NEWS IN BRIEF

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22356, 29 February 1936, Page 1 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF

London's swimming baths and pools were used by 7,000,000 bathers last year.

Sixteen years after the close of the Great War, 83 men died of war wounds in 1934.

England is short of nurses. The supply works out at one nurse for every 5329 of the population.

Passengers in motor-cars in Berlin must not speak to the driver* according to a new police rule.

English may be adopted as the second language taught in all high and secondary schools in Finland.

Bed-headed persons are said by a London specialist to make the most fuss in the dentist's chair.

An eagle raided a tobacconist's stall in Algiers and consumed the entire stock before being driven off by 12 men. Science is conquering smallpox. In 1934 there were only 179 cases; there were 627 in 1933, and 14,764 in 1932.

Giving faulty signals, or none at all, is the cause of 30 per cent, of motorists in England failing to pass the driving test.

The Italian Lloyd Triestino Line is to transport 80.000 Polish Jews from Trieste to Tel-Aviv, Palestine, during 1936.

Fifteen houses were destroyed and many cattle buried alive by a recent landslide at Serrieres, near Chambery, France.

An artesian well nearly two miles deep is to be sunk near Paris in the hope of finding a new water supply for the city.

The Han. Sir Alexander Cadogan, the British Ambassador to China, is leaving Pekin for England in April on sis months' leave.

Two boys recently born dead m Stockholm were joined in the upper part of the body anu had one arm each and one in common.

Professor Albert Einstein, the eminent German physicist, recently signed a "declaration of intention" to become a United States citizen. -

Mr. Thane A. Campbell, who, at the age of 40, has become Premier of Prince Edward Island, is the youngest holder of such office in Canada.

The 7300-ton Eugenia di Vavoia, Italy's new cruiser, Avhich has been handed over to the Italian Navy, has a cruising speed of 38 knots;. New squadrons are to be added at the rate of one a week to the Royal Air Force. Orders have already been placed for some .3000 new aeroplanes.

A number of farmers have been taken into "protective custody" at Delmenhorst, Germany, for demanding for piga prices above the official maximum.

Eels can live for a considerable time out of water. Traffic was recently held up on a Sussex road by great numbers of eels crossing it in broad daylight. Wages in Britain go 25 per cent further than they do in Germany, 33 1-3 per cent, further than in France, and 250 per cent, further than in Kussia. Unemployed in Germany are now stated officially to number 1,828,000; this does not include the hundreds of thousands in compulsory labour camps. British cars are gaining ground abroad. During October Britain exported 5906, ■ and imported 705. England's total output for that month was 27,832.

British doctors who specialise in the care of children, as in School Medical Service, can now obtain a new degree; this is D.C.H., or Diploma in Child Health.

Blindness does not deter Mr. L. H. Barker, junior, of Redcar, Yorkshire, from riding to hounds, judging cattle and sheep, running a poultry farm and dancing. New forests are springing up in South Wales, Scotland, Cumberland, Yorkshire, Wiltshire, and East Anglia, where 65.000,000 young trees will be planted this year.

Britain already has women serving as mayors; there is no legal reason why a woman should not hold the most important municipal post—that of Lord Mayor of London. . Oscar Speck, aged 28, a German, arrived in Calcutta recently after paddling from Hamburg in a tiny canoe through monsooij. storms and along inhospitable coasts. German schoolchildren, instead of having lessons on January 30, the anniversary of Herr Hitler's assumption of power, listened to speeches extolling Nazi achievements. His doctor ordered him to take a long walk, so Mr. Ross, an ex-policeman in South Africa, set out. This was in 1928; since then he has travelled 38,000 miles, 19,758 on foot.

A man aged 130 is still earning his living as a cooper at Sadovaya," Northern Caucasus. One of a long-lived family, his father died at the age of 137 and his mother at 117.

Cinema projectors are fitted in every room of the £21,000 school recently opened in Hendon. The hall of the building has a full-sized stage, with stage-lighting, curtains, etc. Mahogany, which has been out of popular favour for some years as a furnishing medium, is now returning. Owing to new sources of supply, it is now available as cheaply as oak.

Pilots in charge of aeroplanes faced with a crash or bad landing can how detach the petrol tank and drop it off by means of a new invention. This will go far to remove the danger of fire. - Most danger hours on the roads of cities in Britain are between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m.; this is proved by statistics. People are hurrying to get home, their watchfulness lessened by a day's work.

Child film stars in Britain seldom receive as much as £2O a week; in America three juveniles, one of them the English boy, Freddie Bartholomew, are believed to receive £2OO or more a week.

A party of English schoolboys who recently visited Bavaria for a winter sports holiday in the mountains were guests in the Hitler Youths' camp at Berchtesgaden, near Herr. Hitler's chalet.

Senator Swanson, Secretary of the United States Navy, announces that "a small portion" of the fleet will visit Atlantic ports after the spring manoeuvres off the west coast of Central America.

A red badge to'humiliate drivers who figure in motor-car accidents was proposed at a conference of legislators and traffic officials, representing nine of the United States, held in New York in January.

Assuming that, each time a man shaves, his beard is one-sixty-fourth of an inch long, he removes 71 yards of beard between the ages of 20 and 65. Allowing 10 minutes for a shave, he spends 04 days and nights shaving. Telegrams to men serving in Eritish warships can now be sent from England at a maximum rate of 7d a word, wlier- 1 ever the ship may be. Other rates are 3d a word in home waters, 6d a word to the Mediterranean, and 9d a word to Gibraltar.