NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15800, 15 April 1922, Page 4

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

SALOME AN ACROBAT, NOT A DANGER,

LONDON, March 9.—Salome was an acrobatic tumbler—not a dancer of the modern ballet type, according to evidence laid before the Royal Archaelogical Institute by George C. Bruce, of Oxford. If his evidence is corroborated, theologians, historians, and others have long labored under a misapprehension as to Salome’s first claim to fame. ' All the old illustrated parchments and carvings show her posing as an acrobat, and not as a dancer, Mr. Bruce declares. MAN WITH BIG FAMILY. LONDON, March 11.—An unemployed bricklayer, who appeared before the King’s Lynn Board of Guardians, staled that he had 36 children. Ho told the Board that he married when ho was 17, .and liis wife was 16. There were 25 children of the marriage. When his wife died he married again, and there were 11 children of the second venture. He did not know where all the children were now. but seven were under 13 years of age, and lived at home. The man was receiving 27s a week unemployment pay through the Labor Exchange, and the guardians granted him. a further 10s a week and 321bs of bread weekly. THE BRITISH ARMY. LONDON, March 10. —Lieut-General Sir Philip Chetwode, deputy chief of the Imperial General Staff, declared that the decision to disband five more cavalarv regiments, making nine altogether, was fraught with danger to the country. “IVe are faced,” he declared, ‘‘with greater overseas responsibilities than in 1914, yet wo have the smallest army for a century.”

Hardly any of the present-day offers, he added, had seen active service cavalry work and nobody who had served in Franco and Flanders only.' knew what war of movement meant. It was very improbable, that there would ever again be a war of trenches.

REIGN OF TERROR IN CHICAGO UNION WAR. CHICAGO, March 16.—Bombings •and sluggings marked tluv outbreak of Chicago's labor war to-day. Homes of John White and Peter Fortier, Continental Can Company officials, were rocked land shattered by bombs during the night. . This followed a reign of daylight terror in which 20 non-union workmen on buildings were slugged and beaten, John Stevens, union plumber, who returned to work because his family was starving, will die. Three sluggers fractured liis skull and severed one ear.

The war, according to the police, is the outcome of dissatisfaction with the arbitration award in the building trades.

REAL REMBRANDT BOUGHT BY„ WORKMAN FOR, POUND. ■

LONDON, March 11.—During a sale at Peterborough a workman bought, for £l, a picture which was described as an “oil painting, artist unknown.” The workman purchased it because it had a good.frame, but after lie.had cleaned the canvas with warm water and a sponge lie was astonished to discover the signature “Rembrandt” and a dale “1658.” The painting is said to be a. portrait of Rembrandt’s servant, Ucndrickje .Taghers, to whom lie was married in 1654, and their child, shown in the picture, is about three years of age.

The woman, is seen on a seat in the window, the light from which shines full in the face of the child, who is sitting up in bed with a book. Experts who have seen the picture are convinced .that it .is a genuine Rembrandt with the painter at his best, and worth several thousand pounds.

ENGLAND SWEPT BY RECORD GALE.

LONDON, March 9.—A record was established by a gale which swept across England yesterday. Over the Scillv Tsles it reached the abnormal speed of 108 -miles an hour. The previous record was held by Pendcrniis Castle, Falmouth, where, in 1905, arecord of 103 miles an hour was established.

Paris was completely cut off from London by both telegraph and telephone, and only one line out of twelve between London and Brussels Was working. In England itself, .llioiigli considerable delays were caused, there was no real interruption in communications. It is reported that much damage has been done in France. None .of the Swiss and Italian wires is working, but the services to Holland and Germany are normal. »'

Wireless has rendered valuable aid in Hip transmission of messages, but the only direct communication with Ttnly at present is by means of the wireless'service started between Lefield, near Oxford, and Rome.