NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16975, 5 March 1926, Page 3

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

"REDS' " NEXT MOVF

TRYING TO ARRANGE A 48-HOURS

STRIKE, LONDON, Jan. 2. The Communists of Great Britain arc believed to be endeavouring to engineer a 48-hours' strike among the workers as a protest against the sentence passed on the Reds at the Old Bailey recently on charges of conspiracy to incite to sedition.

A number of meetings of the party liavo been held in London and tho chief provincial centres, and resolutions have been passed protesting against the sentences. As the resolutions have not had the desired effect, tho party has approached the various trade unions asking them to order at a. given date a 48-hours' strike of every worker.

BOUND WOMAN, FIRED CLOTHING MONTREAL, Jan. 23.

After being attacked in her hemic by three men who bound her hand and foot, Mrs. Alfred Jobin, 38, of Verdun, cable to her senses in a shed at- the rear of her home with her clothing on lire today. She managed to roll out of tho shed in the snow and extinguish the flames before suffering serious injuries. Neighhours, attracted by her screams, released her from her bonds.

Mrs. Jobin informed the police that the thieves had secured 18 dollars. The victim stated that on answering the doorbell she was confronted by three masked men, who trussed her up. She lost consciousness, and on awakening found that her clothes had been saturated in coal oil and ignited. MONSTER SNAKE. ATTACKS MANAGER OF MENAGERIE,

GENEVA, Jan. 9.

A life-and-death struggle between a man and a boa constrictor is reported from Zurich. In the menagerie of that town the reptile had been placed in a bath, inside a steel crate, and weighted down with a stone.

Tho manager, who transgressed the rules and entered the menagerie alone, discovered the hath, empty and at the same moment found himself grasped round the leg. The boa, which measured 12ft. in length, coiled itself round the man, who drew a stilletto, which he plunged into the creature's body near tho head.

He was found* unconscious shortly afterwards, and liberated from the boa's terrible embrace. The serpent was dead.

SWISS NAVY NOT A JOKE

WARSHIP SEIZES CREW OF TWO PARIS, Jan. 9.

The Swiss navy is not, as many .people think, a joke. It, has just fought and won a desperate battle, against pirates on the Lake of Geneva. The action arose out of a. frontier incident on the line dividing the waters of the lake between Franco and Switzerland. A French iishing boat from Thonon-les-Baihs was fishing at the lines it had laid down to capture the delicate lake trout when.it was pounced upon by a- fast. Swiss mosquito craft, a motorboat wliose role is to prevent poaching in the Swiss waters.

The Swiss sailors claimed that the French boat was in Swiss waters, and easting gfnppliiig irons aboard the French craft, they_ proceeded -.to bp"ard if. reyolyer in hand.

The Frenchmen" were outnumbered and unarmed, but they seized oars and gaffs aud resisted, desperately until they were overpowered'; The Swiss "warship*' final-, ly towed its ririze.into the port of Vevey, where the two members of the creW of the French vessel were lodged in gaol.

INVENTOR. OF BLOOD TESTER NOT PLEASED.

PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 16.—Josoph H. Pos, Portland engineer and inventor, has found that the world he sought to by his invention, a bloodpressure regulator, is none too quick to respond gratefully. Pos now plans to visit Chicago soon, and present his invention, before the medical council for physical therapy of the American Medical Association. Physicians who investigated the device do not claim to. understand, but they are astounded at the results it is said to achieve. However, tho device was ignored recently at a meeting of tha City and County Medical Association here. Pos hoped to appear before that body. Persons from all over the country nave appealed to Pos to .relievo . theni of high blood pressure, but ho, always refuses, telling them to consult their phvsicians. / The regulator is an electrical device containing an oscillator and a seri&s of filter, cells, terminating at two electrodes connected with a 110 volt alternating current. The electrodes are little pointers protruding from the top of a box. They are' of opposite poles. One is directed at the nerve centre lit the base of the brain, and tho other at the solar pi exits, iii treating a patient. The "frequency" of a patient's blood is determined, and a suitable regulation of tho waves radiated by the deivieo is made.

Pos said lie readied the principle on which the machine! works through a modificaUon of the .Einstein theory. ITe hopes this mortification wi)l lißi- ■ malely explain what lie, tarriis obvious ! ambiguities of the Einstein theory which A number of scientists have questioned. GROOM IN WAR, CANOE. TOl SEIZE BRIDE. A' most spectacular and Unique wedding ceremony took place at Alert Bay, states a Vancouver message, When one •of the daughters of a native chief; w.sis married to a younger chief. For many days the Indians from distant points Converged to Alert Bay, by passenger steamer?, fish launches, dugouts and rowboats. Hundreds were present, when rthe wedding ceremony was performed. The affair was carried out. m the must approved traditional manner. The brjdo was shut within her father's house, and [ her friends and relatives rallied to protect her from the giay young marine 'Lochinvar who was coining from the sea to get her. The groom's party, in great war canoes, crept up in the blackness of the night, until close to shore, then stripped and painted for war plunged into ,iho icy water and swa.m ash'orp.. to attempt to break the ranks of the defenders Of course, after a friendly struggle, the raiders' routed the maiden's champions and manched triumphantly to the building where she cowered in ftar oi" awaited' in eagerness. DEMANDED' BRIDE. Reaching the' closed' door the gl'OOnY cast a> mighty harpoon, or spear, into the. wooden barrier, where its head tt'a'd imbedded, and the shaft -quivered"" with'the force, of the cast. This was the recognised intimation to the bride that all was over, and the victors demanded hor. Slowly the door opened, and smiling, blushing or cringing and feav-smitteiij tho maid stepper! forth and was taken in charge by the groom ana his party. Then all present joined together in « series of native games, feasts, arid ceremonies. Finally the wedding was declared .legal .".lid V<c Indians dispersed to their ljpmiis. It is stated ti at this is the last native 'ceremony of wedding the