CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 March 1939, Page 8

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

BOMB ON RAILWAY. /press assn. —copyright.; LONDON. March 9. A time-bomb was discovered on the railway line, at Harlesden, one mile from an aqueduct, shortly before it was due to explode. MUNITION PLAN LOST. LONDON, March 9. Secret service agents are investigating the disappearance of a confidential plan showing the progress of work on the £10,006,000 munition plant at Chorley, and also points which the King will pass during a tour of the plant to be made on March 14. JAPAN NEEDS WOOL. TOKIO, March 9. The Domei News Agency says that Cabinet’s Planning Board revealed that a three-year plan would begin on April 1 to expand Chinese, Manchurian and Japanese production, in which wool would be increased 240 per cent. CHURCHES BAN JEWS.

BERLIN, March 9. Evangelical churches in Saxony, Mecklenburg, and Anhalt are expelling non-Aryan members, and are not baptising Jews in future. The ban releases Jews of their obligation to pay church taxes. DR. SCHACHT’S TOUR. BERLIN, March 9. It is stated that Dr. Schacht’s visit to India is purely for recreational purposes. GERMANS IN ANTARCTIC. BERLIN, March 9. Captain Paul Ritscher, who is operating by air, claims the discovery of 135,000 square miles of the Antarctic Continent, between five degrees west and fifteen degrees east longtitude, extending inland to 75 degrees south latitude, including mountain ranges and a high central Polar massif.