NEWS FROM OVERSEAS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 21, 6 January 1928, Page 3

NEWS FROM OVERSEAS

CABLES IN BRIEF. ...Report Denied: Advices from Moscow deny the reported sinking of the steamer Ogoza in the Black Sea. To Redeem Pawned Clothing: The Spanish Cabinet will utilise the Budget surplus of £850,000 to enable persons throughout Spain to redeem pawned articles of clothing. Poland and Lithuania: British and French representatives at Warsaw are urging the Premier. M. Valdemaras, in the interests of his own country to begin negotiations for the settlement of the Polish-Lithua-nian dispute. ■ important Papers Missing: Important documents relating to a proposed Anglo-German loan were stolen from representatives of British hanks engaged in negotiations. The Englishmen left an attache case in an ante-room at a Govermet office in the Wilhelmstrasse. Berlin, while they interviewed an official. ' When they returned for the bag it was empty. Idle Steamers: There are now six steamers idle through the seamen's dispute, three at Sydney, and one each at; Melbourne, Adelaide, and Brisbane. It is anticipated in shipping circles that unless the seamen man the idle ships within a few days, owners will issue an ultimaturn calling upon the union to supply full crews for all vessels, otherwise a general tie-up will be ordered. Alcoholism Deaths; The “New York World” states that statistics just published by the Department: or Health disclose that 770 persons were killed by bad liquor in 1927. New York citv had the greatest number of any -ear since the Volstead law was enacted and more than the deaths in any of the ten preceding “wet” years. The rate of alcoholism deaths in 1927 was 13 per 100,000. or slightly more than the rate of measles in peak years.

Starving Wolves: The “Daily Mail’s” Vienna correspondent reports that depredations by starving wolves in Hungary and Slovakia are increasing. The animals have penetrated districts where the had been unknown for years. One pack attacked an d devoured 11 girls in a wood in the Carpathian mountains, and the countryside is panic-stricken. A special gendarmerie has been organised to protect lonely farm villages.

Mysterious Explosion: A mysterious violent explosion occurred in a house in Berlin early yesterday morning. The large number of occupants were mostly in bed at the time. Half the building collapsed and a fire started in the wreckage. Three were killed and 17 injured.

Mechanisation of the Army: With a view to further mechanisation of the army, the. War Office proposes putting a portion of the cavalry upon wheels, says the “Daily Telegraph.” Two ideas will be tested on Salisbury Plain and at Aidershot during the spring. In one case the horses will be stripped of all impedimenta except the man and his rifle, so that they will be in the best possible fighting condition when they come in contact with the enemy, while material will follow on six-wheeled lorries. The other idea is more revolutionary. It is proposed that each cavlary regipient shall be composed of two squadrons of horse and a squadron of fast whippet tanks, accompanied bv a fleet of fast lorries carrying machine guns and their crews, which will enable the cavalry to establish strategical points. The experiments will have an important bearing upon the horse supply for home and India.