GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 164, 11 June 1940, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

HUNGARIAN MINORITIES. (United Press Association—By. Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) BUDAPEST, June 10. The Nazi Party is introducing a Bill in Parliament conferring semi-auton-omous status on the Hungarian minority groups, the largest of which is the German, numbering 500,000. AMBASSADORS RESUME POSTS. MOSCOW, June 10. It is officially stated that the Italian Ambassador in Moscow and the Soviet Ambassador in Rome are resuming their posts. RUSSO-JAPANESE PACT. MOSCOW, June 10. It is officially announced that Russia and Japan have reached an agreement on the problem oT the frontier in Manchukuo. CZECH FREEDOM.' (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 10. “Tne people of Czechoslovakia will bide their time and when they see Germany beginning to stagger under the strain of war and when they judge the moment opportune they will rise as they did in the last war and strangle their temporary masters and once more erect a free country in the centre of Europe,” said the Minister of Information (Mr Duff Cooper), broadcasting to the Czech people. i AUSTRALIAN SURPLUS CANBERRA, June 10. The largest surplus in the Commonwealth’s history—approximately £9,000,000 —is expected at the conclusion of the Government’s financial year on June 30. The Japanese Govment’s reported decision to stabilise the yen on the pound instead of the •dollar will, according to the Federal Treasurer, slightly benefit Japan and stimulate trade between Australia and Japan. i MINISTER KILLED. Received June 11, 9.10 a.m. MONTREAL, June 10. ’A message from Belleville (Ontario) states that the Defence Minister (Mr Rogers), and three members of the Creiv were killed in an aeroplane crash.