IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN ITEMS

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16796, 30 March 1920, Page 7

IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN ITEMS

Bolivian diplomatic documents pubi lislu'd in Buenos Aires charge the Peru- | vians with continuing their attacks on Bolivian residents in Peru. The New York Yacht Club announces that it has received a loving cup from the Prince of "Wales, in appreciation of j the reception accorded hun during his visit last year. ! M. Paul Carnot, professor of Therapeutics at Paris University, suggests in the Paris "Journal" that maternity should be made a remunerative career, the missioa to be confided lo volunteers, and the community bearing the burdea of rearing the children. 1 Eight railway carriages became uncoupled on a train at Pontebba, and descended a steep • incline. They collided with an express, and 13 persons were killed, nearly all being Egyptian students proceeding to the Berlin University. Three carriages were precipitated into the river. i Brigadier-General H. Page Croft (National Party, Bournemouth), at the convention of tho National Party, issued a challenge to Mr Lloyd George, declaring that he was prepared to swear before a Royal Commission that the Prime Minister had recommended the granting of titles to men of moral ill-fame, and men who' were financial crooks.

The mail steamer from Egypt brought to Trieste SO Egypt'an cffe )d:s, who applied to the B'-itisliConsd to v's6 their passports to Austria. The Consul refused, pending advice regarding the mission? It is suspected that its ultimate designation is Uerlin. All the members Jtre fashionably dressed, have plenty of money, anrl have the appearance of political agitators.

The 'Dnily Mail" describes t test: made, under the most difficult circumstances, of the new Marconi wireless telephone. Tests were made from aeroplane to aeroplane, or from aeroplane to the ground. The tests were a great success, the messages being clearly hoard. The telephone has a working range of from 200 to 300 miles, with normal, lower power stations. i A Now York message savq that Thomas Lawson, author of "Frenzied Finance," and his secretary, van Riper, are amrttgst a pcore of persons who have hoen arrested in conner'nn with the illegal silver dealings. The prices advanced from a few cents to nine dollars, and then came the subsequent reversals, and it finally tumbled when the arrests were r»motired. The arrests caused a sensation. The Attorney-Gen-eral is personally prosecuting Lawson.

Tlio "Rotterdam correspondent of "The Times" tells of the discovery in the Ouicasrs of r7p« n endpnt.s of the Scotch who landed nt Trebizond in the fifteenth century. They live in ft in the mountains nenr Bntoum. They are bine-eyed nnd red-haired, wear kilts and sporrans, arH piny bn«T>ipes made out of pips' Madders. They speak a mixture of Gaelic, fJeorpiin, and Tartar. The correspondent offers to escort ethnologists to the village.

During a fight between four watchmen and soino thieves, who were plundering a goods truck at Les Aubrais, near Orleans, at midnight on Friday, one watchman was fatally shot, and another wounded. The thieves then doeamped jn a motor-car nnd a motorlorry along a road running parallel with the railway line. Meanwhile, in response to a telephone message, a railway engine with six gendarmes left Orloans, chased the thieves, and overtook tho vehicles. A running fight ensued. Tho engine outdistanced the vehicles, and the gendarmes got off at Artcnay, where they barricaded the road and awaited the thieves' arrival. Tho motor-car and tho lorry stopped before they reached the barricade, and the thieves dismounted and ran. The gendarmes pursued them, killing one and capturing the driver of the lorry. Next day the gendarmes traced two of the thieves to a neighbouring village, where, after a fight in a restaurant, one thief was killed and tho other wounded and captured.