NEWS BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 56, 22 March 1937, Page 6

NEWS BREVITIES

King Leopold for London. Owing to difficulties in connection with the Anglo-Belgian situation, King Leopold, on his own initiative, is visiting London to confer with British Ministers. King Leopold will not bring a Cabinet Minister but a Foreign Affairs expert who, with the ambassador, will attend the consultations. Indian Oaths of Allegiance. Over 1000 Congressmen took the oath of allegiance to Congress and the country, pledging to work for the independence of India and the 1 1 ending of poverty and the exploitation of her people." Pundit Nehru reiterated hostility towards" the Constitution, Marshal Eoch Honoured. Marshal Foch, eight years after his death was reburied at Les Invalides, near Napoleon in a bronze sarcophagus surmounted by statues of eight poilus bearing an effigy of the generalissimo on a bed of laurels. Royal Mews to Reopen. The King has decided to reopen the Royal mews at Windsor Castle which King Edward closed last year when he transferred the horses to Buckingham Palace. The famous Windsor greys will return there after the Coronation. No Date for Ex-King's Wedding. Mr Herman Rogers, on behalf of Mrs Wallis Simpson, denied that the wedding date and venue had been fixed and also denied that the Duke of Windsor would visit Franee before Apri] 27 when a decree absolute would be obtainable, Rexist's Hopes. The Brussels correspondent of the British United Press interviewed the Rexist leader M. de Grelle who said: " If 1 win I will immedia tely take power without a dissolution or a genoral election. We shall remove all economic and social affairs from Parlia mentary coatrol and hand them over to corporations. Parliament will be limited to the work of controlling and voting the budgets. If I ara beaten, I will resume work with the same ardour and optiinism. ' ' New Austrian Minister. Dr. Kurt von Schuschngigg has disniissed the Minister of Public Security owing to hi-s pro-Nazism, notably the non-prevention of the Nazi demonstrations on February 22. Dr. von Sehuschuigg has taken over the portfolio and ho now holds four. He has appointed Police President Skubl, an anti-Nazi. Minister for State Security. First Lord's Narrow EscapeAn electric train ran into an avaianche in the Lower Engadine, Switzerland. The locomotive fell into the river but the carriages luckily remained on tho rails. Sir Samuel Hoare, First Lord of the Admiralty, left the train only half an hour previouslj^