CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 67, 11 December 1937, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES

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Air-Liners' Record. RUGBY: With a journey of the Imperial Airways liuer Horatius from Croydon to Paris, a total of 250,000 passengers carried by the Heracles class of liners was reachhd. This fleet of Handley-Page craft will shortly be superseded by planes of higher speed. No passenger in any one of the Heracles class airliners has suffered injury.— British Official Wireless. Ex-Kaiser's Estates LONDON : The ex-Kaiser has summoned a family council, says the Daily Telegraph's Doorn correspondent. It is understood that the discussion will relate to important family matters and will also indirectly concern the Hesse estate. The management of the exKaiser's estates is becoming more difficult because of increasiug Government restrictions. I Destroyers for Brazil. RUGBY: A shipping compauy of Cowes, lsle of Wight, announces that it has> received an order from the Brazilian Government for two destroyers of the same type as the British H class, with a speed of 35J knots--British Official Wireless. Commons Adjournment. RUGBY: The House of Commons will rise for the Christmas adjournment on December 23, until January 1. — British Official Wireless. B.B.C. Television. RUGBY: An annoucement was made in the House of Commons that a supplementary estimate would be presented after the Christmas adjournment in connection with the increased percentage of net wireless licence ,xevenue to be alloeated to the British Broadcasting Corporation in the current year on account of the television service. — British Official Wireless. British Bank Advances JtUGBY: A healthy feature of the country's finances is the steady rise over the past year in the total of bank advances — an improvemeDt which the last monthly statement of the London clegring banks shows is continuing. At £986,210,000 the November average of advances of 11 London clearing banks compares with £890,224,000 a year ago. In 1929 the £1,000,000,000 mark was passed, but the final quarter of 1933 advances had dropped well below £750,000,000. — British Official Wireless. Prisoners of War. LONDON: The Daily Mail says that according to Paul Rodolf, an Austrian soldier who escaped from a Russian labour camp^ a lost army of 70,000 prisoners in the Great War, mostly Slavs. Austrians, and Hungarians whose families abandoned hope years ago, exists in scattered, reinote parts of Siberia and outer Mongolia. Maoy have remarried and settled down, losiug touch with their former as'sociation s.