BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1927, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

ply TELECIIAI’H- -I’ER TRESS ASSOCIATION. J AIR At AN KILLED. NEW YORK, Alay 30. Air Earl Kilpatrick, Superintendent of tlie Red Cross rehabilitation effort in the flooded areas, was on Alonday killed in an aeroplane crash in South Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

TYPING CONTESTS. PAR fS, Alay 30. Aliss Mitchell. English typiste, won a high speed cup contest, registering 86.1 taps per minute, which is a European record.

Aliss Al itched I was second to Mademoiselle Piau in ihe Typing from Copy Championship. Mdlle. Piau’s speed was 98 words per minute.

KING’S DECORATION. LONDON, -May 31

His Majesty King George gave audience to Captain Lindbergh (the American Atlantic flier). The King decorated Captain Lindbergh with the Royal Air Force Cross.

EGYPTIAN CRISIS. CAIRO. Alav 30.

Lord Lloyd has presented to Premier Sarwat Pasha- from Britain a Note upon the reorganisation of the Egyptian army. It is couched in friendly terms. No time limit has been fixed.

I.MAIODF.ST DRESS. ROAIE, A lay 31

The Commission for Moralising of Women's Dress is inviting three million young, unmarried Italians to pledge themselves in the Italian fashion to ban all immodest attire. If they do so, the Commission will allow them to partake in public lotteries, and also have two flee tickets, and the winner of a certain number in the lottery will receive a bride’s trousseau, along with a railway ticket to any European resort chosen for the honeymoon.

STOWAWAYS. LONDON, Afav 30.

A few hours after leaving London for New Zealand, five stowaways were discovered on the steamer Port Campbell. The Captain agreed to permit them to work their passage out; but when, a quarter of an hour later, six other stowaways appeared, the Captain withdrew the permission, and he landed them all at Falmouth.

EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS. LONDON. May 30

The “Daily News” states: The Egyptian Parliament’s Army Committee has recommended the cancellation of the annual payment of three-quarters of a million pounds of Egyptian money towards the Soudan administration. The Committee has further demanded that the army shall be exclusively an Egyptian one, and that the Egyptian Afinister of War shall alone he responsible for the Army.