OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 127, 22 February 1941, Page 12

OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

Koine reports that ex-King Alfonsos condition is improving.

The Minister of Pensions stated in the House of Commons that arrangements were being made for all tirewatchers, whether paid or unpaid, whole or part time, to be enrolled in the appropriate civil defence organization under the Personal Injuries (Civilians) .Scheme. Persons so enrolled would be civil defence volunteers and would, therefore, be eligible for consideration for compensation in respect of injuries. An Admiralty communique, states that 11.M.5. Crispin, an armed auxiliary vessel of the Royal Navy, has been sunk. It is learned from Copenhagen that the largest optical instrument factory in Denmark, which was working for Germany, was destroyed by lire, a Zurich report states. The cause is unknown. The machinery and stocks were wiped out. The damage, amounts to about £250,000. Count Jacques de Sieves, American representative of the ' Free French Forces, left by clipper for London, via Lisbon, to confer with General de Gaulle. Mr. A. W. Coles, former Lord Mayor of Melbourne, and Mr. Eric McLaughlin, an Australian journalist, are also passengers.