WIDE WORLD NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3143, 13 November 1922, Page 8

WIDE WORLD NEWS.

Finding ;i live 37mm. shell between he rails on the Paris Metropolitan lailway, a permanent way inspector ras about to remove it to a place of al’etv when it exploded, blowing him, o pieces. The victim is Marcel Fourlier, aged 43. 'While on duty between: he station of Repuhliqne and Ober:ampt, lie called out to other men that ie had found a shell. “I am going to emovo it to a safe place-,” he said, ‘otherwise if a. train hits it, bang goes he train with the passengers.” No ooner had he uttered these words ban , a terrific explosion occurred. A hcory that an Anarchist outrage was ttempted is not accepted by the ulice, who think that a careless man, nxious to bo rid of such a dangerous souvenir,” dropped it on the line. Says a Home paper:—When medical id scholastic authorities join to con'iiiii the present-day football girl as modern phenomenon they overlook ie fact that our athletic grandothers were keen players of the une. In olden days there was much otha,ll, and contests between rival irishes often took the form of free ;hts—hut the women were there. At arhorough, on the morning of Shrove lesday, hawkers used to parade the roots selling parti-colored balls, •cryhotly bought them, and indisiminate contests took place on the nds below the old town. Parish rerds at Inverness, in Midlothian, ted 1795, tell us of an annual foot--11 match that took place between c married and unmarried women. Four ex-Serviee men were summoned Lambeth Police Court in England dor statutes of Richard 11., dated! ■ll and 1391; and of Henry IV., iring the date 1429. The case was ; sequel to the seizure of an empty ise in South-grove, Peckham, last hruary, since which time it has m occupied by the men and their nilies. The charge against the men s of “forcibly entering an unocn'od house.” Counsel said the gistrate had power to commit the n to prison. The magistrate said was the last person who would wish

