GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 156, 29 March 1926, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

Bt Telegraph.—Prlbs Association. Copyright. A treaty of alliance between Rumania and Poland has been signed. Thirteen Russians, including three military instructors, have been arrested in Canton and deported. Several strike leaders have also been arrested.—Reuter. Sir Thomas Lipton is going America' this week (states a London cablegram). He intends to build a yacht to be called Shamrock V, and will issue a challenge for a race for the America Cup in 1927. He says that he will keep at it till he wins the cup. Dr Abbott, of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, United States of America, after a long investigation, including Algeria and Baluchistan, has definitelv decided upon Beersheba, in South-West Africa, as the site for a new solar observatory, from which American scientists will study the variations in the sun’s heat with a view of improving weather forecasts. -The African observatory will co-operate with others in Chile and California. —Reuter. The French legislation against babies’ dummies has aroused vigorous discussion on the merits of comforters, states a London report. Miss Olga Nethersole, the actress, founder of the People’s League of Health, urges that many mothers put the dummies in their own months before giving them to their children, thereby often causing tuberculosis. The New Health Society objects to dummies, but the National Baby Week Council urges that it is futile to introduce legislation, as if dummies are forbidden motheis will immediately improvise an alternative.

Ater years of poverty, a Gloucester family are hoping for good news in answer to a cablegram sent to Aus tralia cn their behalf. It is stated that Eli Talbot, whose trade was that of a baker, left home, after which his wife and her four children was obliged to enter the workhouse. The wife was appointed last vear domestic help to the matron. While tidying the matron 6 room she noticed an advertisement in a local paper stating that Eli Talbot was dead, and asking for information re garding his wife and children, winch would be to their- advantage, rhe address given was in Perth, ,where in quiries were promptly directed.