BRITISH & FOREIGN

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 22 December 1926, Page 8

BRITISH & FOREIGN

OVERNIGHT NEWS SUMMARY. (Per Press Association —Copyright.) NEW YORK, December 21. Professor Stirling, cabling from Batavia, reports bis return from a highly-successful aeroplane tour of Dutch Guinea. He discovered a race of pigmies hitherto unknown, and secured numerous anthropological measurements and other important data. WARSAW, December 20. Leasing a house opposite Diskonto Bank, some thieves, by means of a tunnel, penetrated the Bank's strongroom, and ransacked the safes containing jewellery and bootv, stated to exceed £lOO,OOO. LONDON, Dec. 21. The Earl of Birkenhead, Acting Home-Secretary (in the absence of Sir William Joynson Hicks), secured the remission of sentences on four Durham miners for coal strike' offences, enabling them to be free for Christmas. LONDON, December 20. Una Crowe, daughter of Sir Eyre Crowe, who was missing from her home at Chelsea was found drowned at Sitanage. GUAYAQUIL (Ecuador), Dec. 20. The towns of Cumbo and Carlosana in Colombia are reported to have been destroyed bv earthquake. NEW YORK. December 20. A 60-foot launch, carrying employees of the New Jersey Bread Factory to work this morning, capsized amid ice floes on the Hudson River, and an undetermined number were drowned. Twenty-five were rescued, and taken to hospital suffering from immersion. The police announce the deeovery of bodies bringing the total deaths to 27. NEW YORK, December 20. The police are investigating the shooting, in her apartments, of Mrs Roberta Ingersoll, wife of the famous watchmaker. She was found dead with a bullet through her head, and with her. seriouslv wounded, was Wallace Maclean Probasco, a young millionaire, whose own wi+’e is t'm daughter of the late Robert Ingersoll, the famous agnostic. Probasco, who will probably die, told the police that he had gone to Mrs Ingersoll’s apartments, to break relations with her, which had been existing over a iong period. He told her he had become reconciled to his own wife and was about to leave, when Mrs Ingersoll opened fire. LONDON. Dec. 21. The Port Said correspondent of “The Times,” states that the latest example of making the desert blossom like the rose, is the new town of Port Fuad, on the Suez Canal, opposite Port Said, named in honour of King Fuad, who formally inaugurates it to-morrow. Port Fuad has arisen o'wing to the decision of the Suez Canal Company to erect workshops in the Asiatic bank buildings, used during war time as a hospital. Barren sands are now replaced by pleasant villas, among gardens for staff. There are beflowered public gardens and shady avenues. It is hoped that Port Fuad will become Port Said’s residential quarter and pleasure resort. It is also proposed that Port Fuad should be the terminus of the Palestine railway instead of Kantara. PARIS, December 20. “Le Matin” states that the Conde Diamond and other booty stolen from Chantilly have been recovered, and four persons have been arrested in connection with the theft. The police got on their track owing to an indiscreet remark by Kauffer, and found the diamond wrapped in cottonwool among his luggage. The thieves confessed that they stole a ladder by which they crossed the moat, and climbed the wall of the Chateau. They used gloves to prevent finger prints, wrenched out the stores and flung the settings in the Seine. They sold the jewels, except the Conde diamond.