OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 92, 12 January 1939, Page 9

OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

New Radio-Telephone

Service

A radio-telephone service between the United Kingdom and Newfoundland has been inaugurated. Before the addition of this new overseas, service telephone subscribers in Britain were already able to speak to about 95 per cent, of the telephone subscribers of the world. 0 * *

British manufacturers have secured a £650.000 contract for the supply of automatic telephone equipment for the public telephone exchanges in Portugal.

Rear-Admiral Lane-Poole has been promoted to Vice-Admiral and placed on the retired list, dating from January 12. • ♦ ♦

The military court in Jerusalem has sentenced to death six Arabs, who were captured in an engagement in the Hebron hills last month. # * *

Dr. Ernst Neumann, Leader of the Nazis in Memel, says that the duties of the corps of Brown Shirts which he is forming will be to propagate Nazi ideas with one aim—“ Back to Obe Reich.

German newspapers declare that the British War Office statement on the time situation in Palestine proves the allegations made regarding the handling of the situation. » ♦ »

One of Germany’s most famous newspapers, the “Berliner-Tageblatt,” is ceasing publication. *

M. Herrit has been re-elected Speaker of the French Chamber of Deputies. $ 9 M

The British Air Ministry announces that the sixth Empire Air Day will take place on May 20. * * *

The name of the man who fell overboard from the liner Rotorua in the Bay of Biscay on January 7 is W. Reynolds, a member of the crew, from Essex, England.