TO-DAY'S NEWS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18243, 29 November 1924, Page 12

TO-DAY'S NEWS.

LOCAL AND GENERAL. To-day' 3 Special Articles. The following special articles will he found on page 11:—"Words and Music," by "Cyrano"; "The World of Books," by A. H. Grinling; "Golf—Play on Windy Day?,'* by Harry Vardon; "Literary Gossip": and "Wireless Xews." by "Electra." Tat Lamb Prices. Trices offered for fat lambs at Borthwiek' and Sons' Belfast Works, which open on Monday, are: 12Jd for firsts to 421b, and 12id for overs; first wethers Bd, and ewes 6d. Details appear on our commercial page. Page 9. Dominion Chief Scout. Major-General Sir Charles Fergusson, of Xew Zealand, has accepted the position of Dominion Chief Scout Lord Jellicoe has consented to lopresent the New Zealand section of the Boy Scouts' Association on the Imperial Boy Scouts' Council in England.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. Sgyptian 'Crisis. The four niea arrested include two members of Zaghlul's Cabinet, and it is reported that threo members of the new Ministry have resigned in coo sequence. It is believed that there are designs on Lord Allenby's life. To-day's Test. Parker, McGregor, and Masters will play for New Zealand against Wales this afternoon, \also,' Dalley if it should be a wet day. An Empty Coffin. There is a Jewish theory that Tut-anfeh-amen was Joseph of the Bible story, and that, since Joseph's bones were taken up out of Egypt by the children of Israel, the sarcophagus will bo found to be empty. Miners Trapped, following heavy rains, an inrush of water drowned one Welsh miner and imprisoned nino others. Sea Storms. A 6-milcs-an-hour gale which swept Britain w&o responsible for several coastal wrecks and some thrilling rescues. Fifteen hundred fishingboats have been lost in a storm on the Caspian Sea. Tnnis Uneasy. A Young Tunisian movement is taking shape, and there is a growing national feeling in favour of independence. Prance. is looking into the position.

pfema. 4 Trotsky has been deprived of hia chief officers by extremists. It is proposed to solve the British housing problem by wholesale production in factories. The British Government has taken a large area of space at the Dunedin Exhibition.