WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 July 1941, Page 10

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

U.S.A. NURSES ? RUGBY, July 16. s “Thank God vou are safe, and thanks for the generous impulses • which brought you all over here,” • Mr. Churchill declared when at No 10 • Downing Street he received 15 American Red Cross nurses, among I whom were 11 survivors of the torpedoed ship Maasdam. Mr. Church--1 ill was accompanied by Mr. J. C. Winant, the United States Ambassai dor to Britain. The party of nurses was headed by Dr. John E. Gordon, • director of the Harvard Red Cross - Field Unit—a full American hospital which will shortly be completed - in the south-west of England, r 5 ESPIONAGE TRIAL - SOFIA, July 16. A military tribunal sentenced to - death - four former Russian officers | accused of spying for Britain. A fifth committed suicide while awaiting _ trial. INDIAN CONSTITUTION. ' (Rec. 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, July 16. ■! The Government is expected to at- • tempt to secure India’s fullest co- • operation in the war effort, with ' new proposals for the settling of the differences between sections of In--1 dian opinion, the “Daily Herald’s” (political correspondent says. It is expected that a more broadly based I Executive Council will be offered to | India. It would have comprehensive (powers, and would contain many I features of a national government. It j is believed that such proposals should icreate an immediate improvement in j the situation in India.—U.P.A. ! BRITAIN’S~TREATIES. RUGBY, July 16. Asked in the Commons if he would publish the treaties of alliance between Britain and her Allies, the Foreign Secretary (Mr. Eden) said that the only treaty of alliance is the Anglo-Polish agreement, regarding mutual assistance, signed in London on August 25. 1939, and already published. Mr. Eden added: “It, however, will be recalled that, in the resolution unanimously adopted at the inter-Allied meeting held in London • on June 12, the Governments represented were described as being en- 1 gaged together in the fight against aggression, and they agreed to continue the struggle against the German ‘ or Italian aggressor until victory is won, and mutually to assist each 1 other in the struggle to the utmost 1 of their respective capacities. No formal treaties are indeed necessary 1 to express the close ties of friend- ’ ship which bind the Allied peoples, and which are finding expression in deeds rather than words.”—B.O.W.

PETROL FOR SPAIN. MADRID, July 16. The British Ambassador to Spain (Sir Samuel Hoare) has signed an agreement fixing the petrol quota for Spain for the third quarter of the vear. The quota has been increased to assist the harvest. Under the agreement Spain will always have a v "iplv for two and a~half months in hand. U.S.A. MISSION. ~RUGBY, July 16. A party of American officials will arrive in London shortly. They have been sen tto England by Mr'. La Guardia, United States Director of Civilian Defence, as a Board of municipal officials, to observe British civilian defence work.—B.O.W. SOLDI-ER’S”ORAL WILL. (Rec. 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, July IG. A Probate Court Judge has decided that a soldier’s orar will is legal. The Judge granted letters of administration tp the wife of a soldier who died from injuries received in an air-raid in England. Evidence was given that the soldier tolod a comrade: “I wish my wife to have all I’ve got, in case I get killed.”—U.P.A.