GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 302, 19 November 1938, Page 10

GENERAL CABLES.

LONDON, Nov. 17. Sir John Flett (Director of Geological Survey of Great Britain and Museum of Practical Geology) and Sir John Russell (Director of the Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, and of the Imperial Bureau of Soil Science) have embarked on the Otranto to attend the science congress in Australia. , , The Jewish Agency has approved a £1,000,000 budget for 1939, to be raised throughout the world for the settlement of Palestine and allotted for the clearing of marshes, the founding of agricultural settlements, housing, and roads. A special sum is being earmarked for German -efugees. The Daily Telegraph’s Prague correspondent says that armed Polish terrorists who have been sent to the frontier fn army vehicles are continuously attacking official buildings and gendarmeries in Rutlienia, blowing up structures and kidnapping the gendarmes and sending them to Poland. JERUSALEM, Nov. 17.

Abdul Rahman el Khatib, a prominent member of the Defence Party, was critically shot to-day when he was entering a school. One soldier w'as killed and'one wounded by the terrorists. (Independent Cable Service.) NEW YORK, Nov. 17. The city is shocked by the arrest of Charles Hartnett, State Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, who has been charged with accepting 67,000 dollars in bribes in the past four years, allegedly from a taxi-cab company, which w r as permitted to operate thousands of cabs without the proper surety bonds. Hartnett denies all the charges.