CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 38, 8 November 1937, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES

-Piess Asbii.-

(JBi Telegraph

-Copyright.)

— »£i King of the Belgians Tbe Duke of Gloucester is to meet tbe King of tbe Belgians on his arrival at Dover on November . 17y and is to . travel with him to Victoria station, where tbe King and other' members of tbe Royal Family and tbe Prime Minister, Mr Nevilie Chamberlain,-, and other. members of .tbe Britisb Government will welcome the distinguisbed- ^ visitor. Tbe two Kings will drive togetber in a carriage procession to, Buckingbam Palace. Later, King Leopold will visit Queen Mary at Marlborough , House. Their Ma jesties -Will give a State banquet in King Leopold 's honour at tbe Palaee in the evening. King Leopold will entertain tbeir Majesties to dinner at the Belgian Embassy tbe next evening, and tbeir Majesties afterwards will give a ball at Buckingham Palace. There will be many other State and civic functions. — British Official Wiraless. London Bus Control . . * An ingenious system by wbicb. the movements of omnibuses on thc London streets will be recorded at central beadquarters is being experimentod with by the London Ti'ansport Board. In this way a continuous record of ihe state of the traffic on every TOute will be availablo to'the contfoller, in the same .way as is already acbieved for-'tube trainn and tramways.— British Official Wireless. ' ' ■ Commodity Markets * \ The behavioar of couimcdities. oa tle London markets is -distmetly disappointing. There are no new developments to accdunt for 'this. . Tbe ; reason seeme to be tbat , every .day brings fiirtber evidence of -a. falling" consumption iu- tho United States. M.qtals are all lower than a year ago. - Tbe- decline in visible supplies bf. tin , b'as only .momentarily stemmed the .downward- itrend. . if tbe United States consumption continues to ? fall, tbe 85 per cent. quota will be tco high. American domestic "saies of copper are tbe lowest since June, 1936. Fainoiu Lines It is announced tbat -when tbe Princess Royal takes part in tbe Festivai of Remembrance on Armistice Day.-sho will-, speak- the . famous; lines from .Laurence • Binyom's poem, '/For the Fallen.'-' Tbe -gatbering will .give. tbe resporise: "We- will Temember. them.." '--British Official Wireless. , Betrothed to Sister Domenico Sincicb bas.discovered that . : Gina Sincicb, a .young cbambermaid to / -wbo.m . be . is betrothed, is his , sistert states a Milan mess.age. Tbe -revelatid® was made through police inquiries. He is. an . orphau boy- wbo was lost. in the confusion of . the. retreat . in .1917/and s •* adopted by an Italian regiment.' Tbe % girl was born tbe following year, after ' wbicb tbe parents die.d. • " Indian Notable Killed During a court sbooting party , a ranger named AllaTakhio accidentally shot dead the Jamsahib of Las. Bela Gbulam, Mohammed Kban, with - a cbarge of b'ucksbot, states a Karachi message. Members of tbe enraged entourage fatally manban-dled tbe ranger. Again Deprived of Record A message from Bonneville statee tbat Captain Eyston again failed to obtain tbe world speed record altbough his car Thunderbolt recorded 303.2955 - miles an bour. Cluteb trouble prevented a return trip. The failure of tbe electric tiining device to operate effectively at the moment tbe Thunderbolt entered tbe measured mile, moreover, it is believed, prevented the recording of Captain Eysfon 's true sweed, wbicb he esti-. mated on Ihe basis of -his- own tecbometer readings as 315 miles an bourRugby League Light rain fell during tbe Rugby League match between the Australians r> and. Oldbam, which was won by Australia by eiglit to four/ "Cannon Fodder for Caesar" Mr James Roosevelt, delivering a message froni tbe churcli group for thc President> said: "In Europo dictatorships came because man bad been educated out of his demand that there should be dignity in a single Jiuman lif e. Political f reedom - ari-d economic and even religious freedoqi .bad come to seem hardly wortb fighting for, and with the loss .of that vital spark men were no longer tbe sons of G.od in their own eyes arui were easily berded to bc cannon fodder for.a Caesar," In Search of Athletes Three executives of tbe Frencb Atbletic Federation, financed by tbe Ministry of Colonies 'and the sporting paper L 'Auto, are going to Senegal on December 3 on a unique mission in search of native athletes for tbe next- Olympiad. 'The •mission -has' been prompted by tbe American' negro runners' suceosses and Teports of th'e astonisbing i'eate of geriegal maraboriers. Some are seven feet in lieight arid ablc to do a 26>-foot leap acros^ canals. Air-Raid, "Black-Out ' lt is understood tbat Tbursday riigUt 's ' ' black-out ' of over 400 squarb miles - of the Nore Command area in connection with' full-scale rebearsals of tbe anti-aircraft defence . measures, involving all the Medway towns .and. the cooperation of .public services with the Army, tbe Territorials, and tbe Navy and • tbe newly-enlisted .air-raid precautions personnels, was a complete success. — Brjtish Qffieial Wii;eless.