LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 October 1944, Page 4

LATE MESSAGES

BRITISH IN NORWAY?

LONDON, October 24. It is unconfirmedly reported that British troops have landed in Norway, says the British United Press Stockholm correspondent. “INVASION” FRONTS

LONDON, October 23. Canadians cleared the last Germans from Schonijke, which is a key town of the Germans’ secondary defence line in the Scheldt pocket. The Germans have abandoned plans for mass evacuation from the Rhineland, says the Associated Press correspondent with the First United States Army. The police have been ordered to minimise all contact between the German soldiers and civilian is to prevent war weariness spreading among the troops. Germans are believed to have abandoned the mass evacuation plans because Germany lacks housing in Central Germany to provide lor 10,000,000 Rhinelanders. Allied air attacks have badly damaged many cities in Central Germany. Reuter’s correspondent with the United States Third Army says that American infantry and cavalry made further advances of 20 miles east of Nancy. The Americans forced the Germans from the village of Bezange, and also captured ground overlooking Moncourt. Patrols penetrated two miles east of Coincourt. GAMING LAWS. WELLINGTON, October 24. The view that there should be some amendment to the gaming laws was expressed in a presentment by the Grand Jury to Judge Johnston 1 at the Supreme Court, to-day. “It is abundantly clear from the convictions being made for bookmaking that the law is not being respected by the public generally,” it added. The foreman, Mr. S. S. Dean, said the law should either be tightened up or some amendment made. The Judge said he would see the recommendation was brought fo the proper authorities. He thought it was generally admitted it did want some reconsideration at any rate. SOLDIER’S~SENTENCE WELLINGTON, Oct. 24. The Minister of Defence (Mr. Jones) said to-day that the statement 1 made by counsel in Court proceedings' I at Auckland that a man had been sentenced to three years’ penal servitude for one night’s leave in Cairo was incorrect. Actually the man concerned had pleaded guilty to no fewer , than seven charges, some of which I were serious military offences. In all ’ the circumstances of the case, the sentence imposed was not harsh, the findings being justified on the evidence.