NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1951, 13 March 1919, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Caffarelli Palace in Rome, formerly occupied by the German Embassy, is to be demolished after the remains of its ancient monuments, among them the site of the Temple of Jupiter Ikaa'c been unearthed. The Channel port lights at Calais and Dunkirk and the light of the Gap Gris Ncz were - relighted last November, for the lust time since Avar broke out. Thousands of jjpople on the Kent coast cheered these evidences of peace. Since August, 1011, the Empire and our Allies have received from India the vast quantity of 2,500,000 tons of oils and oil-seeds, notably linseed, groundnuts, rape, sesaimuu, copra, castor and cotton, to a total A-alue of £31,000,000, The French Chamber is to be asked by its AdniinistratiA-e Committee to approve a proposal that all the Allied Governments bo invited to de-clare-November lltb, the date of the signing of the armistice, an annual national holiday.

All preA-ious records-in ship-fin-ishing have been beaten by Messrs Workman, Clerk and Co., Belfast, avlio have completed n standard ship of 8,000 tons in three and threequarter days. The previous record avus that of Messrs Harlntfd and Wolff, avlio finished one in live days. London Avas -protected from Gotha raids by a vast system of nets suspended from balloons thousands of feet above. The wires would have eiit the most powerful machine in lavo. The Germans never kneAv quite where these nets Avere, and every trip the danger was magnified,