NEWS OF THE WORLD

Evening Star, Issue 22893, 26 February 1938, Page 7

NEWS OF THE WORLD

GIRL SHOT WHILE . PRAYING

A Moslem tragedy is reported from the village of Osovo, near Sarajevo. Behara Meshanovitch, a ten-day bride, was shot dead the other evening at her prayers. It seems that her murderer took advantage of the period of Ramadan, when all Moslems reverse the order_ of their days, fasting by day and eating only between sunset and sunrise, and when he knew that the men of the household would be absent at the mosque. The women' were assembled at their prayers in the house when a shot smashed the window and Behara fell to the ground. So great is the devotion of these Moslems that it was only when prayers were over that'the other women, found that she had been shot through the heart. The murderer escaped.

WORLD’S LONGEST UNDERGROUND CANAL

- The longest underground canal in the world hows through the Tunnel du Rove connecting the port of Marseilles with Martigues, Caronte, and Port de Bono. This canal measures over four and a-half miles long. Its height is 50ft and its total width 72ft. The waterway is 58ft broad, and the depth of the water 13ft. Footpaths border both sides of the canal. If the Rove tunnel was used' for a railway instead of a canal there-would be ample room for six trains abreast. More than twice the amount of earth was excavated during is construction than was removed from the Simplon tunnel. ’

tobacco as cheap as CABBAGES

A delegation of Yugoslav tobacco growers from the Podgoritsa district of Montenegro recently visited the Prime Minister.

While they admitted that owing to. a rainy autumn : the quality of their tobacco fell short of last year’s crop, 'they insisted that it was anomalous that tobacco should fetch a lower price than the commonest cabbages. Cabbages cost about Id per lb. Tobacco, which is grown under the strict supervision of the monopoly authorities, to prevent smuggling, demands the constant attention of the growers throughout the greater part of the year, and is often sold at a similar price or less. The monopoly retails its cheapest cigarettes at over-10 times this price.

TOMB RIVALLING TUTANKHAMEN’S

The tomb of a Second Dynasty noble, sealed since funeral rites ,5,100 years ago, or about 3160 8.0., was reported last month to have been found by W. B. Emery. The English Egyptologist, who only two, weeks before unearthed what may be the true tomb of Menes, the first Pharaoh, ■ made his- latest discovery at Sakkara while seeking graves of Menes’s servants.

The contents of this second tomb, including a great crumbling coffin, exquisite alabaster bowls and other objects, apparently had not been disturbed since burial.

Egyptologists hitherto had thought the chances of finding such a tomb intact were negligible. Its discovery was hailed as a feat comparable to the finding of Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1922.

NAZI ROWDYISM IN AUSTRIA

Naii rowdyism provoked fights at many of the 50 public mass meetings held recently in Vienna and elsewhere by the two principal Austrian Legitimist federations, the Iron- Ring and the National League of Austrians. At most of the nine meetings held in Vienna the Nazis dropped tear, stink, or gas bombs, and by shout? of “Heil Hitler ” and -the singing of the ‘ Deutschland Lied ’ provoked the audience to protests and retaliation. There Were many free fights, and the police, who had turned out in large numbers, intervened. Some 30 arrests, mostly of Nazis, have been reported so far. At the Villach (Carinthia) meeting there was a serious disturbance and 20 arrests were made. At the Graz (Styria) meeting two persons were injured severely and several others were injured slightly in a fight with beer glasses and chairs. There also arrests were made. At Mattersburg, in the Burgenland, Nazis cut the electric light cable and put the hall in darkness.

IWOMAN killed for BAG OF BILBERRIES

Joseph Eibl, aged 22, who was condemned to death at Innsbruck last month for the murder of Katherina Neuner, aged 40, confessed in court that he had killed the woman because she had picked 52 pints of bilberries on the Pulvermacheralp one morning, when he himself had found very few of them. ' Eibl said he had walked behind, the woman on the mountain, and, noticing her full knapsack, had thought how easy it would be to deprive_ her of it. So he hit her on the head with a stone and pushed the body into a brook, but did not stav to see whether she was drowned. On arriving home he gave his mother the bag of berries to sell. He got only two schillings (about Is 4d) as his share of the price they fetched. The prisoner said that he was sorry when he saw his victim unconscious, but “as there was nothing I could now _d® 1 went on my way.’-i