LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 August 1936, Page 2

LATE MESSAGES

INVERCARGILL, August 12. Owing to Injuries, Mitchell is unavailable for the South Island match on Saturday.

ROME, August 11. A Franco-Italian agreement has been signed. It provides for the reumption of trade suspended by Sanctions, also a gradual liquidation of the Italian commercial debts to France.

. RIGA, August 11. The Soviet issued a decree conscripting nineteen-year-olds. The age limit, hitherto, has been 21.

PARIS, August 11. Ihe Chamber of Deputies passed the Bill to nationalise war industries, as amended by the Senate 'Ouch extended the definitions of war material to warships, fighting aircraft, and tanks.

. . LONDON, August 11. Shipping circles discount reports of immediate developments in the Pacific shipping position. The P. and O. naturally are fully behind Mr. Beatty’s efforts to expedite a solution of the problem, but emphasise the matter is at a standstill, pending a report of the Imperial Shipping Committee, which is not likely to be presented till after the holidays. The situation so far as the Biitish Government is concerned, is unchanged. ’llie action will largely depend on what the committee reports.

OUDJA (French Morocco), Aug. 11. A Correctional Court sentenced six Italian airmen, who made a forced landing on July 30, en route to Spanish Morocco, to a month’s imprisonment, and a fine of £2/16/8 apiece. The First Offenders’ Act precluded carrying out the penalties, but both aeroplanes were confiscated.