IR to treat ex-Service men in a harsh way. Hard as these men's case was they were trespassers. He would he rather they gave an undertaking to nd leave the place. Everybody was sorry ol- for such men. One of the men told ic- the magistrate that they had searched 'et months for rooms, but could not find :es them. They could not live in the ihe gutter. They had offered rent, but it of had been refused. In the end the men re- agreed to vacate the house in six a weeks. _ n ,® The toot of a single motor horn has ' been found sufficient, in East Africa, 0 to quiet stampeded oxen, and cause a ■ x i' trio of flesh-hunting lions to slink away " into the bushes. Two native drivers of T ere reoe,l % conducting a wagon drawn by 16 oxen to the railroad camp. in the wilds near Nakuru, the site of "" the new Uasin Gishu railroad, when tho ins j Pans were attaoke d by three lions. The "» drivers' fled to nearby tree®. The oxen -ft "£ came panic-stricken and dashed down he i , rough road, dragging along tho edi , y of one ox ' kil Wby the lions, with the swaying wagon behind them. The ,"■ terns followed their prey. This was the , mad procession that ' greeted a lone motorist at a curve of the road. He . had no rifle, and it was almost an und conscious movement that took his hand ue I? r horn button - At *I» first sound the Ipaa seemed non-plussed. The mo •<ts toa ' Je * then blew loud and long, as the ' uncanny and sustained 1 shriek rose _ above the clamor of the frightened r° animals, the lions slunk away. ue „ 0 f Women are replacing men gamblers lgs aboard Oceaji liners. One large liner is- ™ c ? n tly c ' ai »e into port, ajid Detective Mallon, as usual, met it at quarantine, he «« «w» himself as soon as he was SS) aboard But by the time the liner he reached the pier he appeared, sore and ~ disgusted, with disappointment easily ist to be read in his face. "I lost 'the of Duchess again," he grumbled. His he Bt pry was brief. He had received a at wireless tip that there was a woman aboard, aristocratic and cultured, that fc > s she had been very SAveet to several of he f j lllen P asse «geis; that she had rehe consented to play bridge pracw- "cally every night at sea; that she >s n ; ldl collc> cted rather heavily at the end he , e , sitting. •"I talked to five men lt _ about her," continued Mallon, "and not lie ?," e would complain. She was a woman. they said, and they were not willing to ev aceu «<\ a woman of cheating at cards. (Ie bo I had to let 'the Duchess' come , ashore, and she has just, passed her bagne & :lge -, S ! 1 - e wiU P«*aWy be back in the ,„ * reach liner next week, laughing at to me \i "That's the trouble now. We ; could beat the man at the game, but H» m)l i v men P asse "gers Avho have lost , either won't admit a woman could outwit them, or else they'won't complain. The women arc getting away with it - simply because they are women." es lis The political ambitions of Mr Hearst, ed Proprietor of the New York American and other iieAVspapers, met with crush3(j ing defeat recently. Primary elections ~-k were held! in the provincial districts of i Jle New York State to choose delegates for ie the democratic nominating convention ,j._ at which candidates for the governoras ship and other' State offices will be selected. Mr Hearst made a great effort to secure delegates pledged to himself, * but he failed everywhere. Especially disastrous to Mr Hearst's desire to jtf stampede the convention for himself lg was the defeat of Iris forces in Erie ■, County, the home of his political nian--2 ager, "Fingy" Connert?. a The Maharajah Jam Sahib of Nawau- „- agar (Ranjitsinhiji) scored a,|great sucg cess mi. the aseembly of the League of Nations Avhen he delivered a speecih on , e opium. He said that he did not claim I_ to be an expert on the opium: question. , r but he spoke on the subject as all West,r ern States were under the impression e that every Indian grew opium and ig every Chinese smoked it. He produced • s statistics to show that this impression j_ was greatly mistaken. ■ "The great bulk hj of the Indian population," he said, v "does not consider, and does not know that opium is a harmful drug. It constitutes one of the greatest resources of the population. Indians do not abuse opium. A soldier or working man will " take a small dose after working hours just as a European will take wine, coffee, or tea," He contended that efforts of Western- nations, through the [v League, to limit the world's production .. to medical and scientific needs would t UMiUßfcly harm the Indian industry as ae the population where opium was s not smoked but taken internally, and j Avas a, necessary stimul'an.t. The' Jam v was much' applauded when he left the tribune. t i Miss Gwen Richardson, a pretty > London girl, proposes to exchange or- - dmary everyday life in a Chelsea homo for the excitement of diamond hunt- ; jug in the wilds of British Guiana. "1 i ha Ac been to Georgetown, British Quii ana before." said Miss Richardson lately, /'and 1 have been shown diamonds winch the natives bring down from the Mazaruni River. I thought then what a splendid idea it would be to explore for diamonds, and hoav a small legacy has been left me. so I haAe niy chance. All my plans are made, and . I nave been buying the necessary kit. I sail from Amsterdam on October 19, and my friends'in Georgetown have arranged for the party which will accompany me. It will consist of nine natiA-e boatmen and one native woman. We shall set out in small boats and travel for fourteen days up the river, and then find a spot to pitch our camp. I have secured a right to wash for diamonds along 500 acres of river front. I mean to try and make my fortune out of tho diamonds. No white woman has, 1 am told, e\or before been aAvay in tho river wilds. I shall stay up country for three months at least, living all the time in a tent that has been made for me in London. It is a lovely little tent, eleven feet by nine feet. I shall wear men's clothesj of course." A €6,000,000 commission, is, according to- the- Sbeialiist newspaper VatAvarts, the "small; profit" which Her'r Stinnes is making out of the agreement that Germany shall deliver the material for the reconstruction of the devastated French area,. The Vorwaerte reports that Hon- Stinnes has secured a monopoly for rebuilding 190,000 houses. The A-alue of the material needed is estimated at more than £100,000,000 The reconstruction is to be carried out by the French General of Labor in close association with' Herr Stinnes, Avho ia to receive ai commission of 6 per cent, for concluding the agreement. "Hush, hush, hush," came amid 1 laughter from all parts of the hall when the Rev. H. O. T. Ha.iiby. at tho Christchurch Diocesan Synod illustrated a. point by drawing the analogy of "a beer bottle with a hole in the bottom of it." "Perhaps," said Mr Hanby, amid general merriment, "you Avould prefer the description to refer to a lemonade bottle?" —Lyttelton Times.