WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 May 1944, Page 5

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

GANDHI AND GOVT. LONDON, May 15. “Mr. Gandhi is contemplating coming to ' terms with the Government and the Moslem League,” says the “Daily Telegraph.” “The agreement with the Moslems would be on the basis of self-determination for Moslem India. The agreement with the Government would be conditional on an unequivocal declaration that India would be free after the war. An early meeting of Mr. Gandhi and Mr. Jinnah, president of the Moslem League, is expected." SUSSEX TOWN SHELLED. LONDON, May 14. “For nearly two hours to-day, shells from British artillery, which were overshooting their targets from the downs, crashed into the Sussex market town of Steyning, near Brighton, while wardens and police frantically tried to contact the gunners,” says the “Daily Mail.” “Two persons 'were killed and three wounded and property was damaged before the shelling ceased. One shell fell in the gasworks, but failed to explode." WOMAN SENTENCED. LONDON. May 14. The- Germans announced the firs! death sentence on a woman in Denmark, says "The Times’s” Stockholm correspondent. She is stated to be British born, Mrs. Monica Emily Wichlicld, formerly Ma.ssy Beresford, granddaughter of the first Baron Dunlealh" She was born in London in 1894. She is charged with, “activity on behalf of the enemy.” 'The “Telegraph” says the sentence was altered to a term of imprisonment as hostage. FRENCH ADMIRAL LONDON, May 15. Vice-Admiral ' Derrien has refused to appeal against the sentence of life imprisonment for handing over units of the French Fleet on the ground that an appeal would only be delaying action, says Reuter’s Algiers correrspondent.

FRANCE AND ALLIES. LONDON. May 16. The renaming of the French Committee and the repudiation of the Dar-lan-Clark agreement may have international complications, says the Algiers correspondent of “The Times.” The renaming resolution was not debated. The proposer simply argued that the previous title no longer corresponded with the sentiments expressed. bv the French people inside and. outside France, and that the new title was in conformity with what the French forces and the French Empire represented in the United Nations’ war effort. ALGIERS. May 16. The French Ministry of Information announced the abolition of the political and diplomatic censorship for the duration. EXCHANGE "OF PRISONERS LONDON. May 16. The Spanish Telegraph Agency states that more than nine hundred Allied war prisoners, 814 of whom are British and the remainder American, are expected to arrive at Barcelona to-morrow from Marseilles, aboard the Italian ship Gradisca, under the German flag. They will be exchanged for .375 German prisoners from Britain, 33 from the United States and a number of women and children of German nationality aboard the Swedish ship Gripsholm, which is expected to arrive on Thursday. The British prisoners include 101 stretcher cases. LABOURDISCIPLINE (Recd. 1 p.m.) LONDON. May 16. A meeting of the Labour leaders at the Commons, after 21 hours’ discussion passed a resolution deploring that Mr. Aneurin Bevan was deliberately flouting party decisions thereby causing disunity and calling on him to give an assurance in writing within seven days, that he will in future abide by the party’s standingorders. Failing this assurance it is recommended that he be excluded from the party.