BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 March 1926, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

(Australian and N.Z. Game zusociation.) (By Cable —Press Assn.—Copyright.) ADMIRALTY SECRETS LONDON, March 5. Scotland Yard is investigating the disappearance of important documents from the Admiralty. HOUSEMAIDS’ SUICIDE. BERLIN, March 4 An extraordinary death pact was revealed when five housemaids at Wilhelmshaven simultaneously jumped over a bridge into the harbour. Three were drowned, while two were rescued. t SHIP TURNS TURTLE. ' NEW" YORK, March 5. A telegram from Hoquiam, Washington, states that the Japanese steamer Horsisan Maru, bound for Japan, turned turtle and sank at Grayed Harbour on Thursday night. 'Forty-eight men were picked up. They are believed to be the entire crew. SUNKEN SHIPS. SAN FRANCISCO, March 4. According to a telegram from Seattle, the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company announced' on Thursday that it has Men awarded claims aggregating 350,000 dollars by the Mixed Claims Commission for th i loss of five freighters sunk in’ the world war by German submarines.

COUNTESS CATHCART NEW YORK, March 5. Countess Cathcart won her suit to remain in the United States, when the writ of habeas corpus sustained after District Attorney Buckner entered a record that adultery does not constitute a crime under the laws of the Union of South Africa. AMERICAN SPECULATION. NEW YORK, March' 4. . The drastic decline in- the price's of shares and . stock was brought to ’a halt in the first two hours of the trading on the Stock Exchange bn' Thursday, when buying orders for hundreds of shares were distributed by strong financial interests and by hundreds of “bargain hunters’.” The trading continued in enormous volume, with a rebound of prices from one to almost twenty-four points. The close of the day was marked by an enthusiastic outburst of buying.' The sales for the day totalled 2,500,000 shares, compared with 3,785,700 on Wednesday. BANK NOTE FORGERIES. - HAGUE, March 5.. The trial has opened of three Hungarians, Jahkovitch, Narcoviski, and Marcovitch for attempting to pass forged French thousand'franc notes. Marcovitch said that he was entrusted by.the secretary of Prince Windischgraetz with the task of buying jewellery in Holland, and he forged the notes. A Dutch jeweller gave evidence that Marcovitch actually attempted to purchase jewellery of a value of thirty to forty thousand francs to be paid with French thousand-franc notes. The prosecution demanded sentences of 9 and 7 years’ imprisonment.