WAR ITEMS

Grey River Argus, 30 June 1942, Page 1

WAR ITEMS

LONDON, June 27.

The “Sunday Express” says: Despite elaborate secrecy precaution:, news of the Royal visit to Ulster was known in Dublin two days before the visit, and Royal favours were being sold in Ulster streets on th.e night of Their Majesties’ arrival. OTTAWA. June 25. Britain, will supply 40 per cent, of the air crew recruits to be trained in Canada under the Brtish Commonwealth air training pia.», it was stated when the agreement was tabled in the Canadian House ol Commons. Canada, Australia and New’’ Zealand will sunplv the balance. LONDON. June 26.

The Rome “Regime Fascista” in an article on Jugoslav resistance in Slovenia. said: The partisans are no„ confined to the hills. After a year oi guerrila warfare, Italian victims are increasing by hundreds. The spirit animating thp is a mixture of Communism. Bolshevism and corru.D.t.l?n .‘. LONDON, June 25.

The number of French workmen in German factories is 154,000. according to the Vichv radio. rhe radio also gave details of Laval s scheme for reducing unemploymen /Boys of sixteen can now be sent into German war factories. The Berlin radio reported that, ten 'German soldiers w'ere killed at Pantin. a suburb of Paris, described as the former “Red Belt,” when a grenade was thrown at German detachment. The Berlin radio, requotlng a niessage from Paris, said that a timebomb demolished the Nantes office of Doriot’s Popular Party. Similar explosions occurred at the party office at Cannes and Niort, in the past few daysOTTAWA. June 26.

National defence headouarters announced that an explosion of undetermined origin at an army installation in Newfoundland on June caused injuries to a number of army civilian personnel', and damaged a tractors building. The explosion is considered to have been accidental. / ■ X