NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 May 1939, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF

SWEDISH DEFENCES. | [PRESS ASSN.—COPYBWnT.J LONDON, May 15. 'I Ho Stockholm correspondent of “The Times” says the. Riksdag passed the defence proposals, involving l it) days’ extra training for naval conscripts and 30 days lor army conscripts, and the creation of anti-air-craft stations at certain points. JEWISH REFUGEES. VIENNA, May 15. It is officially announced that 99,672 Jews have emigrated in ten months leaving 80,000 still professing the Hebrew faith. PALESTINE POLICY. RUGBY. May 15. 'l'he long-awaited statement on the Government’s Palestine 1 policy will be made in the Commons, this week, probably to-morrow, and it will be followed almost immediately by the publication of a White Paper. MILITARY TRAINING BILL. LONDON. May 15. In. the committee stage of the Military Training Bill, the Government accepted an amendment, to extend employers’ liability to pay four weeks’ salary, and, if they do not reinstate men. io liability to pay 12 weeks’ salary. RUSSIAN SEALERS DROWNED. TROMSOME, May 15. Twenty members of the crew of a Russia.n sealer are believed to have been drowned in the White Sea. Five bodies have been washed ashore. BOMBERS FOR NEW ZEALAND. LONDON, May 15. Thgre is every indication that the first five New Zealand bombers will leave early in June and similar batches at intervals of two months. There is no intention of attempting to make records, and they will be merely routine delivery flights. SYRIAN CABINET RESIGNS.

DAMASCUS. May 15

The Cabinet has resigned, owing to inability to adapt its programme to the policy of the French mandatory.