CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19813, 28 December 1929, Page 13

CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

KILLED BY BOMB EXPLOSION. (Received December 27th, 8.55 p.m.) JERUSALEM, December 27. . Moses Katz, a worker in the Petac.b Tikvah Colony, was killed while working in a field, by the explosion of a bomb which was dropped during the war. . M. TCHITCHERIN WISHES TO RETIRE. BERLIN, December 26. M. Georges Tehitcherin will return to Moscow early in January and urge the acceptance of his resignation as Soviet Foreign Commissar. M. Tchitcherin, who has been undei treatment at Wiesbaden for over a year, has been unable to take any active part in foreign affairs, and asked to be relieved Bome time ago. It is believed here that the Soviet will accept his resignation as a result of the forthcoming journey, which is permitted by the physicians only after a thorough examination of their patient. HONOUR FOR MR H. MARKS. SUVA, December 27. Mr Henry Marks has been notified by the Governor that the King has approved of his retaining the title of Honourable in recognition of his 19 years' legislative services. Local opinion is that the recognition is inadequate. OFFER FOR MEDICAL SCHOOL. PARIS, December 20. Professor Georges Roger has announced that Mr John Rockefeller, jun., has offered 6,006,000 dollars for the construction of a new medical school for France, on condition that France contributes an equal amount. Professor Roger said that sum would permit the finest medical centre in Europe to be built, capablo of accommodating 10,000 students.