NEWS AND NOTES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXII, Issue 4638, 11 May 1938, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

While Pan-American Airways'.Reclines to confirm a current report that the New Zealand service will recommence on August 14, the Australian Associated Press learns from Pan-American Airways and b'ther sources that at least one Boeing flying boat of the most modern design is rapidly being completed for that purpose. . ; ",;'.• .'.';>'. i.

A private session of the League Council was adjourned after a brief meeting for agenda purposes. The Abyssinian delegates, Taszac and Medhen, occupied observers' seats and did not participate in the subsequent secret meeting. Haile Selassie was not present. Mr. W. J. Jordan supported' M. Litvinoff (Soviet Russia) in defending the Abyssinians' right to be present which led to a discussion in which the Latvian and Polish delegates countered M. Litvinoff's arguments. < '■ «

Unrest exists among the 200,000 former Austrian nationals in the South Tyrol (now Italian territory), who, like the Sudeten Germans, are impelled toward Greater Germany, reports the Rome correspondent of the <!Daily Telegraph." . They still present a great administrative difficulty, but their grievance is at best but shelved. I

The masters of 13 British merchant vessels, including the Stancroft, Stanbrook and Greatend, anchored at Valencia, telegraphed the Foreign Office: "If British ships are to trade to Spain under the Nonintervention Agreement, it is necessary that a neutral zone should be allotted in every harbour, for the handling of legitimate cargo.

King Victor Emmanuel farewelled Herr Hitler, who left Rome for Florence in a bullet-proof train. The line was decorated and there was a cordon of troops, and vast i crowds at many points gave an ovation for the Fuehrer.

It is understood that hopes have been revived for an early decision to construct two liners for the transPacific service. The Canadians, who have been the stumbling block by delaying the necessary Parliamentary legislation, now appear to be more favourable. They expect shortly to fall into line with Britain, Australia and New Zealand.

America's western defences are being developed along a 6000-mile line line cutting from north to south across the Central Pacific and "anchored" by five islands, .says the Washington correspondent of the New York "Herald-Tribune."

The Soviet has rejected the British protest regarding the arrest and solitary confinement for eight months of Rose Cohen, a British woman Communist, on the grounds that she married a Russian, surrendered her British passport and was admitted to Soviet citizenship at her own request in 1936, for which reason she is amenable to Russian law.

A week after the announcement of his death, the All-India Radio Company arranged a memorial; broadcast of the works of Jigar Moradabadi, a famous Indian poet. A few minutes before the start of the .broadcast Jigar walked into the radio station, and, after convincing the announcer of his identity, astonished the listeners by giving a short reading of his poems.

An explosion which occurred in the Markham Colliery at Duckmanton as the night-shift of 200! men was coming to the surface entrapped 123 and injured an unknown rfumber.

A message from Tokio reports the release of the Canadian, Mr. Joseph Gilb'ertsoh—who was arrested by Japanese in Osaka on May 5 on a charge of possessing snapshots of Japanese fortified zones—on his payment of a fine of 30 yen. He is proceeding to Vancouver.

A charge by Mr. M. J. Caldwell, a Canadian Commonwealth Federation member of the House of Commons, that Canada was linked with "the British war machine," drew a declaration from the Department of Defence that munitions manufactured in Canada were on a preparedness basis only. fel 4 -

The Australian cricketers had an easy victory oyer Leicestershire at Leicester yesterday, winning by an innings and 163 runs.