CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 95, 20 March 1940, Page 10

CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF.

.Graf Spee Internees. One hundred members of the crew of the Admiral Graf Spee are being sent to the industrial province of Mendoza, states a Buenos Aires report. Dr. Benes’s Role. Dr. Benes, former President of Czechoslovakia, was made a godfather when the first American-born German princess, Alaria Elizabeth, daughter of Prince and Princess Hubcrtus Loewenstein, was baptised. The Loewensteins are exiled German Catholics who are becoming American citizens. Drought Breaking. Reports are now arriving at Sydney from various parts of the country that rain has begun to fall and northwestern areas are receiving a drenching, which is causing wide relief and jubilation. The Sydney Royal Show has opened and will continue for 10 days. It does not appear to Pc affected either by the war or the unprecedented drought which lias afflicted New South Wales for six months. French Decree. A Government decree prohibits all unauthorised conva-ssing to procure Government contracts, and provides heavy penalties for infringements, states a Paris’ message. Acceptance of the services of unauthorised persons is also an offence. Return from Spain, Harold Dahl, the American aviator who received international publicity through his wife’s efforts to save him from a firing squad by sending General Franco her picture, has arrived back in New A'ork with five other former prisoners from Spain. Mining Tragedy. A message from Bellaire (Ohio) says that hope hies been abandoned for the 89 miners entombed at AVillowgrovc. Boxing in Sydney. There was a disappointing outcome to the return fight between Atilio Sabatino (11.2) and Ron Richards (11.7) at the Sydney Stadium. The ""contest was stopped in the third round and a technical knock-out was awarded to Richards. Bradford Market.

Bradford reports a moderate amount of new business in tops and yarns, but it is particularly difficult to get 58’s or GO’S. Fine warp tops are plentiful, and quotations are generally firm. Aviation Merger. The merger of the Curtis and Atlas companies is the largest financial development in aviation history, reports a New York message. The companies state that it will enable full advantage to be taken of the wartime boom and will also provide 26,500,000 dollars liquid capital for the development of peacetime avialion. Lost Freighter. The fate of the Kahika, which has foundered off the coast of Tasmania, has aroused curiosity in the United States. After the Monterey had relayed her SOS. Australian naval authorities ordered ships to resume the wartime silence. Fatal Air Crash. Two Victorian airmen, Charles Cox (45) and Air Cadet It. Brown (20) were killed yesterday when, during instructional flights, an Air Force machine crashed in a steep dive 10 miles north of Adelaide Fod Imports. From Thursday the Minister of Food will assume control of all food imports states a London report. This will affect all such imports not already under license and wiII enable the Ministry to give pdiority to essential food supplies. The measure will apply to all goods dispatched after to-day or arriving after March 27. Anglo-Spanish Trade. The Anglo-Spanish trade agreement has been signed. Spain is reported to bo exchanging . fruit, minerals and wines for fertilisers, jute, cotton and raw materials. Reds Rounded-Up. Thirty-three Communists livnc been arrested and two tons of literature and radio equipment usable for transmitting have been seized, states a Parris message. There were simultaneous polic eraids in Paris, Tours and Dijon. Postal Distribution. The French Postmaster-General has arrived in London to discuss AngloFrench postal distribution, including overseas mail and the possibility of introducing a joint stamp as a symbol of Anglo-French unity.