GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) SIR 0. LODGE’S LATEST. LONDON, March 31. Sir Oliver Lodge kept an audience of University men, representative of all England, almost spell-bound at Oxford by his declaration that the human' race is only in its infancy, and that.. it is not yet properly civilized. lie said We know barely any-' thing. The fact is we are just begin- • ning to scrape around in an endeavour' to advance, and we are making many 1 mistakes. Those who are depressed by:" the, immediate outlook should re a line* ’ that it is natural that a race in it* * infancy would behave badly, starting wars and trying to destroy each other.”

He urged the cultivation of a spirit of international amity, and quoted from a .schoolboy’s essay on war as follows:—“tn modern' t.iiues, war is not to see tlie enemy, but to fire _pff ritles all day long, and sometimes get bit. Then in the evening you buy a newspaper to find who' has been beaten.” Sir Oliver Lodge said that dropping; bombs on everybody, with submarines; crawling about sinking fishing boats; were no occupation for gentlenwu.. A REMARKABLE RECOVERY: LONDON, April 1. A remarkable instance of a supposed! corpse coming to life is reported front, a mortuary at Penartli. George Ellisi was given up for dead, following air operation to his knee. He was taken*, to the mortuary, where he suddenly' awoke, and found himself surrounded', by dead bodies. Two attendants bearing another body, entered just as Ellis called out. They promptly dropped the stretcher and bolted. Ellis was taken to the hospital. It ' appears that he had fallen into a trance when his heart ceased to show signs of activity. A remarkable operation was later performed to his knee joint, another man’s amputated leg being dovetailed into Ellis’s with complete success. BRITAIN AND EGYPT. LONDON, April 1. The British Government has received Egypt’s reply to the filial British note, which followed on Egypt’s rejection ol the 1927 treaty. Egypt., in her reply, protests against Britain’s: so-called interference with Egypt’s internal affairs. Egypt also declares, that she is willing to ensure the safetyof foreigners. The reply, however,, ignores the 1922 declaration containing, four reserved points. It also ignores: Britain’s note to the Powers, by which: Britain undertook to suleguard ioroigiu interests in Egypt. It is now officially declared that. Egypt intends strictly to observe* her responsibilites under claration, including the protection of. foreigners. POLAND AND LITHUANIA. ROENISBERG, March 31. The Polish-Lithuanian Conference here (cabled on March 29) has opened. The Polish Foreign Minister, M. Zaleski. expressed joy at seeing delegates: from Poland and Lithuania together. Ho said: “Let us get to work, full of confidence that we will succeed.” The conference adopted rules of pro- >+ ccdure, after which a reception waa. given by the Prussian authorities, tint* guests including fifty journalists. BELGIUM’S FAMOUS UNIVERSITY. BRUSSELS. March 13. An indignant outburst by a War Veterans Patriotic Society lias been registered against the Louvain University’s proposal to delete tlie destroyed University’s full relations with Louvain. I BRITISH BUDGET. f LONDON, March 31. Tlie year’s revenue was £742.824.000 compared with £803.701.000 last year. The expenditure was £835.555,000 compared with £842,494.000. a surplus of £4.239,000.