HIGHLIGHTS IN TO-DAY’S NEWS FROM OVERSEAS
AUSTRALIAN ATTACK ON NEW ZEALAND’S . TOURIST TRADE. DIRECT SERVICE FROM SYDNEY TO UNITED STATES PREMIER STEVENS SUGGESTS CUTTING OUT DOMINION PORTS. (Press Association—Copyright.) r , Received 1 p.m. j SYDNEY, To-day. Premier Stevens, in a speech at Katoomba, advocated a direcf * shipping service from Sydney to the United States, eliminating the present calls at New Zealand poits. Mr. Stevens said he returned from abroad more than ever convinced of the value of Australia’s tourist trade, adding: “I think people would come here more rezdily if ships came across the Pacific direct from Fiji, cutitng out the triangular trip to New Zealand.” ~ , , ’ ZAHAROFF REMAINS “ MYSTERY MAN ” EVEN IN DEATH.
(Press Association—Copyright.) Received 11.30 a.m. To-day. --p Ms PARIS, November 29. ’ Ihe mystery surrounding the armaments “king,” Sir Basil Zaharoff, whose death occurred yesterday, continued to the grave. i ... ‘U £, . - • ■ -'a A*- ~~ >- l r ;JT® (f A motor hearse bearing the body arrived at his country seat, Balincourt, from Monte Carlo, where he died, shortly after midnight, when the gates were closed and the grounds guarded by armed keepers and police. A large number of journalist and photographers were refused admissjon, except, one journalist with a wreath, who was admitted onlv-after the burial. ' ' ' r ‘ f - 1 ■ . ' » ” „ * 1 • I ■WR f p.iivU ' • J FF SOVIET CONTINUES TO BOAST OF MARTIAL STRENGTH. ,
(Press Association—-Copyright.) Received Noon To-day. t i MOSCOW, November 29. The Soviet continued boasting of war measures when the Assistant Chief of the Air Force, M. Khripin, at the All Union . Congress, said: ”I he Soviet possesses seven thousand ’planes, of which more than two thousand are front-line machines, exceeding (Germany both in number and quality. Hundreds of Soviet planes have a speed of 280 miles an hour, while in the near future they will have a speed of 375 m.p.h.”
CLERGYMAN TAKES UP CUDGELS FOR MRS. FREER. 1 (Press Association— Copyright.) Received 1 p.m. SYDNEY, To-day. The Rev. T. E. Ruth, at the Pitt Street Congregational Church, referring to Mrs. Freer’s exclusion from Australia, sajd the Government at its own expense should bring her back from New Zealand and offer her all the resources of British law and justice to vindicate her honour if she could.
FOUR HUNDRED CASUALTIES IN OVIEDO FIGHTING. (Press Associati on —Copyright.). Received 1 1.30 a.m. To-day. LONDON, November 29 A communique issued at Avila claims that there were four hundred casualties in the Oviedo fighting. General- Dellano in a broadcast from Seville said he hoped the British Parliamentary party would inspect the martyred towns of Andulasia and see the train of death and destruction left by the Communists. General Dellano offered an escort for the tour of Insurgent territory if the delegation is official, not private.
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