News In Brief

Northern Advocate, 27 April 1944, Page 5

News In Brief

Royalty.— His Majesty (lie King paid another visit on Tuesday to second fron; troops in England awaiting the signal for invasion of Europe. lie spent tin; whole day inspecting Canadian units, including many famous regiment:-. Hit Majesty lunched at Canadian headquarters, where the Canadian High Cotnniis--s'tom-r (Mr. Vincent Massey j was present. Sentenced. —A military tribunal at Algiers has sentenced to death Frenchmen in absentia. Accused were members of pro-German organisations in Tunisia, from where they tied to France after the Allied invasion, fnlc-ss the accuser; nave ii-te-.-.-d to the B. B.C.'s account of the trial—which is an offencj punishable by two years' imprisonment they are unaware of their sentence. One Less. —Berlin radio has stated that a German army commander, ColonelGeneral 1-lube, was killed in a Hying accident on April dl. Hitler. Goering, and other high Government officials and military officers were present at the Stale funeral hekl in the new lieich Chancellery, Berlin, today. Hube was a tank expert, who was promoted colonel-gen-eral on Hitler's birthday on April 20. U.S. Radio. —An American broadcasting station in Europe will be on the air for the first time next Sunday. Broadcasts will be made from Great Britain to' countries on the Continent, and the 'programme will include transmission in most Continental languages as well as in. English. The station will lie operated front its own studios by the United States Office of War Information.