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Grey River Argus, 6 August 1937, Page 4

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[Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.l LONDON, August 4. A “Times” copyright message from Graham’s land says the Penola arrived from Falmouth with seven members of the expedition and four Falkland Islanders aboard. The voyage has taken three months. Francis Pease, a young British explorer, announces that he will make a second attempt in October to find • Sir John Franklin’s logbook. Alone he will try to cross hundreds of miles on ice and snow and wrest from the Arctic the ninety-year secret. Pease sledged eleven thousand miles in 1935 in the effort to penetrate King William Island, where Franklin is buried, but an accident ended the venture four hundred miles from the objective. He says that on the journey he met an old Eskimo whose father had seen the body taken ashore from Franklin’s ship. ULSTER ARREST. BELFAST, August 4. A night-long intensive search for arms resulted in a lorry containing arms and ammunition arriving at the police station, and Francis McKenna was remanded on a charge of oeing in possession of a rifle and ammunition, two Mills bombs, three revolvers, and over five hundred rounds of ammunition. LONDON STORMS. 1 British Official Wirelessl. RUGBY, August 4. High temperatures were recorded in London, and the heat brought severe thunderstorms. Tube traffic on the northern spur of the Piccadilly line was brought to a standstill, following serious flooding on account, of a thunderstorm. AWARD FOR BRAVERY. RUGBY, August 4. The King has awarded the Edward Medal for gallantry to L. M. Bangley, employed in one of the gold mines at Kakamaga, in Kenya, for the efforts he made to save the life of a native worker, after an explosion in the mine in January, 1936. Bangley was firing the second round of nine holes, when one hole exploded prematurely, and he was blown some distance, away. His native assistant was struck by rock, and fell with his face in water. Bangley returned in the darkness, found the native, and carried him to safety. The injured man was taken to the surface, but died from his injuries. AWATEA’S SPEED. SYDNEY, July 31. The Union S.S. Company has no plans at present for an attempt by the Awatea to break the Tasman sea record. t . '■ “We are more interested in maintaining the schedule, than in records,” said an official of the Company. T.B. IN BRITAIN. LONDON, August L. The lowest tuberculosis death rate recorded is disclosed in the year's report of the Ministry of Health. There is less maternal mortality, and a steady progress in other branches of national health. Sir Kingsley Wood declared that English men and women, and particularly children, are enjoying a healthier, fuller life than at any time since the industrial revolution. Maternal mortality, 3.31 per thousand, was lower than four per thousand for the first year since 1924. The improvements were attributed to better living habits, removal of slums, and purer milk. PARACHUTE RECORD. LENINGRAD, July 29. K. F. Kaitnaov made a parachute jump from 32,000 feet, taking half an hour to land, a world record. The parachutist carried oxygen. This was Kaitanov’s 423rd. jump. FRENCH-GERMAN AGREEMENT PARIS, July 29. The Franco-German air agreement includes co-operation ;n the Far East. As accord with the Imperial Airways, regarding Hong Kong-Singapore service was not reached. The French air line, ending at Hahoi, will merge with a new German line to Shang-1 hai, through Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Chinese Turkestan. The conven-

tion also allows the German line to use Damascus. MURDERER GASSED. KOVINO, July 29. The first poison gas execution was carried out on a man, who was gassed for murdering five Jews. He died in eight minutes. SHOOTING AT EX-AMBASSADOR. PARIS, July 29. Madame Fontanges was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment, but the sentence was suspended under the First Offenders’ Act. She was also fined 100 francs. COMMUNAL KITCHENS. SYDNEY, July 23. From Newcastle last night it was reported that the initial steps in the setting up of communal kitchens and the machinery for relief for miners and their families in the event of a strike have been taken by the Northern Miners’ Executive. Lodge secretaries have been instructed to confer in each centre and make arrangements with the co-operative stores for credit. LONDON, August 4. The census report gives the population of Greater London as 8,203,942. Three armed masked men entered the home of Sir Dawson Bates, Ulster Minister of Home Affairs at Portsrush, and threatened the maidservant who was the only occupant, and ransacked the house. It is believed they were seeking police reports of last week’s Royal Visit disorders. Failing in the search, they drove off in a car. The Italian Embassy states that the Governor of Addis Ababa requires title deeds for real estate property in Abyssinia. Unless produced Before February, ownership will not be recognised. Two thousand people attended the funeral of the former rector, Harold Davidson (killed by a lion), at Stiffkey, which was conducted by the present rector, Rev. C. H. Fitch. Souvenir hunters previously took nearly every stone from the mound of earth excavated for the grave. BUCHAREST, August 3Rumania’s twelve thousand gypies, who have hitherto led a happy-go-lucky life have become politically minded, and are joining the Nazi organisation in the body, adopting the swastika as a Romany emblem. The Nazis, in view of the splendid opportunities for propaganda, which the gypsies’ nomadic life offer, readily overlooked the racialist principles and accepted them despite the Asiatic origin and swarthy colour. The gypsies are now publishing a newspaper in the Romany language, violently anti-Semitic, equivalent, to the notorious “Dersturmer.” WINNIPEG, August 3. Lauding the spirit off the farmers in the drought stricken areas, Mr. Rogers declares the situhtion demands a hundred per cent, relief. He cites the belief that the year marks the end of the drought cycle. OTTAWA, August 3. At Brantford, the Imperial veterans declared a boycott on meetings attended by the Pensions Minister (Mr. Power), for alleging in a Commons speech that they declared they fought for England, not Canada. ' Mr. Power lost an arm at Vimy. LONDON, July 30. Carrying out an old wish of his wife, whose death followed a fall from a seventh floor window of the Savoy Hotel, London, Lord Cardigan scattered her ashes in the sea near her birth-place, the Isle of Wight. Afterwards, he scattered a handful of dark red roses. The ceremony was carried out quietly and Lord Cardigan was completely broken up. LONDON, July 30. After having claimed his letters from the Young Men’s Christian Association, a Birmingham visitor, Donald Black, died in the hospital after Mrs. Mary Warburton, aged 65, fell on him, from a window on the fourth floor of the building. She was taken to the hospital moaning, “Oh, the poor boy.” She succumbed to her injuries.