CABLES IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24831, 3 February 1942, Page 6

CABLES IN BRIEF

Poed PrOMcntiona During 19*1 there were 29,329 food prosecutions in Britain, compared with 19,598 in 1940. \ Since the outbreak of war there have been 39,927 prosecutions, of which 37,518 were successful. Egypt's Huge Budget . Egypt's Budgetary Estimates are the highest ever. Revenue is estimated at £51,000,000 -V' and at £53,560*000^; Train Dlaiater It is officially stated that 11 persons were Rilledrand: 25 -injured when an express crashed' into the rear of a light engine at Cowlairs East Junction, England.,. Several coaches were derailed.: " , ~ / • - Professional Boxing . Bob; Pastor, 183ilb. won a 10-round decision over Gus Lesnevich, 1811 b, thus ruining Lesnevich's chances for a bout/for r 'the heavy-weight title.. Lord Geddes's New Title Sir';Auckland Geddes, RegionalCommissiqherfprithe. north-western area, who Vecjeived..-la baroriy in the New Year's honours'Hist, has taken the title of Lord : Ged4es of Rolvenden. Interned Italians; Fivir thousand Italian internees from Abyssinia' and Eritrea have; arrived in South'Rhodesia, states a Capetown message. / Thirty-five of Rashid Ali/s followers, including seven ex-Cabinet Ministsri,.aj:e; also being interned. Fascist leaders Dismissed The-Rome radio: stated that Signor Serena;: and the general: secretary of the Fasciat Party, Signor Tassinari; .exdf Agriculture, havejseen dismissed froini; membership of the Grand Fascist CounciL * One Lung Complaint" "One lung complaint" is the latest trick -employed by shirkers in Britain in seeking to dodge army service. Shortly- before the army medical exr aminationsr a mart has one. lung collapsed by : an unscrupulous doctor. He is then X-rayed and a negative is shown' to the, army doctor to prove that his- lungs affected. Later the collapsed lung is restored to normal. Having been warned, army doctors are now able lo detect the deception. When. Britain Stood Alone Replying to critics, the First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr A. V. Alexander, said in a statement in Britain that the attack on Russia would have come much earlier and in a more determined manner had it' not been for the way in which Britain faced the challenge of the dictators when alone. " None •f the chancelleries of Europe thought we could do it," he said, "but we did It."