NEWS AND NOTES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4954, 11 February 1937, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

It is suggested that the irreconcilability of the viewpoints of Herr Hitler and Mr. Eden may cause a British Cabinet reshuffle.

Moors and other rebel soldiery looted houses and are reported to have killed many occupants when the rebels captured Malaga.

It is announced that the KingEmperor has informed the Secretary for India, the Marquess of Zetland, that he has reluctantly come to the conclusion that he will not be able to hold a Coronation Durbar in India next winter.

Dispatches from Spain state that the insurgents have become masters of Malaga—the last stronghold of the Spanish Government in the south-east and important as a potential naval base. Nine columns, some of which were mechanised and all equipped with the most modern armament, converged in an attack on the. town.

Death sentences on Thos. Michael Ryan, aged 30, and his brother, Denis Martin Ryan, aged 22, for murder of a pensioner named Robert McKenzie, near Bathurst on October 20, were commuted to life imprisonment. McKenzie apparently was killed for money, his body being thrown into the river.

The total losses to the world economic system from the depression of 1930-34 were between 100 and 120 thousand million gold dollars, equivalent to the total cost of the Great War, according to a report by the International Labour Office. Industrial countries were not hit so badly as agricultural, and the former were able to preserve a relatively high standard of living. The middle classes were amongst the heaviest sufferers.

The allegation that a secret organisation was planning to restore Polish Silesia to Germany was made when 29 Nazis were sentenced to from 18 to 30 months’ imprisonment with the loss of civil rights for five years. It was alleged that they planned a military rising while in communication with the German Gestapo (secret police), and that they had sworn allegiance to Herr Hitler. Large numbers escaped to Germany before'the trial.

Mr. Herman Rodgers, owner of the villa at which Mrs. Simpson is staying scouted the suggestion that the Princess Royal intends to attempt to dissuade the Duke of Windsor from his contemplated marriage. “I am not able to discuss the matter,” he said, “but I can say that the statement is not true.”

In strong and even brutal language, “The Banker,”, a monthly magazine regarded as the semiofficial mouthpiece of the city, opposes further loans to Germany. It is believed that the article, which caused a sensation, marks the turning point in the city’s policy to Germany. “It is clear,” says the article, “that German political leaders, gambling for their livelihood, are prepared to gamble the lives of their people. Germany’s ruthless foreign policy and the blatant threat to peace of her vast rearmament has caused distrust to spread far beyond Europe.