Round the World

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 222, 21 October 1929, Page 2

Round the World

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

VARJ0US HAPPENINGS GABLE ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Cluttoriy Record. A shoemaker iu Berlin has beateu the world 1 s egg-eating record by coiisuming 7.5, eggs in 101 miuutes, defeating aii American who ate 74 iu 12 minutes. Sirth Control Commissioner Lamb said the Salvation A'rmv did not advocate birth control, because it did not believe there could be over many Britous in the world. Civii Aviation. The Air Ministry's annual re.po.rt shows that in all respects, including fiight mileage, passenger and freight cai'go, civil aviation iu Great Britain made great advancemeut during last year eompared with the previous twelve months. Rakovsky Deported, Rakovsky, ex-Soviet Ambassador at Paris, has been arrested by the Cheka and deported to Siberia. The deportation is regarded as the Soviet's reply tr Rakovsky's and Trotsky's joint application for readmissiou to the C.onimunist Party, Waterloo Bridge, The improvements committee has recommended tlie London Couuty Council to proceed forthwith with the reconditioning. and widening of "Waterloo bridge, which formerly was threatened with demolition. The central arches are now shored up, and a temporary ste.el bridge canues much of the traffic. Sun Bathing. Mr Lansbury, who is fast becomirig the fairy 'godmother of the Ministry, anj w.lio. ,is pften photogvaphed jsitting in childreu's swings in parks and supervising playgrounds, announces that he will allow sun bathing in Regent Park. He said, "I ani arranging a speclal site for sun 'bathing, with little shelter." As recent as two years ago people were fined for sun bathing in the parks as indecent.