CABLE BREVITIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 77, 23 December 1937, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES

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Cruiser Named "Fiji" LONDON: One of the new cruisers which have been order ed for the British navy will be named Fiji. Butter at 114/LONDON : The butter market is steady. Ohoicest salted New Zealand is quoted at 114/-; Australian, 113/-. Unealted is at a shilling premium. Fire on Cruiser MALTA: The cruiser H.M.S. Aretliusa reports a fire aboard eight miles from the breakwater. She is returning to Malta. No-one has been injured. U.S. Labour War WASHINGTON; Feace conferences between the American Federation of Labour and the Committee of Industrial Organisation tollapsed after ten weeks' negotiation's. Ambassador's Death RUGBY: A memorial service will be hold on Thursday in Westminster Abbej, for the late Ambassador for tho United States, Mr R. W. Bingham. — British Official Wireless. Temple ' for Vatican City TOKIO; Artists and sldlled workers are going to Eome to build a Japanese temple modelled on the Imperial Temples at Kyoto and Nagoya, in Yatican City. The temple is a gift. from the Catholics of Japan. Scientists Adrift MOSCOW: The Soviet Koi... i'olar scientists are rapidly drifting southwards towards the open Atlantic. Despite their proximity to the Greenland coast, no anxiety is felt in Mosc.ow. The scientists wirelessed that they had sighted Greenland 's mountains

Huge Nazi Monument BERL1N : Architects are preparing plans for the worl-d's largest stone monument, in honour of the Nazi dead. The monument, which will be 984 feet high — -the same altitude as the famous Eiffel Tower m Paris — will be erected in the Tiergarten. , Flying-Boat Crashes EOME: An Italiau military flyingboat was about to take off from near the shore at Brindisi when it crashed back into the water in a similar manner to that in whieh the British air-liner Cygnus recently came to grief. The flying-boat was wrecked and three of the crew of six were killed. Light Plane Record PAE-lti : M. Andre J apy, who took oif from Istres in an attempt to break iiie own world distance record for a straight line flight in a light aeroplan-s, landed at Wadi Halfa, established a record of 2280 miles. He earried a passenger. On his previous record flight Iie

wertt eolo. Ships Collide AMSTEEDAM: After' colliding in a fog with the Ilalian steamer Coniidenza east of Terschelling, the City of Hamburg wirelessed that she was sinking. Eescue ships put out but the City of Hamburg, with two of her holds flooded, was able to reach Cuxhaven under her own power. She was escorted by the Greek steamer Holkies. British Power Output RUGBY: Sehemes co-sting £3,00(?,000 for increasing electrical output have recently been sanctioned by the Ceutral Electricity Board. The biggest of the sehemes is for the extension of the power station at Birmingham, a feature of which will be a cooling tower with a capacity of 5,000,000 gallons r»n hour. It will be the largest in the world. The scheme will cost £1,500,000 and is to be completed in ,1941. — British Official Wireless.

U.S. Congress Adjourns WASHINGTON: The special session of Congress adjourned without accomplishing the purpose for which it was ealled. A rebellion against President Eoosevelt's programme broke out shortly after the session was convened, with blocs of both Houses demanding tax relief and other measures to halt the business depression.. As a result nothing was aceomplished. Model for Germans LONDON: The Berliu cQrrespondent oi' the Daily Telegraph says that Herr Hitler has deeided to make posthumous reparation to Dr. Karl Peters. who was deprived of his post as Imperial Commissioner in the Kilimanjaro distiict, East Africa, in 1897, on aceount of alleged. atroeities to natives: He died in 1918. The widow is to be paid £4000 and an annual pension. The doctor is now held up to the youth of Germany as a model of a stern colonial adrdinistrator.