CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 May 1936, Page 8

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

BRITAIN’S TRADE

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RUGBY. May 27,

The value of the retail trade in April was 5 per cent greater than a year ago. For the quarter February to April, the value was 6.7 per cent greater than the corresponding period last year, the value of stocks at the end of April was 1.3 per cent, higher than a year earlier, and employment was 4.4 per cent, higher.

ALBERTA’S BONDS.

EDMONTON, May 27

Compulsory reduction, in the rates for . Alberta bonds, including savings certificates, to 22 per cent., which will take effect on June 1, is announced by the Provincial Treasurer, Mr Charles Cockroft. The reduction will save three million dollars annually. The authority for the action was given as under the Treasury Bill legislation.

CANADIAN WHEAT.

OTTAWA, May 27

Complaints have been received from the wheat belt of moisture shortage. Wheat, in store at May 22 was 156 million bushels, which is thirty-seven millions less than a year ago.

MARSEILLES MURDERS.

VIENNA, May 27

Following a communication from the Jugo-Slav Government, the Austrian police arrested a Jugoslav, suspected of being a participant in the murder of King Alexander.

MURDER CONVICTION.

NEW YORK, May 28.

Fibrenza was found guilty of first degree murder. The jury deliberated for nearly 24 hours, apparently on the question of sanity, prominent psychiatrists during the trial having testified that he is sane, and others that he is insane.

He will be sentenced to death in the electric chair.

TOWNSEND AND BORAH.

NEW YORK, May 27.

The Washington correspondent of the “New York Times” learns that Townsend recently called' upon Senator Borah and proposed the formation of a third party, with Senator Borah as its nominee for President. He assured Senator Borah of the support of the old-age pension adherents, as well as that of some members of the late Senator Huey Long’s Share-the-Wealth Scheme. It is not believed, however, that'Senator Borah, who is an aspirant for the Republican Presidential nomination, will form an alliance with these groups. DUKE OF GLOUCESTER.

LONDON, May 27.

Hatless, and wearing plus fours, the Duke of Gloucester and a party of officers, all in mufti, participated all day in the manoeuvres of a mock battle in the Merionethshire mountains. The Duke lunched on a packet cf sandwiches from his ,pocket, and quenched his thirst at a mountain stream. The one brief spell in a strenuous day was to listen to the broadcast of the Derby on a portable radio. PRINCESS AND PORTER. ATHENS, May 2S. Princess Assa, in a statement, said: “Though there is a great difference in our social positions, love knows no barriers. Neither poverty nor force

will separate me from my beloved. I have become converted to Christianity. I am now dead as far as my family are concerned.’’

The Princess exercised her Royal prerogative and proposed the marriage. The couple are going to England in the course of their honeymoon.

CZECH INDEPENDENCE

RUGBY. May 27

The Foreign Secretary was asked at Commons question time, what was the Government’s policy towards the maintenance of the independence of Czechoslovakia.

Mr. Eden replied the policy was that which resulted from loyal adherence to the Covenant of the League of Nations.

GOVT. OF INDIA

RUGBY, May 28

Newspapers, in their comment on the draft Orders-in-Cotmcil under the Government of India Act, express satisfaction that it has been possible to fix April 1, 1937, as the date for the setting up of a system of provincial autonomy, in eleven British Indian provinces, and for the separation of Burma. This decision has been facilitated by the Government’s adoption of the report of Sir 0. Neimeyer on the allocation of certain revenues between the Central and Provincial Governments. The draft Orders will be considered by Parliament, shortly after the Whitsun recess.

GERMANY AND COLONIES

BERLIN, May 28

Dr. Schacht has joined in the claim for colonies. In a foreword to a booklet on the subject, he says that it is economically and politically impossible to withhold from Germany her old possessions. They are a necessity for an over-populated industrial country.

SOCIAL CREDIT.

CALGARY, May 28

The Douglas Social Credit League has issued a manifesto, charging Mr. Aberhart with betraying Social Credit principles, also the Alberta citizens, by the imposition of special taxes.

IRISH FREE STATE

DUBLIN, May 29

Mr De Valera, in the Dail, announced that he was introducing a new Constitution in the autumn. Whether there will be one or two Chambers would depend' on whether it was possible to devise a second Chamber worth having.