GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2379, 14 January 1922, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Barefooted and accompanied by a dog, an American named Hippolyte Martinet passed through Terrilet, Switzerland, recently on a walking tour round the world. He carried his entire belongings on hi.s shoulders. He said he had started from Seattle, Washington, and had crossed the Rockies to the Atlantic. His subsequent route was by way of Antwerp, Paris, Lyons, Marseilles, Nice and Geneva. A cat belonging to Mrs Reid, who lives in Dalgely Street, Edinburgh, suddenly attacked its mistress in the house and bit her severely on the left leg. Continuing its mad career round the rooms, it eventually dived into a gas oven. A police constable arrived and tried to coax the cat out of the oven, but, this proving of no avail, he shut the oven door, turned on the gas, and the creature was given a merciful death. Mrs Reid’s injuries were so severe that she had to be treated at a hospital.

One of lho most remarkable deportation cases in the history of the United States Immigration Department occurred when nameless twin girl babies, barely a month old, and found in a suitcase in the Detroit - Windsor (Ontario) ferry boat, were deported by the Detroit immigration authorities. The twins, who are known as Nos. 1 and 2, were abandoned by a woman who intended to drown them, but, it is stated, lost her nerve. On their arrival at Windsor they were taken to a local Children’s Aid Society pending the ..result of a search for the woman. The national memorial to the late Captain Albert Ball, V.C., D. 5.0., described by Air Marshal Sir Hugh Trenohard as “the most daring, skilful and successful pilot the Royal Air Force has ever had,” was unveiled by Sir Hugh in the grounds of Nottingham Castle recently in the presence of a great crowd. The memorial -hows the young airman—who, when lie was killed in May, 1017, was only 20—in the act of buckling on his belt before a flight, and he is dressed in the style adopted by airmen during the early part of the war. He is bareheaded, as was his custom when flying. Sir Hugh Trenehard said that Captain Ball was engaged in more than 200 air lights, and that he was known to have brought down 4f> enemy machines. He was only a boy, but he was typical of the spirit of English youth, and by his life and death he illuminated the English character. “He made the most of his time. He utilised every minute in his crowded life; and by the manner of his death he established a tradition in the Air Service for all to follow.”