WORLD'S NEWS

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11210, 5 August 1929, Page 5

WORLD'S NEWS

THE KING LIKELY TO REAIOVE TO SANDRINGHAAI SOON. United Press Assn —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON. August 3. It is possible the King may go to Sandringham within a fortnight. He has been able on each of the past ten days to transact business, when he has spent several h'ours at bis desk, dealing with affairs which hitherto have been dealt with by his- secretary. REJECTED SUITOR ATTACKS BRIDE. SYDNEY, August 4. A week-old bride. Airs Patterson, aged 25, who married a Oesisnock miner, was brutally attacked on the coalfields yesterday, her skull being fractured with a hammer. Her assailant is alleged to be a man who had resented her marriage to his rival. AIORE AIOTOR TRAGEDIES. SYDNEY, August 4. The death roll as the result of motoring accidents throughout New South AVales this week-end totals eight and it is expected three will die overnight. The majority of the fatalities occurred in the country. INDIAN ROBBER GANG. DELHI, August 2. Devi Das, the notorious leader of an aimed band of robbers, who had defied the police for 15 years, was killed at Feiozepore, in the Punjab. He offered stout resistance, and killed two constables and seriously wounded two others. The police traplied the members of the gang in a house. After a battle which lasted for five hours they bored a hole in a wall, made a fire, and smoked tlie robbers out. When they entered they found the leader dead of wounds. The other bandits were arrested. RIOT BREAKS OUT IN POLISH PRISON. WARSAW, August 4. A riot broke out at a long term prison where manv Communists and terrorists are serving sentences. The police were forced to fire, killing two and the remainder were subdued by th© fire hose.