News In A Nutshell

Northern Advocate, 11 January 1938, Page 5

News In A Nutshell

A message from St. Jean de Luz says the insurgents claim to hav'o recaptured Celadas, enabling them to concentrate for a further southerly thrust. The first attack failed, but a subsequent infantry onslaught, supported by artillery, succeeded.

The “Daily Telegraph” says Italy is making Leros, in the Dudecanese Islands, her main naval and air base in the Mediterranean. She has installed secret heavy artillery and underground oil and petrol tanks. Usually there is a large flotilla of submarines in the harbour.

After several years’ work digging a narrow tunnel, 10 of the more dangerous criminals sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, escaped from the prison at Bacau, Bucharest, taking rifles and ammunition from the store, with which they have already committed several highway robberies. Soldiers have now surrounded them in a forest.

Thirty Nazi youths, armed with knuckle-dusters and ski sticks, attacked a number of Jews at the ski-ing resort of Schwabenburg. They injurbd 50 Jews, four of whom were sent to hospital. The police arrested 13 of the assailants.

The German Government has banned speeches by Earl Baldwin and President Roosevelt, German translations of which have been published by Swiss firms. * # « * The Munich correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” states that, under an agreement between Germany and Italy, 30,000 Italian farm workers will arrive shortly under an eight months’ contract. A similar agreement is being negotiated with Poland, the demands of the German Army having created an acute shortage of agricultural labourers. ♦♦■ * * The coroner’s inquest at Newcastle (N.S.W.), after occupying five days inouiring into the death of Dorothy Everett, who was found strangled in the Broughton House school ground on November 29, concluded yesterday. The verdict was that the girl was murdered by some person or persons unknown. £ $ * The management committee of the London Co-operative Society has instructed' its buyers not to purchase Japanese goods without authority when alternative supplies are available. It has also invited the Cooperative Wholesale Society to do likewise.

The Marquess of Abergavenny was killed at a children’s meet of the Eridge Hunt. Groombridge, Sussex. His horse’s hoof caught a wire and he received a broken neck.

The special technical committee appointed to investigate the probable causes of the recent series of nine accidents to Hawker Demon planes of the R.A.A.F., has reported that no fault was found with' the efficiency of the plane or the engine, says a Canberra message.