NEWS FROM OVERSEAS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 214, 24 August 1927, Page 6

NEWS FROM OVERSEAS.

CABLES IN BRIEF. The highest mountain in Africa, Kilimanjaro. 19,321 feet above sea level, has just been climbed bv a London girl. Miss Sheila MacDonald, th© first woman to reach the summit According to a White Paper, of 112,781 aliens who landed in Great Britain between March 31 and June 30, 53,369 were citizens of the United States 22,590 French and 17.676 Germans. It is understood that, for the purpose of decreasing accidents In the air, the Ministry is establishing a construction board similar to the Admiraltv’s, This decision followed secret meetings of Air Force experts. The Fascists’ latest victory has occurred in Sicily, where the Mafia and other banditry were wiped out as a result of Signor Mussolini’s ordering his lieutenants to undertake their suppression. Some 250 Mafia leaders were arrested. Others fled or are in hiding.

The Maheno. which arrived at Sydney at 1.30 yesterday, was behind scheduled time as a result of meeting a succession of huge seas and strong head winds throughout the passage. One tremendous sea carried away the wireless, smashed 20 feet of top-deck railing and battered in the second class saloon doors. The decks and second saloon were constantly awash.

Armed with loaded sticks, lifepreservers and knuckle-dusters. 25 Communists fought a wav to the St Lazaire police station. The nolice covered the Communists with revolvers while telephoning for reinforce-

ments. Before help arrived the Communists wrecked the station during a pitched battle. Four were arrested.

Britain’s mechanised army engaged in great all-night manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain. It was the first time in history so formidable an iron force has operated at night in mass formation. Military experts closely watched the tests, which involved discipline and concealment during a halt, and refilling with petrol and oil during progress. Aeroplanes hovered above, observers keeping a close look-out for any lights that might be showing, the object being to -egotiate the country without displaying a light visible from the air. Tanks and tankettes, filed artillery and en< gineers took part

The “Daily Mail” says finger-nails tinted, enamelled and polished to match the pearl necklace is the latest fad of fashionable women, as the result of a new polish giving a pearllike lustre and irridescence, possessing a tinge matching pink pearls or the crystalline sheen of a pearl. A manicurist points out that the smartest women now wear their nails a quarter of an inch long, while the filbert nail is still ideal but useless on a stumpy hand, when it is ns ridiculous as a pierrot’s hat on a little fat man. Many dark women are using red polish, although they taboo henna as extravagance in manicure and vulgar.

In a statement to the newspaper “Excelsior” regarding the FrancoBritish Rhineland negotiations. Dr. Wirth, ex-Chancellor of Germany, declared: “There is no use disguising the fact that there is misunderstanding between Germany and France. The later regardts the Locarno pact as having to be treated in a new atmosphere, but without any change concerning the Treaty of Versailles Germany, on the other hand, expects Locarno to restore her sovereignty and wants to see the end. or at least the modification of the Rhineland occupation.” He warns France that delays involve dangers

The “Daily News’ ” Paris correspondent says that among the reasons why Signor Mussolini demanded the extradition of Pollastri is his alleged complicity in Communist seizures of factories in Milan and Turin in 1920, wbe- Mussolini himself was a leading revolutionary. Sante Pollastri. who for years evaded the European police was arrested in Paris recently after a desperate struggle, and Signor Mussolini demanded his extradition. Assisted hy a gang of criminals, to whom he paid hieh wages Pollastri s>'ecialis''d in French and Italian iewellerv robberies in the course of which, it is alleged ten murders wore committed. He at first denied his identity, hut confessed when confronted bmembers of his own gang, of whom 30 were recently arrested. The late Mr. Kevin O’Higgins’s estate is valued at £1526.