BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 November 1926, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn. —Copyright.) SUEZ MEMORIAL. CAIRO, November 26. The Suez Canal Co. is erecting a memorial at Ismalia to the defenders | of the Canal in war time. ' TORNADO DEATH ROLL. NEW YORK, November 29. Memphis advises that the tornado death .roll had reached eighty last night. AERIAL BEACON. ROME,' Nov. 26. Engineers are contemplating the erection of a billion candle-power lighthouse on a summit of Mt. Etna as a beacon for air services. FIRE AT BROUSSA. ' CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 28.

Fire devastated the business quarter of Broussa. Two hundred shops were burnt. The damage totals a quarter of a million sterling. Several I persons were injured. MARCONI’S MARRIAGE. PARIS, November 27. ■ Despite Signor Marconi’s denial of the report as to the annulment of his marriage with Beatrice O’Brien “Le Petit Journal’s” Rome correspondent says that the Pope assented to its annulment. ALBANIAN FIGHTING. BELGRADE, Noy. 27. Artillery have left Scutari to operate against the revolting Catholic tribesmen, who have been driven back into the ranges. The Italian and Jugo-Slavian authorities have agreed that the rising is purely an Albanian domestic affair. BRAZILIAN REVQLT.. MONTE VIDEO, Nov. 27. Several hundred Brazilian revolutionaries and Government troops .are •eported to have been killed,' and many more wounded, in a battle -at Ballavisto, in the State of Rio Grande :le Sul. The revolutionists ate said to lave made prisoner General Aranha, Chief of the State forces. FRANCE AND GERMANY.' PARIS, Nov. 26. M. Briand has bluntly notified Herr Jon Hosh (German Ambassador) that le entirely disagreed with Herr Stresemann’s contentions that disirmament and a complete control mission in Germany should be withIrawn. The question of German lecret societies was purely domestic, >ut German disarmament was\a funcion of general disarmament. EX-KAISER’S HEALTH. . LONDON, November 26. The Paris edition of the “Chicago Jerald” says that his wife is most nxious regarding the health of the sx-Kaispr. The recent influenza is iccompariicd by severe coughing and t is feared it may develop into tuberi’lar larynx, of wbi'-ii l:is father died. Iwrv vl.'ori is beiiu.'. mad<> io lii'le the eriou .iic.-.s owing to a desire to maintain the public belief that hd is still ealthy. SMALL “BANKS” FAIL. NEW YORK, November 27. A message from Desmoines states: ’oilowing on the greatest catastrophe a lowa State’s financial history, ieavy shipments of reserve funds .ave been rushed to the banks to irevent further failures. 'Nineteen anks closed their doors yesterday, nd thirty-one have closed during the ast three weeks. This has been ue to unwarranted withdrawals oupled with low reserves.

PORT OF GLASGOW. LONDON, Nov. 2(5. Sir William Raeburn, President of the Clyde Trust, speaking at the Empire League luncheon, admitted that Glasgow had not so large a population to supply as London, Liverpool, Manchester or Hull, but there were six million people who Were dependent for supplies upon Glasgow. She had -all the facilities for dealing with larger overseas trade, and. was anxious for much more Australian and New Zealand products to beAshipped direct to Glasgow, which was a much cheaper port in every way than London. ADVENTURESS’S WARDROBE GENEVA, Nov. 26.

The police, in the luxurious flat of Helen Mottier, a beautiful bank secretary, seized fifty-nine Parisian gowns, sixty-nine hats' .seventy-five pairs of gloves, and large boxes full of lingerie.

The raid was the' sequel to her eighteen months’ imprisonment for forgery and frauds, involving eight thousand pounds extending over ten years. It is stated Helen never wore a gown more than three times. She w r as considered the best dressed ■woman in Geneva. She refused many offers of marriage from wealthy men.

EXPLORERS MISSING. CAPETOWN, November 28. There is much anxiety concerning the fate of two Americans, Doctors Magoon and’ MacNullari, who left Salisbury in May, on a hunting expedition in Angola, in a riiotor caravan. Nothing has been heard of them since September 26, when they were reported toh ave reached Chavanga, on the Portuguese border, in a disabled car, the provisions having been looted by wandering bushmen, _ and five native attendants were killed. They then stated that they were abandoning the cars and proceeding on the journey on donkeys. The Government is sending an .expedition to search for the missing Americans. ALPHABET REFORM. NEW YORK, November 28. At Philadelphia, Professor Godfrey Dewey, of Harvard University, addressing the English Language Congress, advocated a revision of the alphabet to a system of twenty-four consonants, thirteen vowels, four dipthongs and a symbol for the word “the.” He declared that this scheme would save a billion dollars yearly. He explained that with the new alphabet, fewer symbols would be needed.'to'express tnoughts,' and millions of tons less paper necessary. Books and newspapers would .be smaller and lighter, with the consequent saving of time and labour.. He declared that the., greatest problem of printed English m-day was typographical. WAR GRAVE CROSSES LONDON, Nov. 27. At Cologne, considerable surprise is expressed at the War Graves Commission ordering the burning of the wooden crosses originally erected in :he British military cemetery at Cologne. The graves are of the ’■ounded war prisoners, dying . in Germany. Some, commemorating crashed airmen, consisted of broken propellers, and others contained devices indicating'the regiment or county on which were engraved particulars not included on the headstone by which they have been replaced, .hese templates being sent to Britain, but the friends are not given an opportunity of obtaining the wooden crosses, despite a regulaion to that effect. The storage of crosses occupies a space Hint Is regarded aa .trivial.