NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16498, 2 August 1924, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

JffANDERTNG HUSBANDS. LONG-ARM LAW INVOKED. ! LONDON, July 20.—The London Weekly Dispatch says:—“lnvoking the law’s longest arm under the new-AVife’s Desertion Act, Mrs Thomas Starr Balstone obtained a summons at the Willesden Coui't, for confirmation and enforcement in Australia against her husband, at present residing in Perth, West Australia.’’ E. T. HOOKEY. " RELEASED FROM PRISON. ■ “ONLY SLOPS IN GAOL.” / LONDON. July 18.-- Ernest- Tenth Hooley, a.'one-time well-known financier, . who has boon released from gaol, breakfasted at Yarmouth on bacon and eggs. He declared it was his first square meal for 24 years. He said that he got on'v "slops” - in the prison hospital. LORD MAYOR ABLAZE. DUKE OF YORK AS FIREMAN. USE OF SODA WATER SYPHON. - LONDON, July 23.—The Duke of York’s resourcefulness was amusingly illustrated at Belfast, where he and the Duchess of York are touring. During a ciyic luncheon a box of matches in the Lord Mayor’s waistcoat pocket took fire and blazed up, scorching his robe. The Dnko of York squirted the contents of a soda-water syphon on to the Lord -Mayor and extinguished the flames. The luncheon party laughed uproariously, the 1' Duke and the Lord -Mayor joining in. UNREST IN INDIA. ACTIVITIES OF EXTREMISTS. CONFERENCE OF GOVERNORS. CALCUTTA, July 23.—The activities of extreme Nationalists, particularly in Bengal and the Central provinces, are proving, a- serious hindrance to the good government of India. It is understood that- the Viceroy, Lord Reading,, has taken the unusual step of calling a con ferencei of all provincial Governors, to.be held in Simla in a few days, for the purposg of discussing the situation, and 'considering means of ending the em barrassingf complications in provincial administration. HUMANITY’S DOOM. TAGOREr FORESEES IT. / VOICE OF ASIA. CALCUTTA. July 24.—“1f Asia does not find her own voice, humanity will be doomed. - ’ was the declaration of Sii Rabindranath Tagore, the Indian poet on- his arrival in Calcutta after an ex .tended tour of the Far East. ’ 1 Asia had remained silent too long, lit said. The'whole bf, humanity was suffering, and the West, had not given tin East anything that could savo it. The former’s cult of power was based on pride, and its creed was a deliberatecultivation of contempt for other races HENERY~FORD’S UTOPIA. _ COLOSSAL ARMING SCHEME. NEW YORK,JuIy 22.—That the United: States can- prevent war by arming herself in greater strength than the work, has .ever known is the belief of Mr Hcnery Ford,("the motor magnate. li an interview he eleclnres that thi potential nitrate production of the. power works in Northern Alabama , would make .the United States independent of Chiletn nitrate, and enable the manufacture o' high explosives on a colossal scale Undreamt. of by munition makers. Thu: would' be developed war power beyond anything ever known. “In tho interest of peace it seems w< shall have to do it,”, said Mr. Ford who also predicts that .commercial aero- - planes eventually will be built by tin thousands, if not by the millions. Tin .ground at his Dearborn plant has beei converted into an aviation field for tin -manufactures of planes in vast quail tities. Soon, he says, the knowledge o' them will equal the knowledge of flu automobile. GUNS AND AMMUNITION. > GERMAN ARMS FOR CHINA. WARSHIPS ON THE WATCH. COLOMBO, July 23.—The Norwegian vessel Hav entered' the harbor with two machine-guns, a large number of rifles, J and 6G tons of ammunition for Canton, China. _ They are all of German manufacture” and were loaded at Antwerp and consigned to a Chinese firm at Canton. No attempt was made to disguise the nature of the cargo, which was clearly stated in the manifest as arms and ammunition. , .Captain Guntersen pleaded guilty to a - charge of entering the harbor with ammunition insecurely stored' in the ship’s magazine, in contravention of the port regulations/ He was fined 200 rupees. Since Norway is not a party to the arms embargo agreement, the authorities here are powerless to confiscate arms and ammunition properly entered on the ship's manifest, or to detain the vessel. However, it is anticipated locally that the Hav will -find! it difficult to avoid the attention of the Diplomatic Corps’ fleet which includes British warships, -stationed off the China coast for the purpose of preventing the landing of arm*. These warships have received the fullest ..in formation of the nature of the HavV cargo. ■ Unless her plans are altered, the Hav will proceed direct Horn Coloinbo to Canton. She has only nrmsvnnd munition*for that. port, the rest of the cargo being destined for Singapore.