NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15794, 7 April 1922, Page 10

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

BIG U>. TRADE "SLUMP

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—The, Department of Commerce 'statistics show a further decline in trade, for January. The imports total 216,000,000 dollars compared with.^2oß,ooo,ooo'in January, 1921. The exports total 279,000,000 dollars against 654,000,000. TURKEY'S DAY" OF REST. CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 13.—Friday as a, closing day has been imposed throughout Turkey' by the Angora, (Kemalis-f.) Government. The Provincial Governors have been ordered to see that all shops are shut, even if the owners are Christians and non-Turks. Friday has been chosen because if is the Moslem Sunday. CHEAPER SWITZERLAND. BERNE,, Feb. 13.—The general assembly of Swiss bote I keepers at Berne to-day decided to attempt, to hasten, the return to the normal cost of living con-' ditions by a reduction of 10 per cent.'of the official minimum pension terms. The • abolition of numerous hotel extras which travellers now find so onerous was also decided upon. TWO AIRMEN KILLED: MACHINE ON FIRE IN MID-AIR. LONDON, Feb. 11.—Flying Officer Geoffrey Robinson, of Sheffield, and Mr Mitchell] a, civilian technical," officer at the Royal Aircraft Factory, Farnborough," were killed last night by an aeroplane in which they were travelling catching 'fire after striking a tree in Dropmore Park, near Burnham, Buckinghamshire. The aeroplane was flying from Chingford, Essex, to Farnborough. PRICE OF WIVES HAS DOUBLED IN ; ... ' SOUDAN. LONDON, Feb. 18.—Lord Dewar, at a meeting of the Leysian Mission here, said; that profiteering liad spread everywhere since tlie war, even into the Soudan, where ; it had extended to the price of .wives. "In the Soudan before the war," ho said, "a. wife could be got for four spearheads. Now the price has doubled'; on© has to pay eight. Tn the cattle country it used to be four cows; now the. price is seven." ENGLISH HATS FOR U.S .. i Hundreds of thousands of men's straw .hats are following American hat buyers back to the United States. Huge packing-cases labelled "Hats, Men's Straw/.', are being hauled aboard at all the leading ports for a westward journey. Luton straw hat manufacturers say that factories are much more busy with home orders than in any year since the war, and the straw hat looks like returning *o its full popularity this season." C.G.M.M. TO INVADE MEDITERRANEAN AREA. LONDON, Feb. 18— Although the Canadian Government Merchant Marine has laid several vessels up rather than run at, a loss, strenuous efforts are being" made to secure trade for those still operating. It lias been decided to put on a monthly service to the Mediterranean, despite severe competition from the United States Shipping Board, whose recent rate cuts have been met by a lowering of the.rate to Montreal to the same level as the tariffs from Mediterranean ports to New'York. . ATLANTIC CASTAWAY : SCORES OF SHIPS SEARCHING. NEW-.YORK, Feb. 15.—Scores of ships ,0f all kinds are to-day searching for John Birkner, a British subject who was cast adrift from the U.S. as. Gaffney 700 miles from land. Birkner was warmly^clothed at the time of the accident and "the boat was well stocke'd with food and. water. He was one of four sailors., ordered to lash a lifeboat, in a terrific-storm when a giant wave swept the lifeboat into the sea and Birkner with it," He clambered into the-boat,,but the Gaffney was unable" to get close enough*'to put a lino on board. CAPE -COLORKD MEN'S UNREST. CAPETOWN, Feb. 10.—Colored people 1 are organising a campaign throughout SouthV'Airica for the removal of the color bar by the grant of the I'arhaj- mentary franchise in all provinces to non-Europeans with the riglip. to sit in Parliament. At the inaugural- meeting at Capetown speakers .declared that if there werei ivo- color bar there, would ho no strikes .in the Transvaal. -The hope was expressed that there might be no peace between", the white and the/ colored men till tbm-hflr was removed, as tho colored men we're, treated worse than slaves. A political leader of the Cape Malays declared that the time has come when the colored people must follow on the lines of freedom in Ireland and India/ RIGHT TO SMOKE : 100. GIRLS - . -STRIKE TO ENFORCE IT. LONDON, Feb. 13.—A remarkable strike docurred at Leeds during the weekend, 100 girls employed by Messrs Hepworth" and Sons, wholesale clothiers, throwing up their employment to obtain the reinstatement of five girls discharged for smoking. The firm enforce rigidly a rule that no person shall smoke on the premises. On Friday afternoon five girls were found smoking and were instantly dismissed. Their workmates immediately struck work and demanded their reinstatement. A member of the firm saidi that they would on no account reinstate the defaulters. "It is a disciplinary matter and not one affecting; any principle of employment from a trade union point of view," lie said. LUXURY LINER : £BO,OOO SPENT ON DECORATIONS. LONDON-, Feb. 15.—Eighty thousand pounds has been spent on the decorations of the Conte Rosso, a passenger, ana cargo steamer of 18,000 tons which Messrs. William Beardmore and Company have built at Glasgow for Lloyd Sabaudo, of Genoa. All tho state rooms are provided with bedsteads, and in no case are berths fitted above them. All the rooms .are decorated in luxurious fashion: -In the. dining saloon there is a great painting by Professor Cavalieri, a leading Italian painter, representing the return in triumph from the -crusades of Conte Rosso, an Italian warrior, after whom the ship is named. The smokeroom is in the Moorish style, and in tho white and gold music room there is an electric chandelier of cut crystal which cost £IOOO. NEW "CURE" FOR OLD AGE. NEW YORK, Feb. 13.—Extraordinary results in tho rejuvenation of men and women have been achieved, it is claimed, through a simple operation devised by Herr Hteinach, a Vinnese professor. They • are described by Dr. Harry Benjamin, one of his pupils, in a paper in which he h|Ts officially introduced, the new operation to tho American medical profession? He emphasises that the Stomach method differs from all those which have recently attracted attention, in that there is no transplanting of monkey •"" glands or any foreign bodies. "AH that'is done," says Dr. Benjamin, "is to tie a vessel which produces stimulation to a certain gland." Only a, local anaesthetic is used, and the patient is required to remain only threo days in bed. ".One of tho cases cited is that of a man of 71, who came to the Vienna general hospital suffering from an acute abscess. While being operated on for abscess he was "Seinached"" without his knowledge. "Nino months later," says Dr. -Benjamin, "the man reported that he Was astounded by the remarkable changes in his health. Ho had regained full 'mental and physical efficiency, and his masculinity reawakened. No one could'believe that he was well into his 72 ye|x." The operation has been tested so many times, states Dr. Benjamin, that it can safely, be considered outside the state of experiment. SWOMEFS BEAUTY BACK. It Is not claimed that the operation will "definitely prolong the span of life,/!©??, says Dr. Benjamin, "there is no if ay of Boding out what limit "Pro-

