WORLD HAPPENINGS ILLUSTRATED

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20821, 3 June 1939, Page 22 (Supplement)

WORLD HAPPENINGS ILLUSTRATED

The first trial with the new sledge was not very successful, but the snow was soft.

Following the lead of her powerful neighbour Poland has her own Parachute Corps, who loaded with full equipment arc trained to jump by parachute,

Just as the famous Blondin formerly walked on a line suspended across Niagara Falls, the modern electrician is balancing on a steel wire high above the street in an English town during his work with the trolley-bus netting.

The Australian police have made interesting tests by directing their dogs by wireless. A wireless receiver with loud-speaker is tied on the dog's back and it has shown that the dog willingly executes the orders his master gives through the loud-speaker. The picture shows a “wireless dog.’*

If someone is ill in the house and she complains that reading is difficult owing to the bed facing the light, try hanging a mirror at the back of the bed. and it will catch the light and reflect it on to the book or paper, making it very simple and quite comfortable to read. To those who cough, and those who need Too frequently to blow their noses At church or public meetings, heed The secret that my pen discloses. No need to be a nuisance now. To man or child or maid demure. How can you stop? I’ll tell you how. Dose up with Woods’ Ureal Peppermint Cur* (30*

Frau Uollfuss, the widow of the former Austrian Chancellor (at r.) snapped in Victoria Street, London, with a friend.

Sir Henry Wood, the famous British conductor, celebrated his fiftieth anniversary as a professional conductor and he was presented with a rare Stradivarius, which he is seen examining with a Bond Street connoisseur of violins.

Hr. Emil Hacha, new President of Czechoslovakia, photographed when he recently deposited (lowers at the Unknown Soldier’s tomb in Prague. The President, is seen between General Jan Syrovy and General Krejci.

The little Grand-D-uchy of Luxembourg, situated between Ger»many, France and Belgium, celebrated on April 22 the anniversary of its independence. This is the principal castle in Luxembourg.

Madrid suffered during: the war by a lack of fuel, and everywhere the inhabitants are seen removing tlie wood from barricades and barbed wire posts to use it for fuel.