GENERAL CABLES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20184, 28 June 1928, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE PROPOSED REORGANISATION [ Australian Press Assn. J FREMANTLE, June 27. Air-Marshal Sir John Salmond arrived by the Ormonde. He will be prepared to report for the Commonwealth Ministry on the re-or-ganisation of the Australian Air Force. FIRE IN QUEENSLAND FIVE SHOPS DESTROYED [ Australian Press Assn. ) BRISBANE, June 26. A fire at Nambour destroyed five shops, the damage being £12,000. CAR’S PLUNGE INTO RIVER WOMAN NEARLY DROWNED [ British Official Wireless. ) SYDNEY, June 27. A motor car containing four men end one woman dived into the Parramatta River at midnight. The men extricated themselves from the enclosed hood and swam to safety. Two divested themselves of their clothes and swam Ijack, dived and dragged out Mrs Selle, of Eastwood, nearly drowned. She was resuscitated. EGYPTIAN POLITICS NEW MINISTRY BEING FORMED [ Australian Press Issn. ] CAIRO, June 26. It is understood that Mahamed Mahmoud Pasha is forming a new Ministry, including the Pashas Khashaba, Gafarwalt, Maher and Mohamed Ali. PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES. ASSISTANCE FOR THE POLICE. [ Australian Press Assn, j CAIRO, June 27. Though the country is quiet the authorities are taking precauationary measures. They have drafted military forces to certain centres to aid the police.

’PLANE CONSTRUCTION BRITAIN’S SUPREMACY [ British Official Wireless. ] RUGBY, June 26. Miss Earhart is taking to the United States the small Moth aeroplane in which Lady Heath flew over Africa. She states that in aero engines and small machines the British manufacturers a*e far ahead of all others. “DAWN’ AGAIN FILM BARBED IN INDIA [ Australian Press Assn. —United Service ] DELHI, June 26. The Bengal Board of Film Censors, by a majority of six to two, decided to prohibit the exhibition of the Cavcll film ‘‘Dawn” in India.