NEWS IN BRIEF

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 9 October 1928, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF

v—(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Oct. 5. The Pols imaster-G enera l announced that alter to-morrow (supplementary letter mails dispatched on Friday by air to Marseilles to overtake mails lor Egypt. India and Australia "ill be discontinued for the winter. Beginning on Monday next air mails for Lyons and Marseilles will be sent by the ordinary night .mail to Paris, and thence hy air. The afternoon air mails lor Belgium and Germany will be suspended, hut the morning air mails will remain in operation. BERLIN, Oct. 6. The Graf, Zeppelin, which carried out (successful trial flights over England recently, will leave for New York on Wednesday. Among the passenger* will be several Ministers, including Herr vqn Gnerard, Minister »1 Communications, Dr. Drzesinski, Prussian ALi mistier ,ibr the Interior, Major Bramdenburg, Permanent Seccretary tor Air. The fare from Eriedrichshaven to New York has been fixed at £6OO. Seventeen passengers have reserved berths up to the present.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 5. Sir Hubert Wilkins has arrived on the Southern Cross. He declared lie would embark on the Norwegian whaler Hectora, at Monte Video, and proceed immediately to Deception Island to establish the first base, where lie will assemble the planes for the dash to the South Pole. Sir Hubert said the expedition "ill be perfectly organised and lie is confident of success. Powerful radio will be established at one base to keep in touch with the expedition and report to the outside world.

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The new Nelson liner ''Highland Monarch,” 14,000 tons, the first of five motor ships ordered by the iompany ror their South American service, has completed lifer voyage from the shipbuilding yards of Harland and Wolff at Belfast, where -she was built, to London. She will sail on October IS on her first trip to Buenos Aires, which she is intended to make in about 19 days. The Highland Monarch is 520 feet in length and 69 feet beam and has accommodation for 135 first-class passengers, 60 intermediate, and 600 emigrants. The vessel has one of the largest refrigerating installations afloat. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the Daily Express understands, has protested to the - Home Ofiico respecting the publication of what is described as a “secret confidential report” on fii.s turn activities between 19)6 and 1921. Editorially Die “Daily Express” states:- “If it were thought to repeat the incident of the Zinovielf Letter the plot has ;ooniiplelely miscarried. There must always -he the black mark against Mv. MacDonald’s name thatlie gave comfort to the enemy instead of his own country, but let us keep the coming election clear free fi’om the personalities, red herrings and red letters.” ' RUGBY, Oct. 5. A party consisting of Lord Cawley and Mr. Campbell and Captain Fergus Graham, members of Parliament, sailed to-day in the steamer Alamzora for Buenos Aires. The object of the visit, which has been arranged at the invitation of the Rural Society of Argentina, is to enable the party to form an opinion at first hand on the soundness of the sanitary control of exported meat, with particular reference to the fears recently expressed in the British Parliament regarding the danger of infection from foot and mouth disease. To this end a four oi estancias and frigorilicos has been arranged by the Rural Society in order that ocular proof of. the system’s eificiencv may be given. RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 6. The police believe they have unearthed, huge smuggling operations in jewels covering a dozen years. They have arrested Jacquin Miranda, a member of the harbour Customs’ stall, and are now trying to trace a package of diamonds worth £30,000. The police arc unable to tell whether the package was safely carried ashore or whether it was dropped overboard and for ever lost in the centre of the deep harbour of Rio do Janeiro.