NEWS BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 126, 14 June 1937, Page 6

NEWS BREVITIES

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To Meet 11 Duce Mr George Lansbury has announced his intention of visiting Signor Mussolini to discuss the prospects of peace as he did with fierr Hitler. His visit will be personal. He will not represent any organisation. — London. Footballers Deported Because Basque football tourists indulged m propaganda, the authorities caucelled their second match and deported them from Poland. — Warsaw. Duke's Titles It is authoritatively stated that* the • Duke of Windsor retains the ranks oi: Admiral of the Flee't, Field-Marshal and Air-Marshal, but -has automatically lost, by. his abdicatiou, the speeial seniority in them which was his. His seniority now dates from Janiiary 21, 1936, when he assumed the ranks. — London. Miners Trapped A message from Nanaimo British Columbia, states that an avalanche of water trapped five coal miners 20 feet underground. Three were drowned and two were raised to /the surface after eight hours Wiien the rescuers pumped out 40,000 giallons. — Vancouver. Ban on Book * W. H. Smith 's bookstalls and Wymans, wholesalers, the two largest distributors in the United Kingdom, have notified the publishers that they will not handle the book "The -Woman I Love," a record of the Windsor-War-field romance/mostly baBed on artioles in a weekly gossip journ&l,— Londoa. \ Ship in Trouble The Commonwealth Goveruinent 's patrol ship Larrakia, which ' 'urrestecl ' * a Japanese mother ship allegedly poarl poaching on Thursday Whs bringii tho Japanese ship to port When she bfoko. down to-day. When sighfed to-day by the flying doetor (Dr. FeHton) off Cape Hall, the Larrakia herself w; being towed either by the Japanc?- or an Australiau pearler and the Japanese mother ship was following her to Darwin. — Darwin. South Polar Areas The British Uuited Press correspondent at Washington states that although not acquieseing in all the British claims to South Polar lands, the State Department does not intend to dispute tnem at present. believing that despite the action oi the Imperia] Coftference there is no immediate prospect ' of their development of these territories, and, furthermore, it jnsists that actual^ occupation. colonisation or exploitation is b.eeessary to establish claims of spyereigqty.— IJe.W Yorlt.