CABLE BREVITIES New Ship's Maiden Voyage To Dominion

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 March 1947, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES New Ship's Maiden Voyage To Dominion

The of the Shaw Savill and Albion Company’s new post-war fleet, the 15,000-ton Corinthic, is due io sail from Liverpool on April 12 with 80 passengers on her maiden voyage to New Zealand., She will begin her three-day trials next Tuesday. Commanded by Captain D. D. Aitchison, she will call at Las Palmas, Cape Town, Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney before going on to New Zealand. It is stated that it has still not been decided whether she will make her first port of call Auckland or Wellington.—London, March 21.

No Marriage with Non-Russians A new decree prohibits Russians from marrying foreigners.—Moscow, March 21. Palestine Proposal Dropped “The proposal to publish photographs and particulars of wanted terrorists in Palestine newspapers is to be dropped,” says the Jerusalem correspondent of The'Times. “In the light of possible co-operation in a wider field the Government decided not to force this issue.” It is reliably stated that all British A.T.S. women, numbering 200, will be evacuated from Palestine very soon.—London, March 21. No U.S. Aid for Jugoslavia The State Department has rejected a Jugoslav request for a share in the proposed appropriation of 350,000,000 dollars for general foreign relief. It has also turned down a joint Jugo-slav-UNRRA request for an allocation of American grain for Jugoslavia before May or June. The department can find no acceptable evidence that Jugoslavia really needs help, and suspects that the food already supplied had not been efficiently distributed.—Washington, March 21. Police Chief Suspended The French Ministry of the Interior has announced the suspension from office of Charles Luizet, Prefect of the Paris Police. Luizet will continue to draw his salary. The Minister added that the suspension was in no way connected with the Joanovici case, in which some police are already implicated or allegedly assisting the wartime profiteer to escape. The suspension was ordered solely because the Minister had not approved the methods Luizet used to clean out unwholesome elements in the police. His honour was in no way affected.-: —Paris, March 20.