NEWS AND NOTES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4952, 6 February 1937, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

Lively passages between the socalled “wild men of the Left” and Sir John Simon, Home Secretary, and Earl Winterton (Con., Horsham) occurred in the committee stage of the Regency Bill in the House of Commons.

The Olympic Organisation Committee has decided that fencing and the modern pentathlon be placed on the list of “undesirable events” for the next Olympic Games, to be held in Japan.

A shepherd found in a field the “Daily Express” aeroplane which had been missing since it left Renfrew, Scotland, on Tuesday, for Liverpool, to make a survey of proposed internal air routes throughout Britain. The machine was completely burned and the dead bodies of the four occupants were found inside the framework.

The “Daily Herald” diplomatic correspondent says the question whether the Duke of Windsor should be granted an annual income from public funds is creating anxiety in Ministerial circles. The Government proposal is that the Duke’s allowance should be included in the new Civil List, but it is now evident that this would encounter considerable opposition in the House of Commons.

Responsible medical opinion, as expressed in the current issue of “The Lancet,” gives credence to the theory that the Soviet trial victims were drugged and hypnotised to com% pel them to make false confessions. “Certain drugs produce a dreamy state of mind in which a patient may lose his inhibitions and talk ipore freely about past experiences,” the paper states.

President Roosevelt has sent a report from the National Resources Committee, with a special message to Congress urging the development of the public works programme on a permanent basis, with the immediate establishment of a six-year building plan.

The evening papers’ Test theme is disappointment, combined with Tiopefulness for the fifth Test, commencon February 26. H. A. Carson, cabling to the “Evening News” from Adelaide, says: “The English defeat is due, firstly, to England’s lost, opportunity in the first innings; and, secondly, to the bowling of Fleet-wood-Smith, who bowled better than ever previously.