Genoa will shortly be the scene of the launching of a new battleship leruiser, the Littorfo, 35,000 ton sister ship of the recently launched Vit torio Veneto.
The Department of Commerce today granted Mr. James Mattern, JAmerican sped aviator, a conditional permit for a flight from the United States to the Soviet Union via the North Pole next spring.
The House of Representatives by a vole of 26 to 68 on July 27 passed and sent to the Senate a bill author-ting President Roosevelt to employ six new excculive assistants. This Was considered the only section of the President's reorganization programme likely to be enacted at the resent session of Congress.
Inspection of the contents of the Eaypllen National. Museum at Cairo revealed the startling feet that a irae umber of enigma, several thousands statuettes, had dlsover 4000 pieces of jeweller
appeared, apparently over @ number fof years. Higorous investigation has been ordered.
Mile. Sigrid Undset, the fanions Norwegian novelist, has declined the have perished, including eight child. yen, when the steamer, Jose Antunes, burned and sank in the Amazon River near Breves on July 29. Fourteen others were injured.
'A "personal letter of friendship" from Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister, to. Signor Benito Mussolini was reesived at the Foreign Office in Rome on July 31, It hasbeen forwarded to It Duce at Rimini.
A petition signed by over 1,000,000 persons has been presented to the House of Commons by the Unionist member for Central Edinburgh, Mr. J.C. M. Guy, demanding that the at which spinsters may- qualify for old age pensions should be reduced from 65 0 55 years, No less than 3,176 campers from Belgium, France, Great Britain, Hol land, Tialy, "Lucembourg, " Austrl Poland, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Germany met in Wiesbaden on 'August 2 for the annual congress of the' International Federation of Camping Clubs.
The Austrian authorities have de-
From September 1 onwards, mill-
pulsory for all students at the University of Kovno, Lithuania, The King has approved the appoint mont of Mr. Charles William Orde, 4 counsellor in the Foreign OMco, to be H.M, Minister at Riga, Tallinn and With a view to expediting its rearmament programme, the British government "has purchased the machine construction shops of the Vickers-Armstrong works at Scots-wood-on-Tyne- in Northumberlaneishire, according to "The Times" Which learns that these shops will be shortly converted into a munitions factory.
Indicating a revival in the German chemical industry, in March and April, overtime work was necessary for the first time for many months. In 1992, 172,000 people were employed in this industry, and in 1986 the number rose to 220,000. The gross value of the import "rose between 3934 and 1936 from 266,000,000 to At a meeting of all German alr-port commanders, Herr Muchlig-Hoffmann, a representative of the Air Ministry, declared that after a thorough investigation of the Hindenoffer of U.S.$50,000 from an American cided to allow the sale in Austria burg disaster at Lakehurst, U.S.
company for the right to film of Herr Adolf Hitler's book. "My the conclusion reached was that the her novel "Kristin Lavransdatter"
Struggle," as result of deliberations. possibility existed of maintaining the which" has been " translated into of the' Austro-German Cultural German airship service along similar English as a trilogy bearing the titles, Committee, according to a Vienna Hines as previously. "He also "The Garland." "The Mistress despatch to. the "Frankfurter nounced that by using the latest Husaby" and "The Cross." Papers Zeitung" which adds that the technical developments, a rotatory hhere say she declined the high offer 'Austrian authorities will only allow airship hangar would be built SRmerianicaion' ef?"het tary." Hexhibitd in each botlahop window. Lat the end of 1980. toe. single Frankfort and probably be completed
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.