GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 30 January 1946, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

LONDON, Jan. 28 Britain is unable to increase food supplies for Europe, and’ has already reduced the emergency stocks accumulated with difficulty and sacrifice during the war in order to supply U.N.R.R.A., said Mr. Attlee, in a letter to Victor Gollancz. He was replying to suggestions from Mr. Gollancz that there should be no increase in British rations so long as there was a famine in Europe. Mr. Attlee said it would not be possible for any Government to make the standard of living of its peepte dependent on conditions in countries over which they had’ no control. Any further increase in food supplies lor Europe must come from the foodexporting countries. LONDON, Jan. 28 Czechoslovakia has resumed trade relations with Germany, and is the first European country to do so, says the American News Service in Germany. Czechoslovakia will exchange coke and petrol for German synthetic rubber. Trade relations will be resumed soon between Germany and Poland. OTTAWA, Jan 28 The Minister of Trade (Mr MacKinnon), on his return after visiting Britain, said the British restrictions on imports from Canada would be relaxed as soon as circumstances permitted. An announcement was possible within- a few weeks. He said there would be an assured market. for Canadian wheat overseas for the next two years, and he hoped a four years’ wheat contract with Britain would be signed within a tew months. Canada was at present exporting wheat to the last bushel as ouickly as transportation permitted. NEW YORK, Jan. 28 Doctor Edgar Booth, chairman of the International Wool Secretariat, London, told the American Wool Council that if the world surplus stocks were handled properly they could be absorbed within five years, after which the world demand would exceed production. LONDON, Jan.-27 Complaints from the Army authorities that too many British troops are being repatriated from Germany have been disclosed by a high staff officer at Marshal Montgomery’s headquarters. The officer told Reuter’s correspondent that if the present rate of demobilisation continued there would not be enough men to do the job in Germany. Commanders were finding difficulty at some headquarters to get enough men for essential guard. Non-commissioned officers were taking temporary charge of companies and some units because of a lack of officers. The correspondent added that it is possible to drive from one end o' Hamm to the other without seeing a British soldier. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 According to British sources, Britain has expressed her willingness to accept a deal to wipe out bookkeeping charges amounting to many millions of dollars for ferrying home thousands of British and American soldiers. This arrangement, which was proposed by the United, States would wipe out the bill for transporting Americans from Europe in the Queen ’Mary. The United States m return would wipe out charges for the use of 10 Victory ships which ’nave been taking home British and colonial troons from the Pacific. BUDAPEST, Jan. 27 The president of the Allied Control Commission in Hungary has requested the Hungarian Government to state “within three days’’ its point of view concerning the conclusion ot a peace treaty. < WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S The State Department announced that the United States had inVite-.. 34 nations to send representatives to the first meeting of the Board ot Governors of the World Bank am Stabilisation Fund, at Wilmington Island (Georgia) on March 8. New Zealand, Australia, Russia and seven other nations, not yet officially members, • had been invited tn send observers. LONDON. Jan. 23 The Shetland flying-beat, the only one of. her type thtis far built, caught fire and sank at her moorings at Felixtowe. The crew was not harmed. The Shetland is reputed to be the biggest flying-boat evei 1 built m Britain. It weighed about 100 tons and was powered by four Bristol Centaurus engines, giving the machine a cruising speed of 275 miles and hour.