GENERAL NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11927, 22 October 1919, Page 7

GENERAL NEWS.

BELATED CAMBRAI MINE. Twelve persons have been killed by the explosion of a mine near Cambrai, including six German prisoners of war. REAL TRAGEDY IN PARIS. 1 A real tragedy, unbeknown to the ; audience, occurred behind the sconesjat the Theatre des Arts during the performance of a military drama entitled “Verdun.” The principal actor in the play is supposed to fall after being struck by a bullet. At the same moment that this was taking place on the stage the chief electrician of the theatre, standing a few yards away in the wings, drew a revolver and shot himself in the same place where the actor is supposed to be hit. The screams of the dying suicide mingling with the actor’s cries gave the scene extraordinary realism. ILLICIT PHOTOGRAPHS. Amateur photographers who managed to secure illicit pictures during the w T ar are likely to be a little perplexed at the offer of the British authorities who are now beginning the task of appraising the value of several hundreds of thousands of photographs taken during the war, at the front and elsewhere, the cream of which are to be arranged for the benefit of historians and book illustrators of the future. The authorities state that the photographs they are anxious to get hold of “are those taken illicitly by amateurs, large numbers of which are known to exist.” Eorgiveuess is promised, but will the clever amateur with good pictures be willing to reveal just how clever he was?