CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 June 1936, Page 7

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

U.S.A. WHEAT

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WASHINGTON, June 11

The estimates of the Department of Agriculture indicate that the winter wheat crop of the United States will be 482,000,000 bushels, according to the conditions on June 1.

SECRETARY FOR BURMA.

RUGBY, June 11

It was announced, in the Commons, that the Government has decided, following the separation of Burma from India, there should’ be a separate Secretaryship of State for Burma, and also a new office of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State. For reasons of practical convenience, the Secretaryship and the Under-Secretaryship for Burma would for the present be held by the same persons as the Secretaryship and Under-Secretary-ship for India. The Burma office will be housed in the Indian office.

LEAGUE COUNCIL.

GENEVA, June 12.

The Council has been convened for June 26 to discuss Abyssinia, Locarno, Assyrians in Iraq, and slavery.

CAPE TOWN AND NAVY.

CAPE TOWN, June 12.

The acting Minister of Defence stated that South Africa did not intend to allow Cape Town to be used as a British naval base.

CHINESE DISSENSIONS

NANKING, June 12

The Cantonese troops have been ordered to halt the advance. Confidence is growing that civil war will be averted. Kwangsi troops are reported to have clashed with the National Government forces.

The Cantonese military cadets have been ordered to be prepared to go to the front. War fever is seizing Canton.

TURKISH DEFENCE

ANGORA, June 12

Parliament granted an extra credit of nearly four millions sterling, onethird of which is for defence.