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Evening Star, Issue 18255, 20 April 1923, Page 8

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Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. N.W. FRONTIER ABDUCTION. DELHI, April 19. (Received April 20, at 11.35 a.m.) Miss Ellis has been located in the centre of the Tirah country. Her recovery is expected in a few days.—A. and N.Z. Cable. [Miss Ellis, aged fifteen, was abducted by Afridis who raided Major Ellis's bungalow at Kobart in his and cut his wife’s throat. It was surmised that Miss Ellis would be held as a hostage.] N.S.W. LOAN. LONDON, April 19. (Received April 20, at 11.35 a.m.) New South Wales is underwriting a £6.000,000 loan at. 4] per cent., issued at £94, of which £2,000,000 is for conversion purposes. . An otter at 5 per cent, issued at £95 was rejected. SEX INSTRUCTION. RECOMMENDED”FOR SCHOOLS. LONDON, April 19. (Received April 20, at 11.35 a.m.) Tho National Birth Rate Commission, whoso president is tho Bishop of Birmingham, and on which are leading doetors, presented a report to the Board of Education to-day. The report recommends sex instruction. However difficult and delicate the task, it cannot be shirked, with due regard to the moral safety and welfare of youth. It is generally agreed that it is impossible rigidly to fix the ago at which sex instruction should commence. One doctor urged that a boy of nine was perfectly able to understand tho physiological facts of maternity. The Commission did not give a definite rule as to whether the parents or the teachers should impart the knowledge, but recommended that teachers should be adequately trained for the purpose.—A. and N.Z. Cable. NOTORIOUS GERMAN. ARREST IN JOHANNESBURG. CAPE TOWN, April 19. (Received April 20, at 11.35 a.m.) A sensational arrest was made at Johannesburg of Franz Von Veltheim, the hero of one of the most sensational trials in South Africa. Yon Veltheim shot the financier Woolf Joel in tho latter's office in -March, 1908. He was acquitted on tho murder charge on a plea of self-defence ; but was afterwards sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment in London for attempting to blackmail Mr S. B. Joel. He was released during the war, then interned, and repatriated to Germany. It is understood that ho has now been arrested under tho immigration laws.—A. and N.Z. Cable.