OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 99, 20 January 1939, Page 9

OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

Good British Recruiting

Since April 1, 1938, 30,515 recruits have been accepted for the British Regular Army, exceeding by 1033 the returns for the whole year ending March 31, 1938. » ♦ *

One of the most valuable collections of-British contemporary art ever to leave Britain is on the way to Warsaw for the British Art Exhibition organized by the British Art Council and opening at Warsaw on January 28. The exhibition will later be transferred to Helsingfors and Stockholm.

General Naci Tinaz has been appointted Turkish Minister of Defence. The Prime Minister (Mr. Jelal Bayer) stated that the resignation of M. Zekai Bey was prompted by a desire to facilitate an investigation into allegations that warplanes and supplies had beijn sent to Spain.

The eighteenth Monte Carlo motor rally began from eight points,, with 125 competitors from 16 countries including 38 British drivers. Miss Amy Johnson Is among the British entrants starting from John o’ Groats.

Kyoshi Nakama (Hawaii) made an Australian swimming record of 4min 51 l-ssec when he won the 400 metres freestyle championship of Queensland.

It is officially stated in Moscow that the Defence Commissariat has successfully tested a new invisible death-ray.

Detectives boarded the liner Rangitata when she berthed at, London to investigate the theft of £l6OO from the captain’s Auckland.

Vernon Hansford, aged 53, the former Test cricketer, has been appointed to the secretaryship of the Melbourne Cricket Club at a salary of £lOOO a year, in succession to the late Hugh Trumble. The applicants included Don Bradman.

Another £lOO,OOO of Britain’s £lO,000,000 loan to Czechoslovakia has been granted for the settlement of 5000 Sudeten refugees in Canada.

With the co-operation of the British Council, the Old'Vic Theatre Company left London yesterday for a three months tour of Portugal, Italy, Egypt, Greece and Malta.