NEWS AND NOTES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIII, Issue 3073, 31 October 1929, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

General Higgins, replying to allegations regarding the internal administration of the Salvation Army, denies the existence of a persecution or vendetta and declares that the present regime maintains the constitutional administration.

The starting engine of the airship RlOl has been repaired and the airship will resume its trials at the earliest favourable opportunity.

A Tokyo message says the conference of the Institute of Pacific relations opened in the Hindoe. Hall. Five hundred delegates and their families as well as a large local audience were present.'

*»• It is reported that King Zogu of Albania is emulating Cromwell. A deputation of Parliamentarians, ■whom he received in audience to present a protest against the Government’s policy, were all promptly arrested.

A Canberra message says that other measures having failed, the Federal Government proposes to invoke the provisions of the Industrial Peace Act in an attempt to settle the coal dispute, according to an announcement by Mr. J. H. Scullin, Prime Minister.

The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail says allegations of unheard, of brutality in inflicting the third degree are made in the Paris Press against certain police inspectors.

The Lancashire millionaire cotton mill-owner, William Birtwistle, aged 74, who is the possessor of more looms than anybody else in the world, was quietly married to his 20-year-old auburn-haired typiste, Miss Edith Stevenson.

The president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lord Moynihan, speaking at Burnley, said victory over cancer was getting nearer and nearer every year. The public ought to realise that when cancer was a local disease, and when, surgeons could get at it, it was always curable.

The British United Press learns that at Roubaix, in Northern France, local textile interests are concentrating their attention on two factories producing artificial wool.

The holders of the Victoria Cross who will dine with the Prince of Wales on November 9 will take part in two special gatherings on November 11. They will march to the Cenotaph, and will appear at the Empire Festival in the Albert Hall in the eveninff.