WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 May 1942, Page 5

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

SPIES IN SYRIA

BEIRUT, May 21. Four spies were shot after military trial. Others were sent to prison for terms of from five to thirteen years. They were members of a spy ring operating throughout the Levant. British and Free French co-operated in hunting for them. AIRGRAPH SERVICE. RUGBY, May 21. The Postmaster-General (Mr. Morrison) announces the extension of the airgraph service, which hitherto has operated only to forces in the Middle East, to include civilian addresses in Egypt, India, Ceylon, Palestine, Transjordan, Cyprus, the Sudan, Aden, Bahrein, British Somaliland, and Seychelles. Also included are men of the Army and of the Royal Air Force serving in India, Burma, and Ceylon, and men of His Majesty’s ships serving oit the East Indies stations. Special arrangements have been made whereby the service will also be available to merchant seamen. ALLIES’ AMBASSADORS. RUGBY, May 22. The status of three more British Ministers —those ter the Court of King George of the Hellenes, the Court of the King of Jugoslavia, and

the Czechoslovak Republic—is raised to that of Ambassador. It is officially announced that the Ministers are respectively Sir M. Palairet, G. W. Rendel, and P. B. B. Nichols. Ambassadors from the three countries concerned will be similarly received at the Court of Saint James. The Jugoslav Government, at present. has no Minister at the Court of St. James. It is understood that M. Simopoulos, the present Greek Minister, will be the Greek Ambassador, and ’ M. Lobkowiez, the present Czechoslovak Minister, will be Czechoslovak Ambassador.