WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 December 1944, Page 6

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

; TWO V.C.’S LONDON, December 13. Captain. Randle’s Victoria Cross brings ■ his- 21-year-old widow a tragic distinction, for she is a sister to another V.C. winner, namely F/O Leslie Manser, who was also' posthumously awarded, the decoration ‘‘lor valour of the highest order.” He kept a crippled. Lancaster in the air after the first 1000 bomber raid on Cologne, in October, 1942, long enough for the crew to bale out to safety, then crashed to his death. CHANNEL ISLANDS RUGBY, December 12. Although it is the responsibility of the occupying Powers to feed the civil populations under their control, food supplies are to be sent to the Channel Islands by the British Government. Announcing this decision in the House of Commons, the Home Secretary (Mr. Morrison) said: “In view of reports received as to conditions in the islands, the British Government has decided that it will be right to supplement the rations of civilians by certain supplies of medicine and food parcels on the basis of those supplied to prisoners of war. The German Government has agreed do this procedure and has granted safe conduct to a ship which will cohvey supplies to the islands.”