NEWS FROM OVERSEAS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 204, 12 August 1927, Page 5

NEWS FROM OVERSEAS.

CABLES IN BRIEF. Amongst a number of bequests by the late A. H. Whittinghame, a prominent pastoralist and racehorse owner, of Queensland, left £lOO,OOO to the Geelong Church of England Grammar School, He bequeathed all his racehorses to his trainer and £2OOO to the Queensland Turf Club to erect a club for jockeys and’ apprentices. While in the prison yard at Warsaw, Kowerda, the Polish youth who shot Voikoff, was felled with a crowbar and seriously injured. It is believed the act was to avenge Voikoff. Mr George Cann, a former Minister of Health in the Lang Government, who lost selection for bi, seat at Lakemba, has decided to contest that seat as a straight-out Labour candidate. The London “Gazette” says that the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board, despite slight reductions offered on allegedly exorbitant rentals for present stores, is installing its own plant on the Thames side near Snntnfield, the ships bringing their cargo direct to the wharf where the meat will be stored, treated and sorted. The Indian Government refused passports for a proposed medical mission to China, composed of Indian social workers, whose object was to give medical aid to Chinese combatants. The Government explains that the granting of the facilities desired in the combatant area would be construed as a departure by the British Government from the attitude of strict impartiality toward, the Chinese combatants.

A thunderbolt fell among an infantry battalion entering a forest in Poland during a storm, striking down 45 soldiers. The others fled, but returned to succour the injured men, who were sent to hospital after the careful removal of their helmet,,* rifles and side arms, which were fully charged with electricity.

The British “Gazette” says that despite the Washington Conference outlawing gas warfare, a provisional army order has been issued containing full instructions for combating gas attacks. It states that the British Government will endeavour to obtain from enemies in the event of war an agreement not to emplov poison gas, otherwise Britain will take the action the circumstances demand.

With a view to discovering a means of preventing fire after aviation disasters. a British committee on aeronautical research proposed to utilise the cinematograph and to stage experimental crashes.

For the Schneider Cup, Italy has entered three racers of the Macchi type, which unofficially are reported to have attained over 280 miles an hour in trials.

The body of Daniel Condon, who conducted an extensive money-lending business, was found on the floor of his office ,in a building in the heart of Sydney early yesterday afternoon. Hffi head was smashed in by a blunt instrument. There was evidence of a fierce struggle. The murderer wa, seen to leave the building ihortly after after the crime was committed.

The British Post Office vesterday issued official sanction to Mr. Marcuse to provide for Empire broadcasting for six months, commencing on September Ist.

It is expected that the British delegates to this year’s League Assembly will be the same as those of last vear, with the probable addition of Major Walter Elliott, M.P., Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Scotland. Last year’s delegation consisted of Sir Cecil Hurst, Dame Edith Lyttelton, Lord Onslow, and Commander Sir Edward Hilton Young, M.P.

“Both passenger agents and migration authorities should tell the plain truth regarding opportunities in the dominions,” said Mr. Frame when presiding at the Migration Agents* Association meeting in London. He said the agents were often wrongly blamed but they found difficulty in providing inquirers with accurate information owing to contradictory statements Mr. Frame deplored the fact that British unemployed did not seek outlets in the dominions, perhaps largely because they were assured of the dole or other relief. If migration methods were faulty he thought the entire fault was not on this side. For example, a heartier welcome might be extend in their new