NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 July 1939, Page 7

NEWS IN BRIEF

EMPIRE EDUCATION [PRESS ASSN- —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, July 18. Speakers at the Chambers of Commerce Congress -'deplored the incompleteness of Empire education, and passed a resolution in support of broadening the historical and geographical basis. FATAL MEXICAN FLOODS MEXICO CITY, July 18. Fifty were killed, and 100 injured when the San r rancisco River, swollen by rains from the mountains, overflowed and swept the poorer sections of the City ,of Puebla. NEW BRITISH CRUISERS ’ RUGBY, July 17. Three new cruisers will be launched this week. They are the Nigeria, of 8000 tons, carrying 12 6-inch guns and eight 4-inch anti-aircraft guns; the Dido, of 5450 tons, carrying 10 5.25 inch guns; and the Mauritius, a sistership to the Nigeria. A.R.P. EXPENDITURE LONDON, July 18. Supplementary estimates of £19,000,000 include £10,000,000 for emergency hospital evacuation plans, -.and £3,000,000 for air-raid precautions. BROOKLANDS SPEED RECORD.

RUGBY, July IS. The highest speed ever attained at Brooklands by a standard closed car was achieved by Captain Eyston, in a streamlined Bentley, at 114.62 miles per hour. TREASURY RETlS^f.' RUG BY? July 18. Treasury returns show that the total ordinary revenue tor the-current financial year up to July 15 amounted to £177,558,586, compared with £16,458,998 at the corresponding date in 1938. .

ARRESTS FOR ESPIONAGE.

PARIS. July IS.

The police have made IS espionage and propaganda raids al Strasbourg, and 20 at Lyons.