NEWS AND NOTES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIII, Issue 3075, 5 November 1929, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

A mammoth Italian bomber, carrying six Asso engines, each of 1000 horse-power, and capable of carrying 7£ tons of bombs, was successfully tried out. It is tated that the 'plane is the largest! and most powerful machine of its type in the world. She is 33ft. high, 85ft. long, and has a wingspread of 145 ft. Fully loaded she weighs 15 tons and has a speed of 130 miles an hour.

Finnish guards have discovered thirteen Russian refugees, ihcluding a woman, pitiably exhausted on the Lapland frontier. They declare that they escaped from the dreadful Bolshevik prison on Solovyetsk Island, in the White Sea, after knocking down a guard and warders while they were working in a forest-

An earthquake, followed by a great tidal wave, shook the country near Constanza on Saturday, and many serious casualties occurred.

The Kaiser's sister, Princess Victoria, is seeking a divorce from her Russian husband, ZoubkofF.

■< Two thousand Russian cavalry, five aeroplanes and six gunboats opened a new attack on Lahasusu, Manchuria, on Wednesday, according to an official wireless report from Mukden.

The petition demanding a referendum on the Nationalist leaders' bill <'against the enslavement of the German people," as they term it, has been signed by 4,136,000 voters.

.Serious alarm is being felt at the financial position of the Australian Commonwealth.

The Conservatives are going to strongly oppose the Labour Government proposal for the resumption of diplomatic relations with Russia.

The U.S. Bureau of Internal Revenue announces that in the tax year 1927, 290 Americans paid taxes on incomes of £200,000 or more. Eleven persons had incomes of £1,000,000 or more. Of the total of 290 referred to, 136 were residents of New York State.

Alexander Zoubkoff, the Russian who married Princess Victoria, a sister of the ex-Kaiser, professes to be staggered by. his wife's suit.for divorce. He says he entered Germany to see his wife, whose relatives were trying to estrange them. He was ordered to quit Germany within 48 hours.

Wealthy peasant! landowners in many parts of Russia have begun a kind of guerilla warfare on the local Soviet authorities. This is a protest against attempts to force the peasants to give their stores of grain for the benefit of the people in the great cities who are* faced with the fear of famine in the coming winter.

A statement to the effect that King George had died suddenly from heart failure was broadcast from a Paris wireless station on the strength of an unverified telephone message.

Chateau Tongariro was formally opened yesterday afternoon by Mr J. B. Thompson, chairman of the Tongariro National Park Board, in the presence of a gathering of 300 people.