WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 December 1940, Page 8

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

PATRIOTIC GIFTS.

[by CABLE-—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.]

LONDON, December 27.

. The Ministry of Aircraft Production (Lord Beaverbrook) has acknowledged a gift of £7,665 towards the purchase of aircraft from the Robert Peel Spitfire Fund, subscribed for by the 'regulars and auxiliaries of the 160 police forces in England, Scotland, and Wales towards a Spitfire to be called Robert Peel.

The latest gifts towards the war effort from various parts of the colonial Empire include £5,250 from Jam'aica as a special Christmas donation to the mobile canteen fund. The governor of Northern Rhodesia has received £2OOO from Mr. Peter Hay, a farmer, of Pemb, as a loan without interest for the duration of the war'and three months after. Two further sums have been received from the British Red Cross Committee, and £ll5 from the Seychelles local war charities.

CHAPLIN’S FILM BANNED.

LONDON, December 28

Charlie Chaplin’s latest comedy, “The Great Dictator,” has been banned in Buenos Aires, at the request of the Italian Embassy. MUNITIONS FROM CANADA. LONDON, December 27. I’ The Canadian Minister for Munitions and Supplies (Mr. C. D. Howe) said to-day that Canada was rapidly becoming the chief supply source for Great Britain. Munitions, guns, tanks, and motor transport were flowing across the Atlantic in a vast and growing stream to help the Mother Country. COAL-TAR OILS FOR FUEL. > LONDON, December 28. ■' A scheme to promote the use of 'creosote and similar coal-tar oils as fuel for commercial motor vehicles is 'being introduced on January 24.