BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 September 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] SYRIAN WAR. JERUSALEM, Sept. 1. A report from Jerusalem that JehelDiuses had captured the citadel ol Sucrda is discredited. Oeneial Sarraiil telegrams yesterday says as a reprisal for minor losses by snipers be inflicted an attack on the garrison and citadel and thirty French aeroplanes bombed Druse ipi,•liters of Sucrda. He does not mention the lull ol the citadel. SUBMARINE MESSING. ROME, Sept. I. The submarine Vanieru lias not returned to its base from manoeuvres. Aeroplanes, destroyers and submarines are searching day and night, using hydro phonic apparatus. LASCARS FOR. CREWS. DEI.III, August. 111. The first batch of Indian In,sears numbering 700. recruited for service in connection with the shipping strike are being sent to South Africa without delay. -More are expected to follow. GERMANY AND DAWES PLAN. [“ The Times ” Service.] LONDON, August 31. The " Times ” Berlin correspondent says that in reviewing the lirst year’s working of the Dawes plan the German press comes to the conclusion that on tbe whole the results achieved are satisfactory. It is realized, of course, that the plan lias not yet been fully matured, but it is generally admitted that so far it has worked smoothly and since its introduction more marked feeling of security has prevailed in Germany’s internal, external, commercial and political relations. NINETEEN PERSONS DROWNED. PARIS. Sept. I. Nineteen were drowned by the capsizing of a fishing boat returning from a lueal festival at Banyuls on Ihe Mediterranean. POWER OF MEN, WOMEN AND HORSES. LONDON, August 31. An interesting discussion on athletes was provided by I'rofessor Jl ill, lecturing before Ibe British Association. 1 He declared the ideal wav to run a . i race from the viewpoint ol records was to maintain a constant speed. The fastest woman swimmer could only travel eightv-live per cent as fast as the fastest man. The maximum speed of a woman runner was only seventy-nine per cent of mail's. T;iis difference was due entirely to me amount of power available. Dealing with horse racing the Professor , limited centurv old races as proof that whereas the running of man was steadily being exhausted, the running horse was able to go miles without slackening. “Either the horse cannot exhaust himself as rapidly as man or the rider cannot induce him to go :i< fast as he should.” concluded the Pro-