NEWS FROM ABROAD

Evening Star, Issue 19840, 13 April 1928, Page 2

NEWS FROM ABROAD

Germans Start Transatlantic Flight

Everything in Favor of Success Where Was the Garden of Eden ? Church Scandal in English Village

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, April 12. Dublin reports that Koehl’s monoplane started for America at 5.30 this morning.—Australian Press Association. WEATHER FAVORABLE. LONDON, April 12. The German aeroplane Bremen took of! in the presence of Mr Cosgrave, President of the Free State, the German Consul, and 500 spectators. Koehl stated that everything favored success, the Atlantic weather report being excellent. The ’plane is taking the great north circle route, an/1 passed over Galway at 7.5, Hying strongly. She was last seen at Castleho, twenty miles west of Galway. Visibility was then bad. Baron Huhnfeld and Commandant Fitzmnurice are accompanying Koehl. —Australian Press Association. COMMANDANT FITZMAURICE. MESSAGE BEFORE DEPARTURE. LONDON, April 12. Commandant Fitzmaurice, chief of the Irish Air Force, in a message before the departure of the Bremen, said that in view of her geographical position in reference to future air transport it was appropriate that Ireland should be associated with the present flight. Discouraging criticism could be answered by the simple statement that every success required a certain amount of risk. “ By the time this is published we will be 100 miles from the Irish coast, and, God willing, thirty hours thereafter we will reach New York and claim the conquest of the Atlantic westwards.”—Australian Press Association. PILOT LOSES POSITION BERLIN WORK NEGLECTED. LONDON, March 31. The Berlin Lufthansa Company has dismissed from his position as director of night flying Herr Koehl, who is preparing at Baldonnel, Ireland, for a flight across the Atlantic in a Junkers monoplane. The reason for his dismissal is that he has absented himself from his work without permission. SHOT DEAD IN STREET CHICAGO ELECTION MURDER Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, April 11. Election day at Chicago ended with the brutal murder of a negro lawyer, Octavius Gronadv, who was a successful Deneen candidate for on© of the city wards. He, with two friends in a car, was making a tour of the polling places, when another car, flying the banners of an opposition candidate, drew alongside, and a number of shots were fired at Gronadv, who started a wild flight along the streets until his car collided with a tree. The pursuing car came up and poured in machine gun fire, fatally wounding Gronady.—

FRENCH AIRMEN ARRIVAL AT KARACHI Press Association—By Telegraph- Copyright DELHI, April 12. (Received April 13, at 1.30 a.m.) Captains Costes and Le Brix reached Karachi at 7.30 last evening, and left at 11.30 for Basra. —United Service.

United Service. IRAQ BORDER TROUBLE CONFERENCE ANNOUNCED Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, April 12. The King of the Hedjaz has intimated to the Dominions Department his willingness to confer with Sir Gilbert Clayton concerning the Iraq trouble. They will probably meet next week.— Australian P.ress Association. ASIAN RAILWAY GERMANS SECURE CONTRACT Pre*s Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. BERLIN, April 11. A German group has obtained a contract to build 500 miles of railway from the Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea. The total cost is stated to be £25,000,000.—Australian Press Association. CRADLE OF THE RACE GARDEN OF EDEN SPECDLATIDNS Fr&u Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, April 11.. That the Garden of Eden was not in Mesopotamia, but in Central Asia, and that Daniel predicted the World War were some of the conclusions presented at the annual session of the American Oriental Society. Dr Duncan, a professor of Egyptology at an American university, declared that over eight heathen cities had been proposed by scholars as the site of the Garden ol Eden, but archaeologists and anthropologists now' agreed upon Central Asia. Professor Lee, of Pennsylvania, said that the last two verses of the twelfth chapter of the Book of Daniel would give exactly the date of the World War if the year were substituted for the day. —Australian Press Association.

