NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16674, 2 March 1925, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

PLAN SHIP CANAL ACROSS ENGLAND. LONDON, Jan. 14. —The Government and county authorities are considering W.J. BotTerilVs plan for a great ship canal across England from Yarmouth to Bridewater Bay, joining the North Sea and the Bristol Channel. The total length of the tunnel will be two hundred and forty miles, with a subsidiary sixty miles of canal from Oxford to ’Birmingham. THE KING’S RACING YACHT. > LONDON, Jan. 16.—When the King’s grand old racing yacht Britannia, . which is now in her thirty-second year, and has now more priy.es than any other yacht afloat, turns out for the racing next season she will have a brand-pew suit of sails. The Britannia, carries 9235 square,feet of sail. According to present arrangements, the Royal cutter will compete at all the big regattas round the coast next season. WEST IRELAND STRICKEN BY NEAR FAMINE. EIGHTEEN THOUSAND CHILDREN FED IN SCHOOLS. DUBLIN, Jan. 16.—Owing to the intense distress in West Ireland, mods arc being provided in the school for 13.CLC children in Kerry, {’oniiiomn.ru and Donegal. Six thousand tons of coal and 1000 tons of railway lies are being distributed- to peasants who are tireless because tliev fire tumble to get. the peat turf which is their regular fuel. This, with the failure of the potato crop- and followed by the great- floods, has resulted in *a- condition approaching famine in several districts. ZEPPELINS TO MOVE BIG PLANT TO ITALY. GERMANY MAY ESCAPE EFFECTS OF CLAUSE IN TREATY. ROME, Jan/ 16.—T0 escape tlm restrictive clauses of the Versailles treaty, the Zeppelin Company is negotiating with the Italian Government for a haven in Italy, according to the Tribune. The peace treaty prohibits the building of monster dirigibles such as the Zeppelin Company is equipped to build Nat Eriederichshafen, Germany, whore by special permission the Los Angeles was constructed. Zeppelin officials are understood to be negotiating for the transfer of their plant to the Ciniaelle airdrome, near Milan. SOVIET METHODS. “BAD” ELECTION CANCELLED. RIGA, Jan. 3.—A despatch from. Moscow states .that the Soviet Government, “after investigation,” has decided that the elections which began two months ago introduced undesirable elements’into the Soviets. The Government has therefore ordered fresh elections and lias instructed the local Bolshevik authorities to do their utmost to combat the elec- • tors’ apathy and counteract the increased. influence of the Kulaks, or well-to-do peasants, by assembling the maximum ... number of the “real peasant, masses” to participate in the elections and ensure the return of Communists and non-CVun-rminists supporters of 1 lit* Soviet regime. RELIGION BY WIRELESS. NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-Religion by radio is now becoming universal in the United States. Every Sunday sermons by famous preachers are broadcast all over, the country, and in various centres a Synagogue service is radiographed every evening. The Seventh Day Ad- % ventistfl have an operating station at Berrien Springs, State of Michigan, and another sect, the Zionists, founded by that extraordinary product of modern revivalism, Klija Dowie, send forth thenpropaganda from Zion City, Illinois. To-da,v I hear that the Roman Catholic Church, “for the purpose of acquainting the public wit-h the ■ Catholic view point upon current affairs,’’ has contracted for a 500-watt station in Now York City at a coot of £IO,OOO, to be run by the Paulis’t Fathers, a very great missionary congregation in the United Slates, who propose to erect similar stations at Chicago and San Francisco. Cardinal Hayes will use these stations to broadcast special messages of the Church.