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GERMAN POLITICS. SMILE THAT SAVED

CHANCELLOR REMAINS

CALM.

Berlin, September 26-While Germany continues to anffor under the National Socialist nightmare and by the perplexities of the politient situation in general, apart from the seriousness of economic conditions, the Chancellor, Dr. Bruening, and his Cabinet are re maining calm and collected. They are hard at work, putting on the finishing touches to the programme of the financial and administrative reform with which they intend, and hope, to cure the country's ills, challening with it at first the new Reichstag in the middle of next month,

Although full details are not yet known, it is understood that a serious attempt will be made to let all clauses of the German people suffer equally under the new and very heavy burden that will have to be shouldered.

MR. GLADSTONE.

DRAMA RECALLED BY "BROADMOOR" DEATH,

ARMED MADMAN WHO LOST

HEART.

A Downing Street drams of a years ago in recalled by the recent death in Broadmoor Criminal Luna tio Asylum of William Henry Townsend who in 1993 wrote a let ter threatening to murder Glad

stone-then Prime Minister.

Townsend was found guilty but insane, after a remarkable story had been unfolded at his trial at the Old Bailey, and was sentenced to be detained during the Queen's pleasure.

He was discharged in

1903 and 1927 for short periods,

An Obsession: Townsend had been a prospezous gunsmith in the North of England. His mind became unhinged in 1863 and he developed an obsession that he would do a servico to the nation by murdering Gladstone, whe was then Prime Minister for his fourth and last term of office,

One of there now lovies will prob ably be in the form of increased unemployment insurance premiurns which, it is reported, will be raised from the present 4.5 per cent to over six per cent. a final agreement on this point having not yet been reached even within the Cabinet, Another prominent feature of the programme is, it is reported, a

After writing his threatening let sweeping reduction of all civilter, Townsend journeyed to Lon service anlarice, the rate of reduc don with a loaded revolver. He tion ranging from five per cent in used to walk up and down Downing the lower grades to as much as 30 Street waiting for the Premier to per cent. in the salaries of tho Ministers of the Reichstag, a step appear, but was finally arrested, which will lead to a very serious lowering of the standard of life, especially amongst the very-poorly paid higher class officials.

THE "HINDENBURG'S " FATE.

Gladstone's Smille. Townsend confided to a friend during a period of sanity later:--

"Gladstone's back was turned to me and I was just going to take out my pistol and fire, when he

miled at me.

· HEAVY · DECLINE IN EMIGRATION.

ONLY 4,000 'GO TO AUSTRALIA IN SIX MONTHS.

Roturns for the first hall of the year show an outward balance of passengers from the United King dom to zon-European countries of only 929, as compared with ono 30,848 in the corresponding period of 1020. There was a heavy decrease in British omigration from 70,572 to 50,941,

The number of British omigrants to the British Empire during. the first half of 1030 was over £7,000,

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por ocnt. less than in the first six months of 1020. The mövoment to British North America during. the half-year was 32,033, or about half that in the first half of 1000, while in the casts of Australia and New Zealand the numbers fell from 577 to 4,298 and from 1,785 to 1,608 respectively.

The emigrants of British nation- ality to the United States numbor- ed 37,283 during the year ended June 30, 1930, as compared with. 24,764 during the your ended June 30, 1929. The British quota for land for the fiscal year ended June Great Britain and Northern Ira 30, 1920, was 34,007, but it was in- creanci) from July 1, 1999, to 65,271, and it is of interest to observe the incrosse in the number of emigrants in the later year.

The total number of immigrants of British nationality into the United Kingdom during the first six months of 1930 was 33,116, re- presenting an increase of 4,050 com- pared with the number of arrivals during the first aix months of 1999,

STREET DIN IN ROME.

RESULT OF ABOLITION OF TRAM-CARS.

"His smile was so charming that I hadn't the heart to shoot him."

Townsend had an apoplectic sei-ed to such an extent since the

PRIDE OF GERMAN NAVY TO zure some month ago,

: BE BROKEN UP.

The great battleship Hindenburg, unce the pride of the German Navy and now a scuttled wreck raised from the mud of Scapa Flow, left Stromness recently, Lowed by three tugs, on her last voyago. '.

Thousands of people assembled to cheer her her way to Rosyth, where she will be broken up.

The raising of Hindenburg was a £350,000 gumble that came off."

Salvago experts differed as to the possibility of raising the ship- which was one of the scuttled German fleet after it had been sur- rendered.

Three attempte were made in 'six] years all failures-but at last she was floated;

Divers who went down reported that the battle cruisers was covered

with growths twenty feet long and record-sized barangles and musales

The engines were intact, Inger and champagne bottles and glasses were found in the officers' quarters undisturbed.

Four floating docks were used in

the salvage work, with a large num- ber of steel caissons.

At an inquest at the Asylum, the Coroner recorded a verdict of "Death from natural causes.'

MYSTERY INSECT PLAGUE

CHILDREN REFUSE TO GO

TO SCHOOL...

A Plague of winged insects which even the College of Pestology has not yet definitely identified, troubling many parts of England and Wales.

Children at Mountain Ash, Glamorgan, were torrified by a aware of the pests and refuscul to go to school.

