MISCELLANEOUS CABLE

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 February 1930, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS CABLE

PREVENTION OF WAR LONDON, January 30. “Some embargo, so obviously effective that no nation dare attempt mobilisation, is necessary to prevent wars, said Sir Thomas Holland, rector of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, lecturing at Edinburgh. “Such a scheme would be that the signatories of the Kellog-Briand Pact should prohibit the export of mineral products to any nation violating the treaty. “No single nation,” continued Sir Thomas, “was self-sufficient in the varied mineral resources required in 'peace time, much less in the greater requirements for war. The scheme could be initiated by an agreement between the British Empire and the United States, who own two-thirds of the known workable mineral deposits, and commercially control threequarters of them. The only machinery necessary is a rider to the Kellog Pact empowering the signatory Powers to cut off cupplies.” EGYPT AND BRITAIN LONDON, January 30. It is understood that interesting de-’ velopments are likely in connection with the Egyptian treaty. Advices in British Government circles suggest, that Nahas Pasha, the Prime Minister, informed the Egyptian Senate that he intends tp seek a mandate to negotiate a til'll treaty ivitjh. Britain. It is dbiiiideht'ly thought that this will be i-Pcelved, hffer which Nahas Pasha will lehVq ibr E.hgla’hd probably immediftte'iy after the kiiviil ConfeTence. The hhSis of Hie. noAV negotiations will probably be A draft treaty drawn up by Nahas. Pasha’s predecessor, Mahomoiid, tvhicii Britain stated cohtaihbd the utmost limit to which it was possible to go. NEW ATLANTIC LINER i ■ o LONDON, January 30. The Daily Mail Says. .the suspension of work oh- the White Star line 60,000-. ton Oceanic at Belfast means that the project has been, hbahdohpd. It is stated that the ke'elplates have been taken up. The Majestic will remain the world’s largest ship. WORLD-WIDE PESTS LONDON, January 30. . Mice rii'aps of Britain are latest contribution to scientific farming and they may be followed by rat and rabbit maps of the, whole world. Mr. Charles Elton, aided by a. grant from the Empire Marketing Board, is collecting information from Australia, Canada,- Kamchatka, Alaska, Palestine and other countries,' as well as the British Isles, about the cycles of abundance and scarcity Of mice, rats, rabbits and other rodents. The regularity of the cycles is such that figures taken over a century show that a general, forecast of the numbers of Canadian fur bearers is reasonably correct. Over 800 correspondents in the United kingdom are supplying information about mice, moles and squirrels. Evidence from Ireland indicates that rabbits may act as carriers of liver fluke, which attacks sheep.

LECTURE BANNED LONDON, February 4. A lecture by Mr. Aleister Crowley before the Oxford Poetry Society on Gilles de Rais, the fifteenth century 'magician, and the original “Bluebeard,” was cancelled by the secretary, who stated that the authorities had banned it. Mr. Crowley told th e Manchester Guardian that he believed the trouble was due to a report that he was responsible, directly or indirectly, for tile death in Sicily of his secretary, Raoul Loveday, an Oxford undergraduate. “Perhaps the lecture was banned be. cause de Rais is said to have ritually, murdered 800 children. A false accusation has been made that I have not dnly killed, but eaten, children,” said Mr. Crowley.