Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 170, 8 October 1927, Page 1

Cable Jottings

AUTOGYRO FLIGHT.—An autogyro machine, which has been built for the British Air Ministry, made a crosscountry flight of 50 miles. This was the first achievement of the kind.—A. find N.Z. EX-PREMIER A MONX.—A former Premier of China, Mr. Wu Tseng Tsiang, has entered a Benedictine monastery at Bruges, according to a promise he made t - ’-*s late wife, who was a Belgian. 'd X’.Z.-Sun. NAVAL PIS. —lt is reported that the Danish :iavul steamer Hermod sank in a gale in the North Sea. Lifeboats and hatch covers have been washed ashore at Jutland. It Is feared that the crew of 21 was drowned.A. and N.Z.-Sun. FRANCE AND toOVIET- —According to the newspaper “Le Soir” the Russian Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Tchitcherin. stated in an interview that he has refused to recall the Soviet Ambassador Rakowsky from Paris.— A. and N.Z. GREAT PAINTER.—Prince Henry opened yesterday at Ipswich an exhibition of pictures by Thomas Gainsborough on the occasion of the bicentenary o? the painter’s birth. The exhibits have been insured for over £500.000. They include 50 masterpieces from galleries at Home, and from private collections in Britain ao4 America.—A. aas