GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 198, 23 July 1941, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

AA'ash ington.—Legislation authorising the President to take over private property, such as military or naval equipment, supplies of munitions, machinery tools or materials necessary for use in national defence, was passed bv the Senate and sent to the House of Representatives.

Afclbourno. —Australia now has 123 million sheep, the greatest of any country, declared the chairman of the Australian AYool Board. The clip for the coming season is estimated at 3.590,000 bales and averaging about 3001 b to the bale, will be worth more than £OO 000.000. Aladrid —An additional 32 survivors of a British merchantman have arrived at Corunna in a French sailing ship. It is understood the merchantman carried the members of crews of other British vessels sunk in the Atlantic; it is believed all were saved. London. —The first 8000 of the 20,000 men renorted missing after the evacuation of Greece and Crete have arrived in Germany and been placed in prison capips. Their names are beginning to come through from Berlin through neutral channels. AAOishington.—The Federal Communication'* Commission has postponed friim Jnlv 30 to September 16 the effective date of its chain radio ruling whereby the N.B C. was ordered to disoose of one of its networks (the so-called red and blue coast-to coast networks). Rii'gbv.—An official communique,says a small number of enemv aircraft approached our coast. Few have flown inland and there are no reports of bombs having been dropped. London.—According to the Tinies’s Istanbul correspondent, the Vichy Government is demanding that Turkey release the French ships sheltering at Alexandretta, pleading that, as a state of war does not exist between France and Britain, they should not be considered belligerents. It is understood that Turkey has refused. New A'ork.—Mr La Guardia has announced his candidacy for a third term for the New York Alay oral tv, in which he is expected to rcceh\j the nominations of the Republican and Labour Parties in tile September primaries. He will be opposed by a strong Democrat candidate, Afr William O Dwyer, a District Attorney.