NEWS IN BRIEF

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 27 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF

A force of 20 women police is to be enrolled in Paris. Registered wireless listeners in Germany on January 1 numbered 7,192,952. Sacred ornaments valued at over £IOOO were recently Btolen from two Paris churches. Eleven Greek ex-officers recently left for Abyssinia to man tanks captured from the Italians. Thy Italian Ministry of Agriculture is buikiir:g 20 refineries for the production of spirit from peat. Tii- Poznan police have disc6vrred a collection oi valuable stamps which had beer, stolen in Zurich. Finns Zue*s, iged 36, was recently beheaded in Berlin after conviction of revealing military secrets?. Italy is now regularly broadcasting propaganda on the Abyssinian war in Hindustani for Indian listeners. A legacy of £SOO and a £4OO annuity was loft by a Leeds maltster and brewer to "his friend and secretary." An association has been formed to develop a new British industry—the production of home-grown sugar beet seed. Dr. Ronald Canti, who made astonishing films of cancer cells with a camera of his own construction, died recently, aged 52. Private eight-roomed suites are among the accommodation in the liner Queen Mary which sails on her maiden voyage on May 27. While the number of marriages in Britain last year was a record, the birth-rate reached tho lowest level of any normal year. The Italian Automobile Club is arranging competitions for motor vehicles with engines designed to run on substitutes for petrol. Atrocity charges are levelled against Britain by the Fascist press. The atrocities include the Bloody Assize of Judge Jeffreys in 1685." Miss Maud Lindsay Winckworth was recently bound over for two years at the Old Bailey, London, on a charge of libelling her aunt, Lady Yarrow. Representatives of British electrical firms are expected in Warsaw this month to negotiate for the construction of plant in several Polish towns. Herr Lasker, the former world chess champion, now a resident of Moscow, has been made an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Science. The stems of pot plants recently landed at Singapore were found to contain opium, and later £2OOO worth of the drug was seized in a steamer. Baroness Orczy was present last month at the first showing in Monte Carlo of the French version of the film of her story "The Scarlet Pimpernel." A rock which fell on the track near Tenay, France, derailed the Milan-Paris express recently while it was travelling at 50 miles an hour, but nobody was hurt. The Queen of Iran and the Princesses have, encouraged the movement to abolish the veiling of women by accompanying the Shah to a ceremony unveiled. " • • ... A new Royal Automobile Club rule will prevent drivers whose licences have, been suspended by courts from competing in British track or road motor contests. An American who hfts collected 10,300 portraits of celebrities, the "World's largest family album," is visiting England to present some of them tC museums. At the inquest in London on a woman who drank five bottles of wine a day, the coroner said that this was one of the most extreme cases of alcoholism with which ho had ever had to deal. A man who escaped from a sinking ship off the Pembrokeshire coast was recently found dead from exposure on . . a cliff where he had climbed until he was exhausted. , The complete skeleton of v a whale, estimated to have lain buried for at least 4000 years, has been unearthed near Sloopdorp, on land reclaimed from the Zuyder Zee. An American, Mr. Newell Bent, a: member of Harvard University Club, was recently killed while attempting a solo ascent of the 23,000 ft. Aconcagua peak in the Andes. With Herr Hitler's approval, a new Soldiers' League has been formed in Germany to which all officers and men who have left the army since the beginning of 1921 may belong. The crew of a Boulogne fishing boat, while operating last month, saw in their net an aluminium cockpit of an aeroplane covered with sea-shells, but lost it through the net breaking. When a man, his wife and their seven children were watching the moon's eclipse from a boat on the River Morava, Yugoslavia, the boat capsized and all but a boy were drowned. A railway van containing trench mortars, machine-guns and rifles, which mysteriously disappeared from a Toulon railway siding on January 2, was found recently near the Spanish frontier. The first section, about 11 miles long, of the Konigsberg-Elbing motor road is now ready. When completed, the road will stretch 56 miles across E?tst Prussia, and so far has given work to 3000 men. When a stag, being hunted in the forest of Fontainebleau, escaped into the town itself riders had to thread their way between buses, trams and motor-cars until the stag collapsed near the chateau. A valuable painting by the German 19th century artist, Fueuerbach, "Plato's Banquet," has been presented to Herr Hitler by" the Karlsruhe Museum for hanging in the Reich Chancellery. A crippling blow to. the Catholic Youth Movement by 'the complete ( mobilisation of German youths under the Nazi banner is foreshadowed in a New Year manifesto by the leader of the Hitler Youth. It was announced recently that 4,500,000 Germans have now passed through the special air defence schools and have thus received detailed instructions as to what to do in the event of an air raid. The Admiral Graf Spee, third of the German pocket battleships, which is to be the flagship of Admiral Foerster, Commander of the German High Seas Fleet, was put into commission last month at Wilhelmshaven. A £20,000 insurance policy against loss of his British accent is being sought by Mr. Lester Tremayne r a radio dramatist, in Chicago. Mr. Tremayue, a native of London, wants a policy guaranteeing him against loss of his voice, a change in its tone, and distortion of his native accents by the dialects of the American Mid-West. Three hundred calves bred from English stock have been transported by aeroplane from Lima to Cuzco in Peru. They are in stock raising purposes, and the Wfboplane has provided a safer and healthier method of 0 transport than the long journey by coastal steamship, followed by tedious and protracted mountain railway La, ' ■