News In A Nutshell

Northern Advocate, 2 June 1939, Page 5

News In A Nutshell

Herr Hitler, Field-Marshal Goering and Herr von Eibbentrop welcomed Prince Paul, Regent of Yugoslavia, and Princess Olga, initiating lavish celebrations. Schools, stores, factories and offices in Berlin were closed, and the populace was ordered to join in the public welcome.

The Labour conference in England rejected, by 2,300,000 to 248,000 votes, a resolution urging the formation of a Popular Front of all parties, including Communists.

Further earthquake shocks in Greece this morning bring the total recorded .at noon to 42, causing widespread damage. Many people are homeless.

Reuter’s Cairo correspondent says that the Government has instructed its Ambassador in London, Dr. Hachat Nachat Pasha, to approach the Soviet Ambassador, M. Maisky, with a view to expanding mutual trade. Egypt is particularly seeking to increase its exports of cotton.

Three men and a woman were killed at Brisbane, and a man injured when a car in which they were travelling crashed into a heavy lorry on the Ipswich road. A newly-married couple were among those killed.

. The New Zealander, L. Perry, riding a Velocette. crashed while practising on the Tourist Trophy motor cycling course at the Isle of Man, and will be unable to take part in the race.

An interesting programme has been arranged for six well-known Turkish journalists who, with their wives, arrived in London yesterday. They will attend numerous functions and pay visits to the army, navy and 'air force, as well as to Cambridge University and Windsor Castle.

For gallantry when serving with the First Battalion of the Royal Scots in Palestine, four soldiers were decorated with the Military Medal by the Colonel-in-chief, the Princess Royal, at Aldershot, yesterday.

The Foreign Secretary, Viscount Halifax, is returning to London today, from Yorkshire where he has been spending a holiday.

A message from Sydney states that a compulsory conference of the parties in the metal trades strike was held yesterday and adjourned until today. Concessions, it is understood, have been made by both sides, resulting in high hopes of a settlement.

An explosion of gas at a school at Barberton, Ohio, injured at least 49 children. Six who were critically injured were trapped when the walls and roof of the building collapsed.

The Eire Minister to the Holy See, Mr W. Macaulay, was received by the Pope in a prolonged private audience, when it is believed the activities of the Irish Republican Army, of which the Hierarchy has taken a stern view, was discussed.