GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 November 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association^

AAIERY’S SPEECH

LONDON, Nov. 7.

The “Daily Express” states that, Mr Amery is the first Minister of the Crown to address an audience at five in the morning the latter hearing it at seven on the evening before- it was delivered. By a curious chance, tho only full sentence caught amidst the bad atmospherics, was one of tho most striking comments on the meaning of Empire ever made; “I shnlt return home without ever having left it, for during the forty thousand miles joumev, I have been under the British flag.” Crackling atmospherics swallowed up tbe remainder oE tho speech.

BRITISH COAL INDUSTRY

LONDON, Nov.- 7

Parliament’s three months’ holiday: ends on Tuesday and there are prospects of bustled debates and late sittings to deal with the heavy pin--gramme which must Hie completed by December 21, including the Unemployment Insurance Bill (revising benefits: on tbe lines advocated by the Blanesburgli Commission), Compulsory Films Hill, and possibly tbe revised Prayer Book.

Tbe condition of the coal mining industry is also likely to give rise to warm discussions. Labour is regarding this as a most serious matter.

FRANK HODGES’ PREDICTION. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 0. Frank Hodges, lecturing, declared:— Within a decade, no coal will be used Oil will have superseded it.

OBITUARY. LONDON, Nov. 7. Obituary.—Tbe archaeologist, Dux i/2 George Hogarth. LOST ACCOUNT. LONDON, Nov. 7. The “ Daliy News” says £37,000 irrevocably lost, is the decision of the Public Accounts Committee, which was: due to Britain on winding up the final’ repatriating Roumano-Polish CzeehoSloviakian prisoners. A Whitebait official forgot to send the account to Geneva, where officials failed to notice the omission wherefore the fund was wound up without Britain getting the money. CANCER RESEARCH. '

(Received this day at 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 0. Extensive investigations have been completed by Doctors .Uaran and ALoTcs-n worth on behalf of the Sydney Cancer Research Funds, in the United KingHum and Continent. Maran devoted special attention to radium treatment, while Alolesworth concentrated on X-rays and sit in aspects. Ho was specially impressed by remarkable worn at Breslau where tho skin hospital has two hundred beus and paid a part-time staff of twenty. Similarly at Zuricti there is a special hospital. Both are supported entirely by the State. Dr Alolesworth is of the opinion that Australia will have to face the question of abandoning the system of*voluntarily supported lionorarily staffed hospitals, though he does not advocate a full time staff. Ho extols the Continental system under which juniors do. routine work, but submit higher problems to the judgment of specialised heads, thus ensuring a continuity of research.

Alolesworth was not prepared to discuss Gye’s cancer findings, but said he had gathered Hie impression that Gve had east the whole of his theories into the molting pot, because previous deductions had been somewhat primitive.

EXPRESS STEAMER SERVICE. LONDON, 'Nov. 6. Laurence Wilders’ project for establishing an express service of trans-At-lantic steamers, cabled on 16th. Sept, becomes operative in 1930 and will maintain a daily service from Long Island to Southampton and Havre. The American shipping Board has been won over by experiments with model vessels and may grant a loan from a fund of twenty-five million sterling. Brown Bovero Company is sponsoring the project which is entitled “New York-Lon-don-Paris Steamship Coy.” otherwise, the Blue Ribbon Line. Vessels are being laid down immediately, costing £3,200,000 apiece and resembling huge destroyers. They will lie eight hundred feet long and 80 feet- wide, having 12 boilers super-heated steam.

VIEW OF “TIMES.” LONDON, Nov. 6. “The Times” in a leader, says: “The memorandum is <a formidable indictment of German finance. Germany has pursued a policy of TQc.kless extravagance since 1924, and its economic effects are visible in rising the costs of production and living; and the increased prices which result largely nullifies the benefits expected to accrue From a rationalisation of German industry. Really effective control of public expenditure, whether financed at home or from abroad is needed to ensure genuine economy and if Germany wishes to convince tlie world of her goodwill regarding her Treaty obligations, she must make a drastic change in her financial policy.”