GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1927, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

/Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) DISESTA BUSH AI ENT 111 NTEi). LONDON, Dec. 23. The Archbishops’ hint at disestablishment as a possible rejoinder to interference by the State is regarded •ns significant. The “ .Morning l’ost, 1 ’ however, expresses the opinion that nothing has .yet happened, or is likely to happen, to precipitate such a conflict between the Church’s duty to God and its duty •to man as might impose the choice of •freedom with all its risks. On the contrary, it says that the debates in Parliament revealed attachment to the •Christian faith, and the Protestant form of it, which lends voice to the Church’s Stow power,-' -wgml should encourage her in pursuing those ends which transcend mere doctrinal differences. MOTOR CRASHES INTO EXPRESS. PARIS, Dec. 27. An express, at a. level crossing near Chinon, crashed into a car occupied by it Frenchman, his son. wife and daughter and a friend. The last named three were cashed to death and the father was seriously injured. His son had a miraculous escape, being thrown forward on the track and landed in the middle of the metals. He had the presence of mind to lie flat till the train passed, and had only a few scratches.

JAP ADMIRAL’S SUICIDE. (Received this day at 0.30 n.m). TOKIO. Dec. 27. Not since General Nogi committed harikari in 1902 has the act of ceremonial suicide among higher classes so deeply stirred the nation as that of Commander Missuki, of the cruiser, Jintsu, which in August last struck and sank a. destroyer with the loss of a, hundred lives. The act was committed on the eve of the delivery of the verdict of the court martial. Alikuki deliberately cut his throat with a razor, standing before a mirror dressed in ceremonial costume, while his wife and children were within earshot. His wife brought in the children who paid homage to their father as a hero. Then she informed a lawyer.

Newspapers editorially extol the sui'(■ide ns a noble act, exemplary of self immolation, which will undoubtedly raise the standard of the national sense responsibility. Irrespective of the verdict, which, under the circumstances, will never he published, it is authoritatively assorted he was-not guilty. Okado (Minister of the Navy) and other admirals and fellow officers laud Mizuki as loyal to the cause of his Imperial Master and the State.

RUSSIAN “BRAIN PANTHEON.’’ MOSCOW, Dec. 23. The Russian psychiatrist Professor I!akhterev, who recently founded the Lenin “brain pantheon” for the collection and study of the brains of -eminent men. died suddenly from heart failure. His brain was bequeathed to the pantheon. THREE BODIES DISCOVERED. LONDON, Dec. 27. The bodies of three Glasgow firemen have been discovered in a corner of tJie .rained warehouse. GIFT TO HOSPITAL. LONDON, Dec. 23. Air George Eastman, the manufacturer of kodaks, has transferred .■£200,000 to the trustees of the Royal Ji’eo Hospital, completing a gift for dental clinic work, which will he commenced shortly. ATTfTUDK OF FRANCE. PARTS, Dec. 23. In winding up the Budget debate, At. Poincare, Qic Premier, identified himself with Hie statement of M. Dubois, ex-Presideut of the Reparations Commission, lo the cllect that, the total of the Herman reparations debt fixed by the Reparations Commission :at 132,000,000,000 gold marks at their value of 1921, was definitely unmodifisvble.

Berlin messages say that t!ie .speeches of MM. Dubois and Poincare created a. wave of bitterness, rudely disturbing the peace of Christaiastide ■and are regarded as a reply to Mr Parker Gilbert’s suggestion that the total of German reparations debts .should be decided.

The “TagozcitTing” asserts that the Dawes Plan was intentionally experimental, and that M. Poincare’s rigidity is inspired by a desire for vengeance and a determination to destroy Germany.