CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19853, 14 February 1930, Page 9

CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

CHINESE NAVAL MISSION. LONDON, February 12. Members of a Chinese naval mission studying modern warships with a Yiew to modernising the Chinese Navy, were taken to sea in a submarine from Portsmouth and shown its performance. Then they were given a trip in a naval aircraft at_ Calshot. The Admiralty has invited the mission to spend a week in Portsmouth.

PALM ISLAND TRAGEDY. BRISBANE. February IS. At the official enquiry into the Palm Island tragedy the Magistrate's declared that the evidence disclosed considerable bickering among the officials in charge of the native compound. Currie had assaulted Dr. Patterson during one of these altercations, but intoxicating liquor was the real tx>ot of the trouble. fR. H. Currie ran amok with a revolver at Palm Island, north of Townsville, on February 4th, wounded Dr. Maitland Patterson and his wife, burned the stores, killed his son and daughter, and was afterward phot dead by the natives.] NO NEWS OF EXPLORER. BUENOS AYRES, February 12! The Trans Radio Company announced that a message from the whaler Erneste Tonquist, stationed near South Georgia Island, reported unsuccessful efforts to call Sir Herbert Wilkins's partv at Deception Island, ana that they nad had no news from the explorer for 15 days. ANOTHER ARREST MADE. MELBOURNE, February 13. Another man has been arrested in connexion with the alleged coming organisation. , . The police found a suitcase m tlia Maribyrnong River containing a number of counterfeit florins. UNUSUAL PENSION CLAIM. LONDON, February 12. The widow of a soldier who fought at Waterloo, 115 years ago, will be among those to obtain a pension under the new Widows' Pension Act, said Mr Arthur Greenwood (Minister for Health), speaking at Hackney. Her husband was a lad of 18 when he was at Waterloo, and was over 60 when he married a young girl. Assuming that the hero married when he was 65, the marriage must have taken place in 1862. If the wife was then 17 she is now 85MUSEUM BOMB HOAX. LONDON, February 12. j In connexion with' the bomb hoax in the British Museum, Biggs, who was arrested, was fined £2O, with the alternative of two months' imprisonment. .