CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 August 1938, Page 8

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

MOTOR-BOAT RECORD [PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] VIENNA, August S. The Coupe des Nations for the highest speed on water over one mile has been awarded to Sir Malcolm Campbell. The speed has not been announced. UKRAINE SENTENCES LONDON, August 9. The Moscow correspondent, of the “Daily Telegraph” says the Supreme Court in the Ukraine sentenced to death five leading colliery officials on charges of wrecking. Many other engineers were sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment. PROTECTING DEPUTIES PARIS. August 8. An air raid shelter is to be built to accommodate the Chamber of Deputies in the event of Avar. FLOODS IN INDIA LUCKNOW, August. 9. One hundred persons and 1.100 cattle were drowned in the Nonda district. The floods are estimated to cover 400 square miles. Relief is hampered by washouts on the railways. BRITAIN’S FOOD. LONDON, August 9. Britain ate loss butter and cheese and fewer eggs in 1937 than in 1936, hut margarine consumption increased, declares the Imperial Economic Committee’s report on dairy produce. Butter imports were the lowest since 1933, though Empire supplies were only slightly affected. Home production of butter and cheese declined considerably. Purchasing power also declined. The British. fruit season in 1938 was one of the worst for a generation. 'The failure of the crops not only hit the/farmers, but. .the jam industries. RUBBER CONTROL. LONDON. August 9. The Chairman of the International Rubber Regulation Committee announced that all contracting Governments, parties to the agreement to regulate production and export rubber, have accepted the recommendation made by the Committee as to the continuation of (he rubber regulation for a further period of five years after December 31.