LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 October 1944, Page 2

LATE MESSAGES

PROGRESS ON LEYTE

WASHINGTON, October 29. General MacArthur announced that Americans entered Dagami, a strongly defended Japanese junction point on Leyte. A|l organised Japanese resistance in Leyte Valley has ceased. The Americans now control twothirds of the island, and have liberated one and a-half million Filipinos on Leyte and Samar.

RUSSIAN CAPTURES

LONDON, Oct. 29.

On the Czechoslovak territory, south of Uzhorod, Russians in stubborn fighting to-day captured the town and large rail junction of Cop, says to-night’s Russian communique. Russians in Hungary west of Satumara' captured in offensive fighting Nyirkarasz and Pahos respectively 20 and 23 miles north-west and north-east of Nyiregyhaza, also Kalossemjen and Kantorjanosi respectively 18 and 10 miles south-east and east of Nyiregyhaza, also, the railstation of Mariapoc, 14 miles southeast of Nyiregyhaza. There was reconnaissance activity and local fighting at a number of points on the other sectors of the front. EX-DICTATOR ARRESTED LONDON, October 29. Greek police detained Theodore Pangelos, aged 70, the former dictator of Greece, as he was preparing to visit Gen. Maitland Wilson, says the Associated Press Athens correspondent. Pangalos denied the charges published in the Athens Press that he collaborated with the Germans and helped to form Quisling security battalions. He is embittered by detention in gaol but admits he was safer there because of rioters.

OVER LAPLAND

LONDON, Oct. 29

An official Swedish communique states that a large formation of British and American heavy bombers early to-day flew from the west over Swedish Lapland. Associated Press Stockholm correspondent commenting on the communique says: The Allied Air Force is presumably taking a hand attacking the German 20th Army retreating from Northern Finland" into Norway.

LABOUR AND REHABILITATION

SYDNEY, Oct. 30. Trade unionists and returned soldiers have attacked preference to returned servicemen as an Australian post-war policy. They were speaking at a conference of 250 delegates from the New South Wales Labour Councils and unions, committees and exservicemen’s organisations. Most speakers declared that “work for all” was the only intelligent policy which the Federal Government could follow in its rehabilitation schemes. The declaration unanimously agreed to by the conference called on the Federal Government to make known at once its post-war plans. The declaration said in part that full employment was the solution to the problem of reabsorbing nine hundred thousand men and women from the services into civilian life. Rising standards of living, better housing and economic security would be necessary. Because of the Allied victories, the need for concrete plans was urgent. There was insufficient planning to meet the needs of 200,000 men and women already discharged from the services.

Other requests to the Government included: Establishment of a ministry of post-war reconstruction, under a separate Minister; shortening of the working week; establishment of a Vocational Guidance Department to help ex-servicemen to select jobs; increase of twenty per cent, in soldiers’ pensions, increase in service rates of pay by two shillings a day for wives and sixpence a day for children, and the introduction of a “battle bonus” for frontline troops.