Description: I. Hanover Exportmesse: various "technical innovations" among the exhibits, including fire-engine ladder, excavator, tractors, radio equipment, vehicle engines and cars.
II. German chess championship, Bad Pyrmont (also re-enactment of a classic match using costumed people as 'pieces').
III. Sheep farming in Canada: herding (with dogs) and shearing large flocks.
IV. Nürburg-Ring: after a 10-year lay off, m/cycle and car racing returns to the Ring, watched by a 250,000 crowd.
V. "Aktuelles in Kuerze." a. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Nehru's sister, arrives in USA as Indian ambassador. b. Munich: a new rotary press for the 'Neue Zeitung'. c. A BOAC Short Solent flying boat lands on the Thames, is moored by the Tower and named 'City of London' by the Mayor.
VI. Railway workers' strike in Berlin. West Sector employees of the East-controlled railway network strike in protest at being paid in East Marks. Strike meetings at closed stations; protests and violent scuffles as Communists try to send in strike-breakers under protection of Eastern railway police. Western police move in to restore order, and Easterners withdraw.
