NEWS FROM OVERSEAS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 209, 18 August 1927, Page 7

NEWS FROM OVERSEAS.

CABLES IN BRIEF A new syndicate has purchased the Wembley stadium for £150,(X)0 for greyhound lacing The huge success of greyhound racing in London and the provinces resulted in the plan to make Wembley the'world’s greatest centre of snort, Racing will begin before December. Zaimis has formed a Cabinet in Greece. Cafandaris retains the nort- ’ folio of Finance. The wall of the residence of Edourado. Santiago. Chief of Detectives of the Santiago police, was wrecked by a bomb placed on the balcony, allegedly by Sacco-Vanzetti sympathisers. The “Daily Mail’s” Chamonix correspondent fays the FrancoItalian frontier incident developed harmlessly, but there was a spectacular dispute over Mont Blauc Italiant Fascists, headed by Signor Turati. general secretary, climbed to the highest point of the part of the mountain on the Italian frontier and solemnly placed an Italian dag on it naming the peak “Monte Benito Mussolini.” 'This action aroused the ire of French patriots, who engaged a party of Mont Blanc guides, who, equally solemnly placed the tricolour at the top of the highest peak, actually in France. The patriots took an oath to the effect that Mont Blanc, which was French, should always remain French. Mr J. Ogden Armour’s end , was unexpected, because apparently, .on Tuesday, the patient was much_improved. Relatives travelled 7000 miles in twelve davs in order to reach the bedside. The “Daily Mail” savs Mr Armour's daughter. Mrs John Mitchell. reputedly heiress to £12,000.000. weighed three pounds when born. She was reared in an inggbator until an operation was performed by a Viennese Thereafter she was healthy and normal. The surgeon's fees were £lO,OOO. She heard of her father’s condition when in California, and dashed to London