LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 September 1945, Page 5

LATE MESSAGES

FRENCH RECOVERY. PARIS, September 17. France emerged from a period of hope to enter a period of practical results, said the Finance Minister, M. Pleven, broadcasting over the Paris radio. He added that industry was improving, pig-iron and steel production since the beginning of 1945 has risen to 21/25 per cent, respectively, of the pre-war output, and coal mines were working 79 per cent capacity. He said that the French goal for next year was to manage without wheat and sugar imports, considerably reduced meat and fats imports, and promote the export’of wines and alcohol in order to bring in foreign currency. INDO-CHIN A. PARIS, September 17. ’ France has instructed her Ambassador at Chungking to take up with the Chinese Government the refusal of the Chinese High Command to permit General Allessandri to enter IndoChina with the Chinese occupation forces. The issue heads the agenda for the talks between Dr. Soong and General de Gaulle, due to begin next Wednesday. The French tend to consider the High Command’s actions as not necessarily approved by the Chinese Government, which it is reported, assured de Gaulle that Alessandri could accompany the Chinese. INDIA’S DEMOBILISATION. NEW DELHl?September 17. The Government announced that Indian demobilisation would begin on October 1. Surplus recruits would be first demobilised, and certain trained men would later be released. The first process would spread overeight months. The releases of British officers and other ranks from the Indian Army would continue to parallel the releases of opposite numbers in the British Service.

INDIANS AT SAIGON. KANDY, Sept. 17. SEAC headquarters announced that the 20th Indian Division, under Major-General D. Gracey, arrived at Saigon.