WAR ITEMS

Grey River Argus, 5 January 1940, Page 11

WAR ITEMS

U.S. WHALER TRANSFERRED WASHINGTON, January 3. The Maritime Commission has withdrawn its approval of the transfer of the whaler Frago, to Lars Christensen, of Norway. It has approved the ship’s transfer to the Pan.amanian registry. The Frago will be stripped and operated as a freighter. GOLD AND EXXCHANGE. LONDON, January 3. As the gold price bn the New York and Paris Exchanges is stabilised, it will not be further mentioned in the cablegrams. DUTCH APPEAL FOR PEACE. THE HAGUE January 3. M. De Greer, in a New Year’s broadcast,, appealed to the belligerent Powers to realise that it would he better to start peace negotiations now, than to continue the war, and leave, a ruined and powerless Europe at the mercy of dark powers, which would not spare civilisation. If only the belligerents would gather at the conference table, the world would 'relax, and there would be a better chance of an enduring world peace, than if the war-torn victor imposed a so-called peace on the victim.

CONTROL OF WAGES IN WAR-TIME ? [British Official Wireless.] RUGBY, January, 3. ’ The third meeting of. the National Joint Advisory Council, composed of representatives of the British Employers’ Federation and the Trades Union Congress General Council, which, was set up to advise the Government on questions in which employers and workers have a common interest, was held to-day. General discussion was resumed on the statement made in the Council by Sir John Simon on financing the war, and further discussion will take place in the Council on January 31. The Trades Union representatives emphasised their objection to the control of wages, otherwise than by voluntary negotiating now in existence.