NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 December 1939, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF

BRITISH ROAD CASUALTIES.

[PEESS ASSN.—COPYBIGHT.]

LONDON, December 7.

Three thousand people have been killed in Britain in road accidents during the war. This number is double the peace-time figure. It is pointed out that if the rate continues, the three years’ death-roll will reach 40,000, equivalent to a. whole army corps.

GERMAN JEWISH FUNDS

NEW YORK, December 7

The Supreme Court ruled that no American court may recognise tlie validity of the claims of Germanappointed liquidators of Jewish firms to. debts owed by American firms. A motion was before the Court for permission to pay to the Court money admittedly oiVed to an Australian firm and now claimed both by former members 1 of the firm and by the firm's German liquidators.

JAPANESE BUDGET

TOKIO, December 8.

Cabinet has approved a vote of 10,360 million yen for the 1941 Budget, representing a 950 million yen increase on 1940, and a. 64 per cent, increase for the Army and Navy.

RAILWAYMEN’S WAGES

(Received December 9, noon). LONDON, December 8

The four main line railway companies have accepted the findings of the Railway Staff National Tribunal, increasing wages all-round, and involving an additional £1,000,000 yearly. NO 1940 OBERAMMERGAU. LONDON. December 8. The Oberammergau Passion Play will not be staged in 1940. Many of the actors are at present in the Siegfried Line. The player who was chosen for the role of Christ, is at present. an air-raid warden. ITALO-AMERICAN AIR LINE. SEVILLE .December 8. Bruno Mussolini, Signor Mussolini’s son, took off for Lisbon, on the first stage of a flight to the Island of Fernando Noronha, off Brazil. He is plotting a course for the new ItaloAmerican air line.

M. TROTSKY TO TESTIFY

MEXICO CITY, December 7

M. Leon Trotsky has accepted the Dies Committee’s invitation to testify, as a political duty. His testimony is to deal exclusively with the history of Stalinism, but he will not deal with that, of Communism.in Latin America.