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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 2, 1939.

EMPIRE NEWS

MEDICAL DEGREES

COMPLAINT

Calcutta.

The Univerally of Calcutta bas mado representations about the sbe years' breach in the recognition of lis medical degrees by the General Council of Medical Education in; Britain,

Owlax to difculties and disagree- ments about Inspection and curriculs, the General Council gave up recog- nition of medical degrees obtained in India. After reconsideration recogni- Hon was resumed,

For some reason, however, recogni- tion of the University of Calcutta degrees, which was interrupted in 1930, was resumed only with effect from 1936, so that men who qualified in Calcutta between those years are not admissible to the British register. SOUTH RHODESIA

RECORD EXPORTS OF PRIMARY PRODUCTS

Salisbury.

The general recession in world trade scarcely affected Southern Rhodesia in 1038. There were record exports of the main primary pro- ducta: Gold 20,710,000, tobacco £1,349,000, and asbestos £1,207,000. The total of exports at £11,883,000 was down by 100,000 as compared with 1937, owing to the decline in the American demand for chrome.

The imports at £9,750,000 showed an increase of nearly £1,200,000 over 1037. The favourable balance payments on trading account was thus £2,124,000.

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The share of British countries in all Imports rose from about 70 per cent. in 1937 to nearly 75 per cent, in 1938. Great Britain, with £4,663,000 worth, supplied 49 per cent, of the imports. SOUTH AFRICA

BILL TO REGULATE THE PRESS

Cape Town.

A bill to regulate certain aspects of newpaper activity has been draft- ed by the Prime Minister's depart- merit and will be introduced by the Government at the Parliamentary session,

Such a bill was foreshadowed at several United party congresses last year. The Transvaal Congress adopted a resolution asking for legis- Intion "to prohibit the publication of untruths by the Press and the false interpretation to the public of laws passed by Parliament."

CANADA

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COMMON DEFENCE AGAINST FASCISM

Ottawa.

Mr. W. D. Herridge, the former Canadian Minister in Washington, "NO

suid in an address recently: single democracy can stand against a world of Fascism The British Empire cannot, The United States

cannot."

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urged effective co-operation between all democracies western hemisphere under the leadership of the United States. Canada, he said, could no longer claim the rights and benefits of de- mocracy and at the same time seek to live in planetary isolation from existing dangers and responsibilities. KENYA

· GOVERNOR'S RETURN FROM SUDAN

Mombasa.

The Governor, Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, and Lady Brooke-Popham arrived by the liner Gloucester Castle recently. They were given an official recepilon.

Sir Robert Brooke-Popham has been on a visit to the Sudan. flew to Khartoum in an R.A.F. 'plane and afterwards travelled by train to Port Sudan to join the liner for Mombasa.

BRITISH GUIANA

LABOUR UNSETTLED BY COMMISSION

Georgetown.

The recent visit of the Royal Com- mission on labour conditions in the, West Indies has had an "unsettling -effect" on labour, in the opinion of the acting police commissioner, Mr. Murtland,

Mr. Murtland made this statement before the Commission which is in- quiring into the riots at the Leonora sugar plantation. Demerara, February,

Previously the Labour Com- missioner, Mr. Laing, had, givea evidence of 37 stoppages during 1939, at a cost to sugar. labourers of £18,000 in wages.

No Worries, Happy At 100

Peterboro, N. H.

Mrs. Mary Earl, who has passed the 100-year mark, is contented with life. "Worry gets you nothing. I'm per- fectly happy. I have two teeth left.

and they meet," she said.

Family Beset, 13 of 18 III

Middlefield, O. Thirteen of Mr. and Mrs. Abe Weaver's 18 children have been con- fined to their beds with scarlet fever which has closed schools here.

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