BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 August 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

YVAR. MEMORIAL CHAI’EL. LONDON, Aug. 17. ■]t is announced that the space in YY'eritminstcr Abbey beneath the northwest tower, adjoining the “Unknown Soldier's” grave will be converted into a chapel to commemorate all who died in the YYTir. it will be called the “Chapel of the Holy Cross,” and will contain a tablet bearing the arms of all parts of the Empire. AI. BUKRIOT’S expectations. LONDON, Aug. 17. Al. Bleriot, the French airman, who was the first man to cross the English Channel by air, when his flight m the year 1909 created a sensation throughout the world, says that he smiles when ho looks back on tbe little monoplane in which he flew over the Channel. He remarked: “If lam here another seventeen years, I shall smile when I look back on tbe present day planes.” Al. Bleriort lias visions of giant monoplanes, multiple-engined, making regular trans-Atlantic trips. In these, he says, there will be bedrooms, a promenade, dining saloons, and piobablv a dance hall. The aeroplane developments since he first flew the Channel had outstripped the imagination. At present AL Bleriot lias in hand designs for immense planes with four engines, carrying thirty passengers, exclusive of the crew, together with fuel, inside great hollow wings, which will ho six feet thick, instead of six inches at present. His experiments have revealed that the future of air transport lies with greater and greater machines, covering immense distances, cud making their flights without alighting between tbe starting and finishing points. Al. Bleriot remarked that voyages on such large planes between London and New York will be commonplace and forced landings will be unknown.

HISS EDKRLKi’S SWIM. PARIS, Aug. 17. Captain Corthos, master of the tug which accompanied Miss Gertrude Ederle on her swim over the Channel, referring to the charge that the tug protected her from, the force of tiic waves, said: “Naturally, the tug pro- «. tected the girl from some waves. We kept between ber and the winds; otherwise I cannot see how any man or woman could have continued in such waves. Her success was due to her courage. I have accompanied thirtythree Channel swimmers. The tug did no s more for Miss Ederle than it did lor the other swimmers. HORRIBLE TRAGEDY. IN ENGLISH VILLAGE. LONDON, Aug. 18. Mrs Hal.so and her three children aged fourteen, twelve and five .years respectively, were found hanging dead side by side, from an oak beam in a thatched cottage at Pattoore Heath, near Bishops Stortford. An aged woman also a resident of the house heard nothing. It is believed the tragedy occurred during a. thunderstorm early yesterday morning.

OBITUARY. LONDON, August IS. Obituary.—Lady Strathconn. She will be succeeded by her son, S. P. Howard, thus creating a vacancy in the Commons for Cumberland North. MAORIS AT COLOMBO. .COLOMBO, August 18. The Maori football team arrived here en route to France. Under ideal conditions the visitors gave a brilliant all round display and outclassed the Ceylon team, beating them by thirty-seven points Live converted tries, a penalty goal and three tries) to six points (two tries). Fahvasscr gave a brilliant display and Mutinies place-kicking was remarkably accurate.

CHINESE HAPPENINGS. - PEKIN, August 18. The Francicnn Mission has received news of the murder of a Spaniard. Father Maiquez, by soldiers at Taolieheng. near Sinnfu Shensi. No further news Buis been heard of Missionary Moore, who was kidnapped by bandits on the loth. but the bandits were located near Changsha, to which the gunboats Woodlark and Gnat have .been dispatched. The Foreign Affairs Bureau has issued an ?rder that every effort will he made)to secure the release of Moore, j