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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 April 1937, Page 7

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

RUMANIAN EXrREGENT.

[PRESS assn.—copyright.] BUCHAREST, April 14. Prince Nicholas will leave, shortly to take up residence near Milan, AMBASSADOR’S DENIAL. PARIS, April 14. The Comte de Chambrun, the French diplomat ‘who was shot by Madame de la Ferriere for an. alleged attempt to discredit her in the eyes of Signor Mussolini, giving evidence at his home before an examining'magistrate, said he hardly'knew de la Ferriere. . . ' “I had not the slightest knowledge of her alleged affair with Signor Mussolini,” he said. FILMS IN SCHOOLS. RUGBY, April 14. Mr G. H. Shakespeare, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education, who received, a deputation from the British Film Institute, suggested; that a conference of education authorities should be organised by the institute to discuss the extended use of films in schools. Such a conference would have the support of the board. Teachers and training college ■students might be encouraged by pamphlets and other means to study methods by which films could be used as an educational medium. MONK’S SUICIDE RANGOON, April 15. A Burmese monk, after making obeisance to an image of Budda in a pagoda near Yawnghwe Shan,.is stated to ' have ignited his "paraffindrenched clothing and was burnt to death. People from many villages assembled to watch his voluntary act of sacrifice. JAPANESE CORRUPTION. TOKIO, April 15. General Uyemura, r* director of the Government arsenal ■» ns sentenced to 2h years’ imprisonment for accepting huge bribes from mur. "ion - manufacturers and industrialists.