NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1857, 25 July 1918, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

General Pershing and Mr Daniel, secretary of the Aemrican navy, have recommended to Congress the abolition of higher pay for airmen on the ground (hat flying duly is not more hazardous than other duty with combatant troops, and does not involve the hardships endured in the trenches. Last year’s ievenin' of the United Kingdom was, according to the Treasury return, £575,923,500 gross, or estimated true revenue £520,233,500. For the previous year, 1915-10, (he (rue revenue was £300,099,000. Of (he revenue raised, Ireland contributed, only a little over 4 per cent., Scotland 10 : ; per cent., and England 80 per cent. Six whales were form'd into shallow water when the Awa district of Japan was inundated by the sea during the recent severe storm. The people in the neighbourhood swarmed (o the spot, and soon captured the monsters. All (lie whales measured more than twenty feet in length, ’The aeroplane is now easily the speediest means of locomotion. Machines capable of 150 miles per hour in still air are now in use on the battle-front. In making a steep dive some of the machines have attained the enormous speed of 250 miles per hour. The speed record before the advent of the aeroplane was held by an electric train, which, at tests held near Berlin in 1903, recorded a speed of over 130 miles per hour.