GENERAL NEWS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 128, 1 May 1941, Page 8

GENERAL NEWS

.JAPANESE BOMB KUNMING. (Roc. 12.30 p.m.) KUNMING, April 30 Japanese pianos bombed a.nd_ destroyed the Canadian Inland Mission and damaged the British Consulate. The main, business district was .hit heavily. vast forest fires. NEW YORK. April 30. Governor Lehman has dosed New York’s vast forest reserve to the public ay a raging forest lire has consulted thousands of acres of timber in the eastern Adirondacks. Sixty other fires arc reported throughout the State. AN UN WisE CRITIC. WASHINGTON April 30. Mr Roosevelt has refused to reappoint General Hugh Johnson as a brigadier-general in the Army Reserve Corps. In recent months General Johnson as a columnist and lecturer has| severely criticised Mr Roosevelt s ‘“huge TRAFFIC CASUALTIES. CHICAGO, April 30. Automobiles killed 8110 persons in the United States in the first quarter of 1941. Unless the accident rate drops the National Safety Council fears that 1941 traffic deaths will reach 40.000, the greatest in the nation s nistory' GERMANS IN FINLAND. LONDON. April ,30. l’ravda’s report that 12,000 German troops have landed at a Finnish port has brought a semi-official statement from Helsinki that “1300 Germans have passed through Finland to Moscow. The figures beat all records for exaggeration.” _ t NEW 2000 GUINEAS. The first turf classic of the season, the New Two Thousand Guineas, resulted: —Lambert Simnel 1, Morogoro 2 Sun castle 3. Nineteen started.

London—Mr Walter Melville Mills, a member of the tobacco family, left £4,317.361 sterling. Duty will absorb £2 815 284. Mr Wills’s family have left eleven fortunes, totalling £40,000,000, since 1910.