CABLE BREVITIES AMERICAN PLANE TO FLY OVER THE ARCTIC

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 August 1946, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES AMERICAN PLANE TO FLY OVER THE ARCTIC

A United States Army Superfortress will leave Honolulu shortly and at-, temfii a record I'o,ooo miles noii-stbp flight.over the Arctic to Cairo. The aereplahh is the one which.set the prfeserit non-stop record of 7929 miles from Guam to. Wasliihgton last Nov&ffiber. It will .fly the Great Circle route via t&elahd; England, and Italy. —Washington, August 4. Higher Pay. ... The French Assembly adopted a Gbverriffieht bill, iricr'easing civil servants’ salaries by 25 per cent.— Par is j -AugUst 3 . Mail tip nil I Leaves Fremantle. The Mauhganuii with the New Zealand Victory Coiitingeht aboard arrived at Fremantle oh Friday and left on Saturday direct for New Zealand.—Perth; Ailgust 4. FreHch Postal Workers’ Strike.

The French telephone and telegraph strike throughout France would return to work to-morrow. The committee said the Government had met ail the .. workers’ demahds.—-Paris, August 3. “Free Gerrharis” Sentenced.

Thirteen meh and two women members of the “Free Germany” organisation were sentenced to death for murder and sabotage by a Polish military court at Breslau. Another 23 members were sentenced to gaol terms ranging from two to 12 years.—Frankfurt, August 4.

U.S. and World Court. The United States Senate has approved and sent to the White House a measure under which the United States agrees to. accept the jurisdiction of the World Court, on condition that the United States is entitled to refuse the court the right to consider a case which the United States regards as purely its own domestic concern.—New York, August 3.

Leprosy Cases in Queensland. Four cases of leprosy have been, reported to the Queensland Health Department from Emerald, in central Queensland. The victims are all adults and members of one family. Every member of the family has been sent to the Peel Island lazaretto in Morton Bay. The Deputy-Director of State Health Services (Dr. Coffey) said the outbreak was extremely unusual. It was very rare to find a number of lepers in a single family.—■ Brisbane, August 3.

Army Officers to Confer. Field Marshal Lord Montgomery will preside at a meeting of highranking British and Dominions Army officers at Camberley on August 12. The War Office announced that the purpose of the meetings is to keep commanders informed of the general War Office policy, to discuss current problems, and to consider aspects of post-war Army organisation—London, August 3.

Smuggling into China. Dispatches from Nanking-state that four motor-cars and big quantities of watches, fountain pens, cosmetics, and cigarettes were smuggled into China aboard a fleet of eight gift warships which Chinese naval crews brought from the United States last week. The fleet’s commander is reported to have been dismissed, and two leading of-' fleers have been, arrested on smuggling charges.—Shanghai, August 3.

New Tasman Flying-Boat. The new Tasman Empire Airways flying-boat Australia arrived at Sydney on Sunday afternoon on a delivery flight, and will continue tlie journey to Auckland on Monday morning. Mr. D. F. C. Saxton, of New .Plymouth, who is returning from the Empire Press Union conference recently held in London, Mr. K. J. Holyoake, M.P., and Mr. G. Pottinger, of the Dairy Export Division, are through passengers—Sydney, August 4. Removal of Mussolini's Body.

Three persons have been arrested in Milan and accused of being responsible for the removal of Mussolini’s body from its secret grave in a Milan cemetery last April. Two of the men were Dominico Leccisi, aged 26, and Antonio Parozzi, aged 20. They are stated -to have confessed that they took the body to a secret hiding place which the police have not yet found. —London, August 3.

Australian Interim Army. After six months of recruiting only 143 men had volunteered for service with the interim army in Australia, said the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. R. G. Menzies) in the House of Representatives. He was merely quoting figures given yesterday in the House by the Minister of the Army (Mr. F. M. Forde), who said that the total enlistments in the interim army were 9818, of which number 9675 had been by men who volunteered for service, in Japan.—Canberra, August 3. . .