WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 January 1944, Page 5

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

INDIA’S FOOD SUPPLIES

RUGBY. January 20

When asked in the Commons for a statement on the present condition of the famine areas in India. Mr Amery (Secretary for India) said that as a result of the relief measures and the excellent Winter rice crop there was no general food shortage in Bengal. The .situation remained anxious, as the procurement and distribution of supplies was difficult. In the Deccan scarcity conditions had practically disappeared. In the Province of Travancore the position was not yet satisfactory. LIABLE TO SERVICE RUGBY, January 20. The King has approved regulations making liable to be called up British subjects from outside Great Britain who have been in Britain for three months. Hitherto they did not become liable until they had been in Britain for at least two years, and, not at all so long as they, were in Britain for only a temporary purpose. RAILWAY CRASHES LONDON, January 20. The Vichy radio announced that twenty were killed and 150 injured when the Toulouse-Pau express jumped the track. Sabotage wrecked an express near Tarbes, where part of the track had been removed. Three carriages were telescoped.