WORLD NEWS OF INTEREST

Chronicle (Levin), 13 March 1948, Page 7

WORLD NEWS OF INTEREST

BRITAIN : Nineh undred British children who were evacuated from the cities during the German bombing attacks of 1940-41 cannot return home because their parents are not yet traced. , A Health Department official said that many su9h parents .were glad to get rid of their unwanted burdens. When an American who travelled to England on the Queen Mary was aske-d whyhe was carrying two settees as part of his luggage, he replied, "i like to have my owh furniture ' wherever I go." : ' * * , * AMERICA-: Frcm Hazardville, Connecticut, eomes this news of a single bolt of lightning burning 18 girls and knocking d'own 40 others. Eighty people were hangin'g tobacco leaves when the bolt went through the 100-foot structure 'like a ball of fire." Walter Winchell suggests that Orville Wright's Kitty Hawk— first plane to fly— should be piloted home to U.S. from London's Science Museum by Lady Astor, Australian fans of Frank Sinatra' will be glad to hear that he may pay them a visit this year. It was .-ecently reported that the . sug'gest-' ed cut in records from America, as

part of the dollar conservation scheme, is alarming many of his fans who claim that the records are of "cultural importance" to Aus-^ tralia. -fc -fc -k AUSTRALIA:. About half the women and quarte.r of ,the men in Australia cannot ,s wirn, - according to an Australian sporfcsmart.H The position is gra'dually growing

T ~ ^ worse, according to a poll taken recently. ■ . Boarding schools - in Westerh Augtralia have already booked pupils for 1960. One college headmaster sajld that "one man has booked his three sons for the college in# 1955, 1957 and 1959. He said that money was mdre plentiful and the shortage of domestic help encouraged parents to senvi their children away from . home. . . * * . + CANADA: A police campaign is giving the spivs of Vancouvef 's underworld a nasty 'shaking. After the force had been . the topic of abuse from members of Parliament, who demanded prompt action, the l»jlice co'mmenced ' a campaign, combing the beer parlours, pool and dance halls and waterfront 'dives, arresting men who couldn't show proof of full-time work. . * " * FRANCE : Bethune, a town in the north-east of France, and known to many New Zealand "diggers" of the 1914-18 war, has the unique record of being the only 'tqwn of its size to have two families nhmbering 20 children each. Recently one- of the citizens was awarded the French Family Medal for J having 27 children. She is Mme. Cousin Srriegghe, who is 75 and has 20 grandchildren and 22. great-grandchildren. She herself has j 23 brothers and sisterk % M ■¥ .. M INDIA: Sixteen people have .been killed and 300 clawed by monkeys in Surat, a small yillage near Bombay'.- The British Medical Re.jearch Institute is/offering up to 23 for each . live monkey for gland sxperiments. " 'b A b'ronze -• statuq of Mahatma Grandhi is to be ,, 'b'rected on an islet off Bombay, gateway to In'dia. It is to be modelled pn the lines of New York's Statue of Liberty as a memorial to Gandhi's leadership in rchieving India's freedom. The people are subscribing to cover the cost of the memorfal. k M * NORWAY: Nine Norwegian ships are expected to take part in the aext Antarctic wh'aling expedition ih December, In addition, three .British, one South African, one Dutch, one Russian and two Japanese ships will participate. The expedition will employ 7000 men of whom oVer 5000 will be Norwegians. * * 4c YUGOSLAVIA : -Illiter ate voters in Yiigoslavia a^e' giVen- small sponge'-riibber marbles - to record their' votesv ; At the bo'oths a phdtograph of e'ach cahdidate is plaeed over'his resp'ective ballot b-ok.' After the voter's* name has beeii vcr6ssed off. the npm.inal roll,: he put§ his marble in the box of .the candidate he jprefefs. ' • * • ■ • ' -■ 1 ^ / > : iivyb.ir ■ a'-''