NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16869, 26 October 1925, Page 3

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

SPORTING BURGLAR. ROBBED FOR FUN OF IT, LONDON, Oct. 9.—Paviak, -a. “gentleman iMl’glav.’LAyfto has been living with, his wife apd ,ohjlqroH t in an .elegant.flat; in the most fashionable i district of Berlin, was.prresjPd while robbing a suburban town hall of £15,000. The police discovered that Paviak was "thp .head of a'gang, which included his own footman, ■ engaged in robbing for love, of the sport, Paviak had given large sums to charity. “MODERN HAMLET. * BALDWIN ATTACKED. LONDON, Oct. 9.—“ The nation’s dis-s contented anxiety for the future lias shaken even the magnificent discipline of the conservative party,” declared Sir Alfred iVlond, M.P., in a speech at \Veston-Supennare. , ■ The speaker trenchantly attacked Mr Baldwin, whom he described as “the Hamlet of modern politics, who neither acts nor directs, but merely philc6o pluses.” a MAILS By air. THE EMPIRE ROUTE. LONDON. Oct. 9.—The technicians of Imperial.: Airways;, Ltd., Colonels; Minclriq, and Burchall, . haye, Returned, from their inspection, convinced /of,,jtlM* practicability of the . commercial Empire air route jfrqm Egypt to India, ,and. are recommending that the Government’s o,ffer ofj a ( subsidy of £97,000 annually be doubled fq enable , the emjcdoyfneiit.i.by, tfib company of special .all-metal,, .boat; proof and dustpropf biplanes and the equipment qf emergency. .aerodromes. AERIAL FATABiTY. •' CRASH DUfiING RACE. . ..;NEW YORK, Oct. 9.—-Lawrence Buranelli was killed and Clarence Chamberlain, the pilot of the same machine, was seriously hurt, when a ’plane crashed, during the opening event of-.the international air races,at Mitchell field. Hundreds of aviators from Europe, Japan, and America saw the monoplane fall. Two of Buranelli’s brothers were present,.- ' - Basil Howe won the race, covering 100 miles in 58 minutes.

FIVE WOMEN. JOCKEYS. * ONE WINS A RACE. OLDEST EVEN'FIN EXISTENCE. BONDON, Oct. B.—Mr, SMly Joel’s' daughter, Eileen, who has ' just ..left; school, rode the. winner of the New-.' markdt ToXvh Plate, fouv miles, ill |. oldest raeh in .existence. It was cS> tablished jn1665. , Iris Rrcaby, -sister-in-law of- the,' trainer Grigs, was second, and Misk’ Vauglfan fourth. Two other girls and throe men fodei in the. race. For the first- time a woman won. BOMB IN COAL. , EXPLOSION AT SEA. 1 LONDON, Oct. p.—The Blue Star, lin’e'r Romailstnr (561-7 which is ohJ'ts, fvay 16 London with a cargo, of oranges, lifter having been de}ayed at Capetown owing to the strike, bps arrived at Brest, where she.landed the corpse of a fireman,.and also two men' Who, were wounded by an explosion in a fimiaee It is believed that the. explosion was caused by p, bomb, in the bunker coal. Strikers are suspected of being responsible. ; NOTEPAPER CHEQUE. , ...PEER COMMITTED. LONDON* Oct, 10. —Lord Torriqgton .Ixas been committed fqr trial on a charge ;of passing a -Valueless cheque. Thh prosecution alle|ed-that fie.P r 9: 'sented ri cheque fori £lO, written-, on iho'tqptiiperi fijjioh. a NotUhgh’amybahk, to, ;o,live);, a- chemist at West Mailing, Kent*. Oliver, although, suspecting the cheque’s validity, advanced £5. The hapfe dishonored the .cheque. becriuso Lqrd Torripgton’s monthly allowance of£2s had been stopped. Torrington. did’ not reply to Olivers’, request for an explanation, . but, anonymously, qent __a money order fori £5 after proceedings had been instituted,....

Bord Torrington, who lias since been acquitted, is 39 years old., He succeeded his father, the eighth Viscount,, in 1889; He was divorced lour.years ago. , - He was Page of Hqnqr to Quqen Victoria and Ring Edward Vll. Dab, mg the war he was taken prisoner while flying.

- , THE TEST. ( TRIUMPH OR BRITISH ENGINES. R33’s FLIGHT. ' LONDON, Oct. A.—The special representative of flic Sun leai’ns that a nuipb6r of technical advisers, who favored German Maybach' engines as the most' reliable power units for airships, induced the Air Ministry "to replace,the British Sunbeam engine at the rear of thei en-gipe-ijoom on r ,the .dirigible R 33, prior to Monday’s,.flight, .with, a, Maybach taken from the';Zej]pelip, ;Z77 5 . : )v I’be.teclin.icinns,: ifc- ; ia asserted,-, wipe particularly fiinxious that .|s3 shgjdd not pe driver)' ihplplfjsli,' oyerseas ,owing to : engine trouble, and tJjat,f, : in .the-,! cvght,,.;pf Aha'! faille .of, ,fhp th| , ee| ; t:n r fitted ■fh :ili'c torward.pars, the ‘rfi* liable’’ Gertnam'.engine,' which was in-! stalled’ in the mosjt pffect'ivO position in; th’e Feiir compartment,, was certain to bring the airship homo. Hvehts snbwed that the only mechanical failure during the flight was in the; Maybach’s .reduction gearing. The throe Sunbeams'f|id not falter throughout the 19 hours’' test, ; and it is practically certain that. all-British engines will bo fitted ip (he- Empire airships now being designed.

