WORLD HAPPENINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19631, 18 July 1935, Page 13

WORLD HAPPENINGS.

BISHOP AND PRINCESS. PUSHED HER IN PRAM. The Bishop of Kensington, Dr B, F. Simpson, who was present when Lady Dawson of Penn opened the Princess Margaret Rose Children’s Ward at Teddington Memorial Hospital, ' said: “Lady Dawson beat me by going to tea with 'Princess Margaret Rose, but I have pushed her in a pram."

MORE "PLAY STREETS,”

SET ASIDE FOR CHILDREN.

Southwark Borough Council is contemplating 'Setting aside five streets —• Content Street, Alpha Street, Lebanon Street, Sedan-Street, and Tarver Road I—as 1 —as "play■streets’;’ ; for children, says a London’paper.- • .■* The streets . will be -closed 'to through • traffic, after the System adopted In three Paddington streets for the last two years, and motorists will be requested not-to-use them unless they must. •

GAS WAR VIOTIMS.

FUTURE HORRORS

Warring nations of the future may use a chemical that will cause its victims to become, lunatics, said Mr 11. Finnimorc, a wartime worker at the Gas Warfare Department, in a lecture to members of the 'University Science Association, at the Sydney University. This substance, by affecting the viscosity of 'the liquid which, within the car, controls mental equilibrium, would change fighting men into idiots, incapablo of Coherent notion. An English nobleman, descendant of the admiral, was the first to suggest llie use of gas in the Great War. His proposal, based on his ancestor’s theories, which had 'been preserved with great secrecy within the family, Was rejected, said Mr Flnnimore.

GROWN ON BACK. BABY WITH JUBILEE MARKING. The prize-winner of a 'baby show held at Abbey Wood, London, was found by the doctor judging the compelitors to have on ils hack a complete and accurate representation of the Crown of England. Tho child is Doreen Francis, aged five months, daughter of Mr and Mrs Albert Francis, of Macluod Road, Abbey Wood.

The judge said it was remarkable lo find a mark of Ibis description on tlm child’s body.

It was known medically as a naevus, and frequently occurred in various forms, but he had never seen it take this 'particular shape. The mark (about I ho, size of half a crown) would remain with Ihc child 'throughout her life.

YOUNG ACTOR KILLED.

THROWN •FROM A CAR. Mr Rasil Moss. ,-i young actor, was killed in a motoring aecident on llie Reigale Road, near .Monger's Lane, Ewell. England. He was llirown from Ms Saloon car when it and aimlher car came Into collision. Mr Moss played m "Clive of India,” "Service," “(lay Adventure.” "The Way In Treal a Woman" and "Good Losers” in London. lie played also In the films “Follow the Lady” and "Hobson's Choice.”