GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 19 August 1937, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

I’Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] LONDON, August 16. A caveat lodged by Mr Winter against Sir J. M. Barrie’s will has been withdrawn. Lord Nuffield made a gift to Pembroke College, Oxford, of £50,000 including grants for poor deserving students. CAIRO, August 16. The Iraq Premier, M. Suloiman and the Cabinet have resigned. BERLIN, August 16. The usual pink posters on advertising pillars in the streets announce three executions this morning, those of Erich John Herman and John Cousins, who allegedly betrayed State secrets relating to the army, to a foreign intelligence service, and Wilhelm Firl, for alleged Communist activities. STORM TROOPS. BERLIN, August 16. "If these fighting organisations had not existed, all our old enemies would leave there homes like rats,” declared Dr. Goebbels, at the conclusion of the Storm Troopers’ competition. MAURITIUS SUGAR WORKERS. [British Official Wireless]. RUGBY, August 16, The Colonial Office received a report from the Acting-Governor of Mauritius of a strike among casual labourers on four sugar estates. Though the strike is continuing, the situation is under control, but there was bloodshed on one estate, where four men were killed and seven wounded, three seriously, in a clash between the estate staff and the strikers. WASHINGTON, August 17. Mr. Bruxner, of New South Wales Ministry, after conferring with. the Interstate Commerce Commission, concerning transport, began a tour of the famous Blue Ridge Mountain highway. HAMILTON, August 17. The Pan-American clipper has hopped off for the Azores Islands. She is going for a survey flight to Europe.