News In A Nutshell

Northern Advocate, 14 March 1939, Page 7

News In A Nutshell

An Adelaide message reports that four men were drowned when a closed motor car fell over a bank into six feet of water. They were Messrs Leonard Clarence Rowe and Lance Wheatley, both of Henley beach, Linus Hurley, of Castleton, and Max Ellard, of Adelaide. Two other men were rescued.

Over 25 warships from the China Station and the East Indies have begun combined fleet, fortress and air forces exercises. A seven-hour “black out” of the island on March 16 will end the manoeuvres, says a message from Singapore.

It is understood that Britain will start the air mail service to America on June 1 and carry on until the late autumn, when the weather is expected to prevent its continuing, says an I.C.S. message from London.

Fifteen people have been arrested in the the course of a widespread drive against the drug traffic, says a Paris message.

Tire German tennis player, Von Cramm, intends to compete in the American .and Australian tennis championships if he is able to obtain passport visas. He will not compete at Wimbledon.

Thousands of Jewish men and women and children, whom the'Fascist militia expelled from Italy en masse, are wandering in alpine passes leading to France, suffering from cold and hunger, says a message from Nice. The French authorities at Mentone have housed 200, and 150 have reached Monte Carlo. Many are in hospital.

Two Jews were killed and one seriously injured in a land mine explosion south of Haifa.

Excluding airmen, the total of Italian losses in Spain to February 13 was 272 officers and 2792 men killed.

Mr. Peter F. Bennett, president of the British Industries Federation, and nine delegates left England for Germany for trade talks. Mr. Bennett said discussions would be held with German industrialists in order to decide a basis for 'ollaboration, and to remove difficulties in existing agreements. * # * * The German Ambassador to the Vatican City, Dr. von Bergen, called on the Pope, and offered Herr Hitler’s good wishes for the Pontificate.

As a result of members of the faculty striking, on the grounds that it insult-, ed Islam, Bernard Shaw’s “St. Joan” has been deleted from the Azhar University’s programme of English literature studies. Students intend publicly to burn copies, reports a Cairo message. m » • • Sir Alfred Webb-Johnson, one of the foremost surgeons in the world, stated that fresh hope in the world’s fight against cancel 1 has been aroused by the invention of a cyclotron machine for splitting the atom to obtain enormous power from radio active discharges.