NOTED GAMBLER’S END. DEATH CHEATS THE PRISON. FAfpEik oF A CINEMA ACTRESS.CHICAGO, Get. 9.—Death cheated the prison bars after John Wpvthington, the so-called ‘‘Wolf of La. Salle Street/’ had been, sentenced to ,t\v.o . year’s .imprisonment. Ho loaves £SOO,tX)O, the result of a life as a gambler and broker Who ;c»r-> lied on frenzied finance operations.. Often Ire. was only ft jump or two ahead of tjie detectives... His sole legatee is lpS daughter Alice, known as the cinema actyeis Jane Allen, j , Worthington returned from Mexico, his last place of refuge.,, on a- stretcher. Apierican Federal agents had been constantly on his trail there, but for £5 in gold ho obtained from the chief of police a,bodyguard of five men to help him keep more •■than 1.000,000 dollars in ctish. ,

A,' lucky five dollar bet,, on a race track started him on bis gambling career,

a<s lie used tie funds to open a brokerageoffice. He lived for ten years in-Birm-ingham (Alabama), where he became Mayor, arid was president of 27 banks.

WAR- GUILT. ISSUE AGAIN RAISED. , LONDON, Qttqber 9.—Lately there has been a revival in the London market of the demands for insurances .to cover t-he;..“riak’’ of .the ex-Kai§er’s return to the German throne, which were ppted a year ago, states tire city editor of the Times. . The polices provide for the payment for a total loss should t)ie. ex-Kaiser reassume power in Gernfany during next November, in aCcordariee with.-the fore-, cast of .i “seer” in America, iwlfehce the* orders arc believed to have) emanated-,. Heavy insurances are known; to have been written at £ls 15s per cent. YOUTH’S LOVE. DELUSION. “ACCIDENTAL” VERDICT. LONDON. Oct, 9 —Ed Warrl Thymic, aged 20 (a near relative of Lady Mary Tnynne, ,wh owns bridesmaid.at Pripcess Mary’s wedding), has .been found dead, shot through-the heart by an automatic pistol, at his father’s home at Findon, Sussex. His mother gave evidence at the-in-quest, that the boy imagined himself to be in love with an actress, but hqd' upt even met or .communicated with her. fie was found 1 dead, wearing evening clothes, after returning from a theatre party in London. . .... ( Thynne’s father expressed the opinion that his son had' pressed the trigger while cleaning the revolver, , j A verdict of accidental death was recorded.

boxing Match scene. AN UNPOPULAR DECISION. A WILDLY' EXCITED CRO\vD. . LONDON, Oct. 9.--“ No one is -as|6 tq tell what/ was passing through tbe referee’s, mind,’ but Moss Deyongiwill never, referee fqr me, aggin,”, said! the promoter, -jumping info The .ring, while the biggesf attendance ever .seen at the Albert, Hall at a boxing match, 90 per cent, of whom, disagreed with the. decision for Johnny Brown,. welter-weight champion of England, against- Harry Mason, light-weight champion, stood on the seats arid made the air hideous with hoofs, -yells, abuse’ and cat-calls. Mason remained in, the* ring for 20 minutes -after -the fight. He -magically quieted the crowd, and angrily, declared that, lie was so dissatisfied, with the decision that lie was willing, to put up £SOO of his own- money to start thp fight over. He eventually left the ring. It only needed! thp: slightest .-provocation •to become a mad scene. It is significant that in the 18th round odds of 00 to 1 were freely offered against Brown.

BOY’S DEATH. ON v OPERATING TABLE. ■ ( . LOnBON,. October B,— How a boy Laurence Sims, was-killed in an exploit ion on an operating table was described at an .inquest at West- Ham to-dav. Sintis -was cycling, and was run. down by. a motor car, aixdl had his jawbrokeiv He. was taken to- Queen Mary’s Hospital for instant- operation, under an etheroxygen anaesthetic. Hot air was meanwhile periodically injected into his mouth from a, syringe to keep the teeth Vli-y.. At the third application of am there was aspverc explosion at the brick of the; hoy’s throat, followed bv. profuse hqmqrvhage. Dept h p’cpvivred 1 within tori mjntitQS. TEe..resident purgeem gave .evidence to tile effect, that lie hrid never known such an occurrence before. *. . . . ... .

Dr ..Gole-j of Harley Street, said that lie, had handled 1600 similar, cases pi Wgr-tinle, and the same routine was folloped, without mishap. Ether 'pas -highly infiammable, arid was p'eyer ,employed wieri a naked light- was close-at hand. Tile . explosion,' which. ,£l&j> pet fire to the apparatusj wafl pi'obably due to .a mixture of inflammable vaipors, which hitherto,were.riot within surgicai purview, because there was no •light,nearer than 6ft- from the operating tab1e.,.... ■ , - ■ The ..coroner, returned a Verdict of accidental death.