NEWS IN BRIEF

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22949, 29 January 1938, Page 5 (Supplement)

NEWS IN BRIEF

Sticking out the tongue is a popular form of greeting in Tibet. British greyhound racing has a capital of £6,000,000 invested in it.

A clerk has left £20,000 toward reducing Britain's National Debt.

Czechoslovakia plans to spend nearly £32,000,000 on national defence during this year. British housewives buy something like 1,(300,000,000 tins of foodstuffs every year.

British birds and animals to the number of 10,000 are killed every day 011 the roads.

There are 80 public holidays during tho year in Mexico, while Mahommedans have 62.

The children of Holswortliy, Devon, are driven to school every morning by ail old man of 85.

In Britain about £90,000 worth of postal orders were bought last year and not cashed by tho public.

A cairn is to be built in Pad Cote, Ickornshaw Moor, to mark the restingplace of Lord Snowden's ashes.

Turkey has a flying association called tho Turkish Bird, and its young women member,s make parachute descents.

Arrangements are now well in hand for the Fifth International Congress on Accounting to be held in Berlin this year.

To help the fishing industry, sausages made from shrimps are being distributed among tho poor in Germany this winter.

The Oberammergau Passion Play, it is officially stated, will definitely be staged in 19-10 and will be given unaltered. Old motor tyres are bought in America and shipped to China, where they are used instead of leather for soling shoes.

Cigarettes which give off smoke to match the gown of the smoker may become a "fashion fad," as this can now bo done.

It has been found that the unpopular new English threepenny bits are too thick to pass through the slots of most collecting-boxes. The smallest English inn consists of one room measuring 15ft. by lift. It is tho Smith's Arms, Godmanstone, near Dorchester.

Twenty more Spaniards suspected of having belonged to General Franco's espionage organisation have been expelled from France.

Knights of the Garter, the most distinguished Order in the world, must wear some part of their insignia always—night and day. Sewing lessons for men, including repairs to clothing, are given in a novel school opened in New York. The threemonth course costs £5. One of the smallest shoes ever actually worn was made for Major Mite, a famous dwarf. It measures only two and a-half inches in length.

The spelling of our greatest dramatist's name has always been a matter of argument. Shakespeare himself spelt it in many different ways. The Pyrenees watering-place Bag-neres-de-Luchon is in danger of being completely Hooded by the river Pique, which has changed its course. Being a baby is the world's most dangerous job, according to American experts. It is twice as dangerous as being a soldier on activo service. Only about half the would-be recruits for the British Army pass the physical standard. If all were up to this, there would be no shortage of recruits. There are nearly 1000 rooms in Hampton Court Palace, tho magnificent residcnco which Cardinal Wolsey built and then presented to Henry VIII. A machine-gun and 20 rifles displayed at the Harrow county offices as relics since the War have been surrendered to the police under the new Firearms Act.

Dr. Pietro Ghezzi, of Florence, has been condemned to a penal island off Sicily for two years because, it is believed, he criticised the Fascist Government.

Miss Marleno Dietrich is returning to Paris from Hollywood to work with Herr Josef von Sternberg, but will go back in two years to get her American citizenship papers.

A Berlin Jew was sentenced to seven months' imprisonment for employiaig two Aryan maidservants under 45 years of age, "in contravention of tho Nuremberg anti-Jewish laws. Tho third biennial Jewish Olympic Games, known as the Maccabiade, which were to tako place in Palestine next April, will be postponed until 1939 on account of tho disturbed situation.

Three times an Alsatian dog was rescued from a blazing bedroom at Coalville (Leicestershire) recently and throe times it made its way back to rescue its two puppies, which were saved. Tho importation of cattle, sheep, goats and pig's from Great Britain and tho rest of Europe into the Union of South Africa is prohibited by a Government proclamation issued recently. Formerly a chapel, dating from 1358, the Rising Sun Inn, Fetcham, will soon bo demolished and the licence transferred to a new building which is being erected on tho opposite side of tho road.

The fourteenth-century chapel of Allhallows School, Honiton, Devon, is to be taken down stone by stone and set up 14 miles away when the school is removed to Rousdon House, on tho coast.

The sale in Austria of all books in any manner directed against Herr Hitler, among them those by the wellknown authors Herren Conrad Heidcn, Olden, Strasser and Corradi, has been forbidden.

Five persons were injured in tho first car accident to occur on the new Deer Lako high road, in Newfoundland, which has just been completed as far as Cornerbroolc. One of the injured has since died. Rosezell Rowland, a young actress who a few years ago was a chorus girl in New York burlesque shows, has been married at Budapest to the Belgian Baron Empnin, aged 33, reputed one of tho wealthiest men in Europe and tho owner of a controlling interest in the Paris underground railway system.

A Roman rock-tomb of tho second century B.C. has been found at Tel Mashuk about one and three-quarter miles inland from Tyre. The tombchamber, 25ft. long, is approached by a staircase of 20 steps and contains interesting frescoes, some of which aro still in good preservation. What is claimed to bo by far the longest flight in a helicopter was made in Germany by Flight Captain Hanna Reitsch, tho well-known woman pilot, who flew tho Focke helicopter F.W. 6 non-stop from Stendal to Berlin, a distance of 65 miles. Tho machine's previous' best flight had been over a distance of 10 miles. Speed records have, it is claimed, been established by two Italian threeengined aeroplanes, one of which flow 1000 kilometres with a load of 2000 kilogrammes at an average speed of 444.115 kilometres (277.0 miles) an hour, and the other 1000 kilometres with a load of 5000 kilogrammes at an average speed of 401,965 kilometres (251.2 miles) an hour. During excavations for the foundations of the secretariat of the Austrian Patritoic Front organisation next to the Chancery in Vienna, workmen came upon a stone sarcophagus containing a skeleton. Experts describe the grave as of the second or third century A.D. and the skeleton probably that of a Roman horse soldier. The site is believed to have been in Roman times a cavalry camp.