GOODWILL TOUR BY TUDOR IV

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25304, 2 October 1947, Page 7

GOODWILL TOUR BY TUDOR IV

LONDON-SANTIAGO FLIGHT

AIRLINER PRAISED BY AIRWAYS OFFICIAL

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 9 p.m) LONDON, September 30. After a test flight yesterday a Tudor IV airliner named Star Lion left London to-day for Santiago (Chile) on a goodwill tour, carrying a crew of seven, 27 passengers, and 15001 b of freight. Air Vice-Marshal D. C. T. Bennett, chief executive of British South American Airways, who is piloting the machine and who participated in the tests, said he wa# delighted with its performance. “I can see nothing wrong with it We hope to have the Tudor in regular service within a month. The Tudor is as good an aeroplane as the Constellation, if not slightly better. We shall cross the Atlantic at a cruising speed of 205 miles an hour.” The Tudor TV is a modified version of the Tudor I, which is now the subject of an inquiry by the Ministry of Supply. HIGH BIRTH-RATE IN BRITAIN JUNE QUARTER OF 1947 LONDON, September 30. The population of England and Wales increased naturally by 116,868 during the quarter ended June 30. 1947, against 89,904 for the June quarter of 1046. Births totalled 233,097, representing a birth-rate of 22 for each 1000 of the population. Thia is the highest number of births recorded for any June quarter since 1920. The total for the June quarter pf 1946 was 203,808 with a rate or 19. L For the March quarter of 1947 the total was 241,4?1 with a rate of 22.8. and the June quarter is the first since the March quarter of 1946 to show a drop on the previous quarter. Deaths during the June quarter were 118,169 with a rate of* 11.1. compared with 10.7 for the same period of 1946. Marriages totalled 106,908, 15,493 more than the average for the June quarters of the five years from 194? to 1946.

LABOUR WOMEN’S CONFERENCE

HECKLERS AT SOUTHPORT CAUSE UPROAR LONDON, September SO. An uproar at the National Conference of JLaboyr Women at Southport interrupted a speech by the Minister of Fuel (Mr E. Shinwell) for five minutes. Eight hundred Socialist women sang “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow” when Mr Shinwell rose. Soon after he began speaking seven women, including members oi the Southport Young Conservatives and the Housewives’ League, who had obtained -tickets to the conference, began fieckling. Socialist women delegates booed the hecklers, who later left the hall and paraded outside with placards. The audience at the conference had speaker

listened for five minutes to a discussing national maternity services before they discovered that she was not a Labour Party member, was not invited to speak, and was not even invited to their meeting. She was Mrs Mary Soden, who “gave the show away” when she claimed, during her speech, that she was a staunch member of the Housewives’ League, which Labour members have condemned as an ally of the Conservatives. Members of the audience booed and shouted their, protests.

. PROTEST AT ABOLITION OF PETROL RATION

(Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 1. The Automobile Association, the Royal Automobile Club, and the Scottish Royal Automobile Club have jointly set up an organisation backed by a fund of £20,000 to prepare a monster petition to the Government against the abolition of the basic petrol ration. The organisers hope to secure nearly 20,000,000 signatures in the United Kingdom. More than 12,000 garages and 4000 hotels have already promised to display petition forms. The petition promises to be the largest ever organised in Britain.

ALLIED PERSONNEL IN BERLIN

TREATMENT BY GERMAN DOCTORS BANNED (Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, September 30. The Berlin correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph’* says that the Allied commandants in Berlin have issued an order making it a punishable offence for German doctors in the city to treat personnel of the four occupying Powers or their dependants without official sanction, except in an emergency when a patient’s life is in danger. German hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes are similarly restricted. One of the principal reasons for the order ,is understood to be the acute shortage of doctors and hospital space for the treatment of the population of Berlin. German doctors are known to have been treating Allied patients in preference to Germans' fof the sajce of special fees and valuable perquisites, notably food-

EARTHQUAKES KILL 400 IN PERSIA

LONDON, September 30. The correspondent of the Associated Press in Teheran reports that a series of severe earthquakes killed 400 people and wiped out the village of Dowlatabad, near Birjand.