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Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1928, Page 2

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THE NATIONAL DEBT.

GENEROUS GIFTS MADE,

[Special to Press Assn, by Radio.]

RUGBY, July 10.

Tiie Financial Secretary to ■ the Treasury, Mr A. H. Samuel, stated that, in addition to the original sum of £500,000 announced in February for the National Debt Reduction Fund, £795 had been received.

The Elsie MaclcayjFund of £500,000, which was announced last week, would he separately constituted. Apart from these specially accumulating funds, total gifts from individuals received since the outbreak of the war amounted to £1,109,000, of which £625,000 was received in the form of securities and the balance in cash.

“ ECONOMIST ” SOLD. EMINENT FINANCIAL JOURNAL. RUGBY, July 10. The sale of the weekly journal, the “ Economist,” hitherto owned by the trustees for the daughters of its founder, has been approved by the Court. Its new owners are the newlyformed Financial Newspaper Proprietors Limited, which will acquire a controlling interest in the “Financial News” and the “Journal of Commerce,” both of which are daily newspapers of old standing. The “Economist” has been one of the foremost financial journals for over 80 years, and its new proprietors have, with a view to maintaining its traditional character, agreed to appoint a board of independent trustees, empowered with the right to veto any appointment, or the dismissal of any future editor of the journal, while the editor alone will control its policy.

The plan closely resembles that which some years ago was adopted by the proprietors of “ The Times,” and was more recently followed * by the proprietors of the'prominent weekly political journal, the “Spectator.”

A TREATY OBLIGATION

RHINELAND OCCUPATION.

RUGBY, July 10,

In reply to a question, Sir L. Worthington Evans said in the House of Commons that the strength of the British troops in the Rhine area, excluding a small detachment in the Saar district, was approximately 6000 oh July Ist.

No reduction in their numbers was contemplated at present. Answering a further question, he said that he thought that such a force was necessary to fulfil the'Treaty obligations.

SOISSONS MEMORIAL.

HEROES OF THE MARNE.

RUGBY, July 10.

Another stage in the task of the Imperial War Graves Commission will reach its completion when, on July 22iul, General Sir Alexander Hamilton Gordon unveils at Soissons a memorial to the British soldiers who fell in the war on the Aisne and the Marne in 1918.

The work of the Commission is to sec that the name of every soldier who died in Franco is somewhere inscribed in a permanent manner. In most cases the names are on stones, but those of unknown soldiers whose bodies are unlocated or unidentified, are commemorated on the walls of cemeteries, or on the memorial at Soissons.

The sculpture is the work of Mr Eric Kennington, and is extremely impressive.

CANCER SCOURGE,

PROGRESS OF RESEARCH

RUGBY, July 10,

At tlie international conference which has been convened by the British Empire Cancer Campaign Committee, and which begins at London next week, 120 delegates from ‘l6 countries, and 300 British delegates, will discuss every aspect of the cancer problem.

The annual report, presented yesterday, of the British Empire Cancer Club’s campaign, although containing no announcement of any particular discovery, shows encouraging results in several of the lines of investigation, which were followed by scientists working in different centres. Among the points mentioned in the report one is that a large measure of success has been achieved in experiments on animals, designed to produce anti-bodies. Experiments to ascertain whether cigarette smoking was the cause of the disease had not confirmed this suspicion. Radium treatment had met with success.

An important result has followed the work of Dr Lumsden, of the Lister Institute, who succeeded in causing supplanted cancer in rodents to disappear, by means of a process of vaccination, He has now succeeded, although only in a simple case, in causing the disappearance of spontaneous cancer cells, which serve as inoculation and so call forth the natural powers of resistance.

It lias been found that after the tumour has been able to disappear, the animal becoms immune to cancer, and cannot again be infected with it.

TO BE RELIEVED. SHANGHAI DEFENCE FORCE. RUGBY, July 10. In Parliament to-day the Secretary for War, Sir Laming WorthingtonEvans, said that it had already been arranged that the units of the Shanghai Defence Force should lie relieved next trooping season. In the case of individuals of the staff and departments, whose longer retention might be necessary in the public interest, arrangements would be made to enable their families to join them.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS DELEGATES

RUGBY, July 11

The British delegates to the forthcoming meeting of the Assembly of the League of Nations will be Sir Austen Chamberlain. Lord Cusliendun, Sir Cecil Hurst, Sir E. Hilton-Young, Dame Edith Lyttelton, and Mr A. Duff Ooop-