GENERAL NEWS

Waipa Post, Volume 47, Issue 3384, 24 October 1933, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS

VANISHED LAKE REAPPEARS. Lough Na Suil, at Geevagh, County Sligo, Ireland, from which the waters suddenly disappeared recently, began to fill up again a few days later. Tourists had been walking out on the dry bed of the lake all day. In the evening a spring well on the lake shore exuded quantities of water. One man walking on the lake bed had to run for the shore, as the place was flooded and a large lake was soon formed. Lough Na Suil, which was 45 acres in extent and 30 feet deep, had vanished with its 52,000,000 cubic feet of water in a few hours, leaving dead fish stranded on the mud flats. According to local tradition, the lake disappears for a few days every hundred years to remind the living of Balor of the Evil Eye, who was killed in the district by the Ginat King, Nuadha. In their struggle an eye was knocked out of Balor’s head and a lake was formed on the spot. The water is known as the “Lake of the Evil Eye,” and when it disappeared .there was found in the bed a cavity. 20ft. long and 18ft. deep in the shape of an eye.

A WORLD TRADE CLUB. “Critics who assert that the Ottawa agreements are hostile to nations outside of the Empire are wrong, because the Empire is again showing the world the way out of its troubles,” said Sir Alan Anderson,,head of the Orient Steamship Company, in his presidential address to the British Chambers of Commerce Conference recently held at Glasgow. He added that the Empire could afford to welcome kindred nations to reciprocal trade. Sir Alan Anderson also advocated the formation of a World Trade Club, the members of which, by most favoured nation treaties and by combined action with the Central Banks, would maintain stable prices and currencies. Such a club should be large enough to revive world trade. It would be the only answer to the dilemma of the Economic Conference. DISASTROUS CAPE DROUGHT. General rains throughout the Cape and parts of the Orange Free State have broken the drought, which was one of the most disastrous in the history of South Africa. A conservative estimate is that at least ten million sheep have perished in the last few months.

STAFF POISONED BY FOOD. Doctors and nurses were rushed to the offices of the firm of Messrs. Dun and Bradstreet, publishers of financial bulletins, in New York, recently, when more than 100 employees collapsed, apparently suffering from food poisoning. On all teh floors of the building occupied by the firm employees were stretched out on the desks. Several persons were taken to hospital, where more than 20 doctors accompanied other victims to their homes. Many of the girl Workers had hysterics as -their companions collapsed around them. It is believed that the poisoning was caused by food having been tainted. A REMBRANDT FOR 3/2. It is suggested that a picture bought for 20 francs (3s 2d at par) in the St Ouen market by M. Henri Carpe, a young man, of Drancy, near Paris, is by Rembrandt. The painting is a landscape almost identical in subject with Rembrandt’s Wintertie, or Skaters’ Canal, in the Cassel Museum, and bears the monogram “R.T..” As it is painted on a wood which several cabinetmakers whom M. Carpe consulted failed to identify, lie thinks that the panel is of the '‘unknown exotic wood” cited by the authority W. Bode, and was actually part of the same plank as that used for the Blind Tobias and Joseph’s Dream, now in. the Kaiser J'Yicdrich. Museum .in, Berlin. Michel states in his books on Rembrandt that several studies similar to the Cassel painting have disappeared since the 1656 inventory, but experts have not yet reached a decision as to the picture’s authenticity.