News In A Nutshell

Northern Advocate, 31 July 1939, Page 3

News In A Nutshell

In the House of Commons, Sir Samuel Hoare, Home Secretary, announced that the British Broadcasting Corporation would not be taken over by the Government in wartime, but there would be substantial liaison as with the press and cinemas. There would be a censorship of both, but considerable latitude would be allowed the press on the basis of cooperation.

A message from Paris states that the Cabinet is considering decrees to postpone the general elction for two years, and place all radio services under direct control of the Prime Minister.

The Royal Air Force plane in which Sir Kingsley Wood, secretary for Air, was flying to Belfast, turned back when over the Irish Sea owing to bad weather. It was not reported for some time, but later it was stated that the Minister was safe.

A Bayreuth cable says that the British newspaper proprietor, Lord Kemsley, yesterday visited Herr Hitler and discussed with him the possibility of publishing German articles in the British text in return for the publication of British articles in the German text.

Six people were killed and 20 were injured in Hindu and Moslem rioting against the new constitutional reforms, states a message from Hyderabad. The police twice opened fire on the rioters. Troops were called out, and threw a cordon round the area, in which a curfew has been imposed.

For the first time since it was introduced in March, 1938, the Japanese Federal Reserve Bank note was not quoted at a discount in terms of the national dollar yesterday. Unofficial quotation showed a Reserve Bank premium varying between 8 percent and 12 per cent.

A member of the China Inland Mission, Miss G. A. Rugg, has been missing for three months in the Kiangsi province. The British Consul is investigating the matter.

Approximately 5,000,000 trees were planted under the directions of the British Forestry Commission in the year ended September, 1938.

The city council in Capetown accepted British and South African tenders for telegraph poles and wires, in spite of German tenders being 24 to 39 per cent lower.

An Independent Cable Service message from London states that astronomers hope to clear up the outstanding controversies in regard to Mars when the planet comes within 36,000,000 miles of the earth —nearer than at any time in the past 15 years. If the weather is favourable hundreds of highly-sensitive photographic plates will be exposed.

Sir Evelyn and Lady Wrench were arrested on a charge of photographing the Lenin Historical Museum, although they had not been forbidden to do so. says the Moscow correspondent of “The Times." The charge was dropped without apology. The incident is typical cf the intense suspicion with (which foreigners are regarded.

The House of Commons, after a stormy debate, approved, by 357 votes to 164, the Government’s decision to investigate without delay higher old-age pensions. Mr Chamberlain pointed out that the House had not yet fully realised the burden of defence. The Government would not lighthearledly add further to the load.

The Minister of Civil Defence. Sir John Anderson, has circularised local authorities, advising holiday-makers who are going away for a month or longer to take gas masks, says an Independent .Cable Service message from London.

The Argentine Embassy in London denied that the Argentine is claiming Antarctic areas. It has merely established a committee to study Antarctic problems,' co-operating with the nations interested.

Captain Rossi, the French flier who left Istras shortly before 5 a.m. on Thursday, landed early on Friday morning in Sardinia through motor trouble. He flew for 19 hours 41 minutes.

The King on Friday watched the Grenadier Guards demonstrate the new style of marching in threes instead of fours. He later saw the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace in Threes.

if’ # All Jews have been ordered to leave Austria after July.

Over 100 Jews have been arrested hi Tel-Aviv as .a consequence of recent terrorism.

Seventy-five high-placed officials, including several senior army officers, have been stripped of their decorations, says a Moscow cable. The degraded men include a former naval attache in Washington and prominent officials.

A Tokio message says that 11 persons were killed and 20 injured at Totsuka, near Yokohama, when a train ran through a crowd of several hundreds thronging the tracks to farewell friends and relations called to the colours.

It has been announced that the Auslralia-Cuba Davis Cup tennis tie will be played at Seabright, New Jersey, instead of Montreal, starting on August 10. The Cubans did not want to play at Montreal, and the Australians refused to play at Havana, so they compromised.

The first supply of American bombers ordered for the Royal Air Force is arriving in England. The machines have a speed of 240 miles per hour, and a range of 1700 miles. Each has a crew of four, and guns in the nose and at the rear.