GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)

SURGEON’S RETURN

LONDON, June 5.

Doctor Victor Bonney has arrived from Australia. He referred to Wie failure of the operation on Church at the inauguration of Gynaecological Association. He said in combination with technical success it was a deplorable tragedy. “1 was heart broken and nerve-shattered when 1 suddenly discovered the patient dead.” Ho explains he had given up half his year’s ‘income to go to the Dominions because he felt the real need of contact between the surgical profession and tho Old Country. “ I was pleased with the progress of operations despite tho combined gravity of strain of fifty pairs of critical eyes watching every movement. In every respect it was a model operation and every possible effort was made. I felt the hlow xterribly yet nothing was left undone.” He added tliat his New Zealand colleagues were wonderfully kind and sympathetic. They did not criticise and realised the fatality was unavoidable.

LONDON’S ESCAPE. LONDON, June 6

Captain Ernest Lehmann, Director of tho German air raids during the war, reveals that there was a plan that twenty Zeppelins were to strike London simultaneously by night. They were to drop six thousand bombs as the result of which it was calculated that London would have to com,'bat more than one thousand fires at the same time. No organisation on earth could light such a conflagration. It was estimated that onethird of tho Zeppelins would l>e shot down in flames, but then only after they had dropped their bombs on the city.

The plan was a feasible one, hut it was abandoned. This was because the ex-Ivaiser stipulated that such places as Buckingham Palace, "Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s Cathedral, and the residcntnl sections should not he bombed even by accident.

Captain Lehmann says: “I commanded the first Zeppelin to fly over England, and I know wliat the orders, were, and what it meant if I disobeyed them. The object, of the air raiding was to weaken tho enemy’s morale. hut, if anything, the British morale was strengthened by the Zeppelin raids.” t ARRESTS IN SOVIET. LONDON, June 5. Tho “Times’s” Riga correspondent reports that ICO persons, mainly officials, have been arrested at Rostoff, oil the River Don, for alleged financial abuses in the Donetz District. Those arrested include six Administrators. The President and the Secretary of the District Executive Committees are, in addition, charged with abusing their authority, also with discrediting the Soviet Government-and with organising assaults on women. -

THE ANGLICAN CONTROVERSY. LONDON, June 6.'

Tho new Prayer Book measure lias been introduced, into the House of Commons, where it was debated. Its fate will lie decided on June 13th and 14th. ..

ITALY’S PRINCIPLES DEFINED ROME, June 6.

Signor Mussolini referred in his speech to disarmament. Signor Mussolini said that Italy’s attitude was solidly founded on the following principles: First, that of the interdependence of every kind of armament; secondly, that the proportion of armaments should not ho based on tho status quo; thirdly, that the limitation of Italy’s armament should he on parity with that of the most heavily armed Continental nation; fourthly, that the Italian Government is disposed to assume as its limit of armament any flguro even the lowest, provided that such figure is not surpassed by any other Continental Power; fifthly that the method to obtain limitation should he one of extreme simplicity, and should imply the necessity for the control and supervision of armament limits from outside.

Signor Mussolini refuted allegations that Fascism is hostile to tbe League of Nations.

The speech ended in an ovation, the Senators rising and cheering.