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Five airmen were killed when a military aeroplane crashed at Pavia, in Lombardy.
Owing to the political tension, Germany will not send crews to compete at the Henley regatta this year.
Forty-nine persons in the United States in 1937 reported incomes of 1,000,000 dollars or more. This was 12 less than in 1936. One taxpayer reported a net income of 5,000,000 dollars.
In the course of a tour of East Kent, the Duke of Kent opened and inspected the first section of the Ramsgate air raid shelter. This is to consist of
three miles of tunnel, 60 feet deep in chalk, and will be sufficient to accommodate the entire population of the town. Twenty-three separate entrances to the tunnels will be provided.
The League’s High Commissioner for Danzig, Dr. Karl Burckhardt, has arrived in Berlin from the Free-. City. It is understood that he is seeking the opinion of the Reich about adjusting the difficulties in Danzig. ;, r
Tiie leader of the Labour Opposition, Mr C. R. Attlee, .is about to undergo an operation and will not participate in politics for two months.
The new national executive of the British Labour Party has appointed as its chairman Mrs Barbara Gould, widow of the poet and critic, Gerald Gould. She was vice-chairman last year.
The census shows that there are 82,000,000 men and 88,000,000 women
in Russia
Mr C. R. Whittington, a direct descendant of Sir William Whittington, who was father of the famous Dick Whittington, has been elected a City of London Common Councillor. He follows his kinsman, both as representative of the Broad Street Board and the Liverymen and Mercers’ Company.
A new decree forbids all forms of collaboration and professional association between Jewish and non-Jewish professional men, says a message from Rome. • * , ■ '
A member of the Portuguese Naval Mission yesterday joined a' ship of the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet at Portland for six weeks’ training. . *# , # It is announced from Lisbon that the Commander-in-Chief of the Portuguese Army has accepted an invitation to attend British Army manoeuvres. ~
The British Parliament reassembles
on Monday.
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Northern Advocate, 3 June 1939, Page 7
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