NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15710, 29 December 1921, Page 9

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

VETO ON FAMILY LAV,'SUITS. TOICIO, Oct. 21.—An unusual feature of tin- newly-drafted criminal code here is the law which forbids sons and daughter* from instituting a lawsuit against their parents. A number of people have sued lheir parents in will eases, and this is considered detrimental U> the family system of Japan.

BIG TIM" GOES TO (lAOL FOR SIX YEARS.

OHTOACO, Nov. 14.—" Big Tim' Murphy, fnnnci' State representative

gang leader and president of the (ias Workers' and Streel Sweepers' Unions, was sentenced. In six wary, in Leavenworth and lined £6OOO by Judge KeneS;iw M. I.audi-; to-day fur hits pari in planning the £72.000 Dearborn station mail robbery here last. April.

EUNERAL AUTO SMASHED P.V TRAIN.

CIIK'AOO. Nov. 19. Ten persons wi'iv killed al Summit, 111., a. Chit-ago suburb, 10-day, when an automobile in a funeral procession was struck by -No. 4. the ("alifoi nia. Limited, on the Santa !•'('. Thirlecn persons were in the automobile, which was a. large funeral tar. The other three were seriously injured. The train was going about fifty-five miles an hour when it crashed into the automobile.

SHAW'S NEW PLAY NOT A SUCCESS. LONDON*, Nov. 18.—George Bernard Shaw's "Heart-Break House" is to be withdrawn from the Court. Theatre after a. run of only a few weeks. J, I!. Fagan, the manager, explains its compartive failure on the grounds that there are not enough ''intelligent people" to support the "most brilliant play in London." The dramatic critics, however, took: a different, view. The play was generally critic&ed as. .intolerably wordy and lacking in dramtnic action to cany off its long dissertation. CEASED TO MENACE THE NORTH SEA. LONDON, Nov. 16.—Heligoland, once the. haven of the German submarine and light cruiser forces in the North Sea. is a fortress no more. The Inter-Allied Commission which has been at work on it for the last two years, is about to report that, the main work of demolition is finished. Certain works are left to be completed by the Germans, the Commission to pay quarterly visits until the last provision of the peace treaty has been carried out. Then the island passes back into the complete control of Germany.

NEW BEER TO BUN ON ANTI WASTE, TICKET.

LONDON, Oct. B.—Lord Fermoy is likely to stajid for Parliament as a candidate of the Anti-waste League. This is an organisation with Lord Rothermere at its head, which was formed to attack the Government on "the ground that its administration is wasteful and that taxation must be cut down.

Lord Fermoy, who is an Irish peer, is on its list of candidates, and he might ha.ve stood at the by-election in August in the Ahby division of Westminster if ho had not thought that it would he presumptuous for one who had so recently come to England to try to enter Parliament. Maryleboiie is the constituency for which he is most likely to stand at the next general election. It has returned Unionist members with unfailing regularity. Tf contains, however, a large middle class population; and it is to this typo of voter that the anti-waste arguments especially appeal. MANADIAN MARINE IN CUT-BATE WAR. LONDON, Oct. 28— The United Staler Shipping, Board, which recently fell foul of the British steamship lines operating to .Egyptian ports, has been pursuing li'e same aggressive policy towards the Canadian lines.

Its ships are competing with those of the Canadian Government Merchant Marine sailing l<> the Mediterranean ports, to which the Dominion has during the past year sent large cargoes, as witness the growth of Canadian exports to ltiilv.

In the effort to capture this trade from the Canadian service, the United Stales Shipping Board recently commenced, to slash rales to and from New York and they are ndiv down to a very low level. Rather than see (his business leave Montreal and other Canadian ports, the C.G.M.M. has met cut by cut and' still holds the trade.

There have been several sailings of C.G.M.M. boats to Germany with Canadian cargoes of grain and other commodities, but they brought back no German goods.

