News in Brief

Levin Daily Chronicle, 1 August 1918, Page 4

News in Brief

Albert Charles Hancock recently told 1 the Shoreditch tribunal that ho pawned his watch to start in businesß seven years ago as a manufacturer of child--1 rens' underclothing. He had a | over of £4000 a year now, put of which he made an annual profit of £600. j United States flying students are ! required to fly nine hours with an instructor before being allowed to fly 1 alone. One of the allies requires but four hours' duty. There is one accident j to every 2400 flying hours in United ' States fields as compared with one. to I every 1400 for this ally. The F.l.A.'iVs works at Turin cover i 1,000,000 sq. yds. of ground, and there ! aro now 30,000 workers employed on 1 day and night shifts. A new factory just outside Turin is being built which will rival the main factory. A novel foature of it will be a motor testing i track on the roof. . I General Pershing and Mr Daniel, secretary of tho American navy, 'have recommended to congress the abolition of higher pay for airmen on the ground that flying duty is no more hazardous than other duty with combatant troops and docs not involve the hardships onI dured in the trenches. Where the United States has only ten multi-millionaires with £25,000,000 each, Great Britain has «c vCnt y'^> ' whore Amcrica lias nine with £20,000,000, there aro sixty-eighty in the United Kingdom. Amcrica leads the £15,000,000 to £20,000,000 class with forty-five to Great Britain's fourteen. I A Western American motorist has what probably is the most extraordinary. body a chassis has ever earned. It was hewed out of a single section of a giant redwood,and the interior is fitted up as a caravan. The timber when cut was 22 feet long, and weighed 40 tons. Finished it weighed less than 50001bs. The King's Royal Rifle Corps (the old 60th), one of the most famous regiments in the British army, was once known as "The Royal Americans,' having been recruited almost entirely in New York and Pliilidelphia. The | present 2nd battalion is also of Ameri- | can origin, having been raised in North America in 1758. . Cupid, fashioned in marble in a statue which has been described as a perfect masterpiece, has just been unearth- : ed at Cyrene in Libya. Other important archaeological discoveries made in the. same region during Italian occupation include statues of Jupiter, i Venus, Mars, Minerva, and Apollo. | The statue of Cupid will be sent to

Borne. . * Last year's revenue of the umtea Kingdom was, according to the TreaI surr return, £575,923,500 gross, or es- ! timatcd true revenue £526,233,500; Tor the previous year 1915-16, tho true 1 revenue was £300,699,000. Of the I revenue raised, Ireland contributed only a little over. 4 per cent., Scotland 110% per cent., and England 80 per r cent. ■ | Destruction by fire of a commissary "store-house at Augsberg, Bavaria, coßt ! a brave Trench prisoner of war his ' life. The store-house contained flour, ' hay, and straw to the value of nearly • £50,000. Seizing his opportunity, the I Frenchman set it afire, the whole or I the contents being destroyed. The prisoner was tried by court-martial ana condemned to death. The inventor of a three-cylinder aeroplane engine has been kidnapped from his home an Sandusky, Ohio. Belativos told the polico that tho ini ventor was only eighteen years old and had offered his engine to the I Government. Correspondence of a confidential nature, which the inventor had ' received from the War Department, was scattered about the room. In the Philippines the use of tobacco is universal. The native child acquire* the tobacco habit as soon aa it is able to walk. In the northern provinces especially it is no uncommon sight to see a ehild five or six years old puifiing vigorously at a big cigar. The women ' smoko quite as much as the men, and commonly smoke cigars where the men use cigarettes.