MISCELLANEOUS

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 February 1920, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS

EUROPEAN GOODSINDIAN piTeference. (Australian aiid M.S3. Cable Association.) (Received this clay at 8.0 a.m.) ALLAHABAD,. Feb. 20- _ The Imperial Legislative Council debated the need for The preference system in India. " Sir George,, a member of the Yiy'o- - Council, moved for meiirol a committee to examine trade statistics ami give an opinion as to whether it wouTi be consistent with the Interests of India, to apply to the Indian Customs tariff a system of preference in favour of goods of European origin. He explained ins ieasdns fov raising this thorny And difficult question/" It wis because of the principle ol Imperial preference which bad recently been adopted by the United Kingdom that/the Government' desired a purely dispassionate view of the question; but if India accepted the principle" of Imperial preference excise duty on cotton, piece goods must be" totally abolished. After opposition by some of the Indian members, a committee was appointed. CHRISTIANS MASSACRED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. IS. In order to cloak their misdeeds Nationalist bands are in the Mar ash districts where Christians are being slaughtered in large numbers, regardless of age or sex. The Turks started the" outcry accusing the French and Armenians of similar atrocities. The Nationalists secured reinforcements in East Cilicia, aiming to clear out the French garrison and win over the Arabs with a panIt lamic propaganda. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY. FROGS IX THREE WEEKS. Australian and N.Z Gable Association.) Received this dav at 12.5 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 20. The grandson of the famous Huxley,' Julian Huxley, and another biologist, both of Oxford University, have made interest in y; experiments and discoveries concerning thyroid glands, a preparation from • which caused tadpoles to develop in three weeks instead of three months. When the experimenters imparted thyroid to the axolotla, a Mexican tadpole, which is only twice or thrice known in history, it developed into a sort of frog or salamander. Huxley's treatment brought a rapid, complete development with the addition of certain, joints unknown before. American, Danish and Czech biologists .have reached similar results, actually restoring the rudimentary . flatworin to youth. Huxley's latest is controlling frogs' sex by thyroid, obtain rag 90 per cent, of males at will. PEACE TREATY IGNORED. (Australian and N.Z Cable Association COPENHAGEN, Fob. L'O. The Russian Soviet protest to Norway against the Peace Treaty giving Norway Spitsbergen, and declares that the Treaty has no effect so far as Russia is concerned. ~ " LATER. Mi. Chamberlain addressing the Select Committee on the taxation of war wealth suggested that if the committee considered that taxation should be. imposed the Committee should draft !t mode lbill to give effect to the- conclusions that money must be raise! for reduction of the war debt. SUCKED INTO PIPE. BOY'S AWTUL EXPEIUEISCi. DRAWN INTO BATH Dl{Ai:s. At Ballavat a wonderful escape from • dru\vmn n r was experienced by diaries, Strickland, agzu 11, vhue Clitioiu Dowiing, aged id, had an almost equally sensational escape, says a Jdeiboumo paper, me two lads, with others, had been swimming in, ike Corporation iiatiis, and after they left the water the caretaker opened the outlet pipe, to empty the bas.u. Soon ;dtor lie had retired to. Ins, quarters several Lads re-entered the water, and v.iiile playing near tin, exit were surprised to .see Strickland disappear. The grating had been removed, and the suction had drawn mm into the pipe, which is only lGin. m diameter, and leads from a pit about 2it square sunk in the bottom of the bath. The depth at this point is Tit. Ihe next incident was that of G. Vawdrey, employed at the works of ivicLeod and Co., Lydiard Street. ite Heard calls for help coming from the rear of the premises, where there is a pit horn which the escape dram to > arroweo Creek runs. Clinging to the grating of this pit was the boy Strickland. " „ Vawdrey rescued him by removing the grating, and drove him'in a motor to the baths. Nothing of the incidnet had reached the caretaker until Vawdrey and the hoy Strickland arrived. Then the caretaker ran to the baths and he saw a lad standing near the exit pipe in three feet of water Iho boy was holding the hand of another lad who was wedged into the exit pipe, having been drawn in up to ins hips. With difficulty, the second boy, Bowling, was pulled out. He was suffering •from bruises and exhaustion, while Strickland, who. went 200 yards through the pipe, escaped with slight abrasions.