LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1929, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS

FIRST STRIKE. FACED BY LEAGUE OF NATIONS. GENEVA, September 22. The League of Nations is facing its first strike as a sequel to tlie incident between M. Carl Hambro, the Norwegian delegate, and M. Albert Thomas, the head of the International Labour Office, in which M. Thomas replying to criticism of the former, said that he would appeal to the Pope or the devil if he thought either would help the Labour Office. The members of the Budget Committee protested because a full account of the incident was not included in the official report. Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary-General of the League,' diplomatically explained that it was impossible to include it because the shorthand notes were incomplete and illegible. The explanation aroused indignation among the shorthand writers, who all are members either of the staffs of the House of Commons' or the French Chamber of Deputies. They met and decided to strike if the reflection on their work were not retracted. Sir Erie Drummond is now trying to soothe their ruffled feelings.

“CHRIST NOT DIVINE.” PROFESSOR CAUSES STIR. CAPETOWN, September 22. Intense interest is still manifested throughout the Union of South Africa, in tne heresy trial, before the Presbytery of the Dutch Reformed Church, of Profesor du Plessis, of the Theological College, Stellenbosch, on charges preferred by the curators of the college. These allege, first, that Professor du Plessis, in the theological journal which he edits, denies the inerrancy of the Scriptures in all their parts; second, that he accepts the standpoint of the higher criticism ; third, that he ascribes human limitations to Christ, particularly as regards omniscience; and fourth, that he'has raised controversial ' issues • lyitliout their prior submission tp the Synod of the Church. The trial, has been characterised by the extraordinary intensity of the prbseeutibn, aqd the prolonged and often acrimonious cross-examining of Professor du Plessis by his chief prosecutors, Revs. Snyman and Malan (the latter h brother of the Minister of Railways).''

FLYING “BLIND.” AMERICAN AOE’E FEAT. NEW YORK, September 23. Lieutenant Eoolittle, the American winner of the Schneider Trophy race in 1925, flying blind in a covered cockpit, took off at Mitchell Field, flew and landed a training ’plane safely. He was aiming to duplicate flying through fog. The flight was made possible by the use of four new instruments—a visual radio beacon, an artificial horizon, a directional gyroscope, and a sensitive barometric altimeter. Doolittle pulled a canvas tight over his head. The new altimeter is so sensitive that it registered the distance to the ground in feet.

A small beacon on the field sent out a radio beam. Controlled by this beam, two reeds on the ’plane’s instrument board vibrated in unison for me ’plane to keep on. its course. The artificial horizon indicated when the ’plane was flying right side up and level, while the gyroscope gave'warning of spin and “ground looping,” which is the swerving of a machine from a straight course when it Is about to land.

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LONDON, September 23

If a man is as old as he looks, then the Victorian Agent-General, at least in French eyes, is a mere boy, instead of the man of mature years that he is in reality. He has just returned from a visit to Villers-Bretonneux, where he attended the opening of the school, the cost of which was contributed by Victorian school children.

Mr Leitch, who spoke in French, was given an ovation by French journalists. An inaccurate report unwittingly paid a tribute to Mr Leitch’s youthful appearance. Mr Leitch said: “But for my age I might he lying in the cemetery among Australia’s unknown dead.” A reporter wrote : “Mr Leitch is too young to have known the horrors of war.”