FLASHES FROM OVERSEAS

Northern Advocate, 10 March 1936, Page 7

FLASHES FROM OVERSEAS

ROSE’S NEW RECORD.—Flight'Lieutehant T. Rose arrived at Croydon from Cannes at 11.5 a.m. today, breaking by 5 hours 6 minutes FlightLieutenant Llewellyn’s record from the Cape. He now holds the record both ways. <

N.S.W. DEATH SENTENCE.—In the Criminal Court yesterday Roy Malcolm Soutar, aged 17, was convicted 'of murdering Christopher Bolger, a grazier, aged 25, near Wagga Wagga, on December 30. Soutar was sentenced to death. His defence was that he killed Bolger during a fit of rage, owning to an insulting statement thfit the latter had made about a girl he knew. Soutar was recommended to’mercy on account of his youth.—Sydney.

AUSTRIA FEARS INVASlON.—Apprehension is growing that the occupation of the Rhineland is a prelude to the invasion of Austria, especially as Italy is pre-occupied with Abyssinia.

BOXING.—At the Sydney Stadium last night, a 15 rounds boxing contest, Alf. Blatch, 9.12, v. the Italian, Saverio Tureillo, 10,2, was stopped in the tenth round owing to the Italian fracturing a bone in a wrist. Blatch was awarded a technical knockout. The Italian was very game, and fought an uphill battle from the second term, when he received the injury.

EARL BEATTIE’S CONDITION GRAVE.—EarI Beattie’s condition is increasingly grave.

BRITISH DEFENCE LOAN SUGGESTED. —The Association of British Chambers of Commerce has sent a letter to Mr. Neville Chamberlain urging that the new defence expenditure be covered by a loan, enabling income tax relief to be effected in the next Budget.