OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 269, 10 August 1938, Page 11

OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

Britain’s Civil Air Guard

Tlie Loudon "Daily Telegraph,” discussing the constitution of the new Civil Air Guard, suggests that one of the commissioners might be Miss Jean Batten, the New Zealand airwoman, whose experience would be most useful.- Her appointment would necessarily lie dependent on the length of her stay in England. Prince John of Leechtenstein, brother of the present ruler of the principality, and Count Charles Lonyay met in a duel at Budapest which was the culmination of a 15-year-old quarrel. Prince John is slightly wounded. The British Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, is suffering from nasal catarrh. He is returning to London from tlie north of Scotland for treatment.

New Army Medal. A special Army ord« announces that the King has approved of a new medal being struck to commemorate the military operations in or on the frontier of India in lieu of the medal instituted under the Army order of 1909. Dr. Rudolf Leider, the famous Viennese throat and nose specialist, has committed suicide, it is believed, owing to the recent ban on Jewish doctors. A widespread fire in Manila rendered homeless 8000 labourers and their ■ families whose thatched slum dwellings were destroyed. A similar tire at San Pablo, near San Francisco, resulted in 10.000 los ing their homes. The death has occurred in New York of Jlrs. Chrysler, wife of Mr. Walter P. Chrysler, motor-car manufacturer.