OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 270, 11 August 1938, Page 11

OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

Migrants To Australia

It. Is announced in Loudon that more than 400 persons have gone to Australia under the system of assisted passages in the past two months. Nearly 2000 passages have now been approved. Australia House announces that the migrants are excellent types.

A life-jacket which has been washed up near Hull affords a clue to the fate of a bomber which has been missing since the British air manoeuvres last week. It is feared that the crew of four were killed.

Stormy weather is still being experienced in many parts of Britain. Haymaking on many farms in Lincolnshire was held up by heavy rain. A severe thunderstorm in Birmingham caused widespread flooding and in some districts temporary dislocation of traffic.

The British fruit season of 1938 was one of the worst for a generation. The failure of the crops not only hit the farmers hut also the jam industry. Air-raid Shelter. A huge concrete air-raid shelter with three entrances is to be constructed under the Chamber of Deputies in Paris during the recess in order to accommodate all the personnel necessary to conduct legislation in the event of war. Lebanese police confiscated 500 rifles, revolvers, and ammunition from a car en route to Palestine. They arrested the Arab occupants. Most of the mail consigned to Britain by tlie flying-boat Coriolanus, which left Bose Bay Aerodrome on Tuesday, was from New Zealand at the 1 |d. rate. It weigiied 33831 b. The Sydney mail at the sd. rate weighed onl.v -1031 b. The Canberra Marti has abandoned the search for the milising Hawaii Clipper. The British Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, was visited by a specialist to-day and later went for a drive witli Mrs. Chamberlain.