CABLE BREVITIES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 14 February 1921, Page 8

CABLE BREVITIES

Conscientious objectors in Norway, provided they are. genuine, will be accommodated in the national service, which will include afforestation, roadmaking, etc., for a period of fifty per cent, longer than the term of military service, with army pay and rations. A recommendation favouring a separate university at Cambridge for women has been defeated.

The health authorities in the United States are alarmed over a danger of a _ typhus epidemic arising from infected immigrants. Thirty-nine cases arrived on board ships since February 1, and several vessels from Italy had deaths from the disease during their voyages. The pprt authorities have appealed to President Wilson,, asking him to have an embargo placed on immigration from infected regions in Europe, but, the President declined, stating that quarantine precautions should be adequate.

At Galveston (Texas) Federal officers seized the Japanese steamer Fukuyo Maru, from Marseilles, charged with smuggling Japanese into the United States.

The White Star line has purchased the former German steamship Bismarck, the largest steamer in the world, from the Reparations Commission, and intend to place her in the New York services. The Duke of York, speaking at a Hospital Saturday Fund dinner, wholeheartedly favoured a continuance of the voluntary system of maintenance, as advantageous both to the public and to medical science. Possibly, owing to the increased cost of the maintenance o>f hospitals, State or municipal aid would be inevitable, but he hoped it would hot involve State control.