Round the World

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 71, 26 April 1929, Page 2

Round the World

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

VARJOUS HAPPENINGS I GABLE ITEMS OF GENERAL : INTERESTa

! Woman's Recorti Flight. ; Elinor Sniith Juuded thi>j afternoon, crcatnig a uomun's soln ondurance j'Ccord oi -> liuiirs 21 uiinutes 32 i scconds. Super Lincrs Of 75,000 Tons. Tlio Dailv TolcKrapli is relialdv infonut'd that thc Cunard Coinpany iutonds huildino two super iiners of 7o, DU0 tous, desiftned to attain a speed giving tlicin world supremacy. "Colonel Barker." "ColPiu'l Barkcr," tlio woman wlio paradcfl a^ a man and uout througli a t'orni of marriage with a girl, was found guiltv of signing a false statement in the regi.stor of liiarriagcs. Shc was to lie sentcuiced yesterday. Graf Zeppelin. 'i'lie {rraf Zeppelin. flying towards the Afediterranean. passerl Clialones-suj-Saone. Aloulins. ('ainoca, Lisbon, Seville, Uuelva, Tangior and Gibraltar. H eovered 1 ()!)."> miles in 20 liours and dropped mailbags at several eitica. General Booth. Thc War Crv announoos that General Booth js st i 1 1 eontinuing his cliancery aetiou, luit this, heing cntirely a guc.stion of law.-it has heen agreed with thc Salvatinn Ariny eojninissionI ors iliat it sliall lio decided in a eomparativelv siniplc and eeonomical way. Precautions Against Plague. 1o prevent Bthe introduction of plague and other discases, tlie Spanish Gorcrnmcnt has hanned imports of fruit anl vegetables from Japan, tlic United States, Canada and Nrw Zcaland. Cargoe.s on routo will he suhiected fo sciontiiie exsunination. Jf susjieet thev will ho destroyed or returned. Ultimatum To Strikers. Judge Lujiin. in a niandamns to ihe Australian strikers. orders them to return to work. undcr the ronditions of ihe Full Court's order, v.-]nCli providos for a |S hour.s' rveek. l'f thev disobey | thev will be oited again and'liable f o ! lines of £100 or 1 hroe months • in gaol. The mon wero givon till yester- I day to comply.

U.S. Farm Bills. Mr Mf-Narry warned the Fnited Stales Sennte that President Hoover would voto Ihe Farm Bill if it eonLained dehenture elauses. and he. askod the Senate to eliminate this subsidy feature. whieh was so ohieetionshle to ihe President. Aleanwhile Senator Carrnway is- leading a hloe to insist- on ihe dehenture plan in definnee of ATr FToover. The debate is likelv t-o continue for ten dnvs.