BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1927, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Cry telegraph—per press association.] AIItAIEN SAFE. LONDON, Alarcli 7. The Uruguayan airmen are safe and unhurt. They are travelling to Capo Juby, accompanied by friendly natives, front whom they obtained food. A strict inquiry is likely, following reports that attempts were made while at Casablanca to meddle with the wireless apparatus. Incidentally it is reported from Rome where tho seaplane was constructed that allegations were made before the flight that the workmanship was faulty. Searchers found; the seaplane a complete wreck, halfburied in the sand. The engines were detached 50 yards away. De Be ires, cabled on Feb loth., has arrived at Bolanm. EAIPIRE’S centre. OTTAWA, .March 7. Addressing a meeting at Toronto of the Canadian Club, Sir Hugh Dennison predicted that during the next forty or fifty years the population would shift from the North Sea to Canada and Australia. A\ hat had happened to the l nited States in the last oenturv would happen to Canada and Australia - in the new ceuturv. CHURCH BOAtBKR. SHOT. NEW YORK, -March 8. hour times in three years, tlie Roman Catholic Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, in Painless Avenue, San Francisco. has i>eeii. bombed. After the last occasion, on January 9th., the detectives set an elaborate trim, including perpetual lookouts. The officers "’atelling were at last rewarded when today a bomber sneaked up with a dynamite package and a lighted fuse, and fled. The officers shot him dead as he ran. They also cut the fuse and f avoided an explosion. j

ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL. LONDON, March 7. 1 lie St. Paul’s Cathedral Preservation Committee announces that the aichitects and engineers are well satisfied with the cathedral’s condition, llieio was no foundation for the recent •t la l tiling rumours, as the present cementation is fulfilling its object.

BURIAL OF .MOTOR CHAMPION. LONDON-. March 8. Parry Thomas, the motorist, was buried by Fleet Church, within earshot ol the roar of motor-cars on the Brooklands track. The well-worn motor goggles which Thomas used in innumerable races were placed in the coffin, and buried with the body.

HELD FOB RANSOAL i ROAIE, March 8. A Ijis Palmas message states: Borges (the Atlantic flier) with his Uruguayan companions (whose plane came down on the African coast near Cape Jiiby) are being held for ransom by the Moors. The Spanish Government has ordered the ransom to be paid immediately. MADRID. Afarcli 8. The representative of the Spanish High Commissioner in Atororco at-Cape Jubv bus received a letter from Borges, stating that lie and liis companions are in perfect Infill li. and are being well treated by the tribesmen. The latter was brought to Cape Jubv bv a native. FOUR BOBBERS HANGED. NEW YORK. AFtrch 7. At Bellefonte. in Pennsylvania, for the first time in the history of the T nited States, four men were hanged tor murder in one day. They attempted to n b a hank’s mnil truck, and secure twenty thousand sterling, their leader shooting a policeman while evading arrest. ARAB RESENTS RESCUE. PARIS. March 8. A man named Attain said to be an Arab, was dragged by a policeman out of the river Seine, where he had thrown himself. Ms he was tired of life. Attab violently attacked the rescuing policeman, who had to bo sent to the hospital. Attab, fighting to the last, was carried to the police station, explaining, “I only wanted to die!”