WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 April 1943, Page 6

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

MAPS OF SWEDEN LONDON, April 8. A Swedish official confiscated “highly detailed” maps of Norway and Sweden found in a German freight car travelling through Sweden en route to Germany irom Finland. The Swedish Foreign Office has ordered a lull inquiry. ROYAL”TOUR RUGBY, April 7. The King and Queen made an extensive tour of the Tyneside to-day, including two shipyards and a large electrical works. At one shipyard three employees whose services aggregated 167 years were presented to Their Majesties. Several others presented had over 50 years’ service each. The tour ended with a visit to a big war factory where Their Majesties saw some of the latest British •weapons and equipment.

RUGBY, April 8

During a tour of northern shipyards the King and Queen were shown at Sutherland the latest methods of saving time in the construction of merchantmen. Their Majesties talked and shook hands with workers who cheered the Royal visitors. A worker’s representative told their Majesties: “We are all a happy family here.”

CANADA AND ALLIES

RUGBY, April 8

Major-General George P. Vanier, the new Canadian Minister Designate to the Allied Governments in the united Kingdom, and Canadian representative to the French National Committee, explaining his appointment in London, said a Canadian Legation would soon be established in London. In Canada at present there were Mini ito-rs: of seven occupied countries of Europe. Canada had decided to appoint one Minister accredited to ail tl.esc Govern merits in Brits in. His appointment us representative to the Frene’’: National Committee was Icr the purpose of discussing all questions relating to

More reinf<.ax.emenh; for the Canadian Army arrived safely at a British port. They included infantry, armoured corps, artillery, and all other branches and services of the Canadian Army. “MECHANICAL BRAIN”

NEW YORK, April 9. A huge mechanical “brain” which .solves in minutes complex mathematical oroblems which take experts months and even years is used at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for solution of vital war problems. The machine is the first of the kind in the world. It cost more than 130,000 dollars. It is described as “a differential analyser.” It solves obscure differential equations, and bears the same relationship to scientific analysis that a computing machine does to arithmetical work. It was financed by the Rockefeller Foundation, whose

president Raymond Fosdick, said that Hitler’s atrocities had exiled so many notable mathematical scholars, that the United States became the works capital of this science which is very essential to war.