BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1926, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

TReuter Telegrams.] AIR SERVICE TO INDIA. LONDON, Sept. 1. The first big step in the Empire Air Route is definitely announced by the Imperial Airways to commence on New . Year’s Day. Five large passenger mail aeroplanes, triple-engined and develop- ' ing twelve hundred horse power, will lx; employed. One will leave Cairo on alternate Wednesdays, connecting with the Peninsula liner from England. It will land at Baghdad on Thursday. The passengers and mails, which will there be transferred to another air liner, which will fly via the Persian Gulf to Karachi, arriving on Saturday, in time to connect with the Trans-In-dian train for Delhi and Calcutta. The . return flight from Karachi will be commenced on the following Thursday, Baghdad being reached on Saturday, and Cairo on Sunday, in time to collect with liners for Marseilles. The through passengers will spend three nights in specially constructed rest houses in the desert, saving five to eight days on the journey from Lcmdn to India. GENEVA, Sept. 2. Spain’s representative did not , attend tho League confidential meeting. RAILWAY DISASTER. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) PEKING, Sept. 2. Seventy-six people wore killed and 140 injured as a result of ail accident on the Peking Suiyan railway, when owing to a defective brake it passenger train from Kalgan was derailed. Three coaches crowded with passengers were hurled into the mountain ditches. ENGLAND’S HEALTH. (Received this, day at 1.5 p.in.l LONDON, Sept. 2. The chief medical officer of the Ministry of Health makes a striking declaration in tho national health in his annual report. Looking hack over fifty years, ho states it is found that grave epidemic diseases have almost disappeared. Man lives longer and childhood is healthier. On the other hand he point out that cancer lias gained ground, ' tuberculosis is too prevalent and pneumonia and influenza remains undefeated. Sickness resulted in an immense loss in the national output amounting last year to twenty-five millions of weeks or practically one year’s loss of work by nearly half a. million persons. PILGRIMAGE TO GALLIPOLI. (Received this day at T. 5 p.mA '** LONDON, Sept. 2. . Tho “Morning Post’s” Constantinople correspondent reports St. Barra bns pilgrimage to Gallipoli cabled on 25th August arrived at Constantinople, after a voyage of inspection through llie. Dardanelles. At a meeting aboard the steamer of those making the pilgrimage it was resolved to popularize tho alteration of the name Anzac Dhy, to Gallipoli Day, in order “that the name shall give no monopoly of fame.”