MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1920, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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MOTOR-COACH BLAZE. LONDON, Aug. 4. A motor-coach loaded with Metropolitan policemen, one of six returning from Goodwood races last night, caught v fire when near the Dqg and Bacop'public houses ,Horshqpi , “Sussex. Thp drjver, John Elgar, 22, of lr, Healey-Strest Prince #f Wales’s-roa*, Kentish Town' fvns detained at the Cottage Hospital, suffering from shock anfl burps. None of the policemen, who came from the “F” and “K” Divisions, wa§ injured, but much pf thejr kit wfl§ destroyed. The local fire brigade rendered prompt help, and the coach, as a consequence was not. very much damaged. The policemen had been on duty at Goodwood during the four days of the races and had camped out, taking with them their kit and provisions.

K.C. FLIES TO DEFEND, LONDON, Aug, 4. Two English counsel, Mr E, A. Mjt-chell-Innes K.C., and Mr Walter Hedley, left London in jm aeroplane . last•' * night to defend in the Cairo conspiracy case, in which 29 Egyptians are charged with being members of a “society of vengeance,” whose object it was to depose the Sultan and Government and to incite to sedition and! murder. The utmost speed, is necessary for counsel to take up the ease, which is already being heard before the Military Court. The two barristers accordingly left Hendon in an aeroplane for Marseilles, where tbejy will embark jn a shjp fpr Cairo. FRANCE'S HUSBAND BQOMPARIS, Aug, 4, War losses have sapped 'France's population to such an extent :;tliat today women outnumber men by 2,000,000. ’ . ■ ,

As a similar- condition prevails throughout Europe, Professor Paul Carnot, of the Paris Faculty of Medicine, urges France to draw on the Western States of America, such as California, and in the the number of » marriage men'exbeads'that of jha men, and advocates a soheme under Government auspices to attract these young men to France, “Pardon my seeming conceit,” he says, “but once the men reach France, I believe the French girls’ beauty is sufficient to guarantee their marriage. . Professor Carnot recently toured through Canada and the U.S., where the suggested scheme was received enthusiastically. He is constantly receiving letters frftm youpg pipp .who are keen to marry French gjrlg- 4 husband boom in Franco i? pot up]ike r ly in the near future. TWO WOMEN BEAT FOUR BURGLARS. PARIS, Aug, 8. - Vigorous self-defence against bur- “ glars was practised by a mother and daughter who manage a cafe in Douarnenez, Brittany. Four drunken jailors tried to force tlieir way into the cafe „ at 2 a.m., by climbing tlirqugh a window The mother knocked one of them senseless by a blow on the head with aj stick, while the daughter hurled 0i heavy iron weight at another, who also collapsed. The other sailors made off. JAPANESE TRAITORS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) TOKIO, Sept. 22. Two Japanese have been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment, being convicted of an attempt to sell to America iocuments stolen from Yokohuka nava itations last July. v