BLIND PRODIGY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 143, 20 June 1938, Page 7

BLIND PRODIGY.

Theological Honours Won at ’ Cambridge. POET AND MUSICIAN AS WELL. (Received 9.30 n.m.) LONDON, June 19. Miss Ruth Hitchcock, aged 21, who has been blind since the age of 10. won a double first in theological tripos at Cambridge. The papers were read to her in the presence of a supervisor and she typed out the answers in Braille. She is a poet and a musician as well as a theologian.

EVEREST RISKS. Party Runs Narrow Escape from Avalanche. MONSOON ESTABLISHED. (Received 12 noon.) • 1 LONDON, June 19. “The Times,” in a copyright message from Calcutta, says a letter has been received at Kalimpong from the Mount Everest expedition. It states that Mr, Tilman, leader, and three climbers and four porters were nearly’ caught in an avalanche on the North Col, but were dragged to safety’ by’ means of ropes. The letter does not mention any’ intention to return, but says the monsoon seems’ to be established. The party’ is reconnoitring the west side route to ascertain whether it is practicable to make an assault ou the summit under monsoon conditions.

NAZI PROPAGANDA. Minister Warns Against Misuse Of “ German Patience.” CZECH HOPES FOR PEACE. LONDON, June 19. Addressing district leaders in West Prussia, the Minister of Propaganda, Dr. Paul Goebbels, uttered another warning that the patience of Germany in the cause of peace was not inexhaustible. Referring to the Sudeten Germans, Dr. Goebbels said a nation of 75,000,000 people could not be provoked continually, and he exhorted certain foreign circles not to misuse the patience of Germany. A Czech Government announcement from Prague states' that if the negotiations between the Czechs and the Sudeten leaders continue at the present tempo and in the same mutual goodwill the Government expects to table in Parliament in July far-reaching proposals ensuring a new and lasting basis for the nationalities policy’. ITALY AND YUGOSLAVS. ECONOMIC COLLABORATION. ROME, June 19. Count Ciano has concluded discussions with Dr. Milan Stoyadinovitch, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, regarding political and economic collaboration between Italy and Yugoslavia.