OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 263, 4 August 1939, Page 9

OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

—„ — Novelist Honoured The British novelist and dramatist Mr. W. Somerset Maugham has been awarded the Legion of Honour, a Paris message states. A Peruvian named Pedro Ganga, who was flying from Rome to Lima, crashed in flames and was killed with his mechanic, a message from Caeablanca states.

11. was stated in the House of Commons in answer to a question that no negotiations are in. progress with Guatemala for the sale of any part or British Hondnuras.

In tin- House of Lords, Lord Stanhope stated that it was intended to proceed with the efforts to salvage the submarine Thetis, and he saw no reason why salvage should not; be successful.

German trade representatives have protested to the llumauian Government against the allotment of large contracts to British firms for the construct ton of wheat silos for which German firms also tendered.

Officials of the carpenters’ union in Sydney declare that, they have no knowledge of Australian tradesmen forfeiting housing jobs in New Zealand and returning to Australia, It was possible, however, that the extreme cold had driven them to warmer climes elsewhere in the Dominion for tile time being.

King Leopold, who lias a golf handicap of I. finished eighth among (lie 32 who qualiliod in tin' Belgian amateur title. He entered as “A. N. Other,” and few knew 'that lie was l playin'’