GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2381, 19 January 1922, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Punished for not wearing his tie in the correct maimer, a young French military airman has committed suicide. 'While on leave at Versailles, where lie was staying with his father, a retired colonei, he was reiirimanded in the street by a superior officer for not wearing his tie properly, and later, being reported for this offence, was sentenced to a fortnight’s imprisonment. He returned home, and was found dead on his bed with a revolver bullet in his brain.

Mile. Xad.jeda Standoff, the daughter of the Bulgarian Minister in London, has been appointed to the staff of M. Stamboulinski, the Bulgarian Prime Minister, who is attending the League of Nations at Geneva. Mile. Standoff acted as interpreter to the Bulgarian Prime Minister when he visited England in November, 1020. She speaks French, Italian, Russian, German, and English, and is now responsible for the translation of documents of international importance at Geneva. At the conclusion of the conference she will return to Bulgaria as secretary to the Bulgarian Prime Minister.

Arthur ('. Gulch, <>f Raspeburg, Maryland, lives to tell of: being whirled around twice inside the pad-dle-box of a steamer which struck a skill containing himself and two companions, one of whom was drowned. Gulch, B. Wesley Gulch, his brothci', and George R. Riflenlionse, were fishing two mile's off Annapolis when the ferry steamer Governor Harrington ran into (hem. Rittenhonse was drowned, Wesley Gulch was rescued, as was his brother. "It was the wildest ferris wheel ride I ever had." said Arthur Ga leh in describing his experience. “Rillenlionse was sitting on one side and I was sitting on the other, both of us holding tlm tiller. Alnmsf the moment 1 went overboard T fell something strike me, pushing me down deep into the wafer. Tl was the puddle wheel. The next minute ] was scooped up by the broad paddle, and twice T was whirled around inside the paddle wheel box before I was finally thrown again into the water. Fortunately, as I came to the surface T was clear of the wheel, and managed to catch a small piece of wreckage,”

An inquest was held at T.pholland, in Wifan coalfield, recently, on some gold coins found in the ruins of an old inn chimney in the town. Under the law this was necessary, as if no claim to any properly discovered by chance can be established it becomes treasure-trove and the property of the (frown. Tt was slated that the name of George Lyon, a notorious highwayman, was associated with the hoard. After his execution in Lancaster Castle, in .1.801, Lvon was buried at Upholland. The jury found that the money was treami re- 1 rove, Iml it was intimated on behalf of the Duchy of Lancaster l for the Crown) that the money would probably be returned to the tinders of it.

The ‘‘anti-jazz" clause made its ippenrance in Washington recently n Raises submitted by an agent for t small apartment house. Phonofraphs are classed with dogs, eats, ind parrots in the lease submitted o the lenaiils, who are also asked or increases iii rent. The lessee iereby covenants and agrees that r* will not keep or allow to be kept my dog, eat, parrots, gramophones ir phonographs in said apartment it- upon said premises,” reads one ■iattse in the lease.

United Stall's prohibition authorities inivi* asked for some of the obsolete types of destroyers and submarine chasers in the United Stales Navy to make war upon the whisky smugglers alone' tlie Atlantic coast. Prohibition Commissioner Haynes, summing tip reports of inspectors assigned to smuggling activities, emphasised in discussion with his superiors the urgent need at this time of a eoasl patrol which the authorities may employ effectively to slop the How of iiligitr Ijquor from abroad. Dry law officials base their hope for some of the navy’s ships on Director of the Budget K awes’ decision to transfer from the navy to other branches of the service ships that might otherwise be junked or sold at a sacrifice. As smuggling is growing more serious, officials believe the only solution is an efficient patrol of the coast by speedy Government ships.