AAIERTCAN LEGION PILGRIMAGE. LONDON, Sept, 12. The “Times” Paris correspondent states that preparations are being made for the entrainment of twenty thousand American ex-servicemen a.nd their families now approaching' France iu twenty liners to 1: ?!'! the annual is>u-wiili-Mi of the American Legion. 1 iv.nce is determined to honour them as fully as (the first Legionaries in 1917 erecting triumphal arches, decorating and illuminating the principal streets, and roofiing in the Court d’lnvalides, where the Government is giving an enormous ball. Inasmuch as the Legionaries announce that the visit is also a pilgrimage, the principal eeremonv will be a march to the Unknown Soldier’s tomb, for which the barriers of the Arch De Triompliane will be removed for the second time since tho Germans marched to Paris in 1870 ; the first being the Allied victory march in 1919. The Government realising the unique opportunity for touching the heart of America’s Middle-West, is fully realising that the situation is expel ted to appeal to the Legionaries to facilitate a settlement of FrancoAmerican finances.

GERMANY SALAIfV RISE. jA, BERLIN, Sept. 12. In a surprising announcement, Herr Koehler-(German Minister of Finance) states that he proposes to ask the Reichstag in October to increase all the Government employees’ salaries bv amounts ranging from eighteen to thirty-three per cent, instead of the previously proposed ten per cent. It is calculated that the extra cost to the State will amount to £7,650,000 sterling per annum. Business men are protesting that this increase is sure to start a- vicious circle, and to cause the clerical and manual workers of the private industrial employers to demand increases, ! thus resulting in a rise in the cost of necessities.

L-OAN FOR. GREECE. LONDON, Sept. 12. The League of Nations Financial Committee recommends a loan of nine millions sterling to Greece, to be guaranteed by Greece’s estimated revenue of five millions, and to he controlled by au International Finance Commission at Athens. Greece undertakes to stabilise her currency, to balance her budget, and to reform her treasury. BALLOON RACE. NEW YORK, Sept. 12. A Detroit message states that all' . the balloons are down. The indications are that the United States entry, Detroit, is the winner, having landed in Georgia, a few miles farther than any other. GREYHOUND RACING. LONDON, Sept. ,12. Tho craze for greyhound racing is so spreading in England that a Company has been formed to tour the country with a portable dog racing track, including an electricity plant for the running hare, and a grand stand. It will stay in smallers towns for one day, and in the bigger centres for a week.