OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 304, 26 December 1945, Page 5

OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

DUTCH WHALING COMPANY The re-entry of the Netherlands into the whale fishing industry is being effected bv a concern called the Netherlands Whaling Company, formed in Amsterdam, with a capital of £2,400.000, says the “Daily Telegraph.” The new company will concentrate at first on the Antarctic. U.S. CONVICTS PARDONED President Truman has fully pardoned more than 2000 convicts paroled from gaols to the army, who served honourably for one year or more. HUNGARY EXPELS GERMANS The Hungarian Government, in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement, has issued a decree expelling all German-speaking residents, involving half a million persons, including Ger-man-ypeaking Jews. Those expelled will be allowed to take only food and clothing with them. WAR CRIMINALS’ COURTS The Allied Control Council in Berlin has issued a decree establishing courts to try war criminals not being died by the Allied Tribunal at Nuremberg. 'The courts are empowered io pass death sent elites. TELEVISION. The Farnsworth Television Corporation (New York), estimates lhe United States will produce at least 200.000 television sets in 1946 and at least half a million in the first year of full-scale production.

LINK WITH SLAVE DAYS. Mr. James Walder, the eldest United States citizen who was born in slavery on lhe famous Walden plantation has died, aged 120. Mr. Walden worked 111 years.