IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17222, 12 August 1921, Page 9

IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

- 4 ■ A Stockholm message says the Swedish seamen have accepted a 20 per cent, reduction in wages. ' In the House of Commons, a Bill lias been introduced providing that all poiBcstis sold by chemists for private use shaft he 5 abetted with the antidote for the particular poison sold. A" Vienna message says the convicts in fitein prison, dissatisfied with the i disciplinary measures, mutinied. The military suppressed the disorder after firing a volley, which killed three pr£ soners. A London message saya the Ballybay Bachelors' Club IS appealing to aU local men who are eligible to join, pointing out that owing to tha women's ] increasing power in the government of the country t a bachelor tax is inovi<>. able unless rt is strongly resisted. ■When a military aeroplane was flying over Aldershot at a height of 20,000, ieet, the observer's oxygen pipe broke. The pilot offered to hand over his, but the observer pluckily refused, saying he could go another 3000 feet. The aeroplane ascended that height, and when it descended tJje observer«*» do-1 lirious. He has sine© recovered.* I