NEWS OF THE WORLD

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6991, 17 August 1929, Page 9

NEWS OF THE WORLD

CHINESE “VENGEANCE” BEQUEST OF A DOLLAR ‘So says the will of Chin Man Duck, of New York:—“l leave my honoured son, Shin Hing, only the small and insignificant sum of one dollar, American, because he was undutiful to me as a son.” AMANULLAH, AUTHOR AN EX-KING’S MEMOIRS It is understood that ex-King Amannllah of Afghanistan, when he leaves Bombay, will make Rome his first halting place. He will afterward go to another part of Italy to settle permanently there and to write his life story. A member of Amanullah’s staff reveals that there will be no financial • difficulties in the way, as the ex-King has sufficient money on which to live comfortably. A BROKEN HEART CAUSES MAN’S DEATH George Debs, of Omaha, died of what physicians described as shock and “a broken heart.” Recently Debs returned home from a hospital, where he had undergone a major operation, to be informed that his wife had run away with another man, taking his life’s savings and leaving’ six small children. Debs collapsed and was returned to the hospital, where he died. GERMAN’S PROPHECY CAUSES AGED MAN’S SUICIDE At an inquest at Newark, Nottinghamshire, on William Hall, aged 80, who was found drowned in a canal, his step-daughter said that he had been worried lately about the prophecy of a German that England would be engulfed by the sea. A verdict of "found drowned” was recorded. Herr Joseph Weissenberg, the editor of a German weekly newspaper, recently predicted among other things that at 11 p.m. on the day previous to Hall’s death there would be an earthquake and England would disappear beneath the sea. NON-STOP MOTORIST NARROW ESCAPE FROM LYNCHING After crashing into a cafe at St. Etienne, Central France, a motor-car upset two tables, 18 chairs and laid low five people. Joseph Auzaine, aged 17, the driver, who had borrowed the car, dashed off again when he realised the damage he had done. He was pursued by a big crowd, including several policemen, says the "Central News.” He then deserted his car and took refuge in a factory. Crowds surrounded the building and threatened to lynch him. But the police called up an ambulance, and under the pretence that the youth had been injured, got him away safely to the police station. BET FOR BABY'S DOWRY ACTRESS’S RUN OF LUCK Mile. Pierly, a Parisian actress, received a telegram at Cannes, announcing that a friend had become the mother of a baby girl. The actress, who was dining at the Sporting Club, decided to make a 1,000 franc bet in the baccarat room, . and if she won to devote her gains to forming the nucleus of a dowry for the baby. Mile. Pierly took the “bank” and won 12 times; she would not risk the 13th time, and the new dealer loat. The actress cleared more than £SOO, which she said she would send to the child’s parents. 1 ICEBERG’S DOOMED? SMASHING BY EXPLOSIVE Smashing up an iceberg from the air is likely to be a great success in the waters of the Atlantic. Bombs containing the solite invented by Professor Howard Barnes have been dropped from an airplane into the open water, and the bombs, getting under the icebergs, explode and break them up. Professor Barnes has also worked out a time device by which one of these bombs can be placed underneath an iceberg as it goes down the St. Lawrence River toward the' sea, so that it will explode farther downstream, where there will be no danger.

THIRTY DAYS AND SPENT IN WATER! After he is alleged to have bragged, In describing how he became tipsy, that he “fairly waded in bay rum,” Ewing Karlson, aged 45, was sentenced in Port Jervis to wade in water for the next 30 days. The judge gave him 30 days in the county gaol on a charge of being disorderly after he was arrested twice in three days for bay rum sprees. Just now the prisoners of this gaol are being used daily to dredge out the Wallkill River and tributary streams to establish a system of flood control, and while at this work the prisoners wade in water all day. So Karlson will be forced to do his wading in water instead.

HIS LUCK AN OPERATION MISSED How a man nearly underwent an operation that was not necessary was told at a meeting of the Amersham, Bucks, Board of Guardians. The operating theatre was prepared, the anaesthetic was administered, and everything was in readiness for the operation, when the surgeon exclaimed, “Good gracious! This is not the man.” The nurses had made a mistake and had brought the wrong man from the «ard.