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The accts swarmed in house, spread on lawns until the grass could not be seep, and covered people in the streets.

Garden to the Strand swarmed An area of London-from Covent with thom. Surrey towns have been Heverely plagued.

Many readora of the Daily, Pumping operations went on day Express have written about the and night for a week, and then mystery insect. came the cry, "She's 'rising" and "RB" from Dinion, Essex, the bow of the vessel cleaved states

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through the surface of the water; 1 havo boon stormed by a queer It was the greatest salvage feat insect. My house is ridden with ever attempted, and it ended in

an insect which I suppose is due triumph.

The vessel has a tonnage of to the intense heat. It has wings. 28,000, and is 700 feet in length, slowly over everything. Its hue is and a good many logs and crawla with no feet beár.

Twenty-nine ships of the scuttled brown and its persistence damn fest, have been raised, and fifteen able. Can any of your readers toll steel lie at the bottom-some in me its name, as I am anxious to deep water.

tell it several home truths? The next vessel to be saived will The insect is described as half Good hotels in cool mountain perhaps be Von Der Tann, which bectls, half ant, about quarter of

is lying in thirty, fathoms, bottom an inch in longth. resorts.

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Hundreds of bedrooms are swarming with the treatures in Dunmow. Many of the residents have been spending half the night hunting them. They have been swept up from the floor with brooms and cartiell away in buckets.

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FRANCO-ITALIAN NAVAL CONVERSATIONS.

ITALY PRESSED FOR ACCEPTANCE.

The swarms are described as bedt ing against window panes like a shower of hail and keeping up t weird buzzing noise

Geneva, Eeptember 23-French

The College of Peatology cast official circles have given out the following

statement regarding the some light on the question, Franco-Italian naval conversations,Flagues of insects are being re **Conversations started in Paris ported from all parts of the cou and continued in Genova between try an official said, "because the M. Massigli (France) and Signor sudden hat weather has brought Rossi (Italy) have broken down, out the hordes waiting to be hatch From the beginning, the Italians ed, and they are now busily mak- made proposals which in their ing up for lost fooding time. Un- opinion should satisfy French de familiar beetles are very plenti mands but which, in fact signified, ful.”

Roman street noises have increas

abolition of the trams in the central area of the city that people árs beginning, to move away from the public squares wherever possible or are vigorously protesting agninet the bus and taxi drivers who set

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continual din with their horns that the average taxi driving in the and klaxons. It has been proved

city hoots no less than 63 times in a little over half a mile, while the blaxons on the "buses have become deafening...

Leading articles in the Rome Press on the subject point to Lob don as the most silent capital in the world, although it hna ten times as much traffic as Rome. Osservatore Romano also joined in the campaign against hooters.

The

Down with the noises," it "rice, and points out that the greatures of Rome," in the name of which the trams were abolished on January 1- this year, shows signs of fading away in the general din of the Roman traffic,

Fines for excessivo hooting have ful whether the suggestion will be been suggested, but it secans doubt- adopted.

NEW WAR ON NIGHT CLUBS.

THE HAUNTS OF WEST LONDON,

sirable night club, is to be started A new cruanda against unde- by the London police.

Night clubs have blossomed out and spread to a remarkable de- Breo, in West London during the past two months of summer. There

are now more than 6fty of these clubs within a mile radius of Pie- endilly-circus, and at many of thera the licensing regulations are broken oponly.

Drinks are served out of hours and members and visitors are ad- mitted without any restriction. The only qualification for menbor ship is payment at the doors

Prices charged are as exorbitant as ever. There is, too, still elaborate system of alarm signals. A bartender can easily be warned in the event of a surprise raid by the police.

Only a fow of those bogun clubs have anything more than a club licence, which costs five shillings, and does not carry the right to sell alcoholic liquor of any kind.

Even the small minority which allowing have upper licences Tekst úrink to be sold till 12.30 a.m. abuse the privilege, and champagne and whisky can be obtained-with- out question until goven o'clock in the morning. MADE A

that France had to accept the prin- An insect expert said 'Ifhin my ciple of naval parity, the position stery creature is probably a flying being the same as in London

ant such as has been swarming all

Europe..

naval parity was the chief over,"

of Italy.

"Massigli, una

Another and less daring section of the night-club. fraternity, which has at some time had it, licences rescinded for misbehaviour, but does not fool inclined to run the isk of fines or imprisonment for deliberate defiance of the law, it resorting to a new riso

unable to accept the thesis, looked for new formulas for a practical agreement and re- Roperty are current in Dresden cently made to Signor Rossi a aug that the well-known Communist geation based on the comparative leader Max Hools who some weeks naval programmes of both countries ago was attacked and badly injur until 1030. Those niggestions could ed by a bond of National. Socialist have been amended, but Italy an irowdics and for whose arrest a sure that the French, suggestions warrant was recently issued in con- Visitors are informed that drinks are not obtainable on the pre- the nection with certain Communist Italians had refund in London and outrages before the election, has mises, but can be sont out for if therefore the Conservations were

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A special staff of boys is kept to broken between "experts. Conversa deroplane. He is said to have been' tions, however, between the Govern appointed lecturer in civil war run to and from the club and an ments are not closed and France is taction at the Moscow Communist off-licence in the next street-own-

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