ITEMS OF GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1942, 20 February 1919, Page 4

ITEMS OF GENERAL NEWS

IMMIGRATION PROHIBITED,

Owing to the rapid spread of influenza northwards, the immigration of Europeans or natives into Nvasaland is prohibited.

TAXICAB LICENSE REFUSED. .For the third time Newport Town Council has refused to grant a taxicab license to Max GrolmcD for 25 years'language master at Newport Intermediate School for Boys. Grabner was born in Saxony and he became naturalised after the war. He has a son in the British Army, and his case has been before the Government Committee, who refused to make an order for his internment. Eight hundred and thirty-one Norwegian ships and 1,120 Norwegian lives have been lost as the result of German operations since the beginning of the war. ATTEMPTED BRIBERY. Philip Lubelsky was fined £2O at Liverpool for offering a soldier attached to the recruiting staff £lO and an overcoat to allow his son, who had completed a term of imprisonment. to go free or to be put m a Jewish regiment. PERJURY A,COMMON CRIME. The common sergeant, at the Central Criminal Court, London, m sentencing a man to three months’ imprisonment in the second division for perjury, said that perjury was rife in our courts, and if it were allowed to go hy without punishment it would never he stopped. M. CLEMENCEAU’S BOUQUET. M. Clemonceaii, visiting the musing home where some time ago he underwent a severe operation, handed to the head sister a bmu|uet, with the words, “Sister, on this day of victory I owe you these (lowers ot Franco, for without your devoted care I should never have been allowed the honour of taking part in the victory of France.” BIRCHED FOR STEALING. At Greenwich Juvenile Court, six Deptford boys, all under 14 years of age, were each ordered to receive six strokes with the birch-rod for stealing about JCfifi worth of tobacco from a motor van, in the temporary absence of the driver. One hoy confessed that he opened the van with a dour handle, the end of which lilted the lock at the hack ol ti.o van, but he and the others denied stealing the tobacco, which has not been traced.

AIR MINISTRY'S EXPERTM ENT. " As a result of a conference of experts held recently, the Air Ministry Pave circularised officers and other ranks at the Ministry, offering them the opportunity of trying the experimm.l of inoculation with anti-miln-tnza vaccine. Two injections, at an interval of ten days, will ho given, under the skin of the upper arm. Th e reaction following inoculation will it is anticipated, in the majoril'v of cases, be trivial or noii-ex.st-cut, hut it G considered to he “t importance Unit a period ot rom -i to 36 lumrsligfit duty should he given after each inoculation. suffering from acute catarrh or m the early stages of influenza ** 0 K inoculated.

LAST WARSHIP TORPEDOED. Details of the torpedoing otMh.e battleship Britannia, the hist British warship sunk in the war, have been ascertained from survivors. The Britannia was proceeding ivm West Africa, and at 7 o’clock on the morning of November Dth was about 60 miles from Gibraltar, where she wrt s to have paid off. A dose watch hft ,l been kept all night, as the presence of submarines had been reported, but at that hour the s up was struck twice well aft on the port side. The second explosion shattered the dynamos, and put <mt all the nights. British and American destroyers were accompanying the Britannia, and help was immediately asked for by wireless from Gibraltar. The torpedoed ship soon heeled over to port, and, the electrec gear having been put out of order, an endeavour was made to get the boats out by hand. This work, however, had to be suspended owing to the list of the ship, and then the British destroyer came alongside and took off most of those on hoard. Some time after the explosions a German submarine was sighted, and the Britannia’s gnus were fired in the direction, while destroyers luuried there and dropped depth charges, The remainder of those on board the battleship were transferred to vessels which arrived from Gibraltar, and the Britannia heeled over and sank in deep water.