BRITISH DELEGATION IN HUNGARY

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24503, 28 February 1945, Page 3

BRITISH DELEGATION IN HUNGARY

(Rec. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. Feb. 26. The first* members of the British delegation to the Allied Control Commission in Hungary have arrived, m Debreczen to take up their duties. The head of the mission is Major-Gen-eral O. P. Edgcumbe. A ~ The- British political representative in Hungary; Mr A. D. F. Gascoigne, has also amvedJn^D^brec^^ Buyer’s Conduct Criticised—The Land Sales Committee had laid down a policy some months ago that it wmucl refuse a sale where it was thought that the buyer had been guilty of running ' tin the price at auction to an absurd figure in the hope'that the committee would cut the price down, said the chairman (Mr K. G. Archer) at a sitting of the Christchurch Urban Land Sales Committee yesterday. The committee refused to approve the sale of a house property at 137 George street, New Brighton, from the Perpetual Trustees Estate and Agency Company, Ltd., trustees in the of Mary Helena Phillips, to B. W. Wellbourn and E. C. Wellbourn for £IO9O, the price reached at auction. The Grown valuation was £620, and it was recommended that the trustees sell the property to a buyer prepared to keep within the spirit of the law. - . .. Air Defence of U.S.— The United States will be the first target In the next war,” says General H. H. Arnold, chief of the United States Army Air Forces, in his annual report. “Henceforth, successful aggression must come by air. Therefore, our first line of defence must be the air,” General Arnold urges the prompt scrapping of obsolete aeroplanes, saying that otherwise air force developments will be retarded as after the last war.—Wash, ington, February 26.