CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 March 1939, Page 8

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

NAZI GUARDS IN TIBET f CRESS ASSN.—COPY RIGHT J BERLIN, March 12. Tibetans warmly welcomed five officers of Herr Hiller’s Black Guards on ii ;,o days’ visit lo Lhasa. YEAR’S MILK RECORD LONDON, March 10. A small Shorthorn cow, with no pedigree, at Cherry Farm, Wiltshire, yielded 38,6781 b of milk in 336 days, beating the world record for a year. PENSIONS FOR TEACHERS LONDON, March 10. The education estimates total £52,246,026, an increase of £1,239,696, of which nearly half arises from automatic growth under the provision for teachers’ pensions. OXFORD GROUP. LONDON, March 10. The Oxford Group announces that extending activities necessitate an application for incorporation of the organisation, not for profit, the object being to give the group a legal personality. DELEGATION TO GERMANY RUGBY, March 11. An industrial delegation from the Federation of British Industries will leave for Germany on Monday.

ART GALLERY BEQUEST •LONDON, March 10. The late Sir Harold Beauchamp, whose English estate was worth £7,968, directs that five years after the death of the survivor of himself or his wife, the trustees allocate £5OOO for the National Art Gallery, Wellington, for the purchase of pictures, to be known as the Harold Beauchamp Collection. ESPIONAGE IN U.S.A. LOS ANGELES, March 11. Gorin and Salich were convicted on three counts of espionage and conspiracy. Gorin’s wife was acquitted. Sentence was deferred pending an appeal. Salich was accused of selling naval secrets to Gorin for transmission to Moscow. Pie said that the information concerned Japanese activities, and added that he had not conveyed anything damaging to United States defence. FATAL JAPANESE FIRE. HAKODATE, March 12. A warehouse fire, during a gale, was responsible for fatal injuries to 15 people, including seven children, and the destruction of six buildings.

KING GEORGE V’s TOMB. LONDON, March 12. In the presence of Their Majesties, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, the Princess Royal, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, and the Duke and Duchess of Kent, the tomb of King George V„ in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, was privately dedicated. INVENTOR’S DEATH. NICE, March 12. The death has occurred of a Hun-, garian-born Jew, David Gestetner, aged 84 years, who, as an office boy, so hated letter copying that he invented the duplicator machine. He was noted for his charities. POLISH STUDENTS ARRESTED. WARSAW, March 12. Eighty-six students were arrested at a hostel in Lwow, during a police search, during which 13 hand-grenades, 16 revolvers, and a quantity of bombs were found. Three police were seriously injured in scuffles.