GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1927, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

(Bv Telegraph—Per Press Association.' INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS. LONDON, Sopt. 29. Useful data was obtained at the London County mental hospital from experiments in treating for general paralysis of the insane. A colony of malaria infected mosquitoes was bred in a gunze-protected building wherein paralysis patients were exposed to the insects. From the bites they thus contracted malaria naturally, instead of artificially and infected by direct blood methods. Out of 45 cases wherein the malaria condition was thus induced nine were discharged recovered, thirteen markedly improved, while ten failed to improve. Five of the- patients died. Others are still being treated. Leading European specialists arc personally interesting themselves in the experiment. THEATRE STAR SALARIES. LONDON, Sept. 29. Enormous salaries demanded by theatrical stars are the centre of controversy. A(a angers J. L. Sacks and Herbert Clayton say it is entirely disproportionate to the prices of seats and the theatres capacity to pay £3OO to £-100 a week. To shorten runs would upset the financial balance of artists, authors and managers. The public suffer as admission must remain high. They have no objection to £l5O weekly. Beyond that is impossible. Evelyn Large, one of the highestpaid artists says: “You sell your goods at the highest possible price. Sacks offered me £350 a week for i new play, but I am considering an offer from America.”

In reply fio this Sacks said: “I told Evelyn if she can get £6OO a week from America to take it. London can’t afford itJ ’Whenever I consider an unknown star from America, the first thing is to cable a thousand dollars a week. It is rendering running theatres impossible.” OLD AGE PENSION SCHEME. VANCOUVER, Sept. 29. Old ago pensions are now effective in British Columbia which is the first province to participate in the nationa 1 . plan. The Canadian Government pays half tho benefit. Recipients must be seventy years of ago, and British subjects with twenty years residence in Canada, and five years resident in British Columbia. 'flic maximum payable is two hundred and forty dollars annually, rediic-able accordingly when the income is ono hundred and twenty-five up. Two centenarians will benefit. The census shows thirteen thousand people are over seventy years in the province.

GREEK PLOT. ATHENS, Sept. 30. General Pangalos’s son has been arrested, and warrants have been issued against Madame Pangalos and a number of officers. This is tho result of an inquiry into the latest plot by the supporters of the cx-Dictntor, who are alleged to have planned to begin a reign of terror by assassinating leading politicians.

SOVIET PLANS. LONDON, Sept. 29. The “Times” Riga corespondent says: The Soviet has instructed tho various Communist organisations to utilise to the utmost the celebration of ttie tenth anniversary to produce a Bolshevik revival, raising the Soviet’s prestige among the masses in Russia and abroad. Great sums have been allotted to agitation demonstrations abroad, especially in European. Asiatic and American centres during tho next two months, showing Bolshevik achievements. Travelling -exhibitions will visit Berlin, Paris, Vienna. Prague, Berne, Athens, Constantinople, Angora, Teheran, Tokio, Stock : holm, Chicago and New York, where experienced agitators will expound Bolshevism in the guise of lectures. In explaining the project, the Soviet paper “ Isvestia ” says, fourteen hundred foreign guests are expected, and will lie entertained for three weeks in -Moscow and Leningrad, and on a tour of the country. They will include sixty British, sixty Germans, thirty French, fifty Americans, and Indians, Chinese, Egyptians and anti-imperial-ists throughout the world.

SPANISH AFFAIRS. LONDON, Sept. 30

The usual mystery and secrecy, where Spanish affairs are concerned, surrounds a meeting of Sir Austen Chamberlain and General l’rimo de Rivera (Director of Spain) at Barcelona. The Spanish press is forbidden to allude to it.

One mischievous report from the Continent suggests Sir Austen Chamberlain is using his holiday to promote a Mediterranean Entente, comprising Britain, Italy, Spain and Greece, as a counterpoise to the Little Entente of Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, and Roumania, under the aegis of France, with Poland for an ally; but it is believed in London that tbe subject of the discussion will be Tangier.

The “ Daily Express ” maintains that the Spanish censorship is also suppressing the truth about the National Assembly, which is due to meet on October 10th. It says it is understood the nominating bodies are most reluctant to send representatives.

A MADMAN’S TRAGEDY. PARIS, Sept. 30. The strangest murder in history of the Latin quarter was committed in the apartments of a rich Venezulan lawyer, Fricens, aged 27, the victim being Marguerite Gallior, aged 19. Fricens, it is alleged, made a statement that lie had an order from God to purify the world. “I asked Marguerite did she believe in God, and she replied in the negative and God directed me to make an example of her. I decided to burn her so set the curtains afire but God extinguished the flames so I first strangled her and then cut her throat.”

BRITAIN’S TRADE. LONDON, Sept. 29. “Britain is still buying too much and selling too little,” said Mr Gilbert Vyle, when presiding at tlie Chamber of Commerce Association’s meeting at Liverpool. He pointed out that the exports during the last eight months fell by seventy-eight million sterling, and the imports by sixty-seven million million sterling, compared with 1925 Mr Vyle admitted that the recent figures were improving. More manufacturing contracts had been placed in Britain but the National Debt bad increased by fifty-two million sterling in six months. The national expenditure had increased continually since 1923. The years of promise bad not been fulfilled'. “It almost appears,” he said, ‘that we are so heavily waterlogged by crushing taxation that we have lost buoyancy.” He regretted the threatened abolition of the Overseas Department, which the Chambers of Commerce and all Similar organisations were elide." Touring to avert. Mr Vyle added that Mr Baldwin had not. yet definitely replied to the request to reinstate the Overseas Department. Such an attitude certainly was most harmful to the Department and to business men.