CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 109, 1 February 1940, Page 10

CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF

<> Antarctic Discoveries The Washington correspondent of the United Press says Rear-Admiral Byrd has advised. by radio that the barquentine Bear of Oakland battled against a 65-miles-an-hour gale, ice floes, and blizzard to the furthest eastward point in the Ross Sea yet reached. The ship reached a huge unnamed bay near Marie Byrd Land, and a score of island. - }, capes and bays were discovered with the help of a seaplane. This success follows eleven efforts which have been defeated in the past.

The Secretary for War, Mr. Oliver Stanley, stated in the House of Commons that, in accordance with the provisions of the International Convention of 1929, German prisoners of war in the United Kingdom were supplied with bread rations.’ No complaint about the bread bad been received, but the prisoners had expressed a preference for rye bread, with which they will bo supplied. Nearly 1,500.000 workers in the British building in'dustry will benefit as a result of an increase of pay of -Id. an hour from February 1.

It is announced in Ottawa that 25,000.000 dollars' worth of contracts has been placed with the Quebec shipyards, the orders including patrol-boats and* sub,marine-chasers for (lie British and Canadian navies.

British and French shipping companies have chartered 50 small Norwegian ships, mostly for carrying British coal to Erance.

Rioting in Rangoon by Hindus and Moslems resulted in 12 deaths and GOO arrests. The disturbances began on January 27 when Moslems interfered with a Hindu procession and four were killed and 80 injured. <1 * • Advice has been received in Sydney that when an aeroplane crashed at Watt, New Guinea, on Tuesday, the pilot, R. Doyle, and Iwo native passengers were killed.

The wife of an Egyptian, Sayed Hamada Geheza, gave birth to girl quintuplets. All are well. « <« w

The Tokio correspondent of the United Press says it is learned that the Rev. Frederick Watts, of South Yarra. Victoria, is among three Britishers who were arrested at Kobe on January 17 on charges which have not been disclosed. Mr. Walls is the chaplain at the Seamen’s Institute.