CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 46, 17 November 1937, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES

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Australian Loan Issue LONDON: The Australian . High Commissioner, Mr. S. M. Bruce, announced in Londo'n that arrahgements have been made for underwriting in connection* with the conversion of Australian £11,409,965 '3j per cent. stock due on Febr uary 1, 1938, made up . a's ■follows: New.Soutli'Wales, £6,427,465; South Australia, £2,982,500 ; Tasmauia, £2,000,000. The rafe ■ is 3£ per cent. and the issue price .is £97. The currency is 13 -to 16 years, maturing in 1954 with the option to redeem in 1951 or thereafter on three month's' notice. Tlie yield to investors, calculated tor the latest date maturing,, will be £3 15/1. . Australian Journalisi LONDON :' An Australian , journali'st, Mr. Ronald' Monson, has gone' to_ Shanghai by aeroplane to sticceed Mr." Pembroke Stephens, who; was shot fatally by a Japanese machine-gun * last week. Mr. Monson will represent the Daily Telegraph. Mf. Monson was with the Basque forces in Spain untiJ the fall of Bilbao, Riot at Tetuan GIBRALTAR: Tlie Tetuan (Morocco) riot which resulted when a demonstratiOn was niade against the, dispatch of young Moors to ; take part in .the civil war in 8pain culminated in a pitched battle, the demonstrators fightmg back vvhen the guards-fired. Many Moorish guardsmen joined the rioters and fired on the ' Spaniards. Sixty Moors and 20 Spaniards were killed and scores were wounded. Journalist Expelled BERLIN : Owing to his telegraphed allegation that foot-and-mouth disease in cattle in south-west Germany was due to under-nourishment of -the cattle, whereas the /ifBcial ' version is that it wa§ introduced " from Africa, via Francej "Paul Ravoux, the Berlin correspondent of the Havas Agency, has been given three days' notice to leave the country. .

Libel Actions PARIS: Colonel de la Rocque, the leader of the former Croix de . Feu in France, is the plaintiff in 15 liTbel actions against editors and other responsible executives of newspapers which allegedly ptiblished defamatory articles cliarging him with accepting secxet funds from the Government. Missionary's Death NEW YORK: A telegram from Huntington, West Virginia, ,reports the death as a result of pneumonia of -Dr. James Seder, aged 79, a former missionary in Japan, who on Saturday escaped from abductors who had held him captive for 11 "days in an abandoned coalmine, Federal Cabinet - « ' CANBERRA : The Prime Minister ot Australia, Mr.. J, A. Lyons, is finding it difficult to reconstruct the Federal Cabinet, due to the defeat of two senior Ministers, Sir George Pearce and Sir 'Archdale Parkhill, and the continued illness of Mr. T. Paterson, the Minister of the Interior. Mr. Lyons has intimated that he hopes the task will be completed by the next week-end. / South Australian Apples SYDNEY*. Arrangements have been raade for forward saies of 120,350 cases of South Australian apples and -pears m the United Kingdom and European . countries wbere trade is not restricted. The prices are lower than last year, due to the keen competition and excessive North American stocks on hand. French League Tour SYDNEY: On the easting vote oi the chairman, the Australian Board of Control deeided to defer its decision On the question of inviting a French Eugby League team to tour Australia. pending the receipt of further information from the managers of the Raugaroos as to the standard of the Frenohmen.

French Politician Dead PARIS : The death, has occured of M. Henri Franklin-Bouiilon, Frehoh politician, at the age of 67. 'He wasfbriginally a journalist and war correspondent. . , Cricket Test, in India NEW DELHI : Lord Tennyson's XI. won the cricket Test with India 'by nine wickets. The Indians, who made 121 runs in the first strike, were dismissed for 199 in the second. Smith took three wickets for 34 runs. The visitors, after making 207 in the . first innings, secured thr necessary 104 runs at a cost of only one wick'et. Edrich made 50 not out. - ; German Taxes BERLIN: The tax squeeze in Germany continues. Alth'ough* taxation remained practically unchanged, • £100,- ' 000 mpre; was extracted frqm. the pockets of the taxpayer during the first - ha'lf of the current financiai year, °compared with the corresponding period' of • the previous year. _ Chess Title AMSTEBDAM; In - the ' . world chesS championship Alekhine has scored ' 9J points, and Euwe, who -won the 17th game, 74. . Thirteen games . remaih i to ; be played. Anti-Fascists Tried EOME: Unannonnced in • the Press, . the trial was opened of 45 men, moslly from Genzano, near Rome, who are acctised witli anti-Fascism. They allegededly belong to-a Communist organisatiOn. There have been fbur anti-Fas-cism trials lately. Fifty-five meni havo ■ been sentenced to ' terms * of imprisou. - ment of up to 18 years.' More trials are expeeted soon. No Sabotage ■LQNDON: The' Secretary of the Ad-; mifalty, announces that a ;report. in - a London newspaper alleging sabotage aboaid' :the" Rodney is completely witbout foundation. .

The Quintuplets Cincinnati ,(Ohio):. Dr., Dafoe, the Dionne quintuplets doetor,. in, a lecture, said the time woul'd' com'e ' when the quintuplets must mingle with other children and " brush' more intimately with life. "I do..nqt . intend tOvWUp^ them to become scientifie guinea pigs," he- said. ' / Matson Competitors SAN FRANCISCO: The Ohronicle understands that Canadian and Austba-* Hau line ships will call at San Francisco and New York, competing with tha Matson line. .. The Blue Riband • LONDON: A wireless message from the Normandie states that Sir Malcolm Gampbell,.as holder of the world' land speed and water speed records, presented the blue riband of the Atlantic to the commander of the Normandie, *Captain Thoreaux, during the cross'.ng from fSouthampton to Le Havre. Not Murder MELBOURNE: After a post-mortem examination on the body of a mian f ound in a sack in the Marybqrougu reservoir, the police diseounted the theory of foul play. Death was duo to drowning. The .man 's wounds were not due to violence. Apparently the man tied himself in the sack and rolled into the water. The sack was weighted with stones. There was a gaping injury in. the man's head, and his legs were tied in two places. A beret had been pulled over 'the head. Air Action in India LONDON : The Under-Secretary for India, Mr. R. H. Bullen, denied in the House of Commons that there had been any change in the character , of air ' action in Waziristan since it was described in the White Paper issued last Juno. ' - . ' . Bradford Quotations LONDON; Bradford quotations for merino topg are 30d for sixty-fpurs. Crossbreds are unchanged arfd 'barely steady. Yarns are quiet and ' a shade lower.