SYDNEY SUN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14707, 7 June 1920, Page 8

SYDNEY SUN CABLES.

LONDON, May 26

The most severe storm m the memory of the Jiving visited the Department of Oise (France). The Celle was ilooded, and the work of restoration to damaged property interrupted. Several bridges were swept away and the roofs of nouses were smashed. The hail failed animals and injured people. The correspondent of The Times at Paris states that the cyclone caused damage to the value of £IOO,OOO to the railway, buildings, and - crops. It nearly wiped' out tile village ot FontaineJionneleau, and several communes were covered with hail to a de-pt'll of from 12 to 24 inches.

LONDON, May 24,

The.first post-war meeting fit Brooklands attracted■ lead'ingtmotorists. The chief event, the Lightning' Handicap, was contested bv tour cars —Harry Hawker's Sunbeam, Captain Hornsted's Opel, and Captain Lees' and Captain Brown's Yauxhalls. Hawker was a red-hot favorite at evens, and a. thrilling, ding-done, struggle ensued. He and Lees reached a speed of 100 miles "an hour in the first lap, when Hawker just got ahead, and won by ten yards amidst frantic excitement.

A message from Pekiu stairs that the Chinese Cabinet has ordered regulations to be drafted, for the placing of the former German concessions: at Hankow and Tientsin under the control of the Chinese Municipal Councils. It is stated that the Government intends to establish model Chinese set tlements there in order to pave the way for the eventual abolition of jJusystem of cxtra-territoriality.

IN AN EXPRESS TRAIN. LONDON, May 25. As the Penzance express dashed at top speed through Newbury the stationmaster was - struck by a ball of paper bearing a message asking him to telegraph for an ambulance toi (bo ready at Paddington station. It trauspired that a child was born on the journey. Luckily a physician was aboard, and the guard's presence of mind doubtless saved the lives of the mother and child, who are both prospering. ✓ BOXING MELEE. . LONDON, May 25. At the Olympia tournament a hundred imfines stepped into the arena, wearing boxing gloves. On a. wliistk sounding - they started a boxing melee of two _ minutes of the fastest fighting ever -witnessed. The delighted spectators included the Princess Christian and Helena. DIVE TO DEATH. LONDON, May 25. The Times correspondent in Berne states that Taddioli, the leading Swiss trans-Alpine flier, was "corkscrewing" over lake Constance on Monday in a Savoia biplane, when the propeller snapped. The'wings and the ruddpr refused to act, and the machine plunged 1200 ft. like a log to the bed of the lake. Taddioli's body, which was strapped in the machine, has not been recovered. MUDDLED EAST. LONDON, May 25. The Daily Express states that cr6ss purposes have been caused by a conflict, due" to obsolete traditions, between the Foreign, "War and Colonial Offices and the Admiralty over the ncwly•'acquired influence in Palestine, Syria, Turkey,- Mesopotamia nad elsewhere. . As au example the Foreign Office supports the King of the Hedjaz, the .Indian Office backs Emir Snoud, while 'Aden- is, .'torn: Between - political and military controls. -. Similarly War Office messages must be supervised by the Foreign Offico before tliey are sent to the High Commissioner at ' Constantinople, who is an admiral ,and 'who must, refer his replies to the .Admiralty. The result is a muddled East, worthy of "Wonderland. ■ . .

POLICE ROOMS RAIDED. - LONDON. May 25A message from Liverpool states that the rooms of the Union of Police and Warders were raided. Four men were arrested, and charged with conducting an unauthorised pottery. .

"REMARRY WHILE YOUXG."

LONDON, Mot 25.. A demobilised soldier unwed iWsofi, 48 years of .age, who was meaptjal and suii'ered from lieurastheiiii, cmmilted suicide. • Ho left a grateful letter tatisiih and sou, desiring the former'toft" marry while she was youuj; aniW-, some, and giving his blcssk »«J wishing her luck. He ended, "W broken-hearted Arthur." /