BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1927, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[by TEr,ECßArn—rmt PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

DRUG ADDICTS. NEW YORK. Feb. 20. The narcotic bureau of the Department announced there are approximately fifteen thousand drug addicts in New York. There were 2689 arrests in 1926. 90 per cent of whom had criminal records ranging to homicide. Only 10 per cent of users of nareotiets are women. ,r

A group of three millionaires financiers arranged the importing of drugs'v to America, and these are very much A adulterated and are sold to tiddicts at exorbitant prices. Heroin sells atthirty five dollars an ounce and cocaine at forty dollars an ounce in the streets of the city. The drug use is by no inihns limited to criminals. Many persons of high social standing,! well educated and possessing notable intellectual attributes, are among tbe addicts. The report concludes thatmisdirected curiosity is the most frequent cause of the drug habit. CHILLED MEAT, LONDON. Feb. 20. Hassan. the Australian Meat Council representative interviewed after inspection of the Port Hardy’s chilled y quarters revealed there Was only a slight surface mould, which was fairly general. The presentation and colour ' was excellent. He was satisfied it was a practical, commercial proposition.

FRENCH GENERAL DEAD. PARIS, February 20.

Obituary.—General Dangle Decary. ITe commanded the forth army at the Battle of the Marne.

PRINCE CAROL AND HIS AY I YES. PARIS. February 21.

Prince Carol, of Roumania, lias gone to Rapallo, to see bis son, Michel, in, accordance with the Queen of Ronliiania’s wish. Princess Helen, however. has returned to Roumania, leaving Aliehel behind. It is presumed that this is a step in the direction of a reconciliation with Prince Carol.

BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR. LONDON, February 20.

A new feature of the British Industries Fair, winch is being opened at White City to-morrow, is that the Empire Marketing Board is exhibiting commercial products of Britain and Dominions. There are many novelties, including hairbrush-backs manufactured from New Zealand milk.

IN THE AIR. MADRID. February 21. The airman Hordes has arrived at Alicante. T he Alnrohese De Pinedo has had his machine towed to Hibiera Inferno, an isolated spot, from which it is most difficult to get news. A LI. EG ED LIBEL. PARIS, February 21. A case resembling the recent Gladstone action will shortly he heard in the French Courts. Madame Aurora I Sand, the grand-daughter of George Sand, is claiming 10.000 francs from Jacques. Boulang, a journalist, because he described her relatives as a “flighty, impulsive person,” in an article upon George Sand’s love affairs. Madame Aurare Sand says that it is necessary to safeguard the honour of the Rand family. LONG RANGE RADIO. LONDON TO THE ANTARCTIC. LONDON. February 21. Air Govder, of the Mill Hill School, has been in wireless touch for three successive Sundays with a whaling ship in the Antarctic. Yesterday he failed to locate the whaler owing to bad conditions. so he says lie contented himself with conversing with a friend in a Tasmanian station.