WAR NEWS IN BRIEF
FORESTRY UNIT
LONDON, November 20. About 150 returning New Zealand and Australian Forestry tmems, oi the same units as those which .recently passed through the Uniter. States, have arrived in New York. They face a full programme of entertainment in the next lew days,, including sight-seeing tours and visits to theatres, night clubs, am! lootball games. INDIAN FOOD PROBLEMS. NEW DELHI, November 20. The Viceroy (Lord Wavell) has been conferring with the Governor.-, of ll provinces about food problems. The conference is aimed at ensuring a co-ordinated food policy throughout India, including price control and the extension of rationing in urban areas. CALCUTTA, November 21. During the week ended on Saturday 3(11 sick and’ destitute persons died in hospitals in the suburbs oi Calcutta, compared with 457 the previous week.. Hospital ’admissions were 704, compared with 740. BR IT A IN’S REPR ESENT ATI VE RUGBY, November 21. It is officially announced that Mr. William Strang has been appointed United Kingdom representative on the European Advisory Commission. His indefatigable help at every stage ol the Moscow 7 Conference, where he was, as Mr. Eden said: “The brilliant Foreign Office leader of our team” is also recognised bv the award of the K.C.M.G. ’ The British representative on tne Commission will have the* rank of ambassador. The other two members of the Commission are not yet announced.
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