ITALIAN FORCES TO BE REORGANISED?

Northern Advocate, 8 February 1936, Page 5

ITALIAN FORCES TO BE REORGANISED?

FLASHES FROM OVERSEAS

OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES,— Snow has fallen uninterruptedly for 30 hours and continues at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Winter Games at Berlin. Nevertheless 75,000 people enthusiastically welcomed the teams marching in, especially the Austrians, but Italy received the least cordiality. Guns saluted the national flags during the march past, and Hitler gave the Nazi salute to each flag. The opening event was ice hockey, the United States beating Germany I—o. in spite of the brilliance of Rudi Ball, who is a Jew.

FAMOUS GERMAN DEAD.—The death has occurred of Doctor Wilhelm Solf, ag6d 73. He handled the Armistice negotiations as Foreign Minister. He was Governor of Samoa, 1899 to 1911, and officially resided in the house in which Robert Louis Stevenson used to live. Nothing grieved Dr. Solf more than New Zealand’s seizure of Samoa, which he called the jewel of German protectorates. He vowed that the insolent intruders would be dealt with, but later in the war became an advocate of peace by mutual understanding.

RED INVADERS REPULSED— The Peking correspondent of “The Times” states that when the fall of Kweiuyang seemed imminent, Kweiuchow droops, with the timely arrival of reinforcements, including aeroplanes, succeeded in repulsing the Red invaders. The main force of Reds, after a severe defeat at Lungli, 20 miles from Kweiuyang, are now moving north-west towards Yunan, where it is believed Ho-Lung intends to establish himself in mountainous country.

KING EDWARD TO FLY LESS.— Although no immediate change is contemplated in connection with King Edward’s two private aeroplanes, it is understood that, in future, they will be used by his three brothers. The “Daily Telegraph” says His Majesty’s engagements are not likely to command such high speed flying as he was accustomed to when' he was Prince of Wales, and it may seldom be necessary for him to travel by air.

VICTORIAN KING’S PRIZE.—In an exciting finish in the Victorian King’s prize rifle shooting match at Melbourne yesterday the event was won by P. Lee, of Albury, with a score of 343. T. Pavey was second with 342.

FASCIST GERMAN MILITARY ACTlVlTY— Feverish military activity is in progress on the German island of Sylt, off the west coast of SchleswigHolstein. According to the newspaper “Politiken” an enormous concrete aerodrome has been built and an extensive flying boat base is being constructed at the northern end of the island. The harbour, also, is being reconstructed and fortified.

HUSBAND SEES WIFE KILLED.— Later details of the crash into a crowd of a bombing aeroplane at Swansea, Tasmania, yesterday, state that the victims were Mrs Louisa Gotten (not Collon as was previously cabled) aged 51, and her daughter Jean, aged 17. They were members of a well-known pastoralist family on the East Coast of Tasmania. Four other people saved their lives by lying flat c i the ground until the machine had just cleared them. Mrs Cotton’s husband was an eye-witness to the tragic affair.

FOUR STUDENTS KILLED.— Troops, after once dispersing them, were forced to fire on an armed mob of Syrian students and looters, who, excited by incendiary speeches, careered the streets and smashed windows. Four rioters were killed outright and three died of wounds. Troops checked travel at Homs, to which the rioting extended.

GIFT TO MISS JEAN BATTEN.— Countess Elibank presided at a dinner, at which Sir James Parr presented Miss Jean Batten, the Auckland airwoman, with an air travelling case, a gift of the members of the New Zealand Society, in recognition of her flights from Britain to Australia and across the South Atlantic from Lympnc to Port Natal. South America.

CROCKET TO PLAY FOR WIGAN. —lan Crocket, the New Zealand forward, has been signed on by the Wigan Rugby League Club, after a series of trials.

MOB BREAKS LOOSE.— A Zanzibar mob, armed with swords and demonstrating against the law to prevent the adulteration of exportable copra-, severely wounded three European police officers, whom they cut down in an attack. An Indian police died of wounds. Armed police restored order.

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