OVERSEA NEWS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 279, 9 November 1931, Page 8

OVERSEA NEWS

CABLES IN BRIEF Disarmament Problem. Signor Grandi, accompanied by a disarmament expert, Signor Rosso, has sailed from Rome for America. British Shipping Revival. As an indication of reviving trade, ut least fifteen vessels were ordered from British shipbuilding yards in October. Lonely Prospector’s End. A lonely prospector named Herbert Watts was speared by blacks at Hermit Hill, 150 miles west of Darwin. Watts had only three cartridges, and he fired these after the spears were thrown. Natives then killed him with waddies. Satire on the Jesuits. The premiere of a broad-humoured play satirizing the Jesuits attempted from a novel by the Ambassador in London, Senor Ayala, resulted in a riot in Madrid. Ex-students from Jesuit colleges, military people and aristocrats created an uproar for an hour, rendering the play inaudible. A hundred police marched in and arrested 70 of the noisiest spectators. Speedway Rivers for N.Z. Tom Farndon and Nobby Jack Jackson sailed from London by the Mataroa, intending to race in New Zealand. Wave of Unrest in Malta. Advices received in Paris from Malta state that a wave of unrest is spreading over the island, where Lord Strickland has six lawsuits pending, including four against editions who are pro-Italian. Anti-Jewish Rioting. The Warsaw University is partially closed following clashes between Nationalist and Jewish students, which developed through the city into antiJewish rioting. The quarrel arose over the alleged non-delivery of Jewish corpses for the university dissecting room, but this was merely a pretext for an anti-Jew-ish agitation, as the university admits that the number of Jewish cadavers delivered exceeds the quota fixed when the last statement was made. Thirty Nationalists were arrested.

Duke of York's Hunters: The Duke of York will not be hunting in the present season. His stud of six hunters was auctioned at Leicester and brought 965 guineas. Murderer Reprieved: Harold Smith, aged 16, sentenced to death at Lincoln on a charge of murdering his aunt, has been reprieved. Peter’s Pence. One of the many unusual manifestations of the surge of private economy reported from Europe is a reduction at the Vatican of Peter’s pence, which before the war amounted to 10,000,000 lire and now totals only 1,000,000 lite, the major portion being from the United States. Latest In Motor ’Buses. At the commercial motor show at Olympia the latest exhibit is a London omnibus costing about £2OOO. It is fitted with special steering apparatus and much attention has been given to the reduction of noise. Features of passenger-carrying vehicles of all classes on show this year are the streamlined bodywork and opening "sunshine” roofs. Cairo Family Feud.

Four wealthy families involved in a long-standing feud were carrying out wedding and funeral ceremonies simultaneously at Cairo on Saturday. The merrymakers at the wedding unfortunately carried on their jollifications too dose to the funera_ whereupon the mourners collected firearms and knives ami fiercely the party. Four were killed add 36 wounded. Sixteen were arrested. Giant Yugo-Slavian. Eight strong men were necessary to carry the coffin, as large as a tomb, of a Yugo-Slavian giant innkeeper, nearly seven feet tall and weighing 4931b5.