NEWS AND NOTES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4608, 11 October 1934, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

Lady Vestey launched the Blue Star liner Imperial Star at Belfast. The New Zealand Star and the Australia Star will be launched in February and March. The company will shortly call tenders for three more ships of the same type.

The German carpenter Bruno Hauptmann was charged at Flemington, New Jersey, with the murder of Colonel Charles Lindbergh's baby. He will be extradited from New. York where he is due for trial next week, on a charge of extorting ransom money.

The heir of King Alexander, of Yugo-Slavia, Prince Peter, aged 11, arrived in London recently accompanied by his English tutor. . He entered Sandroyd school, Surrey. This was his first separation from his parents and special plans were made to ensure his safety during the journey. The new King speaks five languages. He rides and swims, and is able to drive a car.

German Government spokesmen increasingly warn the nation of the approach of a hard winter when belts must be tightened. They declare that the nefarious activities of foreign finance will soon deprive Germany of necessities including fats and textiles.

American mechanics are preparing at Allahabad a huge platform at which an American air race competitor, whose name is not mentioned, will be able to refuel in mid-air. A city of tents is springing up at the aerodrome, including those of the Viceroy and his staff, who will watch the flyers' arrival.

As the result of a movement inaugurated by the Nawab of Bhopal the leading Indian Princes have decided to erect a statue to the Viceroy, the Earl of Willingdon, at New Delhi, as a tribute to his personal friendship and distinguished connection with India.

The Spanish Minister of the Interior,., in-a.~statement r declared that the revolution has failed completely. Only Asturias remains to be suppressed, where a few isolated groups are nowl troubling the troops. He had good authority for saying that the revolutionary leaders had-spent £1,000,000 in preparing the revolt.

The Madrid correspondent of the Daily Express states that soldiers, most of whom were youths of 18, charged along the streets in Madrid, pointing carbines and pistols indiscriminately and forcing all they met to put up their hands and be searched. Hundreds of women and children tok refuge in doorways, fearing to go home while the firing . continued.

In this country the Borstal system, in spite of the results claimed for it by the Prisons Department, has been carried on under conditions which make impossible the development of a true Borstal system and though there have been ments, these have not led to the view that the control had a true conception of Borstal methods, or that it pursues them in practice where the inmates are touched personally. The association of Borstal and prison has never been broken, and so there always remains the handicap wholly by warders trained in the prison service. Some time ago we referred to the fluctuations as a result of changes in the Borstal superintendency, changes which alternated what may be called "prison" with Borstal ideas.—Southland Times.