LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 October 1930, Page 8

LATE CABLE NEWS

BISHOP’S ROMANCE. NURSED BY BRIDE-TO-BE. LONDON, October 3. Miss Enid White, who recently became engaged to Dr. Radford, Bishop of Goulburn, is a very charming, petite, young brunette. A representative of the “Sun” found her at the Church House, Westminster, pouring out tea for Dr. Radford, whose hands were swathed in bandages. The bishop has been. an omnivorous reader at the Church House library and has gone there every day for the last fortnight.- One day he sought a particularly heavy book, and was balancing! himself on the top step of the ladder which fell down. Miss White proved to be a most tender nurse.

TOWN PLANNING. AUSTRALIA FAR BEHIIND. LONDON, October 3. Sir Jjohn Sulman, the well-known town-planner, predicts more flat life for Sydney. He. told a “Sun” representative that the depression would force people to try to live more cheaply. “Sydney does not yet know what flat life means, compared with European conditions,” he added. “After a study of Dansh, Swedish and English garden cities and suburbs. I am compelled to regard Australia as being far behind in town-planning methods.” Sir John will sail for Australia in December with many new town-plan-ning ideas, which he is hopeful of introducing. AMERICA V. GERMANY £6,000,000 CLAIM. THE HAGUE, October 2. The 10 days,’ oratorical battle over the United States’ £6,000,000 claim against Germany for war-time sabotage in the United States has ended. Dr. Vonleninski, the German counsel, concluded his five-day speech, which sought to prove Germany’s innocence and irresponsibility for sabotage while the United States were still neutral. The German and American commissioners have now departed for Hamburg to Consider minor claims and endeavour to arrive at a decision regarding the Blacktown and Kingsland explosions. If they are unsuccessful they will submit the case to the umpire -who sat with them. FALSE LUNG. MODERN SURGERY MARVEL. CHICAGO, October 2. Frances McGahan, a young nurse, who is unable to breathe, owing to contraction of the chest muscles due oiiginally to infantile' paralysis, and who has been kept alive for twelve days by a mechanical lung, the latest device ofscience, was informed by her physicians: that barring complications she will ful-

ly recover. She had eight hours of normal sleep last night, and this morning ate a hearty, normal breakfast. Miss McGalnin lies in an aluminium cabinet, her head only being otuside, the vae uum in the cabinet being preserved by a tight rubber band round her neck. She converses freely with her doctors and nurses. Dials on the cabinet indicate the pressure being applied to her chest. For 10 minutes daily she is being taken out of the cabinet to give her a chance to practise breathing, and when any difficulty arises she is returned to the cabinet. Only two of these devices are being used in the United States, the other being in San Francisco.