GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 18 May 1944, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS. LONDON, May 15. The British Government has found' it necessary to cancel many more trains this summer without -notice. The public are being urged not to make unnecessary journeys and no conferences involving long distance travel are to be held. FRENCH GOVERNMENT AT ALGIERS. ALGIERS, May 16. The French Ministry of Information announced the abolition of the political and diplomatic censorship for the duration. Vice-Admiral Derrien has refused to appeal against the sentence of life imprisonment for handing over units of the French Fleet on the ground that an appeal would only be delaying action. The renaming o f the French' Committee and the repudiation o f the Darlan-Clark agreement may " have international complications. The renaming resolution was not debated The proposer simply argued that the previous title no longer corresponded with the sentiments expressed by the French people inside and outside- France, and that the new title was in conformity with what the French Empire: represented in the United Nations war effort. EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS. LONDON, Ma v 16. The Spanish Telegraph Agency states that more than nine hundred Allied war prisoners, 814 of whom are British and the remainder American are expected to arrive at Barcelona ’n-morrow from Marseilles, aboard the Italian ship Gradisca, under the German flag. They will be exchanged for 375 German prisoners from Britain, 33 from the United States and a number of women' and children of German nationality aboard the Swedish ship Gripsholm, which is expected to arrive on Thursday. The British prisoners include 101 -stretcher cases.