BRITISH & FOREIGN

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 29 December 1926, Page 7

BRITISH & FOREIGN

OVERNIGHT NEWS SUMMARY. (Per Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, Dec. 27. The Belgrade correspondent of the “Times” states that owing to the Ung’s desire for a cabinet, rather n an election, M. Quzounoviteh has formed a Coalition Government, including both Left "nd Right extremists. Severe cold is reported on the Continent. There were heavy snowfalls throughout Spain, also in Paris, where e fountains were converted into masses of ice. Many rivers were frozen over. Snow fell in Lisbon for the first time in eighty years. PARIS, December 27. It is reliabily reported that the former Crown Prince Carol’s romance with Magda Lupescu is terminated. Prince Carel left the Neuilly villla, and Madame Lepeseu remained behind. Prince Carol is believed to be somewhere on the Riviera, but no authorm five information is available. Rumours that he has returned to Roumania are discredited. BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 26. Revolutionary movements in Brazil are reported in despatches from Monte Video and Uruguay, baspd on messages from the Brazilian border. The revolutionaries are said to have routed a Government column at San Borja, in Rio Grande do Sul. Several loyal officers were killed. The rebels are also reported to be menacing Cachoeira, in the same province. MANAGUA, Dec. 26. The opposing forces of the Conservatire and Liberal (rebel) Governments at Las Perlas, in East Nicaragua, have declared a truce to bury the dead ■ and care for the wounded. The losses are heavy on both sides, as the result of a four days’ battle, in which the Liberals, allegedly aideu by the Mexicans, forced the Conservatives to withdraw to-day to Sluefields. LONDON, Dec. 27. The Paris correspondent of the “Times” states the French census lor 1926 shows the population to be i 0,743,851, an increase, in five years of 1,534,185, of whom half a million are purely French. Part of the increase is due to the return of the troops. The population of Frances includes 2,795.000 foreigners, of whom half a million live in Paris, and 150,000, mostly Italians, in Southern France. — < ROME, December 27. Signor Mussolini has approved the erection ot State theatres at Rome, Milan and Turin. Plays will rotate between the three towns, artists travelling at tile State’s expense. Italian, European and American productions will be present**!. Numerous houses were destroyed at Durazzo (Albania), by a violent earth quake. Reports from the Royal Legatii Durazzo state that more than 1000 people are without shelter. Signor Mussolini has ordered measures to provide for the homeless. At Tirana (Albania), violent earth- , quake shocks persisted for several days in the mountain zone near Durazzo, where a new crater is in constant eruption. The water in a nearby lake fsi boil- . mg furiously, and th© inhabitants of the region are fleeing in terror. PARIS, December 27. Posing as Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, grandson of the ex-Kaiser, travelling incognito as Baron Korff, a twenty-year-old miner in the Baltic provinces, had a hectic masquerade, in which he was feted by civic and military authorities, sat in the Royal box at a theatre gala performance in his honour, after which the Mayor and high army j officers paid their respects. He accepted the invitations of Count Von ’ Nassau and Count Von Bluecher to 1 lead a hunting party at Tuengeda ] Castle, where he occupied the best suite. When he heard the father of - the real Prince was arriving to join c the party, he borrowed substantial n sums and vanished. i JERUSALEM, Dec. 27. ,

A thousand pilgrims, from all parts of the world, in motor-cars, joined in the pilgrimage from Jerusalem to the Shrine at Bethlehem, led by Greek and Roman Catholic patriarchs. The Orient joined with the Occident., Jew with Gentile, while Arabs and Jews, who are usually “at daggers drawn,” forgot their differences, and joined in the journey. The pilgrims all day on Saturday and Sunday crowded the Basilica Grotto, which is lighted by fifteen lamps, four representing the Latin Church, five the Armenian Church, and 1 six the Greek Church. Following Mass on Friday at midnight, the patriarchs led the congregation through the Basilica, depositing an image of the Infant Christ upon the manger, at the exact spot where he was born.