THE WIDE WORLD.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17174, 26 October 1926, Page 3

THE WIDE WORLD.

NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE. MINESWEEPER. MISSING. ' SAN: DIEGO, September 10. Tile British 'Government has appealed to the Commander of the Naval Base here for aid in the search for the New Zealand minesweeper Wakaura, which is eleven days overdue. PRISON FOR INFIDELITY. GENEVA. September 7. A legal commission appointed 1 to consider the revision of the Swiss penal code recommends that marital infidelity should be punishable by imprisonment of the guilty parties for one year, in addition to divorce. RAIL WAY MEN TO SAVE HARVEST. WINNIPEG, September 6. The Canadian railways have released 10,OCO of their regular employees from duty to enable them to work in the harvest fields- to help to save Canada’s wheat crop from disaster, due- to the approaching cold weather. The Canadian Pacific sent 4000 and the Canadian National Railways 60C0. PREACHER JOCKEY. MOUNT IN CESAREWITCH. LONDON, October 13. Riders in the Cesarewiteh Stakes tomorrow will include “Preacher Jack" Jennings, who combines race-riding with lay preaching at French racing stables. His mount will be the French cull Take My Tip, who won the Grand Prix do Paris in June. THUNDERBOLT ON PALACE. ROME, September 7. A storm which ravaged Central Italy has Hooded the countryside, uprooting trees and telegraph poles and 1 delaying trains. A thunderbolt! fell on thei Palazzo Farnese, the seat of the French Embassy, one of the finest palaces in Rome, designed by Sangallo and continued after bus death by Michelangelo. It caused a lire, which was quickly extinguished. GLACIER’S RAPID MOVE WOODLANDS SWEPT AWAY OSLO. Sept. 5. Ond branch of the Jostedals grader in the Sogiie Fjord lias become loosened and is sliding down, carrying away 500,000 cubic yards of woodland. The movement has created a lake a mile long. The damage is estimated at 1,500,000 kroner. No one has been killed. The extensive Jostedals Braen, a plateau on the coast of Norway, is covered with glaciers. The highest summit is 6880 ft above the sea. WARSHIP SUNK IN 1692 DISCOVERED. CHERBOURG, September 2. In Ihe course of the dredging operations for tlie eonstructiin of the new harbor at Cherbourg,' the wreck of one of the French men-o’-war lost in the battle of La Hogue in 1692 has been discovered. Admiral Tourville’s squadron took refuge in Cherbourg roads after | the battle, and 1 was pursued and burnt j there by the British lleet. The tim- I bers so far traced measure about 130 ft. I in length. It i s proposed, to raise ! _ They are believed to be part of | the Iriomphant, of which some of the guns had already beeir found.

ICE-CREAM AS FOOD,

LONDON, September 5. In an illuminating report valuable suggestions are made by the Imperial Economic Committee on the Marketing and Preparing for Market of Footstuffs Within the Empire. The fact that the consumption of ice-cream in recent years had been greatly extended in the United States and in Canada by the adoption of modem methods of manufacture had led the Committee to advocate recognition by the public of the United Kingdom of ice-cream as a normal article of diet and a very valuable foodstuff.

The manufacture of ice-cream, the report states, would provide an important outlet for milk and milk-products in the United Kingdom, particularly during the summer, when the production of milk exceeded the demand. HE If 100TH BIRTHDAY OLD LADY’S AEROPLANE RIDE PARIS, U.S.A., Sept. Id. “Grandma” Bennett, the oldest inhabitant of Portland, Maine, yesterday celebrated her 100th birthday by taking her first aeroplane ride as the guest; of Harry .Tones, a former army pilot. Five years ago Jones promised her a ride in his plane, but circumstances caused it to lie postponed. Mrs. Bennett, however, feeling old age coming on, decided that her visit to Bostcn offered an excellent time to take advantage of the invitation. When she descended the young man and the old woman agreed to fly together again live years from to-day. “Wonderful” watf her smiling description when asked how she enjoyed the experience.

BRITISH DEBT SETTLEMENT

SIR ESME HOWARD’S VIEWS TORONTO, Sept. .10. “I think that Grout Britain obtained the best terms possible in the debt settlement with the United Slates, and, as far as we are concerned, the matter is closed, for we will pay until the debt is wiped out,’* said Sir Esme Howard, the British Ambassador in Washington, here to-day. The settlement had accomplished three things. It had enhanced British credit throughout the world. It had brought the pound back td par, and it showed that,Britain intended to fulfil her obligations. Sir Esme thought that the agitation recently canictl on by certain newspapers portraying the United States in the role of Ehylock exacting his pound of ilesh did not correctly represent, English sentiment.