vidence lias set on human life.. But the undoubted fact," he affirms, "is that the operation prolongs that part of a man's life in which he is a social asset when producing and earning. Creative genius, a singer's voice, a statesman's munition can all be given a fresh leaso of, life." Both sexes, according to Herr Steinach, aro equally benefited. '• Women can have their youthful appearance restored, lose wrinkles, and grow a • fresh head of hair of the original color, if. is said. A BLANK MONTH. LONDON, Feb. 16.—Not a, ship was launched on tho Tyne last month, and so tho shipbuilding industry has had to record the first blank month for thirtynine years. On the other hand the Clyde put into the water tonnage very satisfactory for January. So it looks as if, of these two rivals, the Clyde has the- Tyne beaten for the moment. Never before has the Tyne had so little to show in proof ] that it is a. good second. PRINCE NARROWLY ESCAPES DISASTER. LONDON, Feb. 14.—The Prince of Wales narrowly escaped injury at Gwalior, Central India, when his ..polo pony reared and fell backwards. /The Prince was knocking the ball about the polo grounds, riding a pony which objected to approaching a "dead" ball. Ho tried to urge the animal up to a ball lying; in the' middle of the field when the pony reared and fell. The Prince was able to slip out from under his mount only slightly shaken. As evidence that he was not hurt, tho Prince that same afternoon rode in four races, finishing respectively, second, third, fourth and unplaced. DOCTRINAL UNITY TO PROTECT CHURCH,EROM SCHISM. LONDON, feb. 21.—A memorial was presented to tho Archbishop of Canterbury to-day suggesting the appointment of a commission, comprised mainly of comparatively young men, to find a basis of doctrinal agreement on matters which are the subject of controversy about difference sections of the Church of England. The memorial, which bore tho signatures of nine bishops and eighteen other 'church dignitaries, said it was becoming increasingly clear that tho only adequate ' safeguard against far more serious disruptions in the church lay in the securing of genuine unity of belief. . Tho archbishop replied that he could not comply with the request of the signers, but agreed that their endeavors might be. usefully employed in the holding of a conference. THOUSANDS OF STAGE FOLK OUT OF WORK. NEW YORK, Fob. 11.—There are today more unemployed actors and other stage people walking along Broadway looking for jobs than ever before. Everybody in Times square who knows anything about the theatre, from the cut-rate ticket hawker to the producer of a dozen hits, is complaining. The tailors, landladies and boardinghouse owners spem to feel the hard times as acutely as the actors. They have sought a great many judgments these last weeks against stage folk, who overlooked the rather prosaic duty of paying their bills. In large cities of the country,-where the lights flicker only a little less brightly than in Broadway, conditions are just as bad, according to the heads of producing concerns and organisations of actors. Several well-known managers estimate that half of the 15,000 actors in tho United States, exclusive of vaudeville performers, aro out of work. The Actors' Equity Association said the number was not so large, but was 20 per cent, worse than usual.