BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] SHAKES PEAR K’S THEATRE. LONDON, March !). The Shakespeare Theatre governors have derided to rebuild. They "ill probably launch a public appeal for LC 100,000. STOLEN PICTURES RETURNED. LONDON, March 9.

The editor of the ‘'Daily .Mail” has received through the post the stolen Guildhall pictures and the three academy canvases by Constable. Iho pictures were without, frames and wrapped in brown paper. BRITISH AVTATION. OUESTONS IN COMMONS. LONDON, March 9. Jn the House of Commons there was a long debate on the air estimates, during which the Ministerialists iicic <ji lestioned whether sufficient was being done to develop military aviation. They pointed out that it bad an important influence oil civil living as an aid to commerce and defence. One speaker said that Germany s subsidised services (lew eight times the mileage of the Imperial Airways in Britain and alluded to the splendid achievements of Australia’s services with machines of an old type. Africa and India, by comparison, had done little. It was a matter worth taking up by the Imperial Conference. Sir Samuel Hon re (Air Minister), replying, said the establishment ol the service to India would inaugurate a new era in civil aviation.

TROTSKY'S NEW ROLE. MOSCOW, -March 9. M. Trot.sk v. in addition to the Government posts, has assumed tin principalship of a school ol journal,s . especially for instructing P’>P lls » art of obtaining and writing copy.

BRTT7SH AERO ENGINE. LONDON March 9

With the parts sealed by the An Ministry, the British nine-cylinder uir-eooil'd pdial per.r-eng.nc of •’<» horse-power completed 25,000 mtlcs in 226 hours actual living, without adjustment, thus out-distanemg the world’s equatorial circumference. luo pilots alternately flew the nineh.no. some days exceeding 1090 "ides. This is probably the severest test any acreplane has been subjected to.