WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 September 1943, Page 6

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

DIAMONDS SHIPMENT. JOHANNESBURG, September .26. About three tons of industrial diamonds, totalling 1 l»,0B0 corms, and valued at more than ~o,aoo,o'Jo sterling have been transferred to Lanficle. The .shipments, which were sent at the request of Alued, governments, are' believed to have been, the largest and most valuable in the history of the industry. DUTCH KILL. NAZIS. LONDON, Sent ember 25. Patriots in Holland have hilled at least 1000 Dutch Nazis, said. me Dutch Nazi leader, Mussert, during a funeral oration at the graveside ot Kerlih, who was police chief at Utrecht. “To-day it is Kerlin. . Tomorrow it may be us,” declared Mussert. RADIOS CONFISCATED LONDON,’ September 25. The Berlin correspondent of hie Stockholm newspaper “Allahanda” says that, owing to the increasing listening to foreign broadcasts, Himmler is confiscating all German radio sets. INDIAN HEROES AT PALACE RUGBY, September. 26. The King held an open-air investiture in the inner quadrangle of Buckingham Palace, at which he decorated Subadar Lai Bahadur T'hapa, of the First and Second Ghurka Rifles, with the V.C. The King and Queen walked slowly down the line of Indian soldiers, ‘ shaking hands and chatting with each man in turn. Then the King pinned the bronze cross on the "tunic of the Ghurka hero. Afterwards, the King pxesented other decorations won while the Fourth Indian Division was fighting in North Africa.

FAMINE IN BENGAL

LONDON, Sept. 25

The Calcutta Corporation is discussing the quicker disposal of corpses of persons dying of starvation, says Router’s Calcutta correspondent. A total of 24-1 was admitted to Calcutta hospitals yesterday. Fifty died. Seventy-five died in Dacca last week, and more (han 100 died in Chandpir between September 1 and September 20. Throughout Bengal 2442 relief kil- - are feeding 82,000 people. More than 90,000 received free food in Calcutta during the week ended September 11.