NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 October 1926, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. ROME, Oct. 4. Seismographs at Faenza record a severe earthquake at a distance of eleven thousand kilometres.

LONDON, Oct. 4. All of the victims of the French aeroplane crash in Ivent have been identified. They include three belonging to a party of six who were on a lengthy holiday from Spain, the remainder of whom returned by train.

WARSAW, Oct. 3. Marshal Pilsudski has resumed the Premiership, retaining M. Bartel as Minister of Education and M. Cdiccliowski as Treasurer. LONDON, Oct. 4. The Daily Mail’s Biarritz correspondent reports that trouble has. been renewed between General De Rivera and a military officer, and the troops are confined to bqrracks.

OTTAWA, Oct. 3. That the price-fixing agreements of the Proprietary Articles Trade Association, with headquarters in Montreal, which includes practically all the wholesale, retail and manufacturing druggists, are in violation of the Combine Investigation Act is the finding in a report made public by the Minister cf Labour (Mr Heenan), which follows an investigation of the association’s affairs.

The prices of more than 600 proprietary medicines and toilet articles are included in a list which works to tho disadvantage of the public.

SYDNEY, Oct. 4. _ William Fisher, aged sixty-two, his son Richard, aged twelve, and Douglas Allen, a youth employed as a station hand on Fisher’s station, wore drowned in a tank near Coonamble. The two boys vrent to tho tank to test a raft they had constructed. The raft overturned and the boys’ screams were heard by Fisher, who dived in to the rescue, but all three were drowned.

RIGA, Oct. 3. The Communist tribunals are busily expelling the oppositionists who are hostile to the ruling group in connection with tlie election of delegates to the conference to be held on October 25, but tho malcontents are actively and subtcrrancously working. Zinovieff, Trotsky, KamcncfE and other prominent Russians who, although degraded, remain members under the close surveillance of the leaders, nervously await the conference.

LONDON, Oct. 3. The Daily Express says that as the result of the competition which was thrown open to British aircraft manufacturers for the best daylight bombing planes, the Air Ministry is building a fleet of 50 giant machines capable of a speed of 100 miles an hour in rarefied air at a height of four miles, at which height they will be invisible and out of tire range of anti-aircraft guns.