WAR ITEMS

Grey River Argus, 20 October 1943, Page 6

WAR ITEMS

LONDON, October 17. The Germans again imposed a curfew in Copenhagen and Aalborg, following a fresh wave of sabotage and increased tension. Restaurants close down at 7 p.m.

India. —Over 250 deaths from cholera occurred in one week in the rural areas of the Bogra district and 97 cases occurred in Calcutta last week compared with 82 in the previous week, reports Reuter’s correspondent in Calcutta. The Bengal Civil Protection Committee has inoculated 40,000 against the disease and it is now urging mass inoculation at the free kitchens. The Mexican Government is studying plans to send an expeditionary force of 10,000 volunteers abroad within six months, states the Mexico City newspaper “Excelsior.” The troops, who have been training for more than a year, probably will be sent to the Pacific area. The Government is said to favour this plan because other Latin American nations, including Cuba and Brazil, are preparing to send forces abroad. Air Commodore C. B. S. Spackman has been appointed Officer in Charge, Administration, Fighter Command, with the acting-rank of air vice-marshal. His service career began as a private in the Norfolk Regiment in 1914. A formidable British weapon, known as the rocket pistol, has come off the secret list. It is known that at one period it destroyed or damaged at least twenty enemy planes, and saved thirty-five British ships from being damaged during an aerial attack. The pistol fires a rocket which draws a fable and parachute an incredible distance into the air. The cable bears wire coils, which either entangle an attacking dive-bomber or force it to take evasive action. CHICAGO. October 16. The American Medical Association ■Journal discloses that for the first time in medical history nerve sections from dead bodies were .grafted to severed nerves of living people. The new technique uses a special vitamin with fortified 8 1ue ', anc * makes possible the restoration of functions of peripheral nerves, which when undamaged, supply the motion of sensation to limbs. The journal says that the new technique will be particularly useful in treating war injuries. Statistics from battlefronts show' that one to three per cent of war casualties have peripheral nerve injuries. WASHINGTON, October 14. “A new world is being fashioned in our laboratories and when the secrecy veil imposed by the war is lifted, our people will be amazed at the array of inventions,” said VicePresident Wallace. He added that from laboratories, both Government and private, a flood of discoveries are coming. Helicopters, television, radio, light metals, plastics, new foods and medicines will open vast industrial frontiers. Algiers United Nations radio, quoting the offical Vichy figures, says: The total cost of the German occupation of France up to May 31, 1943, was 5,407 hundred million francs, which represented £1,089,600,000 before the war.

COPENHAGEN LEGATION STAFF GAOLED.

LONDON, October 11. ■Reuter’s Stockholm correspondent rpnorts that the Italian Minister, ■Renzetti, and the entire staff of the Italian Legation at Copenhagen, have heen interned for refusing to recognise the Mussolini Government.