News In A Nutshell

Northern Advocate, 22 July 1938, Page 5

News In A Nutshell

In addition to the embargo on the export of hides, skins and furs, the Japanese-controlled Peking Government intends to include wool, cotton and other products, thus limiting the country’s power to purchase goods from abroad. The process is regarded as an abuse of the Japanese pledge to respect foreign rights in China. * O ♦ ♦ The King has commanded that the Court shall wear mourning for two weeks from Saturday for the Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania. « * ♦ ♦ The Foreign Secretary, Viscount Halifax, met MM. Daladier and Bonnet, French Premier and Foreign Minister respectively, yesterday, in Paris, to have personal exchanges, and it is likly that the conversation will be continued to-morrow. * * ♦ « The body of Queen Marie will be placed in a mausoleum at Bucharest on Sunday at 5.30 p.m., the hour at which her husband. King Ferdinand, was buried in the same tomb 11 years ago, also on a Sunday. Bishops of the Orthodox Church will attend, but will not participate in the service, which will be according to the rites of the Church of England, as Queen Marie was an Englishwoman by birth. * * * * The Vienna municipality is advertising 147 vacancies for doctors in hospitals, homes and asylums, due to the ban on Jews. * • • « Bands of uni/ormed Nazis visited I cafes in the Czech district, assaulting [and insulting Czechs and smashing windows. Naxi officials have apologised. * * * * The campaign of Mr. Thomas E. Dewey, New York district attorney, to smash local rackets and persecute prominent members, has resulted in the suicide of State Senator Julius Borg in his office. He told his wife he was “too much involved” for him to face the investigation. Following the death, it transpired that the grand jui-y secretly indicted Berg on 18 counts of embezzlement, grand larceny and false representation. • * * • A chartered aeroplane conveying the film actor, Lee Tracey, and Mrs Helen Thomas, a San Francisco divorcee, to be married at Yuma, Arizona, had to make an emergency landing at Brawley, California. The couple are proceeding to Yuma in a motor car. The couple were later married. The bride gave her age as 26 and the groom gave his as 40. Measures to protect the Australian woollen textile industry against the increasing competition of staple fibre and other synthetic fibre imitations will come into operation on Monday. Such goods will be subject to duty at the rate applicable to woollen piece goods of the same description.

Two men, two women and a child, members of a Jewish settlement, were killed near Haifa during a fierce attack by a gang of rebels using incendiary bombs, with which they destroyed v two buildings, in one of which the women and child were incinerated. Several attackers were injured. * * ♦ * One of the most important contracts for private manufacture of munitions in Australia was let when the Commonwealth Government accepted the tender of the Commonwealth Steel Company, of Newcastle, for the manufacture of 150 lb. bombs for the Royal Australian, Air Force. , The Government has also accepted a number of tenders for the manufacture of gas mask parts. * * ♦ * Of the net increase of 6007 permanent migrants to Australia from European countries during the year ended May 31, 2782 were Italians and 1135 Greeks. Other European countries represented were headed by Yugoslavia, with 641 migrants. •t « s lt * “It is very desirable that the Empire should not fall out about foreign acairs,” declared Mr. Chamberlain, addressing the Empire Parliamentary Association’s annual meeting. He added: “As far as possible, we should show a united front to the rest of the world, for in that way we are likely to exercise a far greater influence than if it was thought there was no harmony among us.” * * * # The four Royal Air Force machines which made a record flight from Cranwell to Ismalia on July 7 leave for home at dawn, and expect to be in England by tea time to prepare for an attempt on the England-Australia record. *■* * * Yesterday’s threat of rain at Leeds has gone, and today is bright and sunny. The Earl and Countess of Harewood will attend the,test match. Lord Hawke, Lord Belper and Lord Bingley have accepted invitations. The special weather forecast for tomorrow is: Mainly fair with average temperature to rather warm.” * * * « The charges made against the chief investigator of the alleged German spy ring, Mr Leon Turrou, by one of the accused, Johanna Hoffman, were dismissed yesterday by the court. It held that they were so fantastic that no sensible person would believe them. The woman had alleged that Mr Turrou permitted Dr. Griebl to escape on board the liner Bremen because Mr Turrou had a monetary interest in allowing him to depart. The affidavit also stated that Dr. Griebl was permitted by Mr Turrou to escape in order to deprive Johanna Hoffman of a witness who would have testified in her favour..