GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 23 May 1947, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

NEW YORK, May 21. Seven soldiers were killed at Champaign (Illinois) last night when an Army plane crashed on a farm four miles from an airbase, during a violent electrical storm. PARIS, May 21. The Colonial Minister (M. Moulet) told the Cabinet that French troops with recently-arrived reinforcements, had surrounded, but not suppressed the rebels in Madagascar. The next step, he said, would be “progressive reduction of the rebels still resisting.” LONDON, May 21. The council of the Royal Empire Society has awarded the following prizes'in the 1946 Empire essay competition to New Zealanders:—Boys’ High School). Class B.—Herbert Jenks (Waitaki Class C.—John Mercer (King’s Preparatory School, Remuera). Special Prize.—Suniti Mukherji, Education Department’s Correspondence School. Margaret Best Memorial Prize, Class A.—Robert Macaulay (Waitaki Boys’ High School). MANILA, May 21. The Filipino President aeroplane, Lily Marlene, a four-engined machine which was formerly Viscount Mountbatten’s personal aircraft, is lost in the wilds of northern Cotabato, in Mindanao. There are fifteen Government officials aboard including Judge Francisco Zuleuta, and Colonel Edwin Andrews, chief of the the Philippine Army Air Focre. The aircraft was last heard of a 9 a.m. on May 18, when it ’took oc from Buava’s airfield, cotabato, for Bacolod on Negros Island. GENEVA, May 21.

Josip Djerda Liaison officer attached to the United Nations Balkan Investigation Commission, told the commission that he objected to the United States delegation’s con-

elusion that Yugoslavia was chiefly to blame for incidents on the northern Greek frontier and that Albania and Bulgaria were blameworthy to a lesser extent. The commission, after hearing the Bulgarian, Albanian and Greek liaison officers, resumed in closed session for writing' its final conclusions. SOFIA, May 20. The former Bulgarian Army chief-of-staff, General Ivan Popoff. was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment for leadership in a conspiracy against the Government. The Court pronounced its verdicts against 27 other high officers in February last but postponed the case because he was ill. The prosecutor that 28 officers “contacted a foreign mission” aiming at the overthrow of the Government. LONDON, May 22. The Foreign Office has informed Mrs Kathleen Barratt that her husband, Warrant Officer Reginald Barratt, from whom she has not heard since the Russians arrested him in December, 1944, woi'ked as a British agent in Hungary after escaping I from the Germans. Barratt then reported to th? Russians on December 3, 1944 and was ararested three weeks later. He was last seen in Czechoslovakia on April 2'2, 1945. From tea time to midnight, the 8.8. C. broadcast in Hungarian Russian, and Czech what details are known of the disappearance of Barratt. The 8.8. - European news bulletins said that after repeated requests to the Russians, the British Foreign Office was “considering further action.” Mrs Barratt went to Birmingham studio and made a recording, appealing for help in solving the mystery of her husband’s disappearance. The recording will be translated into Russian and broadcast to the wffiole Soviet.