GENERAL CABLES.
New York. —Tlie Army Air Corps j ferrv command organised to pick up war* planes at factories throughout the country and fly them to Atlantic ports for shipment to .Britain made its first deliveries of four-motored bombers. London. —Sir Donald Simson, secretary of the British Empire Services! League, who was born in Otago, was I fined £4O with 12 guineas costs at 1 Kingston for breaches of the rationing regulations. lie entertained overseas visitors in a private house and used an official order book to obtain rationed food. New York. —Four American Red Cross nurses and a marine corporal have reached Norfolk (Virginia) aboard a United States transport after drifting in an open boat for 12 days when the ship in whicli they were cn route to England was torpedoed. Melbourne. —Mr Mcnzios has announced that the hunger-strikers will not be released from internment. lie declared that, the men had been found guilty of deliberately hindering the war effort. Such conduct could not he tolerated.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 199, 24 July 1941, Page 8
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