£50,000,000 TRADE PUSH. LONDON, Oct. 28.—British traders are organising a £50.000,000 scheme for placing samples of their goods in every market throughout the world. The first of more than 150 sample exhibitions will be begun immediately at Brussslls, to bo followed bv others at Buenos Aires. Rio de Janeiro. Copenhagen. Madrid, Stockholm, Tokio, Bombay, Calcutta, Johannesburg, and Colombo (Ceylon). This network of sample showrooms will have, managers and staffs lo introduce British goods ot all kinds to buyers.

Each exhibition will be permanent. Manufacturers will be able to purchase stands through the Federation of British Industries at a minimum cost of £2O, and the goods will be changed as often as the exhibitor requires. Periodically the scheme will be advertised extensively, with a view to attracting as many buyers to the shows as possible. The total value of the goods to be shown when the scheme is complete will bo £50,000,000 to £60,000,000, each exhibition containing at least. £250.000. worth of articles showing the best British workmanship and skill.

MILK STRIKE CALLED MURDER. NEW YORK. Nov. 3.—New York's milk strike, affecting ten million consumers, has reached its critical stage, with the distributors determined to make the occasion a fight for the open shop, and the employees—twelve thousand of them —determined to prevent the moving of a single quart of milk until they receive a wage increase of 5 dollars a week.

Refusal of the distributors to arbitrate the wage question, and their decision to force tin open shop in the business came at. the conclusion of a da;.' in which appeals by the Mayor, Health Commissioner Copeland and Nathan Straus, an aged philanthropist who left a sick bed to plead with the strikers against "the murder of little children," failed to bring the warring interests together.

"I would say yon were right in this." said Straus, in bis appeal, "if it were not a matter of life and death. I .lo not like the milk trust. T have fought it all my life. T have helped to make it do things it did not. want to do, but. this time the milk trust is right. Don't be murderers; Am I right or wrong''"

"Dead wrong," shouted the delegates. Late in (he evening, after New York had gone afoot, by automobile, by taxi, eoaeb and bus, to' fill its quart pails at public, distributing stations: after shots had 'ipen fired til milk trucks, and disorders provoked •'<' >"' lk l ,lfU,tß

had given a threat of worse trouble to come, the distributors gave their final reply to the arbitration request made by Commissioner Copeland.

"The proposal," they said, "would restore to control the very men who have brought about, the present conditions, men who, though receiving a liberal wage in the past, year, are making increased demands now. We will fight the strike to the bitter end." '■ Thousands of drivers waiting for the decisions at Madison Square Garden received the news as a challenge.

"We. will use the entire police power of New York city to move this necessity of life,** said Commissioner Copeland.

TO BUILD ALASKAN HALLWAY. WASHINGTON. Nov. 2.—The House, by a vote of 198 to 76. passed and sent to the Senate to-day a Rill authorising

an appropriation of £BOO.OOO to com plete const ruction of (he Alaskan rail road.

AUTOMOBILES IN U.S. KILLED 9000 PEOPLE IN YEAH.

WASHINGTON. Nov. 2.—Nine thousand, one hundred and three persons were killed l in the United Stales by automobiles and . other motor vehicles except motorcycles during 1920. This represents a death rate'of 10.4 per 100,000 in population and is 1 per cent. higher than the motor vehicle fatalities in 1649.

A. KING'S BETROTHAL

PRINCESS'S NAME ON Till "GOLDEN TABLET."

BANGKOK, Oct. 30.—The royal proclamation announcing the engagement of the King of Siam to Princess Laksbmi Lavan, half-sister of the King's former finance, has been published here. It says: "Whereas his Majesty the King is' satisfied with the devotion of Princess Laksbmi Lavan, his Majesty has decided to ally himself in marriage to {ha Princess at a future date. "And whereas it is befitting that the prestige of her Highness should be further enhanced, his Majesty has graciously commanded that Princess Laksbmi Lavan be raised to the rank of Royal Highness and that this title he, inscribed on the Golden Tablet of Promotion."

The King's former betrothal was broken off on the ground of "incompatability of temperament." The King, who is 40, was educated at Oxford and Sandhurst, and is a general'of the British Army.

