BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1926, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

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NEW AERO DEVICE. LONDON, July 20

A huge llandley-Page torpedo carrier during trials hovered almost stationary in .tlie air, as a result of adjustable slotted wings which prevent the nose dropping when the engine is shut off. It is believed that by this means aeroplanes will be aide to laud on the decks of ordinary warships.

BLIND PLAYWRIGHT. LONDON, July 20

A wonderful triumph over physical disability is represented in the production of three fantasies by Dir C. R. Allen, the son of Sir James Allen at the Ertlinger Theatre. The plavets displayed marked originality, and promising dramatic ability, and were well receved by an appreciative audience. Dir Allen, though blind, helped to plan the scenery and costumes, and to select the company by touch, and listening to their voices. He attended the rehearsals and moved freely, and he seem ed to know aiid even to see everything that was going on. He types all his own manuscripts. THE COLONIAL M’INE TRADE. LONDON, July 21. The Brewers’ Exhibition is holding the usual Colonial wine competitions. With a view to increasing interest in the Empire wines, the Directors decided competing wines be publicly displayed with awards, instead of being only shown to dealers as hitherto; and also give facilities for distribution of literature supplied by the competitors. INDIAN RIOTS. DELHI, July 21. Serious disturbances again broke out in Calcutta this morning. Tlie police fired on and killed several and seriously injured others. A CENSORSHIP. TOKIO, July 21. A censorship is imposed suppressing all news from Nagano pending a completion of the official investigation. STORM DAMAGE. HONG KONG, July 21. The storm damage is estimated at one million dollars. Shipping is entirely unaffected. CHINESE OUTBREAK. HONG KONG, July 23. Two European police sergeants and four Chinese crew of a British motor patrol boat were captured by Chinese pickets on Samchun river. Tlie British Border Detachment of the East Surveys entrained for Samchun in an endeavour to release them. OBITUARY. MOSCOW, July 21. Obituary.—Dzerzhinsky. Chief of Chekka. LONDON. July 21. Alternatively known as the Black Pope of Bolshevism and the Russian Butcher, Dzerzhinsky is estimated to he responsible for the execution of 1.250.000 people after most terrible torture. Tlie “Times” states; “How men personally fanatically honest and unbribable, could use every means of bribery, corruption, intimidation and betrayal in the interests of a campaign of wholesale murder, is perhaps a psychological riddle, hut it explains Dzerzhinsky’s power.”

SIR FRANCIS BELL. LONDON, July 21. Their Majesties gave an audience to Sir Francis Bell.