NEWS BY MAIL

Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1922, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL

FISHY. PARIS, Jan. 3. At a congress of the French Communist Party at Marseilles one of the speakers called a fellow Connminst a “ rotten fish,” and added that this description was particularly appropriate in view of the fact that the congress was being held at Marseilles. The South of France delegates at once took up the cudgels for thenfavourite city. ‘‘Rotten fish, indeed!” exclaimed one of them. •* w« send all our rotten fish to Paris.” This gave a fresh turn to the debate, which was occupied to the dose of the sitting with uncomplimentary comparisons between Paris and Marseilles.

! SWTM FOR FREEDOM. CAPETOWN, Jan 15. ! A young American, William Angus Aid)avid, has undergone remarkable ; adventures. Sentenced by the Portuguese to two years’ imprisonment for manslaughter in ai wine shop at Loa.nda, he was deported by order of o> superior court- to a convict settlement at Mozambique, East Africa, for an additional 23 years. MePavid escaped after a long period of detention by swimming a shark-in-fested bay, eventually reaching Natal ad a stowaway in a. British steamer. After he had spent several months in Durban Gaol, a, magistrate ordered his extradition on a charge of escaping from custody. On appeal, the Natal Supreme Court ordered his release, without prejudice to further action on the part of the authorities. McDavid lias now left to rejoin Ins mother at Columbia, Mississippi.