GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

Australian Press Assn. —United Service

CANCER RESEARCH. PARIS, July 12.

The Daily Mail correspondent states that Professor Dolbret, one of the most prominent French surgeons, told the Academy of Medicine that cancer was -preventable, if not curable by the simplest, easiest and the cheapest means. He suggests it can practically be stamped out by taking eight grains daily of magnesium chloride, which he says is far more important to the body than common salt. Professor Delbret' found that guinea pigs, which were injected with small qualities of magnesium chloride, and which have been fed on specially pre-

pared foods containing magnesium chloride, were immune against the grafting of cancer cells upon their bodies. '

GERMANY WILLING TO SIGN, BERLIN, July 12.

The Government has handed the United States Ambassador a reply to Mr Kellogg, consisting of a. short document expressing readiness to sign unreservedly^

FRANCE WANTS RESERVATIONS. PARIS, July 12. The Cabinet has approved the main lines of reply' to Mr Kellogg. •

It is understood that wliilp giving adhesion, it adds an interpretative statement maintaining the position in ltuti’d to commitments. ’ I

PLOT AGAINST ALFONSO.

LONDON,; July 12,

Reports from the Spanish border indicate. .a widespread plot and wholesale arrests. Reports via Bordeaux state that the Spanish Government discovered a conspiracy organised by Syndicalists and Communists against King Alfonso, and De Rivero,. whose lives were to have been' attempted at the opening of the tunnel, under the Pyrenees at Oanfranc on July 17tli. y Tlie Press has been asked to minimise its importance. It is estimated that there were over five hundred arrests, especially in the provinces of Catalonia and Galicia. , Communists attempted to undermine the loyalty of the Barcelona Garrison. Arrests are continuing.

CORONER’S COURT RESTRICTIONS. LONDON, July 12. In the Commons Mr R. Hopkin Morris introduced a Bill limiting Coroner’s Courts to the task, of finding the cause of death. The police would know well from the evidence whether there ought to be a prosecution. The Bill was read the first time In Committee. THIRTY FOOT HOLE IN CRUISER. •HALIFAX, July 12. It will take five hundred men three months to repair the thirty foot hole in the Bull of the Dauntless. BRITISH MACHINERY FOR. N.Z. LONDON, July 11. Sir James Parr inspected at Halifax machinery for New Zealand Railway \ t r orkshops. Speaaking at the Mayor’s luncheon he said Britain turned out the world’s best goods. He asked Yorkshire to buy more New Zealand products. Half the, outlay came bade in purchases from Britain. In a speech at the Imperial Chemicl Industries luncheon at Nottingham, he thanked his hosts for sending the liest to investigate Now Zealand pastures. “CITY OF NEW YORK.” TOKYO, July 12, Approaching Tokyo, the “City of New York” experienced difficulty owing to fog and darkness, and landed. Means considers the flight is a demonstration of feasibility of a sixday regular service between London and Tokyo across Siberia, Convenient landings and supplies are available throughout the route.

AIR SERVICE SUBSIDY. Australian Press Assn.—United Service (Received this dav at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON. July 12. Sir R. Hoare states the Anglo-Indian air service will definitely start on Ist April, 1929. He hoped eventually the service would he twice weekly. The maximum annual subsidies for the first two years were £335,000, thereafter decreasing annually till it was £7,000 on the 10th. of last year, after which the service should he self-sup-porting.