BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

[by TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] FRENCH HUMOUR. PARIS. .March !>. Humourists have discovered an apparenlly inexhaustible mine of merriment in the national war organisation. There arc innumerable cartoons of nursemaids pushing perambulators, escorted by conscripts saluting lionconi' in a General's uniform; others .depicting women in the trenches manipulating lip sticks, trying on new hats and rushing a sale installed in the second line. SKSTHNCKI) AND ITXKI). BARIS. March 9. .Slanders (cabled on February Bth) was sentenced to two years and lined one hundred francs. AVIATOR'S MISHAB. MADRID. March 9. ft transpires that the breaking of an oil pipe forced down Borges’ seaplane in the open sea. The four occupants had to swim ashore. The Spanish Commissioner is sending food and clothing to the aviators, who are expected at C'ape Ouby. RKBA RATION BAYMKNTS. BERLIN. March 9. Germany's reparation payments in February amounted to ninety-live million gold marks.

NAVAL BI IJ.Di.sTL (Received this day at 11.0 a.in.) LONDON. .March 9. In the Commons. Mr Bridgeman. replying to a question said it was not intended in lay down any vessels in the new 192" programme until the result of the Conference on naval armaments was known, hut work on ships at present constructing would go on at full sliced as though the Conlereiico was not called. BRITISH AIRSHIP PLANS. LONDON, .March 8. A difficulty in finalising the plans for a trans-emvire airship route in revealed by tins Auditor-General's disclosure that £14.800 has been paid as compensation to framework contractors.

The Air Ministry in .January. 1920, placed, without calling for lenders, a premature contract on the basis of the actual cost of labour and materials, plus establishment charges. The airship was to lie completed h,v December. 1920. but at that date the progress made was small, Ibis being due to the Air Ministry’s difficulties in supplying technical information . The firm applied for compensation, to which the Treasury assented, and simultaneously the Treasury extended the date for completion to the eml of 1927.

AHR r A L COMPETITORS. (Received this day at 11.0 u.m.) LONDON. March 9. ’Probable competitors in the Aerial Oaks Pilots' Air Race at Bournemouth at the Easter Carnival are; Mrs Bell, (wife of Bell, cabled .Feb. 22nd). Site is flying well at De Havilland's aerodrome; Mrs Elliott Lynn (cabled Feb. 18th) at present at Kenya : Lady Bailey (cabled Feb. 25th.) ; Mrs Ronald, Miss O’Brien; Mrs Courtney, wife cf the test pilot at Tomlin..’ LEAGUE COUNCIL. GENEVA. March 9. The Council considered the mandatories’ comments on the Mandate Commission’s formidable questionafre. Australia emphasised the Extended Council's supervision on the Commission's advice lias never been sent out precisely. The •Commonwealth was of the opinion that neither the Councils nor Commission had the right to interfere in any way with the administration, or detailedly direct the mandatory. The Commonwealth had always complied with the requirement- to suplily yearly information of its work under specific heads, lint the questionaire resorted to a minuteness of detail inconsistent with the terms of the Convention on purposes-for which the'.Commission was appointed. The adoption of the questionaire would make the mandatories’ position, if not untenable, at least most difficult and onerous. The ’Commonwealth considered it would he unwise for the Council to adopt the questionaire.

The Council, after a brief discussion remitted the questionaire with the mandatories’ comments back to the Commission for further consideration.

AIRMAN KILLED. LONDON, A hu'cl i 9. Corporal East of the Air Force, engaged in parachute drill at Biggin Hill stepped off an aeroplane, but the parachute did not open and lie crashed into the roadway near a loaded omnibus, being killed instantly. An eye witness says be heard the body whistling through the air. LONDON. .A I arch 9. East left the plane at a height of six thousand feet. The parachute actually opened a hundred I'cet from the ground, hut was too late to arrest a fall. Had lie gone twenty yards further- he would have reached a big valley and landed safely, lie was the most experienced parachutist in the Air service, ft transpires that lie had engaged in hundreds of experiments in long drops before opening the parachute for the purpose of showing air force men how far they could solely fall before releasing the opening ring.

OBITUARY. DUBLIN. March 9. Obituary—Senator Marlin Eitzger

LONDON. March <). Obituary.—McGregor, former Trade Commissioner of Australia.

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR. AMSTERDAM. March 9

The International Federation of Trade Unions is considering extensive retrenchment, including the removal to a cheaper centre, owing to the membership having fallen to ten millions, compared with 24 millions in 1922. attributed to Fascism wiping out Unions in Italy, and the decline in Britain. France and Germany, due to unemployment, and Communist discussions in France.

A PECULIAR ILLNESS NFAY YORK, March 9

At Evanston. Illinois, 35 doctors and others are working, two together in 15 minute shifts to keep Allred '1 rick alive. He has had seventy hours’ artificial respiration. Trick, aged 22, is suffering from paralysis of the dinpliratn, following the extraction, of two teeth last week. Respiration ceased on March fitli.. after which helpers have Cisntinuously pressed up and down the lower chest, maintaining .breathing. 'Prick is conscious, and able to speak a few words of encouragement and thanks, but is tumble to eat. being nourished with glucose solution injected into his leg, a quart at a time. He has slept for only fifteen minutes since March oth. 'life illness is diagnosed as landrys paralysis, and is very rare. The doctors are unable to say when a change of condition is expected, but file patient is now better than be was on March oth.