LATE NEWS SOUTH AFRICAN GOLD

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 April 1946, Page 7

LATE NEWS SOUTH AFRICAN GOLD

WILD SHARE-BUYING CONTINUES

(Rec. 3 p.m.) LONDON, April 23. Another wild burst of share-buying in Johannesburg and London followed Sir Ernst Oppenheimer’s statement when the exchanges reopened today. The statement fired speculators’ imagination and brokers were swamped with orders. In Johannesburg the floor was jammed with excited crowds. Western Holdings jumped from 18/9 to 137/6. In London, Western Holdings rose from 16/3 to 132/6. ' UNFAIRNESS ALLEGED (Rec. 3.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, April 24. A sharp conflict between ex-ser-vicemen and other students attending Sydney University has been revealed by articles in the Students Council paper Honi Soil. A sixth-year medical student says that the soldiers’ preference is a “continuance of the servile dependence to which they were accustomed in the fighting services during the war,” and asserts that preference ,n some university departments is unjust and underhand. He alleges that in at least two subjects in the medical faculty, examiners found a list of ex-servicemen’s names attached to papers to be marked. “It took the absence ol' men of spirit and integrity at the war to produce the mag°ot in the apple,” comments an undergraduate representative on the Senate, who was taken prisoner at Crete. NINE EURASIANS MURDERED BY TERRORISTS (Rec. 3 p.m.)' BATAVIA, April 23. An Allied communique states that Indonesian terrorists in the Buitzenborg area murdered nine persons belonging to two Eurasian families, including two children. Four suspects have been arrested. A British patrol was ambushed near Lembang, but the enemy was dispersed by mortar-fire. ’ REPORTS OF FIGHTING IN PERSIA (Rec. 3.5 p.m.) TEHERAN, April 23. The- Government has ordered an investigation by the army into Tabriz radio reports that fighting between Persian army troops . and volunteer Azerbaijan Democrats occurred southward of Miyanduab. The Prime -Minister, Ghavam Sultaneh, recently ordered border troops to remain in barracks in order to avoid possible conflict with the Kurds and Azerbaijans. TRANSPORT • ACILIIIES TOO LATE ; (Rec. 3 p.m.) . CHUNGKING, April; 23. The Central News Agency reported that the Russian authorities-of the Chinese eastern railway, consented to the transportation of Chinese... Government troops from Pekin to Harbin. The consent, however, came , too late to prevent the Communists infiltrating into Harbin.