FLASHES FROM OVERSEAS

Northern Advocate, 9 March 1936, Page 2

FLASHES FROM OVERSEAS

ROSE DELAYED.— Flight-Lieuten-ent T. Rose, who is flying from Capetown to England, reached Cairo on Friday and left at dawn yesterday. He landed, at Tripoli to refuel, but the Italian authorities refused to allow him to continue as he lacked a permit. The airman thereupon cabled to London for a permit. Flight-Lieutenant Rose later »flew on to Cairns, in the South of France, where he will leave at 5.30 tomonow morning.

CARNERA AGAIN.— Primo Camera, weighing 19st 2jlbs. technically k.o.’d Issadore Castanaga, 14st 12*lbs, in the fifth round of what was scheduled to be a* 10-round bout at Madison Square Garden tonight. The referee halted the fight when a gash, which Camera cut over the Spaniard s left eye bled so freely that he decided it would have involved unnecessary punishment to allow him to continue. —New York. * * ■» * „ HITLER’S OFFER TO LITHUANIA. —Herr Hitler’s offer of a pact to Lithuania has been well received, but there is some concern as to whether it would mean Germany’s interference in’ Lithuania’s domestic affairs.

KING RETURNS TO LONDON.— King Edward returned to London from Glasgow on Friday morning. Histrain arrived at an early hour, but crowds of city workers were waiting for him and cheered him as he walked from the train to a waiting car, in which he drove to York House. — 8.0. W.

SYDNEY SUBURB FIRE.—The big retail store of Sweet Bros., Ltd., in Newtown suburb, was damaged by fire. Damage to stock is estimated at £50,000. Eighty firemen prevented the flames from spreading.

MAKURA IN ROUGH SEAS.—The Makura encountered terrific seas on the trip from Wellington to Sydney. One tremendous wave smashed a porthole and did other damage—Sydney.

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS MARRIES. The film actor, Douglas Fairbanks, Senr., was married at the Town Hall, Paris, on Saturday, to Lady Ashley.

SINGAPORE BASE.—It is officially stated that the contractors have completed the main works at the Singapore base, which Admiralty engineers have taken over to carry out subsidiary works. The base now is authoritatively regarded as an effective unit of Imperial defence in the Pacific.

AIR ATTACKS ON BATTLESHIPS. The ndval correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph,” Mr Hector Bywater, says experiments have convinced the Admiralty that aircraft have not greatly endangered the modern battleship. Tests carried out involved explosion of numerous bombs above and below the water. They proved that even a heavy .bomb, highly charged with explosives damaged the superstructure surprisingly little, while “near hits” under water —which enthusiastic air partisans claimed would be fatal to even big ships—were also ineffective.