OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 198, 19 May 1941, Page 8

OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

A German news agency says that lire starting in a' packing factory destroyed two districts in G’oteborg. Valuable stock was lost.

During the fortnight ended May 3 the British Red Cross anil St. John war organization delivered to the Bost Office 206,736 parcels for war prisoners in Germany. This consignment consisted of food, 182.202 parcels; clothing. 1667 ; invalid comforts, 11,052; tobacco. 0205: and next-of-kin parcels, 5001.

It was announced in the Dail that the taxes on imported newspai>ers are not being imposed. The Budget introduced in the Dail on May 7 contained provision for an increase in the tax on imported newspapers from two-thirds of a penny to a penny a copy.

The Canadian Labour Minister, Mr. MeClarty, announced that unemployment insurance would operate from July 1. Three million Canadian workers would contribute 23,000,000 dollar* and the Federal Government 11,000.000 dollars a year. Benefits would range from -1 dollars S cents to 14 dollars 40 cents a week.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation announced the inauguration of an “Anzac newsletter” broadcast each Sunday fbr tlie benefit of Australian and New Zealand air trainees.

Berlin announces the death of Axel, the son of General-Field-Marshal Werner von Blomberg. He was a major on the General Staff of tlie German air force.

’Tire Sofia correspondent of tlie British United Press reports that the President of the Bulgarian National Assembly. M. Logofetoff, has resigned.

The Water Board has issued a warning that it may be impossible to guarantee the purity of London’s wirier supply after air raids and the population are advised to store a few days' emergency supply in stoppered bottles.

The Australian Minister of the Army, Mr. Spender, announced that the Commonwealth Government, at the request of the British Government, had agreed to take Italian and German war prisoners for internment. Most of them would come from the Middle East.

President Inonu of Turkey on Friday received the German Ambassador. Herr von I’apen, who brought, a friendly -letter from Herr Hitler.

Ten thousand cavalry swords have been released-by the British War Office for the Ministry of Supplies scrap metal campaign, and will be converted without delay into new munitions. Swords and scabbards sent forward under this arrangement weigh 22 1-3 tons.