BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.]

ITALIAN RAILWAY DISASTER. ROME, Oct. 16. A Milan message reports that, a passenger and a goods train collided during tbe night outside Pavia station. Several carriages of tbe former were telescoped. Twelve persons were killed. and there is a long list ol injured. ROME, Oct. 17. It is reported that sixteen wore killed and 25 injured in the Pavia train collision. THE WEMBLEY EXHIBITION. LONDON. Oct. 17. The authorities at Wembley have decided to place the affairs of tbe Exhibition in the hands of liquidators. An official statement says:— 1 In view of the fact that there is no intention ot coot inning the Empire Exhibition next year, it has been decided to take a usual and obvious course adopted it) the ease of temporary associations by placing tbe Exhibition in tbe charge of liquidators as soon as possible alter October 31st, for the purpose of realising the assets and discharging the liabilities. Extraordinary general meetings of the British Empire Association will Ik- held on October 26tli and November 10th to appoint liquidators.

CANTON HARBOUR MINED. PEKIN, October 15. The harbourmaster at Hong Kong has issued a warning that the Canton authorities have laid mines off the Rogue forts. Vessels going to Canton should take special pilots when proceeding through the mine fields. R.OU.M ANT AN R EVOLUTIONISTS. BUCHAREST, October 15. The police discovered a Bolshevik plot to assassinate the King and Queen of Rnumniiiu, which would lie a. signal for starting a revolution, for which a number of weapons, bombs and band grenades are hidden in Bessarabia.

UNITT BANKRUPT

LONDON". Oct. 10. Unitt, who tried to sail to New Zealand in a small boat, in an interview as to bis future plans, said: “I suppose T will have to join tbe ranks ol tbo unemployed, for lam bankrupt.” Ho explained that lie went out in a yawl three times after they ran on to the sand-hunk off Portugal. First took off bis daughter, and secondly bis dog. and the third time be collected all possible valuables, but was dismayed to discover tbe tin box containing all bis money bad been washed overboard. They lmd worked their passages back to Bristol aboard a collier from Oporto. He acted as purser and bis daughter as stewardess. Their only worry since the wreck bad been their dependence on others owing to their being penniless. Their failure was due to a defective motor. He believed they would have succeeded if only tbe motor bad taken them around Cape Finuisterre. One of tbe few rescued' possessions was a Bible received from a troop of Boy Scouts which bo founded.

UNITT READY TO TRY AGAIN. LONDON. October 15. Unitt, accompanied by bis daughter, arrived at Bristol aboard the Newborn. Both declared they were undismayed and would make another attempt to sail to New Zealand if they had another “ Merganser.” The master of the Newborn expressed the opinion that the trip bad no chance of success. The Unitts were twice battened down practically in a coffin, for three days, in the Bay of Biscay, with no proper means of navigation. DIVORCE DENOUNCED. NEW YORK. Od. 16. A message from New Orleans states (hat in a denunciation of birth control and the divorce evil a committee of the Protestant Episcopal Convention declared family life in America to be threatened by divorce, which bad grown five hundred per "cent, in the past fifty years.

The report stated as follows: “The nation is lax and facilities for dissolving marriage abound, inflaming every trifling dispute, inviting discord, encouraging infidelity and stipulating hasty secret unions between thousands of young people, who knowing that the law permits consecutive polygamy, enter the marriage state with the deliberate purpose of quitting it if the first attempt proves unsatisfactory. Allowing for a few beautiful exceptions, the homo in America lias ceased to function.. All this accounts for the increase in lawlessness and juvenile depravity. Education and prohibtion legislation furnish no check on tbe crime wave. Our ills grow out of the breakdown of tbe home.” The Convention considers the Brown heresy case is closed. 'I lie judge dismissed, owing to lack of jurisdiction. Brown’s plea for an injunction restraining the House of Bishops from expelling him.

Acropland crash LONDON, Oct. 10. A French Goliath aeroplane, engaged in the Paris to London service, and carrying seven passengers, crashed at Tunbridge Wells in a dense fog this afternoon. Three persons were injured, one fatally. The pilot, who was uninjured. stated that he found himself unable to continue the journey to Croydon owing to the thickness of the fog. and tried to land in an open field when the plane struck a tree, and hil the ground with terrific force. A second aeroplane smash occurred at. Wilton, where a pilot of the Officers' Branch, named Ballantyne, was killed while flying for observation • purposes Heavy rain fell, and the signals from the aerodrome were apparently not. oh served. The machine flew low. evidently seeking a landing place when it developed a “spin” and crashed.

A third curious accident occurred at Weymouth. A naval seaplane was acting as a target for anti-aircraft practice, when the prooellor fell oft, and the plane dropped rapidly for a thousand feet, and made a forced landing on the water. The pilot was rescued. The authorities scout the idea that the plane was hit by shrapnel. BRIGAND BAND DECIMATED. BEIRUT. October 10. French operations against brigands in Damascus region resulted in a complete rout of a band of which one hundred were shot. Twenty-four bodies are being brought back to Damascus I where they will be exhibited publicly. TSINGTAO TROUBLE SETTLED. ■SHANGHAI. Oct. IS. The trouble at Tsingtao has been amicably settled. It is understood the sailors’ demands were granted. PROF. LEFROY’S DEATH. , LONDON, Oct. 18. i Medical evidence at the inquest disclosed that Professor I.efroy, a brilliant and fearless research workers, who had died while endeavouring to benefit humanity, showed he worked alone | | and had not disclosed the nature of tlw substance with which lie was expert > pleating. Apparently he was suffering i from some form of blood poisoning, ex ' tending over years, which was due t« ’ repeated inhalations ot noxious fume; I and vapours. 5 The nation deplores lift imtimd; i. death,