CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24900, 13 June 1946, Page 5

CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF

Prospective Immigrant With £250,000 —Prospective immigrants to New Zealand call every day at New Zealand House in the Strand. Many mention substantial sums they are prepared to take to the Dominion. One recent caller, however, left everyone else far behind, and a member of The. staff is still blinking. In a conversation that lasted about four minutes, the inquirer remarked that New Zealand was a nice country, that he would like to take his family of five there, and that he had “something more than £250,000,” but he wondered what the New Zealand income tax and death duties were. The member of the staff produced a card and showed him the rates. “Humph,” said the caller. I would be as badly off as I am here. Good morning.” And with his ‘‘something more than £250,000,” he left abruptly.—London. June 12. Speed Record Attempt Planned.— Sir Malcolm Campbell, who is 60 years of age, has announced that he intends to improve his own world speed record on water in the autumn, using a speedboat powered with a jet engine. He established the record of 140 miles an hour in August, 1939.—London. June 11. Destructive Explosion in Germany.— About 250 people were made homeless and £lO,OOO to £12,000 worth of damage was caused by an explosion of buried ammunition near Meldorf, in Schleswig-Holstein, says the British News Service in Germany.—London, June 11.

Churchill Invited to South Afnca.--Mr Churchill has informally accepted an invitation from General Smuts to visit South Africa, but the ‘‘Daily Telegraph” says he is unlikely to make the trip for some time because his.engagements •are too heavy.—London, June 11. British Pacific Fleet Command.— —Admiral Sir Bruce. Fraser in the Duke of York handed over command of the British Pacific Fleet to ViceAdmiral Sir Denis Boyd.—Singapore. June 11. Twenty-two Reported Dead in Crash. —Twenty-two persons are reported killed in an aeroplane crash 60 miles north of Lagos, in Nigeria. A bomber searching from Accra found the crashed plane. A launch was left to bring the victims to Lagos by river because there is no access by road. — London, June 11. U.S. Negro Execution Case.—A United States Supreme Court official admitted that ah extraordinary error had occurred in listing the case of Willie Francis, the 17-year-old Louisiana negro, who was convicted of murder and survived the first w execution attempt because of a mechanical failure in the electric chair. The listing had stated that the Court had refused to rule on the case. The official told reporters this morning that actually the Court had agreed to hear argument on the case In October. Therefore a stay of execution would remain in force until the Court’s decision.—Washington, June 11.

Polish Ambassador to U.S.— The Associated Press says it is authoritatively reported that the Polish Ambassador to the United States (Mr Lange) will soon be giving up his post to give full time to the United Nations Security Council.—New York, June 11. Vienna Printers’ Strike.— Two thousand Vienna printers struck as a protest against the reduction of the weekly fat ration. As a consequence Vienna. has no newspapers.—Vienna. June 11. Airman’ll Release Ordered —The immediate release of an aircraftman who was sentenced to 28 days’ detention for absence without leave after having been held in close arrest for 111 days without a trial, was ordered by the Acting-Minister of Air (Mr N. J. O. Makin). The man was given no explanation for his release when the direction was carried out last night, but he was warned to give no interviews to newspapers. He will not lose his deferred pay or war gratuity.— Sydney, June 12. Rescue of Chinese in Java.— Dutch troops rescued 2500 Chinese, including hundreds of women and children, from an area west of Tangerang. near Batavia. where Indonesian extremists massacred Chinese recently. Many of those rescued had been imprisoned by the Indonesian Republican Army police and had been badly treated. One thousand men concentrated in the Maoek prison had been left without food for four days.—Batavia, June 11.