OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 156, 28 March 1939, Page 9

OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

The preliminary figures for the 1938 Census show' Russia’s population to be 170,120,000, an increase of 23,013,000 since 1926.

Richard Hough, of Princeton, U.S.A., swam 200 yards breaststroke in 2min. 22sec. —a world record. The previous record, 2inin. 22}sec., was established by K. Kasley (U.S.A.) in 1936.

The death is reported from London of Sir Basil Thomson, Director of the British Intelligence Service from 1919 to 1921, aged 1 77.

Mr. Edward Anthony Strauss, National Labour member in the House of Commons for North Southwark, is dead. He was 76 years old.

The death has occurred in Sydney of Mr. John Jacob Cohen, former Judge of the District Court, and a member and Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, aged 79.

The price of potatoes on the Sydney market yesterday was fixed at £24 a ton, which will mean 4d. to sd. a pound retail.

Self ridges (Australia), Limited, disclose a loss of £20,981 for the year ended January 31. The directors claim that the second half of the year showed. a profit of £2884.

The death is reported from Brisbane of Mr. Michael Patrick Hynes, Minister of Labour and Industry in the Queensland Government. He was 53 years of age. # *

Twenty thousand shares in the Australian Gaslight Company sold at auction yesterday realized from £6/15/to £7/0/6.

Seventeen persons were killed and 20 injured when a balcony from which they were wajtching a funeral in Jaipur (India) collapsed.

Avalanches buried 20 workmen near the French village of La Cisour and engulfed half the village of Bareges under 70 feet of snow. It is feared there were casualties.

Three bodies were found in the wreckage of a Fairey bomber -which crashed in Norfolk. Rescuers were unable to approach nearer than 40 yards because of the intense heat when the machine caught tiro.

The death is reported from London of E. Gwyn Nicholls, the famous Welsh Rugby player. Nicholls, one of the most famous Rugby three-quarters his country has produced, represented Wales from 1896 to 1907 and played in the match in which the original All Blacks were beaten 3-0.

The German and Dutch authorities have decided to renew the sports relations between the two countries which were broken off in December.

Switzerland is suspending the payment of private debts in Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia pending an agreement with Germany.

Dr. C. A. Smith, lecturer of philosophy, will succeed Mr. Maxton as chairman of the British IndependentLa hour Party.

Earl Baldwin’s fund for refugees now amounts to £461.658.

The land on Flamborough Head, a prominent feature of the East Coast of England, has been saved from building development owing to its purchase by the Bridlington Corporation,