CABLE MESSAGES IN BRIEF

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23132, 23 September 1940, Page 1 (Supplement)

CABLE MESSAGES IN BRIEF

Release of Belgians.—A News Agency dispatch from Brussels states that 12,000 Belgian prisoners have returned to .Belgium from Germany. Civil and military prisoners have been released from the fortress of Liege.—Rome, September 20.

Reported Atrocities in* Transylvania. —The Rumanian newspapers to-day published accounts of Hungarian atrocities in Transylvania. Some of the outrages, including the crucifixion of a priest on a church tower, are known to be true.—Bucharest, September 20. Evacuees Reach Cape Town. —The first batch of 300 evacuated English children has arrived here. —Cape Town. September 20. U.S. Census.—The United Stales census for 1940 gives the population as 131.409,880, a rise in the last 10 years of only V per cent., compared with 16.1 per cent, in the previous 10 years.— Washington, September 22. Seamen from Newfoundland. —The eleventh naval contingent from Newfoundland has arrived at a British port. It was welcomed by the Mayor and the Newfoundland Trade Commissioner.—Rugby. September 21. Concession by Vichy.—lt is officially staled in Vichy that German exports have been granted the most-favoured-nation treatment in Franco and the French Empire.—Vichy, Seplembc ■ 22.

Czechs Subscribe to Fund. —Members of the Czech Army have subscribed £3OO to the Mayor of Chester’s fighter aeroplane fund, which is now more than £4ooo.— Rugby, September 21.