WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 May 1945, Page 6

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

PLANE CRASH

LONDON, May 9

An American transport plane returning from the Continent crashed at Hindhead., last Sunday. It is believed that more than 30, AngloAmerican passengers and the crew were killed. The plane, flying low through rain and mist, collided with an R.A.F. radio pylon. FRANCE AND SPAIN. SAN FRANCISCO, May 8. Scnor Prieto, War Minister of the last Spanish Republican Government, told the 7 United Press that France had consented to' the establishment of an anti-Franco Spanish Liberation Junta on French soil. The decision had been reached after discussions with French officials at San Francisco, including M. Bidault. The Junta is a coalition of four parties, the Spanish Labour Party, the Union Party,, the Catalonian Action Republican 'Party, and the Republican Left Party.

WORK FOR PRISONERS

RUGBY, May 9

To assist the building programme, the Government has decided to use German prisoners of war in reasonable numbers, the Minister of Works (Mr Dunean Sandys) told Captain Gammans (Conservative) in the Commons. The Minister added that these would be employed, in the first place, on road-making and construction of site preparation and other engineering works. Asked whether the prisoners would also be used in clearing bomb sites in London, Mr Sandys replied: “They will, if necessary, but f prefer to concentrate on the other works I had in view.’