The World We Live In

Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 12, 15 December 1933, Page 8

The World We Live In

Week’s News in a Nutshell Thursday, December 7. —Repeal of prohibition in United States officially proclaimed. IfMeat famine in Moscow relieved by arrival of 80 truck loads of pigs. IfSpanish police surprise secret gathering at Terrassa, arresting 50 men and 30 women, who were engaged in furthering plans for an anarchist revolution. on threat of withdrawal, demands speedy and radical reform of the constitution and objectives of League of Nations. jlNaval rivalry between Japan and America leading to war is opinion of British naval correspondents. Friday, December 8. Dense fog over a wide area in Britain dislocates traffic and forces aircraft down. Tfßussia offers persecuted German Jews a refuge enabling them to found an autonomous Jewish republic. IJTurkey launches an industrial five years plan ; most of the factories constituted will be state-owned. shipping, struggling against subsidised foreign competition, asks Government to come to its assistance by way of subsidies. Saturday, December 9. Belgium proposes spending £6,350,000 on further frontier defences. Monday, December 11. French Government by 403 votes to 63 carries the crucial paragraph of its financial proposals. States for- |

wards a gentle reminder to its debtor nations that another instalment of War Debts is due on December 15. jflrish Free State Government places ban on the Blue Shirt organisation. flares up in Barcelona, Spain, and city is in a state of siege.

Tuesday, December 12. United States authorities suggest that the relation of dollar and pound be stabilised, but Britain hesitates. nomic experts of League of Nations express fear of dangerous tariff wars developing in 1934 as result of wholesale denunciations of the tariff truce entered, into prior to World Economic Conference last June. TfGeneral Party flees into Ulster in order to O’Duffy, Chairman United Ireland escape arrest by Irish Free State Government.