BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[llcuH'r Telegrams.] DISORDERLY STUDENTS. LONDON, Nov. I). After the Lord .Mayor's procession had passed to-day, 2-">t) King’s College students amused crowds in the Strand tv shooting peanuts at tiie police horses •inti making thorn prance. This led to serious injury to a spectator. The police then charged and arrested a student. Subsequently the students invaded the cinema hall in Australia House, approaching the front ami the back doors in two hatches. The slamming of tiie hall door stopped one contingent, but the rear contingent. 100 strong, gained entry, and filed across the platform before the screen, shouting, singing and blowing trumpets. An ox-soldier attendant stopped the performance and ordered the hail to 'ie cleared. He gripped one student by the throitt and punched another in the jaw. and ordered them t>» retreat. Tin* students feared the crowded audience might retaliate, and immediately left. CODE’S BLEEDING NOSE. LONDON, Nov. !). While giving a lecture on Snturdav night Professor Cone was seized with violent bleeding from tiie nose. As it showed no sign of cessation, doctors were summoned, and they advised him to cancel tiie lecture. The professor asserted subsequently that his own auto-suggestion ’‘medicine” cured the Weeding. Friends had summoned the doctors, hut they were not needed, as he had said to himself, “it will stop, it will stop,” and it had done so within ton or twelve minutes. FOUND TN WOODEN LEG. LONDON, Nov. 0. The Paris police have found a diamond bracelet, valued at £1(100. and 1)0lieved to be the property of an American woman, in a wooden leg worn by a postal worker, who lost bis legs in the war. Tiie man asserts that bis wife found the bracelet in a dust-bin. All! FORCE FATALITIES. LONDON, Nov. 23. Tn the House of Commons, replying to questions, Sir S. Hoaro said that during the year ended September 30th. there had been forty-two accidents in the Air Force owing to machines crashing. involving fifty-seven deaths. None of the machines were equipped with parachutes, hut provis n was now being made for the equipment of the whole air force with parachutes. RUBBER ROOM. LONDON. November 23. There was a rush to huv rubber shares on the Stock Exchange this morning. It retsemhled a Rugby scrummage as the brokers tried to execute their orders. The demand slackened later, and prices eased somewhat. AIR T. AL WILFORD. LONDON, Nov. 24. Mr T. At. Wilford. ox-T.eador of tiie Opposition, litis arrived in England. His health lias greatly improved. He is recuperating at Devon.