NEWS IN A NUTSHELL

Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1931, Page 13 (Supplement)

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL

THE WORLD AT A GLANCE

More than 1,000,000,000 gallons of petrol were used in Great Britain last year. I At the London Sessions a drunken motor-driver has had his license sua■pended forever.

. About 90 per cent, of the students at Cambridge University voluntarily ts3f9 part in sports of their own eelectiog, There have been 27 R.A.F, this year, involving 49 deaths. Last year there were 03 deaths, and in 19J® 42 deaths.

Latest figured of German unemglqye ment show an increase of about 30,000 and a total of 3,976,000 — 18,000 increase in a fortnight. The -Spanish Minister of War ha£ pyv de red that in future no army gensfal or any other officer shall have a right to more than one horse.

The Lowestoft herring drifter Lavin* ia reports that her nets were . attached by a huge whale when she was 28 mite® from port and f3OO damage was doijfi. Careless packing may cause applM to rot internally while still sound iP appearance, as this fruit “breathed and must have supplies ol fresh air,

■Special gas-masks have just been sent from London to Bangalore, for use in a burning mine there. They travelled by relays of aeroplanes end flying* boats.

Of the 159,1820 babies born in England and Wales in the flrat three months of this year, SI,8'81; or more than half, were boys. In Wales, the maternal death-rate has been, during the past 40 years, about 40 per cent, higher than that for England.

A wooden cross from tho emve an unknown soldier in France has beau placed in Liverpool Cathedral under the flags of the Liverpool Regiment which fought in the war, A moment 'before a collision a lorry and a motor-car a dog leaped to safety through an open window of the car, stated an eye-witness describing the crakh. ' ' x- '

Girls show better examination suits in history,' English composition, and modern languages than "boys, who excel in mathematics and sclenba,

Great Britain comes second in th® list of nations using motor vehlcUß. with 1,558,980, The United States os America has 26,748,184, and Franca third with 1,'520,501.

Chemical fire-extinguishers on the village greens are suggested M substitutes for fre-engiues In outlying villages under Bedford Rural District Council.

A ladder of aluminium weighing ojdy' four ounces, and tanks of aluminitgjjl alloy, only one-third the weight o< M steel tank of similar size, were ly exhibited in London. New work will come to strong factories in the North*®M& Sheffield, and the South, as the rMtjlf of the signing in Lisbon of a contract with the Portuguese Government.

The annual crime-list of the UiiM States of America includes some 13,000 murders, '100,900 hold-ups and 500,0Q$ burglaries. Bakelite, which is already usedmany purposes, is made from tar, esyj it is considered possible that houaeai made of it are a practical possibility of the future.

Oats which will stand up to hes.TJj rain and wind have been grown expen* mentally at Cambridge. The popular varieties now most grown have staßce too weak for straw, so they cannot stand rain.

Mr. Jesse Coppenbarger, an Illinois farmer, publicly announces that if thieves who stole 80 of his hens that had just reached “frying size” will come back, they may also have the hen house, for which he has now no further use.

Accidents on British railways involving injury numbered 843 last year, as compared with an average cl 1000 seven years ago. Accidents to the railway staffs -totalled 7022—about 4000 less than the annual return seven years ago.

Mr. Harry 'Barker, of Bowling Old- , lane, Bradford, has made a wheelbarrow which will pass through, the eye of a needle. The model is made from a pin, the wheel being made from the cross section of the pin. The world’s ‘biggest image of 'Buddh® ia to be erected near Tokio, Japan. It will be 40 feet high and 'built of cone Crete at a cost of £lO,OOO and ther® will be room for 3000 people to stand, in its lap. Heart disease is responsible for ail amazingly high percentage of dessh» in the medical .profession. The Journal of the American Medical Association discloses that in one year the total deaths among America’s 147,010 doo* tors was 2’532, or 17.2 per 1000,. as compared with 11.9 for the general population. More than 550 of the doctors died from some form of heart trouble. . ..•'■Li?.'

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and to what lengths can the imaging tion not stretch?’’ * ■ '. An almost parallel case is recordaj 1 in the London Times on March 5, 1931* It was a report on the inquest into thi death of a Cambridge undergraduate ■who was found dead in hie sitting-room. Hifi hands were tied together behind his back with handkerchiefs, his ankles were similarly bound, and other handkerchiefs. apparently his own property, were tied over his mouth and nostril*. > On the date on which the Times contained the second day’s report tof the inquest, immediately below the •was the following paragraph: An inquest was held at Birkenhead yesterday on the body of Frank Walker, 21, an unemployed railway porter, of Hinderton Road. The jury returned a verdict that Walker unintentionally hanged hansel f. The father of the youth said that ; his son was without worries and fona at practical jokes. He had shown great interest in the Cambridge undergraduates death, and discussed it frequently. O® Monday Walker was left alone in the house for a short while, and when his e mother returned later he was discovered hanging from a shelf in the scullery with a rope tied round his neck over a towel. A step ladder was found placed fiat against the wall. The Coroner said that Walker was probably conducting an experiment which was not intended to end fatally and possibly slipped off the ladder. This differs from the previous example in that it was apparently an accident. The young man was, however, intrigued with the Cambridge evidence and, probably through his interest in the case, started the fatal experiment.

And so it goes on. _ The actiritie® the human mi nd--are andaed-fOniTllffßfcJ—