DUTCH AID FOR BRITAIN

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23361, 21 June 1941, Page 12

DUTCH AID FOR BRITAIN

FEME MINISTER’S REVIEW

(8.0. W.) RUGBY, June 19. The help given to the Allied cause by the Dutch was referred to by the Netherlands Prime Minister (Professor Gerbrandy) in a speech to-day. The greater part of the Dutch Nayy had been brought to Britain, he said, and the largest cruiser, then lying half

finished in the dockyards, was towed, with workmen aboard, to a British harbour, where she had since been completed. The nation’s gold was saved as well as the merchant fleet. The democratic cause, he added, had a splendid ally in the resistance of the subjugated peoples.

TAX INCREASES IN U.S.

(Received June 20, 8.30 p.m.) v WASHINGTON, June 19. The United States House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee has tentatively approved tax increases equivalent to 2,481,000,000 dollars, virtually doubling individual income taxes, sharply increasing excess profits taxes, and levying a special excess profits tax of 10 per cent, on war contract profits.

LONG JOURNEY FROM V/-. .ROME,

TWO BRITONS REACH LISBON

LONDON, June 19. Two, members of the staff of the British-Institute in, Rome.have arrived in Lisbon a year after leaving Italy on what] they expected to be a homeward jotirney of two days. When they'originally reached Paris they were swept back by the German advance and forced to tramp 1 H&lf across France. One possessed a rug and umbrella, and the other an overcoat . and a British civilian gasmask, which repeatedly caused the French to, arrest t hhn,„.ds the , mask .suspiciously resembled’ a miniature radio. Eventually. i the mask was discarded. v For, four; weeks ; the two each night ‘made, a wigwam -with the rug,, umbrella, and overcoat. They once Narrowly escaped capture by .the Ger- . mans. by. hiding, in; a haystack. They : finally reached Marseilles, where they waited 10 months before they were allowed to go to Portugal.

AWARDS OP GEORGE MEDAL.

(Received JunV pim.) • V SYDNEY, June 20. Anjrmg a group qf three Australians awarded th* George Medal, is a--New South cosies man,. Howard Dudley {Reid, Who is believed to have lived formerly in Wellington. •The Minister for the Navy CM^'W. M. Hughes),, making the announcement, tliepe officers, were in the first group of yachtsmen ,who joined the Rotfal' Australian Naval ifblimtee^ service with small craft •'Operating s the Royal Navy Overseas. He added that the ■quality of the men who had gone from Australia had been very favourably fcommented -.on by the Admiralty.r.apd .the awards j, noW announced exempli'fltd fheyfine work Australian yachtsmen Were doing. ' , t’Mr” Reid. who is 33 Shears of age, .is ;iqi accountant in civil life.. He became last December, ~

L EIRE’S NEED OF , r i SHIPPING

''’ W m,VOTES' £102,000 (Received June 20, 10 p.m.) 'iKSf jV. , LQHDQN,; June'2o. ! aVleast 30' ships imprdar to"ehsureiespential supplies, 1 ”, deefered Mr’ Segh Jliemass,; Minister* for V.Sup-’ pjieii m tasking for'a-yote. Itifh ;ShipPingfeompany, He added that shipdollars; at ; the "of Eire was extremely Jimitdd. ;The vote was approved.

PiINT FACTORY --DEMOLISHED

1 EXPLOSION IN SYDNEY '' ■'-• SYDNEY, June-20. • An explosion, which was heard a mile a way,'demolished the peinffactory .of- Metters; Ltd., in Alexandria ■subtirb to-day; One employee, Ernest :Edwards, aged 58,; was killed when', he was);hurled, into a',large paint, con'tainer. others were injured, two :of , .j It , the explosion onto'a diyWHich flames ; were pb!servW,Vib|lbwed vby a . terrific blast. Two walls end. the ropf bf .the paint- ■ shop: were blown out.' i The oven was wrecked. Debris was. spread, over an ... area of 10Q yards. Several employees were drenched'with paint, and suffered severe shock. , t Christian Education.—The Archbishops of, York and Canterbury both i spoke in : the Church;: to-day * on the; need for Christian-education at r schools. ; The was ffl;passed: •’That this house is convinced ; of the heed ~of..true .Christian .education in' all the schools of the country ir and, gratefully, recognising the work , | ofi teachers in; all classes of ~ schools, gives -general, approval to the, state- | nysnr repently issuedby the; Arch- ' - Canterbury, Yotk, and ’ywJVptevnd-. strongly urges that, with ,‘ltneco-operation of - the various ~Christr ‘ leh,\to<nnmunlc#i- j k of 1 ‘ the education v. of parents, of teachers, and . ISP® 1 * i to - the '.points, ■ -The Archbishop of the Church -’to i^iilWe,b6-

CONSCRIPTION IN AUSTRALIA

LIVELY DEBATES IN

HOUSE

(Received June 21, 12.30 a.m.)

