OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 144, 14 March 1939, Page 9

OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

A warehouse at Hakodate (Japan) which caught fire during a gale resulted in 15 people, including seven children, being burnt to death, and six buildings destroyed.

The death has occurred in Nice of the Hungarian-born Jew David Gestetner, age’d 84, who as an office boy so hated copying letters that he invented the duplicating machine. He was noted for his charity.

♦ * ♦ A skirmish in Manchukuo resulted m the Japanese ejecting 70 Russians from Japanese territory. The Russians lost heavily and four Japanese were wounded. Japan has protested to Moscow.

The interior of the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden will be transformed for a galti performance on March 22 when Their Majesties will entertain President and Mme. Lebrun, of France.

Jews who have been expelled from military service by the Nazi Black Guards are being placed in the same category as criminals. ♦ * •

The Dutch Government has countermanded its decision to purchase military aircraft abroad. 1 « * •

The delegation from the Federation of British Industries left for Germany yesterday for conversations with German industrial leaders.

Fifteen persons were arrested in Paris during the course of a widespread drug traffic drive.

Judge Beeby has been appointed Chief Judge of the Australian Commonwealth, Arbitration Court in succession to the late Judge Dethridge.