CHEAPER WINES

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25396, 28 December 1945, Page 5

CHEAPER WINES

devaluation of fbanc EFFECT ON EXPORT TRADE BRETON WOODS RATIFIED (Reed. 6.50 p.m.) PARIS, Dec. 'J7 After ratifying the Brettcm Woods agreement, the French Assembly passed the bill for the devaluation of the franc by 506 votes to 44. The measure empowers the Government to revalue the gold stock of the Bank of France on the basis of the new gold content of the paper franc. J he devaluation of the franc should stimulate French exports to Britain and niako them cheaper in terms of British currency, says the Daily Telegraph. Tho importation of wines, for example, should bo easier to arrange. Recent negotiations for substantial shipments have been badly hampered by the high prices asked by the French sellers.

GREEK RECONSTRUCTION LONDON NEGOTIATIONS (Herd. 6.50 p.m.) ATHENS, Dec. 27 The Vice-Premier of Greece, M. Emmanuel Tsouderos, and the Minister of Supply, M. Kartalis, are going to London tomorrow for negotiations with tho British Government. Tho negotiations include tho Greek Government's economic programme and measures to secure a new stabilisation of the drachma in the reconstruction of Greece.

PALESTINE ENTRY JEWS FROM EUROPE BRITISH PATROL ELUDED HAIFA, Dec. Several hundred Jewish refugees from Europe landed in secret from the motor-schooner Hanah Senesh on Nahariah heach, eight miles south of the Lebanese frontier, and dispersed inland without incident, says a Haifa message. Keillors correspondent, at Haifa says the Hanah Senesh foundered when approaching the shore early last night and was discovered this morning on the beuch lying 011 her side. The correspondent adds that apparently the vessel had been spotted by a British aeroplane on Christmas Evo after a fortnight at sea. It managed to slip away and elude the close patrol of two destroyers and a number of police boats, as well as coastal searchlights. The landing point, however, had to be changed at the last minute. There were no small boats ready to take off the immigrants and the Hanah Senesh had to come close to the shore and foundered. Stevedores from the Hagana (the Jewish defence organisation) constructed a rope bridge and all the passengers got ashore safely. The organisation claimed that it did not assist the landing. At the Jewish holiday colony of Nahariah the only signs of the clandestine landing were a number of United States Air Force "Mae Wests" and a blue and white banner (the Jewish national colours) with a newly-printed inscription: "This boat has disembarked immigrants here with the help of the Jewish Resistance Movement. May it remain as a memorial to 6,000,000 brothers and sisters who have died in Kurope and as a token of our accusation against the British Government."

RABBI'S SAD TALE ARRIVAL FROM GERMANY (Reed. 6.51? p.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 27 Rabbi Leo Brock on his arrival in America from Berlin said only 4000 Jews were still alive in Germany of the 200,000 there in 19.'}9, while in Austria there were now only 3000, compared with 150.000 before the war. Rabbi Breck, who was imprisoned in a concentration camp from January, 1943, until May 11. 1945, said many German-Jewish children had found refuge abroad and the survivors were mostly elderly people.