WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 August 1943, Page 6

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

NORTH AFRICAN MEMORIALS LONDON, August 17. New Zealanders will be commemorated in a chain of memorials honouring Allied soldiers who gave their lives in North Africa, which are to be built amid the scenes of the three years’ campaigns. The wellknown Manchester architect, Mr John Hubert Worthington, is already, with sketchbook and pencil, retracing the Bth Army’s battles and marches from El Alamein to Tunis, and is planning the memorials. Mr Worthington, who has designed many fine buildings, has been commissioned to rebuild London’s blitzed Inner Temple ■ and Middle Temple. Ho looks upon the North African task—which he has undertaken as advising architect to the War Graves Commission —as the hardest of his career.

FOOD PROBLEMS

RUGBY. August 18.

The Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Food (Mr. Mabine) will shortly*visit the United States and Canada. At Washington, he will discuss the united Nations’ food plans and in Canada will speak, at various centres on Britain’s food situation. ENGLAND’S COAST CONTROL. LONDON, August 18. Bavonc-ts face pedestrians in large areas of the English south coast, where militaw/* control is very strict. From to-day all visitors are banned. A representative of the “Daily Mail’’ found barbed wire barricades across strategic points, and many road blocks. Military police checked all passers-by. Some bus services have been cut. Others have been diverted. The police are empowered to arrest unauthorised persons, who are liable to a Uno of £lOO or three months’ imifi-isonment, or both.

S. AFRICAN COAST. RUGBY, August 18. It is officially stated that of the very large number of transports convoyed round South African coasts, en route to the Middle East, none has been lost, says a Cape Town message. From ships sunk in South African waters an astonishingly high percentage of crews and passengers had been rescued. The Royal Navy and South African Naval Air Forces brought several thousand survivors to South African shores. “WINGS FOR~VICTORY.” RUGBY, August 18. Lord Kindersley announced that complete certified figures for “v\ mgs for Victory” weeks showed the total result amounted to nearly 616 million pounds, an increase of 70 millions over the Warship Weeks . total, last year. Approximately, 180 million, or 29 per cent, represented national savings.

JAPANESE ATROCITIES CHUNGKING, August .18. During fighting in the Taiheng Mountains, the Japanese pushed heavy rocks and boulders on to the Chinese prisoners, and gleefully watched them crushed to death, declared the Chungking radio. It added that in virtually every village in this region the Japanese’were guilty of cruelty and atrocities beyond the imagination of civilians.