WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 January 1941, Page 8

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

ROAD CASUALTIES. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, January 19. Deaths resulting from road accidents in December, 1940, total 1313, of which 873 occurred during the hours of darkness. While the total figure for the fatalities is slightly larger than in December, 1939, the number killed during the black-out was less. LEAFLETS FOR NORWAY. LONDON, January 20. The Helsinki correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says leaflets dropped by the Royal Air Force reproducing King Haakon’s Christmas broadcast have been eagerly distributed throughout Norway in spite of threats of punishment and several arrests. SPANISH SENTENCES. MADRID, January 19. The Tribunal here has sentenced in absentia, Largo Caballero (who was head of the Government for a time during the Civil War) and Martinez Barrios (who was speaker in the Republican Cortes). The sentences include the confiscation of all property, and the loss of civic rights, and also the recommendation .that they be deprived of Spanish nationality. SWEDISH TRADE. RUGBY, January 20. Halmstad Guenther said that trade with Western countries, after the developments in Denmark and Norway practically ceased. The agreements with the Soviet, Italy and Germany increased Swedish trade, but did not entirely compensate for isolation from the west.

S. AFRICAN GIFT CLUB. RUGBY, January 20. Mrs. Waterson, wile of the High Commissionei’ for South Africa, opening the Y.W.C.A. United Services Club at Portsmouth, said it was one of six clubs being provided by a gift of £lO,OOO to the Y.W.C.A. from the South African. Mayors’ Fund, to which the people of all parts of the Union contributed. She paid a tribute to the women of Britain, who stood shoulder to shoulder with the men folk, as did the women of South Africa in the early days, in defence of their homes.

NO EXPORTS FOR JAPAN. LONDON, January 20. Mr Alfred Edwards, M.P., has received a reply from Mr Churchill, in reference to the report that munition workers refused to execute orders fox 1 Japan. Mr Churchill stated the order completed was now under control of the Customs. He would be glad to know that steps had been taken to ensure the goods would not be exported. EVACUATED TO EIRE LONDON, January 20. It is estimated that 41,000 women and children, the majority of whom were Irish, have been evacuated to Eire from Britain since September, in addition to the 1728 registered for evacuation under the Eireann Government’s offer to take British refugeees.