GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 28 August 1946, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES

SAN FRANCISCO, August 26. Pan-American Airways announced that the_air service to Auckland via Los Angeles, Honolulu, Canton Island. Suva and Noumea, would be resumed on August 30 with Douglas Clippers carrying passengers, mail and express parcels. LONDON, August 26. The Belgian Prime Minister, M. Spaak, is believed to have asked Spain Io explain immediately why Belgium had been refused details of Leon de Grelle’s disappearance after the order to quit Spain, says the Daily Telegraph’s Brussels correspondent. " M. Spaak protested to the Spanish Charge d’Alfaires against the appaient lack of supervision after the expulsion order. LONDON, August 26. Farmers in Suffolk, one of England’s most important grain . areas, have abandoned harvesting after the last few weeks of wet weather culminated in heavy thunderstorms last night. Many fields are under water. National Farmers’ Union officials estimated that 25 per cent, of the grain will be lost, they described it as a national disaster. Suffolk farmers will hold an emergency meeting to-morrow. NEW YORK, August 2'6. The first death attributed to DDT is reported from Collingswood (New Jersey), where a country coroner found that a man aged 53 died from accidental inhalation of DDT fumes when exterminating spiders in a summer lodge. A physician said that unquestionably death resulted from the inhalation of DDT and from that al ° ne ’ LONDON, August 25. When he was half a mile from the shore the Chilean, Jorge Beroeta, aged 28, gave up his attempt to swim the Channel from Ga P Gns Dover He was baulked by the change of tide after about 21 hours | SW iTffitTnded to complete the first post-war crossing on the 71st anni versary of the first crossing by Cap tain Weblj. ~ TOKIO, August 26. Voting 421 to eight, the Japanese House of Representatives approved the revised draft of a new Constitution which declares that sovereignty rests in the people, from whom the Emperor derives his position. Ine dissenters' included six Communists. The measure will now go to the House of Peers.