TO-DAY’S NEWS IN BRIEF

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22717, 23 May 1939, Page 8

TO-DAY’S NEWS IN BRIEF

OVERSEAS / ROYAL VISIT TO MOW ZEALAND Reports from Australia state It is probable that the Kins and Queen will visit Australia and New Zealand when the international .situation has been clarified. It Is considered that the visit would have followed the Canadian tour had the world situation been easier. POLAND AND DANZIG An exchange of Notes has occurred between Poland and Danzig as a result of the frontier shooting incident at Kalthof. The Polish Government demanded reparation for the damage to the customshouse: and an assurance for the safety of Polish nationals in Danzig. The Danzig Senate In n cnuuler-Note demanded an apology from Warsaw and the (landing over of the Pole, Muravvskl, who shot the Danzig resident Gmhncr. 1 T ALIAN-G Klt MAN I* A<' T It is reported from Berlin that Ihe Dalian-German Pact will Inst for 10 years and will ho renewable. It binds each party unconditionally to help the other if involved iu war, and restrains eaeli from signing a separate peace or remaining neutral. It is understood that supplementary pacts provide for marine and aerial co-operalion. but Germany retains supreme command. Ir.S. FOREIGN POLICY Pacific intercourse with oilier countries is the dominant purpose of Unilcd Stales foreign policy. Mr Roosevelt said in a message broadcast by Mr Cordell Hull. Mr Dull as.cried (bat economic isolation would re.su 11 iu swill disaster for the Unilcd Slates and I he? r .at of the world JAPANESE POLICY DECLARED Alter a meeting of (he Japanese Inner Cabinet it was announced Hint the Government bad unanimously decided not to countenance European agreements threatmine embroilment with Britain. Russia, and America. A well-organised minority vainlv piT.-rcl for the conversion of thr loom Anti-Comintern Pad into a definite understanding. NEW ZEALAND IMPORT REGCI ATIONS The import regulations are held to be Invalid in a reserved .judgment given by Mr Justice Cailau m the Supreme Court. Auckland. Tim Prime Minister (the Rl, linn. M. J. Savage) said the judgment would be examined by law olV'cers, and if it were deemed advisable Hie ease would he I.then to the Court of Appeal, If Urn lit ia I decision wane against Ihe Government, the necessary validating legblalion would immediately he introduced in Pailiamenl. HOME DEFENCE The National Parlv lia; decided to support strongly miivrruil military service for home del cnee. TTii- was announced vcslcrdav by Mr J. (largest, lIP,, who said that the most urgent need to-day was for trained men. DERAILMENT AT TEMCKA When a south-bound good,: train was partly derailed in Temuka station ,\ e>lerday a possible accident to Ihe northbound expte.-s which w;s approaching at the time was narrowly averted. The two neater signals were set against the express after it had passed the most, distant one, rout'd a curve from the derailment, which gave it a clear run. The lines in the station yards were not damaged bv the derailment, hut holt heads apparently sheered Irom rait joints were found for some di-tancc north of Temuka. The express was delayed for an hour. I’lllA HUE CASE The trial began in the Supreme Court, Auckland, yesterday, of Gordon Robert Me Key ami James Arthur Talbot. They are charged with arson at Pilot, with improperly interfering with a dead human body, and with conspiring to defraud an insurance company. Alter the Crown Prosecutor's oocttiitg addre.-s the I ourt adjourned to allow the fury to vail Piha and the Waikimiele cemetery. VAI.I’EEN DROPS DEAD One of Urn best -pet formed steeplechase horse.s m New Zealand. Valpeen, dropped dead about, .'ll) yatds from the wanning post during the tunning of the Waikato Steeplechase at ihe Waikato Racing Clubs meeting at To Rapa yesterday. Valpren twice won the Grat’d National Steeplechase at Ricca'ton, the hardest steeplechase run in New Zealand. 41.-)(in0 DAAIAGES CLAIMED In the Supreme Court. Christchurch, yesterday, general damages of £500(1 and special damages of £ 122 15s were claimed by Peter Brooky. of Wellington, a cabinetmaker. who alleged negligent driving against Frederick George Lynch, of Reefton, a hotelkeeper, as the caum of a collision on the Buffer Gorge road, in which plaintiff )e; t an arm, Mr Justice Northcroft will >um up when the Court resumes this morning.