WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 December 1940, Page 7

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

REFUGEES’ FACTORY [BY CABLE. —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, December 4. M. Pierlot attended the opening of the first English factory manned entirely by refugees, namely a diamondcutting, finishing and polishing concern, the first ever started in London, employing nearly a hundred and fifty skilled workers from Belgium and Holland. The factory’s output of diamonds will at least be £35,000 a week. PRESS AND CHRISTMAS. LONDON, December 5. The London morning and evening papers are not publishing on Christmas Day, unless developments of national importance warrant it. ANOTHER BLOC. LONDON, December 5. The newspapers are proclaiming the desirability of a Portuguese-Span-ish-Brazilian bloc, and suggesting Spanish participation in the Portuguese centenary as a proof of cordial relations. They add that when danger is near the countries can combine for their common defence. QUISLING ON THE MAT.

STOCKHOLM, December 4. Major Quisling, the leader of the Norwegian Nazis, has gone to Berlin. It is' persistently reported from Norway that the Germans are dissatisfied with Major Quisling’s administration and are considering his replacement. I COMPULSORY LOAN. i OTTAWA, December 4. i Mr. M. J. Coldwell, in the Canadian House of Commons, proposed that Canada follow New Zealand’s example, and raise a compulsory inter-est-free loan, based on ability to pay. j ! FOOD PRODUCTION. ’ ’ ■ ’I j (Received December 6, 9.5 a.m.) j LONDON, December 5. f The Ministry of Agriculture has ' decreed that a glasshouse florist must . halve the sowing of flowers in 1941, or devote the whole glass to food production in Summer, and then use the glass as he wishes in Winter. I Another decree makes ration cards necessary for the feeding of domestic ‘ fowls, of which a census is being i taken. ! ) CHOLERA VICTIMS I i LONDON, December 5. j “Jews in the concentration camp 'at Brussels are forced to dig graves ; with their hands, and bury their fellow prisoners who have died of chol- ■ era,” said Dr. Rene Hartoga, a ! Jewish refugee. He was one of those compelled to dig graves. Cholera wined out five hundred of fifteen hui*dred prisoners.