NEWS IN BRIEF.
In the House of Commons, the Home Secretary (Sir Wm. Joynson Hicks) in answer to a question said that for two years he had expelled all aliens residing in Britain if engaged in subversive activities. Consequently it was difficult to find an alien in Britain at present engaged in propaganda work.
A Buenos Aires message states, that twenty people are known to be dead and many families are homeless, while enormous damage has been done to property, by floods in Northern Argentina. Giving evidence before the Wireless Commission in Melbourne, Mr. Ackeroyd, of the Meteorological Bureau, said that since the introduction of wireless weather warnings no large ships had been lost on the Australian coast since the loss of the Koombana, but small commercial ships not equipped with wireless were continually being lost.
At the Australian Bisley, Walter Green, of Adelaide, won the King’s prize with a score of 379.
A late message from Sydney states that after a steaming day, the city last night was bombarded for an hour by the fiercest thunderstorm, and heaviest downpour experienced for a long time. The streets ran inches deep with water and there was considerable property damaged from leaking roofs and flooded basements.
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Wairarapa Age, 12 March 1927, Page 5
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204NEWS IN BRIEF. Wairarapa Age, 12 March 1927, Page 5
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