BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] burglar sentenced. LONDON, April 27. Patrick Lynch was sentenced to a year for burgling the New Zealand offices. AIR SMASH AT FUNERAL. WARSAW, April 27. The streets were crowded with people to witness the funeral of tho well known military pilot Serednicki who was killed in an aeroplane crash. Twenty-ono military aeroplanes circled overhead and as the cortege was entering tho cemetery the people were horrified" at the sight of one aeroplane colliding with another. One crashed, tho pilot and observer being killed. Tho pilot of another machine was wrenched out of his seat and fell fifteen hundred feet and was almost buried iu the ground by the lprce of tne impact. STATE GUARANTEES. LONDON, April 28. It is announced that the Treasury is giving the following guarantees under the Trade Facilities Act: To the Shaw Savill Shipping Coy., £675,000 in respect to the construction of two vessels, one at the Clyde and one at Wallsend.

To the New Zealand Shipping Coy., £400,000 for a vessel building on tho Clyde.

To the Commonwealth and Dominion Line: £600,000 for two vessels.

FEMALE POISONER

PARIS, April 27

A sensational poisoning caso is reported from Nimes. Antoinette Sierri, a middle-aged nurse, was found guilty of poisoning six persons and was sentenced to death. Hie public indignation was such that sixty gendarmes were necessary to controi the crowd at the Palais de Justice.

The woman Sierri administered pryn--1 ion, which is used in viticulture to kill grubs, and is heavily laden with arsenic. Tlie first victim, was an elderly maiden lady, with whom Sierri had no quarrel. Hie second victim was Sierri’s own Italian husband, while the third was lier lover, who, she said, heat her.

The evidence showed that Sierri danced around tho man’s body ; hut tho experts scouted tho notion that tho woman was insane. They said that she had only lost her moral sense, and that she seemed to delight in taking life. In no ease was. there any financial gain from the murders. The two others poisoned were a couple from, whom Sierri had rented a room.

The prosecution alleged that Sierri had also attempted to poison five others, all of whom were her patients, and they had not yet recovered. A BIG CLAIM. [Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] CAIRO, April 28. An interesting lawsuit has been begun on behalf of Mrs Folk, tho widow of an American, Joseph W. Folk, at one time Governor of Missouri, U.S.A., against the co-defendants, Zaghloul Pasha (ex-Premier of Egypt), and Mohlimed Pasha Mahmud for £120,600. Counsel stated Mahmud wont to America and negotiated an agreement under which Mr Folk was to conduct a propaganda campaign in favour of Egyptian independence-and receive five thousand dollars monthly for two years, plus £IOO,OOO in the event of success. Counsel produced receipts showing Mr Folk factually received thirty-five thousand dollars, and affirmed that. Mr Folk was actively engaged from 1919 to 1921, when the agreement was terminated hv a cable from Zaghloul Pasha. The widow now sues for expenses, arrears of Hilary, and the hundred thousand.

Counsel, arguing that Egypt had become a sovereign and independent state, described' Mr Folk's efforts towards the consummation of this condition. The hearing was adjourned.

UNEMPLOYED IN BRITAIN. LONDON, April 27. The total number of unemployed on April 19th., recorded in the Labour exchanges of Britain was 997,000. This is the first time for several years that figures have dropped below a million. NORGE’S VOYAGE. LONDON, April 27. A message from King’s Bay, Spitsbergen, states that all preparations for tlie arrival, of the airship “Norge” are complete. After a long period of north-easterly winds and severe frosts, there is now mild weather. It is fine, with sunshine, which has broken up tho ice in King’s Bay, so ships will bo able to reach the quay. Captain Amundsen and Air Ellsworth (the American) are making long . ski excursions from King’s Bay. Tho aerodrome there is ready, and the mooring mast will be finished to-mor-row. A cargo of '.hydrogen from the steamer Knus Kaalureu is nearly unloaded.

ALLEGED PLOT. LONDON, April 27. A sensational arrest lias been made at Queenstown of an American from New York with documents concealed on his body, addressed to prominent Irish Republicans, referring to the consignment of arms and ammunition from the United States for Ireland, and also £IBOO hidden on his person. THE VOLGA OVERFLOWS. [Reuter Telegrams.] (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, April 28. Reuter’s Moscow correspondent states the Volga’s upper tributaries overflowed the hanks of the river at Ivlazma and flooded the town of Orekhova. Eight persons were drowned, eleven bridges destroyed and many textilo mills rendered idle. Loss of life is also reported at Rybinsk where the Volga was twenty feet above the usual level. Scores of villages were flooded and the inhabitants took refuge on the roof. Detachments of tho Red. Army nro blowing up ice jams in tile rivers in* order that the waters can flow in their natural course.

SHIPPING LOSS. TGKIO, April 28. f A despatch from Hakodate reports the Chichibumaru, of 1,540 tons, is aground off Horomushiro Kuriles during a storm yesterday and 230 persons are missing. LADY MACKENZIE DEAD. LONDON, April 28. Obituary.—Lady MacKenzie, wife of Sir Thomas MacKenzie. the former High Commissioner of New Zealand. FRENCH CAPTURE. BEIRUT. April 28. Eleven battalions participated in tho capture of Sulida on 25th April. The town was defended by six thousand Druses. The French losses were stated to lie SO killed and 270 wounded. Tho rebel casualties were heavy.