News In A Nutshell

Northern Advocate, 30 August 1938, Page 7

News In A Nutshell

The New Zealand schoolboys’ Soc- ■ >3 cer team concluded its Sydney engagements yesterday, defeating a metro- ;j politan side by six goals to one, thus f retaining its unbeaten record. The visitors gave an impressive display. . The effective combination of the New $ Zealand boys overwhelmed the weak opposition provided by the Sydney Vfl side. : * “ • • 1 A Battersea Park gardener, Mr Fern-, ley Wheatcroft, aged 42, swam the til Channel from Cape Gris Nez, and . reached the English coast between Dover and Folkestone, in 13 hours | 37 minutes. He learned to swim ! in 1934. Mr Wheatcroft abandoned an attempt to swim the Channel last July. jJ .*■ , • '.J Miss May Yohe, once a prominent ||| musical comedy actress, and a former wife of the Duke of Newcastle, then ;■£; Lord Hope, owner of the famous Hope, "• Diamond, died at Boston, today fol- ■/ lowing a heart seizure, at the age of 72. A picture of King Edward Vll I which he had presented to her stopd at her bfedside. The Marseilles dtockprs again refused to handle general cargo yesterday. The position is obscure, .as they have not yet accepted the Govern-'.’-I ment’s decree settling the dispute. * I • • ' v • '< •'* * m / ! ■, The Paris correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” states that the 11| French peasants expelled from Isola, ;! on the Italian frontier, say that the ; Italians had promised compensation, r and have acted most courteously in enforcing the evictions. ‘ * \ « * • ; 'r The Paris correspondent of “The ' | Times” says that labour unrest is in- 'j creasing. Textile workers are irritated by the employers’ attitude to the ar- j bitrators’ alleged dilatoriness in, considering the demands for higher wages to meet the greater cost of living. • • * • ,*,.3 The Stuttgart correspondent of ;| “The Times” says the Nazi Overseas * Congress culminated in a service of p mourning for Planetta and Holzweber, murderers of Dr. Dollfuss, and eleven * other Nazis executed for participation in the rising.

It is stated in London that the request of the Spanish Government to investigate the recent bombing at Alicante will be made public in the course of the next few days. • '

Sir Neville Henderson, British Ambassador to Berlin, has provisionally accepted Herr Hitler’s invitation to attend the Nazi Nuremburg rally. ,

Two Jewish settlers were killed and one was wounded, when shots were fired at close range while they were listening to a radio in a bungalow in the Jewish settlement of Hadera.

Brigands held up a mail van near Nablus, and seized the mail bags.