War Brevities

Northern Advocate, 3 April 1941, Page 2

War Brevities

Bulgars Demonstrate. —A Belgrade message says that hundreds of Bulgarian students . demonstrated against the Axis in Sofia. Police charged' the crowds and arrested many persons. They also seized “inflammatory pamphlets.”. Released—The Japanese Embassy at Peiping announced the release of Mr Allen Benson, a British missionary arrested on August 27 last on suspicion of organising an anti-Japanese secret society among Chinese churchgoers. Spitfire—The Union Steel Corporation of South Africa has sent to London £6300 for the purchase of a Spitfire, says a British Official Wireless message.

Raider.— An unconfirmed report from the American Associated Press says that the Italian liner Conte Verde (18.765 tons) sailed in secret from Shanghai at dawn on Tuesday, armed as a merchant raider. Japanese warships met the ship at the mouth of the Yangtse River. Peru. —The Peruvian Government has ordered the German Trans-Ocean News Agency to cease to function because “it has bepn distributing news which might perturb Peru's good international relations, offend national feelings in other countries, and affect democratic institutions.” League.—The Japanese Privy Council has unanimously approved a proposal that all Japanese representatives should be withdrawn from the international body at Geneva. Militant! Pacifists,—The Congressional non-interventionists, headed by Senator Wheeler, have decided to establish an organisation to fight against the involvement of the United States in foreign wars, says a Washington message.