GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 8 September 1934, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

X I REM BURG. September 6 Reviewing fifty thousand Labour Service Volunteers, Hitler fordtold the general- introduction of labour con. sci'iption, ciupluisising that the Lab"Ur Corps were to break down class barriers. He told th<- volunteers that soon no Herman w-.uld be permiltted to take a. place in tin* communilv without fir-t passing through the ranks. Two hundred thousand onlookers applauded the volunteers’ performance of niilitai\ drill with spades, instead of rides. LONDON, September ('». At >ea from 11.M.5. Sussex, the Duke of Gloucester sends tin- following message: ‘‘On embarkation on the Sussex may I express the unbounded plea-tire with which I am looking forward to my visit to Australia and New Zealand, (‘specially my par’d icipation in the ir ble ceremonies associated villi the Centenary.'’ A large party of friends farewelled M.aibolm and Shiela MacDonald at. tin' Victoria flat ion >hiela i-aid that she dtictix P of results which would benefit mankind. Replying to those who attributed

most of tour national woes, including unemployment and 'the danger o p war to the recent rapid advance of scientific knowledge, Sir .James Jeans drew a picture of the decay into whibh a nation that called a halt to science would fall in all its activities, but pointed ou't that, while in respect of knowledge! each generation stiood on the shoulders of its predecessor, in human nature, both stood on the same ground. These were hard facts which could not be altered, and which they must admit might wrelck civik isation If there was an avenue of escape, i't lay not in the direction of less science, but of more. RUGBY, September 6. About ]5OO visiting scientists are taking part in the meetings of the British Association for the advancement of Science. 1 Before delivering his presidenltial address. Sir James Jeans, the eminent astronomer, read a message of greeting from the King, in which. His Majesty expressed his unabated interest in the meeting, and confidence that |their investigations into the manifold problems confronting p'resent-day scientisLsi would (continue 1o be prowas staving on in New Zealand some* lime after Malcolm returns on Decern ber 23*