GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 207, 2 August 1941, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

Rosario. —The Argentine police raided the headquarters of the German Culture Welfare Association yesterday and arrested thirty persons. The police seized a quantity of books and pamphlets. The. raid, occurred after complaints had been received from residents in the vicinity of military training of young men at the association headquarters nightly. London.—The film star Lieutenant Robert Montgomery arrived by bomber to take up bis appointment as As-sistant-Naval Attache at the United States Embassy. Sydney.—An agreement between the State and Federal Governments to establish new permanent shipbuilding yards is expected to bo reached next week. It is understood the plan to reopen the Walsh Island yard has been abandoned and that a new site has been chosen large enough for tliice slipways to hold 10,000-ton vessels. llugbv.—The Alinistcr of AircraftProduction acknowledges a donation from tlio people of Newfoundland of £111,856 towards a fighter squadron. ltughy.—Air It. S. Hudson (Minister for Agriculture), alter consultation with the President of the Board of Education, has appointed a committee to examine the present system of agricultural education in Britain and make recommendations for improving it after the war.

Washington. President Roosevelt has stopped the export of petrol and oil to Japan. The embargo applies to shipments destined other than British Empire, the Western Hemisphere, and other countries resisting aggression.

London. —The 3>iggest convoy ever fo cross the Atlantic delivered goods worth £100.000.000. says the Daily Mail. Tlie convoy did not sight a Übost or enemy plane. Every ship was loaded down to the safety line with food, guns, iuumunition, and other supplies. Planes were lashed to the decks. Houston (Texas). —The death lias occurred of William Rhodes Davis, the international oil man, who attracted wide attention when he figured in huge oil dealings with Germany and Alexico on an unprecedented scale before tlie war Air Davis returned from Germany* in 1939 with pcace-fcelcrs.