NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 26 September 1927, Page 10

NEWS IN BRIEF.

'* CAltl.E HB SSH ASSOCIATION —COP YBIGHT LONDON, Sept.. 24. The Admiralty, laying down the procedure for the Navy ion- Armistice l3ay, points, out that. Britain celebrates it, not as a day of auatiomll gilief, but rather'-«is a great occasion in national history. GENEVA,, Sept. 24. M. Tdhitoheniu lias informed the. League Secretariat that the Soviet is not participating in the import and export conference. BRUSSELS, Sept. 24. The Egmout Palaca, erected in 1.548, and housing priceless Dutch and Flemish pictures, is afire. A later message states that the Egmont fire has been extinguished. The i&rfc treasures have iLen saved intact land 1 the aesthetic value of the buildings unspoiled. LENINGRAD, Sept. 23. Further allegations in connection with tlie British Setaet Service 'were made at the spy trial. The prosecutor lead an alleged statement of the Brirish officer, Captain Sidney George Riley, who was subsequently execute;!, to t.iie effect that Britain keeps agents in every country except America, where the Embassy staff does the espionage. PARIS, Sept, 24. Believing his son to be buried in the grave of the Unknown Soldier, an elderly man climbed the Arc de Triomphe while the Place de- L’Etoile wais crowded with Legionaries and others. The man, after paying homage, shouted and dived to the earth and Was k filed instantly. Many in the horrorstricken crowd fainted.

BERLIN, Sept. 24. Described as |the German Landru, Franz Begus.at, when discovered, committed .suicide by hanging himself from a tree. The police have been scouring the neighbourhood of Essen foir Regus-at, who d.s believed to. be the man not.ced hiding a .sack which was found to contain the arms and legs of a young girl. A search of his lodgings revealed three chests filled with bloodstained clothing belonging to thirteen women, whose bodies a.re believed to have been burnt.