CONTINENTAL NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10403, 17 July 1912, Page 3

CONTINENTAL NEWS.

INLAYING AT BANDITS. The revolver 'continues to play a tragic part la the daily life of France, says Renter’s Paris oorres- | pondeat, The list of crimes and domestic dramas dating the last few days is a long one, and it is evident that Bonnot will have many imitators. At Grenoble, on Monday, May 30th, two small hoys were playing with revolvers One said to the other: “Yon are Bonnot; I am the Commissary of police. I am going to hill yon.” I He thereupon fired, lodging a bullet in the forehead of fcfa ten-year-old playfellow whose lifo hangs by a thread, CROWN PRINCE’S QOT.ff. * aKg » The German Crown Prince, who is stationed near Danzig with his regiment, the famous “Death’sHead Hussars, ” recently made the acquaintance of a Scottish merchant who is the only golfer in Danzig, Both the Crown Prince and Princess play golf with the only golfer on p, rough moor near Broesen. The ether day the Crown Prince drove into a herd of goats and one cf the animal* picked §up the ball iu its mouth. After an esoitiag obsae the goat was caught, and while ths Grown Prince and the only golfer held it, little Prince William, the Prince’s eldest boy, put h!s hand iato the animal’s month nad pulled "cut the ball. passive resistance by con I VIOTS. At Uttikon, near Zurich, the prisoners in the "Maiscn de Correction” . (equivalent to the second division in England) are. on strike. They complain of inferior food, as compared with the dietary of former years The 'coffee and the soups are described ad “too weak,” and the prisoners complain that they do not get poultry oaoa a week gs formerly. They iiave therefore declared fot pssslva resistance, and they refust, to work. The authorities have opened an official inquiry in order to’end this curious BiTike. I which owes its inception to the old I hands. I INSIDE VESUVIUS. Professor Malabra, assistant at the Vesuvius Observatory, accompanied by a guide, dseoanded into the crater on May 15th by means of a rope 420 feet long. They smarted from a point o? the rim down an almost, vertical precipice, and reached a circular ledge of lava at about a hundred yards above the bottom of the crater Walking along this ledge they reached a point above a large yellow coloured smoke-vent, and finally arrived at the broken fragments of a landslip that blocked up the abyss. The descent took them two hoars, and showers of, stones and ashes accompanied their course. Remaining two hours at the bottom, the professor took the temperature cf the different smoke vents and optained maay photographs. While climbing tip again the professor and his companion suffered from the fa - es of the smoke vents. The olimb back took two boars and a-half. 5 : SIEGE OF GERMAN BANDITS. The 'town of Nsuen, Germany, on the morning of May 31st, was the scene of a battlp between the . police and two burglars The burglars and cue of the pursuers were killed and several policemen injured. The robbers™were detected, at f o’clock in the morning stealing clothing from a shop. Seeing that they were dicoovered the burglars dropped their plunder, and, mounting bicycles, made off in the direction of the town of Bredow. Before they reached Bredow an official named Elsinsobmidt, at the head of a posse of railway ,navvies, met them. The thieves opened fire, and Kleinsohmldt afterwards shot himself in the breast. The wound \was apparently not fatal, for his accomplice a moment later dispatched him by shooting him in the month to prevent his comrade falling aiiva into the hands of the police. The surviving bandit then fled, pursued by police and workmen. He finally took cover in a cluster of shrubbery, and kept up a steady fire on his would-be captors, who retreated after several of them bad been wounded. Hundreds qf peasants and townsmen bad by this time joined the hessfging force. A ring was drawn round the wood, and sis hoars after the discovery of the thieves the besiegers came to close quarters. with, carbines, advanced stealthily aad poured a volley iuto She wood, and presently the buiglaar ceased to fire. As the gendarmes oame closer they found him lying dean, with bullet wounds in the head.