TO MARCH TOGETHER ON JUDG

MENT DAY

LONDON, Oct. 17.—Sixteen dukes of Hamilton arc moving or rather are being moved from what bad been supposed to be their last resting place They we being taken out of the handsome mausoleum licnr Hamilton Palace, which was erected by t'lo first Duke, of Hamilton at n cost of neariy £■.'(.).000 with the announced iclc.t ih-i* all tliy heads of the great house sho.nl i ho together until judgment day, wlici. t*>••>' sliculd rise an-I mhi'ch togec'ier to their heavenly thrones.

The mausoleum is to lie taken do.vii because a uo*il.i.i.*iio which n-i.s under it has made the foundations unsafe and there is danger that the burial vaults mav bo ilooded.

Owing to the fact that they arc hieing reintcrred in a new addition to Hamilton cemetery, which once was used as a football field, there is much indignation among old Scotch families in the vicinity, who consider such a burial field an insult to one of Scotland's most ancient and noble linos.

DENIKTN REFUGEES. REMOVAL FROM MESOPOTAMIA TO VLADIVOSTOK. It has been stated, first by "Politiken" of Copenhagen, which has .become a regular channel for Bolshevik diplomacy, that Great Britain was lately responsible for sending 800 Denikin troops at Vladivostok with hostile intent against the Soviet, Government. It is, perhaps, worth stating the facts as given officially in London. The British authorities in Mesopotamia had been supporting some 1000 Dcnikin refugees, soldiers, women and children, who had reached Mesopotamia mainly from Persia and Turkestan. It was decided some, time ago that we could no longer shoulder this burden, and we approached the Soviet Government with a request that these refugees should be allowed to return to Russia. Moscow, however, could not see its way to grant an amnesty. It was therefore decided by the British authorities to ship the refugees to Vladivostok, and about (iOO have tilready gone. It is not true that they are armed.

BAD BOYS' PAjRADISE'. MOSCOW, Oct. 28.—Russia 10-day is a bad boy's paradise (writes Walter Duranty). There are literally thousands of youngsters running around Moscow like Huckleberry Finn, "idle, lawless, vulgar, bad," with nobody to forbid them anything. Such small fry slip through the meshes of the otherwise most efficient police net, and' genuine and successful as lias been the attempt, of the Soviet Government to improve school conditions, the education department still finds it impossible to handle more than Iwo-lhirds'of the city's juvenile population. So bad boys run wild and appear to enjoy it.

Take the case of young Boris Groutck'ov who, at the age of 12, is already an ex-veteran of the Polish war, ex-chief of "a, band of black companions," .and now under the new economic system, a capitalist and exploiter of. labor and unless bis career is ultimately cut abort—ii potential millionaire. Boris is the son of a Russian father, who was/ killed! in the early days of the Mar, and a German mother. Three years ago his mother brought him to Moscow from the country, where lie learned to read, write, and, of course, speak German and Russian. Soon afterwards she died of typhus, leaving the child utterly destitute and alone.

To-day he owns a fair-sized room with furniture, three million roubles in cash—say £B—six employees, and cleans up about half a million roubles per day. T first met this amazing and handsome child! as, smartly clad in astrakan coat and 1 bat, good boots, warm homespun trousers, and smoking a long, Passion cigarette, be was supervising two of his infantile employees. "I always send them out in pairs, as one keeps! tab on the olhe rand there is no monkey business about cash," he informed me. at the corner of one of the principal streets where they are selling ma(ch<si, cakes, sunflower seeds and cigarettes on trays suspended with a string 1 from their necks. Rons' room is a, romance in itself. After his mother's death, he attached himself to a. company of the Red Army —not as a soldier, though there.were some, in the Bed Army not- a minute over

fourteen —but an aid to the. cook. During the Polish campaign, last year, he "acquired'' a woman's astratban coat, from which his praese.nl garments are made. When, peace was dtv'.aml he returned to Moscow witli llic soldiers and lived for a time by petty pilfering in the barracks. This was discovered and he was kicked out,