NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 October 1945, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF

duke" pF* ahndsor. LONDON, October 4. The Duke of Windsor, who is at present in France, will arrive in England by air to-morrow on a brief visit, to Queen Mary. He will stay at Marlborough House. “THANK YOU, BRITAIN.” JOHANNESBURG, October 4. Millions of pounds worth of food will be provided for Britain by a “Thank You, Britain,” campaign, which is being organised throughout South Africa. The Prime Minister (General Smuts) has agreed to support the campaign, but has stipulated that it must be placed on a national basis, with the efforts of individual towns co-ordinated. BOMBING HELIGOLAND LONDON, October 4. The R.A.F. is shortly resuming raiding with the biggest and best bombs, says the “Daily Mail.” The targets will be the E-Boat pens, in Heligoland which escaped .serious damage in heavy R.A.F. raids and naval shelling. They are constructed of tremendously thick reinforced concrete, and their escape is one of the war’s strangest flukes, because the island was terribly pounded. The R.A.F. next month intends to indulge in target practice with the intention of making sure the pens will never again harbour E-boats. It is possible the newest and biggest bomber, Avro Lincoln, will be used. It has thus far not. seen operational service. LENIN’S~BODY

MOSCOW, October 4. It is now revealed that the bod) of Lenin was in 1941 removed iron Moscow to a village in Siberia. Th( body has been encased in a ney crystalline coffin, and is now back ir its acustomed place in the Mausoleum in the Moscow Red Square. THIRD DIVISION. LONDON, October 4. Headquarters of the Third Bntisl' Ini'antry Division are being transferred to Egypt. 'Reuter’s correspondent points out that this is the only British division to fight throughout" the campaign from Normandy tc Bremen. PEACE IN BOMBAY LONDON, October 4. New Delhi radio says that complete calm has been restored in Bombay and trams and buses are working normally. TANGIER ZONE. LISBON, October 4. The Portuguese Foreign Office has announced that Admiral Magalhaes Correia has been chosen by the Committee of Control for the post of Administrator of the Tangier International Zone, under the Allied agreement. Admiral Correia is- 72, and has been Minister of Marine, Foreign Affairs and Colonies and also Governor of Mozambique. EDINBURGH BY-ELECTION (Rec. 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 4. The East Edinburgh bye-election resulted: G. R. Thomson (Labour) 15,482, Lieutenant. T. G. Galbraith (Conservative) 9665. Majority for Labour 5817. The by-eTection was caused by the elevation of Mr. Pethick Lawrence to the Peerage.