LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 December 1940, Page 8

LATE MESSAGES

DUCHESS OF WINDSOR. MAIMI, December 10. * The Duchess of Windsor successfully underwent a major dental operation. It is indicated that it may be advisable for her to remain in the hospital longer than originally expected. “SHELTER” REFRESHMENTS. LONDON, December 10. A thousand women are employed in the London Transport Board’s new shelter refreshment service. Every afternoon, six “tube refreshment specials” leave six depots, laden with seven tons of food, and overnight dispense 30,000 buns, 20,000 pieces of cake, 13,000. gallons'Of tea, and large quantities of soup, sausages and pies.

NEW ZEALAND PILOT. WELLINGTON, December 11. Pilot Officer Alan Beresford Smith, previously reported missing, is now reported a. prisoner of war and wounded. The extent is unknown. His father is J. A. Smith, Forest Flat, Eketahuna. FREE FRENCH LEADERS. VICHY, December 10. De Gaulle, Catroux, I’Arminat, and le Gentilhomme, have been deprived of French nationality. APPEAL TO ATHLETES. WELLINGTON, December 11. The New Zealand Olympic Association has received from the Greek Olympic Committee a cablegram referring to the difficult competition entered upon by the Greeks against the Italians, and asking for moral support for a campaign of propaganda, to spread in the whole of the athletic world the conviction that Greece is standing as a defender of liberty and honour. The New Zealand Committee has sent a cablegram in reply, stating that New, Zealand athletes and people are filled with admiration at Greece’s magnificent efforts, and that New Zealand athletes are doing their part,in the fight against aggression and tyranny. ‘