BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 February 1927, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[nv telegraph—n-:R press association.]

SHAAI SUICIDE PACT PARIS, Dec.

A “suiede pact” lietwcen a divorced woman of 45 and a good-looking young stranger 15 years her junior, who made love to her. has had an amazing sequel at Meharicourt, near Amiens. The woman, Alnie. Gabriclle Jamotte, was postmistress of the village. Since her divorce she was so lonely that she applied to the matrimonial agency, through which she made the acquaintance of the elegant young stranger. A love affair ensued, hut the young man informed her that- their marriage was impossible. The lovers then decided that the only solution was to commit suicide together. They pledged one another to take poison a.s the clock struck midnight- and filled two glasses which they drank together after embracing for the bust time. The woman’s glass contained a strong (lose of heroin and she lies between life and death in Amiens Hospital. The man’s glass contained merely white wine. The good looking young stranger has disappeared, and so have the contents of the post office till, amounting to about £l2.

THE “AIYSTERY” TOWERS. LONDON, Fbh. 8.

The Daily -Mail says: The'Admiralty considers it is now safe to reveal the purpose of the two “mystery” towers eighty feet high, costing £1.200,000 each built during the war, one of which has replaced the “Nab” lightship, and the other of which was broken up. They were the forerunners of many similar intended towers in the Straits of Dover to be linked up by nets, heavily fortified, and equipped with searchlights, for the purpose of baffling the German, submarines.

AUSTRALIAN WISHES. LONDON, Fob. S

Lord Stradbroke presided at Mr Frank Nelson’s, )M.P. address to the Colonial Institute upon his Australian impression. Air Nelson emphasised that the Parliamentarian’s delegation did not go to Australia to devise a method for dumping British unemployed there. There was a body of opinion in Australia quite definitely opposed to immigration. The Australians were keenly concerned in seeing that their primary industries should not be developed out of all proportion to their secondary industries.

GOOD CONTRACTS FOR ENGLAND LONDON, Feb. 9.

Keenest satisfaction is felt on the Tyne and on the Tees Rivers at the securing of orders for building six oil tankers of a total value of one million sterling from the Gulf Refining Company of Pittsburg, in the face of fierce Continental competition.

A GRIM FATE. LONDON. February 8. 'I he grim fate of a Cambridge undergraduate. Handley Seymour, was revealed early this morning through a woman’s observation. From a window she saw a man leaning motionless ever the bonnet of a ear in a garage. Inquiries showed that Seymour had been dead all night. Lie had journeyed'from i London, garaged the ear. and was ap- J| parentlv examining it while the engine ~ was running, when his scarf became entangled, and he was strangled. 200 LUNATICS LET LOOSE. LONDON, Feh. 9. The “Gazette's” Athens correspondent says the Director of the Corfu asylum telegrams that owing to the lack of funds he was forced to free 200 1 unatics.

ARSENICAL APPLES. LONDON, Fob. 8

The first arsenic apples prosecution in the current American season occurred at Brentford. Last year’s publicity should have induced the growers to minimise spraying, but apparently it has not done so. said the prosecutor. The fruit contained .0.) grains of arsenic and ,-~0 grains of lead to the pound. The greengrocer was fined £l. wtne trade looks up. LONDON. Fch. 8.

It is announced that an English company has purchased the whole exportable surplus of the co-operative wine growers of South Africa till 1933. amounting to about three million gallons, and consisting of sweet wines, port and others,