SOUTHERN ARABIA

Evening Star, Issue 23374, 18 September 1939, Page 6

SOUTHERN ARABIA

WILLING TO ASSIST BRITAIN } (British Official Wireless.) KDGBY, September! 16. The declaration of loyalty to the British Empire, made by the two independent Sultans of the Hadhramaut, come as a reminder that at no time since the British first became connected with Aden, exactly 100 years ago, have the Sultan of Shihr and the Mukalla and Kathiri Sultans—long at daggers drawn with each other and with the rest of the world—been so friendly to Britain. The declarations^. likewise show that Southern Arabia is anxious to see and ready to assist in a British victory. JOURNALISTS INDIGNANT PERSONHEL OF MINISTRY OF INFORMATION LONDON, September 17. (Received September 18, at 8 a.m.) Mr Graham White (Lib.) will ask Mr John Anderson in the House of Commons on Wednesday who instructed the police to enter newspaper offices, on September 11 and remove copies of newspapers already printed. The Cardiff branch of the National Union of Journalists, the largest in Wales, indignantly passed a resolution that Ministry of Information posts are occupied by non-journalists when highly-trained journalists are unemployed. • The resolution deplored the fact that journalists who are the media of information in peace time should be deprived of their livelihood by nonjournalists in war time. PACIFIC SHIPPING AMERICAN FREIGHT RATES TO BE INCREASED PORTLAND (Oregon), September 17, (Received September 18, at 8 a.m.) Pacific west-bound shipping' concerns are increasing freight rates hy 20 per cent, as from September 25. The minimum rate will be 750 cents a ton for general cargo. decline in stocks SEVERE SETBACK IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, September 16. The stock market to-day recorded the severest decline since the war boom began. Leading issues, notably steel, rubber, and motor cars, fell three dollars. Heavy profit-taking followed speeches against any modification of the neutrality laws, and traders lightened commitments pending a clarification of the -situation'' By Congress ou Thursday.