GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 210, 3 August 1940, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

Indian Executed. Mohamed Azad Singh, who assassinated Sir Michael O’Dwyer at Caxton Hall, London, on March 14. has been executed, states a London message. Census of Enemy Aliens. The London Daily Telegraph says -the Home Office has discovered that a number of enemy aliens earmarked for removal to the Dominions induced their compatriots to take their planes. Therefore a complete census is being mad© of the inmates in all the internment camps. It is stated that the rounding up of aliens was carried out at such speed that there was incomplete identification in some cases. King Leopold's Children. A message from Basic (Switzerland) says that the three children of' King Leopold of Belgium have returned to Belgium from Portugal. Field-Marshal Goering supplied a special plane to carry the children to Leopold. Sydney’s Victory. The British Luncheon Club met in New York to celebrate H.M.A.S. Sydney’s victory in sinking the Italian critiser in the Mediterranean recently. It was decided to cable congratulations to Mr A. G. Cameron (Australian Minister of the Navy). Duke’s Decision. British sources believed to be reliable state that the Duke and Duchess of "Windsor left on the Excalibur for Bermuda and are proceeding direct to the Bahamas, avoiding New York. A.I.F. Reinforcements. A London message says that the Second A.I.F. reinforcements have landed in England. Tin Supplies. Tin statistics are: World visible supplies. 32,530 tons; Straits carryover, 2819 tons; supplies, 14.674 tons; deliveries, 9562 tons. Unemployment Insurance. The Canadian House of Commons has passed the Unemployment Insurance Bill which now awaits the Boynl assent. U.B. Pacific Fleet. A Honolulu message says ten battleships, cruisers, and destroyers- have, entered Pearl Harbour from the south.