NEWS IN BRIEF.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 26 July 1928, Page 7

NEWS IN BRIEF.

tinted Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) SUVA, July 24. The auxiliary ketch Jan "is reported to have 'been wrecked in the Lau Group at Fiji. The Government yacht Pioneer ibais been chartered to salvage the Jan. RIGA, July 23. The military trial of twenty-eight Latvians accused of espionage on behalf ol Russia has ended. Four have been sentenced to death, four to imprisonment with'hard Labour for life, and nine other’s to from five to fifteen years’ hard labour. RIGA. July 24. Ais a result of a. special defence week a workers’ organisation called the “Society for Aviation and Chemical Warfare,” has presented the Red Army with 20 tnore aeroplanes. The appeal for funds declared that “since the impudent ultimatum of the British capitalists in 1923 the Red Army has thus received more than 100 aeroplanes ; this is the host reply to ( hamihorlaii.u.” PARIS, July 24. Vincent. Richards, the American proli'.ssionai] tennis player, ha.s received cabled advice of his disqualification from the professional tennis players organisation for practising with the amateur Davis Cup representatives. PARIS, July 24. Owing to, engine trouble, Lieutenant Paris’s Atlantic flight has bee’n alba® - j cloned. A. French cruiser is calling at the Azores to pick up the machine and • ■row. ■