MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1927, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) A DENIAL. LONDON. Aug. 28. The •'Despatch'* .says the report that their Majesties had agreed to make a talking film is without foundation. The facts arc. that Washburn Child, a former American Ambassador in Italy, arranged for famous people including the Spanish Majesties, Signor Mussolini, Marshal Foch and President C’oolidge to make movie tone films in connection with a recent secret American invention. The Company is most anxious to secure speeches by King George and Queen Alary, They shipped their recording equipment atvoard the Aquitania. intending to send it to Balmoral hoping the King would s)>eak for a reproduction in the West End cinema, when the official film of Oorouel and Falkland Islands Baltics would be exhibited. Their Afnjesties declined. ZEEBRUGGE MEMORIAL. BRUSSELS, Aug. 28. Zeebruggc memorial was unveiled in the presence of relatives of the victims and numerous visitors. Guns roared as. headed by a Belgian band, ■survivors, British, Belgian and French officers, proceeded to the moi’e. Colonel Slraglilaiiber, Belgian initiator of tho movement, said bore the British navy wrote the noblest page of its history. Four members of the crew of C 3 unveiled the memorial and received commemorative medals. The tablet is of bronze, eight feet high. Tt depicts the scene at the moment of the explosion. A female, figure arising from the smoke points to England with the right hand and holds in the loft, the Victoria Cross awarded to Lieut. Snndford. A JAPANESE HAPPENING. TOKIO. Aug. 28.

Tokio is listening intently for the sound of a gun announcing the birth at the Imperial Palace. Hundreds of women were praying at the pa face gates for the safety of the Empress, while shrines arid temples are crowded ■•itli people praying that the child shall l»o ii bov.