AMERICAN SHIPS

Evening Star, Issue 23862, 17 April 1941, Page 8

AMERICAN SHIPS

QUESTION OF PROTECTION STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT LONDON, April 16. President Roosevelt has announced that American vessels will be protected wherever they go. This is stated to be a question of international law, and not a policy matter. He did not say whether the Red Sea was specifically implied, but it is stated that it was significant that the Red Sea had been declared open to American shipping. An announcement was made by the President that the American bases at Greenland would be restored to Denmark as soon as that State became free from dominion by another country and had its independence again. Legislation has been introduced to the Senate to provide for the requisitioning of all foreign merchant vessels in United States ports. A similar move has been begun in South American ports. NURSERY CENTRES HELP FOR EVACUATED MOTHERS (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April .15. The President of the Board of Education announced this morning that the British War Relief Society in America had provided funds to the Nursery-' School Association to pay for the services of a number of organisers to go round the country to discover where nursery centres were needed, and that American gifts had also been gratefully accepted for the provision of such centres. Grants had also been made for this purpose by the Lord Mayor’s air raid distress fund and others. The President of the Board of Education, Mr Henvald Ramsbotham, opening an exhibition of nursery ■ schools, including toys and photographs arranged by the Nursery School Association to show the sort of life now being led by young children in nursery centres, stated that in just over three months the number of centres had risen from 15 to 86, and that many more should soon be available. Nursery centres were being established with the aim of making conditions more attractive for evacuated , mothers with tiny children and for householders in reception areas. . BRITISH UNEMPLOYED DEGREASE IN FIGURES (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 15. The number of men and boys registered in the employment exchanges in Britain as wholly unemployed at March 17 was 172,660, a decrease of 44,886 compared with figures on February 10. Of this total 36,408 had been classified as unsuitable for ordinary industrial employment. The corresponding figures for women and girls at March 17 were: 191,648 wholly unemployed, of whom 2,011 have been classed as unsuitable for ordinary industrial employment, 34,015 temporarily stopped, and 919 unemployed casual workers. As compared with February 10, the numbers wholly unemployed showed a decrease of 29,781, those temporarily stopped a decrease of 10,803. and unemployed casual workers a decrease of 135.