GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 206, 1 August 1941, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

Rugby.—The Home Secretary, answering a question, said the cases of Connnunist. ex-Deputies in the Czechoslovak Parliament who were detained in British internment camps were being reviewed by an advisory committee, whose report must bo studied before lie would lie able to consider the question of their release. Rugby.—The census which was taken this month shows that 10-1,990 people were using public air-raid shelters, and 536,000 domestic shelters, compared with 470,000 and 2,140,000 respectively in November last. There is now sleeping accommodation in the London region shelters for 1,277,000 persons, and for 3,495,000 in the domestic shelters.

London. —The German News Agency says that Lieutenant Hans von Keitel, youngest son of General von Keitel (Chief of the German General Staff), has been killed tin the Russian front.

London. —Two thousand Italian prisoners of war have arrived in Britain for work under the Ministry of Agriculture. London.—Archduke Robert of Austria attended the inaugural meeting of the Young Austrian Youth Association in London, which will share in the fight against the Nazis and work for the independence of Austria. It is hoped to form a free Austrian army. New York.—Fritz Thysscn, * the former German industrialist, who Hed from the Nazis, has three million dollars in the vaults of the Union Banking Corporation, New York, according to the Herald-Tribune. The money is subject to the “freezing” order, hut perhaps it is intended as a sort of nest egg for Thyssen or some of his highlyplaced friends after the war. Washington.—According to a report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by Senator George, the American naval patrol to Iceland is apparently assisting Britain to such an ex tent that she is gradually gaining the upper hand in the Battle of the Atlantic.

Rugby.—Tlio Under-Secretary for Air (Captain Balfour) landed at, a North Country airport, having flown over from Canada in a bomber aircraft. He laid been out of the country for justthroe weeks, during which time a flying tour of certain training schools in Canada had been carried out and a visit paid to training establishments in the United States. The area covered ranged from the Rockies to Nova Scotia and from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

London. —Tho Berlin correspondent of tho, Zurich newspaper Die Tat says that the R.A.F., in addition to dropping clothing cards, as reported recently. has been dropping large numbers of German meat cards and petrol cards iir Germany.

Toronto.—The Canadian Corps, an association of veterans of tlio last war, at a meeting attended by 2000 meml>ers, adopted a resolution demanding the removal of the Mackenzie King Government on the grounds that it was inadequate and inefficient. Rugby.—The King and Queen on Wednesday watched a mock battle in the south of England in which armoured divisions took part. Their Majesties saw British soldiers dive fully dressed into a canal, swim across and attack the “enemy” on the opposite hank.