MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20726, 9 February 1939, Page 13

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

CONFINED IN A FUNNEL STOWAWAY’S EXPERIENCE (United Press Assn.—Eler. Tel. Copyrlgntj SYDNEY, Feb. 8 According to the Sun, a 16-year-old Auckland youth, who stowed away in the Wanganella “ in order to see the world,” will be accommodated for the next 13 days in the Wanganella’s dummy funnel. He will have little opportunity of going beyond his novel apartment until he Is returned to New Zealand. AFRIOAN NATIONAL. ANTHEM CAPETOWN, Feb. 8 The South African National Assembly, by 88 votes to 22, rejected a Nationalist proposal that “ Die Stem van Suid Afrika ” should forthwith be be recognised as South Africa’s only national anthem. The Prime Minister. General J. B. M. Wertzog, declared his party would never allow the Afrikaans-speaking section to inflict inequality and unfairness on English-speaking South Africa. A Government amendment that time alone and not the Government could enforce such a proposal was afterward carried. SUBTERRANEAN EXPLOSIONS LONDON, Feb. 7 A series of muffled subterranean ! explosions and the top of a man-h-ole j shooting up 20 fee*, accompanied by j flames and dense smoke near the Step- ; ney electricity station, alarmed people , in that neighbourhood. Electric lights | went out and several windows were ! cracked. The police threw a cordon round the street. It was later officially stated that i the explosion was due to a faulty transformer. MURDERB IN BHANGHAI SHANGHAI. Feb. 7 Two Chinese officials, belonging to the Japanese-controlled administration, one of whom was a counsellor at the i Ministry of Finance, were assassinated j in the international Settlement. A note I pinned on the counsellor’s body said: “ You are a traitor.” JAPAN’S NAVAL PLANS TOKIO, Feb. 8 The Minister for the Navy, Admiral Yonai, announces that a supplementary budget will shortly be submitted tc the Diet for new naval construction. AERIAL PILOTS SYDNEY, Feb. 8 Air line companies in Australia report a shortage of experienced pilot! capable of operating large machines ir Australia’s commercial services. The; say it may be necessary to impor pilots of the type required for th< constantly expanding services. AMERICA’S DEBT WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 Testifying before a committee o Congress, the Secretary of the Trea sury, Mr Henry Morgenthau, prcdicte I that the national debt would read r j 50,000.000,000 dollars, and this with [ out endangering the country’s financia 3 ; structure. ; ■ The present statutory limit of th * ; debt is 45,000,000,000 dollars. FLOODS IN NATAL e 3 DURBAN. Fob. 8 i Thousands of Natal families ar i homeless, several towns arc maroone [. and crops and livestock have been des troyed as the result of widesprea floods in the past fe\vjJ.iys._ 1 “My son wishes to become a chau: - feur. What do you advise?” d , “Well personally, 1 wouldn’t star 1 in his way.”