BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) BIRTH CONTROL. LONDON, Sept. 17. The Daily News Rome correspondent says: Signor Mussolini’s new penal code severely penalises birth control propaganda. N.Z. DAIRY TRADE. LONDON. Sept. lti. New Zealand overshadows Australia at the Grocers’ Exhibition at Islington. The New Zealand Dairy Board lias taken one of the largest stalls, in which the butter and cheese are most attiactively set out.

NEW ATLANTIC LINE. LONDON*. Sept. 17. Laurence Wilder, an American shipbuilder, lias arrived at Plymouth, and according to the Daily News has disclosed that lie is considering with other New York capitalists the establishment of a daily service of express steamers between Long Gland and Plymouth, crossing the Atlantic in four days. Ten quadruple screw turbine vessels of twenty thousand tons will be engaged, with a speed of from thirty to thirty-five knots. Each will carry four hundred passengers, and will have aeroplanes for the delivery of mails. The requirements of the passengers m tho matter of air services will be arranged from tho termini to the inland towns. NEW AUSTRALIAN ELVERS. LONDON, Sept. 16. Tho Commonwealth and Dominion Line have ordered two motor ships of 11,350 tons apiece, for the refrigerated trade.

THE KAISER. BERIJN, Sept. 17. The ex-Kaiser, still signing himself “Wilhelm, Emperor and King,” senta portrait thus inscribed to ex-Clian-c,el lor Michnelis, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. CAUSE AND EFFECT. LONDON, Sept. 18.

Sir Win. Napier Shaw, declares there is a measurable loss of blueness in the skv, and it probably is world-wide, owing to some cloudiness possibly due t (< chemical or moist particles affecting the appearance of climatic behaviour, perhaps as a result of remote unrecorded volcanic upheaval. He adds that meteors and fireballs have been unusually numerous for the past three yenis. He cites that a strong blue flash recently was seen in the sky in daylight in many parts of Britain.

ALL IN VAIN. LONDON, Sept. 18. 'l'lio “ Sketch ” says five thousand sterling was expended mostly in vain for the past threo months in attempts to swim the channel. Temme, who proposes shortly to swim from England to France, spent very little. Mrs Corson spent a thousand; Zitenfields 131500, and others from £l5O to £2OO.

A NOVEL FREAK. LONDON, Sept. 18. The mystery of a six-foot woman wandering the country lanes in South England for the past twelve months, dressed in white shoes and stockings,' black shirt, with red hat and veil, often frightening women and children, was dramatically solved late last night. When seized and unmasked at Curry Rivell, Somerset, by a local’ inn-keeper, the masquerader turned out to he the Rev. A. H. Read, a. Congregational Minister, who refused to comment till this morning, when he summoned a large body of townspeople and explained he "desired to test the social morality and attitude towards women. He did not consider lie had done any harm. On the contrary he had found the men of England wonderfully chivalrous. He woukfraise his hat to Englishmen and apoVogk'.e to everyone, and hoped to he forgiven for this spasm ot lolly. TO PREVENT SUICIDES. CONSTANTINOPLE. Sept. 17. Blaming the sensational journalist for the recent suicide epidemic throughout the whole country, a new police president has prohibited the newspapers publishing news of suicides in the first news page. Such items must be tucked away on other pages without headings. Photorgaphs of suicides are entirely prohibited. Transgressors against this order will he heavily punished. RUN TO EARTH. PARIS, Sept. IS.

Curiosity cut. short the career of the King of Hotel Thieves, Amaiul Caulier, who offered to comment on a motor smash. The police enlisted ‘him as a witness and discovered lie was the man they had been searching for twentyyears, during which time, he now confesses, lie carried out thousands of robberies in the best hotels in France. In his pockets were 133 victims’ identitycards which hitherto he had used to prove alibis, and facilitate entrance to hotels. Caulier was suspected of the Tamous haul of two hundred thousand sterling worth.of jewellery at Deauville some years ago. He admits Tie recently robbed a foreign prince in Paris.