News In A Nutshell

Northern Advocate, 30 July 1938, Page 7

News In A Nutshell

( Japan won both of the singles in the j Davis Cup match against Canada. Yam--1 agishi defeated Murray, 6-1, 6-3, 6-3, 1 and Nakano defeated Wilson, 6-2, 6-3, 6-2. The Canadians were no match for their opponents, who played brilliantly. ♦' * * • Lady Bates, wife of the chairman of the Cunard Line, in the presence of a large gathering, launched, at Cammell Lairds yards, Birkenhead, the new 30,000-tons Mauretania. « * • * W. R. Hammond has been appointed captain of the M.C.C. team to tour South Africa at the end of the present season. Hammond has scored three test centuries against the Springboks 'and on each occasion has carried his bat. * # * « , The New York Boxing Commission have declared John Henry Lewis’s light-heavyweight title vacant, because of the negro boxer’s failure to fight “Tiger” Jack Fox. It has also declined to recognise Hostak as middleweight champion, because Fred Apostoli is regarded as the foremost national challenger. The National Boxing Association, however, has since recognised Hostak. j * * * * The Evangelical Lutheran Church Times reports that a uniform has been devised for Nationalist clergy, who in future will not be regarded 'as spiritual advisers, but as people’s commissioners, says a message from Berlin. « * * * A message from Rome states that the Rope strongly condemned racial and nationalistic doctrines, declaring:— “Why should Italy feel the necessity for disgracefully imitating Germany? Too many people forget that human beings are of one universal race. Catholicism means universality, not doctrines of race and nationalism.” ♦ • * • M. Flandin, in an article in the “Revue de France,” says that Germany is the greatest Power in Europe. Nothing can stop her expansion, he writes, and the question for France and Britain is whether it is less dangerous for her to spread in eastern Europe or throughout the world. * * • • Nine more Chinese have been arrested in connection with the murder of the former New Zealander, Mr W. J. Dunsford. In the meantime, they are charged with stealing tin.