MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, 9 April 1928, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

CABLE AND TELEGRAPH NEWS. Fast Ships ordered.—The American branch of a Swiss firm of engineers, Brown, Bovcri and Company, has received an order from the American Government for the construction of six 36,000-ton vessels with a speed of 33 knots, destined for a iour-day service from New York to Southampton, to compete with the proposed British monsters. The United States Government is advancing the capital at 2'/, cent.

Earthquake in Italy.— At Tolmczzo slight earthquake shocks were felt, but no damage is reported. Nineteen persons have been killed in this region in ten days by earth tremors with damage exceeding £500,000.

Russian Runs Amok.—After a fire in the house of a Russian refugee, Votkevitch, in the village of Bjergsted, a search revealed that his wife, son, daughter, and mother-in-law had been brutally murdered in their beds with an axe. Votkevitch then set the house on fire before hanging himself from a rafter in an upper room. Much Discussed Film.—" Dawn” will be shown at a leading West End theatre. The management says it obtained the film in the face of the fiercest competition ever known in the trade. Fatal Aeroplane Crash.—Flying-Offi-cer Stewart Davison, while flying above the village of Dunmurray, near Belfast, crashed, killing an eight-year-old girl who was playing if. the main street. Davison was seriously injured.

Wireless Telephony.—The development of the German beam system has been sufficiently advanced to permit of direct telephony with New York, thus cutting out the British Rugby relaying station.

Fate of Trotsky.—The Soviet is kept busy denying a series of rumours about Trotsky, the latest of which is that he was accidentally rbot while hunting.