GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 May 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

Australian Press Assn. —United Service IIUVTSLNf! THE BIBLE. . LONUON, A lav 13. Alexander -Nairn, Sir Qniller Couch, and T. A. Glover, public* orator of Cambridge University, are editing a new abridged edition of the Bible. Sir Qniller Couch says the present Bible is repellnnb as a book, owing to the system of double columns, margin references and numbered verses. People are no longer buying and reading it. Wo are considering reducing it to. a volume of nine hundred pages, dispensing with marginal notes arid numbered versos, retaining Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy, except the Genealogical trees, deleting most of the Leviticus Numbers, greatly reducing the Proverbs, .separating poetical from historical sections of Isaiah, merging the latter with Kings, excluding the Chronicles altogether, printing the Psalms of Jol> free of verse, and also retaining tlio whole New Testament except a few Epistles.

MR, GARVIN’S VIEWS. (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, May 13. Garvin, in the “Observer” after Sir A. Chamberlain’s speech on 10th. May. states there is no doubt the American plan for outlawry of war will l:o carried. France and other European and Asian friends ought to realise our Continental League Policy is unronditioiraHy subordinate to the fundamental principle of unambiguous Anglo-American friendship. In no possible contingency, could wo join anyone in hostilities against United States. 'I he first shot of such would dissolve the Empire. Kellogg’s plan is nowise inimical to the League. "We look to France to secure the success of the Six Power Pact. Any peace system with United States is far stronger than any other minus America. Wo can no more secure a world peace at Geneva without Washington than irrigate all the world’s deserts with n parish pump.

A BIG THEATRE MERGER LONDON, May 13

A weekly dispatch states negotiations are almost concluded for a merger between Gnumont Ltd. and a General Theatre Corporation, involving a capital exceeding £8,000,000. to contrail two* hundred theatres and music halls throughout the country. It will lie the largest cinema variety combine in Europe.

SOVIET .RUSSIA. L“ The Times ” Service.] LONDON, May 13. The “T'iintvs” Riga corrctynonUcnfc says Communist organisations insist that Moscow should confiscate a number of farms conducted by four mins’ communities in Central Provinces, subsisting on their own, labour. Since 1918, the Soviet originally granted the farms credit, as model establishments, and complain that the local Soviet refuse “to remove these blots. The nuns pray more than ever." They pray before the sowing and after the harvest they pray all the time.” Their religious influence on peasantry is nlJegcdly most harmful. '

The “Pravila” declares it is time 'to gi \le these 'counter revolutionary nests another shaking.

The Latvian nuthoifities arrested Lange, Secretary of the Soviet Military Attache at Riga, on charges of corrupting the Latvian soldiery. The Latvian captain and the lieutenant were also arrested.

The Soviet telegraphed to Calcutta railway strikers, 7,000 roubles, urging them to stand firm.

BIG HYDEO-ELECTRIQ. SCHEME , ■ FOR; EGA' i’T. OATRO. May 13. A British ofliccr. riming; war-time operations against Senussi. reported the discovery of :i vast deep depression in the Western Desert. After the war an examination confirmed that in the ■prch'iDiiit iniiinhalwtahile, uiftravcgdble desert, 250 miles •from Cairo, there is a huge dip as big as half inhabited Egypt, dropping to three hundred feet below the Mediterranean. The Government is considering one of the world’s most unusual hydro-electric schemes, admitting the waters of the .Mediterranean to the depression through 80 miles of conduits thereby generating at a nominal cost, all the electricity needed for light and power for the whole of Egypt. The scheme will cost £15,000,000.

RHEUMATIS.M. LONDON, May 11. The first line of defence against rheumatism, said Doctor Richard Llewellyn in an address at Bath to the Conference of Medical Authorities, is that the people should he trained

to resist weather changes. The people

needed hardening, and not coddling. i He recommended cold baths,, but said that sufferers might try alternating hot and cold applications. The municipalities should establish hot and cold showers.

Professor Vining, of Leeds University, denied that the whole removal of tonsils and adenoids was a preventive of rheumatism. He said rheumatism was due primarily to dietetic deficiencies. The first and foremost necessity was a'well-balanced food diet from hood.

A GERMAN INVENTION. LONDON. May 11

A second remarkable demonstration by the Opel Company recalling that cabled on April 13th. is fixed for Mny 17th. when a rocket aeroplane, piloted by Anton Raid), will he shot off at a speed of thirty-five miles hourly, from Frankfurt Aerodrome. Soon after Ralih will descend to earth by means of a pnrnchujte. While automatically opening, the parachute will he affixed to the aeroplane to assist it to return to earth. The pilot will be enclosed in a small cage of a long barrel-shaped rocket plane. During the flight Raah hopes to take a record of meteorological conditions at n height of 32,500- feet.

FENCING FATALITY. ' BRUSSELS. May 13

.Monsieur Noef, was killed in 1liO( final of the Belgian fencing championship.,. The button came off liis opponent's foil Made and pierced his chest six inches. ■ AT GENEVA. GENEVA, May 13. The Economic: Consultative Committee meeting on "May 14th will decide its own agenda judging by the items being discussed by the delegates in informal talks. Tt appears* the questions will probably include sugar and coal, with special reference to world production and distribution of agriculture. It is also likely to provide an opportunity for much argument in the latter question.

The French representatives to-day ,circularised delegations suggesting the Conference should concentrate on the examination of the organisation of 4ales and markets and the possibility of a universal co-operation and tho question of adjusting production to consumption.