OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 51, 24 November 1941, Page 7

OVERSEAS NEWS IN BRIEF

Salvaged Material. It is estimated by the Ministry ot Home Security that the value of material salvaged from bombed sites in London exceeds £1,000,000. More than 90,000,000 bricks have already been salvaged. The salvage of steel yielded from bombed sites in the city lias averaged some 12,000 tons a week for tiie past six weeks.

U.S. Commissioner. Mr. Tlio.mas Wilson, the first United .States Commissioner to India, lias presented his credentials to the Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow.

Anglo-U.S. Co-operation. : Washington message says the United States has agreed to underwrite Britain’s financial obligations to Iceland amounting to about -0,000,000 dollars a year. The agreement provides for payment in dollars for Iceland’s fish and iishoil, the chief export products, which will be shipped direct to England and charged to Britain under lend-lease.

Food For Britain. , The Minister of Agriculture, Mr. J. G Gardiner, told dairy farmers that it was estimated that Canada was spending more than 100,000,000 dollars "in 1941 to assist .making food cheap to British consumers. He said that in two years of war Canadian funnels hud contributed an additional 100,000,000 dollars to British consumers by accepting prices below a reasonable market level for their produce.