LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1930, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS

GREAT DEEDS. WRONG SENSE OF PROPORTION? LONDON, August 22. The fear which is felt by Fascist leaders that official encouragement of sport may be over-reaching itself was expressed omcially by Signor Tursti in an address to Italian representatives at the Olympic Games, says the Rome correspondent of the “Times.” “While .grateful,” .hie said, “to champions for their successes in games, where Italy a. short time ago was inferior, Fascist students refuse to define their achievement as heroic, and react against those hyperboles which wrongly transform. the winners of athletic competitions into deities. Fascists realise that the stature of heroes is that consecrated by great deeds prepared in vigils of the spirit, and that the worthiest prize is conquered through hard discipline in study and learning, from which champions return to their occupations without the playing of trumpets and without. rhetorical fanfares.”

Italian newspapers approve of the address, declaring that the present

movement for physical regeneration must not be allowed tp obstruct the

intellectual activity of the race.

RUSSIA’S BIBLES. TO BE SCRAPPED FOR PAPER. BERLIN, August 22. Owing to the crisis in the paper industry in Russia, the Soviet has ordered all persons to hand over Bibles and prayer-books for conversion into paper for journals and newspapers.

CIGARETTE’S DAY. INCREASE IN AMERICA. NEW YORK, August 22. Cigarette consumption is increasing steadily in the United Stiffs at the expense of cigars and pipes. The earnings of the four largest tobacco companies this year promise to reach £20,000,000 double those of nine years ago. RED ARMADA. TO CONQUER. FROZEN RIVERS, LONDON, August 21, A convoy of 50 vessels, of an aggregate tonnage of 200,003 tons, from British ports, and commanded by John Rekstin, a Russian* is assembling at Harstad (Norway) on the way to Siberia. ■ The expedition is to be met in the Kara Sea by two powerful ice-breakers prepared to clear the way to the mouths of the Gbi and Yenisei Rivers and also by two hydroplanes to pick out the easiest routes. The steamers carry iron, steel, machinery, and clothing, and are to bring back timber, hides, wool, butter, fish nncl other Siberian products, sometimes sent from 20C0 miles up the rivers. Part of the convoy is going to Nov.vport, 500 miles up the Obi, and part to Igarka, 850 miles up the Yenisei, ’

MRS DUDLEY COATS. (MILLIONAIRE HUSBAND. LONDON, Aug. 18. Mrs Dudley Coats was hunted by an inquisitive crowd in motor cars when her wedding was celebrated today. Mrs Coats ih a friend of the Prince of Wales. Her first husband, a member of the noted cotton family, died in 1927, and she has now married Mr Marshall Field, aged 36, a Chicago multi-millionaire, nephew of the Countess Beatty, and the divorced husband of Evelyn Field. For the fiist ceremony a.t the Marylebone Registry Office, at S a.m., there were no flowers and no decorations. Tliie bride wfore a simple two-piece costume, white shoes and stockings. Afterwards the bridal {air slipped out by a side door, secured a taxi cab, dodged a party of photographers, and rejoined their friends. The second ceremony was performed at St. Etbelburgha’s, the entrance to which was blocked by flowers, necessitating the removal in a van of hundreds of blooms before the bridal party arrived. The bride now wore a picture hat and a pale blue chiffon gown, while the bridegroom bad changed Ids lounge suit and soft felt hat for morning dress. The honeymoon will be spent in aeroplauing and big game hunting in Africa.