WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 December 1940, Page 8

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

WAR WEAPONS WEEK. [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] RUGBY, December 16. Braintree and Booking, in the Essex urban area of 15,000 people, raised £252,000 during war . weapons week, £ 100,000 more than the figures aimed at. The total of £13,048,470 raised in the British war savings campaign last week brings the grand total to £503,849,206. BRITAIN AND BRAZIL. (Received December 17, 11.55 a.m.) RIO DE JANIERO, December 16. It is officially announced that three cases of British action against Brazilian ships, including the Itape, have been settled satisfactorily. CHILDREN’S PARTIES. (Received December 17, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, December 16. Local billeting officers and members of the Women's Volunteer Service are arranging Christmas parties for 480,000 evacuated London children. The entertainment allowance amounts to 1/- per child. NORWAY AND NAZIS. * ) LONDON, November 16. “The Times’s” Stockholm correspondent says: The Quisling Party is having' a difficult time throughout Norway, and is unable to gain hearings at meetings. [ Schools are the centres of turmoil. dressed in Quisling uniforms are unable to go long without torn uniforms and bruised bodies. Loyal Scholars kidnap the Quislingite school boys and duck them in unsavoury ■places'.