GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2043, 18 October 1919, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Samuel Milos, tailor, ot . Plumstead, London,-was; unconscious for 25 days owing to an injury (0 his head, said to have been kitlieled in a struggle with two soldiers, who are in custody. A number of lads found a shell in the Tournament Hall in Liverpool, and, knocking oft’ the fuse cap with a hammer, applied a lighjed match to the contents of the shell. One youth., aged S, alter Briscoe, was killed, whilst several others were injured. .

Eva Elizabeth, Countess ol Harrington, who died on -June*2oth,

widow of the eighth Lord Harrington, sister of the Marquis- .of Lincolnshire, and daughter of the second Lord Carrington, has left T3C.SO9. An endorsement on the will redds; “I do not wish any women to be present at my funeral, and no flowers.” A new, as well as a novel, use for the cinema has been found in America. Realising that thousands of former service men are unwilling to return to pre-war occupations, the authorities feature different trades mi the films, so that sailors and soldiers may decide what work, will best suit them. The pictures exhibit in detail the, nature .and requirements of the various industries for which men are wanted. Army huts are now for sale for about £IOO a piece all over England. They measure 00 feet by 15 feet, are about 8 feet high, and have a living room, three bedrooms, scullery, larder, eoalhouse, etc. Furniture and fixtures to convert it into a dwel-ling-house cost approximately £3OO, The furniture and fixtures in the specimen homes now being exhibited are designed .to save labour, while (lie floor coverings can he readily cleaned, hut will not soon he spoiled. 'Tim hangings arc of cotton, and strike tluNchiof note of gaiety in the scheme. Despite strong protests from the French Government against the removal of the bodies ok Amorieuii soldiers from French cemeteries until after January, 1922, the majority of the the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Gommittee have decided that-the State Department should make every effort to secure the return of these bodies within the. next few months. In reply.to 75,000 inquiries sent to the parents of fallen soldiers, the chairman of the committee declared that 75 per cent, ask for the return of their dead, iind he insisted that the Government nivi- t keep its solemn prondse. A.n army captain, who before the. war was employed as a railway porter on the London and North-West-ern line at Blaby station, Leicestershire, has just been demobilised, and has refused the company's offer to lie reinstated in his old job. He enlisted in Kitchener’s Army, joining .a, Leicestershire battalion, and was twice wounded. He was sent homo for his commission, and after returning to aeljvc service gained promotion to the rank of captain. - Negotiations have been entered into with the railway company with a view to some suitable position being offered to him. Failing that, the yoiing officer intends to go abroad and try his fortune in a now Held. That “golden smile” the pools love to juggle with has turned out literally (rue with George F. Conroy, a conductor, of Jersey City.; The smile which Conroy gives in exchange for every ticket helped to shorten the daily journeys-of one of his passengers. Mr, .J. J. Adams, who was so impressed with the conductor’s amiability has willed him £3,000.