BRITISH & FOREIGN HEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN HEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] AVANLIA BRINGS BODIES. LONDON. Sept. 27. It is officially announced that the British steamer “AYanlia” which Yangsen released, has arrived at Icliang bearing the bodies of Commander Dnrlcv and two sailors killed at Wanhsien. The Chinese casualties to, which Clin referred at Geneva did not exceed three hundred. A PIGGERY FRAUD. PARIS. Sept. 27. Four years ago the establishment of “La Porchcric Francaise” advertised: “Citizens are invited to invest and purchase pigs as a living asset, unlikely to depreciate like paper bonds.” Thousands of subscribers sent money to buy pigs, the Company undertaking then to sell them as instructed when fattened. • It is believed that the Company thus received 25 million francs annually. Recently subscribers began to receive notification.-, that their pigs had died, and the frequency of the notices aroused suspicion. The police were called in and went to the piggery and found 182 pigs, 108 of which were listed as the property of one director. It is now alleged that only seven out iof the many million francs were ever invested in pigs. The promoters were arrested. TWO CIVILIANS SHOT. BERLIN, Sept. 27. Two French soldiers at Germcrsheim, Bavaria, quarrelled with two German civilians. They warned the public to stand back and they shot the Germans dead. The French gendarmerie arrested the two soldiers. AIRMAN ALIGHTS. CAIRO, Sept. 27. Owing t to the stoppage of a waterpump, Coste alighted in Assouan. CHEESE GAS. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 25. Tho Port pf Liverpool Sanitary Authority’s report for 1925 describes a dramatic rescue of two men gassed by fumes from New Zealand cheese aboard the Suffolk, by men with smoke helmets. Tho Suffolk had discharged l cheese at Glasgow. Six days later, the second officer entered the lower hold at Liverpoo! and immediately became unconscious. The. first officer went to his aid. and was also overcome.. . 'They were rescued with difficulty by a lielmeted party. The report attributes the accident to a rise of temperature when relrigention was stopped at Glasgow, this 1 ( causing an increase of gas from the < cheese. 1 l COBHAM AT BAGHDAD. BAGHDAD, September 27. : Cobham has arrived.