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Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 13 October 1919, Page 3

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NEWS IN BRIEF. London, October 8. Admiral Lord Beatty is to succeed Admiral AVemyss as First Sea Lord. Tlic Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress discussed the report of the Conciliation Committee in the recent strike and decided to appoint a sub-committee to consider creating emergency machinery to intervene immediately in order to prevent big strikes. Berlin, October 9. Herr Haase was only slightly wounded. The attack was not made from political motives, but to draw attention to the assailant’s complaints regarding a fraud over a Prussian State lottery. The assailant states he did not intend to kill Haase.. Copenhagen, October 9. The Ukranian Press Bureau reports that heavy fighting is proceeding, and Denikcn’s advance westward is held up. The Bureau alleges that Dcniken hrst attacked the Ukranians. London, October 8. Air Balfour has notified Air Lloyd George that he wishes to retire as soon as possible. Lord Curzon will succeed him at the Foreign Oflice. Lord Milner is likely to leave the Colonial Oltice when he commences the Egyptian enquiry. Paris, October S. The Surgical Conference has discussed Professor A'oiouofl' ’s experiments. A’oronolf declared that we were coming to the realisation of the dream of scientists of all ages—the prolongation of life, with the restoration of youth at the approach of aga. He claimed that his old goats frisked like kills, and added that he had already succeeded in grafting glands from monkeys upon human beings.