NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17152, 30 September 1926, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL

"STAY. IN ITALY ORDER." TOURISTS TURNED BACK. MUSSOLINI BAN. GENEVA, August 10. Signor Mussolini, has now completely stopped the entry of Italian to.urists into Switzerland by rail, steamboat, and motor-car. Six hunderd and thrity Italian tourists, in a' special steamer bound foi' Locarno, were stopped yesterday at Cannobio, on the 1 Italian side of Lake Maggiore, by the Customs officials aiid police, and were ;turned back. Passport visas were refused. Hundreds of Italian families who bcoKed rooms in hotels at.Lugano and Locarno have tfheir orders, stating that they .were forcibly prevented from coming. .Italian motorcars have been stopped at the frontier. The boycott applies eyen to' resorts near Lake Geneva No .Italian tourists have arrived recently, whereas formerly there were many tourists. Hotelkeepers are indignant- at .what they term, the "Soviet methods" of Italy. HAPPIER DAYS. RICH AND POOR SHARE MOST JOYS. LONDON, August 7. Post-war social .conditions were vividly .described by Professor Clay in the course of a discussion on the labor outlook in the economic section of the ■British Association. Professor Clay declared that there was now less .superficial difference in clothing between classes,, and the poor have a greater variety of food .than in any earlier age, while rich and poor alike enjoy the same films, music-hails, .wireless and football .matches. He said that the, present shortage of houses houses was largely because we are no longer satisfied with the type of house in which the poor lived in the nineteenth century. The workers' family to-day had a better intellectual education than-boys of middle class, or probably any class, enjoyed 50 years ago. Extension of state social services had. transferred a considerable portion .of income from the rich to the poor, while the dole maintained unimpared the standard of life of. the workers, despite the war and industrial depr-ps- ' sion. SEQUEL TO STAGE DRAMA -POLICEMAN, KILLS YOUTH ...SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18. Real drama ' .was ' substituted for stage drama in. a Mission district theatre here when a policeman shot and killed one youth and .shot and severely wounded another. A dramatic skit ..was in progress in the theatre, a vaudeville- house, when ; jtho two youths sauntered down the aisle and seated themselves beside- two young girls. The youths," according to jtho girls, became objectionable, and the girls called for help. The theatre manager summoned Policeman Joseph Grennninger, stationed nearby on, traffic duty. When he sought to eject the youths, they put up a spirited battle and escaped. .Gremminger followed them with drawn revolver, calling upon them to halt. The boys dashed into a nearby lumber, yurd.' Gremminger,' after firing several shots over their heads, aimed nt them. Frank Foy, 21, dropped dead with a bullet through his heart; Frank .Goggins, 21, with a bullet wound through his arm, surrendered. Gremminger said both boys were armed. THE DEFENDANT WINS. ARGUES WITH GRAND JURY. AN AMAZING INCIDENT. ■LONDON. Aug.- M—One of the most amazing .incident:', in-legal history occurred at.' the Old Bailey during n recent session. When a certain, case .came, before the giand jury some, of the members spoke in favor of returning a true bill, bnf quo man obstinately held out, and urged that the defendant was not, guilty. Nothing could shake him from that view, and lie offered many arguments in support of his contention' So aggrieved did he appear that one of the members suddenly became suspicious "You seem to know a good deal about this case," he commented. "Arc you by any chance connected with the defendant?" ' "I am theJ defendant," was the startling reply. The man, of course, was instantly ordered from .the room, and the grand jury began to discuss the case again. In the end they found there was no (rue bill against the defendant, and accordingly the,case did not come before the court. When the grand jury adjourned to then' room, the defendant, who had been on bail, followed them in, and no one noticed that he was a stranger till his 1 persistent advocacy of his "own case aroused suspicion.