NEWS FROM OVERSEAS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 180, 15 July 1927, Page 7

NEWS FROM OVERSEAS.

CABLES IN BRIEF. A number * of large employers "have retained leading counsel to test the validity of Mr. Lang’s Child Endowment Act in the High Court by seeking prohibition against the State Government collecting th© necessary tax for the payment ol the endowment. It is expected the first case will be heard in August.

A heat wave spreading over the eastern states of America in the past t\vo days resulted in eleven deaths and brought the temperature of 90 to 100 degrees in many eivies. A comparatively low humidity reduced fatalities, which other would nave been higher. New York, with the hottest July 13 for over half a century, reported four deaths and eight prostrations. The temperature was 91 degrees.

Mt. H. J. Greenwall, the “Daily Express’s” special correspondent, who has just returned to London from Russia, states that between 2000 and 3000 were arrested, of whom 500 were executed, during the recent terror following upon the Arcos raid and the murder of Voikoff.

Tired of the attentions on a editor 23 years older than her sell, banta Nicastro, aged 23, of Rome, 'invited her lover, Borino Francesco, to come to her bedroom, stipulating that he should enter by the window. Borino climbed in head first, when Santa threw around his neck a rope, in which she had arranged a slipknot. The astonished man struggled to escap© and managed to prevent himself from being strangled, but as he continued the struggle Santa tnnpueu the contents of a six-chambered revolver in his body, killing him immediately. Santa is in prison awaiting trial.

The “Times’ ” Riga correspondent says the newspapers report that the Cheka has discovered a great antiSoviet organisation, the Kieff. plotting to overthrow th© Soviet, in the Ukraine. Many arrests have been mjide and four people have been sentenced to death, including the Ukranian leader, Miniaeff.

Mr Lloyd George has paid a cheque of £150.000 to the reorganised Liberal headquarters. This is the first half of the promised contribution from his own funds towards the cost of running 500. candidates for the next election