GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 222, 19 August 1937, Page 10

GENERAL CABLES.

Received August 19. 9.55 a.m. j . LONDON, Aug. 18. “I am just practising for heaven,” said Envoy L. Lowe, a Newcastle Salvation Army veteran before his first flight on his 92nd birthday. His ambition now is to fly to New Zealand, where he has friends. He has been invited to do so on his hundredth birthday.

BERLIN, Aug. 18. Nazis in the Saar and the neighbouring Palatinate have been ordered to denounce Roman Catholic priests who, from the pulpit or otherwise, attack the party or the State. Germany announces a further internal loan of £56,000,000 at per cent, for the purpose of consolidating the short-term debt contracted through rearmament and economic reconstruction. This brings Germany’s total since January 1, 1935, for this purpose to £504,000.000.

An expedition is setting out to investigate the reported finding at Tromso. Norway, of field glasses, oilskins and part of a boa.t, the remains of a German scientific expedition to Spitzbergon a quarter of a century ago, when five members of the Schroeder-Stranz party disappeared after encamping on a vast iceberg, and 19 others abandoned their ship after it bad been gripped in tlie ice. Only the captain eventually returned. I BRUSSELS, Aug. 18. A monument is being erected at Dinant in honour of Antoine Sax, who designed the saxophone in 1846, and who died in 1894. TOKIO. Aug. 18. While Japan has planned to buy 800,000 bales of wool, including 500,000 from Australia in the coming season, the Asahi Shimbun forecasts that the total will be from 50,000 to 100,000 fewer, due to the Chinese situation.

BELGRADE, Aug. 18. A car containing General Nanmovitcli, Commandant of the Gendarmerie, his wife and son and six others, was run down at a level crossing by a train, which carried the car to a bridge, from which it dropped into a ravine. The commandant’s wife was killed and the others gravely injured. MELBOURNE, Aug. 19.

After .a conference with the parties in the gas strike, the Premier (Mr Dunstan) announced Jthat a deadlock had been reached. MOSCOW, Aug. IS.

Ten stratosphere ’planes, carrying hugh portraits of M. Stalin, Marshal Voroshilov and other leaders, ascended to-day as part of Russia’s fifth annual aviation festival. The ’planes were visible for miles. The newspapers predict that all the world records will be held next year by the Soviet. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 18.

An explosion occurred in the steam line in the fire room of the United States destroyer Cas6in. It is believed that four are" dead and many injured.