BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 October 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. NEWSPAPER INSURANCE CRAZE. LONDON, Sep. 23. The “ Evening Standard ” stall» that the newspaper insurance craze l as reached the stage of a new South 8c:, Bubble, and probably will burst sou a leaving a nasty odour behind. The “ Standard ” declares that inscraiue companies are sic-k of the business end none will continue beyond present etn tracts. The companies are flooded u-ti . bogus claims, with the result that newspaper insurance is ending disastrously for the newspapers and the public, and its liquidation 1)1,1 it hiing a certain stigma on otherwise reputable journalism.

ROYAL BETROTHAL. TOKYO, Sep. 2-

It is officially announced turn: Hm Prime-Regent j-lirohito has boon formally betrothed to the ’L im-e s Nagiiko. The marriage was sanction" 1 in June last.

ICG ROBBERY AT VANCOUVER. VANCOUVER, Sep. 29. Three robbers attacked two city paymasters at the door of the City Hall in the middle of the forenoon, and escaped in an automobile, with 75,090 dollars of a payroll, all in cash.

GIRLS TRAINING AS DOMESTICS LONDON. Sep. 29.

The Govoninint is subsidising a scheme for the training of domestic

servants. The Government c-ontrilnitcd C 50,000 towards tho training, which is to ho for 13 weeks, of flic girls, who are to ho paid Cl weekly while attending Hie syllabus, which includes hygiene, infant welfare, general knowledge, physical exercise, voice modulation, and singing. TI.S.A. RAILWAYS. NEW YORK. October 1. It is announced from Chicago, that 74 of the railway companies have now signed the agreement that was made at" Baltimore on September 13, regarding terms for the the employees.

STOCK JOBBERS’ HAUL. LONDON, September 30. “We have made a million or so out of the recent boom in gilt-edged so enrilies, and are satisfied to lot someone else carry on.” This is the decision of five out of the eight paitbs of Gordon Askew and Biddulph, vTio are well-known jobbers in consol* aiul dominion securities. The firm has been able to offer more than a million’s worth of securities daily. They were deluged h,v the public’s nioimy during the boom. FRENCH HARVEST. PARTS. September 31). The Ministry of Agriculture reports that the wheat harvest shows a deficit of twentv-fonr million quintals, owing to had weather and reduced cultivation. This will necessitate importations. CHINESE TARIFF. (Received this dav at 8.30 a.m.', PEKIN, October 1. Subject to tlie approval of Governments concerned the revised tariff will he enforced on Ist. December. Goods shipped on or after that date will be subject thereto.

HORRIBLE MURDER MANTA, ‘'Received this dav at 9.30 a.m.) BERLIN. O. Gb r I. A father and two soils named Jankowski have been condemned to death at Grandcnz for a series of murders unparalleled in ferocity. They were assisted by other members of the L'.mily. including two daughters. The gang spread terror through the countryside.

They were armed with revolvers anil axes, and attacked outlying farms and slaughtered all who opposed them with bestial ferocity. In four cases they murdered every inmate in the house, killing eight people with axes. In one ease of whom four were children, they even tortured and mutilated some 1 f the victims before killing them. Wien captured by a patrol of mounted police. Jankowski senior gloried in his infamy. Evidence of twenty two murders won* given at the trial.

A RECORD TEMPERATURE. Received this dav at 0.30 a. n.) LONDON. October I. The Lancet states a girl, twenty one. at Vienna swallowed a clinic; I thermometer. Alter she had been X-rayed, nil operation enabled the removal of the thermometer unharmed. It registered 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The I.'incot adds this is a record human temperature.

AERIAL STRIKE BREAKING. ( Received this dav at 0.30 i.l PARIS. October 1. Aeroplanes as strike breakers is the latest phase of the Marseilles strike, ’ aeroplanes being sent to relieve the stranded passengers. Out of seven thousand passengers anxious to cross to Oorviea, Tunis and Mnrceeo, fifteen hunddred have rsked for aeroplanes passage. The French aeronautical Department is attempting to find the iir(■cssiiry machines. ! THE PASSION PLAY. BERLIN, October 1. The performances of the Passion Play at Obernmmorg.ni have concluded. There were 317.000 visitors during the season. The receipts were twenty-une million marks, hut it is doubtful if that will cover tile heavy expenses. Nevertheless, George Lang, tile Manager, declared American companies have reno wed the offer of several in illion marks for the filming of (lie performance. AN AIR RACE. (Received this dav cl S a.in.) PARIS. Sept 30. Five competitors including Herbert James (Eindaml). Brick Papa (Italy), and three Frenchmen competed in the ■three hundred kilometres air race for the Deutsih Delameiirthe Cup and sixtv thousand frails. The race was won by Sasne in sixtv-two minutes eleven seconds. INTERNATIONAL WARFARE. (Received this dav at 8.30 a.ni.'i WASHINGTON, Sep. 30. The State Department announced Mr John Basset Moor will represent the United States at a meeting of a commission of jurists, authorised by the Washington Arms Conference to consider the changes in the rules governing international warfare. The first meeting will Ix> hold on December Kith at The llusue.

AUSTRIAN TROUBLES. (<R -reived this dav at 8 ami.) VIENNA. Sept 30. Details of the eonflic-t between the Peasants Party -controlling the Government, and tho United Bourgeois parties (cabled, Sept 21st) show both arranged to hold Congresses at Jnnovo simultaneously to which tho rival leaders journed by tho same train from Sofia. Peasants at Dubnik held up tho train at four o’clock in the morning and removed and ill-treated the supporters of the Bourgeois parties, including several luill-dressed exMinisters. The peasants out their beards and threatened to hang them. Similar scenes were witnessed at other stations. The ex-Ministers wore finally arrested at Turnuvo, hut .subsequently

released. The peasants Congress resolved a plebiscite of electors he taken to dotermin the guilt of the ox-Ministers regarding the aval*. It over fifty pel cent, of the electors vote them guilty tliov will he exiled for a detade. If over six tv pur emit, they will he sen■tenced from ten to fifteen years imprisonment. If over sieventy-tive pel" cent they will he executed.

AN IMPORTANT CONVENTION. (Received this dav at 8.30 a.m., NEW YORK, Oct. I. lit. Hon Reginald McKenna, head of (he London Joint titv and Midland Bank, who will address the forty-eighth convention of American Bankers’ Assoeiation on reparations and international debts, arrived to-day. THE POPULAR PRINCE. (Received this dav at 8.30 a.m.l LONDON, Oct. 1. The Prince of Wales attended the British Legions’ Rally at Crystal Palace, and was enthusiastically welcomedit being Ids first public engagement since bis return from India. HEAVY DEATH ROLL. LONDON. Oct !. Tim Speziis disaster deaths now total 171 and tlie injured a thousand. It is feared a number of persons were literally blown to pieces. Many portions of the diseinhered bodies were found. The Pope beaded the relief fund list. lack of sunshine. i. ON DON. October I. Between June Ist., and 30th. September, London had only 003 hours of sunshine, being 127 hours below the aver-