NEWS FROM OVERSEAS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 22 November 1927, Page 7

NEWS FROM OVERSEAS

CABLES IN BRIEF

Paintings For Royal Academy Galleries; Sixty-three paintings by great masters, valued at over £500,000, which the late Lord Lveagh bequeathed to the nation, will shortly be placed ou exhibition in the Royal Academy’s galleries at Burlington House,

Hinkler's Flight: A Lemberg message states that Bert Hinkler and Captain Mcl.ntosh motored to the scene of the crash in order to photograph the damage to the aeroplane, which is insured in England and the company requires evidence of the damage. The actual repairs will not take long, but spare parts must be obtained from England.

pathological Research: A bequest of £4OOO to help m research work, in which he was keenly interested, is contained in the will of Professor Adrean Stokes, the famous scientist and pathologist. Professor Stokes died at Lagos when investigating yellow fever problems. The money goes to Dr. Geoffrey Rake, a young student of Professor Stokes, to assist him in continuing pathological research.

'Bus Crashes Through Bridge: A motor bus carrying 27 passengers, mostly employees at the Hanro knitting mills, crashed through a bridge into Ironbark Creek, near Bendigo. Victoria. The bus caught fir© and several passengers were badly burned. Twenty-five were treated in the Bendigo hospital for burns, abrasions and other injuries, and 14 were admitted, five of them being reported seriously injured. The accident was caused through failure of the brakes.

Forged Soviet Notes: Following up arrests made in September, the Berlin police have brought to light a great conspiracy to forge Soviet notes to the extent of £5,000,000. Th© capital which the forgers employed was £BOOO, making the German police opin© that the aim of the forgers was to embarass the Soviet Government financially. It is even alleged that the capital was furnished from British sources with the secondary purpose of assisting the Georgian anti-Bolshevik movement.

Soviet Relations With Britain: The “Daily Express’ ” Paris correspondent says that when the Russian delegates arrive at Geneva Litvinoff will he prepared to negotiate with Sir Austen Chamberlain with a view to the resumption of . diplomatic relations between Russia and Britain. The Russian detegation also intends to introduce a full detailed plan for disarmament at a nnblie meeting on December 3. France fears that Germany may express herself in complete agreement with Russia and that both may jiress for an early world niooting to rediscuss Ihe dis'irinarieiil, plans which were shelved in M.iy.