OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 104, 26 January 1939, Page 11

OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

British Exchequer Returns

British Exchequer returns show that tottil ordinary revenue amounts to £600,395,417, against £590,080,539 a year ago.. Total expenditure, less self-balamc-ing items, is £786,900,541, against £699,123,390 at the corresponding date in 1938.

Mr. Clive Firth, president of the Australian Big Game and Rod Fishers Association and the British Tunny Ciub, is sponsoring the formation of a world big game fishing association. Mr. Firth says that New Zealand, Australia and Ceylon are favourable.

The First Battalion Royal Scots has arrived at Southampton after nearly a year’s service in Palestine. They suffered losses in Palestine numbering 14 killed and 42 wounded.

An R.A.F. bomber with a crew of six is many hours overdue on a south coast flight and is believed to have crashed in the Channel. Destroyers from Portsmouth have joined in the search. * « *

The directors of the Wigan Rugby League have communicated with the Australian Board of Control suggesting that a Wigan team, including tl\e famous full-back Jim Sullivan, should visit Australia.

The Federation Aeronautique has recognized the flight of the three Royal Air Force Vlekers Wellesley bombers from* Egypt to Australia in November as a world record of 7158.653 miles. The previous record of 6306 miles was established by Soviet flyers. » * *

Using industrial waste products, Professor Morasini, an Italian chemist, claims to have found a formula for the manufacture of chicken food, the use of which will make cocks and hens producible at will.

Twelve Socialist Parliamentarians have recommended to the Prize Committee that Mr. Chamberlain should be awarded the 1939 Nobel Peace Prize.

It is announced that' the Turkish Parliament is to be dissolved and that a general election will be held in the middle of February.