LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 April 1943, Page 5

LATE MESSAGES

“SHAKEN HANDS

LONDON, April 7

Gen. Giraud’s spokesman broadcasting on the Morocco radio declared: “General Giraud and General de Gaulle have shaken hands, a gesture that will bear fruit and the unity of the Empire is on the way. It’s benefits will soon become evident in the military sphere. All the French armed forces fighting the Axis will fight under a single command,”

BRITONS IN NORWAY.

LONDON, April 7

Quoting a Swedish newspaper re-, port from Oslo the “Daily Telegraph’s” Stockholm correspondent says that the British and Free Norwegians have for some time been using ships disguised as Axis merchantmen for raiding German patrol boats and shipping off the west coast of Norway. British crews have landed and have even carried out patrol activity inland, probing the strength of the German coast fortifications at several points. RETURN OF LOOT

RUGBY, April 7. Lord Maugham asked in the House of Lords to-day what steps the Government was taking in concert with the Allies in respect to the return of Axis loot to despoiled countries. He thought the one powerful deterrent would be solemnly to warn the German Government and people that for all articles destroyed or removed the Allied forces would seize in Germany articles of equal value. The Lord Chancellor, replying, said it was a case for joint deliberation and action. It was clear that there was no direct action which could be taken at the present stage to secure the return of loot. That opportunity would arise after the war.