IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN ITEMS

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16854, 7 June 1920, Page 7

IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN ITEMS

The title of Duke of York has been conferred on Prince Albert, the Ivmg's second son.

A iiro at Cranwell aerodrome, in Lincolnshire, destroyed the hangars and 130 aeroplanes.

A Paris message says a French airman flew for 1459 minutes, a world's enduranco record Tlie aviator encircled the Etampes Orleans'at a speed of sixty miles an hour.

A message from Mexico City says bubonic plague is spreading at Vera Cruz alarmingly. The public is subscribing to fight it.

A Paris message says workmen, discovered, near Chagny, fossilised bones which scientists declare belong to a premammoth mid-European elephant,' 13 feet iu height, and with tusks eight feet long.

Tho "Journal'' (Paris) says the workers at the Zeppelin factories in Germany are opposing the surrender of the largo airships at I3odensee and Nordistern, on the ground that their loss will seriously prejudice the future interests of aviation in Germany.

A Washington message says that owing to differences with Mr Jiambridge Colby, Secretary of State, Mr F. L. Polk has resigned the UnderSecretarvship. Tlie state of his health is given as the ostensible reason for bis resignation. Mr Polk is the ihird official to resign from the Department during the present year.

A Paris message says a man named Bogot, dirty and ragged, was arrested on a roadside gleefully counting bank notes valued at over 100,000 _ francs. Bogot protested he was a marine pensioner, and had won most of the money during threo dnvs at Epsom, chiefly on the Derby. The police made investigations and found this statement to be true and released him.