LATE MAIL NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 May 1927, Page 4

LATE MAIL NEWS

ROUTED OUTLAWS. ROME. April 6. The last of the Sardinian bandit bands has been routed and scattered by Carabineers in a pitched battle near Alanioiada. Its chief. Onorato Suedi, to whom more than GO murders are traceable, was killed. Ono Carabineer was also killed and three bandits were wounded. Antonio Sliccu, the chief’s brother, was arrested after being wounded. Onorato Suren became an outlaw to years ago, when ho murdered a relation of his with whom he was in loud owing to the disputed possession of lands received as an inheritance. Since then he has been the terror of the Orgosolo region, which he infested at the head of numerous hands of outlaws.

GERMAN SABRE VICTIM. BERLIN, April y. A policeman cut down a Chinese with his sabre and shot him through the body a few days ago in tlie police station at Fuerstonwcrder, a village near Berlin. The policeman is still the guardian of law and order in the village of Fuerstonwrder, and with one solitary exception the Berlin Press has not considered the killing of a Chinese sufficiently important to record. The Chinese Legation, whoso members regard the dead .some say “'murdered,” Chinese with respect and affection although he was hut a pedlar, has already drawn the attention of the German Foreign Office to the affair. There arc some 600 Chinese pedlars in Germany who go from door to door and smilingly offer Chinese china and Chinese gewgaws, which I am afraid, are all made in Germany. “A SILLY ASS.”

Such a pedlar was AT? Chln-lioo, the man who was killed by the German policeman. Ut? was taken to the policp station because the village constable found that his licence dd not cover •hawking in that territory. He was told that ho would have to pay a fine of 100 marks and, as he only had five marks in his pocket, lie. had to leave his pack of wares as pledge. Tt is stated that l.e turned his hack on the policeman and put his hand in his pockets, anil that, although lie was a very gentle man, he called the police man “a silly ass.”

Tlie policeman therefore thought him self justified in drawing his sabre and giving the Chinese two hacks on the head and one on the shoulder. The Chinese, according to the policeman’s story, tried to seize the sabre, so be put three shots through his body and killed him. Two women were witnesses of the scene. UNEXPECTED TRIP. i-OXDOX, Feb. lfi. Six hundred dollars, roughly £l2O, may be the price that a young American will pay for a drink which he conV sumed on Friday night of last week. Early the following morning a man in evening dress walked into the purser's cabin of the Cunard liner Aquitania about three hours .after the ship had left New York for Southampton. "’Where do I get off?'' he asked, and the gist of the purser's reply was, "Cherbourg—if, you do." The young American had gone on board to say good-bye to some friends, but before be rebelled the dock he had tasted ‘•bootleg" whisky. He was ill on board the Aipiitania that, night and when lie came to himself the ship was iu the open sea heading for Europe. A search of the ship for clothes to fit him ivbs partly successful. Should he wear his tail coat and white tie at night, against the custom of wearing a dinner jacket aboard ship? Or should he don his overcoat and look as it he were cold? He did both on alternate nights, and during the day ho woro an

overcoat over -a jumper ana Crov.i trousers. A cheer greeted him in the tender at Cherbourg yesterday morning when he stepped off the ship. A LOVE TRAGEDY. R ERL IX, Feb. 21. Dr AV.vrtki a high official and Fraulein Sally Nowak, a typist, both employed by the local .authorities in Breslau. worked together and fell in love. Last Friday Frauloin Nowak was found in a forest near Breslau with a bullet through her head. Suspicion fell on her lover and n warrant was issued for his arrest. When the. poii<o went to his house j yesterday Dr Vvyrtki refused to let them J enter, and through a glass door they I could see that ho had armed himself with a pistol. They fetched a police dog. broke down the door, ami set the dug on him. At the moment the dog sprang at him the man fired the pistol at his head, blit he wtes only wounded slightly. Even then he resisted the police, but when he was finally overcome he confessed that he had murdered his mistress. She had. lie staled, threatened tuat if he did not get a divorce from his wife and marry her she would make their intrigue known to the putui?. She know all his secrets and that he had taken money which was in his charge and was unable to replice it. Thus the wretched man was completely in her hands and had shot her in despair. j

FOX KILLED IN SEA. LONDON. Feb. 21. A thrilling fight between a hum-rd fox and two pluckj bounds 'n the Solent was described bv .Major A. Bovill. the Master of the Isle of Wight Foxhounds. ‘•The hunt had "been chasing the fox for more than an hour Am the Osborne estate, near Hyde,” ‘‘when the fox suddenly the thorp. He

was dead beat, and decided to tnke uiuge in the sea. ■j’T*' jumped over a loft wall and swam strongly out to the end of a breakwater, on which be climbed and sat down to rest. “One of the bounds also jumped the wall and swain after the fox, pulling him from the breakwater. Another ii g followed, und the two lio toos fought the fox which was swimming strongly and eventually they killed it after a thrilling battle.. One of she bounds dragged the dead fox into shallow water by bis brush. “I was the only one who witnessed the fight. I.ls the remainder of the hunt had got lost during the long run. “I got a ladder and climbed down into the water and brought up the two exhausted hounds and the dead fox. It is the firs time I have known a fax to tyke to the sea. - ’

ROT AIM A X C( )XG HESS. OSTEND. Feb. 22. The King of the Belgians will attend the Convention of Rotary at Ostond in June. King Albert is an bom ornry member of the Rotary Club of San Francisco and of the Brussels Rotary Club. The Kursaal of Csteud and all the attractive summer places oil the coast will, for the purpose of the convention, open a month earlier than usual. Renowned opera singers will be heard at the daily concerts »ii the Kursaal. The •'English Players” troupe are to give a series of comedy performances at- the Ostend Royal Theatre, J including ‘‘You Never Ctm Tell.” by Bernard Shaw, and ‘'Escape,” by Galsworthy. To every sport a special international journal will be devoted. A naval procession, including vessels of eight different i*itions, will, it is understood, be seen in the harbour. Rotarians from all the northern countries of Europe are to join the great meeting, as well as British. American, and Southern European delegates,