Round the World

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 216, 12 October 1929, Page 2

Round the World

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

VARIOUS HAPPEMINGS GABLE ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

War Minister Abroad. Mr Toin Shaw, Secretary for War, and Mr O. G. Ammon, Parliamentary Secretary to th'e Admiralty, arrived at Eome yesterday and are dtie to-day at Naples enr route for Malta. Tliey will make a brief stay at Gibraltar on the journey back to England. The visits are of a purely departniental character. Daring Rcbberyj Remarkable daring was shown bv a thief in broad dayliglit in Sydney. He dived. his liand iiito the back of a stationary car and ran off with a bag containing £550 in notes. A number of people witnessed the theft- and 'called out, but the tliief got clean away before the occupant of the car could do anything. Palestine Commission. The niembers of the commission of inquiry in the recent Palestine disorders are expeeted to lcave England within the nest few days. Since the appointment of the commission 'magistrates and local offieials in Palestine have collected written evidenee, which will be placed before the commissioners on their arrival, and oral evidenee, which will be taken from representatives of Arabs and Jews, Yeiephone Duplication. Following a Tapid increase in teiephone' calls between England and the Continent, the firm of Siemens Brothers, of Woolwich, has received an important contract to make and lay a new Anglo-Belgian cable. The estimated cost will considerably exceed £100,000. The cable, over 75 miles in length, will be a duplieate of the land and submarine line laid on the same ronte in 1926. The work will begin almost at once. Ahtaristic* Exploration. _ Flying the Falkland Island flag, William Sco'reshy left Simonstown last night for the' South Shetlands, in the Antarctic. Sir Hubert Wilkins joins him at Deception Harbour, where he has two sea planes, with the object of locating shoals of whales and to explore the Antarctic coast and possible whaling bases. Scoresby will be joined in 1930 by the Discovery 11. At present lie will devote his attention' to whale marking by darts and sounding. Three hundred whales Were marked off Africa.