Cable Briefs

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30715, 2 April 1965, Page 13

Cable Briefs

I SINCE Sir Winston Church- : ill was buried in Bladon churchyard, so many more persons have taken the train to nearby Handborough that the British Railways executive is reconsidering plans to close the station there. It was ito be closed under a nationwide railways economy programme.

IN BERMUDA, Captain Edgar Ward, said to be the longest-serving soldier in the British Commonwealth, retired on Wednesday after 50 years’ service. Captain Ward, who is 65. gave a false age when he joined up in 1915. He served overseas in both World Wars.

DETECTIVES fingerprinted the Western Australian Governor, Sir Douglas Kendrew. Lady Kendrew and the staff at Government House yesterday. Sir Douglas and Lady Kendrew and the staff gave their prints under the State’s voluntary fingerprint system.

COMMUNIST efforts to strengthen their position in the Indonesian Government suffered a rebuff yesterday when President Sukarno announced a cabinet reshuffle. Dr. Sukarno dismissed one minister, brought in four new men, and established four new cabinet posts. The changes increased the size of his cabinet to 75 members holding 79 posts.

BRUNEI’S decision not to enter the Federation of Malaysia was final, but it sympathised with Malaysia in its struggle against Indonesian confrontation, the Sultan of Brunei said yesterday.

PRESIDENT Johnson reported to Congress that the U.S. food for peace programme helped to feed 100 million persons overseas in 1964.

AN OPPOSITION move to retain the death penalty for a person who murdered a second time was defeated in the House of Commons by 237 votes to 138.

IN CAEN, police have arrested a 63-year-old woman whose “magical powers” have been in demand throughout northern France for the last 20 years in exorcising devils and curing ailments. Now they are searching for an accomplice who fled from exorcised houses on a motorcycle—dressed as a horned demon.

A 14-YEAR-OLD East German boy, who escaped to West Berlin last January, has returned to rejoin his parents and their three other children—to find they had crossed to West Berlin last Sunday. IN NAPLES, a 50-year-old Italian man known as “Gold Tooth” is under arrest charged with forging documents of the public administration. Police said he sold driving licences for £l7 to £29, “while passports cost more.” KING FAROUK of Egypt has been buried at his family’s cemetery in Cairo. There were no crowds.