OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF
* Submarine Inquiry The inquiry into the loss of the British submarine Thetis has been adjourned provisionally till* September 26. In the fourth. Soccer Test in Newcastle on Saturday, Australia defeated the touring Palestine team 4 goals to 1. ♦ * * The Earl and Countess of Athloue will participate in the Southern Rhodesian jubilee in 1940. * * * I In a Rugby League match in Brisbane on Saturday Queensland defeated New South Wales 23 points to 13. * * * The international conference of Boy Scouts decided to hold a jamboree in 1941 in France, the only country which extended an invitation, states a London message. * * * Mr. John Cobb, the English racing motorist and designer, intends to make an attempt on the world laud speed record in Utah. (U.S.) in August. He hopes to attain a speed of 400 miles an hour. * * Tile King on Friday watched his Grenadier' Guards demonstrate the new style of marching in threes instead of fours. Later he saw the change of the Guard at Buckingham Palace in columns of threes. ♦ * * Six persons were killed and twenty Injured in Hyderabad in Hindu and Moslem rioting against the new constitutional reforms. The police twice opened fire and troops placed a cordon round the disturbed area, in which, a curfew has been imposed.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 259, 31 July 1939, Page 9
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