News In A Nutshell

Northern Advocate, 11 June 1938, Page 5

News In A Nutshell

An elephant killed an Australian hunter, Charles Ross, who was employed by the Northern Rhodesian Government Elephant Patrol. In the course of his duties, Ross had killed 516 elephants, and he put 14 bullets into his 517th, which merely became enraged and charged and trampled on him. * * « » It is authoritatively stated that the Anglo-Japanese negotiations for the re-opening of the Yangtse River to shipping have reached a deadlock. The Japanese have refused to open the river. * * * * The British Government yesterday entertained General K. L. Olsch, Chief of the General Staff, Finland, at luncheon. The Minister for the Co-ordina-tion of Defence, Sir Thomas Inskip, was in the chair. * * * * The Most Piev. John Godfrey Fitzmaurice Day was enthroned Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland yesterday in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh. / ♦ ♦ # * Recruits for the Regular Army last week numbered 727, an increase of 266 over the corresponding week last year. * * * * The colonial group in the Chamber of Deputies passed a strong resolution rejecting Germany’s claims to colonies, says the Paris correspondent of ‘The Times.” The resolution added: “These claims must not be raised separately against France, Britain, Belgium or Japan.” * * * » j The Secretary of State, Mr Cordell 1 Hull, announced that a formal protest | had been lodged with the Japanese Government, regarding the bombing of the American-financed Lingnam | University at Canton.

Dr. Wellington Koo, Chinese delegate, alleged to the League of Nations that Japan is preparing to recruit natives from former mandated islands in the Pacific, including the Marshalls and the Carolines. Dr. Koo asserts that the Japanese mobilisation laws apply to the islands, though contrary to the terms of the mandate.

i The Minister of Defence, Mr H. V. 1 Thorby, his secretary. Miss Kathleen j Lyndon, and three other occupants of an R.A.F. Avro-Anson bomber, had a re--1 markable escape from disaster in a 1 forced landing in mountainous counj try about 80 miles east of Albury. The I pilot brought the plane down on a j small level area in the mountains j when a crash seemed inevitable. The i plane had been flying blind through | sleet and dense fog. and the occupants j had donned their parachutes.

The British Consul-General at Paris, Mr G. D. N. Haggard, will succeed Sir Gerald Campbell as ConsulGeneral at New York. The change will take place next autumn. * # * * The Stafford by-election, due to the succession of Mr W. Ormsby-Gore to the Peerage as Lord Harlech, resulted: Mr Thorneycroft (Con.), 16,751; Mr F. G. Lloyd (Lab.), 12,346. At the general election, the result was: Ormsby-Gore, 16,175; Lloyd, 12,514. * * * * Officers of the South African Royal Air Force are investigating the loss of the Air Force ’plane which crashed in dense bush country 20 miles north of the Limpopo River, resulting in the deaths of the six occupants, members of the service boxing team, last Tuesday. The opinion is expressed that the crash was due to the machine breaking up in mid-air. * * * * A giant United' States army bomber crashed at Delavan, Illinois, during a thunderstorm, killing the eight occupants, consisting of three officers and five enlisted men. * * * * Mr Hector Bywater, the naval correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph,” says that despite rigid Italian censorship, it is known that Dodecanese Island, Lero. was occupied by Italy after the Libyan war, and converted into the most powerful naval and air fortress, claimed to be stronger than Malta, and second only to Gibraltar. * * * * Mr Owen O’Malley, late British Minister in Mexico, who was recalled after the recent oils wells dispute, has arrived in London. While en route for home on the Aquitania he met with a slight accident, injuring his back. He is now recovering.

A Prague message says that the Sudeten Parliamentary leaders have declined to advise participation in the Czechoslovakia national defence loan.

A Vienna cable states that all Roman Catholic student organisations have been dissolved and funds confiscated.

The League of Nations High Commissioner for refugees from Germany seeks immediate application of his protocol proposing the inclusion of Austria within protective measures for German refugees.

The Soviet consul at Tokio refused visas to 600 Japanese desirous of fishing in 13 trawlers off Kamachatka. This is regarded as retaliation for the Japanese seizure of a Soviet steamer stormbound in Japanese waters.