NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 September 1945, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF

CHEVALIER FILM BANNED PARIS, September 1,3. Maurice Chevalier appears in a French-American film which is now being made at Cannes, and which has been banned by the United States Army on the ground that Chevalier sang at a German concert in Pans during the war. INDIAN VICEROY LONDON,”September 13. The Viceroy of India (Lord Wavell) will fly back to India to-day alter spending three weeks in Britain. He saw the Secretary of State for India (Lord Pethick-Lawrence), the Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee), and other Cabinet Ministers. Immediately on his arrival Lord Wavell will call a meeting of his executive council, after which he is expected to make a statement. MEXICO URANIUM NEW YORK,”September 13. The Mexican Ministry of National Economy has issued a decree making Government property of all the deposits of uranium, actinium, and other radio-active materials to be found anywhere in Mexico. Geologists have been sent to investigate the extent of the country’s uranium deposits. The Ministry said these deposits must be used for the general welfare of mankind, and for its progress. ALAND ISLANDS. STOCKHOLM, September 12. The Provincial. Council of the Aland Islands yesterday unanimously decided to claim reunion with Sweden, and a dissolution of their present union with Finland. SPAIN AND TANGIER. (Rec. 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, September 13. According to usually reliable sources all troops under Spanish control have now withdrawn from Tangier, says Reuter’s Madrid correspondent. The police of the Khalifa (the Sultan of Morocco’s representative in the Spanish zone) is maintaining order until the international gendarmerie take over. According to a correspondent of the Associated Press at Madrid, the Spanish Cabinet has formally abolished the Falange Party’s stiff-arm Fascist salute.

DUKE OF WINDSOR

NEW YORK, September 11. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, who have been in the United States since May, will leave for Europe next Friday, according to the New York “Herald-Tribune.” They will travel in the liner Argentina, which will call at Plymouth and Le Havre, but it is not known where they will disembark. The “Herald-Tribune” recalls that four months ago His Royal Highness ■said’: "I will return to England some day.” SPAIN AND FREEMASONRY. MADRID, Sept. 12. After a bitter speech by General Franco, attacking Freemasonry, an official, bulletin announced that 15 persons were summoned to appear before “a special tribunal for the suppression of Masonry and Communism.” The summonses follow the pattern of the'previous drives against Masons FRENCH SENTENCES. _ PARIS. Sept. 12. The High Court, at Orleans sentenced to death 11 ex-Vichy officials of the Department of Eure et. Loire, including the ex-Prefect, and ex> Police Commissioner and three expolice inspectors. They were charged with being associated in the execution of 48 patriots, the deportation of 90, and the arrest of 160. ITALIANS SENTENCED.

(Rec. 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 13. An Allied military court at Vicenza, North Italy, sentenced to death three of seven Italian Partisans who broke into the. Schio gaol on July 6 and shot Fascists. . The Court sentenced two to life imprisonment and absolved the remaining two. The sentences are subject to ratification by the Allied Commission. S. AFRICA’S DANGER ißecd. 1.30 p.m.) JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 13. If there is ever another war, South Africa must expect, to be within reach of rockets and other missiles, said Air Chief Marshal Harris, in a speech at Johannesburg, where he arrived as a guest oi the South African Government. He added that the day might come when air forces, as known to-day would be non-existent. The heavy bomber was obsolescent. He expects when he returns to England to enjoy two months’ leave, before returning somewhere in Africa, Kenya, Rhodesia or the Union. JOHN AMERY LONDON, September 12. The possibility that John Amery, son of the former Secretary of State for India (Mr. Amery), who is charged with treason, may be a Spanish citizen, was mentioned by the defence at the Old Bailey. The Court granted an application that the trial should not take place this session. The defence said that instructions had been received that Amery became a Spanish citizen during the civil war. Amery’s brother, Captain Julian Amery, went to Spain three weeks ago, and is still there making inquiries, as it would bo necessary to obtain evidence on Spanish law.

JUGOSLAV DEMOCRACY LONDON, September 13. “Marshal Tito, in his first election speech, claimed that the electoral system passed by the Jugoslav Provisional Government is the most democratic Jugoslavia has ever had,” says the Jugoslav Telegraph Agency. “The system enables everybody to vote except traitors. Jugoslavia paid clearly for her independence and will guard it firmly against all outside interference.” ARGENTINA’S 7- DOCTORS. EUENOS AIRES, September 13. The Argentine Medical Association has resolved to ask its board of directors 10x suspend the association’s scientific activities. The association stated: “An atmosphere of liberty, confidence, security and tranquility is indispensable to ' investigation for scientific progress. It is notorious that such conditions do not exist at present.in Argentina.” ■ The doctors suggested a strike limited to scientific activities. Their action follows a similar protest by the nation’s, lawyers, who have caused a virtual standstill in the courts. FIRE ON ORONTES (Rec. 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 13. Firemen quelled a fire on the Orontes, after a seven*hours’ fight. The cabins were considerably damaged. The cause of the fire is unknown. DEEP - SEA DIVING. HAMILTON (Bermuda), Sept. 13. Otis Barton, who served with the United States Navy and photographed the landings and battles in New Guinea and the Philippines, is planning to construct a sphere called- a benthoscope to dive a mile below the surface of the ocean. He was assorted with Dr. William Beebe, who descended half a mile in the bathosphere in 1934. .