BRITISH & FOREIGN HEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN HEWS

[Reuter Telegrams.] CORPSE FACTORY INCIDENT. LONDON Nov. 8. Afr J. H. Thomas announces that lie will raise the General Chatteris corpse factory incident in the Commons and demand that it he thoroughly sifted. He says that for the good of any country it is most iuqxirtant not to let all scandal go unchallenged.

MAN IN A AITLLTOX

SEVEN ATTEMPTS AT SUICIDE

[Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 8.

The “Daily Express” Berlin eorres pendent- says that Max Klin, a tailor’s assistant, may lie described as a man in a million, whom death refuses to Haim. He has made seven unsuccessful attempts at suicide. He first- ojfiened his arteries, hut Was cured at the hospital. He tried drowning but rescued. He fired a- bullet but missed the brain. He jumped from the third storey of his residence, tint was practically unhurt. He tried to hang himself but the rope broke. He threw himself .in front of a train which the driver stopikxl. Finally, he swallowed a pair of scissors, hut the doctor fully operated.

A BRITISH HOLLYWOOD. (Received this day at 9.45 a m.l LONDON, November 10. The Board of Trade is considering a scheme whereby Brighton will become a British Hollywood where serious efforts will be made to put British films on a world’s basis. The selection of Brighton is the result of meteorological advice that Brighton’s record of sunshine lias the !>est photographic qualities. Electric companies and building firms have undertaken to practically erect the necessary studios while the Corporation has offered a choice from live thousand acres available. , There is no American money in tho proposed scheme.