NEWS AND NOTES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4871, 16 July 1936, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

A message from Vienna states that the Austrian Foreign Office denies that the Austro-German agreement includes secret military clauses.

English Supplementary Civil Estimates of £4,006,000 include a further £850,000 for gas masks and £37,000 for air raid precautions, also £2,930,000 for extension of the cattle subsidy and £20,000 for works on Palaces which the King is occupying.

Expressing the opinion that the dismissal of L. Amar Nath from the Indian cricket team .was extreme punishment, the Nawab of Bhopal, president of the Indian Cricket Board of Control, has reinstated that player. Amar Nath, who will leave by air on July 23 to rejoin the team in England, will make an unqualified apology to the manager.

The "Daily Telegraph" says the possibility that Mr. Charles Ulm is a castaway on the uninhabited island of Motu Iti, in the Pacific is suggested to Mrs. Ulm by the report of the captain of the Port Darwin, that he sighted a castaway on the island. Motu Iti is 300 miles from Tahiti. The weather was too unfavourable to lower a boat or take the ship closer to the island, so he sent a wireless message to the Governor of Tahiti. The message' was acknowledged.

The plenary meeting of the conference being held to consider Turkey's request to refortify the Dardanelles was adjourned to enable the drafting committee to finalise articles of the convention which have been under dispute. It is understood that agreement on all points has been practically reached, also that, in the event of a war in which Turkey is neutral the Dardanelles will be closed to all belligerent warships except those carrying out. their obligations under the League Covenant.

The Johannesburg correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says: "Most influential quarters in T ; Britain are agreed that there can be no permanent basis for a peaceful agreement with Germany unless the Germans are given adequate compensation for their colonies—meaning territorial compensation, not anywhere on the face of the the globe but in Africa," declared Mr. O. Pirow, South African Minister of Defence.