OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 232, 28 June 1945, Page 7

OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

Reclamation of Holland. According to Dutch reports, 85 per cent, of the regions of Holland which the Germans flooded are already drained. The drainage has been so successful iu some parts that sowing Ims begun. Battleship Refitted. The United States Navy announced that the battleship Pennsylvania, which participated in 11 Pacific invasions, lias been refitted with 14in. guns salvaged from ships sunk at Pearl Harbour. Toothache Cure.

Aching teeth can now be taken out, cured by penicillin, and then put back to grow again, says the London “Daily Express.” This is already being done at St. Mary’s Hospital, where Sir Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin.

Medal for War Correspondents. The Senate Military Qummittee approved a Bill creating a Distinguished Service News Medal to be awarded to correspondents serving outside the United States for outstanding wartime service to their country.

Using German Prisoners. The Allied forces will use 180,000 German prisoners of war to quicken the redeployment of men and supplies from the Mediterranean theatre. Allied headquarters in Rome announced. More than 80,000 Germans are already at work.

Mechanical Firing Squad. Any Danish quislings sentenced to death in the forthcoming trials may be executed by a mechanical shooting apparatus which tires a volley by merely pressing a button. The Department of Justice is testing the machine, which, if satisfactory, will be used.

Empire Tennis Team. Two New Zealanders have been included in a British Empire tennis team which is to meet a United States team iu a match at Wimbledon on June 30. The team will lie: E. Andrews and D. C. Coombe, of New Zealand; P. G. Pearson and G. D. Raper, of Canada: I’elan and Sidwell, of Australia. i Marshal Stalin Decorated. The President of the Supreme Soviet, M. Kalinin, to mark Marshal Stalin s exceptional leadership of the Russian armed forces, has awarded him Russia s four highest awards, the Order of victory. the Order of Lenin, the Gold Stni Medal. and the Hero of the Soviet Union. Fisht Against Leprosy. Recent discoveries in the campaign against tuberculosis give hope that drugs may be found to combat its sister dis ease of leprosy. This was announced at the annual general meeting of the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association in London. Recently another drug, de rived, like penicillin, from mould, has been found effective in stopping :lugrowth of the tubercle bacillus. Tin- mpst h, peful prospects of finding an eftectirc treatment, for leprosy seem at present to lie in any drugs which are fatal to the tubercle bacillus. tij Beauojpnif unj 04 SujAßpi sj ejj