News In A Nutshell

Northern Advocate, 17 December 1938, Page 9

News In A Nutshell

The State Department, in a third Note to the German Government within a few weeks, demanded an immediate assurance that American Jews residing in Germany will not be affected by the anti-Jewish decrees. The Note expressed disappointment at Germany’s failure to give assurances on this matter, and reminded Germany that the United States has afforded German citizens equal rights with other foreign nationals.

The Chinese are reported to be destroying bridges in the border region between the Kwangtung and Kwangsi provinces, in anticipation of a new Japanese advance to the Kwangsi capital, Nanning, aimed at interrupting the supply of arms to China through French Indo-China.

Efforts are to be made to co-ordinate the various committees and organisations interested in the problem of the migration of German Jews. Mr Daniel Wolf, president of the International Jewish Colonisation Society, has had talks with prominent British Jews, and it has been decided to establish a representative international advisory committee and a board of trustees.

The purpose of the visit to London of Herr Hitler’s aide, Captain Wiedemann, in January, is to try to persuade the British Government to negotiate on the colonial problem, says the “Daily Herald.” Captain Wiedemann is expected to reveal the exact nature of Germany’s claim.

Two of the members of the Australian Davis Cup team, J. Bromwich and A. K. QuisO yesterday won the Victorian doubles championship, defeating J. B. Crawford and F. Bennett, 7-5, 6-3, 2-6, 6-3. In the women’s doubles final, Miss Coyne and Miss D. Stevenson beat Mrs H. Hopman and Miss N. Wynne, 6-4, 6-3. * * * * It is announced that the first shortwave radio transmitter west of the Mississippi River will be erected at the San Francisco Field, and will open in February. The station will broadcast to South America, the Orient, Australia and New Zealand. The lastnamed will be able to pick up programmes daily and at midnight.

The United States Ambassador to Britain, Mr J. P. Kennedy, arrived in New York yesterday by the “Queen Mary.” The alternative to Mr Chamberlain’s policy was war and chaos, said Mr Kennedy, in an interview. “The United States is better off if there is peace in Europe. I strongly favour our policy of rearmament, but the United States should stay absolutely out of whatever happens in Europe.”

An 18 year old boxer, Eric Boon, won the British lightweight championship knocking out the holder Dave Crowley in the 13th round.

The dispute over the loading of pig iron for shipment to Far Edastern ports is still not settled and the interested parties are awaiting the outcome of the conference during the week-end at Port Kembla, where Union and Government representatives will try to reach a compromise, says a Sydney message * a m « One British soldier was killed, and four wounded, when a land mine exploded under a military truck on the Nablus-Tulkarn Road, in the neighbourhood of yesterday’s ambush, when one Britisher was killed and three were wounded, says an Independent Cable Service message. * # * * Earl Baldwin’s refugee fund now amounts to £63,729. Before this *apeal was launched the fund organised by the Council for German Jewry realised £394,215, including donations of £50,C00 each from Viscount Bearsted, Lord Mai’ks, and the Rothschild families, and £40,000 from the family of the late Alderm'an Louis Cohen.