WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 July 1941, Page 6

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

MR FRASER AT DEVONPORT. LONDON, July 14. Mr Fraser, New Zealand Prime Minister, spent an hour in Devonport, shaking hands and chatting with naval ratings and the R.A.F. fibm New Zealand. Mr Fraser first took the salute at a march past. He expressed his appreciation at the smartness and efficiency shown by the forces marching past. ‘ Instead of Germans spreading fear and consternation in our hearts,” he said, “there has been aroused a deeper determination to send all of the help we can to the Mother Country, and to co-operate with the other Dominions and Allies,' so that this evil thing shall be abolished forever from the earth. LATER. Mr. Fraser, at Plymouth, attended a church parade of one thousand ratings, including 157 New Zealanders, and afterwards took the salute during the march past. He addressed the New Zealanders, shaking hands with each, and also met seven New Zealand members of the R.A.F. including Squadron-Leader Blake, D.F.C. He inspected naval docks and met the Admiralty inspector, Mr. G. Lark, brother of the New Zealsnd M.Li.C. Mr. Fraser toured the bombed areas and saw a stone commemorating trie Otry’s sailing for New Zealand m 1938. During his inspection of the Roval Marines, the band played the compositions “Haere Ra” and “Dunedin,” which the Band-major, F. J. Ricketts, composed when visiting the Dunedin Exhibition. Mr. Fraser, Mr. Jordan and Mr. Berendsen lunched with Admiral Sir Charles Forbes, and Lord and Lady Astor, before proceeding to Bristol, where they dined with .the Lord Mayor, and inspected the bombed areas. INDIAN WORKERS BOMBAY. July 14. A move to unite Indian workers was taken at a meeting of 50 Bombay trade unions when ah Anti-Fascist Trade Union Council was set up. It was announced that the council would endeavour to assist the democracies in every way against Fascism by ensuring that Indian workers maintained a constant output. DUTCH EAST INDIES. (Rec. noon). BATAVIA, July 14. The Netherlands Indies Government has informed the People’s Council that it is considering the possibility of forming an expeditionary force, depending on the international situation in the East Indies. The monthly contribution to the Netherlands Government and Army in Britain was £200,000, apart from voluntary gifts of planes.—U.P.A.