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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1938.
First Test-Tube "Baby" Born in Britain
Empire News
DROUGHT IN CAPE
PROVINCE
Cape Town,
At the opening of the special session of the Cape Provincial Coun- dil recently Mr. J. H. Conradle, the Administrator, said that a large part of the country found itself in stranglehold from severe drought.
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"Although we have received the gladdening news of copious rains in some parts," he continued, "I know! of others where drought conditions are becoming worse daily."
Mr. Conradie said he expected that the financial position of the province at the end of the year would be beller by £177,800 than he anticipat-| ed at the time of the Budget.
mutton hnd
The retail price of risen by id per lb in Cape Town -owing to the drought.
The final figures for the 1037 Kruger National Park season show that there were 33,840 visitors bc. tween June and October, an increase of 4,500 over the figures for 1938.
AUSTRALIA
LOYAL MESSAGE TO
THE KING
Canberra.
A message to the King on the first anniversary of his accession beca sent by the Governor-General, Lord Gowrie, as follows:
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"On behalf of the Government and people of the Commonwealth, and of myself. offer loyal and affectionate congratulations on the anniversary of your Majesty's acces slon. We pray that you may long be spared as our beloved sovereign." -Reuter.
NEW ZEALAND
ADJOURNMENT OF PARLIAMENT
Wellington. Parliament has adjourned
Mr. Savage, the Prime March 1. Minister, announced that the Educu- tlon Band elther one or two bills relating to national health and superannuation would be considered when the Parliamentary session was resumed.Reuter.
His
Dawn of New
During the trouble ́in Palcatino a frequent occurrence is the cutting of telegraph wires. Picture shows two men repairing wires near Jerusalam.
GILDA GRAY. SHIMMY SHAKE' QUEEN, FINDS SUB-TINSEL PROBLEM
New York.
Gilda Gray, the girl who taught the world how to "shimmy" with her willowy, hip-shaking version of the dance, set out to-day for a timbered farm in the wide, open spaces.
She says she is going to buy a Colorado ranch and settle down, Shaking a good-bye leg to the bright lights of the night-clubs Gilda intends to devote herself to chickens and pigs.
Breeding Method
Science Marvel on Essex Farm
Ottawa.
The first test-tube birth has just taken place in Britain.
A calf has been born on an Essex farm sired by a bull in Holland.
This is the culmination of years of work by scientists. Seed from the malo animal was brought to England in a test- tube, and the cow was fertilised artificially.
An official of the Animal Nutrition Research Institute of the School of Agriculture told of a large scale experiment in which 30 cows in Holland had been fertilised with the seed of a bull In England.
"In England we are not concerned with the application of the process to human life," he said,
"All we know is that I can be applied and is being applied in the conception ot babies."
EXPLOITS OF THE America-for
GIRL PAT
Fishing Company's Libel Action Over Book
PUBLISHERS
SUED
A book on the exploits of the Girl Pat, the Grimsby trawler, under the command of George Orsborne, gave rise to a libel action which come before Mr. Justice Hawke and special jury, in the King's Bench Division, London, recently.
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The practice there has actu- ally been adopted in marriagen which have proved childless through the sterillky of a father. An official statement has to be drawn up
signed by the and parents.
The practice has not taken place in Britain yet.
The plaintiffs were the Marstrand A Fishing Company (Limited) and five directors of that company, and the defendants
and were Hutchinson Company (Publishers) Limited, and the Anchor Press (Limited).
FRENCH NAVAL
SPEED-UP
REPLY TO ITALY'S NEW BATTLESHIPS STEPS TO RESTORE BALANCE OF POWER
Paris.
M. Campinchi, Minister of Marine, is expected to ask Parliment
to
The plaintiffs, who owned the Girl' Pat, complained of passages in the book published and printed by the defendants, entitled The Voyage of the Girl Pat," and described as "an authentie account by Skipper Ors grant exceptional credits for the pur- borne and his crew.
pose of speeding up the 1038 build- ing programme for the French Navy; For the defence, It was denied that in view of Signor Mussolini's decision the publication was defamatory of to lay down immediately two 35,000- the plaintiffs, or that it referred to ton battleships.
Among other resolutions Gilda intends to wear dresses none of which costs more than five shillings; to cook apple pies and paint them. It was further contended that
a little. "That is the life," she says.
