NEWS AND NOTES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3442, 12 March 1932, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

The announcement of the reduction of the bank rate to 4 per cent, was wildly cheered by excited crowds in London who disorganised the traffic as they rushed headlong to telegraph and telephone to advise interested parties.

A blizzard has been raging in the Gulf of Finland, i It interrupted the air search for 700 fishermen and 100 horses marooned on an ice field and believed to be drifting towards the Estonian coast.

The British Charge d’Affaires in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, in concert with other foreign representatives, addressed on March 7 an urgent appeal to the Liberian Government in connection with reports of continued persecution of the Kru 'population by Government forces.

A speech by Sir Bolton EyresMonsell, First Lord of the Admiralty, forecasting an early return to the taining of midshipmen in sail as a preliminary to careers in steam, has aroused the belief that the famous Cutty Sark, now lying at Falmouth, will be recommissioned.

Hopeful signs of an early settleof the outstanding differences between China and Japan are sene in a communication addressed to the Chinese authorities by the Japanese Minister, Mr. Shigemitsu.

In a political speech Herr Hitler, the Nazi leader, said he honoured Hindenburg as a field-marshal, but now was compelled to say to him: “Worthy old man that you are, get out of the way.”