WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 May 1942, Page 5

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

WHITSUN HOLIDAY RUGBY, May 19. It is officially stated that Whit Monday (June 1) will be a bank holiday, the Government having expressed the view there should be lor most workers a one-day break on that day. CHICHESTER BY-ELECTION RUGBY, May 19. Lieut. Commander Joynson Hicks, (Conservative National) received 15,634 votes in the Chichester byelection against 10,564 by Flight Lieut. Kidd (Independent National) and 706 by Tribe (Independent). NO PENNIES MINTED • . LONDON, May 18. The Royal Mint struck no pennies in 1941, thereby saving eight hundred tons of copper for munitions. Instead of pennies, sixty million octagonal nickel brass three-penny pieces were struck, compared with twelve and a-half million in 1940. CYCLE MANUFACTURE. (Rec. 11 a.m.) LONDON, May 19. To meet war requirements, the British Empire Board of Trade has sanctioned the manufacture in Britain of 300,000 bicycles, including components. BOMB-REMOVER CHARGED.

LONDON, May 18. Captain Robert Davies, of the Royal Engineers, who personally removed the bomb from St. Paul's Cathedral and was awarded the George Cross in 1940, pleaded guilty at a court-martial to receiving improperly in October, 1940, £5OO from Charrington and Company. He pleaded not guilty to other charges, including an allegation of obtaining money by false pretences, improperly using the services of soldiers and War Ollice transport to construct a civil air-raid shelter, for which he received £25, and charges of stealing. PRIMATE ON WAR HORRORS LONDON, May 19. Addressing a convocation of Synod the Archbishop of Canterbury ' (Rt. Rev. Dr. Temple) said that the recognition of the duty to engage in war must not obscure the other duty of recognising that war itself was a hideous evil and that to engage in it involved great temptations. We needed to be vigilant against all tendency to generate hatred and ill-will as contrasted with a resolute purpose and devotion to justice. From time to time Christian sentiment was profoundly shocked by the way the news was presented. When the R.A.F. latelly did signal service to the Allied cause by the destruction in a great measure of the Baltic ports of Lubeck and Rostock, this was, in some quarters, presented to suggest that the destruction of historic buildings and the infliction of misery of multitudes of human beings were occasion for satisfaction rather than profound regret. This was part of the price—the bitter price—paid for conspicuous aid to Russia through checking supplies to the German armies. EDUCATION SYSTEMS.

(Recd. 11 a.m.) HAMILTON (Bermuda), May 19.' The Assembly rejected the British recommendation that an Australian be appointed Inspector of schools. The Director of Education had asked the British Secretary of State for the Colonies to nominate a man.

Members of the Assembly said they believed that the American type of education was more suitable for young people’s future life, than the British stereotyped public school plan. Recommendation of an Australian appointee was defeated by 15 to 9. The Director of Education agreed to look to Canada.