NEWS IN BRIEF

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22439, 20 September 1947, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF

TESTED ON FULL LOAD.—On Thursday No. 2 unit at Karapiro hydro-elec-tric station was running on the full system load. The tests are very satisfactory. RECALCITRANT JEWS.— The Jewish immigrants lodged in “screening" camps near Lubeck since they disembarked in Hamburg on September 8. have persistently sabotaged the efforts to question or "screen” them for classification. TRAM STRIKE AVERTED.—The stoppage of trams in Sydney on Monday lias been averted. The Tramways Union had decided on a one-day stoppage in support of its demand for the introduction of a five-day roster. The union has accepted terms of settlement providing for a five-day 40-hour week from October 3. OBSTETRICAL APPEAL REACHES £BB,OOO. —A cheque for £lOls. handed b v Mr J. Oliver, honorary Dominion organiser of the obstetrical and gynaecological appeal in Cambridge on Thursday represents the proceeds of one month’s campaign in the Cambridge district. On a population basis of 6000 odd. Mr. Oliver considered the contribution a very high one. Mr. Oliver said the campaign had reached

about £BB,OOO. MISSING PRIME MINISTER.—The military governor of the U.S. zone of Germany, Lieut.-General Lucius Clay, told the press that he did not know the present whereabouts ot Dr. Rudolf Paul Prime Minister of Thuringia, in the Russian zone, whom the Russian police have been seeking since he disappeared earlier this month, says Reuter’s correspondent in Frankfurt. Tile correspondent adds (hat United States intelligence officers also denied knowledge of Dr. Paul's whereabouts. The Sunday Times diplomatic correspondent stated on September 13 that Dr Paul had entered the United States zone and had been given police protection.. EX-PRISON ERS’ DIS A BILITIES.— Cases have been reported of exprisoners of war, particularly in Japanese hands, suffering various disabilities attributable directly to the ill-treat-ment or neglect of their captors, contrary to all the rules or conventions of warfare, said Mr F. A. Davis, Dominion Secretary of die Air Force Association. Incorporated, in a statement in Wellington yesterday. The Dominion executive of the association was of the opinion that the question of exra compensation for such cases, to be included in reparation settlements, should be investigated and the matter taken up with the Government Branches, therefore, were being asked to contact ex-air force prisoners of war who might consider they had such claims and to forward details to the Dominion headquarters.