CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 48, 19 November 1937, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES

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Japanese Engineers Chosen i TOKIO: The newspaper Asahi Sbimbun reports that the Siamese Governrpeiit has selected Japanese officials to plan the reeonstruction of Bangkok liarbonr from among entries from 22 countries. Bucharest Anti-Semitism LONDON: The Times Budapest correspondent says anti-Semitic demonstrations' by the faculty of philosophy at the Bucharest TJniversity led to serious disturbances, 20 windows being smashed. The police were ,'summoned and 19 students were arrested.

Dodecanese Fortifications LONDON: The Daily Telegraph's Eome correspondent says. that Signor Mussolini has arranged a visit to the Dodecanese islands (Eastern Mediterranean) before the end of the year to i'uspect the defences, particulariy Ehodes, where he will inaugurate a military, naval and air base. It is bolievedj this and other defence works are planned to offset the British defences at Cypru's. i f / : , - Kidnapper's Leap ! NEW YOEK: Percy Geary, who with (wo other kldnappers escaped from the penitentiary at Syracuse, leapt from the Window of a second-storey room in which his companions were captured by the police. Geary is eonsidered the most dangerous of the gang. He took Tefuge in an area nearby which the pojice have surrounded. He is believcd to be h'eavily • armed and is not expected to surrender without a battle. "No Longer in Our Service" * IONDON: Questioned fegarding statements made in the House of Commons debate, in which it was suggested (hat Sir Tom Ince Webb-Bowen, staff manager of Imperia.1 Airways for four years, had rcsigned on persoual «rounds, an Imperial Airways offieial admitted that Sir Tom Ince WebbBowen was "no/longer in our servico." Kipling Memorial LONDON: More thttn a thousand men and women admirers of Eudyard Kipling from all over the world attended the inaugural banquet of the Kipling Memorial Fiind, the purpose, of which is to establish bursaries for boys from countries throughout the Empire to attend Kipling 's old school, the Imperial Service College. The suin of £35,000 ha» alxeady been subscribed. Those who attended the" banquet sent a message and a basket of flowers to Kipling 's widow.

King to Broadcast LONDON; .The Daily Herald says that, his Majesty will broadcast to the Empire on Christmas Day from Sandringham House, where, with the Queen and the two Princesses, he will spend Cbristmaa. Industrial Production EUGBY: The Board of Trade index o£ industrial production in the September • quarter is 9.1 per cent.- less than the preceding quarter, but 7.1 greater than in the same quarter of 1936. The recession in activity last quarter was, -it is stated, essentially seasonal.— British Offieial Wireless. British Imports EUGBY: A.total of 40.28 per cent. of the imports into th'e United Kingdom in the first ten months of this year came from British countries, compared with 39.71 in the corresponding period of 1936. The percentage of United Kingdom experts going to British eountrios was 47, coiiipared with 49.1 a year ago. * — British Offieial Wireless. Baths at Pithead : EUGBY:,. Tlie Miners' Welfare Fund has .plans in h and for the installation of pithead baths at a total cost of £2,100,000— an amount : neariy equal to the. cost of all baths installed between 1926 and the present day. When the proposed installations are completed, bath accommodation will have been provided for 444,000 miners or twothirds of the worlcing population underground. — British Offieial Wireless. Hospital Benefaction EUGBY: Mr John Dewar, president of tho Gordon Hospital for Eectal Diseases in London, has rebuilt the ontire hospital at his own expense. His total benefactions to this hospital amount to £130,000. — British Offieial "Wirslttu,.