OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 65, 9 December 1938, Page 11

OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

♦ Belgian Government Not To Resign The Belgian Government is remaining in office as a result of a Socialist deputation at tlie last minute urging it not Io resign. It is believed that the crisis has merely been postponed. * * * Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, Comma nder-in-Chief of the (Mediterranean Fleet, since March, 1936. will not. be relieved of his command at the end of his three years’ service, and it is understood that his tenure of command will not terminate before 1940 at the earliest.

Twenty-five members of tlie Rumanian Iron Guard, who were arrested after the shooting of Colonel Chrislescu, president of the Cernauti Military Court, are being charged with attempted assassination. * At the quarterly communication of the Grand Lodge of English Freemasons, the Duke of Kent was nominated ns Grand Master. The installation is Io be arranged for before the Duke goes to Australia.

The Governor of Fiji. Sir Harry Luke, Ims left Suva in 11.M.5. Leander on nn official visit, to Tonga. He will return on December 18. * * .

The late Lord Hawke, who died on October .16, left estate valued at £59,013.