WAR ITEMS

Grey River Argus, 25 February 1942, Page 1

WAR ITEMS

[Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] JOHANNESBURG,’February 23. Johannes Vanderwalt, a “general” in the Ossewabrandwag, who recently escaped from custody, was wounded when resisting arrest at a farmhouse. near Krugersdorp. He wats recaptured. LONDON; February 23. Dr. K. Henderson announces that a new system of electro-therapy is being successfully used for the treatment of schezophrenia. The results are so satisfactory that other treat- ' men! has been discarded. Of 100 schiozophroniu patients given the new treatment, 50 have recovered, or have shown marked improvement' 5 ’ The treatment is also being used sue., successfully for melancholia and depression. ' Dr. Henderson said that the people were standing .Up to the war strains in nerve hospitals. Mr Jordan will broadcast on the Pacific shortwave service at 6.25 a.m. G.M.T. on February 25. The “Dagens Nyheter’s” Berlin correspondent states that four Dutchmen were executed at Delft on charges of helping the enemy. The Burgomaster of Mayscchoss, in the Rhine Province, was executed for repeated violation of the rationing regulations. Dr.-Temple is the first Social 'become Primate, says the “Daily Express.” He has often proclaimed liis sympathy with Labour. In his latest book “Christianity and the Social Order,” he says: “The church may tell the politicians what ends social order should promote, but it must leave it to the politician to devise the precise means.” Opposition from conservative churchmen to Dr. Temple’s appointment was reported last month, because lie was considered “too pink.” STOCKHOLM. February 23. Admitting that at least 2000 rieople are dying daily in Athens and Piraeus, the Berlin spokesman said that Germany was willih" to agree to the transport of a consignment of Australian wheat to Greece from Alexandria, foi’ which the Greeks must pay. . Germany was thus not responsible (for the present situation in Greece. He added that the Greeks wore not dying from starvation, but illness resulting from under-nourishment. Epidemics spread like widlfiro. Complete lack of coal had caused manv deaths among under-nourished people in unheated houses.