WAR ITEMS
LONDON, June 1
Major-General F. N. Mason Macfarlane has been appointed Governor , and Commander-in-Chief of Gibraltar, in succession to Lord Gort, who ! was recently appointed Governor and Commander-'in-Chief of Malta. Maj- ' or-General Mason Macfarlane, who .is aged 52 years went with Lord 'Gort to France as Director of Milii tary Intelligence and in the withdrawal to Dunkirk, was placed in I command of a hastily-assembled force to hold river crossings on the i British right flank. He was mentioned in dispatches and awarded the jD.S.O. He was appointed to com- ' mand the 'troops at Gibraltar. Last June, when Germany attacked Russia, he headed a British military mission to Moscow.
A Swedish ship, carrying 4500 tons of food for the relief of Greeks, has left Haifa for Greece. The food was supplied by the Allies and will be distributed by the Red Cross.
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Grey River Argus, 3 June 1942, Page 8
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