CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24988, 24 September 1946, Page 7

CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF

Red Army Renamed ‘Soviet Army.” —The Ruqpian military administration in Berlin has notified the other administrations that in future the Red Army, Navy, and Air Force would be called the Soviet Army, Soviet Navy, and Soviet Air Force.—Berlin. September 22.

Food Parcels for Britain.—The “Daily Mail” says Australia and New Zealand are now Britain 20,000,000 free fooa parcels a year.— London, September 22.

New Pacific Shipping Service.—The new passenger and cargo ship service between Australia, New Zealand, the Orient, and the Pacific coast, planned by W. R. Carpenter and Company, Ltd., will be inaugurated at the end of September with the Rabaul, which carries 12 passengers. A second ship, the Lautpka, will enter the service at the end of November or early in December. Two more ships will be acquired. The service will operate bimonthly between * Vancouver, other Pacific coast points, Australia, New Zealand, and perhaps other south Pacific areas, including the Philippines and China. Cargoes from the Pacific will be primarily copra for Carpenter’s factories in Vancouver.—Vancouver. September 22. Fonner Doctor to Mufti Sentenced.—

A .criminal court in Alsace sentenced Dr. Pierre Schrumpf, formerly the Grand Mufti Husseihi’s personal medical attendant, to life imprisonment for espionage. The prosecutor /described Schrumpf as a high-class adventurer, drug trafficker, and abortionist, who had organised the German spy network in Syria.—Paris, September 22. German Machinery for Russia.—The United States Military Government in Germany has officially stated that manchin ery from a subterranean aircraft factory near Mannheim is being sent to Russia for reparations.—Frankfurt, Septemb®’* 99

Sunspots Interrupt Communications. —Sunspot activity bfroke down radio and cable communications between America and the rest of the world from 5 a.m. (Neft York time) on Sunday. Communications to Australia were cut off for eight hours, after which cable transmission was restored. Transmission to Europe and South America functioned intermittently, with long interruptions.—New York, September* 22.

Trains Collide Near Nancy.—Seven persons were killed and 13 injured when a goods and a passenger train collided on the main line between France and Switzerland near Nancy.— Paris. September 22.

N.S.W. Engineering Union Dispute.— More than 20,000 members of the New South Wales branch of the Amalgamated Engineering Union will hold a stop-work meeting on October 14 unless they receive £1 a week rise. The union is one of seven comprising the Metal Trades’ Federation, which has banned overtime because of the employers’ refusal to grant £1 increase in pay. The Amalgamated Engineering Union plans stop-work meetings in all states.—Sydney, September 23.

Faroe Islands Plebiscite.—The Danish Government has issued a statement that the plebiscite in the Faroe Islands neither changes the island’s political status nor entitles the local Parliament to proclaim their independence. “A Unilateral act of this character cannot be recognised by the Danish Government,” says the statement “Any change in* the present status must result from negotiations between the Faroes Parliament and the Danish authorities.”—Copenhagen, September 22. x U.S. Plane Crash in France.—Eight bodies were found, near a wrecked American military aircraft on a mountain near Grenoble.—Paris, September 23.

I Search for Escaped Germans in Sydney.—A national search for foui German escapees form an internment camp has narrowed down to the Sydney metropolitan area. The police believe that the men, who escaped from the Tatura Camp, Victoria, are working in Sydney. Industrial suburbs are being combed, as it is thought that the men are passing themselves off as hardworking refugee factory workers. They made their escapes between December, 1945, and last month, and include Manfred von Amelunxen, aged 30, who was educational officer with the famous Vienna.Boys’ Choir when it toured Australia in 1939.—Sydney, September

Former Fascist Minister Acquitted.— An Italian Military Court has acquitted General Baistrocchi, who was Under-Secretary of War from 1933 to 1936, on a charge of having “Fascistised” the Italian army. Left Wing opinion criticises the Court’s judgment as an example of a tendency to treat well-known Fascists with undue leniency.—Rome. September 22. Nazi Escapees Arrested.—Two Nazi escapees were arrested by the New South Wales, police to-day, one in a north Sydney boarding-house and the other in a cellar at Katooniba. Paul Ernst Goldin ik, aged 50, was working as a cook in the boarding-house. Carl Heinz Snowman, aged 27, did not resist when the police picked him up at Katoomba. Three other escapees are still at large.—Sydney, September 23.

Russian Zone Coal for Berlin.—As a result of recent Russian-British negotiations it has been agreed to exchange considerable quantities of steel and iron from the British zone of occupation in Germany for grain and domestic coal from the Russian zone says the Berlin correspondent of "The Times.” The coal will come to Berlin, which will release transport now required to bring domestic coal to Berlin from the Ruhr.—London. September 22.