GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 216, 12 August 1937, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

Received August 12. 11.15 a.m. BERLIN. Aug. 11. It is officially claimed that the German unemployed have decreased by 86.000 in July and now number 563.000. There is a shortage of labour in some industries and in agriculture. VIENNA, Aug. 11. M. Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Foreign Minister, .arrived to-day from Moscow to consu't specialists regarding an internal disease. BELGRADE. Aug. 11. Hailstorms stripped orchards, flattened crops, destroyed bridges and watermills and killed and maimed sheep over a. large area of Slovenia. The damage is estimated at £3OO 000. A mountain torrent cut a bouse in half. MELBOURNE, Aug. 11. Air David Bradley, of the American Universities’ ski team, has been admitted to hospital with a tendon in his wrist severed as the result- of a car accident. ■lt is not expected that lie will be aide to compete in any ski-ing contests in Australia. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBA 7 . Amr. 11.

This month will see the eighteenth nnnivcrsnrv'of the British air passenger and freight service between London and Paris, the first of its kind in the world. Remarkable progress has been made since then, when half a crown was charged to send a letter the 250 miles between the two capitals. To-day a letter can he sent the 8000 miles from England to South Africa for three-halfpcncc.