GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 161, 7 June 1940, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

AMBASSADOR AT MOSCOW. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 5. To-night the King approved the appointment of Sir Stafford Cripps to be Ambassador at Moscow. The Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs (Mr R. A. Butler) stated in the House of Commons that no official reply had yet been received by tlie British Charge d’Affaires at Moscow, but it appeared from an official Soviet statement issued last night that the Soviet Government had accepted the appoint-' ment of Sir Stafford Cripps as Ambassador. AIRCRAFT DRIVE. LONDON, June 5. The Minister of Aircraft Production (Lord Beaverbrook) urgently appealed to workers in the aircraft industry for the fullest output this week and next. “Make no mistake, we have nothing on which to rely except our own. resources, energy and driving force,” he said. ITALIAN ACTION. The Associated Press of Great Britain’s Rome correspondent says the Government has declared a 12-mile danger zone for all ships along the whole Italian coast. WOOL MARKET. - Bradford reports that spinners are too busy with Government requirements to be interested in civilian orders. The export trade is quieter. At the South African wool sales for the week ended June 1 64’s averaged 28d. The bulk of the supply was withheld, but the greater portion was subsequently purchased by Britain at valuation. ■ NEW 1 ALLIED COMMANDER. ISTANBUL, June 5. General Mittelhauser, the new Allied Commander-in-Chief in the Levant, arrived at Ankara yesterday and was received by the Turkish President (General Inouiiu). General Mittelhauser will • meet General Gunduz, Vice-Chief of the Turkish General Staff, to-morrow. CANADIAN AIR TRAINING. OTTAWA, June 5. Mr A. Meighen, in the Senate, said Mr Duncan’s announcement amounted to the abandonment-of the air training scheme. He hoped tlie Government would realise tlie seriousness of the situation in regard to air training. Events had 'changed the picture so that the training originally scheduled in Canada must be carried out overseas.

The Deputy-Air Minister (Mr James S. Duncan) stated on Monday that fighters and bombers ready for immediate' action were being sent to Europe.' Pilots and aircrews would in future be dispatched constantly to Europe, while Canada would maintain the framework of the Empire air scheme to enable its regearing to capacity at the earliest possible moment.