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Grey River Argus, 11 March 1938, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

NEW BLUE STAR LINER. (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, March 8. The Blue Stai' Line has placed a order with Messrs Harland and Wolff fox' two fast motox' refrigerated cargo liners, the cost of which will exceed £1,000,000. DRUG TRAFFIC. PARIS, March 9. A New York mother’s discovery that her schoolgirl daughter was rei ceiving regular' supplies of heroin 3 from Paris, resulted in the arrest of r thirty-one members of a drug ring. 5 EGYPT MILITARISTS.

CAIRO, March 9. King Farouk has decreed the banning of associations of a military character. The green shirts and the blue shirts are being broken up, and the equipment confiscated. MAORI CHOIR. LONDON, March 9. After a request from Mr Jordan, the King is receiving the Maori Choir, on March 30. EASIER DIVORCE IN CANADA. OTTAWA, March 9. The Senate read a first time a Bill to make the divorce law conform with the decree in Mr Herbert’s Bill in Britain, whereby only after three years of marriage, desertion and insanity can be made additional grounds fox' divorce. FLEET OIL RESERVE.’ RUGBY, March 9. Replying to a question in the Commons, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty stated that the Admiralty was taking the necessary measures to accumulate an adequate reserve of oil fuel for the F’eet. Arrangements were being made to provide protection against air attack. In reply to another question, he stated that the tonnage of the two capital ships in the 1938 construction programme was still under consideration. No further information Kliail been received regarding the size of Japanese battleships, projected er building. DICTATORS’ AUTOGRAPHS. PARIS, March 9. An autographed letter from Hitler,

appointing the deceased Captain Roehm as Chief of the Storixx troopers, was sold for £l2O. Mussolini’s autographed decree, ordering the organisation of the has- | cist State, fetched £3O.