WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 June 1940, Page 8

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

I ASHANTI SUPPORT. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] RUGBY, June 11. Interesting comment on the African view of Nazi conduct has recently been made by the King of the Ashanti, a native people which rose against the British in 1900. In a speech declaring his support of the Allies, the King of the Ashanti compares .the conduct of the British after. 1 that rising with that of the contemporary Nazis. “After the 1900 rising,” he said, “our women and children were not tortured, nor were our refugees machine-gunned or chased by the English. But are we not aware of the excruciating tortures which the German Jews and the people, of Czechoslovakia, Poland, Holland, and Denmark are receiving at the hands of the Germans?” B.E.F. AWARDS. (Received June 13, 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, June 12. Five members of the B.E.F. have been awarded the D. 5.0., 11 the Military Cross, seven the D.C.M., and eight the Military Medal. A few are awards for gallantry on patrol work, before the invasion of the Low Countries, but the majority concern the operations in Northern France and Belgium. NAZI MEASURE REJECTED BUDAPEST, June 12. Cries of “traitors” greeted the introducers of the Nazi Party’s Bill in the Hungarian Parliament, seeking semiautomonous status for the Hungarian minority groups, the largest of which is the German. The bill was rejected by 200 votes to 21. QUISLING LOSES 0.8. E. LONDON, June 12. Mr Butler, in the Commons, announced that Major Quisling has been removed from the Ordei’ of the British Empire. Mr Butler stated that Major Quisling was appointed an Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire on November 22, 1929, in recognition services rendered to Britain in connection with the protection of British interests in the Soviet Union, while he was serving on. the staff of the Norwegian Legation at Moscow. MISCELLANEOUS. LONDON, June 12. A decree issued 1 in. Tirana announced that Albania considered’ herself at war against Britain and France. Crowds at Lourenco Marques staged pro-Allied demonstrations outside the British and French Consulates. A batch of evacuees from Malta and Gibraltar has arrived: in Englaind 1 . They include 900 wives and children o£ soldiers and sailors, and also Spanish women who had never seen England. STOCKHOLM, June 12. A German warship stopped the Estonia, en route from Tallinn to Stockholm, and took off 120 bags of mail from England and France. ROME, June 12. It is officially announced that Italy has broken off diplomatic relations with the Governments of Belgium, Holland, Norway, and Poland. RUGBY, June 12.

On the entry of Italy into the war, a Royal proclamation gives a list of articles which will be treated as contraband. The list is practically identical with that which applies to Germany.