BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 November 1923, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) FISHERMEN’S CONTEST. . F LONDON, November The Canadian Schooner, Blue Nqse, retains the international championship trophy, defeating thef American schooner Columbia in thel two races sailed., TEACHING THE RUSSIANS. ’X MOSCOW, November 1. N A party of skilled Australian workmen have arrived here. They intend settling in Russia, their avowed object being to set an example of improved methods in rural industries. SHIPS COLLIDE. !. NEW YORK, Nov.' 2.' A telegram from San Pedro (California) reports that the oil tanker S. C. Dodd crashed into the dread;. nought New Mexico, in the harbourj The tanker’s bow , was carried. away and several of the dreadnought’s plates were, damaged. IMMIGRANTS’ QUOTA. NEW YORK, November 2. The immigration quotas of nine nations were exhausted with the arrival of fifteen thousand aliens on eleven vessels, and more are en route on, the Majestic, Leviathian and Beringaria.

FIRPO’S NEXT OPPONENT. BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 2. Firpo has been ipvited to fight Comacho, a Bolivian Indian giant, seven feet, two inches high, with ah arm spread of eight feet. Comacho possesses a formidable punch and great agility, and is said to be the perfect specimen of fighting man. He offers to fight Firpo six rounds in La Paz. INTERNATIONAL SOCCER. \ PARIS, November 1. ? The annual Soccer match for thb Dewar Shield, between the League and the London League, resulted in a win for the Paris League by three goals to one. T ANTWERP, November 2. At Soccer, England hnd Belgium drew, 2—2. BOY MIGRANTS. . . f LONDON, November 2. General Booth, interviewed, said that he intended sending ten thous-j and boys to the Dominions. Six hundred had already been sent this season and three hundred more were going by the end of the year. The numbers in future would depend upon the absorbing powers of the Dominions. RUGBY CENTENARY. LONDON, November 2. . In honour of the centenary of the Rugby game, a match between combined Englisli, Welsh, Scoth and Irish teams was played in the Rugby School Close, which holds two thousand spectators. Enough applicants for tickets were received to fill the space several times. The weather was glorious. England .and Wales beat Scotland and Ireland by 21 to 16. WIRELESS PROGRESS. NEW YORK, November 2. A revolutionary step in the scientific development of radio was recqrd.ed when a signal made twenty round trips from the. New York radio corporation (America) to Warsaw (Poland) without the assistance ; of an operator at either end. This demonstrates that simultaneous acknowledgment is possible in long distance radio messages. A single loop connected the vast space. The dot raced through the ether, recording bn the tape at each return trip from Warsaw. A NURSE’S ORDEAL. LONDON, November 2.. Fraulein Teslic, a young hospital nurse, when climbing the Hohenwart (in the Austrian Alps), fell over a precipice 450 ft Ugh. She was only slightly injured, though stunned. When she recovered consciousness, she was horrified to find the decomposed body of a man, with a whistle in his mouth, on a ledge beside her. The' girl shouted out, but no help came, and she spent a night by the dead man. Finally her cries were heard by a party of alpinists, who rescued the nurse with ropes. The dead man proved to be an Austrian student, who had disappeared last summer. He evidently had starved to death.