BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

West Coast Times, 28 January 1914, Page 4

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

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ANOTHER AVIATION -FATALITY

LONDON, Jan. 27.—A monoplane fo'.l on Salisbury Plain, and Gipps, tlio pilot, was killed. * theathTT panic. AMSTERDAM, Jan. 23.—An Asuiirabaya telegram states that during a lire in a eineitv.itograph theatre at line Ires, the audience became panic-stricken. One man. 68 children,and 16 women perished. All were natives.

AVIATOR KILLED. MADRID, Jan. 26. Lieut. Ramos flying at the military aerodrome at Quatroviiiitos, fell 1000 ft and was kill ed.

REBELLION IN HAYTI. NEW YORK, Jan. 26.- A revolt is growing throughout Hayti. All the northern towns are arming against the Government. The United Stales TTas de. patched the armoured cruiser, Montana. President Create is consider ng his abdication, Senator Theodore having proc’a med him.self a revolutionary lead r and nrovh.ioiial President.

MARS AGAIN. >."'.V YORK, Jan. 26.—Americai a trononiers at flagstaff, in Arizona clo In to have discovered that Mars iuo twelve minutoi’ less daylight than hai previously I’e n calculated. Profesroi Lowell thinks the* discrepancy due t, an error in the planet's accepted rotation. ESCAPE EXTRAORDINARY.. BERNE, Jen, 26.—'Wlv le a farmerr,' familv at Cell were dining an avalancha fell and the violent displacement of the 'air tore the doors off thm h>ngi.s ami invent the inmate" aniiiured JO Ret into the g rden. 'Hie aval-mlia Glen Ml on the farm house, wrecking it.

MINK TEMPERATURE. 1 ON DON, Tau 26.- The Home Office f nunitieo, dealing with fires in < - oal "■nos, recommends that whenever the temp va* ure o.f anv accessible part attains IPJ cl '/re ■ Eahr.-nheit the fact ,1,0111 I he r, norted to the Inspector of Mice':.

THE r.V’MPI .OYAIJnNT BKNEEIT. RON DON, Jan. 26 —The hnllding strikers e!n mod inieirploymiiet benefit 'und r the Insurance Act on Hie ground that tlr- were dismis ed after due notice. The -uthortlies refused bo-rn.-re '* '*ie existence V>f a trade ds1i |< estimated that 31.000 are jp„ j„ 11... Buildim? traded Thera are ■ one 13 CM on sCke.