BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 28 February 1929, Page 8

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

OVERNIGHT NEWS SUMMARY. Per Press Association —Copyright. RUGBY, February 25. The Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr Cosmo Lang) is going to Bognor to recuperate after his illness. It is understood that he will stay for a month.

BERLIN. February 26. A Moscow report states that the Canadian Government has decided, in principle, to resume diplomatic relations with the Soviet, but is awaiting the British elections before carrying out the decision. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26. It is learned that specifications for two new Mardon liners to ply between San Francisco and Sydney have been issued. Bids for construction will be received by the company on March 15. The vessels will be 627 ft. long with a beam of 79ft. They will be fitted with turbines and the cost is estimated at 5,000,000 dollars each.

PARIS, February 25. A young wife contracted leprosy as the result of a new fur coat, the git of her husband. The wife first complained of irritation in the neck, then a small spot which the doctor was unable to cure. Finally a blood test showed the complaint to be leprosy. Inquiries showed that the fur was impoited from Russia. LONDON, February 26. The National Union of Conservative Associations elected Mr C. Rowlands, a working man, who spent many years in a Welsh coal mine, as chairman. He succeeds the millionaire Colonel Gretton, M.P. Mr Rowlands comes from the hotbed of Socialism in the Rhondda Valley. He is the first chairman from the ranks of Conservative working men.

LONDON. February 27. The “Daily Express” states that the delayed New Year’s Honours list is being issued on March 1. There will be no further list till the King’s Birthday, unless the Government is defeated at the election, when there wall be a number of resignation Honours. A section of the Ministerialists think these should precede the election, and Mr Baldwin should go to the polls with a reconstructed Ministry. LONDON, February 26. The “Daily Express” states that 4000 British cinemas are being held ransom by an American Company, ■ which demands that they instal reproducing apparatus for “talkies,” costing about £3OOO apiece. The Company only permits apparatus to be used for the “Talkies,” produced by seven American film producing firms. Thus the effect of the scheme would be to defeat the Quota Act, and gives the British industry a Haim for government intervention. LONDON, February 26 In the midst of a driving snowstorm, Lady Anderson, wife of the chairman of the Orient Company, christened the Orontes, the finest Orient liner ever built at VickersArmstrong’s famous yards. This is the fifth 20,000 ton liner launched within five years. The Orontes is 664 feet by 75 feet, and is designed for the Australian service. She incorporates many improved details, and has accommodation for 1600 passengers. CHICAGO, February 26. “Big Bill” Thompson’s forces suffered further defeats at the local ■elections to-day, when party lines were .eliminated, and the voting was wholly for or against Thompson. The latter’s ■machine, which was wrecked last April, and practically re-built, was dismantled again, as the aidermen backed by the Civic Association were elected. This was due to their opposition of Thompson, who, however, still holds a certain amount of power through patronage, but the Reformers believed the vote has given the people (the best City Council for years.

PARIS, February 26.

For the first time for forty’ years, a public execution was carried out at Amiens.

A crowd of 3000 spectators assembled outside the prison to see the execution of Serge Gambier, aged 19 years, for the murder of two women aged seventy.

Gambier only yesterday expressed repentance and was baptised. The priest attended him as sooi as he awakened to-day, The youth before

leaving the cell wrote letters to his sweetheart and grandmother. He then lighted a cigarette and walked up boldly to the guillotine.

NEW YORK, Feb. 27

A husky ironworker suddenly went insane in the Times Square subway station, which was packed with people. Screaming and weilding a butcher knife wildly, the man slashed eight persons, two of whom may die.

A policeman knocked the man over the head with a nightstick, and took him to the hospital, where his condition is serious.

The rush hour crowd was thrown into turmoil, as women screamed and rushed towards the exits.

A traffic officer entered the station and grappledwith the maniac on the floor, and finally subdued him.

OTTAWA, February 27

Mr Louis Auger .(youngest member of Parliament) is in gaol awaiting an application to the ‘Supreme Court., at Ontario for bail. He is. charged with a serious offence against a young woman and was arrested on leaving Parliament buildings. He was released on a thousand dollars bail, but was subsequently rearrested on the Crown’s application, it being contended that the release was illegal as the criminal code provided that bad would only be granted by a Judge of the Supreme Court, where the person was accused of murder, treason, or an offence punishable by death.

OTTAWA, February 26.

The recommendations of the Imperial Wireless and Cable Conference have been accepted in general by the Governments concerned, including Canada, stated the PostmasterGeneral the HoW. J. Venoit, in the House of Commons to-day. Provision is made for the sale of the Pacific Cable mmdertaking, and negotiations are in progress. Mr A. A. Heaps (Labour M.P. for Winnipeg) told the House that he proposed to bring the who’e matter up for .discussion during the present session.. He moved for the production of all letters, cables, and agreements

PARIS, February 25.

Mdlle. Suzanne Lequen, a pretty young mannequin, was awarded £l6OO against Dr. Du Jarrier, for the loss of a leg in consequence of an unsuccessful operation for slimming the calves.

The Court decided that a surgeon had no right to undertake a serious operation for merely aesthetic purposes.

The doctor pleaded that Suzanne was desirous of marrying, and threatened to kill herself if he refused to operate. The Court replied that he should have turned the girl over to the mental specialists. Suzanne, however, kept her lover who married her in hospital before the amputation.

WASHINGTON. February 25

The Senate passed a resolution appropriating 150,000 dollars for surveying the proposed inter-oceanic canal through Nicaragua. On March 28 of last year Senator K. 1. M’Kellar (Democrat) introduced a Bill providing for the immediate construction of a Nicaraguan canal, to parallel the Panama Canal, and to be financed by 200,000,000 dollars of thirty-year 3 per cent Government bonds. Senator M’Kellar said that We Nicaraguan canal would be a. paying investment, and would restore American prestige by turning the bandits in Nicaragua into labourers. He asked for an appropriation of 10,000,000 dollars for a survey. The right for ninety, years to construct a canal through Lake Managua and the San Juan River, together with naval bases at the Pacific and Caribbean ends, was acquired for 3,000.000 dollars by the United Slates in a treaty made in 1916. The United States intervened in political disputes in Nicaragua in 1926, and last year Amercan mariners were fighting the rebels led by General Sandmo.