WAR ITEMS

Grey River Argus, 19 November 1942, Page 6

WAR ITEMS

8.0.W. RUGBY, November 17. The King to-dav save an_ audience to Generaj Smuts and entertained Mr Churchill at luncheon. Miners in the North Derbyshire coalfields turned out more coal per shift in the latest record than at any time since the production figures were first recorded. The output has now reached 74.71 hundredweight per man per shift. British nuns residing in the Convent at Borgenhoud near Antwerp, have been arrested by Germans and sent to an internment camp, according to Belgian quarters in London. Between eight) and ten thousand Belgian patriots are being held in Belgian prisons. It is reported from occupied Belgium that five hundred persons are detained at Breendonok concentration camp, and between eight hundred and a thousand in the citadel at Huy. There are 1540 “political'’ prisoners at Stagles, the Brussels prison where Nurse Cavell was incarcerated. 1 According to Norwegian circles in London, German authorities in Norway decreed that seamen leaving ships without permission are to be punished by penal servitude. Seamen going to enemy countries are liable to the death penalty. The Germans explain that this measure was taken because “important supplies for Norway must be kept up al any price.” Mr Shinwell, ‘who‘nas often been a severe critic of the Government, added his congratulations to the Government o n the successes that attended British arms; Mr Churchill, said Mr Shinwell, had endured with fortitude an incredible succession of setbacks and disappointments. There .was a disposition in some quarters to underrate our , achievements in North Africa, but he (Shinwell) did not share that view. The Mediterranean offered the opportunity for a front—whether first, - second or third did not matter —a so?id base for attack.

NEW YORK. November 17. A Detroit Federal Grand Jury indicted on charges of, espionage two .priests or the Roumianian OrthodoxChurch, Father Morai'u of Dearborn (Michigan), leader of the Free Roumanian movement in.' America, and Father Stephen Opresanu of Detroit; also George Zamfir, editor of Roumanian publications. One count of the indictment charges violations of the Espionage Act. i Others alleged that defendants acted as agents of an enemy power and failed to register thereas, and diss aminated propaganda. 1 Mr Hull, at a Press conference at Washington, said the North African situation was purely military in character. The military operations were still in progress, and a factor to which they mu.st .give most seriouw concern was victory in them.