BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 October 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

'Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) WAR SHELL TRAGEDIES. PARIS, Oct. 13. Messages from Rheims report additional shell tragedies are reported from tho battlefields. A workman salvaging war material was fatally injured by an explosion of two German shells. Another was killed instantly when his pick struck a shell in a crater. A .child's hand was blown off by a hand grenade at St. Quentin.

TO MATCH WOMEN’S GOWNS VIENNA, Oct. 7. On the suggestion of a Budapest representative the International Hairdressers’ Congress here enthusiastically adopted the proposal that woman’s hair should be. painted to match her evening gowns. The new fashion was demonstrated on a number of models, an easy removable paste that, it is declared, will not dye or injure the hair being used. Blue, green, red, gilt and silver coiffures were demonstrated, and in each case the paste was completely removed within a few minutes.

GROOM FAINTED THRICE. LONDON, Oct. 7. While John Butcher was marrying Edith Hartshorne at St. Mary's Church Nuneaton, Warwickshire, he fainted three times. On each occasnn he was carried to the vestry and revived, and then assisted to the altar until the ceremony was completed. The vicar, said that the bride who is a Sunday School teacher, bore the ordeal with great pluck.

BIG ADVERTISING PAYS. LONDON, Oct. 7. “The second £IO,OOO spent on advertising is more effective than the first, and the third is more effective than the second,” said Sir Henry Bencraft, in his presidential address to the British Gas Commercial Association. “National advertising is not yet near the limit,” he added “and if wo doubled it wo would more than double results.”

OBITUARY. (Received this day at 10.15 a.ra.) LONDON, Oct. 13. Obituary.—Lord Abergavenny, and Brother Richard Nevill. THE CHANNEL SWIM. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 13. Doctor Dorothy Logan, in an emphatic reply to the French allegations, discussing her Channel swim says, she was disgusted at their sportsmanship, and amaged at the scepticism displayed. It is absolute rot to take a legal official boat, though she always advocated the appointment of real experts to oversea swimmers in an attempt. She at any rate had a number of responsible persons in the boat that accompanied her, persons whose word she hoped was honoured. Dr Logan expressed the warmest indignation at the statements in French newspapers, that it was impossible for an unknown swimmer to have beaten the time of Miss Ederle, the beslk-woman swimmer in the world. Dorothy’s reply is: “Who says Miss Ederle is the best swimmer in the world ? Who says I am unknown, after spending thirteen hours in a rough sea last year?”

MOTOR TEST. LONDON, Oct. 13. Breaking all land and sea records an all-British Ariel engined motor cycle tnd side car at Banbury has been running since noon on sth October, relays of drivers and observers being employed. To-night the machine liad covered 3,915 miles and the engine had revolved thirty million times. The test is continuing.