BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 September 1923, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.*

SICILIAN EARTHQUAKE. LONDON, September 19. A message from Syracuse, in Sicily, reports a violent earthquake shock this morning.

GREEK “ACE” KILLED. ATHENS, Sepember 19. Lieut. Stravropoulos, who was regarded as the Greek “Ace,” after loop ing several times in a strong wind, crashed and was killed. MILITARY POLO. NEW YORK, September 19. At Westbury, the United States Army polo team won the military polo championship of the world, defeating the British Army team in two out of three matches. EMPIRE EXHIBITION ’ LONDON, September 19. The Prince of Wales has written to the Lord and. Mayor of the London City Guilds, asking their assistance and representation in a pageant of the Empire being held, at the Empire Exhibition Stadium next summer. FIGHTING IN BRAZIL. MONTE VIDEO, September JB. Zuarahy has been captured by 1800 Brazilian rebels, after a sharp fight. The comlnander of the Governmentforces has been captured, according to a telegram from the Uruguayan *Con sul. PRINCE’S SUICIDE. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 18. Prince Abdurrahit, the younger s of the late Sultan, ;Xbdul Hamid', wm has been a victim to neurasthenia, was found with a revolver wound in his head, following on a visit to his father’s tomb.

DUTCH RETRENCHMENT. AMSTERDAM, September 19. The Queen nd the Queen Dowager, in consequence of the depression in Holland, have advised the Government that they are prepared to forego part of their income correspondingly to the impending reduction in civil servants’ salaries.

AMERICAN WHEAT CRISIS. WASHINGTON, September 19.

It is officially stated that President Coolidge is working out emergency re-« fief measures for the wheat growers, who are threatened with ruin. Thousands of farmers face the position of selling crops at far less than cost ; this when) many of them are already broken, after two unsatisfactory years.

VILLA’S SLAYER.

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 19.

A telegram from Chihuahua City states that Salas Barrazah, the confessed slayer of Villa, who has been sentenced to twenty years in a penitei. tiary, was brought here under heavy guard to the prison. Thousands crowded to see him. Petitions are being circulated to obtain his pardon. RUSSIAN TIMBER. MOSCOW, September 17. The German ex-Chancellor, Dr Wirth, has obtained what is regarded as the biggest concession hitherto granted by the Soviet, namely the right to exploitation over one million desiatins (nearly two and three-quarter million acres) of forest westward of Rybinsk, the completion of a railway io the Baltic, and the erection of large sawmills. The undertaking will ultimately become State property. MOSCOW, Sept. 19.

Hugo Stinnes has arrived. Following the example of Krupp, he is seeking agricultural concessions.

WOMAN DOCTOR’S COURAGE. LONDON, September 19.

An epic of medical heroism lies behind the death, in Norwich, from cancer of Dr. Margaret Boileau. Knowing her condition to be hopeless, she for months past daily described her symptoms in the interests of medical research. Two women doctors, with whom she practised among London’s poor, have collected the notes she gave of the progress of the disease which was killing her. These will probably be published as a memorial of Dr. Boileau’s unselfish courage.