NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16321, 3 January 1924, Page 6

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

DEATH RATEI FROM AUTO ACCIDENTS GROWS IN U.S. ! WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—A continued increase in tlie death rate from automobile accidents is reported by the census bureau, which places the rate at 12.5 per 100,000 of population in the registration area last year, as compared with 11.5 in 1921, and 9.0 in 1917. FARMERS’ BREAD SHOP. Norfolk farmers are so convinced that nutritious bread from English wheaten flour can-,be sold cheaper than that,made from'oilier 'kinds that they arc 'opening*, a'baker’s , shop -in Norfolk to sell such bread'.to the public. The Norfolk branch of the Farmers’ Union is also proposing to establish its own livestock mart in Norwich for the sale, of store, cattle. NO SALE FOR PIGS; IRISH DROWN THEM. DUBLIN, Dec. 3. —Farmers in County are drowning their young pigs because the price they bring in the market is so low that it is unprofitable, to raise them. It is not an unusual sight after a county fair to see a. farmer open his cart and let young pigs out on the road for anyone who wants them. This condition is attributed to an eleven weeks’ glut in the Irish bacon industry. £16,000 HOLD-UP. PALESTINE ROBBERS IN BRITISH UNIFORMS. JERUSALEM, Nov. 13.—A robbery is reported near Mutilleh, where a motor-car from Syria was held up by robbers wearing British uniforms. They purported to be acting officially. They secured the car, removed £15,000 in gold, and instructed the occupants to proceed to Safed to claim the money from the Governor. QUARANTINE REDUCES STOCK " SHOW TO SKELETON. LONDON, Dec. 3.—The Birmingham Fat Stock Show is a mere skeleton of its usual Jiugel size, owing to the foot and mouth disease regulations and restrictions.

The Prince of Wales’ steer, “Baplon Bondsman,” won first prize reserve, foi the Breed Challenge Cup for the best two years. The suprere championship went, to J. A. Morrison’s Aberdeen-Angus steer, “Eric IT. of Basiido.” £7OOO LOST IN FEW HOURS. JOHANNESBURG, Nov. 15.--A remarkable wave of gambling is worrying the police authorities in the! Rand. _ It is estimated that there arc 40 recognised gambling dens in Johannesburg alone, and recent) legal decisions make it difficult- for the police to raid them with any chance of securing a conviction against them. Cheating at play and drugging of drinks are features of many of these establishments. Only the other night a man lost) £7OOO in a few hours’ play.

IMPERIAL CHOIR OF 10,000 REHEARSING FOR EMPIRE SHOW. LONDON, Dec. 3. —Dr. Charles Harriss of Ottawa, lias sailed for Canada on tho Montcalm after completing the organisation of the imperial choir for the British Empire Exhibition next year. It will number 10,000 voices, and an orchestra of 500 with Dr. Harrias ns conductor. Eighty choral, bodies in Greater London have united to constitute the choir, and the musical score for six concerts to be given at the exhibition has been published and weighs ten tons.

London lias been divided into four districts, each of which will hold its own rehearsals until Dr. Harriss returns in January to conduct tho rehearsals of the complete choir. So far as is known it will be the largest) choir and orchestra in history aqd a lineal descendant of the Imperial choirs which sang at the opening of the festival of the Empire <i Crystal Palace and tho great Empire Day celebration in London. “RAISE WHEAT” CAMPAIGN IN FRANCE GETS RESULTS. WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—France is producing about 90' per cent, as much wheat as it did before the war, according to Department of Agriculture reports made public to-day, the progress in restoring the soil, factories and mines to working order, lias increased the population in those areas from 2,0C0,CC0, at the time of tho armistice, to 4,207,-; 000 at! present. The French wheat production of 290,474,000 bushels in 1923, an increase of about 50,000,000 over tho 1922 crop, is attributed to a “raise- wheat” campaign conducted by the Government, which resulted in an increased planting of about 600,000 acres. All except 1,000,000 of the> 8,000,000 acres in the war zone requiring treatment have been cleared of barbed wire and trenches, while explosives have been, removed from practically the entire acreage. Almost all soil formerly under cultivation that enri bo made to yield again is said to he under cultivation. RUSSIA REPLACING DOMINIONS IN TRADE.

LONDON, Nov. 29.—1 u view 'of the fjneti that! tthe l London bjankifag) community is inclined to the. belief that the opportunity for British trade* with Russia is much more important and of greater value than that with the overseas Dominions, recent signs of a trade revival in Russia are peculiarly important.