(U.P.A.) CANBERRA, June 20. Lively debates, reminiscent of the last war, are occurring in the Australian House of Representatives on the subject of conscription. The Prime Minister (Mr R. G. Menzies) has already said that he has no intention of .introducing it and has no mandate for it, for overseas service. The Leader of the Opposition (Mr J. Curtin) to-day reiterated that the Labour movement was irrevocably opposed to and would not accept conscription, and said that those who were advocating it were disrupting the war effort. Mr Menzies, on the adjournment of the House to-day, rebuked members who acted in an unseemly manner while informally discussing conscription. He deplored their challenges to each other to enlist. Such conduct, he said, was not only inconsistent with the dignity of the House, but was entirely out of harmony with the feelings of other members, as well as the general public^

SALE OF VISCOSE CORPORATION

REFUND TO BRITAIN REQUESTED

NEW YORK, June 20. The “New York Times” says that the Secretary for the United States Treasury (Mr Henry Morgenthau) has asked a leading New York underwriter to refund 1.000,000 dollars frern the commission of 7,800,000 dollars received from the British Government for the sale of -the British-owned American Viscose Corporation, for which the British Government received 54,000,000 dollars. It is understood that NeW' York bankers resold to the American public for 62.000,000 dollars. Mr Morgenthau feels that the resale was so successful that the British should receive at Iqast another 1,000,000 dollars.

CONFIDENCE IN VICTORY

SPEECH BY GENERAL DE GAULLE

(8.0. W.) RUGBY, June 19. General de Gaulle, in an address in Cairo on the first anniversary of the Free French movement, said; according to an agency message: “We will stand by England and Mr Churchill, who is the essence of our determination. We will continue to death or victory, and I know it will be victory. Above all, we will be faithful to the France we know. France will live.”

LONG TRIAL IN SYDNEY

TWO MEN CONVICTED OP CONSPIRACY

;. SYDNEY.* June 19. • A conspiracy trial, regarded as one of the most protracted in the history of the New South Wales Courts, involving well-known men, has ended. The case - has been before the Courts for more than two years. : Ronald Bruce, Walker., a former member of'the State Parliament, Albert Leyitus, solicitor, William , Kingsley Wicks, accountant, and Clive Oscar Airey, secretary, were charged with having conspired with 'John Woollcott Forbes and two others now in custody to defraud shareholders of the Scottish Loan and Finance Company, Ltd. Some evidence in this case was taken in NevV vZealand. rThe jury found Walker guilty,, with a strong recommendation to niercy. v Leyitus was also found guilty and Airey not guilty. Walker .was sentenced to three years’, imprisonment ' and Levitus to five years. Airey Was. acquitted and discharged. . Tnejury was unable to agree regarding Wicks, .who was remanded for retrial When called 5 upon. His bail was reduced from £IOOO to £IQO, Mri. Justice Hdlse Rogers, sentencing Walker and Levifus, said that, assumiiig' that the pjdsonera had .been led astray by a manvqleverer than themselves, the fact remained that share hawking had . become . an infamous occupation. Companies had sprung up Whose main object was- sale of their mira Shares. Suave and plausible persons who went ab.out procuring the purchase of shares, by the public were a 'menace to the community,- and mostly /they could r be""de?Cribed as cheats and robbers.'The offence of which both men were convicted Was the more infamous because it was engineered on the basis, of false bal-ance-sheets, and faked financial statements. ... .4....., ' '

BRITAIN’S WOMEN PRAISED

• ' part in war work

(8.0. W.) ’. RUGBY, June 19i Mrs John Winant,, wife of the American . Ambassador, addressing the Forum Club at a lunch, said that she wished to express her settle of the “magnificent response of English women” to the conditions existing the blitzkrieg. She paid a high tribute to the work which women were doing in (all spheres; of activity, especially'regarding the ceaseless day to day hard work in occupations which had now advanced: far beyond any interest of novelty/’ and had become, an absolutely essential part. of. the nation’s war .effort.*

A RESCUE DURING THE

GREEK CAMPAIGN

(8.0. W.) .RUGBY, June 19. . The story of two air gunners who stuck to their Sunderland though she was on Are and sinking.fast, is already among the annals of gallant deeds performed in the , last, days,of .the battle of Greece. . How the air gunners imade their escape has: now ■been ; told. Both had bn their “Mae Wests”—the Royal Air Force life-saving jacket. Ope could not swim.' “Jump* in ,'andTll tow you to , shore," the swimmer told his colleague. ; The non-swimmer jumped- in and lay face down on the surface of . the water. His companion raced to the rescue, turned him on his back, and dragged him ashore. He asked why he had not 'lifted his head above the water. “Well,” replied the other, “I thought I was on the bottom, and I was waiting to come up.” / AXIS SfflP TAKEN * OVER RY U.S. WASHINGTON. June 20. r The . United States Commissiori . hesi’ taken.' oyer: the Italian freighter Clara, the first Axis ship to be requisitioned under the new law:.