CABLE BREVITIES

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 226, 20 June 1931, Page 7

CABLE BREVITIES

Advice has been received that the steamer La Perouse has been refloated after beiiig ashore for 24 hours on Amcdee Island. The vessel has reached Noumea. A new 7000-mile combined air and rail service through the heart of Siberia, bringing London within eight days of Shanghai, will begin operation on June 22, states a London message. . * * * The officials of Australian National Airways, Ltd., announced yesterday that they will suspend their services next Friday pending negotiations with the Federal Government for a subsidy. [By Radio, per Mr. I. M. Levy.] » » • The British Foreign Office announces that the Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Arthur Henderson, have accepted the invitation of the German Chancellor and Dr. Curtins to visit Berlin on Julyl7, states a British Official Wireless message. • • • Exports of New Brunswick products to New Zealand have been seriously curtailed as the result of the withdrawal of British preference, states a message from St. John. Manufacturers and exporters claim that, the commodities particularly affected are fishery products, confectionery, and brushes. ♦ ♦ ♦ Ex-Governor's Death. A British Official Wireless message announces the death of Sir George Haddon Smith, aged 69, formerly Governor of the Bahamas and the Windward Islands. He was Acting-Governor of Gambia Colony for a time and for 11 years was Colonial Secretary of Sierra Leone, acting as Governor of the Colony on many occasions.