TOO MANY “DRUMSTICKS” CHICKEN WITH FOUR LEGS Had Dame Nature continued on the job she started with a chicken, found partly hatched at a ranch near Cutler, U.S.A., some small lad eventually would have realised his dream of a chicken with four legs. Not only that, but a chicken with three wings and two tails; not to speak of two necks to wring. The chicken has been preserved in alcohol and will be exhibited. A SQUEAKING HARE NEW SPORTING DEVICE A new type of electric hare, which leaps and squeaks, has been tried out at Knowle Greyhound Race Track at Bristol. It is claimed that the innovation will revolutionise the sport, and that the effect on dogs of a more realistic animal is extraordinary. The inventor, Mr. Rodman, a wellknown Bristol sportsman, anticipates that his device will mean an improved speed average.

THE YOUNG RESCUER GIRL, AGED TWELVE; BOY, THREE Although only 12, Lydia Gilbert, of Leicester, has the courage and common sense of a woman. A three-year-old boy fell into a lake. Lydia jumped in and, after a struggle, brought him out, took off his wet clothes, wrapped her coat round him, put him into a perambulator, and wheeled him off to a policeman. Leicester Watch Committee has given her a framed copy of a resolution of praise and handed her money to buy new clothes for those spoilt when she saved the child.

THE TOLL OF THE ROAD SOME LONDON STATISTICS In the months of January, February and March of this year 251 persons were killed in London street accidents, says a Scotland Yard return. This reveals a big decrease in the number of fatal accidents compared with the total of 365 for the last three months of 1928. There were 9,205 persons injured, while the total number of accidents was 22,416. The number of accidents in the last three months of 1928 was 30,248.

HIS LORDSHIP’S VOICE MAKING RECORDS AT 82 An octogenarian peer sang two songs at the Queen’s Hall for gramophone records. The Marquess of Aberdeen, who will be 82 this month, accomplished the task in a London studio. The songs, which were given with excellent effect, were:—“Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes," and “Will Ye No Come Back to Me?” and Lord Aberdeen was able, before he left the studio, to hear his voice as recorded on the wax. Lord Aberdeen, who was accompanied by his own pianist from Scotland, said he was making the records privately “for a family affair.”

A HUGE CONGREGATION DUBLIN CELEBRATIONS Some of the largest crowds ever seen in Dublin took part in the concluding ceremonies of the Catholic Emancipation Centerary celebrations. Pontifical High Mass was solemnised at noon in Phoenix Park and the gathering, estimated at 300,000, included 2,000 clergy and contingents from all over Ireland. At the end of the Mass the huge crowd formed into a procession which stretched for several miles. An altar was erected on one of the bridges spanning the River Liffey, and the benediction was pronounced.

THE LAST PIGEON UNIQUE WAR MEMORIAL The heroic city of Verdun recently saw the unveiling of perhaps the most novel war memorial in the world. It is a marble plaque to the memory of the last carrier pigeon, No. 787-15, which on June 4, 1916, left the beleaguered fort of Vaux amid a storm of gas shells and machine-gun fire. It carried a ■ message from Major Raynal, the commander of the fort, which read: — We are still holding: out, but we are meeting a very dangerous gas and smoke attack. It Is urgent to relieve us. . , . This is my last pigeon. The pigeon got through, and was awarded the Legion of Honour and the Croix de Guerre. It was kept in the army pigeon headquarters as a pensioner until it died about four years ago.

FAT TENORS, BEWARE SLIM SINGERS FOR OPERA Obese tenors who belie their roles of youthful lovers will have to reduce to something approaching slimness before they can hope for extended engagements at the Royal Opera in Rome. Ottavio Scotto, director of the theatre, delivered that dictum just before he sailed for South America to resume his work at the Colon of Buenos Aires. No cure, no contract, was the managerial ukase. Singers who tread the boards of the Rome Opera must no longer make the planks quiver and tremble.

ARRESTED HIS WIFE A VERY BRAVE CONSTABLE Joseph Herden, of the police force in Fairhaven, New Jersey, is a brave man. He arrested his own wife on complaint of Miss Pearl Mack, who averred Mrs. Herden was creating a disturbance at her residence in upbraiding her for acquaintance with the police force. A justice of the peace freed the wife after exacting a promise that, more subtle methods be used.