IN BRIEF FROM ALL PARTS OF WORLD

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31676, 11 May 1968, Page 13

IN BRIEF FROM ALL PARTS OF WORLD

Biter Bitten . An Adelaide motorist’s , plan to beat the breathalyser r by sipping a breath deodorant when stopped by the police backfired when the essence registered the equivalent of 15 beers. The Adelaide Magistrates’ Court was told that the perfumed essence contained 35 per cent alcohol. The driver was fined S6O and disqualified from holding a driving licence for six weeks.—Adelaide, May 10. Continental Link Britain still favours the English Channel tunnel scheme, despite higher estimated costs, the Minister of Transport (Mr Richard Marsh) has told Parliament. The cost of a rail link between France and Britain under the Channel, originally estimated at about f2oom, was now expected to be nearer £2som, he said.—London, May 10. Service For Journalist A memorial service for the Australian journalist, John Cantwell, who was killed in Saigon last Sunday, was held in St John's Anglican Cathedral, Hong Kong, today. Mr Cantwell, who represented “Time-Life” in Vietnam, formerly worked in Hong Kong, where his Chinese wife and young children live.—Hong Kong, May 10. Cost Comparison The elegantly-dressed Frenchwoman spends less each year on her wardrobe than her counterpart in V’astern Germany and the United States, according to a Paris fashion expert. French-

women, he says, spend on average the equivalent of 5N.Z.36 to 5N.Z.43 a year, compared with 5N.Z.53 to 5N.Z.64 by her counterpart in West Germany, and 5N.Z.74 to SN.Z.B9 in the United States. —Paris, May 10. Guerrilla Toll About 100 Arab guerillas were killed by Israeli security forces in the 10 months to April 22, according to the Israeli Minister of Defence (Mr Moshe Dyan). In the same period, 330 Arab saboteurs were sentenced to prison terms by Israeli courts and 686 others are awaiting trial on charges of sabotage and infiltration.—Jerusalem, May 10. War Casualty Ho Van Tuong, a Vietnamese cameraman working for United Press International, was wounded yesterday while filming street fighting on the western edge of Saigon. He was the twelfth casualty among news correspondents since Sunday—five journalists, including three Australians, have been killed and six others wounded.—Saigon, May 10. Animal Matchmaker The Federation of Zoological Gardens of Great Britain and Ireland, with a membership of 27 zoos, has announced a programme of breeding to save vanishing species of animals from I extinction. In some cases, • animals will be trained to ■ return to the wild. The i federation has set up “a mar- ' riage bureau” for all zoo ; animals and appointed its I secretary (Mr G. Schomberg)

as combined matchmaker and registrar-general for births. “If something is’nt done,” Mr Schomberg says, “by the end of the century there will be no wild animals anywhere in the world except in zoos and nature reserves.” London, May 10. Accidental Death The 62-year-old American actor, Albert Dekker, who was found dead in his Hollywood flat, died accidentally, with a rope knotted around the neck, according to a coroner’s verdict “Thia certainly is a strange death,” the Los Angeles deputy coroner (Mr Herbert Mcßoy) said, “but just because there was a rope around his neck does not mean that he committed suicide. We have no information that he planned to take his Own life.”—Los Angeles, May 10. Suspension Imposed All political meetings involving visiting speakers have been suspended for the remainder of the term at Leeds University, after an incident in which Mr Patrick Wall, a Conservative M.P., was spat at and his wife kicked to the ground. Student union members at the university endorsed, by 486 votes to 161, an apology issued by their executive committee to Mr and Mrs Wall.—London, May 10. Voyage By Hovercraft A 20-man expedition aboard a British hovercraft yesterday ended a historic voyage of almost 2500 miles from the Amazon River to the. mouth of the Orinoco. The 45ft amphibian left Puerto Aya-

cucho on Monday, travelled at high speed down the Orinoco, stopped at Ciudad Bolivar, and then went on to Trinidad, via San Felix and the Cano Manamo.—Caracas, Venezuela, May 10. Elephantine Incident A mother elephant, after trying in vain to rescue her calf from the mud, charged an Australian woman tourist visiting a game lodge near Nairobi, Kenya, and was shot dead by a professional hunter.—Nairobi, May 10. New Lease Of Life A pig’s heart valve has been transplanted into the heart of an unidentified 15-year-old Hungarian girl, and Budapest doctors describe her condition as satisfactory. —Budapest, May 10. Heptagon Coin A seven-sided coin of 50c denomination, believed to be the first in the world, will replace the 10s’ note in Britain’s decimal currency system. It will come into circulation in October, 1969.—London, May 10. Paratroopers Drown Two Canadian paratroopers are dead and five others miss ing after a training jump accident in which 26 men splashed into the frigid waters of the Ottawa River, 1000yds off their target.—Ottawa, May 10. Greeted By Pope Pope Paul yesterday received a group of 35 Australian veterans of the First World War in private audi-

ence. The veterans are on a two-day visit to Rome on their way home from a fiftieth anniversary pilgrimage to the battlefields of the Somme.— Vatican City, May 10. ‘The New Pentecost* The Roman Catholic Church will launch a campaign on June 2 to revitalise the Church in Britain by persuading laymen to take over much of its administration. The Church aims to raise £200,000 this year to help the experiment, known as “The New Pentecost.” There are four million Roman Catholics living in Britain.—London, May 10. N.Z.B.C. Purchase “The Servants,” the TyneTees documentary about domestic service in Britain which was one of the six "finalists for the 1968 “Emmy” Award, has been bought by the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation. London, May 10. Professorial Post The former Canadian Prime Minister, Mr Lester Pearson, will become a professor of international affairs at Carleton University, Ottawa, it was announced yesterday.—Ottawa, May 10. Yachtsman Missing The Californian yachtsman, Mr Arthur Piver, has been overdue for more than a month on a solo voyage down the Californian coast and there is little hope of his survival. He was sailing a 25ft trimaran of his own design from San Francisco to Sap Diego, about 500 miles south,

to qualify for this year’s single-handed transatlantic yacht race.—San Francisco, May 10. Guerrillas Condemned Employees of the Reuters news agency have urged the North Vietnamese Government to condemn the guerrillas who killed four journalists in Saigon on Sunday. In a cable to the United Nations Secretary-General (U Thant), the federated house chapel of the various trades unions representing Reuter workers expressed shock over the killing of the four men, two of whom were Reuter correspondents. —London, May 10. Safe Landing An airliner with 26 persons aboard landed safely on a bed of foam at Manston, Kent, today after developing nose-wheel trouble shortly after take-off. The twinengine Avro 748 turbo-jet aircraft, belonging to Skyways Airlines, was flying from Lympne, 30 miles away, to Beauvais, in France.—Mansion, May 10. Cholera Epidemic Nearly 150 persons have died in the West Pakistan town of Multan since a cholera epidemic broke out there last month, but health officials say only 41 of the several thousand admitted to hospital have died.—Karachi, May 10.. Cartoonist Dead Harold Gray, creator of the famous strip cartoon heroine, “Little Orphan Annie," has died, aged 74. —San Diego, California.