MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20727, 10 February 1939, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

TROUBLE IN BURMA POLICE AND TROOPS REINFORCED (Independent Cable) RANGOON, Feb. 8 Reinforced troops and policemen are standing by in Mandalay, where trouble is feared in connection with strikes. A meeting of elders, who are supporting the student hunger strikers, advocated a national hunger strike, to be enforced by priests, unless the Government grants the strikers’ demands. CLAIMS TO ANTARCTICA WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 An official of the State Department, commenting on the despatch from Australia that the Commonwealth would dispute Mr Lincoln Ellsworth’s claims to Antarctic territory, said no word had been received from him, and until his report arrived and was carefully checked, no action could be taken. AERIAL ENTERPRISES LONDON, Feb. 8 It Is hoped to carry out experimental flights across the South Atlantic in connection with the projected British air mail service before the end of the present year. The organisation required for the service is now’ being discussed by the Air Ministry with Imperial Airways, Limited, and British Airways.* PARIS, Feb. 8 Two seaplanes and three land aeroplanes will maintain France’s Bord-eaux-New York trans-Atlantic service, to be started in May. No passengers or mails will be carried on the trial trips. BRITISH AEROPLANES LONDON, Feb. 8 British aero-engines of the Gipsy type have been sold to 28 countries. Variable pitch air-screws of British manufacture were sold in 1938 to Holland, Poland, Sweden, Belgium, Yugoslavia and Turkey. These facts were announced by the chairman of the De Havilland Company at the annual meeting. CONGRESS ON LEISURE LONDON, Feb. 8 A World Congress for Leisure and Recreation will be held at Stockholm in the summer of 1940, a week before the Olympic Games take place in Finland.