NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 July 1945, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF

HOLLOWAY GAOL "LONDON, July 18. The “Daily Mail” stated: For the first time, a woman has been appointed Governor of Holloway Prison. This is a women’s gaol. The new Governor is Doctor May Taylor. She is the mother of two children, and is thirty years of age. Dr. Taylor said that a married woman would be bound to have a better insight into the problems of the women prisoners, because the majority of the prisoners were married women. , GUNS By"~PARACHUTE LONDON, July 18. It can now be revealed the Planner in which jeeps’ six-pound antitank guns were dropped from aircraft by parachute. They were fitted with efficient crash-pans to absorb shock. They were dropped in clusters of four. The large parachute s rate of descent was about twelve miles an hour. A single Halifax was able to carry a jeep anti-tank gun, ammunition containers, and ten men lor dropping. SIMLA CONFERENCE LONDON, July 18. Renter’s New- Delhi correspondent says: The Congress newspaper, ‘ Hm-r dustan Times,” edited by Mr. Gandhi’s son, Devadas, blamed Lord Wavell and Dr. Jinnah lor the failure of the Simla conference. It says: It the British Government thought Dr. Jinnah’s demands were reasonable ic should have given assurances and called on others-to accept or reject them. On the other hand it should have told Lord Wavell to discard the League and proceed without it. STRONG NAVY. RUGBY, July 18. A warning against disbanding too much of the Fleet after the war with Japan was given by Vice-Admiral J. E. T. Harper, Chairman of the Navy League Sea Cadet Corps Committee, sneaking at a luncheon of the Rotary Club of London. Vice-Admiral Harper said the Navy League’s most important work now was to make certain that we retained sufficient sea power after the war. Should we once again disarm to such a point tn at an aggressor might be tempted to attack us by our apparent inability to resist him? he asked. After the fall of Japan there would be an even greatei need for the Navy League to remind people of the importance of maintaining a .strong British Navy. CEYLON’S CONSTITUTION. (Recd. Noon.) , io COLOMBO, July 18. The State Council by 31 10 LXJJ-s, protested against Mr. Oliver Stanley s rejection ol the Vi Lanka Bil, which the Council passed. .Th- Bil demanded seif-'ovcrnmcnt. mcmdim, the control of internal dcience ana Sh The 'protest described Mr. Stanley’s rejection as a denial m. We right, of the people sf Ccyion lo_ determination ol Wen u'-gySi-ta lion. Sri Lanka is -the ,o!a Singhalese name tor Ceylon.