THE WIDE WORLD.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16200, 25 November 1926, Page 10

THE WIDE WORLD.

NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE,

AIRPLANE KILLS 3 BOYS

UXTER-EGEiKI (Switzerland), Seplember 29. An airplane containing two officers, which had made a- forced landing lime, came in collision with a tree as it look oil. The machine rebounded and struck and killed three hoys. The airmen escaped without injury.

CANADA AIDS FRANC. MONTREAL’S BIG SUBSCRIPTION PARIS, Oct. 7. Mr. Philippe Roy, Canadian Commissioner in France and delegate of the Voluntary Subscription Committee formed in Montreal for helping the franc, lias handed to M. Poincare 1,1!)8,226f in cheques and securities.

£7,000,000 PERSIAN RAILWAY

GENEVA, Sept. 2d. A commission' of English, American and Swiss engineers left Zurich yesterday for Persia. They will study the country for the construction of a railway between Teheran and the Persian Gulf. The estimated cost, about £7,000,000, will be advanced by London and New York banks. PRINCE AS CHANGELLOR. STOCKHOLM, Nov. 10.® The Crown Prince of Sweden, Gustav, who is well known as one of the most serious of tiro Princes of Europe, is expected to succeed Dr. Swarts, the Chancellor of the Swedish University, who died recently. Thu Prince is interested in educational matters.

POLICE OFFICE FRAUDS. BUENOS. AIRES, Nov. 10, For 20 years culprits m the accountant ks office of the Police Department collected the salaries of several non-existent officers. The discovery of the fraud lias caused a sensation. The chief accountant has been arrested, and a minor’employee baa committed suicide.

CASINO PROFITS. £262,666 AT DEAUVILLE. PARIS, October 2. The gross profits at the Deauville casino on bouie and baccarat during the past season amounted to £262,666. The Government takes about 9 per emit, of this, and the remainder belongs to the casino authorities, who also draw largo sums from entries and various contracts. • CANADIAN ELECTIONS. £800t) DAMAGES FOR LIBEL. NANAIMO (8.C.), Oct. L

In an action heard before a jury at the local Assize Court. General A. D. Mcßae, Federal M.P. fur North Vancouver, was ordered to pay Mr. Sloan, Provincial Minister of Mines. £BOOO for libel contained in an election pa mplilet. LABOR FARM FOR WORK-SHY'. CAPETOWN, September 10.

Mr Boydell, Minister of Labor, proposes to solve the unemployment problem by 'establishing local committees which will clasify the unemployed as the fit., semi-fit, unfit, and won’t-works;

The last-named will be brought before the magistrates, and if found guilty will be sent- to a- labor colony for not less than one year and not more than five years. Forestry and farm work •will be carried on at the labor colony. PAMPHLETS FIRED TO WOMEN IN SECLUSION CALCUTTA, Nov. 9. The Indian" elections ard in full swing. The Swarajists (Home Rulers) have adopted a novel propaganda to reach women voters, who arc unable to be interviewed by agents owing to the purdah (strict seclusion). Agents sent- up large rockets containing bundles of pamphlets, which fell on the flat roofs, where the women read them.

ITALIAN FILM MERGER. ROME, Oct. 15.A motion picture merger designed to crush American competition 'in Italy, has been formed under the auspices of the Italian Commercial Ban k. The .Stefauo Pifalluga Co., the largest in the country, absorbs several others, taking over the ownership of 200 movie houses and the control of 2000 others, and doubling its capital to £2,000,000. The films shown will all be of Italian manufacture and will feature only Italian players. BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE.

OTTAWA, October 12. The names of 60,000 Canadians who died in the Great War will be preserved for ever in a. Book of Remembrance which will repose in Canada’s Victory Tower. Lord Byng, the Governor-

General, accompanied by the Premier, Mi'. Mackenzie King, laid the altar stone upon which this book will rest. The' altar stone is the gift of the British Government and is made of Hoptou limestone. Tito laying of the altar stone was the last official act of the Governor-General in tiie Dominion capital. A R GEN TINE DAIRYING. BIG SHIPMENT OF HEIFERS. LONDON, Oct. 1. A consignment of 200 Friesland heifers has just been shipped to Buenos Aires from Antwerp by the Cambrian Queen, being part of a total of 3000 cattle which it is proposed to ship to South America in instalments. The heifers, which are (0 be used for breeding and milking purpose's, will on arrival be distributed among various largo ranches m the Argentine belonging to the Canbaua Frisia, enterprise.

DOCTORS’ PLAN TO EVADE TAX. CAPETOWN, September 17. ' A Gilbertian situation has arisen as the. result of the Cape Provincial Council imposing an annual tax of £lO on medical men. When the tax came into force seven doctors at. CfnaiT-Reinct. Mho had previously given their services free at flic local hospital, insisted on one of their number being employed at £IBO a year. Now the seven doctors are giving £l7O annually to the hospital, and as tlie Provincial Council has to pay oos.'

for every £1 subscribed to hospital funds, the council will collect £7O in license money from the' Qraaff-Keinot practitioners but will have to pay the hospital £225 more a year.

WHERE THE RAVAGE LEADG. LON DDON, Get. 6. ‘•People in this country talk about the poor benighted savage, ami yet he gets more out of life than they do. Rir William Arbutlinot Lane made this statement, yesterday in an ’address to members of Whitelield’s Tabernacle. “lie lias no disease of any sort,” lie added, “because lie partakes of just the food lie requires, and follows a wise law of nature. “There is the case of the Zulus, with whom appendicitis and cancer are unknown, or hardly to lie tou'ud. Indigestion is talked of lightly, but if is the primary cause of nearly all disease. That shows how extraordinarily important, diet is.” TURKEY’S AIR FUND.

ILLEGAL EXACTIONS. CONSTANTINOPLE. Oct. f The so-called “Aviation Congress” has instituted a mode of collecting ■ funds whic.lv, to say the least, is somej what original. Business men and i private individuals when presenting i themselves at the .Fiscal bureaus in j order to pay income tax have during ! the last few days been informed that ' their*receipts could not be delivered until they had handed over a further 10 per cent, on the amount of their income tax to the aviation fund. This is being done entirely by the decision ; of the “Aviation Congress,” no Act jof Parliament to this effect haying j been passed. Persons having sufficient’ I sense firmly to refuse payment of this 1 additional and illegal tax have obtained their receipts almost; without demur; but many others, rather than j cause trouble, have paid it. :