GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 17 August 1937, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

BRITISH ARMY RECRUITING. I British Official Wireless]. RUGBY, August 13. During July, 2772 recruits were approved, for the territorial army. Since January 1, 1937, the*© has been an intake of 33,012 recruits, compared with 26,717 during the corresponding period last year. PALESTINE MANDATE. GENEVA, August 13. Replying to questions, in a private session of the Mandate’s Commission, Mr Ormsby Gore was understood to have stated that the existing Palestine Mandate could be carried out onlv with the help of the military, which Britain was unwilling to employ. GUILDFORD CATHtDRAL. RUGBY, August 13. Good progress is being made with Britain’s newest cathedral in Surrey. Because of the nature of the subsoil on the hillside west of Guildford, 778 reinforced concrete piles-had to be driven into the clay. Excavations for the crypt are well advanced, and it is expected that the ground level will be complete and work on the superstructure begun early next year. The cost of the cathedral will be about £250,000. NAZI >vrtT POLICY. BERLIN, August 13. A panel of more than 300 artists and sculptors has been drawn up These will be refused public work. They include all artists who have confined themselves to religious work. In addition to Proiessor HanfstnenEl a long list of officials has been sen? on leave or dismissed under General Goering’s art purge. HUNGARIAN ROBS VILLAGERS. BUDAPEST, August 15! All the villagers of Agasegyhazti were assembled at a festival ia hall when a labourer, Ludwig MiglinszkT leaped on to the platform and Slaved toat nobody could Jew because there was a murderei present. He then locked the doors, robbed ev ?ry house in the village, and decamped. LONDON, August 15. A native chief in Tanganyika proud thp new “voicey box n . bought invited Mr. Ernest Hawkins, the local magistrate to listen in - Hawkins, turning the knobs to tu into London, was amazed to hear an for his brother, who was motor Portland S reached Engtand'to/elght days, happily to find his mother recovering. memorial CHAPEL. LONDON, August 15. A Memorial Chapel to American Soldiers who died in En g lan e^et^ aS dedicated at Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey, in which 600 Americans are buried. The chapel is a gift of the American Battle Monuments Commission. General Pershing is ill, and was unable to attend. Colonel Robert Woodside, Vice Chairman of the Commission, dedicating the Memona , declared that America would work and fight for world peace. They were not pacifists, and did not believe in peace without honour.