GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2049, 1 November 1919, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Pamela Bianco, the little 12-year-old artist who recently exhibited her drawings at the Leicester Galleries, had sales to the extent of over £I,OOO, and has made arrangements with a well-known London publisher to publish her drawings. They will he brought out in time for the autumn season.

Nearly 1,000 civilians have returned to dwell amid the ruins of Ypres, says the Paris Daily Hail. Some 54 auherges and estaminets are open, nearly all temporary wooden structures, which do a thriving business with British soldiers and with tourists, of whom on one day there wero-0,000. A waterspout which burst about Tobermory, Argyllshire, on a recent night, spread a shower of herrings over the town and part of the Sound of Mull. They fell in heaps on pavements and roofs. The gulls were quickly eating them up, and later these were assisted by hens, ducks, and cats. People were wakened by the screaming seabirds.

One million pounds worth of bullion in ingots has been salved from the liner Lanvontic, sunk during the war off Lough Swilly, Co. Donegal. This is only part of (ho Laurentic’s bullion. Salvage operations are only ■possible in calm weather, as the wreck lies in an exposed position. The Laurentie, serving as an auxiliary cruiser, was sunk* by a mine or submarine, in .January, 1917. She was a 15,000-ton White Star liner. The, Mayor of Dunkirk, while at Dover, presented the Mayor of Dover, on behalf of Dunkirk, with a medallion forged from a German bomb dropped on Dunkirk as a souvenir and a link between the two towns.

The German National Assembly adopted by 123 votes to 117 a motion by the woman deputy, bran Agnes (Independent Socialist), -according to which members of any families that have at any lime ruled in Germany may not be elected Imperial President. Tin* police of Japan, il appears, do not approve of kissing in public, and accordingly cinema!ographed “stars” aire.nol permitted to kiss on the screen, in (lie six months ended March Ist the police censors removed no fewer than 2,350 kisses from various hints. The only kiss permitted to remain was that granted to Columbus by Queen Isabella, and was shown in Tokyo exclusively, (he censors deleting it before permitting the him —which was entitled “Columbus” —to be exhibited in the provinces.

Wearing mourning for her husband, Private. Morris, who was otlicially reported killed, Mrs Morris, who was employed in a Brighton shop, saw a soldier glancing at the goods in the window, and recognised him as her‘husband. She ran out and embraced him. Morris, who was a victim of shell shock in (lie last stages of the war, was discharged from a Mods hospital suffering from loss of memory, his identity being completely lost. He recovered with the recognition of his wife.

A North Sea pilot who arrived at Deal reports having seen a sea-lion asleep on (Iff Goodwin Sands. This was apparently “Billikin,” the sub-marine-hunting sea-lion, which escaped from Shoreham harbour. It is believed to be making its home on the Goodwins, where (here is abundance of lish and good sleeping accommodation when the tide is low. A reward of £IOO awaits its captor.

Six hundred head of live poultry and 284 sheep have been sent from England to the fanners of Ypi'es. They arc the gift of the British Agricultural Belief of Allies Committee. Later in (he year an agricultural show will he held, projmhly in the Grand Place at Ypres, at which the stock will be exhibited in competition.

It is announced that a mail will probably leave England for Tristan da ('unha towards the end of the month. Until 191(5 no mail had been made up in England for delivery to this —“the loneliest British possession” —for 10 years. This' small group of islands in the South Atlantic is nearly *2,000 miles from the nearest land, and the inhabitants, numbering 105 persons in 1918, who are mostly the descendants of: the original British garrison, have practically no communication with the outside world.

Serge Henri de Lenz, alleged to be a Raffles in real life, using a limousine to commit thefts in hotels, shops, and at the houses of his aefjuainlances, has been arrested in the Hue Berlioz, Paris. A detective, pretending to be intoxicated, stumbled in front of the vehicle, and as it swerved toward the pavement, another detective jumped in and seized de Lenzv Boxes filled with goods worth £3,200 were found in his lodgings.