LATE CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 18288, 30 May 1923, Page 8

LATE CABLES

Presa Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. MR R. M’KENNA. FRENCH PRESS CRITICISM. PARIS, May 29. (Received May 30, at 11.20 n.rn.) ‘Lo Journal ’ describes Mr R. M'Kcnna as fcho incarnation of the mercantile spirit and as the inspiror of Mr Lloyd Gcorgo when the latter contrasted the devastated regions of Franco with the devastation caused in England by unemployment. The paper regrets that Mr Baldwin has chosen a Chancellor who is likely to favor a policy of trade before reparations. —A. and N.Z. Cable. [Mr MTCenna has not assumed the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer, but it is expected that he will do so when he recovers from the severe illness from which he is suffering.] BRITAIN AND RUSSIA. SOVIET MINISTER’S NAIVE VIEWS. PARIS,,. May 29. ■ (Received May 30, at 10.15 a.m.) M. Radek, interviewed by the ‘ Matin’s ’ Berlin correspondent, said; “Wo have gone as far as possible in making concessions to England. Wo have forgone the question of prestige, for with a country and a people like ours there is none. We leave prestige to the British Foreign Office, which is largely composed of men who aro inveigling Poland to fight us. Their policy is to employ the Polish armies to turn us back from the East. Franco would not favor the plan, for when wo had swept over Poland and Germany we would be in the neighborhood of the French armies, and such proximity might lead to unpleasant friction.” —A. and N.Z. Cable. A BEERBOHM CARTOON. PRINCE OF WALES CARICATURED. LONDON, May 29. ! (Received May 30, at 9.55 a.m.) The ‘Daily Express’ protests against an extraordinai’y cartoon of the Prince of Wales in Mr Max Beerbohm’s exhibition at the Leicester Galleries. The Prince is ; represented as a wretched old man, white- ! haired, standing forlornly before a table 1 in a registry office, and looking disconso- 1 lately at bis bride, a woman dressed in j gaudy clothes. His suit of coarse worsted : hangs like a sack. The picture i.s entitled ‘Long Choosing: Beginning Late.’ Mr Bcerbobm adds an inscription, purporting to be an extract from a newspaper dated November, 1972, which reads; An interesting wedding was quietly celebrated at the registry office, when Mr Edward Windsor was‘united to Miss Flossie Pearson. The bridegroom, a,s many of our elder readers will recall, was'at one lime the well-known Heir Apparent to the late King George. Ho has for some time been in residence at Balmoral. The bride, who is still on ; the sunny side of forty, is the daughter i of his landlady. | The ‘ Express ’ comments ; “Mr Beerboll m as a rule is humorous, but in this cose his humor has deserted him. The public does not object to good-humored caricatures; but when one takes the Heir I Apparent to the Throne and lampoons him I it is doubtful whether the public will j relish the effort.”—A. and N.Z. Cable. THE SHEFFIELD SHIELD. MELBOURNE, May 30. (Received May 30, at 12.25 p.m.) The Cricket Association has resolved in favor of a conference between the present competing States to decide whether Queensland shall be admitted to the Sheffield Shield competition. MYSTERIOUS DEATHS OF HORSES. MELBOURNE, May 50. | (Received May 30, at 12.25 p.m.) | Haffey has been committed for trial on ! a charge or horse killing. It was stated that the accused had made a signed con- j Icssion admitting that lie had killed a 1 number of animals. He, however, pleaded not guilty. [ln connection with the recent mysterious deaths of horses, a man named Haffey was on March 23 arrested on a charge of shooting several horses.] A MEDICAL CASE. CLAIM FOR DAMAGES. BRISBANE, May 30. (Received May 30, at 12.20 p.m.) The Supremo Court is hearing a case in which Annie. Corcoran is claiming £2,500 as damages and £933 as expenses from Lillian Cooper, a qualified medical practitioner, for alleged negligence and unskilfulness during an operation which was performed at Mater Misoricordia Hospital in 1918, by allowing to remain in the abdomen a pair (or portion of a pair) of forceps. According to the evidence, owing to continued ‘ill-health, the plaintiff underwent a second operation in Newcastle Hospital in July, 1922, when Dr Nicksoa removed a pair of artery forceps from Corcoran’s bowels. Portion of the handle of one flange was missing, which might have fretted away, or the instrument might have been damaged before it was used. Dr Nickson stated that no one could find fault with the operation performed by the defendant, according to the hospital records, wliich showed that every care had been taken. The defence was a general denial of negligence or unskilfulness. Dr Cooper, who has had thirty years’ operating experience, gave evidence to the effect that the nurses who assisted in the operation wero capable and exceedingly careful, and be declared that it was impossible that the forceps could have been left in the cavity at the time of the operation. Counsel for the defence stated that evidence would ho forthcoming that the forceps produced had never been in the Mater Misericordia Hospital. an ecumenical council TO BE HELD IN 1925. ROME, May 29. (Received May 30, at 12.5 p.m.) It is stated that the Pope intends to mark the holy year (1925) of the Roman Catholic Church by convoking an Ecumenical Council. This council will be a continuation of the Vatican Council of 1870, wliich was interrupted by political events, and whoso labors were never really concluded. It is expected that nearly all the prelates of the Roman Catholic world will make a pilgrimage to Rome. Tho council will last for several months.—A. and N.Z. Cable. WILHELM’S LATEST PERFORMANCE. LONDON, May 29. (Received May 30, at 12.30 p.m.) The ‘ Daily Mail's ’ Berlin correspondent states: ‘‘The ex-Kaiser’s latest achievement is a complete and elaborate introduction to the Bible, which has been submitted to the Synod of the Evangelical Church to dccido on tho matter of publication.” —-A. and N.Z. Cable. RUHR MINERS’ WAGES. BERLIN, May 29. (Received May 39, at. 12.30 p.m.) An agreement has been reached by the employers and miners by which the Ruhr miners’ wages will bo increased by 55 per cent., to meet the increased cost of living.—Reuter.