AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1928, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

—tr* ■ By Telegraph—l’ress Assn., Copyright. PATH 0 LOG I ST’S Di SCOV'FRY. OTTAWA lii. Dr Oertel, Director of the McGill Pathological institute, lias announced tho discovery of the presence of nerves in human cancers and other malignant tumours. Dr Oertel stated that this discovery shows that cancer is not an independent and self-contained growth, and points to a possible connection of cancerous growths with the nervous system.

ARMIR'A L PLUNKETT. NEW YORK, Feb. 10. Admiral Plunkett, who yesterday retired from active naval life, interviewed, said that President Wilson’s proposal for the freedom of the seas was the surest guarantee of international peace, but Britain had never accepted it. Competition in foreign markets was bound to bripg war, unless America was adequately prepared. Britain and other nations had violated the spirit of the Washington Treaty by building cruisys in excess of the o-C-3 ratio. The American programme was not an aggressive one, and no nation should be alarmed by it. American pacifism was foreign inspired, to lure tho United States into a false sense of security.

THE PAN-AMERICANS. HAVANA, Fel>. 10. The resignation of the Argentine delegate, Fuerrydon, as a protest against the failure to include a free trade declaration in the new PanAmerican Union Convention, and an impassioned speech by 51 r Hughes, exSecretary of State, that the United States would never he guilty of an act of aggression upon any Latin-Ameriean country, and would do everything in its power to avert international friction in future, again emphasised the spirit of revolt among Latin Americans in the present Conference. i..r Hughes declared that the United States sought nothing hut the prosperity, independence and friendship of all the American States. He supported a Mexican resolution declaring aggressive war illegal and providing that international disputes he settled by pacific means. FORD’S UTOPIA. NEW YORK, Feb. IG. Henry Ford, interviewed, pictured a future 'boundaryless United States ol the World, with inter-planetary communication. Women would he freed from household drudgery, as cooking would not be done at borne. Great Corporations would plough and s | l " for farmers, and parts of the body, when worn out, would be replaced like machinery. There would be un.ve.saM prohibition of liquor and tobacco. He said no one smoked now in the Fore industries.