NEWS AND NOTES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4834, 16 April 1936, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

“The idea that the Abyssinian war is popular in Italy is an illusion,” says Mr. Giovanni Giglio, who was the “Daily Herald” Rome correspondent for 17 years, but now has been expelled. “The people of Italy,” says Mr. Giglio, “understand that whether the result of the war is victory or disaster the country will be completely pauperised, and that its export trade will be negligible for at least 20 years.”

The Sun-Herald news service says Japanese papers forecast that Australia is about to impose stiff duties on imports of Japanese rayons, and Japanese exporters’ associations are considering the suspension of trade with Australia as a protest.

The P. anjl O. liner Ranpura, carrying to China from London the Chinese Art Exhibition treasures worth £10,000,000, was caught in a violent gale in the Outer Harbour at Gibraltar and grounded on the Spanish coast on a sandy bottom with occasional rocks. There is at present no danger. Admiralty tugs are standing by.

Thirty Spanish Communists have left Moscow for Spain after receiving training in Russian revolutionary practice, says the Riga correspondent of “The Times.”

Unknown assailants on Monday night fatally shot Don Manuel Pedregal in Madrid as he was entering his house. The victim was the judge who sentenced the Fascist student, Rafael Ortega, on Saturday. Rafael Ortega was sent to gaol for 30 years’ imprisonment for attempting to assassinate Senor Asua, Speaker of the Cortes. Three other students were each sentenced to six years’ imprisonment for assisting Ortega’s accomplices to escape to France.

A shipment of 765 Australian sheep arrived at Tokyo on Monday. This is the first instalment of 4200 which the Mitsui Benevolent Society is importing in 1936 for lending to farmers in the north-east following upon the successful results from 1000 sheep which the society distributed last year.

The Aberhart Government has intimated that it is ready to take over the control of Edmonton and Calgary in the event of these cities defaulting on their bond issues. The Dominion Government insists that municipalities must obtain any needed assistance from the Provincial Governments.

t It is estimated that the Abyssinian campaign already has cost Italy a total of £113,000,000, says the Rome correspondent of the Times. There are 450,000 Italians engaged on the northern and southern fronts. It is becoming evident that sanctions have not been so ineffective as the Italians profess, the textile and other industries having been severely hit.

The Rome correspondent of the Daily Mail says Baron Aloisi will make out a strong case in favour of the League standing back and giving Italy and Abyssinia a chance to come to terms without interference.

While a young farmer, Mr. Stuart Hurnall, was ploughing on his father’s farm, near Ararat, Victoria, he unearthed a nugget of gold a few inches below the surface. When weighed at the Royal Mint, Melbourne, yesterday, the nugget proved to be 120.6 ounces, of a value of £9OO. A good deal of mining was done in the Ararat neighbourhood in the early days of the Victorian goldfields.