Round the World

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 56, 9 April 1929, Page 2

Round the World

VAR.I0US HAPPENINGS GABLE ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. By Telegraph - Press Assoclatjon-OopyrlBht Lancaster Graslies. Lancaster, ivho is undertaking a flight round tlio Carribean Sea, was sliglitly injurcd and his plane smashed wlien lie crashed on icaving Trinidad. He struclc au air pocket after tlio start and fell while trying to retum to tho field. Chinese Naticnalists. As evidence of no conj&denoo in their ability to pteserve order. Nationalist offic'ials are suggesting tlie advisability of Japanc.se civilians witlidrawing from Thinan within threc months, althoug'n sa.feguarding was promiscd following exacuation of tho troops, Aircraft For China. An order for 12 more dc Haviland Moth light aircraft has been reccived from China. This hrings the total of Moth machines for China up to 22. After so manv years in which little business wtis done with China, this revival of interest in aviation is opening up a new market for British aircraft. Cold Imports. In view of the monetary situation, special interest attaches to a fact announced in the Lonclon Gazette thafc during the two days between noon on April 2 and noon on April 4 gold to the value of £8.3S,S47 was imported into Great Britain. Exports of gold amounted to only £SS7o, * this heing despatched to Australia. British Election. AYitli i\Ir Baldwin's return from Cliequers to-day the general elections rush commences in earnest. He will submit the Conservative programme to Cabinet on W'ednesday. Tliere will he an ever-increasing tiood of oratory by all parties till Ylay 30. Sir Robert vSamuel to-day is commencing a 3000 nn'les tour from Land's End to Jobn o' Groats, inaugurating tbrougbout Britain tlie Liberal campaign for which 10.000 meetings have been arranged. Bomb In Candy Eox. A dynnmite homh in a candy box addressed to Governor Roosevelt was found among the parcel post matter at the main station of New York City by a porter, who kicked the package, causing smoke to issue from it. The porter gave it anotlier hard kick, which niit the fire out, and then stamped oni the fuse hefore any damage was done. The package was marked with a return address, at which nothing appeared to he known of the liomb. The police are investigating tlie matter further to-night.