COMMUNIST’S FIANCEE PLANS KIS ESCAPE FROM PRISON POLICE STATION RAIDED. Pies* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. BERLIN, April 11. Otto Braun’s fiancee, Olga Benario, planned his escape from the police station in the Moabit Quarter. She is the daughter of a Munich lawyer, who left home in 1926 to follow Communist ideals. She was recently employed by the Russian Trade Delegation, but was discharged last week. She was permitted to see Braun for a few minutes daily and bring him newspapers, food, and flowers, but the interviews always took place in the judge’s room under the judge’s eyes. The escape was fixed for Braun’s last appearance at Moabit Court, as the preparatory evidence was completed pending his removal for trial at Leipzig. Braun and five others are charged with revolutionary schemes, being in possession of incriminating literature, and spreading disaffection in the Reichswehr and the navy. The Communist raiders stormed the office and held revolvers at the judge’s and warders’ heads while Braun and Benario fled. Hundreds were present in court, and witnessed the incident.—‘ Times ’ Cable. LIGHTNING WRECKS CHURCH THE CROSS STRUCK FIVE PEOPLE KILLED. Pres* Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. CALCUTTA. April 32. During a service in a church at Kottayam, North Travancore, lightning struck a cross over the altar and killed five of the congregation, stunning ai priest, and wrecked the church.—Australian Press Association. VILLAGE SCANDAL ALLEGATIONS AGAINST RECTOR BISHOP’S INQUIRY OPENED. Pros* Association —By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, April 12. In the Hayden case, AVinifred Sharpe, unmarried, aged thirty-two, gave evidence that the rector frequently kissed her. She was too frightened to repel him, and finally the rector acted indiscreetly. 'The Rev. Mr Hayden, giving evidence, denied familiarity with the school mistress. Ho explained that Miss Sharpe was temperamental, jumpy, and had a quarrel with his wife. To-day was the first ocasion on which he had heard of the charge of impropriety. The school mistress gave evidence denying the allegations. The rector’s wife also gave evidence to the effect that her married life was exceptionally happy. The rector was a good husband and a splendid father.— Australian Press Association. [A previous message stated that the village of Avening (Gloucestershire) was excited over the opening of a commission of inquiry appointed by the Bishop of Gloucester to investigate allocations regarding the conduct of the rector, tho Rev. 0. E. Hayden. It is alleged that ho paid court to the village school mistress under circumstances to occasion scandal, and that he frequented alehouses tolling improper stories and swearing habitually. Counsel, in outlining the complaints said that, having regard to the rector s own reputation and the fact that he is a married man, apart from being a clergyman. the commission would have to ask whether he acted wisely and honorably. The rector denies the charges, and says that the gossip must he fully investigated “for the sake of myself, my wito, ( and the young woman concerned. J j l NEW ENTENTE | j SIGNOR MUSSOLINI'S AIMS THE EASTER INTERVIEWS. Prei* Association —By Telegraph Copyright. ROME, April 11. A communique announces the results of Signor Mussolini’s remarkable series of Eastertide interviews with Foreign Ministers. It declares that amicable arrangements were reached with Czechb-Slovakia and tho Little Entente, while relations with Germany are excellent. Most elaborate police arrangements ivere mad at Milan to keep secret Signor Mussolini’s conference with Count Bethlen, Prime Minister of Hungary, when discussing the plan for a new Oriental entente em- | bracing Italy, Hungary, Turkey, , Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, and Poland. \ —Australian Press Association. j

TO iUVAL GENEVA. ROME AS A POLITICAL CENTRE. GENEVA, April 11. League circles are speculating whether Signor Mussolini, who is the only Foreign Minister in Europe who has never attended the League, is trying to create a political centre at Rome to rival Geneva, where the opportunities for meetings between Foreign Ministers are admittedly one of the most valuable aspects of the League’s' work. —Australian Press Association.

VISA REFUSED AMERICAN IMMIGRATION LAWS THE QUOTA EXCEEDED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, April 11. For the second time in the past few months the State Department has refused a permit to a foreign educationist to enter the United States to accept a place in an American university, the United States Consul at Toronto (Ohio) having refused a visa to Captain Odell, a member of the Mount Everest expedition, who wished to enter Harvard’s geological department. This was in consequence of the quota having been exceeded. The State Department only remarked that the “ law is rather rigid.” Captain Odell’s case is similar to that of Professor Jack, of Aberdeen University, who was recently prevented from going to the University of Michigan.—Australian Press Association. COMMONWEALTH LINE IF WAGES ARE REDUCED A BOYCOTT PLANNED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, April 12. It is reported that officials of the Australian Maritime Union are planning to boycott the new owners if the Commonwealth Line of ships is placed on English articles and wages are reduced. The vessels will be immediately declared “black,” and no cargo will be handled, nor will any lines be handled when they are berthing.

A POLITICAL STORM LORD BIRKENHEAD THE CENTRE CHARGED WITH FLOUTING LEADER. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 12. (Received April 13, at 1.30 a.m.) Lord Birkenhead if? the centre of another political storm. He is charged with flouting Mr Baldwin’s ban on Ministers as journalists, and using the columns of a. women’s journal to criticise his leader’s “ enfranchisement of the Flappers’ Bill, which has yet to go before., the House of Lords.” Lord Birkenhead's article asserts that the incursion of women into industry and politics has failed, and will continue to fail.—United Service.