NEWS AND NOTES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4959, 23 February 1937, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

All hope of finding alive the seven occupants of the Stinson air liner lost on a flight from Brisbane to Sydney on Friday has been practically abandoned. Search by air and land throughout the week-end failed to reveal any trace of the aircraft or its personnel. Miss Jean Batten joined the searchers, making two extensive flights but without result.

Press reports reaching London, of the laws and decrees issued by. Governments which are parties to the non-intervention agreement in Spain, indicate that it is likely that effect will be given generally to the recommendation of the International Committee that the enrolment, departure or transit of volunteers for the Spanish -war should be prohibited as from midnight on Saturday.

Permission to British firms to employ their own nationals freely is given in a newly-signed trade treaty between Britain and Cuba, according to the Havana correspondent of the New York Times. This is the sole exception to Cuba's highly nationalistic labour laws and it is causing much agitation among American business men.

The United States Foreign Relations Committee has recommended to the Senate the adoption of a permanent neutrality resolution providing for an embargo on arms and munitions as soon as the President proclaims that there is war or civil war anywhere in the world, also for the prohibition of loans to all belligerents.

Because a Soviet film depicting incidents in the Abyssinian war was shown at a cinema in Shanghai, ten Italian sailors fired revolvers and raided the projecting room. They broke the apparatus and thrashed two Russian operators, who were sent to hospital.

The Viceroy of Ethiopia, Marshal Graziani, was seriously wounded in one hand, and General Liotta was gravely wounded in the abdomen and one leg when several hand grenades were thrown at them during distribution of gifts to churches and mosques in Addis Ababa. A wealthy South African has given Mr. J. A. Mollison £IO,OOO to ensure his participation in the Lindbergh anniversary air race from Paris to New York next August, according to the "Sunday Dispatch." Mr. Mollison says he has ordered a three-engined American Bellanca machine, with a top speed of 275 miles an hour, a cruising speed of 240 miles an hour, and a range of 4000 miles. A telegram from Waukegan, Illinois, states that 120 policemen and deputy-sheriffs failed to' dislodge more than 100 sit-down strikers from two plants of the Fan Steel and Metallurgical Corporation, makers of fine parts for motor cars. Tear gas bombs were exploded inside the building, but the strikers mopped their streaming eyes and held off the attackers by hurling at them bottles of tungsten and tantalum valued at 500 dollars each.

General von Blomberg, Minister of Defence, opening the war commemoration service at the Opera House, in the presence of Herr Hitler and Cabinet Members, declared that the Versailles Treaty had been wiped out. He gave a pledge, however, that Germany would not threaten danger to any nation. She held out a hand to her neighbours for reconciliation.

Moscow leaders operating through "puppets" in England, says the "Daily Mail" Avila correspondent, stands charged with treachery by 35 British prisoners captured on the Jarama front by General Franco's forces. The paper adds that the prisoners' depositions show how unemployed men were inveigled to Spain by the promise of work. The centre of the web was the British Communist party's headquarters in Covins Garden.