WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 April 1941, Page 11

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

MANITOBA ELECTIONS (BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] WINNIPEG, April 24. In the Manitoba general election, 38 supporters of the Liberal Progressive Coalition Government have been returned. Only two Opposition members are elected. The Government candidates are leading in 13 of the 15 remaining seats. BRITAIN AND RUSSIA RUGBY, April 24. The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Butler, in the House of Commons, said he regretted that he could not report any progress so far With negotiations for a trade agreement and a general settlement with the Soviet. Mr. Butler stated: “I need hardly say taht the British Government will always be ready, when a •favourable occasion offers, to discuss questions of common concern with the Soviet with the object of settlingall outstanding questions in a manner which would be equally beneficial to both parties.” \ Mr. Butler added that the status of the Baltic States was a question that might well be discussed.

GERMANS RECAPTURED.

TORONTO, April 25.

All the German Air Force prisoners of war, who escaped from an internment camp north-west of Ontario, have been recaptured. The last four were discovered aboard a freight train near Heron Bay. Two were taken at Medicine Hat.

CIGARETTE FAMINE

LONDON, April 24

Nottingham, which is one of the chief centres of the tobacco industry in Britain, is now without cigarettes. Notices stating “No Cigarettes,” are displayed in 90 per cent, of the tobacconists’ shops, and many of the remaining shops have shut. Some have beer, shut up permanently. Others will be closed until fresh supplies arc received.

NEWSPRINT SHORTAGE

LONDON, April 25

The “Daily Telegraph” announces that its effort- to comply with the latest newsprint restrictions by reducing its circulation by 180,000

copies, has failed. Therefore, it is publishing only a four-page paper on Saturdays, and six pages on other week-days.

8.8. C. BULLETINS.

LONDON, April 24.

There were cheers in the Commons. when Mr. Nicolsdn announced that the Government has asked the 8.8. C. to make the news broadcasts as factual as possible. “I have been aware for. some time, of the irritation caused it” the news broadcasts are not. wholly factual. The Government is endeavouring to. insure that the 8.8. C. will tsl bedtime stories at the right time, not in the middle of the news bulletins.”