OVERSEA NEWS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 282, 13 November 1929, Page 8

OVERSEA NEWS

CABLES IN BRIEF.

Execution at Adelaide; Frederick Carr was executed at the Adelaide gaol yesterday for wife murder.

Russian Grain Reserve: The Soviet has announced that the grain reserve is 1,500,000 tons.

Double Tragedy,—A double shooting fatality occurred at Cambacanya, Victoria, when William McLaren shot Miss Brown and then turned the gun on himself. It is believed that unrequited love was responsible.

N.Z. and A. Land Co.— The New Zealand and Australian Land Co.’s profit is £250,196, divisible £267,984. brought forward £92,060. A final dividend of four per cent, has been declared.

Moth 'Plane Crashes. — While practising landing at the Air Force training school at Point Cook, Melbourne, a Moth ’plane, piloted by Officer Shaw, crashed and the machine was wrecked. Shaw is not expected to recover.

Girl Fascists' Corps; “The Times 1 ” Rome correspondent states that the Fascist party is increasing the feminine section by the creation of a girl Fascists’ corps, the units of which will be admitted as full party members when twenty-one.

Creeks Tired of Russia; Similarly to the Germans, 12,060 Greek families are clamouring to return home owing to the economic conditions in Russia. The men are mostly tobacco growers and have been settled in the Caucasus and Crimea for generations but have retained thir Greek citizenship.

Suicide From Aeroplane; America's first aerial suicide occurred when Ruth Rockwell, aged 20, paid a pilot five dollars for a ticket and leaped to death from 2000 feet. A note found in her purse blamed her futile, discordant life for the act.

Ex-Kaiser's Libel Suit; The ext Kaiser has instituted a libel suit against a Democratic Berlin newspaper, which alleged that he was financially interested in the former Krupps works, from which the army was exclusively supplied with arms of inferior quality, to the enormous benefit of the ex-Kaiser’s private purse and at the expense of German lives.

Face Creani in Roman Days: The discovery of a fragment of a pot of red Samian ware during excavations at Moorgate, supplementing scanty previous information, establishes, says the London “Daily Telegraph,” the fact that in Roman London there lived a tradesman named Lucius Julius Senis, who sold face creani, which he advertised by stamping his name on jars imported from Gaul.

“Has Had Its Day”; The Federal Labour Government's Assistant Minister of Industry, Mr Beasley, created a surprise in political circle when replying to a deputation of railway workers. He expressed the view that there should be an entire reconstruction of the Arbitration Act and added: “Arbitration has served its purpose in carrying Us along up to the present, but it has had its day. We must come forward with a new scheme to meet th changed conditions.”

Chinkiang Concession: An agreement has been reached between the British Government and the National Government of the Republic of China providing for the return to the latter as from the loth instant of the area of land known as the British concession at Chinkiang, which was leased to the British Government in perpetuity in 1861. The British municipal administration of this will be dissolved and the British municipal regulations repealed as from the 15tb instant. The National Government has agreed as from the same date to grant Chinese deeds of perpetual lease in exchange for the documents issued by the British Government. The agreement was embodied in an exchange of Notes which took place : n Nanking on October 31.

Jack The Ripper Scare: The disovery of the body of the Ripper's latest victim on Sunday was made possible by the receipt by the Dusseldorf police of two rough maps on a scrap of brown packing paper. The body was found in the precise spot indicated. The second map purported to show a spot on a lonely farm on the outskirts of the city, where still another body would be found. There is considerable indignation that the police have not yet acted on the information, because they are unable to ascertain whether the municipal authority will pay for the work ol digging. If the Ripper’s gruesome boast proves true, it will bring "he total murders to ten, with twenty-one victims all told. The police believe he map to be the work of the Ripper himself. Special detectives, some nt tired as women, are constantly m the streets and all lonely lanes are patrolled.