UNRRA RELIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 75, 26 September 1944, Page 5

UNRRA RELIEF

! QUESTION OF PRECEDENCE Rec. 9 a.m. MONTREAL, Sept. 25. The policy committee of the UN.RRA conference adopted a resolution instructing the Director-General, Mr. Lehman, to give special weight and urgency to the needs of countries which have suffered most damage as a result of the war and active resistance to the enemy.

The "New York Times" correspondent says that the resolution was a compromise submitted by Britain and America in place of a Russian proposal which was interpreted in British and American circles as giving Russia the lion's share of UNRRA relief and power to determine how much food, clothing, and other supplies should go to Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Greece. -

China's delegate, Dr. T. F. Tsiang, urged the decentralisation of relief set up m the Far East to reduce travel and delay in administration.

The New Zealand delegate, Mr. Berendsen, stressed the importance of the success of UNRRA as the first step in international collaboration, and also asked for a decentralisation set-up in the Centra] Pacific and the South Pacific. He said New Zealanders hoped . they would be among the first to enter Greece in relief operations- as they wished to repay the Greek people for their courage and the aid that was so abundantly shown -when New Zealand troops fought the enemy on Grecian soil. The UNRRA committee on displaced persons has. recommended action by the council authorising UNRRA to assist in repatriating up to 2,500,000 Germans who are expected to be found living in countries such as Poland and Holland as the result of the Nazi colonisation policy.

FOR DEFENCE OF FORMOSA Rec 9 a.m. CHUNGKING, Sept. 24. The Japanese, fearing an Allied attack, have forced all native Formosans between the ages of 16 and 45 to join defence units, and have organised those between 10 and 15 years into labour corps. Japanese nationals have been evacuated from four of the principtal cities, Taihoku, Tainan, Kalunz, and Takow.

AMERICA'S WOMEN WORKERS Rec. 9 a.m. WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. A Labour Department survey shows that since Pearl Harbour -more thnn 6.500,000 women have joined the nation's working force, the number having risen from 10,000,000 to 16,500,----000. More than half the increase came from home ■