News In A Nutshell

Northern Advocate, 25 July 1938, Page 5

News In A Nutshell

The British Rugby Union team defeated Rhodesia by 45 points to 11, says a message from Bulawayo. * * * * One of the first results of Italy’s new policy towards Jews is an “invitation” to Dr. Edward Kleinlerer. Rome correspondent of the Jewish Telegraph Agency, to leave Italy within eight days. Following Captain Wiedemann’s mission to Viscout Halifax, the German ambassador, Dr. H. von Dircksen, called on Mr. Chamberlain, yesterday morning before going to Germany, where he will see Herr Hitler, to convey Mr. Chamberlain’s views on the international situation.

John Bruce Thornton, charged with plotting to kidnap Viscount Nuffield, was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to ' seven years’ imprisonment. In passing sentence, the Judge said it was the only possible verdict. “This is as bad a case of carrying firearms as can be imagined,” he said. “You endeavoured to incite another man to join you in a criminal conspiracy which might well have ended in murder.” The Chief Constable of Oxford said that Thornton’s correct name was Patrick Boyle Tuellman. He was born in Scotland, son of a German watchmaker, and bad been married five times, twice to the same woman. He once demanded £170.000 from a wealthy man, and had received between £40.000 and £50,000 from this source. * * * * The chief organ of the Nazis, the Volkischer Beobachter, announces that one-third of the Jewish owned businesses in Austria, the total value of which is variously estimated at between £114,000,000 and £307,000,000, have been transfered to Aryan hands. * * * * The ex-Austrian Minister in London Baron Franckenstcin, has become a naturalised Briton, the authorities waiving certain formalities normally demanded in view of his long and distinguished association with England.

Fine gold was quoted at London yesterday at £7 1/5 an ounce, compared with £7 1/54 yesterday and on Thursday. * * * » In an athletic carnival, Princeton and Cornell Universities defeated Oxford and Cambridge by nine events to three. « * * * The German catapult plane Nordmeer making the first of 28 experimental ocean crossings for the Deutsche Lufthansa Line scheduled for this summer, arrived at New York at 9.45 a.m. yesterday, 17 hours 42£ minutes after leaving the mother ship off Horta, in the Azores. ♦ ♦ * * In an Inter-State Rugby league match yesterday, Queensland defeated New South Wales by 36 points to 22. * ♦ ♦ » A bomb raid on Jerica killed 35 persons, states a Madrid message. Cullera, Ganda, Denia and Viejo were also raided, with small loss of life. * * * * Another incident in Manchukuo is reported by the Domei News Agency, which states that three Soviet patrol boats fired on 10 Manchukuan civilians, of whom no trace has since been found. Japanese correspondents in Korea estimate that 30,000 Russian troops have been mobilised in the Mt. Changkufeng area, which is the territory in dispute. From Moscow the Soviet authorities announced the discovery of new maps showing that the hill is within Soviet territory. The German steamer Leuna is now engaged in a search for the missing German training barque Admiral Karpfanger, which has on board a crew of 60, including 54 cadefe. The Leuna should be 200 miles south of Cook Strait next week. She will steam round the bottom of the world seeking reports from whalers in the southern seas. * * ♦ * A watchman guarding Jewish vineyards in South Haifa was ambushed and shot. This is the ninth Jew killed in 24 hours, states a Jerusalem cable.