BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 October 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

'Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) ADMIRAL DEAD. LONDON, Oct. 10. Obituary—Admiral Bickford, aged eighty-three. He saw service in China, ,(Japan, South America, and Middle East last century, also at Samoa, when he accepted the surrender of Mataafa and his chiefs. EXCUSE FOR PERSECUTION. PARIS, Sept. 30. Alarmist stories of bomb outrages on French railways are now .believed to be canards, manufactured for political purposes. Scepticism is encouraged, says a section of the Press, by the way in which these alleged-outrages are being used as an excuse for the persecution of Italian refugees in the Riviera. Recently the Minister for the Interior tmasted that he held the record for deportations.

It was announced that wholesale deportations of Italians are imminent and 23 have already been arrested on suspicion. As Italians are forbidden to leave Italy they had to escape without passports and are now at the mercy of tho French police, who can expel them at a moment’s notice, sending them hack to imprisonment or death in Italy, after labelling them Communists, often without the smallest justification.

HUMAN GLANDS. MONKEYS USELESS. BUDAPEST, Sept. 33. “Successful rejuvenation in a human being can only be anticipated by gland transplantation when the glands are transplanted from one human being into another.” So declares Professor Boris Sokoloff, tho Director of the Prague Cancer Research Institute, in a criticism of Dr Voronoff’s theory.

“If old age is due to exhaustion of tho glands as Dr Voronoff asserts, ’ he asks, “why is rejuvenation accomplished by the transplantation <4 glands only of temporary duration ? “Biologists are sceptical about the operation, which was attempted by others before Dr Voronoff.

“That the operation can only be successful when the gland is taken from a creature of the same species, is proved by the fact that the transplantation of glands from a white mouse into a grey mouse was completely successful, whereas the transplantation of the mouse’s glands into a rat was not.”