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the introduction to the book made it clear that the particular voyage of the Girl Pat was unauthorised by the owners.
"AN ADVENTURE "
that
French naval eireles fec! France is interested first and fore- most in the Italian decision.
When the Navy Budget-for £30,- 000,000 was voted last month, the comparative position of the French fleets in the Mediter-
Sir Patrick Hastings, K.C., in open-and Italian ing the plaintiffs' case, recalled how rancan was by no means as disquiet- the Girl Pat was stolen from hering as it is likely to be if Italy pro- owners by her captain, and, instend ceeds with the building of these two of going fishing, was taken away by big battleships.
the captain and crew on n cruise It is pointed out that they will be which, he said;-was-al-one-time equal-in-gunpower, I-not-superior. termed an adventure.
to the only existing battleships of their type afloat-H.M.S. Rodney und H.M.S. Nelson.
MINISTER'S CONCERN
"Why they did it is a secret which is locked up in their bosoms," de- clared Sir Patrick. It was inevitable that they would be found out, and arrested, and, tried. The trial was very remarkable because the prison- ers, desiring to put forward some excuse for their conduct, had what in 1941 numerically inferior to the now seems to be amazing effrontery to say they were told to scuttle the ship.
"That story was investigated in the Central Criminal Court with the result that George Orsborne, the captain of the Girl Pat, and his brother were sent to prison."
SERIOUS ALLEGATION They were not concerned in this case with the suggestion at the trul that the Girl Pat was to be scuttled. That rubbish had disappeared, but the plaintiffs took a serious view of the allegation that the Girl Pat left Grimsby entirely ill-found, and Im properly equipped with food, and appliances.
Unless Parliament grants adequate credits, the French Mediterranean feel, It is stated, risks anding itself
Itallon fleet in the Mediterranean.
Even supposing. It is added, that: the defence of her Channel and Al- lantic coasts could be left to the Brl. tish Navy, and North African cousis, and of her Far Eastern Empire Madagascar and Indo-China in par- ticular is a matter which is serious- ly pre-occupying the Ministry of Marine.
The French navy building pro- gramme for 1938 consists of one cruiser and two aircraft carriers, and M. Campinchi is anxious
not only that these three ships should be laid down without delay, but that their completion should be carried out in the minimum of time.
For this reason Parliament is like- That, in substance, was the allegedly to be asked to grant at once sup- defamatory statement in the dock of plementary navy credits so as to re- which complaint was made.
store an adequate balance of power in the Mediterranean,
The book purported to be an authentle account by Skipper. Or- sborne of the voyage It was plain, however, that he did not write it,
but that it was a journalist's account, SHAW STATES HIS
written while Skipper Orsborne was In prison.
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"It is an odd book," said Sir Patrick, reading an extract which George Bernard Shaw rates tele- suggested that Devil's Island was not phone operators above actresses in A hell on earth, and quoting one dietion and enunciation.
"It convicta murderer-as saying. la for from that. It is paradise we live like gentleman."
The writer added:-"Each convict has his own bedroom. Before they start work in the morning every man Is served with a tot of champagne." Mr. Justice Hawke-It does not say what a "to" is.
"There are dramatic schools all over the place; and yet to-day all professions speak better English for publle purposes. than the dramatic profession, the playwright said in a message to the annual meeting of the Association of Teachers of Speech. In addition to the "wonderful tele- Sir Patrick--I have made inquiries politicians and lawyers
phone girls," Shaw listed the elergy, 513 being about the size of a tet, and 1 am superior. told that it varies according to the
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perfect only technically taste of the recipient. (Laughler),
speaker" of Victorian days was Sir Patrick said that complaint was made of a statement on the book's Queen Victoria herself, whom, he wrapper. Sensation follows acnsation said, "some of
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in this extraordinary story, in which abblers would probably describe us
#hom clucullonist.' the skipper tells how, with only a sixpenny atins for chari, and a match stick for nextant, he and his crew Balled ncross the Atlantic.
The statement referred to "Dare Devil Dod Draborne," and sold that
FIREMEN STOW OARS
Boston.
the vessel had no rocket apparatus, No longer will firemen have to bend and food for only two days.
to the pars to answer alarms on Doer
Mr. Tom Moore, managing director Istand, Shirley Out, between the of the Marstrand Fishing Co gave Island and the mainland, has been evidence that when the Girl Fat left filled in. Proviously: firemen had to
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