WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 November 1944, Page 6

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

U.S.A. AWARDS

RUGBY, November 3. On behalf of President Roosevelt, General Eisenhower has conferred United States decorations on Air Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, who commanded the air component of the Allied Expeditionary. Force m the invasion of France, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, Chief of the Bomber Command, and Lieu-tenant-General Carl Spaatzp Commanding General of the United States Strategic Air Force in Europe, at an airfield near Paris to-day. Air Marshal Leigh-Mallory and Air Chiei Marshal Harris received the Legion of Merit (Chief of Commander class), and Lieutenant-General Spaatz received a cluster to his D.S.M. Sir Sholto Douglas, Air Officer Commander-in-Chief, Royal Air Force Coastal Command, was awarded the Legion of Merit in his absence on service when Air Commander in Chief, Middle East. CANADIAN 7 RECRUITS. OTTAWA, November 5. General McNaughton, Minister of Defence, said that he favoured the maintenance of Canada’s long traditions of voluntary service. He added: “Our reinforcement figures show that Canada can safely count on some short neriod before the danger of the situation becomes acute. Now, as the need is known, our men and women will come forward to serve and will rally io the support of their gallant comrades overseas,” STRIKE ENDED. LONDON, November G. Sixteen hundred employees of two of A. V. Roe Company’s north-west England factories producing Lancasters who struck last week as the result of a wages dispute have resumed work.