News In A Nutshell

Northern Advocate, 26 June 1939, Page 7

News In A Nutshell

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor were the guests of the German Embassy at Paris on the eve of the Duke''s 45th birthday, which was yesterday. It is understood they will visit Spain in the middle of July.

, Herr Reinhardt, German Consul at Liverpool, who was recalled at the request of the British Government, left for Gennany. His wife and two daughters will leave England in August.

The Royal Australian Air Force station, which was to have been opened next year, will now be opened almost immediately. A temporary squadron of Avro-Anson bombers will be stationed at Darwin within three months. The decision to hasten establishment of the unit is regarded as a significant precedent in air defence practice.

The leader of the South African anti-Semitic “Grey-shirts,” Louis Weichardt, was sentenced on Saturday 'at Capetown to six weeks’ imprisonment for contravening the Assemblies Act. Weichardt was on the point of leaving for Italy and Germany.

A party of Portuguese army officers, headed by Major Da Rocha, will 'arrive in England today to study problems connected with the Army Medical Service.

Russia and China have signed a trade treaty, says a message from Moscow.

With two gaping holes in her side, the liner Abossio (11,300 tons), of Liverpool, reached Plymouth after a collision on Thursday night in a dense fog with the cargo stdamer Yew Forest, for Glasgow. The collision occurred off Ushant at the entrance to the English Channel.

Admiral Byrd announced that he would try to raise funds privately for an American expedition. The Administration has given the details of a snow cruiser designed by the Armour Institute of Technology for an expedition. It is a large tractor-driven bus carrying a small aeroplane equi'pped with skis and provisioned for a year. It will have a cruising range of 5000 miles.