GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2090, 14 February 1920, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

-The difficult straits into which German aristocracy has failed lias, brought a number of high-born voting men into conflict with the po- 1 lice. Nikolas Maklakoff, Prince of ’ Golitzin, is hold in Frankfort, charged with swindling. 1 One thing the ex-Kaiser forgot in his hurried flight to Holland was his battle flag,-which always flew from .. the radiator of big auto. The Countess Liedekcrke acquired it — "without permission—and it is now , on exhibition in New York. .With the ad veil t of prohibition, alcohol is entertaining a new future, it was announced by the American Chemical Society. AH possible sources of commercial alcohol arc being exploited, and ten times as much ns was formerly will be needed' within the near future-. The nippa palm of the Philippines will yield 50,000,000 gallons a year, it is predicted. Tied hand and foot, and gagged by robbers, who throw him out of lus automobile and stoic if. J. W. McManus rolled ball" a mile on a frost-covered road to seek help. His lime was two hours. Reeking wet from his exertions, but -with .‘frosted clothes, McManus rounded a front porch, rolled into position, and thumped his feet against the stops until the residents came out. Parisians are deprived of the pleasures of the ballroom by decree of I lie Prefeed of Police. Public dancing is prohibited, and all dancing halls are closed until further notice, owing to the shortage of coal, which necessitates strict economy in lighting and heating. The proprietors arc reported to be turning their halls into theatres, music-balls, and cinemas in retaliation. There lias arrived in Dijon, France, a volunteer of the 1920 class, mimed Louis Boucher, who laid been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment- for attempting to escape. He was discovered in prison at Danzig,, as the result of investigations made by-the Commission of French officers. Six oilier French soldiers, it is reported, were also found. Ail of them were unaware of the fact that peace had been concluded. •' In connection with the little talk in the British Parliament over the Lousing question, a whisper is floated on the breeze that may have some practical result, says a Daily Chronicle writer. There is to lie organised a full parade and march of,the great, unhoused; a representative rally of the housel'css and homeless, with those who may soon become such by reason of having received landlords’ notice to quit. The Irofronnd will start from •“somewhere" convenient, and bear down, full tilt, upon “officialville,” gleaning.innumerable recruits on its way through “umpteen'’ miles of London streets. That ought to have some effect! A man in America, has written to Scotland Yard in the hope (hat Sir Nevil Macready, the Chief Commissioner of Police, can find him a wife. He says: —“I am a single man, ami was sailing for England when war was declared. AVhen the United States came into it I came hack home and served her. Now I am kind of disappointed, tor I would like to get married. The only thing is, I cannot go hack on the American girls, for I have seen too much of them. So if you can help me in finding a nice young woman 'in the twenties I would like to correspond with her, or them.” The writer added that he was 24 years of age, and was of a “nice quid disposition.!’ In case any English damsels should wish to see what he looks like before committing herself, be has enclosed a phouigrapb.' Sir Nevil, however, declines the honour offered to him. There is a great and increasing demand for divers in order to rescue from the sea the millions of pounds’ worlh of treasure that has been sunk by the Hun during (he war. The actual amount of gold alone that, is buried beneath the ocean in torpedoed and mine-sunk ships runs into millions, and there are many millions more in preserved foods and other goods which do not easily perish ami which arc worlh rescuing. Anyone in search of good, healthy employment could not do boiler than become a deep-sea diver. Of course, the work is hard, but from a purely physical culture point of view it is probably the best and most effective way of expanding the lumrs and broadening the chest, because deep, regular breathing becomes a necessity. Taken as a class, divers are extremely healthy. Consumption, .indigestion, and similar complaints are practically unknown among them. “The only message 1 can send your meeting is this: That-the conscientious objectors, having saved their skins, can afford to refrain • from heroic attitudes, and will show a seemly gratitude to the dead by working as hard as they can foy that world settlement , which the overthrow of an aggressive German militarism has made possible.” So wrote Mr H. CL Wells, the novelist, lo a convention of the No-C’onserip-iion Fellowship, held in London. The Rev. F. %. Meyer said: “I sent my own grandson, with my blessing, to die o'u-Vimy Ridge —and 1,100 men from my church went to the war. I am here lo speak my mind. Yon ought to be tolerant to evermore with those who differ from you. Though the ideal you hold may lie true, borrowed, from the mind of God, and one that is likeliest enough to make a new basis for the world, I felt at the time when the Belgian and other down-trodden peoples were calling for help, that I must be prepared to sacrifice my ideal in order to give them such help as I thought- they needed.’' •