CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 March 1939, Page 7

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

ITALIAN AIRMAN’S DEATH fPBXSS ASSN. —COPYBIGHTj NICE, March 8. Oscai’ Berti, an officer commanding an Italian air squadron in Spain, was among those killed in the German Junker plane crash on March 5. DISASTROUS SNOWSTORM TEHERAN, March 8. . One hundred houses, 400 silk sheds, and 54 shops were destroyed by an unprecedented snowstorm at Abkenar, eight miles from Pahlevi. The snow is six feet deep. FATAL SWISS AVALANCHE BERNE, .March 8. '• j An avalanche in the Swiss Alps en-1 gulfed an infantry column of 22 men, i attached to the Military School. Four ; men, including a captain, were killed. VALUABLE PAPERS STOLEN

LONDON, March S. Secret Service men and Scotland Yard officers are searching for vitallyimportant documents in relation to the co-ordination of the Air Force and the military, in war-time, which were stolen from a car, left unattended for a few minutes in Harley Street. It is believed that they were taken by an ordinary car-pilferer, who had no idea of the value of the documents. BELGIAN CONGO. BRUSSELS. March 8. The Minister for the Colonies (M. I-leenen). speaking to the Royal African Society, in the presence of King Leopold, said: The entire nation desires the Congo to remain Belgian. We owe . the colony to the genius of our great King, and the work, heroism, and sacrifice-of Belgians.

ANTARCTIC RESEARCH SYDNEY, March 8. The explorer. Sir H. Wilkins, has placed before the Federal Government proposals for the establishment of two meteorological stations in the Antarctic. He suggests that New Zealand should be asked to. bear part of the cost, which he estimates at £lO,OOO yearly for two years, thereafter not more than £,7000 yearly.