CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 December 1940, Page 7

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

IMMIGRANTS FOR PALESTINE.

[BY CABLE. —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.]

JERUSALEM, December 29.

The Government has announced that it will not issue the immigration schedule for the seven months’ period ending April, because 8000 immigrants who have been unable to reach Palestine because of war-time difficulties, may arrive in the next few months. Since April, 1939, 12,270 legal and 26,000 illegal imigrants have entered Palestine.

U.S.A. WHEAT.

WASHINGTON, December 28.

The U.S. Agriculture Department has forecast a record 1941 American wheat supply of 1230 million bushels, providing a 500 million bushels surplus. Supplies for the 1940 crop are estimated at 1100 million bushels. The 1941 figure is made up of a crop of 830 million bushels, plus 400 million bushels as a carry-over.

MURDER CONSPIRACY.

ROME, December 28.

'The newspaper “Popolo di Roma” publishes. a report from Beirut that a plot to assassinate Ibn Saud has been discovered and frustrated. A number of political personages have been arrested. The Sherif Abdul Hamid has already been sentenced to be executed. ’ _I

CHILDREN’S GIFT.

SYDNEY, December 29. As a Christmas Eve present to British school children, £2,900 has been Sent .by the school children of Sydney, to the Lord Mayor of London’s air raid distress fund which nOw totals '£. 1,83*8,000.