GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 11 January 1930, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

[United Press Association.—By Electric

Telegraph.—Copyright.]

THE TWO SIDES OF WAR

LONDON, Jan. 10

General Cliarteris, author of “The Life of Haig,” and one of the FieldMarshal’s closest friends, speaking at Greenwich deprecated a. Hood of war books and war plays were all going out of their way to show all the bad and horrible things of the war. He declared“ War is bad and horrible. Nobody who fought in Franco will wish to see war again, but a soldier cannot lie*!,) resenting book after book, showing the bad side of human nature. Despite horrors the war brought out in many'ways, great and good things in human nature. Many men returned ennobled. ’ ’

A ROMANTIC MISSION

LONDON. Jan. 10.

Lady Hermione Lytton, the beautiful elder daughter Al '" Earl and Countess Lytton has left Kiiebworth suddenly on a romantic mission to Switzerland seeking her father’s consent to her marriage to a young man employed at a bank at Milan.

THE MARCH OF SCIENCE

LONDON, Jan. 10

The rapidity of the world’s scientific march was strikingly manifested by two announcements to-day. Sir Ambiwo Fleming, sneaking at the Imperial College of Science, declared television would soon bring a cricket test match, a Lord Mayor’s show or a Varsity boat race wirelessly upon the screen. While speaking of the images of human faces being televised from the Rail'd Laboratory four miles distant, he made a second announcement stating that home talkies would soon be available. They would be miniature in size and would be purchased in the same way as gramophone records. Admirers of a particular film would be able to^ purchase a copy for permanent entertainment.

AFGHAN CLASH. DELHI, Jan. 10. Fifteen were killed in a clash between wild Kohidaman tribesmen and Afghan troops. The tribesmen refused to "acknowledge Nadir Klmn as King.