GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2102, 13 March 1920, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

During' an eartlupuike shock felt in the south of; France, a hell rang which had not made a sound for 20 years.

A workman lias been suffocated at Leith by falling into a corn hopper and being buried in the wheal. Ho was discovered through his cap, which was found lying on the lop.

A prominent West End firm utilised the ITandley-Page London to Paris Air Service to transport a substantial consignment, weighing 2,0001 b., of Christmas delicacies from Paris for sale in London. Their seasonable character necessitated the rapid transport of these goods, and their conveyance afforded proof of the growing confidence in the use of aircraft, for rapid transport.

An odd" result of a mistranslation lias occurred in connection with a wreath placed by the British Prime Minister on the Cenotaph at A bitehall. On a card attached to the wreath Mr Lloyd George bad written the words: “'A humble token of gratitude to those who died, that we might live more abundantly.” The phase'“more abundantly” is, of course, from the Bible, and means simply that we may live a fuller, nobler life. But in many German newspapers the sentence is reproduced us if “more .abundantly”

meant more luxuriously, and one German paper quotes it ns “an astonishingly frank admission of the real objects of the war.” A burglary, of the Criminal Museum in the Berlin police headquarters is one of the offences for which two brothers named Strauss are “wanted.”’ They were about to be arrested in their own house, but escaped after they and their friends had tired 80 shots and wounded three detectives. They broke into the police museum because they knew that they would bo able to get possession there of the most peifect burglars’ instruments. They have done several terms of penal servitude.