CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24353, 4 September 1944, Page 6

CABLE NEWS IN BRIEF

Germans Surrender to Turks.—lndicating the degeneration of . German morale in Greece, it .is officially announced in Cairo that 194 German soldiers, under the command of a major, who were guarding railway bridges near, the Turkish-Greek frontier, surrendered to Turkish frontier guards.— London, Sept. 1. ' Convicts Honoured by Army.—The United States Army has honoured 77 convicts in New Jersey state, prison with certificates because they volunteered to be injected . with sandfly fever, dengue fever, and other tropical fevers to aid the Medical Corps to i learn how .to treat the diseases. The principal warden paid a tribute to the men for their unselfish submission for six months’ experiments which resulted in important medical discoveries.—New York, Sept. I.'

Money for Troops in Belgium,—The Allied forces entering Belgium will be provided with money placed at their disposal by the Belgian Government, which has opened :a credit account in their favour with the Belgian National Bank. Besides banknotes brought over in 1940, new notes have been printed recently and coins struck in England. —(B.O.WJ, Rugby, September. 2. Polish Ministers See Mr Churchill.— The Prime Minister t?f Poland (Mr Mikolajczyk) and . 'the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Mr Homer) were received on Friday by Mr Churchill at No. 10 Downing Street.— Rugby, September 2. Sabotage by Norwegian Patriots.— Norwegian patriots caused heavy damage to the Nordic Aluminium Industries factory at Holmestrand. At night the patriots cut through the barbed wire surrounding the works.. overcame two watchmen and 10 and set explosive charges. All the electrical equipment of. the factory was blown up.—Rugby, September 2. Japanese Army Changes.—The Tokyo radio has announced that General Naosaburo Okabe. former president of the Military Staff College and former Japanese military attache in Poland, has succeeded General Neiji Okamura as supreme commander of the Japanese army in north China.— New York, Sept. 1. NO GERMAN PEACE OFFERS WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. The Secretary of' State (Mr Cqrdell Hull), speaking at a press conference, .said that no surrender or peace offer had ever been received from Germany, and no really substantial peace feelers had come from Hungary, RAID ON BONINS REPORTED (Rec. 8 p.m.) NEW YORK. Sept. 2. TTie Tokyo radio says that 100 enemy carrier-based aeroplanes bombed Chichi Jima and Iwo Jima, in the Bonin Islands, on Friday morning. American warships shelled Chichi Jima.