TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18129, 19 July 1924, Page 12

TO-DAY'S NEWS.

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Special Golf Article. A special article on "Golf —The Amateur Game," by Harry Vardon, will be found on page 13. Jteainage Contract Thrown Up. Owing to difficulties encountered in the shape of water and quicksand at Woodham road, the contractor for the No. 10 sewer contract has notified the Drainage Board that ' he is unable to carry on. letters to the Editor. Letters to the Editor will be found on page 14. BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Modesty in Dress. The Pope is reported to have offered a medal for the best design of a woman's dress that shall correct the errors of modern fashion and conform to the ecclesiastical standard of modesty. Speared by Blacks. From Port Darwin comes an unconfirmed story that the smaJl steamer Douglas Mawson, which was reported missing last year, sank in a storm, that the survivors landed, some being speared by the blacks and others, including two white" women, being taken prisoner. Conference. The problem of the representation of the Dominions is giving some trouble. It is suggested that one of the three British delegates shall be a representative of the Dominions, not always the same person. Olympic Games. The Britisher Beresford won tho single sculls, U.S.A. the double sculls, and Yale University (UJS.A.) the eights. TBJ&r Navy. A new submarine, twice as large as any hitherto built in the United States, has been launched. It is intended to be the first of nine. Items. ■ ■ ;...To end the agony of incurable can- • cer, a Polish girl shot her lover in a French hospital. ■*••". The Japanese Diet has appropriated a large sum for the furtherance of Sino-Japariese friendship. There is a medical man—an Australian—attached to .the rum fleet lying off the American coast.