Russian trading in gain, hides, furs and limber is increasing steadily. The Exporthleb Company from October 15 to November 15 shipped from Odessa 500,000 Hons of grain and has 1,000,000 tons in elevators awaiting shipment. A single cargo of Russian furs has arrived in London valued at £600,000. British imports from Russia in the first three quarters of 1923 totalled .€4,518.227, while Russian purchases from England in October alone totalled £637.987. This, with the recent formation of various Ahgl?-Russian trading companies, indicates that Russia will be a factor in the trade of the world much sooner than had been generally expected G.B.S. AND DOCTORS. ATTACK ON MEDICAL COUNCIL. COMMERCIAL MONOPOLY. . LONDON, Dec. 19.—A scathing indictment of the General Medical Council was uttered by Mr. G. Bernard Shaw, in an interview with the Westminster Gazette. “The General Medical Council,” he dudaredj “is the world’s most powerful trad© union, and is a commercial monopoly with a direct interest in disease. Its' knowledge of drugs and their properties is no more scientific than a ratcatcher's. It bnnglen jobs of which any country, bone-setter is capable. Its diagnosis is fraudulent. The practice it insists upon is largely malpractice. “if practitioners, being human, were not less disastrous than they are taught lot bo, there would 1 be a general massacre. There is no other class whose interests are more directly opposed to those of the public than the men who starve when wei are well, and make money when wo are ill. “Governments and universities should replace the doctors on the Medical Council by representatives of the public.’’ HEIR TO OVER MILLION FOUND IN ORIENT. NEWKIRK, Okla., Nov. 21.—A search of several years for Gregario Velasquez Carmichael, 13, alleged joint heir to a £400.000 Oklahoma oil land estate, has ended in an inland village in the Philippine Islands, remote from civilisation, according to advices received here from J. E. Curran, an attorney, who lias conducted the hunt. The lad is the alleged son of Dtigal Oarmiohael, a United States, soldier, who married a Filipino and diet! on the island unaware that tho barren acres which ho

hail inherited in Oklahoma harbored vast stores .of oil. I A daughter of Carmichael, Dorothy, isj a student in the Oklahoma business* academy at Tonkawa, having been found j several years ago by an aunt, and brought] to Oklahoma. Scant trace of the former soldier is available in the records of the army, but with the assistance of Frederico Munson, a native attorney in the Philippines, Curran combed the wild interior of the islands until he found the lad, whom be will attempt to establish in the courts as the son of the dead soldier. Legal action has already been started in the probata court here. FIVE ' PER CENT. OF TURF ‘ ’ WINNINGS TO "VETERANS . LONDON, Nov. 30.—Lord Derby, following his annual practice, has given the British: Legion Association, which looks- after the interests of ex-officers and ex-soldiers in Lancashire, 5 per cent, of his turf winnings. The gift this .year amounts to £2OOO. SHANGHAI BANDITS ATTACK BANK RICKSHAW AND GET £IOO,OOO. SHANGHAI, Nov, 29.—Six bandits overturned* the rickshaw of a messenger of the Yunk Yih Trust Company in the business- district here to-day and. escaped with more than £IOO,OOO worth of negotiable securities., PREACHER KIDNAPPED AND GIVEN HORSE-WHIPPING. NASHVILLE, Nov. 28.—As the Rev. Thomas Hibdon, missionary, finished a sermon at the, Delta Street Mission on Monday night, lie was seized by three men, taken from, tho (building and severely whipped. One of the assailants said remarks in the sermon regarding “Sin” were made directly at his wife. BILLBOARDS BANNED IN MINNESOTA STATE. ST. PAUL, Dec. I. law, passed by the last legislature, prohibiting all advertising signs on trunk highways in tho State, is now in effect. Thousands of signs, ranging from small tin tags to billboards of various sizes on Stale* right-of-way, are being removed. Signs back from the highways, on private properly, will not be disturbed. GREAT SALVAGE SCHEME. VESSELS SUNK IN BATTLE. LONDON, Dec. 17.—A company with a capital of £50,000 has been formed to salvage the Turkish and Egyptian vessels sunk in the battle of Navarino in 1827. It is estimated .that thousands of toils of copper, brass, and bronze, and quantities of oak, gold, silver, specie und jewels are recoverable. SPAIN ORDERS WARSHIPS FROM ITALY AFTER. LOVE FEAST. PARIS, Dec. 6. —Following the recent “love feast” in Rome, Spain is reported to have ordered from Italy a cruiser, four destroyers, four submarines, and also a quantity of light and heavy artillery. This, says the sarcastic French press, was merely done to seal the recent commercial accord between the two countries and “give a small job to Italian war industries with no implied intention of the ‘Latin blocf starting out to secure the pacification,of the world.” MANY r LONDON SHIPS HEADED FOR PACIFIC. LONDON, Nov. 27.—50 large has been the volume of tonnage taken for trans-Pacific . trade of late that trading across the Pacific Ocean has become, temporarily it is supposed, a more important factor in cargo tonnage freight markets than trading across the Atlantic, according to shipping men. Tho chartering of shipping, both far single voyages and for a long time for Far Eastern trade in connection with wheat, flour and timber shipments from the Pacific Coast of North America, has continued to be the really bright feature of the freight markets. U.S. SCHOOL BO'Y BEHIND ENGLISH LONDON. Nov. 28.—The assertion that the achievement of the schools of the United States is far below that of the British was made by Premier Baldwin last night in an election speech at Bristol. Replying to the statement of a Labor speaker that the Conservatives were opposed to popular education, the Premier said : “We hear a great deal about American education, but from such opportunities as I have had of consulting those tvho havo visited American schools, I do not believe the actual achievement of these schools is comparable to that of our schools. lam told by a highly competent observer that on the whole an American boy of 15 is, in knowledge and 'achievement, about two years behind an English boy of the same age.”