NEWS IN BRIEF

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22262, 9 November 1935, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF

Six British Members of Parliament refused to draw their Parliamentary salaries last year.

Razors were used in a dockers' riot at San Francisco recently, eight men being seriously injured. A naval training ship to accommodate 80 boys has been installed on the Seine, in the heart of Paris. British warships are to have "talkie" films and equipment hired to them under a new Admiralty plan. Ten miners were killed and 23 injured by a recent firedamp explosion in a coalmine at Rtanj, Yugoslavia. A ring of wayside hostels is being established round London to aid workIcss men tramping from the provinces. Small Swastika flags have been affixed to the cages of all animals in the Berlin Zoo which aro native to Germany. A Protestant newspaper at Speyer, Bavaria, has been suspended for attacking the new German anti-Jewish laws.

Earl Howe has announced that, he will compete in the South African Grand Prix motor races on January 1, 1936. A flight of grasshoppers has been encountered by a pilot flying at a height of 9500 ft. over Billings, Montana. German professors engaged _ in research are forbidden to give information to the press in regard to their work. A man arrested in Rouen for loitering has confessed that he committed 176 burglaries which had baffled the police. Three players were struck by lightning during a recent football match at Johannesburg, but none was seriously injured. A famous champion ploughman was beaten by his son in the competition at Egliam and Thorpe Agricultural Show, England. A photograph showing Herr Hitler in tho company of children is to be hung in the lower classrooms in ail schools in Germany A model of Canterbury Cathedral has been presented to M. Max, Burgomaster of Brussels, by the Mayor of Canterbury. General Sir lan Hamilton, speaking at Aberdeen recently, paid tribute to the long and distinguished record of the Gordon clan. Official figures published show that Britain's champagne imports rose by 416,736 bottles in the first eight months of this year Denmark has adopted for its air forces a British paten led device for preventing the formation of ice on aeroplanes in flight. A burning lorry loaded with petrol cut telephone and telegraph communication with Narbonne, France, through melting the wires. A world record is claimed for six Soviet women who recently arrived in Moscow after covering 2800 miles on bicycles in 34 days. Ferdinand Muller, a sentry in the garrison at Toul, 12 miles from Nancy, vanished from his sentry box and has not been seen since.

Professor Charles Schmidt, of Bonn University, has discovered a meteor weighing about 20 tons in woods near Poznan, Western Poland. When the German airship Graf Zeppelin returned to Friedrichsbaven recently it completed its one hundredth crossing of the Atlantic. The " Sultan China," bought for £3OO to entertain a Sultan of Turkey, was recently sold. Jiy ,th« City of London Corporation for £2B. A German has sent to the Mayor of Wavrille, France, one of the town's old seals which was carried off by a German soldier in the war of 1870. Over 1200 delegates from 30 countries attended the Rotary Conference for Europe, Africa and Asia Minor, which opened at Venice recently. Building society members throughout the world hold savings of £2,000,000,000, it was revealed at the societies' recent conferenoe in Austria. A Spanish military balloon, in the car of which was an officer, was recently blown over the Pyrenees by a storm and landed at Bayonne, France. Export of codfish from Newfoundland, except under Government licence was recently prohibited owing to a conflict between two exporting.groups. Sixty policemen were required to protect workmen puUirig down a house in a Paris slum' from stones thrown by people in. neighbouring tenements. Five Hollywood men were dismissed with consecutive balls in a cricket match at Los Angeles between Hollywood and a Canadian Legion team. Paris householders, who, after being robbed, have received threats of further burglaries have discovered that these came from a firm selling patent locks. An entire regiment of Hungarian Hussars was present, by invitation, in the King's Theatre, Budapest, at a performance of "Viktoria and Her Hussar." A three-hour anti-monarchical general strike took place at Candia, Crete, recently, following a memorial service for the men killed therein August riots. Young persons between tho ages of 14 and 20 years have been warned that they must not waste their time parading the streets of Stendal, Saxony, in the afternoons and evenings. Income from a £55,000 trust fund is to be paid under the will of Mr. Edwin Rine, a former United States railway chief, to Miss Rosa Christopher, a maidservant in his household. A factory for making beggars into " cripples " has been discovered by Senor Car ribs, a Spanish journalist, who, to study beggars, lived for a month on the streets of &J*idrid. Five former GenrTam Bpy Scouts, an organisation now bannecl by the Nazis, ranging in age from 15 to 19, were sentenced to imprisonment at Leipzig for an attack on a Hiter Youth hostel. A world record for inverted flying is claimed by the Argentine airman,' Francisco Araza, who, on a flight from Parana to Buenos Aires, piloted his machine upside down for 4 hours 27 minutes. Bishop Zvetikoff, a priest named Vikke, and a deacon named Dezobri, of the Voznesensky Cathedral at Riazan, Spain, were recently' arrested on a charge of stealing sacred silver vessels and ikons weighing 2881b. Remains of a signpost and other relics of the Polar expedition made by Baron Nils Nordenskjold in 1878-79, when he accomplished the North-East Passage, have been discovered at Cape Vega, in Vilkitsky' Strait, by tho Soviet icebreaker Vermak. John Darchs, a seventeen-year-old Toronto youth, never uses pencil and paper when he wants to write anything down. He uses his skin' When somebody writes a word on his arm. the writing takes visible ehape in the. form of a welt that can be felt- w ken » finger is passed v oyer it. loe leoifiE..of time the '' pends upoa the preauw a Pin**"*