NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16091, 3 April 1923, Page 7

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

FORD MAY BUILD RAILROAD FOR FREIGHT ONLY. ST. PAUL, Feb. 19. —Construction of a £1,200,000- railroad! for freight-carry-ing purposes only, to operate between Duluth, Minn., and Superior, Wis.,' and the Twin Cities, is contemplated l by Henry Ford, it is reported here. FIFTY THOUSAND FOR BALLOON RACES. WASHINGTON, ,Feb. 21.—The international aeronautical concord to be conducted next month by. the A er o .Club of Chile in connection with the.opening, March 25, of : tho fifth; Pan-American congress "at Santiago, will include five events, for which prizes totalling 50,000 dollars have been offered. QUEEN’S GIFT TO’ HER SECOND SON’S FIANCEE. LONDON, Feb. 20.—Queen Mary has given Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon a “sunburst” diamond brooch.'. The gift was presented when the Duke of York and. his fiancee visited the King and Queen at Sandringham. Queen Mother Alexandra also presented Lady Elizabeth with a -piece of jewellery. ROBBERY BY TUNNEL. ONLY £3 PLUNDER AFTER PENETRATING 1000 YARDS. ROME; Jan! 24.—Thieves at Taranto penetrated 1 into a* disused) drain an.d thence tunnelled over 3000 ft to a- point below the floor of ''a theatre ticket agency. Thence they tunnelled upwards and 1 got into the agency, but found only about £3. FRENCHMAN’S FLIGHT IN A MOTORLESS PLANE. BISKRA, Algeria, Fob. 22.—Sergt.-; Major Descamps, a French aviator, today covered a distance of three miles in a straight line to set-aidistancc record for motorless airplanes. Marshall? Lyauicy, resident French governor iri Morocco, has offered *a prize for the longest flight -over a straight-away course, making three miles the minimum distance to bo flown. TOKIO POLICE QUELL HUGE DEMONSTRATION. ; . ; TOKIO. Feb. 23.—Ten .thousand police were called -out in. Tokio yesterday to control a demonstration in favor of- the. Universal Suffrage Rill to bo:, introduced in the lower-House.ef the Diet to-day. A procession, in which, thousands from all parts of, the Empire ■ participated, paraded . the city and then marched around the palace cheering the Emperor. The opposition in the Diet is supporting the Bill, and the Seiyukai, the Government party, is expected to oppose it.

100 OASES SLEEPING SICKNESS IN “ TOS '" : - WINNIPEG.

WINNIPEG, Feb. 19.—Sleeping .sick-ness-be spreading at an alarming rate in; Winnipeg, despite all. medical science can do. , Last week twenty-one new cases were reported and; .five deaths occurred, and it is feared tins week will show a more alarming report. Among those attacked are men prominent in public life and professional life. None of those' attacked' are poor people. There are more than 100 cases here now.

MODERN VIOLIN VOTED SUPERIOR TO STRADIVARIUS.

LONDON, Feb. 21.—Another tradition was tumbled on Tuesday -with the announcement that the critical audience which heard a Stradivarius and a modern English-made violin played from behind a screen, had found the modern instrument possessed tho best tonal qualities. Notwithstanding this result there was no rush to sale rooms and second-hand shops to-day of owners of old Italian-’.' mado violins anxious to unload' their holdings ,in fear of a declining market. Tho fact is that tho “old master’’ ‘was defeated by a not overwhelming majority W. W. Cobbett, the English music patron, sponsored the' competition and Albert Haminons was the soloist. The result was not considered decisive, but was counted upon to give a fillip to the. present violin-making craft. . ...

FRENCH NATIONAL LOTTERY PROPOSAL.

LONDON, Feb. 1, —A Paris correspondent states that- the Finance Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, which has had lie foie it tho proposal of M. do Lastcyrie, the Finance Minister, to increase by 20 per cent, nil taxes except those oil earned incomes, passed a resolution which implies the injection by the Commission of M. do Lastcyrie’s scheme. Meanwhile,-, M. Dessein and other Deputies have giveij notice of an amendment to authorise tho Minister of Finance to organise a national lottery, the profits of which -would he entirely devoted to the general Budggt for-1923. . It is proposed that the subscription .shall amount to 5,000,c00,000f. (£70,000,000), of- which not less than 1,500,000,000 f- (over £20,000,000 would go in prizes. The drawing, it is suggested, should be done within three, months of tho closing of the subscription list.

