WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 May 1944, Page 3

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

ARREST’S IpTtHE ARGENTINE

NEW YORK, May 21. The Monte Video (Uruguay) correspondent of the New York “Her-ald-Tribune” says: The Argentine Government arrested many army officers and political leaders to forestall a revolution which has allegedly been scheduled for May 25, Argentina’s independence day. The Government has not permitted publication of news of the arrests which are estimated as being as many as a thousand. SWEDEN AND GERMANY NEW YORK, May 20. The United States is seriously considering black-listing all Swedish firms with American connections, unless Sweden cuts off ballbearing shipments to Germany, says the “Now York Times’s” Washington correspondent. This would be the next move in the grand strategy to shut off the German ballbearing supply which began with file heavy bombardment of the German ballbearing venire, Schweinfurt. American olliuials have learned that since the bombardment, Swedish shipments of ballbearings to Germany increased from twelve per cent, of the total German supplies to seventy per com. The American-Swedish News Agency reported from Stockholm today that the Swedes feel caught between American economic pressure and nearby German military strength. Apprehension was created first by the “map affair,” in wheih the Germans arranged for Swedes to find newlyprinted German war maps of Sweden in the hope of searing the Swedes and preventing their granting concessions to the Allies, secondly, the reported German military concentrations along the Swedish-Finnish frontier and various Bothnia and Baltic ports.

PLANE CRASH VICTIMS. LONDON. May 21. General Franco has sent a telegram to Hi's Majesty saying that Mr. Yencken’s personal qualities earned for him the warmest regards during his time in Spain. “The Times’s” Madrid correspondent reports that a decree signed by Franco has been gazetted recording sorrow at the decease of the Minister Plenipotentiary of‘His Britannic Majesty and bearing 'witness to the friendly sentiments towards the nation he so worthily represented. WAR’S DURATION OTTAWA, May 22. The war against both Germany and Japan would last longer l than most people realised, said Mr. Mackenzie King, the Canadian Prime Minister, who has arrived by air from London after attending the Prime Ministers’ conference. However, great events were pending that would ensure victory for the United Nations, he said,