NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 November 1939, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF

PERUVIAN AIRMEN OVERDUE [press assn—copyright.] '.gear's are ' : felt''for tlfe isafety d£/tsb, berto Gailiup aiiit^aptain ? .Vi4pr Grl-. lino. They- are-brothers.— They 'left New York at 1.45 p.m. on Sunday last, October a 4.014 miles non-stop flight to Lima, LANDING REPORTED, rr'U'L' GUAYAQUIL,; October -31-. X teiegraphist’ at the City of” Puerto PosorjarTPlWrt'ed' that" the’ TRScUVian fliers landed, with their fuel exhausted. CHUZ ti. ,?RIAD SAMOAN MURDER CHARGE APIA, October 30. Po]ice.,inquiries jnto.thp (leatlp of,.a natiVe’bf'Nitie lslarrid'liaVP refeultetl-iti the aufdst df a..Samoai£'iianreii.' Tuiva, who-will be arraigned to-day on a charge of murder..'. NA The body of a native named Foupa, 55; was • found’ brutally murdered :dn Saturday, October 21, where he had been working in a taro patch bn Siumu Road beyond Vailima. When Foupa failed ,to return home next morning relatives made a search and the body was found with a deep knife wound almost severing the head. INDIAN MINISTRIES RESIGN BOMBAY, October 31. The Congress Ministry of the Bompay Presidency has resigned. The Bihar Congress Ministry has also resigned. < REFUGEE AID SUSPENDED.

LONDON, October 31.

Sir John Anderson announced that the’ Government was’ reluctantly suspending for the duration of the war its offer that, if other Governments co-operated, it would encourage subscriptions to the fund to enable the reemigratiop of refugees.