BRITISH & FOREIGN

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 21 December 1926, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN

OVERNIGHT NEWS SUMMARY. (Per Press Association—Copyright.) KOVNO, December 19. General Grintius, the Lithuanian President, has resigned. LONDON, December 19. For the benefit of ladies on the Renown a naval hairdresser is being specially trained in a fashionable saloon in the West End, where he will be instructed in all the latest arts in shingling and coiffure. PARIS. Dec. 20. Miss Mitchell (Britain), won easily the international typing championship, averaging ninety words a minute for twenty-five minutes, defeating thirty-five men and women from all European countries. Mademoiselle Vivian won the French championship, averaging 72 words a minute. LONDON, December 19. A movement has been inaugurated to establish an Empire Academy in London to encourage latent talent in Britain and the. DominiounA £1,000,000 building will ultimate ly be erected, and will include galleries, where pictures and sculpture will be exhibited, with a theatre and halls for dramatic productions. It is announced that tile supporters I include Lord Strathspey, Mr Coates. ' Sir James Parr, and Baron Howard de , Walden. PARIS, December 19. ; The Berlin correspondent of the I “Chicago Tribune” says that President Hindenburg sternly warns the Party I leaders not to attack General von Cosier (Minister of War). The President says: “You have taken General von Soeckt from the I Republican Army. I will not allow I intrigues to deprive it of the last man I capable of keeping it in a satisfactory | condition.” j PARIS, December 19. Moulin Rouge, Montmartre, was the scene of a dancing tragedy. A merchant from Limoges, whose j young daughter had fled from home. [ searched Paris for several days, even- | tually tracking the girl to a danefr.g | hall in Moulin Rouge .ifter a scene, in which the girl refused to listen, but went on dancing • instead, the father drew a revolver j from his pocket, and blew out his brains. LISBON. December 19. The deaths at Madeira, owing to the

cyclone, included an English woman and Humberto Freitas, the latter perishing aboard a yacht on which seven were drowned. Freitas saved many lives in wartime by swimming to vessels which the Germans had torpedoed. The cyclone stripped gardens, arm unroofed houses. Tidal waves flooded Funchal. A number of coasters, thirteen lighters, and six motor launches were ■ smashed against the seawall. KOVNO, Dec. 19. President Grimtius authorised Professor Vai de Marus, the new Premia?, to form a Government which legalises the recent occurrences. ■ General Smetona has accepted the post of Chief of Staff from M. Slezevicius, until the popular votes settles the situation. Martial law prevails. Everything is otherwise normal. The new Litvian Government is officiating. The Premier, M. Stuljinskis, outlined a moderate programme. The Press warns the Cabinet to profit by the example of Kovno. NEW YORK. December 19 A message from Trenton (New Jersey) states that an epidemic of trench mouth, or Vincent’s disease, has affected several thousand persons there, and is rapidly spreading to a point where dentists and physicians ar« having difficulty in controlling it. • The malady is traceable to the world war.

It has been transmitted from, person to person, and has also (appeared in nearby towns, particularly the Skillman village. which is populated bv epileptics, and is a State institution. The disease became so prevalent, there that the State called in ao extra staff of physicians iu an effort to stamp it ontDoctors declare that the disease is rare in the United States. It was brought back by the American forces in France. The State Health Department is launching a preventative campaign, and is asking the people to stop kissing. NEW YORK, Dec. 19. Forty-two members of the Faculty of Political Science in the Columbia

University, signed a statement proposing an International Debt and Reparations Conference, to revise the debt settlements on the basis of justice and generosity for the sake of world peace and prosperity.

The statement says that sooner or later the United States must take into consideration the point of view of the debtor nations, that the loans wore not ordinary business transactions, but contributions to the com-

mon cause against a common enemy. Existing settlements are criticised as producing dissatisfaction, distrust and misunderstanding in European nations, to such an extent that the progress toward the world’s peace made since Locarno, might be lost. Washington reports state that President Coolidge and the Treasury Department do not favour such a conference.