WIDE WORLD NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14705, 4 June 1920, Page 5

WIDE WORLD NEWS.

! In his will. lately proved, a weil- ; known English titled sportsman made 'the following bequest: '.I bcr|iienth to 'my brother —(named) —the sum of om ' shilling to show my appreciation, of his '■noble sacrifice to his country in avoidj iug military service until compelled to i join up." The testator had served :with the forces.

"I spent two years in Paris in wartime, and not a single British composition was given on the concert platiorm during that period." Dr. George Olaroyd told a Daily Chronicle representative. Dr. Oldroyd is a member of the Council of the " British Musical Societv's National Congress, which was to be held in London at the beginning of Mav. Its object is to prevent this regrettable foreign ignorance of British music; and to further its development generally. "The congress promises to be a success. The secretary. Mr Frank Solman, said to the representative. "Very many foreign representatives of music have promised to come. We hope they will go back with the desire to give their own people the chance to hear the works of modern British composers. We are anxious to establish a foundation fund of £15,000, and Lord Howard de Walden has offered to give £5,000 on condition that a' similar amount is raised before the end of the year."

Bradford Socialists, who largely dominate the local Education Committee, propose the purchase of a ship as part of the necessary equipment for the pupils. A new secondary school is required at the cost of about £IOO.OOO, and the Socialists contend it will be cheaper to buy a sliip and have a floating school. A committee has been appointed to consider the proposal. Mr L. J. Parker, Chairman of the Secondary Education Committee, says it has not vet been decided whether the shin will be used entirely for educational purposes. If the scholars 'were being taken to Rome, the hold could be used for taking Bradford goods and bringing Italian goods I>ack. A trip for six or 12 months of a couple of hundred children to a foreign country, where they could be landed, would help them to learn foreign languages. If international relations Were improved by the Prince of Wales going abroad, it would" he good for the democracy of the world to have visits from children. A system of interchange of children might follow.

The United States is notorious for its litigation and law's delays. Here is a nice example. A remitter filed in the New York Supreme Court disclosed a hitter fight that was waged for nearlv five vears over a loaf of bread worth 9i ( ]. " A man riding on a suburban railwav saw a parcel some one had left on the seat beside him. He picked it up and walked out of the car with it- at the Fiftv-ninth street station. An emplovee of the railway asked him what he was going to do with the parcel, and the man renlied that he was going to advertise for the owner. The employee insisted that he turn it over to the companv and. upon receiving a refusal to com'plv. the man was arrested. Jhe parcel" was opened by the police, and in it. was a loaf of bread that in those davs cost about 21d. The nrnn hav.ng been acquitted of larceny, sued the rai - wav company for false arrest and mali-cious-prosecution. The trial court found for the comnany. and the Apneal Division affirmed the.iudgment. The Court of Appeals decided that the j act, > were sufficient- to constitute- a- legal ground for an accusation of petit larceny against the plaintiff.

"With the. intention of placing the French merchant marine on a basis which will enable it to effect the shipment of foodstuffs from the French colonies without the assistance of ships or other nations, the Ministry of Finance expects to provide for a credit ot 1,000,000.000 francs for the construction of new vessels. An additional-200,-000.000 francs will be voted improving French fishing ports provision is deemed essential, following tho Government's announcement- that after June 1 the importation of frozen LTats from the United States and Australia would cease,... the Government relying on the increased French fishing ' - - V --

industry to provide the nation with a food tliat is equally as substantial as meat. Transport facilities are blamed bv the meat companies as th© cause ot the high cost of living, millions of tons of frozen meat in tins lying on i'rench niers awaiting transit to tho interior or the Republic. Representations were made in official quarters that unless inland transportation were improved the proposed forcing of a fish diet on tho French nation would result in doubling, the price of what is now France s cheapest food. # *

The vendetta against Mr D. R. Hall, ex-Attorney-General, who was recentlj anpointed Agent-General for IS ew South Wales in succession to &ir George \\ acte, but who was recalled immediately the Labor Government took office, is being pursued with much bitterness, and the inevitable result will be a claim for substantial compensation for loss ot othce. On a recent occasion the Treasurer in the new Administration referred to .-he subject- in these terms"The position that has been created was untenable. He (Mr Lang) would have been at one end of the cable and Mr Hall—the antagonist of the Cabinet—at the other. He did not think that the new Government would have got a fair deal, especiallv ar, Mr Hall had no knowledge at nn'ance. The Government had discovered that the agreement under wliicn Air Hall was appointed provided tor a salary of £IBSO a year, with an allowance of £SOO. In addition, Mr Hall and his familv had their fares paid botn vravs. and there was also a clause m the* 'agreement providing for an unstated sum being paid to Mr Hall. On top of that was a letter of credit which .rave Mr Hall-£IBSO on arrival m London; Had he (Mr Lang) been in office one day earlier that letter of credit would never have been written. « « "

Several items of special interest to New Zealand riflemen appear m a recert issue of the London Field. At the annual meeting of the Army Rifle Association on 25th February it was announced that a new rule had been issued declaring that, "in the light of battle experience, it had been decided that this vear's programme tho bayonet should always be fixed when firing at or under 200 yards.'' Major Pixlcv made an important statement regarding the new targets that had been approved by the Office, it had h'een decided, he said, that owing to the known inaccuracy of the short service rifle, it would be necessary to revert to the dimensions which were used for the Martini. At 200 yards the bull would be 8 inches, at 300 12 inches, and at 500 and 500 24 inches. In a later issue' there is a very "jteresting article on ''How„to Improve the ; Shooting of the Short Service Rifle. One statement made is that with Mar!k VIL ammunition the shooting at, 200 j arils with both short and long rifle will not group, the flip of .the barrel being .the cause. With Mark VI. it shoots-well at all ranges. • ♦ *

Two hundred and four Austrian pri- | soners of war arrived in lenna latelj from Moscow after a journey las nig three months. The original party numbered nearly eight hundred, but >n the course of their terrible journey six Hundred died from illness or were beaten to death or otherwise killed on thoway. At the Polish border, the survivors say, a. rejknlur massacre took place, and only those- who l had monej were able in some cases to purchase tlleir lives. The rest were hunted down like a pack of starving dogs. Most of those who reached Vienna were_ so weak that they had to be removed in ambulances, while others were inarticulate with emotion. The whole scene, at which I was present, afforded a most striking commentary. o7l the anarchical conditions prevailing in Central Europe.

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