BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18747, 28 December 1922, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, December 26. It is reported that Signor Perosi, the composer of the oratorios “The Nativity,” “The Resurrection of Christ,” and other masterpieces, has been declared to be insane. Measures have been taken to prevent him from destroying his unpublished musical numbers, which he threatened to burn, under the belief that the publishers intended altering them. —A. and N.Z. Cable. Madame Sarah Bernhardt has greatly improved. Sho amazed the doctors by getting up.—A. and N.Z. Cable. COPENHAGEN, December 26. Prince Aagc, eldest son of Prince Valdemar of Denmark, who is a brother of Queen Alexandra, is leaving to take a commission in the French vrmy m Morocco. It is stated that he lest his fortune in a bank collapse, and that his father also lost heavily. Ho and his brothers now have only what they can earn, and it is impossible for him to live on the wages of a captain in the Danish army. His brother, Prince Erik, is at present working in a Canadian dairy.— Reuter. ROME, December 27. (Received Dec. 27, at 11.5 Signor Mussolini is not certain that he will be a participant in the Prime Ministers’ meeting. He formally objected to the convention of international conferences for the mere sakp of exchanging courtesies. Unless he is assured that the Italian proposals will be seriously discussed ’and adopted nr alternative proposals substituted, Signor Mussolini will not leave Rome.—A. and N.Z. Cable.