LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 26 March 1932, Page 6

LATE CABLE NEWS

THE TELE-GIRAFFES.

WHY POLES ARE MADE HIGHER

NAIROBI (Kenya), March 21

The first big telephone trunk line in East Africa was opened by the Governor of Kenya, Sir Joseph Byrne. The new service will link Nairobi with Mombasa and Dar-es-Salaam, the capital of Tanganyika, a distance of about GOO miles-

Because of frequent telegraph breakdowns due to giraffes carrying away the wires, the poles carrying the new line have been made much higher than Is usual.

BABY IN PRISON CELL. JUDGE’S HUMANE ORDER LONDON, March 21. Mr Justice Swift, at Liverpool Assizes, ordered that a teu-wceks’-old baby should he taken the cells to its mother, who was awaiting trial. “I am tol } d,” he said, “that the woman wants her baby, and the baby wants its mother still more. Let the baby he taken to its mother. They are not totobe parted without an order from me.”

“WEAKENS THE RACE.”

MUSSOLINI AGAINST SLIMMING

ROMM, March 10,

Signor Mussolini, the Italian Prime Minister, attacked the fashion among wornent of “reducing” when lie addressed the Fascist doctors’ congress. The speech was made a fortnight ago, hut lias only now been published. Mussolini said that it was the bounden duty of doctors to correct tendencies brought about by fashion prejudices such as “reducing” which were bound to weaken the race and have repercussions in the social sphere. lie denied that motherhood spoiled woman’s beauty. On the contrary, it inhanced it. 110 thought, however, that the modern way of eating, clothing and sleeping cried aloud lor reform.