CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 55, 27 November 1937, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES

-Press Assn.

(By Telesraoh-

— Copyright.)

Croydon Epidemic LONDON: Croydon's typhoid ea; s now number 180. As a eounterblast wj the tunsupported theory that watercress is re'sponsible for the epidemic, the Croydon, Chamber of Commerce dia» ner menu included watercress, of whieli the guests at the head table partook iiberally. Egyptian Command RUGBY : The War Offic© has an* nounced that Lieutenant-General Big Robert Gordon Finlayson, Colonel Com* mandant of the Royal Artillery, has been appointed General Officer commanding the British troops in Egypt in succession to General Sir George Weir. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Robert Gordon Finlayson, C.M.G., D.S.O., was born in .1881, and entered the Army in 1900. He served in the European war of 1914-1918.— British OfficiaJ Wireless. Earidom Extinct LONDON : The widow of the Earl of Londesborough" has given birth to % daughter ; the earidom is thus extinct, The child inherits almost the wholo of its father' s £1,000,000 property. Post in Turkey ISTANBUL: Captain Neville Staclf has obtained a contract as instructoi! to the Turkxsh cfvil air services. Actor in Smask HOLLYWOOD: Raph Lewis, agedt 65, an actor in films since 1912, was cii> tically jnjured in a car smash.