WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 December 1942, Page 5

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

REFUGEES IN INDIA. (Rec. 11 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 22 Arrangements are being made to give 11,000 children refuge m India for the duration, says the “Telegraph’s” Delhi correspondent. Already about 1000 have made the trek across Iran and Baluchistan after drifting to South Russia from Poland. Many are still suffering from the effects of famine and disease. Poles predominate among India’s refugees, who also include many Greeks, ouieis from Iran, Somaliland, Djibuti, Aden, and include Austrians, French, Rumanians, Australians and Canadians. There are also many Anglo-Chinese, Anglo-Burmese, and Anglo-Mai ayans. Most unexpected are about 600 Maltese from a centuries’ old community in Turkey. A recent Turkish law. required them to take Turkish nationality or quit. As they were unable to return to Malta, they are temporarily settled in India. DEPORTED UNIONISTS. (Recd. Noon.) JOHANNESBURG, December 22. The South African Trades and Labour Council has cabled to the Australian Mine Workers’ Union lot support in securing a democratic trial for F. S. Maybank, and C. S. W. Maeyer, who are officials of the North Rhodesian Mme Workers Union. They were detained last October for alleged agitation and subversive activity. Maeyer has been deported to South Africa, and May’bank, who is variously described as New Zealand-born and English-born, is being deported to England. The Trades and Labour Council has also protested, to the Colonial Secretary, the British Labour Party, and the British Trades’ Union Council stating that the action against Maybank and Maeyer is an insidious attack against trade unionism, and a misuse of extraordinary poweio which threatens to lead to an industrial upheaval.

U.S.A. WARSHIPS.

NEW YORK, December 21.

At the launching of seven new United States warships at Houston (Texas), the United States Secretary of the Navy (Colonel Knox) declared that the United States after tne war must maintain control oi me seas in the interests of peace. Ihe ceremony, which lasted all day, ended with the presentation ol war bond certificates for 70.000.000 dollars, subscribed by people of Houston to pay for a new cruiser Houston to replace the original vessel lost in the Java Sea battle.