NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 17 November 1927, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

BY GABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT

BAGHDAD, Nov. 14. A Central Arabian Wahabi tribe, un-. der the leadership of a notorious Ak.hawn chief, attacked an Iraq frontier police post, and killed five policemen and 12 labourers, including women, engaged in construction work. One policeman and a labourer escaped into the desert. A police force dispatched found the mutilated bodies. An Air Force squadron punished-the tribesmen. ' DELHI, Nov. 15. One hundred and fifty passengers and crew were drowned through the foundering of a coastal launch, and it is feared a similar number were lost by the capsizing of a ferry boat in a cyclone at Bombay. A mail steamer Which left, for Africa was driven back to Bombay and others outward bound were unable to leave the harbour. Following on the execution of a Moslem named Abdul Hassid for the assassination of a Hindu priest, amazing scenes were witnessed in Delhi. Fifty thousand Aloslems made a demonstration outside the gaol and demanded the body. After promising to bury it on the gaol premises they took it through the city. Rioting ensued and British troops with armoured cuts wore called out. Manv rioters were injured. LONDON, Nov. 15. The Kenya loan for five million, 5 per cent, at 994, was oversubscribed. The Prince of, Wales won the first round of the Army rackets championship, beating H. Sanford of the Coldstream Guards, 10 —8, 9—4, 9 —o. Mclntosh and Hinkler have begun their attempt at a non-stop flight to India. In the House of Commons, Sir P. Cunliffe Lister, in reply to a question, said that thirty-four feature films were produced in Britain in 1925, twentythree in 1926, and probably sixty in 1927. SYDNEY, Nov. 16. John Patrick Brian, on a charge of stowing away on the Maunganui at Wellington, was fined £S. He said that he arrived in the Dominion seven years ago. He had been dogged by consistently bad luck and latterly had been unable to find work. In defiance of orders from the Australian Labour Party, Labour members of the Legislative Council held a ballot to select a leader of the party in that chamber. They chose Air J. F. Coates, who defeated Mr Willis, ex-viee-presi-dent of the Council. CANBERRA, Nov. 16. Tenders for the Commonwealth Shipping Line will be called at an early date. AIELBOURNE, Nov. 16. Evan Thomas, the evangelist who declared that he had been tarred and then admitted it was a hoax, was fined £2. The Bench said that it was convinced that Thomas' statement handed to the police gave a correct account, and that the defendant had tarred himself. The Trades Hall Council estimates that there are 8000 unionists unemployed in Victoria, while at the Government labour bureau 4000 unemployed are registered.