Round the World

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 56, 8 April 1929, Page 2

Round the World

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

VARJOUS HAPPENINGS GABLE ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Air Force Cross. The Air Force Cross lias been awarded to live It.A.F. officers for services in" connection witli thc evacuations from Kahui. Indian Air Mail. The first Indian air mail an-ived at Ivaraelii on Saturday, completing tlie 5000 miles journey in just ovcr seven days. Ready To Attack Kabul. Nadir Khan is sixtv miles from Kahui and is ready to attack the capital. He lias strong trihal support. He refuses to become lving on the grounds of liealth. Anzac Day. All the forces who landed at Gallipoli will be represented in a ceremony at the Cenotaph on Anzac Day. French detachments will join the Anzacs in placing wreaths on tlie monument. British Railways. The British railways last year carried nearly 22,000,000 passengers more than in 1927, yet receipts from passengers showed a deerease of £1.200,000. This is attributed to cheaper fares. Bequest To Charity. Tlie late Mr John Earl Sharman, wool merchant, of Bradford, who left £769,000, bequeathed £20,000 for charitahle objccts in Britain and the dominions. cxcluding religious and foreign missions or instutions connected witli municipal and public hodies. Verdun's Tragic Record. Two deaths and several injuries from a shell explosion are added to Verdun's tragic record. Twelve Lille students were singing round a fire lit in an old shell hole at Fort Bouaumont whcn a terrific explosion teiminated the patriotic hymns. The lieat had exploded an old shell. Street Accidents. A Home Office return of street accidents in 1928 shows that in England and Wales those killed totalled 5489, and injured 150,535; in Scolland the fatalities total 649 and the injured 14,303. All disclose an increase over 1927. Tliev exclude rail, river and air accidents, but include deaths therefrom. Prohibition Enforcement. The U.S. Treasury Department has issued figures showing that at least 197 persons have lost their lives as a result of aetivities connected' with the enforcement of prohibition since 1920. by which 25 of the deaths oecurred within the last fifteen months. These figures do not include deaths at tlie "haftds of coastguard and customs officials, among wliom eiglit deaths were recently reeorded. Submarirte Arctic Trip. Tt is received that Sir Hubert Wilkins has postponed until July, 1929, his suhmarine Arctic trip. Tfc is explained that tlie postponeiuent was decided upon because of the shortness of the time in which to compile the necessary plans. Tlie decision for the postponement was made within the last 48 liours. Putnam said: "Certain contingencies arose that convinced us tlie time element is too pressing." The Buzen Sma6h. The death roll from the train smash totals 24. Many were so mangled that identification was impossible. The coaches crashed down an embankment. Relief trains were despatched to the scene. Tlie worst of the sixty iiijured were lodged at tlie Bobaca hospital and the others hvought to Bucharest. A blizzard has interrupted eommunications. The authorities state that the dead and seriously wounded were robbed of all valuables during the night following tlie smash. The line is still impassable. A uointsman who disappeared after the disaster surrendered to the police, asserting liis innocence.