HISTORY AXI) THE CINEMA. PERMANENT RECORD OF EVENTS. NEW YORK, September 8. A pictorial history of world events will be kept by the United States Govvernment for the education of future generations if the suggestion of Mr. Will Hays, the head of the American cinema industry, is approved by the President and the necessary funds are voted by Congress. The plan is to erect an archive building in Washington, consisting of twenty vaults, each vault to house 1000 reels. By maititnining an even temperature in the vaults the filths can be preserved for several hundred years, and the negatives for all tittle. The cinema industry proposes to cooperate with the Government, and to surrender all films recording important events from April 27, 1896, the date when the first film was, shown in America. Since then, Mr. Hays said.

the cinema industry had grown to enormous proportions. Twenty million people attend more than 20,000 moving picture houses daily in the United States, and pay approximately £200,000,000 a year. Thirty million pounds are sppnt annually in production, according to Mr. Hays, and the export of film is now about 235,000,000 ft. a year.

FACTORY COLLAPSE,

MANY KILLED AND INJURED, LISBON, Sept. 10. ,A cork factory on the south side of • tli9 Tagus, opposite Lisbon, unaccountably collapsed at 5.30 p.m. It is believed that the disaster was dud to tin earthquake. I It is reported that many workmen were killed and injured. Local firemen ! are searching the ruins for the victims, i A special train has been organised and a ; steamer will bring the injured to Lisbon hospitals. NATION OF LISTENERS. 3.500,C00 WIRELESS SETS. LONDON, September 8. Sir William Bull, M.P., speaking at the anniversary dinner of the radio trade, at the Piccadilly Hotel, said that three and a-half million homes in this country have been ’equipped with wireless apparatus, and that no fewer than 1700 manufacturers are now members :of the British Broadcasting Company. ! The need for a universal language in ; broadcasting was emphasised by Dr. Alexander Irvine. “If there had been wireless in the days of the French revolution,” said Sir N. Grattan-Doyle, M.P., “there would have been no revolution. The revolution was caused by rumors, which would have been checked by wireless, as unfounded rumors were checked by broadcasting during the recent general strike. TO HOSPITAL BY AIR, BRITISH GUIANA’S AMBULANCE. LONDON, Sept, 30. An interesting innovation in regard to the transport of sick by air is recorded in the annual Colonial report for British Guiana. During 1925, it is stated, the Real Daylight Balata Estates, Limited, imported from England a “Fairey” seaplanet for the rapid conveyance to Georgetown for medical aid of sick employees—at the company’s station at Apoteri, 272 miles away in the interior. The ’plane has been specially constructed for the tropics, and to carry one stretcher case and an attendant. The machine has also .been used by the Harbpr Board in connection with a hydrographic survey of the lower portion of the Essequibo river, which is now being carried out, and has also both loaned to Government for inspection purposes connection with the coastal drainage scheme, WILD WEST SCENE. BURGLARS CHASED AND KILLED IN LONDON. LON DON,_ Sept. 3. A fatal affray, suggestive of the Wild West, occurred in the early morning of July 19, when two men, Charles Folleii ami James Albert, broke into a garage in the New Eltham suburb of London. The owner (Mr. A. C. Brodie) and liis foreman (Taylor), who were sleeping on the premises, were aroused by the sound of the crash of glass and gave chase. Fallen was wounded by a revolver shot and Albert was killed while struggling for possession of a rifle. At the inquest yesterday on Albert, Folleii gave evidence. The coroner said if Brodie and Taylor were chasing men to recover goods shooting was illegal, but if Albert was resisting when Taylor was arresting him then the homicide was justifiably and the liian had a. perfect- right to protect 1% own property in the- dead of night. A verdict of accidental death was returned.

THREE DEATHS FOR Bs, FARMER’S FIGHT WITH POLICE. NEW YORK, Sept. 10. Rather than pay an 8s fme for refusing to permit his child to attend school, Granville Holbein, a well-to-do Pennsylvanian farmer, yesterday slew a sheriff and his deputy and was in turn shot and killed as he attempted to escape from the burning house in which he had barricaded himself. Holben objected to paying the fine “on principle,” and when two officers appeared to summon him to court ho warned them off tha premises. Meeting with a refusal, the farmer discharged the contents, of both barrels of a shot-gun, and botii officers dropped dead. Reinforcements summoned by neighbors sarvounded the house, but Holben kept them at ■ bay single-handed until darkness, when the police crept forward and applied a torch Eo the walls. As Holben made a dash for freedom, shooting as he went, lie met a volley of bullets and fell fatally wounded 12ft from his own front door.

THE BRITISH EMPIRE

STRONGER THAN ANY UNION BRITAIN AS PIVOT OF GREAT ECONOMIC FORCE TORONTO, Sept. 18. Pleading for unity among the members of the British Empire, Sir Alfred Monti, prominent British financier, forecast before' the Canadian Club at a luncheon here a division of the economic world into three great groups, the American, the European and the British Imperial groups. Sir Alfred stated that the wealth of the United States was forcing the combatants in the late war to form economic mergers in peace, and there was no doubt that many business men in Europe were considering the formation of some economic union, with free trade within the union and protection against outside states. Ho dm not anticipate this immediately, but it was in the air and might come sooner than expected. “And what would be Britain’s position. Would she stand in with such a union?” He did not think so.

“I look on Britain as a pivot of a great empire which is in itself a greater economic force than either of the other combinations,” he said.