LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 May 1936, Page 8

LATE MESSAGES

LONDON, May 8. The “Daily Mail” says that “Play Daze,” a form of mental black-out, due to over-concentration, is becomingan increasing problem in competitive sport. Tennis players and cricketers suffer from it, and it is particularly common among golfers. Bentley has been ordered a rest, owing to an attack following his winning of tile Scottish championship. Jack McLean says that he has been a sufferer. C. A. Whitcombe, playing in the Dunlop tournament, explains his tear-ing-up of his card, after failing to play from the rough, by saying that his mind went blank. LONDON, April 8. Abolition of private manufacture armaments would be a gamble with the dice loaded against us,” Sir Maurice Hankey told the Arms Commission. He explained he was speakingon behalf of the defence service. Foreign Office, and Treasury, whose official view was: Firstly prohibition of private manufacture would be disastrous to Imperial defence. Secondly, it was unthinkable when Britain was in the throes of a great reconditioning of the programme. Thirdly, the case for prohibtion was not established.

Sir M. Hankey added that nationalisation at present would cause such dislocation that might easily involve a national disaster. He produced a list of a hundred inventions by such firms, and pointed out in connection with the complicated character of armaments that nearly a thousand firms were required to complete a battleship.

Referring to the moral aspect of international armaments, he said it had been described as horrible that British guns were used in the Dardanelles against British, but only thirteen guns at the Dardanelles out of 234, were British. The remainder were mostly German. If we refused to make guns, our soldiers and sailors would not be benefited. Moreover, when the naital attack failed, we did not know the amount of munitions the Turks possessed. If we had provided all the guns, we would have probably known how little remained, and might again have attacked. He added the prohibition of international armaments trade would be incredibly bad for a Power dependent on the sea, ■which was saved from disaster in the Great War by mnnitfons from a foreign Power.