News In A Nutshell

Northern Advocate, 15 July 1938, Page 5

News Nutshell

Another £22,901,000 will be spent on Air Force expansion, of which £1,000,000 will be from the Supplementary Estimates, and the rest from defence loans, says a London Cable. Personnel will bo increased from 83,000 to 96,000. ♦ * - * Henry Cotton won the Belgian open golf championship with an aggregate of 277, beating his own record of 279 made in 1934. * * * * General Lushkoff, claiming to be chief of the Far Eastexm Political Department of the Soviet, wh 0 fled to Manchukuo to escape a purge on July 6. received press correspondents and declared that he could disprove Moscow’s claim that he was an impostor. He did not produce any credentials, however. • * • ♦ Japanese claims report that ten Chinese divisions in Southern Shansi are fleeing southwards across the Yellow River, after setting fire to Yu'anku, on which Japanese troops are converging from Shansi and northern Honan. * # ♦ » The arrival of fresh Cantonese troops foreshadows a stiff Chinese defence at Kiukiang, from which the Japanese are only 10 miles distant. Chinese batteries on Lion Hill are engaged in a spirited duel with the Japanese warships in the Yangtse River. 7 * * * The “Daily Telegraph” says F. E. Woolley, in reaching 1000 runs this season, has established a record unlikely ever to be beaten. It is the 28th successive English season, exclusive of the war years, in which he has made 1000 runs. •* * * * The “Mercury,” the upper unit of the Mayo, pick-a-back ’plane, completed a 2700-miles endurance flight ever England in 12 hours. * * * • A further contraction in the JapanNew Zealand shipping service by the Osaka Shosen Kaisha Line, is caused by the Melbourne Maru being transferred to the Bombay route and not being replaced. * * * *

Mr J. A. Lyons, Australian Prime Minister, announced that Parliamentary secretaries would be appointed to assist in the administration of the Treasury and the Department of Defence. Mr J. N. Lawson is to be appointed to the Treasury, and Mr G. A. Street to the Department of Defence. They will relievo the Ministers of much routine work, and also help in the drafting and handling of Bills.

The Duke of Kent announced that the Boy Scouts’ fund has reached £200,000 in ten weeks. Viscount Nuffield announced that his gift offer of £50,000 was no longer conditional on raising a total of £500,000. # * * • The “Nows Chronicle’’ says that reinforcements from Germany to Rebel Spain, largely increasing the Kondor air legion, directed by German officers in General Franco’s territory, consist of 1050 officers and men. The Germans are preparing northern aerodromes, in addition to nine existing elsewhere in Spain