NEWS AND NOTES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4633, 8 December 1934, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

Sir Oliver Lodge, at the age of 83, has blossomed out as a film star. The veteran scientist faced the camera and microphone for minutes and discussed the reality ‘of the ether.

The Rechsbank. announces that the Bank of England has granted credit for £750,000, redeemable within a year, for the payment of British trade creditors, including the Lancashire cotton dealers.

Over £3,000,000 will be available for the German works programme as the result of the new edict compelling additional companies to invest in Government loans all profits over 6 per cent.

French newspapers generally applaud the decision of the League in regard to an international force to maintain law and order in the Saar during the plebiscite next month.

The two funds for the relief of sufferers from the Gresford pit disaster, which occurred on September 22, with the loss of 260 lives, now aggregate nearly £500,000.

It is revealed that Herr Hitler personally ordered Herr Brueckner, head of the iron and steel works at Borsig, Upper Silesia, which recently announced a dividend of 7 per cent., contrasting with its previous figure of 3 per cent., to go to Berlin in order to report on the situation in Silesia. Herr Brueckner was in blissful ignorance of the motives for this order and promptly flew to Berlin, where he was astounded when secret police immediately arrested and imprisoned him.