GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Telegraph—Per Pfess Association.^

HONOURING THE UNKNOWN. PARIS, Sept. 18. A hundred generals and two Cnrdinals participated in the inauguration f at Houaumont of the Great Ossuary ' ;< K to commemorate the heroic defence of Verdun, where the bodies of fifty unknown soldiers are deposited therein, after which M. Retain lighted the perpetual flame in remembrance. AI. Petain in his addresse, revealed the fact that the Verdun inferno was so frightful that each written order was repeated ten times to ensure one iri ten getting through. WIRELESS BANNED. ROME, Sept. 18. Presumably owing to the preponderance of operettas and jazz programmes. the Archbishop of ATilan has banned wireless for his priests . who .. are demolishing their sets, but they - ( are protesting that they thus lose only relaxation of their lonely lives. Others are pointing out that His Holiness the Pope is devoted to wire- f less, of which he possesses expert knowledge and operates his own set.

“A PLAIN PRIEST.” ROAIE, Sept. 18. “T feel iny end approaching and I wish to die humbly without pomp as . a plain priest,” said the year old French Cardinal Billot. Per- -\ sonally lie told the Pope when resign- \ ing the Cardinalate. This is only tbo second case of the kind in the (history of the church. Billot placed flic triplo tiara on the Pope’s head at ’.he time of the latter's coronation.

HINDENB ERG’S BIRTH DAY. BERLIN, Sept. 18. President Ilindenourg celebrated Ids 80tli birthday by unveiling a typically nmsisve war memorial on the site of the Battle of Tauneburg, where thirteen years ago he stemmed the Russian avalanche. In his unveiling J speech the President said:—“On this spot t solemnly repudiate German responsibility for the Great AVar. Neither envy, hate nor lust drove us to mtsheatli the sword, hut it was the preservation of our existence from a host of enemies. AYe entered the war with pure hearts and waged it with clean hands.”

DEALING WITH COAIMUNISTS. BASLE, Sept. 18. Twenty-three Italian Communists were arrested, all without passports and sentenced to two years imprisonment and five years expulsion from Switzerland. It is believed they entered to evade Fascist capture.

GLOZEL TOAIB HOAX. LONDON, Sept. 18. The “Daily News’s” Paris correspondent says: If AI. Dussaul, the archaelogist, be correct in his deduction. a tremendous scientific hoax is exploded. AI. Dassaud told a secret meeting of the Academy of Inscriptions and Fine Arts that the Field of the Dead at Glozel, where supposedly authentic prehistoric objects have been found in tombs, was a fraud. The inscriptions, purporting to reveal the world’s oldest alphabet, were/' faked, and the drawings of animals ) were quite rerent. Possibly they were done by schoolboys. The 1 Mines of animals found were the remains of modern cows. The. Glozel tombs were discovered in 1924. and they contained two hundred objects, which, it was supposed were associated with prehistoric man, the eeriest of these beihg the imprints of hands on' an inscription tablet in one of the. tombs.

Al. Dussnud asserts • that the . discoveries were clumsily fabricated by modern persons. *

PATENTS FDR ’ BERLIN, Sept. Tlie International Hereditary Congress is establishing a commission to / ' frame a patent law protecting tlie breeders of new varieties of animals and vegetables.

GERAIAN DEMAND. BERLIN, Sept. 19. ■At the annual meeting of the Colonial Association, which has a membership of twenty thousand, the customary resolutions demanding the return of the German colonies were carried, and a significant speech was made by Professor Henning upon the exploitation of the League of Nations for • German Colonial needs. He insisted y—~tliat Germany held the best trumps-*' in the negotiations at Geneva, and that it was unpardonable if she ciid. not use them. She could direct annihilating criticism at Geneva, on the way that many of the mandates were administered. “If the Aland ato ry Powers treat German Colonies as tlieir own possessions.” he said “then Germany is entitled to have the value of her colonies credited to her against the Reparations.” Another speaker said that it was the bitter truth that Germany would never get her colonies again until she was able to throw the weight of her power into scale. A f MONKEY GLANDS. VIENNA, Sept. G. Voronoff,- asked by an interviewer why considerably more men than women come to hint for the rejuvenation operation, said his opinion was that men’s activities in business use up more vitality. To date lie has operated on about 1000 people scattered through most of the big cities of Europe. The effects have been remarkable, and include new growth of hair, return of an elastic step, improved sleeping, better appetite, and even a mental re- f vivr 1 .

Tne lowest fee for an operation is £l7O, but Al. Voronoff hopes to see rejuvenation made available soon to all classes. The great difficulty at present, is in securing glands. For this reason he lias established a monkey farm, where chimpanzees are bred systematically.

SCIENCE AND SPIR.TTUALISAI. LONDON, Sept. 6. Spiritualism for the first time was the subject of discussion at the British Association when Dr Mitchell lectured in the pyehology section on the “ Phenomena of the Spiritualistic Trance.” W “The bare statement that knowledge is sometimes acquired in a supernormal manner,” he said, “is, in my opinion, a statement of fact which men of science can "Sp longer neglect^ “AYe may have to revise our notions of what being dead implies. “We mat’ have to conceive the mind of a dead person as persisting in some form, permitting it to be still available as the source of super-normal\y acquired knowledge.” VProfessor Ridley, speaking in the zoology section, declared: “Apes were the first community singers. Tlieir songs to sunrise are famous. The notes they utter run up and down the scale perfectly and to hear them singing in unison across a vall‘y is a weird experience.”

DINNER TO PARR. LONDON, Sept. 19. The Free State Government is giving a dinner to Sir J. Parr in Dublin on Sept. 29th. when he launches the motor ship Alaui Pomare for the Pacific fruit trade. Dublin Dockyard Company alsq entertajfis him,