BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 November 1926, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

(Australian and N.'Z. Cable Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) FOG DELAYS MAIL' ' LONDON, Nov. 28. Three hundred bagS -of Australian Christmas mail' will be a w,eek late, owing to fog causing it to miss trains. EXPLORERS SAFE. CAPETOWN, November 291 The Administrator of South West Africa telegraphs that the missing American doctors are believed •' to have safely reached Angola. VESUVIUS ERUPTIONS ■ ROME, Nov. ;28. Mount Vesuvius is still providing’the most picturesque eruptions of recent imes. Tourists are rushing to Naples. The experts adhere to the opinion .hat there is very small danger of' the lava overflowing the great cister, .hough they admit that the eruptions k re extremely violent. PRESS DEAL LONDON, Nov. 29. It is understood that Mr. Lloyd leorge has made at least £l,00p;000 f a profit for the Liberal Party by the sale of the paper'“Daily Chronicle” nd other publications. This means doubling- the Party’s unds. The “Daily Chronicle” and'the Sunday news” cost Mr. Lloyd George £1,000,000 in 1918. The company since acquired two or three other papers, all of which they are now selling for about three million pounds. HEADSM.AN’S TESTIMONIAL. PARIS, November 29. An Armenian shoemaker, named Manghikian, after a quarrel with his wife, beheaded her.',; He was arrested. . The police, impressed by the skilful Kature of the job, enquired, and found' among his possessions this letter from General Antremick: “I am proud to attest .hat Manghikian was attached to the Russian armies, and skilfully to my mowledge, rendered justice by execution, 364 times.”