GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 163, 12 June 1939, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

LONDON. June 9. The correspondent of the Times at Geneva says that Mr C. te Mater (South Africa) described tp the Mandates Commission the poktical restivoncss of the younger Germans in South-West Africa. He emphasised that South Africa has no intention of surrendering the mandate, despite tho German agitation. H. Sutcliffe hit his fourth hundred in successive innings for Yorkshire at Lord’s. LIEGE, June 10. Sjx men are entombed in a coal mine near Liege. All are feared to be dead. BERLIN. June 9. Twenty-five thousand students have been ordered to assist in harvesting. HOLLYWOOD, June 9. Owen Moore, known to earl.v-day movie fans as “Piccadilly Jim,. and former husband of Mary Pickford, was found dead in an upstairs bedroom of his Beverly Hills home by his wife. Catherine, who had been living apart from him. The police said that apparently Moore had been dead several days. Death was due to a haemorrhage. SYDNEY. June 11. A new J 400-ton sloop launched from Cockatoo Island dockyard to-day was christened H.A.M.S. Parramatta by the. wife of ibc Minister of Defence (Air G. A. Streof). . In an intcr-Slnte Rugby Union match. New South AYales beat Victoria by 2“ 10 6. Received June 12. 11.30 n.m. LONDON. June 11. •Sir Stafford Cripps, having announced that the Popular Front is politically impracticable, the committee has decided to wind up Hie campaign. ANKARA. June 11. The Government to-day warmly welcomed M. Cafenen (Foreign Minister of Rumania) who the soliditv of the Balkan Entente, Including Yugoslavia. XEAY YORK. June 11. A great display of teamwork enabled the American polo team to heat Britain in the second match at 9 goals lo 4 America thus retaining the International Polo Trophv. SYDNEY. June 12. A message from C'oeos Island states that the Cuba will leave for Diego Garcia at 11 n.m. on Thursday in continuation of the Indian Ocean flight.