GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

Australian Press Assn.—United Service

COMMONWEALTH LOAN

LONDON, July 17

The “Daily Express” states the Commonwealth loan was considerably under-subscribed. It is rumoured the underwriters expect to take9o percent.

BELGIAN FEELING BRUSSELS, July 17. * After witnessing the annual processions „o the cemetery of the widows anj orphans of the Louvain men who were shot ill 1914, M- Felix Morren, the foreman in charge of the reconstruction of the University Library, ascended the roof with a sledge-ham-mer an demolished the new inscriptionless balcony (which a cable on June 29th. last stated was obnoxious to the Belgians, as the proposed inscription was not that which the late Cardinal Mercier suggested, indicative of tho destruction of the University by the Germans). When ho was arrested, the foreman Morren, told the Public Prosecutor Af that he considered he had been wrong ▼ in helping to rebuild the balcony. Ho added: “The Germans have led us a pretty dance. That balcony meant our forgetting, all 1”

empire trade. Australian Press Assn.—United Servioe (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, July 17. ' The report of the Empire Marketing Board claims the new work lias definitely increased the sale of particular Empire commodities. Upon the basis of price levels of 1920, the value of imports into the United Kingdom ex Empire rose 'from £386,000,000 in 1924, to £420,000,000 in 1927, an increase of 9 per cent for the period, wherein the population increased 1J per cent. A t

grant was made for an examination board to be established at a central laboratory of.the Imperial Bureau of Entomology at Buckinghamshire, which is called the Parasite Zoo. Here parasites are bred which destroy insects. Already parasites of the blow-fly have been shipped to Australia and New Zealand. Valuable work was done in checking wastage of cargoes of Empire fruit during transit. The progress of the Empire shopping week demonstrations and Empire kitchen showed satisfactory progress.

MISSING GIRL SAFE. PARIS, July 17. The police state Anderson reported bis daughter Sylvia was missing on tho 14tli but he forgot to notify her subsequent return.

SHIPBUILDING RETURNS. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 17. The continued progress of internal combustion engines is indicated in Lloyd’s shipbuilding returns for the quarter ending 30th June, not only by the fact that one and a half million tons of motor ships are being constructed throughout tile world compared with 1.139,000 tons steamers, but tlie constructing includes sixtyfive motor ships of eight thousand tons and up wands contrasted with twenty-onci steamers of a similar size. The total construction in British shipyards at present.is 1,203,000 tons, representing a reduction of 238,000 tons compared with the previous quarter.

Britain is now producing forty-five per cent of the world’s ships against fiftyseven pre-war.

PROPOSED FARMERS’ TOUR, '“cceived this dav at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 17. Sir James Parr, presiding at a gathering of New Zealand farmers, which after hearing of the ban on the. Empire Farmers’ proposed 1929 Australian and New Zealand tour, passed a resolution suggesting the New Zealand Farmers’ Union should undertake tho initial work therewith.

AFRICAN POLITICS. CAPETOWN, July 17

The Premier, in an interview, declared he had nothing to do with the Labour Party split and would merely acknowledge l the receipt of the letter announcing the expulsion of Labour Ministers from the party. If a reconciliation were not effected, the Unionists would do everything possible to, prevent General Smuts winning tlie disputed seats, either l>y nomination of Nationalist candidates or indicating to the l Labour Party which section the Nationalists would support.

CANCER CONFERENCE. (Received this dav at 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, July 17. The Empire Cancer Conference, at which Bland Sutton is presiding, is attracting wide interest. The programme includes fifty papers, mostly British, French and American. .There are none from New Zealanders. To-day’s papers suggested that radiotherapy was probably the most successful in the early stages. - Donaldson (London Hospital) offered the opinion that insurances companies were in a position to afford the most useful co-operation bv offering special terms to clients who were niedically examined every six months, thereby ensuring the earliest diagnosis. Sir Gilbert Barling (Birmingham) suggested tobacco smoking as a possible explanation of the preponderance of certain types of cancer in males, compared with females. Professor Ewing (New York) said coal-tar products produced cancer with greater c.ertainty than any known irritant.

Archibald Leitch, said the fact that cancer is largely a disease.of the. middle-aged and the elderly, must not be attributed to the senility of the tissues. It has been been demotn- ! strated repeatedly on young and old animals that were subjected simultaneously to cancer inducing substances. At the outset tumour formations were simultaneous in .both cases. Elderly people were more subject to cancer, because longer lives provided a greater time for noxious agents to operate. Critical work in various parts of the world had destroyed the claims of Drs Gve and Darnard to have discovered a general cancer parasite. J. B. Murphy, of tlie Rockfeller Institute contended that no such parasite existed, and claimed to have found a malignant agent which produced malignant growth in fowls.