NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 190, 21 November 1910, Page 3

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

TALKS 01'" HEKOJSM. "XEW HAMPSHIRE' - MIDDY RESCUES TEX MEN. Xew York. October 3. With the announcement of the probable death list. in connection with the disaster to a boat of the battleship Xew Hampshire in the Hudson River, many tales of personal heroism were made known.

Rear-Admiral A'reeland strenuously denies that the barge was overloaded; it had on board about ninety men. of which number sixty-one are accounted for. The accident was due to the ship's steam cutter towing- the barge into'tinwash of a large excursion steamboat. The waves swamped the boat and itung the men in a struggling mass into the water.

The darkness, the choppy waves, ana the heavy tide militated against even the strongest swimmer. Boats at once put out from the shore, 200 yards from the scene of the accident, and rescued many. Others clung to the barge. Some, however, who were not able (o battle' with the waves were swept away and perished within sight of the glittering lights of the apartment houses in the. Washington Heights section of the eitv.

Midshipman Chevalier, who was in charge of the steam cutler towing the barge, plunged into the water and succeeded in rescuing ten men, finally becoming exhausted. He was taken in a semi-conscious condition on board the New Hampshire.

A seaman named Painter saved four comrades; his strength then gave out,; and he perished. According to an official statement, it is believed that twenty-nine men of the battle-ship Xew Hampshire lost their lives in the boat accident, while eighteen others who are missing m ay also have been on the lost tender.

BOGUS DETECTIVE. STOLE JEWELLERY WHILE At'T--IX3 AS PROTECTOR. London, October o. A detective on the track of supposed housebreakers was the ingenious role adopted by George Mill yon. aged 25, ot Bath-place, Upper-street, Islington, to gain admittance to the house of Mr. U. F. Tattersall, at 14 Pollards-liill. North Xor bury. After his departure it was discovered that jewellery valued at £3O had disappeared, and for the theft Malycn was charged at C'roydon Sessions yesterday. The stolen jewellery comprised a diamond ring, two gold brooches, lady's gold watch and 'chain, four golj scarf'pins and a pair of earrings.

Miss Tattersall was left alone in -the house one afternoon in June, and hearing someone ringing the front door bell, she went to a window and saw the prisoner. She' did not answer the door. The prisoner' Continued knocking and ringing,- and afterwards she heard the door being shaken. She went to the door and found it open. Prisoner had his foot inside, and on seeing her, he | said, "Do you know, miss, tnat your front door is open?" -He-then told her that he was a private detective and that there were two rough fellows outside, one at the door and the other at the window.

Assuring her that lie was a detective, he said "1 shall look over the house." Miss Tattersall accompanied him, and when in her brother's room he said he would remain there to watch if the men came back. She left him in the room for a time, lie was in the liouse about three-quarters of an hour, and during that time asked for something to drink, as he wes thirsty. He refused ale, saying that he was a teetotaler, so she gave hime some soda-water. Being nervous,, she asked him to remain with her until her people came back, and he said lie would give her a quarter of an hour. Aiter having had a cup of tea he said he ''must go and see his man, who was at the bottom of the road," and would not be more than ten minutes. He went away and did not return.

When arrested, prisoner said, '"I went into the house. She found me in the passage. I had to put up some tale to get out of the house without her screaming. I know I am a thief, but I was dressed like a gentleman, and I behaved like one to her. I wanted some money." He was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour.

IXDIAX ARMY'S SCOURGE. ENTERIC TO BE SWEPT FROM THE BARRACKS. LORD KITCHEXER'S VIEW. London, October 5. There was a notable assembly at the Middlesex Hospital to support Lord Kitchener, who distributed the prizes yesterday on the reopening of the medical school for the winter session. As the hospital contains no large hall a marquee had been erected for the accommodation of the numerous company. Previous to the meeting Lord Kitchener inspected a contingent of the hospital corps, sixty-five strong. They belong to the medical branch of the University oi London Officers' Training Corps. There were present in the marquee Field-Marshal Lord Grenfell, the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, the Hon. Walter Rothschild, Sir Henry Morris, -Mr. S. B. Joel, Mr. J. B. Joel, Sir Squire Bancroft, Mr. Somerville Hastings, and the Mayors of Westminster and St. Marylebone. Prince Francis of Teck, the chairman of the hospital, who has laboured so assiduously and successfully to clear the institution from debt, sent a telegram from Balmoral expressing his regret at not being well enough to attend. After an introductory address by Mr. W. Salmon Nowell, Lord Kitchener inadei

the prize distribution. 1 Dealing with India, Lord Kitchener said that the scourge of the Army in the East, enteric fever, was now at last definitely yielding to improved sanitary methods, and to the system of innoeulation which had now become almost universal. Enteric would before long, he believed, join the formerly dreadeu cholera in total banishment from our barracks in India. Malaria, however, continued, too often, to liaii'le their efforts, and produced dire effects on the constitutions of the soldiers, in spite of the expenditure of money and energy that had taken place. Measures that had been successful in exterminating malaria elsewhere were impossible in a country where native sanitation and water snppiv were not under British control, and where the disease was endemic. WHERE ENGLAND LAGS. I am sorry t.o think (Lord Kitchenei continued) that England lags behim other nations in tli« struggle for the prevention of disease by means of im proved treatment and sanitary methods

but this conclusion, forces itself upon me | when I see what America has achieved, not only generally, but even in so apparently hopeless an area as the Isthmus of Panama. I am glad, however, to acknowledge that there has been a marked improvement in the interest which is taken up by the public in such in.att.ers' aR the prevention of tuberculosis, the treatment of cancer/ ami in support ot

military service must remember that the training which turned out competent medical men for civil work was quite inadequate in equipping medical officers for the snecial m-eds r? h.' ivniv ill war {line. This was brought home to us durinjr the Souili A'ricun war. Before a | medical man could he of reil utility in j the Held lie mu~t go tlmmjn a thorough training in the organisation and routine ! l.'oth of the Armv caul of the R.A.M.C., j [ and he shonM acquire acknowled/i:' of the -qn'iii'ic condition- of the I Armv both in camp and barrack life. I I . I