CABLE BREVITIES MYSTERIOUS “METEORS” OVER FRANCE

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 September 1946, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES MYSTERIOUS “METEORS” OVER FRANCE

People in Nancy, France, have reported seeing mysterious “meteors, flashing through the sky from south to north on Thursday night, states Reuter’s correspondent in Paris. One eye-witness said they could not possibly have been the lights of aircraft or of shooting stars. Two luminous globes linked by a line of fire followed by a phosphorescent tail, moving far more quickly than the fastest fighter aeroplane, crossed the sky. London, September 13.

“Gaullist Union” . The leader of the “Gaullist Union, M. Rene Capitant, stated that General de Gaulle will personally support the union’s candidates at the forthcoming French elections. —Paris,' September 15.

New Post for Sir Ben Smith Sir Ben Smith, formerly Minister of Food, has resigned from the House of Commons following the announcement of his appointment as chairman of the West Midlands Divisional Coal Board. —London, September I'3.

French Lose Railway Engine The French National Railway Company has lost an engine, which left the shed at Hausbergen, on the way to Saint Dizier, in Lorraine, and has not been seen since. Railway workers have been instructed to make a thorough search.—Paris, September 14. Airmen Rescued at Sea.

A Danish ship picked up three members of the Royal Air Force from a rubber dinghy near Brest. It is believed that they are members of the crew of a Royal Air Force Wellington which disappeared on a night exercise. Three other members of the crew are missing.—London, Sept. 14.

War Criminal Executed Lieutenant-General Takashi Sakai, the conqueror of Hong Kong, was executed by a firing squad before a crowd of 2000 Chinese. A Chinese military tribunal convicted Sakai of atrocities against prisoners and civilians and of conspiring at early Japanese encroachments in North China. —Nanking, September 14.

Hitler’s Deputy The Warsaw radio says that Hitler’s deputy, Martin Bormann, who disappeared after the Russians entered Berlin, has broadcast three times to German people from a secret transmitter, saying that ho and his entire staff had succeeded in evading the occupying forces and getting abroad.—London, September 15.

Fires in New South Wales Although a cooler change is making its presence felt, fires are still threatening large areas of New South Wales. In North Sydney outbreaks of fire almost claimed a large furniture store. All brigades were called to the alert to deal with fires raging for more than a mile on each side of the main south highway near Cronulla. Volunteers from a dance at Casino, north New South Wales, .fought bush fires for several hours. Losses throughout the state include timber mills, standing timber, and farm buildings. The State Government has introduced the most drastic fire-preventing regulations in the history of New South Wales. Sydney, September 15.

Labour and Controls “It is better to have a controlled time now and a better time later than freedom now and a complete mess 'later,” said the Lord President of the Council (Mr Herbert Morrison) at a press conference in Dublin, where he has been on holiday. Mr Morrison said that Britain was going through her transition with the heroic spirit existing during the war. The people were in a fine mood of determined endeavour, and even it it meant that things would have to be _ tight for a time, they would take it as long as they knew it was a necessary part of the business of building up a healthy economic foundation. Mr Morrison said he could not say what might be done for control of tne press, but it would not be socialised. —London, September 14.