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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21946, 14 February 1946, Page 8

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Washington-New York Television

The National Broadcasting Company announced that ttie first television broadcast from Washington, using the new 225-mile coaxial cable, was received in New York excellently. Sicilian Bandits Hunted Troops of at least three Italian divisions are using flame-throwers and aircraft to clear out bandits from the hills around Palermo, Sicily. They have so far captured 100 bandits, several Italian and German guns and large quantities of ammunition.

“Morning Tea” Strike Ends

The “morning tea” strike of painters and dockers at Cockatoo dock. Sydney, is to be called off and the Ships Painters and Dockers' Union will apply to the Arbitration Court for inclusion in the award of a morning break for tea. This was decided by a mass meeting of men yesterday following a conference between the union and management.

U.S. Relations with Yemen. The United Slates State Department reported American plans to enter diplomatic relations with Yemen, a small kingdom of 75,000 square miles with 4,000,000 inhabitants in south-western Asia, and a member of the Arab League.

America’s Liquor Consumption American Treasury figures disclose a huge increase in liquor consumption in the United States in 1945 which, on a per capita basis, reached the highest mark since 1933 when prohibition was repealed. In 1945 the liquor consumption was 1.38 gallons per person, compared with 0.98 of a gallon in 1944. The total consumption was 165.000,000 gallons, the highest yet recorded.

Germans to be Hanged

Five S.S. officers have been sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of an unknown member of the It.A.F. at Enschede in November, 1944. They ordered him to be shot. One of the five, Major-General Eberhard Schoengarth. may be handed over before -ais execution to the Dutch for trial on other charges. It is believed that Schoengarth ordered the breaking of tlie dykes, thus flooding Holland, says Reuter’s. Death sentences have been confirmed on three Germans who killed Lance-Corporal Ward, who disappeared while he was investigating black market activities and whose body was found in a quarry near .Cologne.