NEWS BY MAIL

Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1920, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL

BURIAL COMEDY. PARIS, July 16. A rich landlord built himself a. vault at Pere la Chaise cemtery, so that he should not be buried beside his sister-in law, whoso presence he feared, might disturb his last Bleep. But during his

absence on a journey the sister-in-law died and relatives buried her in the new vault. On liis return he was furious. He gave legal notice that in future no ouo might be buried in the vault except in his presence and with his written consent. Then he died. His iieij'S.s.et forth to bury him in the vault but the police intervened and forbade burial in the vault until the owner was present and had given his written consent. So it came about that a temporary tomb had to be constructed at the door of the vault for the owner while' legal proceedings were taken. These yesterday ended with the lifting of the ban which the dead man had himself ordain-

ed. A FOCH EPIGRAM. PARIS, July 10. “I am not in the least surprised,” said Marshal Foch on arrival at Spa this morning. “I understood immediately on receipt of the summons that the Allies and the German were not talking the same language and

needed an interpreter.” Paris papers almost without exception express relief that the Germans at Spa hav hoisted their true colours and that the situation lias at last become clear. LORD FISHER BURIED. THETFORD, (Norfolk) July 16 The ashes of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher were placed in the grave of. his wife this afternoon in the little churchyard of Kilverstone, Norfolk, .which adjoins the lawn of the admiral’s old home, Kilverstone Hall. Peace after storm. Summer came back with a thousand quiet glories for

the simple village funeral. Yesterday a gun-carriage drawn by fighting sailors ;to-day a farm-wagon pulled by two big horses of the fields served forbier, as it served almost exactly two years ago, with the same White Ensign laid over it, to earn- the remains of the admiral’s wife to their burial. To this grave the coffined ashes were brought the two miles from Thetford station in a procession marked by its dignity blended with the utmost simplicity.

“BEAUTIFUL THIEF” CAUGHT PARIS, July 16. Mareelle Lesevre, a girl of 20, known as “the beautiful thief,” has fallen into the hands of detectives in Brittany. Some months ago Mareelle made her last public appearance in Paris, when she got away with nearly £14,000 (worth of silver and jewellery. The police discovered her home, hut when they got on her track she had vanished. She was run to earth owing to her association with a ticket-of-leave man.

MOTOR BANDITS. PARIS, July 7, Tlie motor bandits, who have been infesting the neighbourhood of Paris for some time, chose the night of t! iu national festival for fresh exploits. Early yesterday morning two women were returning home from an open-air dance when three men in a car drew up to them near the 'frocadoro Gardens and two of them leapt upon the women, revolvers iu hand, seized their handbags, jumped back into the car, c and made off.

Attracted by the women’s cries, Count Polignac’s chafleur, who was taking a car home, invited the victims to get in and started after the bandits’ car. The count’s ppiyerful car soon overtook the bandits apd tV.9 count’s eliaifeur/ by skilful niaiieom'ring, forced tbpin into flip ditch, hut even then, ill true film style, the three bandits abandoned the car befoic 1 actually stopped ,and got away up « narrow and dark side lane. 1 dice pursued them, but the bandits made good their escape. The car which they abandoned proved to be a . taxi-cab stolen last Sunday at Auteuil. Ail almost identical assault on women was made on Tuesday night in the Champs lily see, and, it is bf\«?yca, by the same gaflg. PICTI RK* DRESSES. LONDON, July 19. The newest “picture” gowns for women have every right to that title. They are trimmed, often lavishly, with pictorial embroideries Thesy embroideries have chiefly apefent Egyptian mythological and mediaeval inspiratiori. Ther.f. may be a robe of white voil ornamented with frieze-like hands r ! Egyptian dancers n\ Iflack, i;ussef, and <r,len. Between these may comp amusTncr rows of hutting rams and dancing

lambs, Or- a gown may- picture the days when knights were bold and came riding inti 1 the lists on galloping chargers wonder 1 fully eonipnrisoned. Such novel orna 1 meat occurs either as bands round t ! skirt or as decoration of the panel: ' of a gown. j One recent model had heraldic inspi ! ration and boasted a large dragon, ver ' rampant, embroidered in silk and metal : lie thread up the front of the cOV-sage Another showed serried masses of. Tan a ; gr-a (Greek) dancers, whilo a waistcoa i (! f qanary-oolonred silk stockinette bor • Egyptian hieroglyphics, j A river igirl's frock of cream Jap anese silk was embroidered in colour with almond blossoms and sonicwha : appropriately, a sampan (Japanese <> Chinese skiff).

■j ABSENT PARENTS’ SHOOK. ■ , "BERLIN, July 19. Wliile his parents, wealthy Berli business people, were away for tliei summer holidays their young son, jus starting ijn business, let the famil mansion as a gambling club at the moc , est rental of £SO a- niglit . j All went merrily until the police rail ed the club and confiscated the monc 3 and equipment. The young man tin discovered that the proprietors of t> club had gradually abstracted his nr tiler’s most treasured household lint and other family valuables, 53 ITALIAN BOMBERS. MILAN, July 17. ° During a demonstration at Tries ” against the incidents at Spalato (tl killing of two Italians by South-Sla

and the excited crowd surrounded and stoned the Balkan Hotel, which wns full of South-Sliavs. The latter threw bombs from the windows, wounding several demonstrators. The hotel was then set on fire and destroyed, as were also many South-Slax shops and even the South-Slavia Consulate. There ate two dead and many wounded.

ZAGREB (Agratn), July *.5. The Sonth-Slavs having beflagged the port of Spalato in celebration of King Peter’s birthday, an Italian patrolboat, it is reported, seized the SouthSlav flag in South-Slav territory and burnt it, it is further said, at a parade in the Italian cruiser Puglia. Thereupon the South held demonstrations and the Italians -sent ashore a patrol headed by the captain of the Puglia.. The South-Slav police refused them permission to land, but the Italians, it. is said, opened fire, .killing fiVe South-i Slavs. The SouthSlav police and soldiers returned the fire and killed the captain of the Italian cruiser, and wounded five other Italians after which the remainder of the Italians returned to the cruiser. Heated anti-Italian demonstrations are taking place in SoutluSlavia, demanding mobilisation and war. An Italian aeroplane flying east landed in Slavonia, and the airmen were promptly interned pending investigations.

“NEVER FORGET” CRIME. BRUSSELS, July 18. The inhabitants of Rossignol made a sad journey to Arlon (Luxemburg) today to meet the funeral procession with the bodies of 117 villagers shot owing to a cynical mistake by a German officer in August, 1914. The bodies jwere now being brought back to the native village for interment. King Al-

bert was present at the ceremony, and said: “Like the shootings at Aerschot and 20 other places, these were inexplicable crimes that Belgium will never forget.” The victims left 64 widows anjl 142 orphans.

AUSTRIAN ADVENTURER CAUGHT AIX-LES-BAINS, July 18. The police here have arrested an Austrian named Karl Franz Goebel, who recently re-entered France by motorcar accompanied by a chauffeur without a passpibrt. Goebel belonged to a Hover band of adventurers who were arrested and disbanded by the police in 1908, and who frequented such fashionable resorts as Vichy, Ostend, Biarritz, and Aix-les-Bains with a view to rooking rich foreigners.