NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 April 1939, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF

JUDGE’S REMARK. RESENTED. [PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON. April 17. Eire has protested to Britain, regarding Mr. Justice Humphrey’s remark when sentencing an I.R.A. member, on April 3, “You are a member of that gang which committed murders of British officers up to 1922.” INDIAN RAILWAY SMASH. CALCUTTA, April 17. Twenty-five were killed and 26 injured, when express and mail trains crashed head-on. on the Eastern Bengal railway. ITALIAN FLAG INCIDENT. - CALCUTTA, April 17. The Italian Consul-General has protested to the Government of Bengal against an insult to the Italian flag, which was allegedly hauled down from the Consulate, and cut by scissors, by an unknown woman, stated to be British.

STOLEN TREASURES. LONDON, April 17. The “Daily Mail” says that, police took the finger-prints of guests and members of the family of the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough and records of finger-prints on the furniture, after the discovery of the thefts of miniatures and medallions, family treasures worth £2OOO, from the cabinet room at Blenheim Palace. G ERMA N-ARG ENT INE BARTER. BERLIN. April 17. Germany has agred to take 8000 tons of Argentine wool and 1.000,000 •tons of wheat half-yearly, paying with railway rolling stock. TRIBUTE TO MR LYONS. LONDON, April 17. Eighteen hundred people paid a sacred tribute to Mr Lyons, at a Solemn Requiem Mass at Westminster 1 Cathedral, at which Cardinal Hinsley l officiated. Mr Jordan was present. HITLER’S BIRTHDAY. BERLIN, April 17. A decree has been issued, that Herr Hitler’s birthday is always to be a national holiday.