NEWS AND NOTES

Hokitika Guardian, 19 August 1933, Page 6

NEWS AND NOTES

■ . m r . ? .?* RELICS OF NAPOLEQN S DAYS Designs for ten large pieces of Gobelins; tapestry which adorned the Tuilleries in Napoleon’g time have been discovered in a garret in the Louvre, and sent to the famous manufactory, where the; tapestries are,-to be made afresh. The designs, which had been rolled up for over a century, were in very bad condition, and had .to be rebacked before any use could be made of them. The Goblins artists are now at work on them, and it is expected that the tapestries will be finished in about a year. 'Six- of the original tapestries were hung in Napeleon’s study, and were taken down after his fall because they bore his emblems. The others, having no political allusion, u'ere left undisturbed. All Were destroyed’during the Commune.

Gobelins tapestries are now made in the same way as in the time of Louis XIV, the only difference being that chiefly through' scientific selections of wool, a worker can produce nearly twice a B much as in the old days. Two square metres now represent a year’s work of one mail, and the cost is between -22,000 and 25,000 francs per square metre.

HITLER'S FORMER EMPLOYER Wolf Gutman, a’ JeW; who at - one time employed Adolf Hitler, recently arrived at Warsar from Germany. Gutman is a builder and wall-painter, and Hitler worked with'him right up to the outbreak, of the war. Both parted friencls; - After Hitler’s accession" to power, Gutman was ‘arrested by the Nazis in Munich and was taken to, Erankfuit, .; where he was imprisoned and beaten, t It was was only when he told - the Nazis of his former relations with Hitler that he was' allowed to' go. He was, however, deported from Germany as’ an “undesirable alien.”

GREAT OCEAN DEPTHS A new deep in the' bed' of the ocean which will take its place among the moot stupendous trenches discovered, was reported in a message from the •naval”oil-tanker Rarriapo;- to Hth naval district headquarters' ait San Diego,- -in- ■ California. Captain C ! . B. Ma’yo; commanding the Ramsapo, reported that by repeated use bf the sonic depth-finder the deep had been measured at 5501 fathoms, or 23,006 ft. The great dep-fh that was found' at .latitude 30-43 north, longitude 142-28 east, would place it directly across the. Pacific. Ocean from San Diego, near the ; codst of Japan. Captain Mayo %' aleadcr of the work of chartingftlie ocean bottom. Tlie hew sounding approached the greatest known depth, that of 84.210 ft., —over six miles—found in the Mindanao trench north-east of the island of that name in the Phillippine; group. The highest mountain, Mount Everest, has an elevation of 29,002 ft. Several great trenches have been' found in- the ocean .:• .w- : .