THEATRE STAFF HELD UP- . VANCOUVER,- Feb. 19. Armed masked bandit? this morning gained entrance* to 4he Capitol. Theatre,- and after binding tho night watchman and two of the day staff who .appeared while they, were in the . building, jimmied, open _the safe and strong box, and took £SOQ. They mado their- escape just a few. minutes before detectives and police arrived- . SLEEPING SICKNESS EPIDEMIC. An epidemic of sleeping sickness is spreading'at .an alarming rate in Winnipeg,' Manitoba, despite all medical efforts to combat the disease. There, are now over one hundred:, cases • Deported, and to date five .deaths have;, occurred. It is significant to mention. that many of those attacked are men, prominent in public and professional life. ■ ’ . WARNING DREAM. • STEAM ROLLER IN RIVER. : LONDON, Jan. 23.—A bridge at Llanbadnrn Fawr, Radmorshire, collapsed while a steam roller was crossing it, and the driver, Jack Webster, went, down with tho roller into the river, but got out unhurt. *' ' His mate, who, it is stated, dreamt of the collapse the previous night, had! got off the roller as it approached the bridge. BRITAIN’S TAXES THREE TIMES UNITED STATES. LONDON, Feb. 23.—A comparison of the per capita taxation in Great Britain and 1 the) United States was given by Mr Stanley Baldwin, Chancellor of the Exchequer, -in reply tot a question in the Houso of Commons, as follows Great Britain—Direct taxes 210 shillings; indirect 122 shillings. France—Direct 242 francs; indirect 193 francs. United! States— Federal taxes, direct 13.60 dollars; indirect 12.70 dollars. WTTAT A UNIT OF ELECTRICITY WILL DO. A French society for encouraging national industry, has just issued a list of the things that can be done within a unit of electricity—equal to- the work: of one horse-power for 45 minutes. • It will save a gallon of petrol, or boil two gallops of water, or .make 9ibs. of ice,' or sterilise 2000 gallons of drinking water, or grill 15 cutlets, or plough 120 square yards of'land to a depth of a foot, or thresh 140 sheaves' of com, or make 4ew.l. of butter, or separate the cream from 300 gallons of milk, or tie up a hundred sacks of corn. i will light up a hall of 30ft; wide .and 50ft,. above the ground. LOAD OF TAXATION TOO HEAVY IN ENGLAND. , j LONDON, Feb. 19—Tho statement by . the Duke of Bedford,. given prominence in tho Sunday newspapers, that of, every sovereign he received the State took • -twelve. shillings and threepence in taxation, finds echo in. the assertion of W. O- Trethewey, the wellknown Cobalt millionaire mine ’ owner, that he is giving up his large private farm *in “England “and returning to Canada because of the impossible hea\\ load PI taxation , .‘.‘The taxation authorities .hero aro absolutely without irii'agination,”’ ~ho told tho -correspondent. • “Tlifey aro ■killing productive enterprise. 'I shall return to Toronto and live ori the land I own there,’’ he concluded. -

KEMAL PASHA WOULD EMANCI- ; PATE WOMAN. CONSTANTINOPLE,. Feb. 20.—Miistaphn Kemal Pasha,- who was recently married to the . daughter of a rich Smyrna notable, has made a public announcement in favor of the emancipation of Turkish women. .Speaking before :t he Teachers’ Association at Brous■sa,"bo declared 1 that the work before -the nation could only be perfected-, if Turkish women joined eqnnlly with the men in educating themselves and in taking active parts in th© nation’s affairs. Kemal ascribed the present seclusion of the sex in Turkey to Persian influence, asserting that it was not in accordance with" the precepts of the Moslem religion. Kernel's wife is Latifc Hanoun. She is reported 1 to have brought him a dowry of ore million Turkish lira,' or approximately £130,000 at the present rate of exchange. . , .. ..

RUM BRINGS UNTOLD WEALTH TO Bahamas. ' 'NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—Viscount, Burnham, proprietor of v . the , London Daily Telegraph and president of the Epipire Press Association, who returned' last , night fropi a “ip to tho West Indies, said ho found no sentiment among the inhabitants of Jamaica and the! Bahamas for the transfer of those British possessions to the United 1 States. Ruin has done,a great deal for. the Bahamas, Viscount Burnham discovered. H©. passed through a liquor fleet off Sandy,llook on his way down and on tho return voyage. ~ “I (Jo not. doubt,” he said, ‘that the, turnover in Kquops' has , brought the Bahamas into a financial condition never dreamed! of,.giving her a surplus in the Treasury. Ijut I found' that in Cuba there Vas the same evidence of traffic in drinking beveAges. • Jamaica seems too .far away from the United States ta show much activity.”