NEWS AND NOTES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4527, 5 April 1934, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

The Daily Express states that the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, is at war with the Pope. In his Easter message to the Roman Catholics Youth Organisation the Pope brands National Socialism (Nazi-ism) as paganism. He applauds the resistance of Catholics to oppressive Nazi propaganda.

The Spanish Cabinet has prepared an emergency law restoring capital punishment for the use of bombs, armed assault, robbery by two or more and sabotage against the railway and public services. Several Ministers who have fought all their political lives for the abolition of the death penalty agreed to its revival owing to the great increase in crimes throughout the country.

Samuel Insull has been refused permission to appeal against the order of extradition issued by the Turkish Government.

Ivan Kreuger's trustees have decided to burn the "Match King's" famous diary, containing full details of his fraudulent transactions and his dealings with politicians, also his love affairs.

The Munich correspondent of the News-Chronicle says the authorities have promised to investigate the assault by a group of Nazis on Mr. Barclay Cecil in a cafe. The latter, a young Englishman, was assisting a German friend and his wife, whom the Nazis had treated with insolent brutality, even trying to tear off their clothes. Mr. Cecil was unconscious before the police rescued the party.

The oldest vessel on the British shipping register sails again this week to fetch a cargo from Wales. She is the Ceres, an 85-ton ketch, built in 1811. She carried supplies to the Duke of Wellington's troops in the Peninsula, when her armaments consisted of two flintlock pistols "to shoot Napoleon and his bodyguard should they be encountered."

The Tokio vernacular Press declares that Japan intends to demand the abolition of the Singapore Base, or, alternatively, a reduction of armaments there. It is contended that Hongkong is sufficient to . protect Britain's Far East trade, and the completion of the base would alter the balance of power in the Pacific, besides being contrary to the spirit of the Washington Treaty.

A New York jury acquitted Andrew Kirwan, aged 23, son of Madame Dubonnet, the wife of a millionaire French distiller, who formerly was Miss Jean Nash, and known as the "best dressed woman in the world," on a charge of the alleged murder of William Sessons on February 10 on board the steamer President Garfield on the high seas.

Captain Schmidt, leader of the Cheliuskin party marooned on the ice in the Arctic, has wirelessed that their rescue must be speedy to avert a tragedy. Storms have curtailed airmen's flights, but they have been able to cheer the castaways by flying over the camp.

Welcome rain has fallen over southern Victoria, and graziers and dairy farmers are jubilant, as they have experienced a long, dry summer.